LA sheriff fears Trump ‘sanctuary city’ crackdown could cost county $132 million

By | August 4th, 2017|Immigration, Police & Community|

Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell says he has been lobbying President Donald Trump’s administration to avoid potentially losing out on as much as $132 million in federal law enforcement grants over the next three years due to the department’s immigration policies.

During recent trips to Washington D.C., McDonnell said he has met with U.S. Attorney

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Targets of Internet Outrage

By | August 4th, 2017|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Many professors who have expressed their views about race and politics this year have found themselves targets of both the left and right. Nothing is too abstrusely academic, it seems, to seed an attack campaign fueled by websites that surveil social media to find gotcha-worthy gems. The Professor Watch List, for one, created last

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A Game of Cat and Mouse With High Stakes: Deportation

By | August 4th, 2017|Immigration, Police & Community|

There’s a new game afoot.

The federal government’s current emphasis on deporting undocumented immigrants — even those facing low-level charges — has, in effect, turned courthouses in New York State into arenas where practitioners of criminal law face off against enforcers of immigration law.

In

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Even After the Glass Ceiling Yields, Female Executives Find Shaky Ground

By | August 4th, 2017|Employment & Housing|

For the better part of five years as the chief executive of the cosmetics giant Avon Products, Sheri McCoy battled collapsing sales, a plunging stock price, a bribery scandal in China and the constant drumbeat of an attack from an activist investor.

On Thursday, Avon announced that Ms.

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Trump Supports Plan to Cut Legal Immigration by Half

By | August 3rd, 2017|Immigration|

WASHINGTON — President Trump embraced a proposal on Wednesday to slash legal immigration to the United States in half within a decade by sharply curtailing the ability of American citizens and legal residents to bring family members into the country.

The plan would enact the most far-reaching changes

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Sometimes, Perceptions of Affirmative Action Don’t Mesh With Reality

By | August 3rd, 2017|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Several refrains marked the election campaign of Donald Trump. “Make America great again.” “Build the wall.” But another phrase commonly uttered by the president continues to animate his base: “The system is rigged.”

This sentiment also underscored some reactions to a recent report from The New York Times, based on a memo it had obtained, which

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Trump May Find No Easy Targets if He Attacks Race in Admissions

By | August 3rd, 2017|Education, Intergroup Relations|

The nation’s long fight over affirmative action at colleges has flared back up with a report this week that the Trump administration’s Justice Department plans to go after race-conscious admissions policies. While colleges have good reason to be concerned about such news, the fears it has aroused in them may be exaggerated and somewhat misplaced.

Why?

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Litigation Ban Advances, and Controversy Escalates

By | August 2nd, 2017|Education, Intergroup Relations|

A committee of the University of North Carolina system Board of Governors voted Tuesday to bar a prominent university civil rights center from engaging in litigation, a decision that alarmed both civil rights and academic freedomadvocates.

The Committee on Educational Planning, Policies and Programs voted 5 to 1, with one member abstaining,

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What You Need to Know About Race-Conscious Admissions in 2017

By | August 2nd, 2017|Education, Intergroup Relations|

The New York Times reported on Tuesday evening that the U.S. Department of Justice is planning “investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions.” The report was based on an internal document from the department that left many questions unanswered. Read more about what this could look like

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