The 287g Federal Agreement Program between the Department of Homeland Security DHS-ICE and the Sheriff of Los Angeles County is in effect in the City of the Angels.
The recent interview of Mauricio Cardenas, an ex Colombian Minister and now Director of the Brookings Institute for Latin America, is a brief but incisive window into the political reality of President Obama.
If you take the bull by the horns and analyze Obama's DHS policies, they are a softer but never the less vicious approach on the immigration enforcement issue.
The battle to replace Labor Secretary Hilda Solis in the designated majority minority Latino Congressional District 32 in Los Angeles is over. The Latino district district was lost to ambition and personal vendettas where the people became a pawn ...
or the immigrant rights movement, a well planned and effective political mobilization in 2008 is key, not only to assure immigration reform gets the nod in 2009, but also the type and quality of the legalization that finally emerges from a democra...
I was born in 1944 in Torreón, Coahuila, but my family comes from the northern mountains of Durango. My father was a Communist and a trade union leader. When I was five we moved to Ciudad Juárez, on the border. In 1953 my father went to work in th...