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Sonja Diaz in Los Angeles Times: “Column: Gavin Newsom has been one of the most pro-Latino governors in California history, and he’s under attack for it”

Sonja Diaz, UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute founding director, said a successful recall would be a “lotto ticket for the Republican Party.” Republicans would use it in midterm election ads to rally national support for a right-wing agenda detached from science.

Amada Armenta in Los Angeles Times: “ICE poised for changes as Biden nominee heads to Senate for confirmation vote”

That’s still not enough for Amada Armenta, a UCLA associate professor of urban planning who specializes in immigration enforcement. She’d like to do away with the collaboration programs altogether. When “immigrants [are] afraid to engage” with law enforcement, she said, “that’s bad for all of us.”

José Loya in Houston Chronicle: “The secret bias hidden in mortgage-approval algorithms”

“Lenders used to tell us, ‘It’s because you don’t have the lending profiles; the ethno-racial differences would go away if you had them,’” said José Loya, assistant professor of urban planning at UCLA who has studied public mortgage data extensively and reviewed our methodology. “Your work shows that’s not true.”

Kelly Lytle Hernandez in KNPR: “Nevada Judge Strikes Down Law Detaining Immigrants Over Its Racist Roots”

Historians like Kelly Lytle Hernandez have found that racism played a significant role in the law’s creation. “(The law was created) in 1929 by a eugenicist and white supremacist with the clear intention of targeting Mexican immigrants in particular, Latinx immigrants in general,” said Hernandez, a UCLA history professor and author who gave testimony in…

Paul Barragan-Monge in Los Angeles Times: “Letters to the Editor: Gavin Newsom needs to give Latinos reasons to save him in the recall election”

Candidates who want the Latino vote need to invest in outreach that makes them feel included in a vision of a prosperous future. In a state where Latinos represent the plurality, victory is no longer possible if a key demographic isn’t incentivized to vote.

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