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Movement to End Deportations and Detention
Bywebmaster May 15, 2020

It’s Time Our Elected Officials #ActOnIt and Move Their Talk into Action to #FreeThemAll Go to https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2632349890425924 to watch and share La Resistencia’s latest video, featuring testimonies from family members with detained loved ones, Senator Rebecca Saldaña, essential workers, formerly detained community members, lawyers, Shutdown Coalition members and more. Everyone has a shared message: #FreeThemAll!…

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For Latinos and COVID-19, Doctors Are Seeing an ‘Alarming’ Disparity
Bywebmaster May 8, 2020

In Iowa, Latinos account for more than 20 percent of coronavirus cases though they are only 6 percent of the population. Latinos in Washington State make up 13 percent of the population but 31 percent of cases. In Florida, they are just over a quarter of the population but account for two of every five…

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Migrants’ rights and health must be protected in the face of COVID-19
Bywebmaster May 4, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is a test of our common humanity. It has revealed our shared vulnerabilities, and only a coordinated response based on justice, solidarity and humanitarian principles can help us overcome it. Unfortunately the coronavirus crisis also is exposing problems of inequality between and within countries and the exclusion of vulnerable groups. How leaders…

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Alone in ICE detention, teens fear arrival of COVID-19
Bywebmaster May 4, 2020

Advocates and parents worry about the safety of undocumented youth being held in two Pacific Northwest facilities. While the plight of adults and migrant children in federal custody has received some attention, undocumented teenagers with troubled pasts and held by ICE in secretive facilities have largely been obscured from view. Read more here.

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Women, minorities shoulder front-line work during pandemic
Bywebmaster May 3, 2020

As America tentatively emerges from weeks of lockdowns, it is becoming clear that the pandemic has taken its toll on workers who have been on the front lines all along. They have been packing and delivering supplies, caring for the sick and elderly, and keeping streets and buildings clean. They have also watched their co-workers…

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