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Nov 22, 2024 | 
dailytrojan.com | Heydy Vasquez |Solange Aguero
On a quiet February morning in 1931, the heart of Los Angeles bore witness to America’s racialization of migrants. Olvera Street, a gathering place alive with community, became the stage for a deportation raid aimed to be a scare tactic to drive out Mexican migrants.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
dailytrojan.com | Heydy Vasquez |Solange Aguero
To understand the power to enact change in the United States, you must understand how U.S. immigration laws get made. While presidential candidates often discuss border security measures and executive orders like Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which demonstrates the impact of executive power, these measures are only a position of change. Appeals reaching the Supreme Court and efforts of local governments to establish sanctuary cities play a key role in shaping immigration policy.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
dailytrojan.com | Heydy Vasquez |Christina Chkarboul
Cada septiembre, cuando comienza el Mes de la Herencia Latina, USC festeja con numerosos eventos organizados por el Latine Student Assembly y La CASA. El Mes de la Herencia Latina fomenta el sentido de comunidad de los estudiantes, incitando el orgullo de su herencia latinoamericana.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
dailytrojan.com | Heydy Vasquez |Kate Mcquarrie
As the presidential election comes into full swing in the next couple of weeks, debates on the border have once again been at the forefront of political discourse. Candidates from local, state and federal levels are weighing in on the conversation. However, the conversation tends to not consider the humanitarian issue unfolding at the border, so let’s talk about it.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
dailytrojan.com | Heydy Vasquez |Kate Mcquarrie
Financial aid is a system that undocumented students nationwide have had difficulties navigating. As they do not qualify for federal aid, they either depend on scholarship or in-state aid. However, this is not a guarantee. At the moment, only 19 states, including California, offer state financial aid to students who meet certain criteria, regardless of their immigration status. In 2011, the California State Assembly passed the California Dream Act.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
dailytrojan.com | Heydy Vasquez |Bianca Arzán-Montañez
La temporada electoral deja a muchos preguntándose sobre el futuro de la nación. A medida que se crean los colegios electorales, las comunidades que no pueden votar dejan su esperanza en aquellos que sí pueden. Las elecciones determinan el futuro de la ley y los precedentes para futuras decisiones legislativas. Por esa razón, los inmigrantes indocumentados mantienen la esperanza en cuanto a temas migratorios, lo cual es un tema candente.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
dailytrojan.com | Heydy Vasquez |Kate Mcquarrie
The University has prided itself on diversity and how “You Belong at USC”, but behind that statement lies a community in the shadows. As we’ve seen with the renovations of the Wilson Student Union and the expansion of diversity and inclusion initiatives, the demands of immigrants have become absent. When the conversations happen, it’s often students holding the mic — administrators rarely step forward to listen, learn and propose action.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
dailytrojan.com | Heydy Vasquez |Kate Mcquarrie
Progress in protecting undocumented immigrants has always been uncertain. While laws have evolved to support the community, they are frequently met with challenges from lawmakers who oppose programs designed to uplift them. Throughout the past years, federal judges have challenged programs such as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and more recently, the Biden administration’s program that granted legal status to spouses of United States citizens.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
dailytrojan.com | Heydy Vasquez |Kate Mcquarrie
Welcome, undocu+ Trojans, and congratulations on your admission to the University of Southern California. Your admission is a testament to your passion and hard work, and it does not go unnoticed. Though it may feel isolating to be an undocumented student at a private university, there are more than 450,000 other undocumented students in higher education navigating the same process you are not starting.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
dailytrojan.com | Heydy Vasquez |Kate Mcquarrie
As election season nears, immigration policy becomes more prevalent: In President Biden’s State of the Union speech, he used “illegal” to describe an undocumented immigrant as he responded to congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who demanded Biden mention Laken Riley, who was allegedly killed by an undocumented person in late February.
