The slurs rang out each time he left or came home to the south Orange County condo he shared with his partner, reaching the point where he thought about just giving up and moving.
“They were destroying my life … with the worst experience of my life,” said the Laguna Niguel resident, who asked to go
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – An Assembly resolution urging California colleges and universities to squelch nascent anti-Semitism also encouraged educators to crack down on demonstrations against Israel, angering advocates for Muslim students.
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A federal court in Washington ruled on Tuesday that political maps drawn by the Republican-controlled Legislature in Texas discriminated against minority voters, a decision that black and Hispanic groups claimed as a victory and the state attorney general vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/us/federal-court-calls-texas-voting-maps-discriminatory.html?src=rechp
LOS ANGELES — Some California sheriffs are pushing back against a proposed state law that would bar law enforcement officers from detaining illegal immigrants for deportation if they have not been charged with serious or violent crimes.
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JERUSALEM — Tamer Jbarah, a 17-year-old Palestinian student who speaks accentless Hebrew after years in a bilingual school that is about half Jewish, said he was not at all surprised when a mob of Jewish teenagers beat an Arab teenager unconscious this month while hundreds watched and did nothing to help.
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The University of California’s plea to the U.S. Supreme Court, filed earlier this month, to uphold race-based affirmative action in college admissions is — in effect — a confession of failure.
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HARLINGEN, Tex. — The judge called his next case, scanning the courtroom.
The immigrant who was facing deportation rose to his feet, in a clean T-shirt and khaki pants several sizes too large, with his name — JUAN — printed on a tag around his neck.
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He remembered classmates in huge sombreros and fake mustaches, and dressed as Border Patrol and immigration agents. He was offended seeing Latino culture reduced to caricature during the “Seniores and Señoritas” day for graduating seniors at Anaheim’s Canyon Hills High School.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0824-seniores-senoritas-20120824,0,3156091.story
Just days before Republicans gather for their national convention in Tampa, Fla., party leaders have adopted a platform that would cut off federal financing to colleges and universities that permit illegal immigrants to pay tuition at the same lower rates as state residents, according to The New York Times.
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“Seniores” and “Señoritas” events held at an Anaheim high school — in which students dressed as gang members and a pregnant woman pushing a baby stroller — have been canceled after officials concluded the activities were demeaning toward Latinos and their culture.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0823-high-school-event-20120823,0,5135884.story