Julio Ricardo Varela

1 week ago | msnbc.com | Julio Ricardo Varela

As President Donald Trump approached his 100th day in office, national polls suggested a clear drop from the 46% share of the Latino vote he received last fall, according to exit polls. Surveys from the Pew Research Center, YouGov/Economist, CNN and Reuters/Ipsos put his approval among Latino voters between 27% and 34%. Two Latino-focused polls confirmed the decline. One national survey from UnidosUS and allied groups showed 37% Latino approval for Trump.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Julio Ricardo Varela

3 hours agoTrump starts talking about Harlem when asked about HarvardDonald Trump began answering a question about Harvard University by speaking about Harlem, a neighbourhood in New York City, as he joined a NewsNation town hall via phone on Wednesday night (30 April). When asked by Stephen A. Smith to explain his administration’s threat to withhold funding from the university, the president started talking about an entirely different location.

3 weeks ago | msnbc.com | Julio Ricardo Varela

It’s fundamentally cruel to turn away children from public schools based on their immigration status, but the Tennessee Senate advanced a bill that would let its schools do just that. State Sen. Bo Watson has argued that his legislation is about easing financial pressure on school districts, but the bill is more about scapegoating immigrant communities and forcing needless suffering upon their kids.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Julio Ricardo Varela

It’s fundamentally cruel to turn away children from public schools based on their immigration status, but the Tennessee Senate advanced a bill that would let its schools do just that. State Sen. Bo Watson has argued that his legislation is about easing financial pressure on school districts, but the bill is more about scapegoating immigrant communities and forcing needless suffering upon their kids.

1 month ago | msnbc.com | Julio Ricardo Varela

Undocumented immigrants paid more than $96.7 billion in federal, state and local taxes in 2022 alone. As they have for years, they paid taxes that year with no path to citizenship, no protection from deportation and no guarantees that their situations would change for the better. That deal was stacked against them, but they did it anyway, putting their trust in a country that claimed to offer promise and possibility, especially if you contribute and pay your fair share.