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Latino Rebels Radio: September 30, 2021
Apagones empeoraron desde la entrada de LUMA, reconoce un documento de la empresa
El primer informe de confiabilidad que entregó la compañía confirma que tardó casi el doble del tiempo en restaurar la luz a los clientes en su primer trimestre de operaciones, en comparación con la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica.
Haitians, La Migra, and Title 42: What We’re Not Talking About (OPINION)
Aside from the discussions we’re having about political and economic turmoil in Haiti, much more sinister actions are at play.
Biden Caught Between Allies and Critics on Border Policy
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is caught between a hard place and an even harder one when it comes to immigration.
Proponents of 2021 Self-Determination Act for Puerto Rico Make New Push to House Committee Members
Organizations supporting the Self-Determination Act of 2021 (H.R. 2070) for Puerto Rico have initiated a series of nationwide actions directed at key House members of the Natural Resources Committee—details of which will be shared at a Wednesday noon press conference outside the White House in Washington, D.C.
Biden Rule to Shield DREAMers Seeks to Bypass Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday renewed efforts to shield hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the United States as young children from deportation, the latest maneuver in a long-running drama over the policy’s legality.
Greyhound Settles Lawsuit Over Immigration Sweeps on Buses
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Greyhound Lines Inc. will pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit over the bus line’s practice of allowing U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents to board its buses in Washington state to conduct warrantless immigration sweeps, the state attorney general said Monday.
OPINION: Poor Kyrsten Sinema
She just can’t seem to catch a break, can she?
Texas Reduces Black and Hispanic Majority Congressional Districts in Proposed Map, Despite People of Color Fueling Population Growth
The proposed congressional map also increases the number of districts where Trump would have had a majority of voters over Biden in 2020 and protects Republican incumbents who might have been vulnerable by packing their districts with more Trump voters.
Cuba Launches Commercial Exports of COVID-19 Vaccines
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba has begun commercial exports of its homegrown COVID-19 vaccines, sending shipments of the three-dose Abdala vaccine to Vietnam and Venezuela.
OPINION: Waiting for ‘Them’ to Hire More People of Color Isn’t Going to Change Sports Media the Way It Should
Every year, it’s slightly less of the same problem, but it’s still the same problem.
US Envoy to Haiti Resigns Over Biden Administration’s Handling of Haitian Migrants at the Border
Daniel Foote stated in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the deportation policy would exacerbate the already dire situation in Haiti and in turn, drive more migrants to the border.
Officials: All Migrants Are Gone From Texas Border Camp
DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — No migrants remained Friday at the Texas border encampment where almost 15,000 people, most of them Haitians, had converged just days earlier seeking asylum, local and federal officials said.
For Latino Rebels Late Night, It’s ‘Labelx’ From Juan Bago and Crew
Identify is messy AF.
She Migrates (A Latino USA Podcast)
We travel to Mexico’s southern border and meet several migrant women in different stages of life, and of their journeys north, as well as the different routes they’re using to migrate.
A Humanitarian Crisis Rooted in History
Latino Rebels Radio: September 23, 2021
How Juan Pachón Went From Political Asylum to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Bogotá-born and raised, Juan Daniel Pachón Silva escaped the civil war in Colombia not a moment too soon.
El Salvador President Says He Is ‘the Coolest Dictator in the World’
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The top U.S. diplomat in El Salvador said Tuesday she sees “a decline in democracy” in the country, where President Nayib Bukele changed his Twitter profile to read “the coolest dictator in the world.”
OPINION: A Cardinal’s All-Too-Human COVID Hypocrisy
It’s all too familiar: yet another COVID-positive anti-vaxxer was in the hospital on a ventilator.
OPINION: The Time for a Pathway to Citizenship Is Right Now
It is the moment to acknowledge the hard sacrifices essential workers have been making before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and what is morally required for us to live up to our ideals as Americans.
Officials: Many Haitian Migrants Are Being Released in US
DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — Many Haitian migrants camped in a small Texas border town are being released in the United States, two U.S. officials said Tuesday, undercutting the Biden administration’s public statements that the thousands in the camp faced immediate expulsion.