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Trump Threatens to Close Border to Keep Out Migrant Caravan

Trump had already threatened to end U.S. aid to Honduras if the government did not halt the migrant caravan.

  • Oct 19, 2018
  • 2:39 PM

A Powerful Video Calls to #StopFamilyDetention

Helen’s story.

  • Oct 19, 2018
  • 1:57 PM

Republicans Have a Latino Problem

We find no evidence that Latino enthusiasm is down in this election.

  • Oct 19, 2018
  • 1:47 PM

Texas vs. Lupe Valdez (PODCAST)

Latino USA rides along with the sheriff in her pickup truck as she campaigns through West Texas, hoping to be part of a blue wave in her state.

  • Oct 19, 2018
  • 11:57 AM

Republicans Will Pay This November for Helping Make Trump’s Mass Deportation Fantasy Become Reality

Republicans in Congress had a choice to make too: either pass a clean Dream Act to protect immigrant youth or allow young people to be deported.

  • Oct 19, 2018
  • 9:19 AM

Stories From El Salvador: Our Son

Today we told our son that Salvadorans are Saints

  • Oct 18, 2018
  • 2:46 PM

On White Anxiety and the Fear of a ‘Migrant Caravan’

Today, a white other speaks. A particular white other.

  • Oct 18, 2018
  • 2:05 PM

Julián Castro on His Plans to Run for President in 2020 and the Use of the Word ‘Radical’

“We’re going to make sure that we’re doing our part to push back because there’s no way in hell that we’re going to have this country go down the path that this President is taking us down,” the former HUD secretary told Maria Hinojosa

  • Oct 18, 2018
  • 11:48 AM

Brazilian President Temer Charged With Corruption

Prosecutors still have two weeks to decide whether to bring a formal case against the president

  • Oct 18, 2018
  • 11:38 AM

CoreCivic: La empresa que falla pero consigue más contratos

Hace cuatro meses el Departamento de Corrección y Rehabilitación (DCR) le adjudicó un contrato que podría costar $125 millones en cinco años para trasladar de forma escalonada al 30 por ciento de la población penal de la isla a cárceles de esa empresa en Estados Unidos.

  • Oct 17, 2018
  • 5:31 PM

Texas Latino Voters Still Being Ignored Three Weeks Out From Election 2018

Despite placing high importance on upcoming elections, new polling shows that a majority of Texas Latino voters have yet to be contacted by a campaign or candidate.

  • Oct 17, 2018
  • 3:38 PM

Rick Scott Is Destroying Florida’s Environment (OPINION)

This is not the dystopian world of tomorrow. This is unfolding today right before our very eyes and it will continue to get worse if we don’t reverse course.

  • Oct 17, 2018
  • 2:49 PM

Stories From El Salvador: Pablo

I had been deprived from speaking Spanish because I was in an only-English mode.

  • Oct 17, 2018
  • 2:03 PM

President Trump Threatens Honduras to Stop Immigrant Caravan

Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández has previously defended migrants, stating that “migration is a human right.”

  • Oct 17, 2018
  • 12:26 PM

We Are Texas: An Analysis of Young Latino Voters in the Lone Star State

“The health of our democracy and state hinges on an active and engaged citizenry.”

  • Oct 17, 2018
  • 11:55 AM

Human Rights Groups Call for Release of Protesters Arrested in Nicaragua

The group  gathered to march under the motto “United for Liberty.”

  • Oct 16, 2018
  • 4:29 PM

Popular Language Learning Platform Adds Navajo and Hawaiian Languages to Curriculum

Read the Latino USA interview with a Duolingo spokesperson about this latest move and what it could mean to make endangered languages accessible to thousands of users. 

  • Oct 16, 2018
  • 4:10 PM

Portrait Of: Rubén Blades

Latino USA sits down with the author of the popular song “Pedro Navaja” to discuss highlights of his monumental career, his new record, and his take on current affairs.

  • Oct 16, 2018
  • 12:55 PM

To the Governments and People of Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras and the United States

We insist that the governments of the region not use repression, violence or force against the people who are fleeing as part of this mass exodus.

  • Oct 16, 2018
  • 12:25 PM

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