Hoop Earrings and Hate
A one-line critique of the fashion choices of some white women leads to debate over journalism and cultural appropriation, and to threats made to Latina students.
Read more in Inside Higher Ed.
Fearful parents sign papers for friends to care for kids in case they’re deported
She saw the news of the raids happening around the country and felt helpless. Scared. She had lived here for more than a decade, following her father’s advice: Work hard and stay out of trouble.
But suddenly it felt as though trouble was looking for her. Lorena Napola worried about her four children. What if she
Here’s a Roundup of the Latest Campus-Climate Incidents Early in the Trump Presidency
Anti-Semitic vandalism and white-nationalist propaganda are on the rise at colleges nationally, according to a recent report by the Anti-Defamation League. And in recent weeks, Jewish community centers across the country have received bomb threats and Jewish cemeteries in Missouri and Pennsylvania have been vandalized. Following is a collection of the latest reports detailing such incidents
Here’s the Reality About Illegal Immigrants in the United States
There are 11 million of them, the best estimates say, laboring in American fields, atop half-built towers and in restaurant kitchens, and swelling American classrooms, detention centers and immigration courts.
In the public’s mind, the undocumented — the people living here without permission from the American government — are Hispanic, mostly Mexican and crossed the southwestern
Research Counters Trump View of Immigration
When President Donald J. Trump announced his newly created office of Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement — or VOICE — last week during his speech to a joint session of Congress, it built upon his longstanding efforts to associate crime with immigration.
However, if Monica Gomez Isaac, executive director of the Institute for Immigration Research at
CAHRO’s Brian Levin: As Anti-Semitic Acts Rise, So Should Our Leaders’ Resolve
After a decade of declines, hate crimes against Jews are rising again with an increasing focus on what leaders should do in light of such developments.
A fourth wave of bomb threats struck 11 Jewish centers and schools across the nation this Presidents’ Day, bringing the 2017 North American total to 69.
Hate Crime Incidents In Orange County Since November 2016
As of February 14, 2017, OC Human Relations has documented 42 Hate Incidents and 12 Hate Crimes in the County of Orange.
For more, visit the Orange County Human Relations website.
The White House has found ways to end protection for ‘Dreamers’ while shielding Trump from blowback
While President Trump wavered Thursday on whether he will stop shielding from deportation people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, his aides have identified at least two ways to quietly end their protections without his fingerprints.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times.
Required to Detain
Texas legislation could force campus police departments to hold on to those they arrest until federal immigration authorities can consider their legal status….
Read more in Inside Higher Ed.
Vocal Critic of Office for Civil Rights Is Likely to Lead It
Leading conservative activists are predicting that the Trump administration will put a prominent critic of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights in charge of it, to scale back its efforts.
Although the White House has yet to tip its hand on its pick as the department’s assistant secretary for civil rights, speculation among plugged-in Republicans