by David Bacon Washington State today is ground zero in the effort to hold back the massive use of agricultural guest workers by U.S. growers, and to ensure that farmworkers, both those living here and those coming under the H-2A visa program, have their rights respected. For a second year, on Aug. 4 workers …
by Aracely M. Ortega The Economic Development Agency of the Mission (MEDA), based in the Mission District neighborhood in San Francisco, was awarded the “Affiliate of the Year” award granted by the national organization UnidosUS, formerly called National Council of La Raza ( NCLR) for its work to give Latinos tools and information to achieve …
El presidente dijo que el nuevo servicio de salud trabajará con las universidades para capacitar más por Mexico News Daily El presidente López Obrador dice que México necesita 123,000 médicos más para cubrir las necesidades del país.“Hay 270,600 médicos generales en el país, y de acuerdo con las normas internacionales, deberíamos tener 393,600 médicos”, dijo …
The president said new health service will work with universities to train more by Mexico News Daily <p>President López Obrador says Mexico needs 123,000 more doctors to cover the country’s needs. “There are 270,600 general practitioners in the country, and according to international norms, we should have 393,600 doctors,” he said during a visit to …
by Mark Hedin Ethnic Media Services The Census Bureau has said it expects to hire about a half-million people nationwide to help in its all-important counting of everybody living in the United States, something the government has done every 10 years since 1790. That half-million hiring target is a sizable decrease from the last census, …
Head of evangelical church La Luz del Mundo described as a sexual predator by Mexico News Daily Officials and followers of a Mexican-based evangelical church are defending and praying for its leader after he was arrested this week on human trafficking, rape and child pornography charges. Naasón Joaquín García, leader or “Apostle” of the Guadalajara-based …
by Ethnic Media Services In partnership with La Opinion The 2020 Census can be as important to the community as the presidential election that will be held on the same year. Why? Because only once every ten years, and by constitutional mandate, the federal government counts the total number of people living in the United …
Immigration agents unequipped to prevent them from leaving by Mexico News Daily Approximately 1,300 migrants fled a detention center in Tapachula, Chiapas, last night but 700 were later detained and returned to the facility. The National Immigration Institute (INM) said in a statement that shortly after 8:00pm “there was a large-scale unauthorized departure of people …
Immigration agents provide humanitarian aid but no visas by Mexico News Daily The caravan of migrants that left San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on Tuesday crossed into Mexico this morning, double the number that left. An estimated 3,000 people crossed the Suchiate river at the Rodolfo Robles international bridge between Tecún Umán, Guatemala, and Ciudad Hidalgo, …
Ten years ago, it was nearly destroyed. Today, its members are rebuilding through a new labor cooperative by David Bacon Mexico’s new President, Andres Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), probably the only head of state to give two press conferences a day and then post them online, is accustomed to having his statements cause headlines. Last …