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Underwater Dreams airs on Mun2 and KSTS Telemundo today and tomorrow. Watch this movie! You won’t regret it. It is on at 1:00 p.m. on Telemundo today. This is a condensed version of the documentary film about undocumented high school teens in Arizona who give a team from MIT a run for their money in an underwater robotics competition. It’s…
Supreme Court victory for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals)! The Supreme Court reversed the rescission of the program by the Trump administration and ruled that it must return to the original program, allowing new applications and advance parole. The decision stems from a legal challenge filed by the Regents of the University of California and allows DACA to remain…
Since the Supreme Court’s decision in Windsor v. U.S. ruling on Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) holding it unconstitutional, many same sex couples have been able to marry and petition their spouses and fiancés. One cause for concern, however, is fear for the safety of the spouse or fiancé when applying for a visa based on…
President Obama’s Immigration Accountability Executive Action is a welcome, albeit temporary, relief to our broken and cumbersome immigration system. The President acted within his legal authority, as presidents from both political parties have taken similar steps in past decades – particularly Presidents Reagan and Bush, Sr. Yesterday, President Obama announced his plan, which includes some of the following initiatives: Deferred…
Last weekend I attended the Nextdaybetter-TFC Speaker Salon. TFC is The Filipino Channel, and Nextdaybetter is a “culture platform that builds and activates diaspora communities to create a better future.” “What in the world does that mean?” you may ask. Well, in last Saturday’s context, it meant working with leaders in various areas within the Filipino-American community to help share…
The dire news of the severe California drought has got me wondering what the future holds for our state. Will Californians become refugees in other states? It may sound farfetched now, but at this rate, we are going to become the next Oklahoma dust bowl or go through the crisis that Sao Paulo is going through. I keep wondering if a move to the…
What’s happening? A federal judge in Texas issued a temporary injunction Monday that will halt President Obama’s executive actions. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was supposed to begin accepting applications for the expansion of the DACA program starting February 18. DHS will not begin accepting expanded DACA applications on the 18th as was planned. Existing DACA applications and renewals will not…
I have often read about the “military-industrial complex”, the industry that keeps the U.S. war economy going strong and the country in a perpetual state of war. Today, I learned the term “prison-industrial complex ”. This is the definition I found on Google: The prison industrial complex (PIC) is a term we use to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use…
The Iranian-American community and its allies are rallying against discriminatory bill H.R. 158, Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015. In essence, the bill is overly and unreasonably broad in that it will render ineligible citizens of visa waiver countries who are of Iranian origin (and therefore dual citizens by Iranian law) from the visa waiver program. It…
Media reports from the last week culminated in a White House leak to Politico yesterday that the administration is expected to announce the end of the DACA program on Tuesday. There will be a six-month delay to end the program. If you currently hold DACA status, I encourage you to keep informed and invest in a consult with a licensed…