Hispanic Community June 2018

Top Mexico Presidential Candidate Vows To Undo School Reform [Education News]

It was a signature achievement by the government that took over Mexico five years ago: educational reforms aimed at improving schools, rooting out incompetent teachers and breaking the grip of unions on hiring and firing them. Now the man favored to win the presidency July 1 is vowing to scrap them and start over.

Hispanic Community June 2018

Donations, Volunteering Surge At Border Asylum-Seeker Center [On A Positive Note Beyond Education]

One by one, around Father's Day, the surge of Amazon boxes containing shirts, pants, underwear and many other items began arriving at an asylum-seeker rest center in the border town of McAllen, Texas. The boxes started arriving as people across the country began to learn about President Donald Trump's policy of separating children from their families.

Hispanic Community June 2018

Texas Group Says It Takes In 30 Parents Separated From Kids; Doesn’t Know Whereabouts Of Children [Beyond Education]

A Texas charitable organization is saying 32 immigrant parents separated from their children after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border were freed into its care, but they don't know where their kids are or when they might see them again despite government assurances that family reunification would be well organized.

Hispanic Community June 2018

Protesters Outside School Safety Conference To Criticize Sessions Over Immigration [Education And Beyond News]

A coalition of civil rights, religious and union activists opposed to President Donald Trump's immigration policies are gearing up for a protest in Nevada outside a school safety conference where U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is the keynote speaker. Several of the protesters said they would engage in civil disobedience to bring attention to the separation of children from their families at the U.S. border.

Hispanic Community June 2018

Art Auction To Raise $15M To Benefit Safe Water Initiatives In Latin America [On A Positive Note Beyond Education]

In partnership with Phillips Auction House, international water foundation One Drop has announced Art for One Drop, a contemporary art charity auction that will raise funds for One Drop's safe water initiatives in Latin America. The funds raised are slated to help the more than 200,000 people in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia and Paraguay.

Hispanic Community June 2018

TV Star To Give Undocumented Student College Scholarship [Education News]

“Jane the Virgin” is going against tradition and using their Emmy Consideration Fund to give an undocumented high school student a scholarship to go to college. As a member of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund’s Board of Directors, Golden Globe Winner and Star Gina Rodriguez partnered with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles to find a Latinx student who fits the bill.

Hispanic Community June 2018

Confusion Swirls On Border After Trump Reversal On Families [Beyond Education]

President Donald Trump's order to stop separating migrant children from their parents spread confusion and uncertainty along the border, with no clear plan to reunite families but with growing signs the administration is dialing back its "zero tolerance" policy on those entering the U.S. illegally.

Hispanic Community June 2018

Young Immigrants Detained In Virginia Center Allege Abuse; Hearing Set For July 3 [Beyond Education]

Immigrant children as young as 14 housed at the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center in Virginia say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells. The abuse claims are detailed in federal court filings that include a half-dozen sworn statements from Latino teens jailed there for months or years.

Hispanic Community June 2018

Trump's Immigration Order Sparks Confusion, Deep Concern [Beyond Education]

President Donald Trump's reversal of a policy separating migrant families at the Mexico border sparked confusion over how the new guidelines will play out and deep concern that the changes don't go far enough, allowing children to still be held in detention even if they remain with their families.

Hispanic Community June 2018

The Latest: Trump Signs Order, Says Zero Tolerance Continues [Beyond Education]

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to keep families together at the southern border, saying at the White House that he doesn't like the sight of children being separated from their families. He said, "We are keeping families together." But the president added the "zero tolerance" policy will continue.

Hispanic Community June 2018

No Clear Plan Yet On How To Reunite Parents With Children [Beyond Education]

Trump administration officials say they have no clear plan yet on how to reunite the thousands of children separated from their families at the border since the implementation of a zero-tolerance policy in which anyone caught entering the U.S. illegally is criminally prosecuted.

Hispanic Community June 2018

APNewsBreak: Youngest Migrants Held In 'Tender Age' Shelters [Beyond Education]

Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three "tender age" shelters in South Texas, The Associated Press has learned. Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the Rio Grande Valley shelters described play rooms of crying preschool-age children in crisis.