Latino Policy & Welfare

Community-driven event highlights access for underserved youth:

• Partnership fair by National Latino Behavioral Health Association and American...

Key bipartisan event on Delaware immigration:

• Sens. Russ Huxtable (D-Lewes) and Brian Pettyjohn (R-Georgetown) discuss issues shaping positions and...

Latinos in the US have fought hard to attain equality, especially in education, yet face ongoing risks as explored in the Praeger Handbook of Latino Education.

Do Something Southern Indiana is driving grassroots efforts to educate immigrants on their rights and push for changes in local ICE compliance.

Trump's deportation push intensifies in Alabama but meets fierce legal pushback elsewhere, revealing fractured enforcement.

• Arrests exploding:...

Philanthropy milestone: Johnson Scholarship Foundation grants $600,000 multi-year to UnidosNow’s Future Leaders Academy through 2029.

• Matching...

Emerging trend in disproportionate law enforcement against Latinos:

• UCLA police stops: Hispanics (20.8% students) comprised 28.7% of UCPD stops...

• Personal story: Jenny Wood, wife/mother/grandmother and Tracy community organizer, appalled after 40 years voting that reregistration may require...

Rancho Feliz Charitable Foundation, founded in 1987 by Gil Gillenwater, pioneers reciprocal giving on the U.S.-Mexico border.

• Rejects one-sided...

U.S.-born Latinx citizens' safety is in peril amidst shifting immigration policies, warns Isabel Vidrio in her opinion piece.

Bilingual professionals sought for Case Aide roles in child welfare, supporting comprehensive programs with English-Spanish competency to aid Latino families.

Welfare and Legal Deadlines

• 🔥 Illinois SNAP Cutoff: More than 16,000 immigrants including refugees, asylees and human trafficking survivors are...

Chicago immigrant Neris González, tortured in El Salvador's 1979 civil war amid 5,000 forced disappearances, sees echoes in Operation Midway Blitz...

AI boom in housing threatens Latinos as Trump admin guts protections:

• Housing industry rapidly adopts AI for loans/leases, but models trained on...

Mounting enforcement hits integrated communities:

• Ecuadorians blended into NY via networks, avoiding shelters, but now targeted as 'low-hanging...

Bruce Matos, Weston HS senior inspired by his father's diabetes and stroke, leads efforts to deliver healthy food to underserved Hispanic...

Over 16,000 immigrants in Illinois — including refugees, asylees, and trafficking survivors — are now ineligible for vital SNAP food assistance. This policy shift threatens food security for vulnerable communities.

Lifeline for 20+ years: Centro de Ayuda in Annapolis provides culturally responsive services like English/citizenship classes, youth programs, health...

• Eighth Circuit eliminates private §2 enforcement under §1983, impacting 7 states after ND Native vote dilution ruling.
• SCOTUS cert pending in...

Critical deadline looms for Wilder immigration raid victims: File notices by April 17 under Idaho Tort Claims Act for injuries or property damage.

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