by Griselda Nevarez Julian Zatarain may not be able to vote because he is undocumented, but his immigration status didn’t prevent him from accepting an appointment to a city advisory board this week. The 21-year-old college student and longtime community volunteer was appointed Monday to the parks and recreation commission […]
By Lomi Kriel Teodoro Aguiluz, executive director of CRECEN, center, and Eva Bernal, right, speak during a news conference, Wednesday about a raid that took place the previous day in Houston. Federal agents raided the tortilla factory, La Espiga de Oro at 1200 15th Street near Shepherd. Agents with Homeland […]
He’s an American success story . . . but it’s a difficult path to citizenship
4 Aug
by Foster, on News
By Steven Goff Miguel Aguilar’s boyhood home in Mexico is a two-story brick structure on the corner of Litografos and Libramiento Regional streets. Beyond a narrow park and divided road, a concrete channel cradles the Rio Grande and divides Ciudad Juarez from El Paso. ¶ Some 1.5 million people live in the […]
By Jerry Markon Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter scaled back cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration- enforcement efforts in April 2014, accusing agents of aggressively targeting for deportation illegal immigrants who led otherwise law-abiding lives. Then he got a visit from Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. And a […]