Members in the News

ASU renames dept: Transborder Chicana/o & Latina/o Studies

The recently expanded and renamed Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies Department at ASU focuses on U.S. and Mexican regional immigration policy and economy, media literature and arts, and transborder community development and health – areas that have a significant impact in the Latino community.

“In the first decade of the 21st century, 40 percent of the U.S. Mexican-origin population was born in Mexico,” says Velez-Ibanez. “Moreover, Mexican Americans now live in every state of the union, and large numbers of other Latino groups now live in close proximity to what were formerly nearly exclusive Mexican urban concentrations in cities such as Los Angeles, Phoenix and others.”

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ICE Raids in Massachusetts a mess…

Sweatshop conditions, undocumented workers flown out of state stranding children, and government contracts…. “Mayor Criticizes raid for disrupting families” (LATimes) “Massachusetts Protests Feds’ Immigration Flights”

Local news bits

Rethinking Racial Classifications – An Education Department plan to change the way colleges collect and report data on their students’ racial and ethnic backgrounds is attracting growing criticism. MALDEF and the ACLU are challenging legislation passed in the Dallas suburb … Read More