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Laura Gómez in Boston Globe: “Stoking fears of immigrants has been part of the Republican platform for decades. But something is different this time”

“We are just in this moment now where everyone is trying to figure out how far to the right, how far into white nationalism can the GOP go and still maintain a sense of legitimacy,” said Laura Gómez, a law professor at the University of California who has written on race, Latino voters, and immigration…

Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) in Los Angeles Times: “Op-Ed: Democrats should seize this recall as a practice round for the midterms”

At the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute, our research indicates that in the 20 years leading up to the 2022 midterm elections, there will have been a 126% increase of Latino registered voters and a 94% increase of Asian American voters. They are more likely than white voters to be undecided about the recall…

Sonja Diaz in Spectrum News 1: “Sonja Diaz Interview with Spectrum News One”

UCLA LPPI’s Founding Director, Sonja Diaz, discusses with Spectrum News One the rationale behind the federal ruling the deemed DACA unlawful, the ramifications of the ruling for California’s 200,000+ DACA recipients, how this decision could influence Latino voters in the mid-terms, and what Latino voters expect from the Biden Administration and Democrats in the wake…

David Hayes-Bautista in The Los Angeles Post: “Politics over lives – primary reason for Washington’s failure in pandemic control”

Professor of medicine David Hayes-Bautista at UCLA pointed out that there should have been fewer deaths in the U.S., but the inaction of the government led to a tragedy. According to a poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, most U.S. citizens believe the U.S. government shall be held accountable for the…

Laura E. Gómez in Harvard Business Review: “UCLA Law’s Laura E. Gómez: Understanding Critical Race Theory, Part 2”

Laura E. Gómez, a law professor at UCLA, teaches in the school’s Critical Race Studies Program, which uses CRT to explore how legal and other systems intersect with race in the U.S. In the final episode of Season 2, she tells host Porter Braswell that racism isn’t about individual prejudice, but rather about the messages…

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