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Arturo Vargas in The Hill: “Latino voters: ‘Do we have your attention now?'”

“Imagine a nation where candidates and parties approached winning over Latino voters the same way they did white voters. Picture the nuanced and tailored messages to different factions within the community. Now think about how campaigns historically have engaged Latinos…”

Eric Avila in Los Angeles Times: “Op-Ed: Here’s why East Los Angeles’ bid for independence could succeed this time”

East Los Angeles has long been the neglected stepchild of urban development in Southern California. Its list of grievances is lengthy, and if history is any guide, it will continue to push for cityhood until its long-standing dream of independence is realized.

Amada Armenia in Los Angeles Times: “Thousands of Border Patrol agents and officers to soon begin wearing cameras”

“It’ll be very easy for agents to claim that they forgot to turn on their cameras,” said Amada Armenta, a UCLA assistant professor of urban planning who specializes in immigration enforcement, adding that it will be hard for migrants and others to counter officers who asserted they mistakenly forgot to turn on the cameras.

Patricia Gandara in LA School Report: “‘A rising tide that lifts all boats’: Having more immigrant peers can boost scores for U.S.-born students, new study finds”

The positive effects found in the working paper don’t surprise Patricia Gandara, a specialist in immigrant students who works as a professor of education at UCLA. English language learners, who sometimes but not always overlap with those who are foreign-born, often outperform English-only students once they reclassify as fluent speakers, research shows.

Efrén Pérez in Los Angeles Times: “Marking El Paso anniversary, Biden reaches out to Latino leaders”

The recognition on Tuesday of the El Paso slayings emphasized how the mass shooting was a “punch in the gut for many Latinos,” said Efrén Pérez, a political science and psychology professor at UCLA, because it occurred in a place where a large community of Latinos are woven into the fabric of the city and…

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