Tag: border wall
Speaker shares immigrants’ experience
Enrique Morones, founder of Gente Unida, House of Mexico and Border Angels, explained how to get involved in activism, how to help immigrants and how hateful words turn into hateful actions in a lecture as part of the virtual Latinx Heritage Month series on Wednesday via WebEx.
Funding for wall bad for troops
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper notified members of Congress Sept. 3, of his decision to reallocate $3.6 billion in defense spending which will now go toward funding President Donald Trump’s border wall.
This is not a national emergency
President Donald Trump declared a national emergency last Friday in order to obtain his request for $5 billion to fund his plan for a border wall, after receiving only $1.6 billion. Although Trump has stated on several occasions that the issue has become a crisis of national security, there is nothing to show that the alleged crisis even existed prior to his attacks on immigrants.
La Verne considers plight of undocumented students
While some professors fear class interruptions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, demanding they turn in undocumented students, University administrators are addressing these real concerns head on.