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3 weeks ago | 
latinousa.org | Nour Saudi |Luis Eduardo Luna
“What the Trump administration is trying to do to Mr. Khalil is a blueprint. And if they are able to get away with it, then they will replicate that blueprint,” said Ramzi Kassem, Professor of Law at the City University of New York. “Because that logic knows no limits.”On March 8th, Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil was taken by immigration agents to a detention facility in Louisiana—without charges. He was taken because of his involvement in pro-Palestine protests on campus.
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1 month ago | 
latinousa.org | Nour Saudi |Luis Luna
In early February, Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele made an unprecedented and controversial offer: to incarcerate U.S. citizens in El Salvador. The move came as President Donald Trump has ramped up his mass deportation plans during his first two months in office.
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2 months ago | 
latinousa.org | Nour Saudi |Luis Eduardo Luna
Last month, we launched a new series, Hombre: Understanding Latino Men, to dig deeper into the reasons that moved Latino men overall more right in the 2024 presidential election. We want to understand what this political shift really looks like for the everyday Latino male voter. What shaped Latino men’s vote on a personal level?
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
latinousa.org | Fernanda Echavarri |Nour Saudi |Luis Eduardo Luna
In the past two weeks, the Eaton and Palisades fires became two of the worst natural disasters in California history. Los Angeles has experienced an unprecedented level of destruction. As wind-driven wildfires raged across the county, entire neighborhoods have been destroyed, displacing thousands of people after losing their homes.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
latinousa.org | Nour Saudi |Luis Eduardo Luna
Much of the media’s focus after the 2024 presidential election centered on one particular group of voters: Latinos. Actually, more specifically, Latino men. Many of the immediate takeaways on television after election night cast blame on Latino men for “shifting to the right” and costing the Democrats and Kamala Harris their loss. But are Latino men really to blame? What is really at the root of their shift to the Republican Party?
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
latinousa.org | Nour Saudi |Luis Luna |Luis Eduardo Luna
The 2024 presidential election has seen a rise in Spanish-language misinformation and in the content creators making a living by pushing out this false content. From conspiracies about the FBI raid at Donald Trump’s Mar a Lago estate in 2023 to lies about Kamala Harris being a Marxist, our research found a clear pattern: all of these narratives which originated in English were soon repurposed for Spanish-speaking audiences.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
futuroinvestigates.org | PENILEY RAMIREZ |Peniley Ramírez |Arturo Angel |Nour Saudi |Nour Sadi
Como primer paso en la recolección y análisis de información para nuestra investigación “The Misinformation Web”, o “La telaraña de desinformación”, hicimos una revisión de notas, investigaciones y artículos publicados sobre la propagación de noticias falsas en español en los Estados Unidos. Identificamos trabajos como el del Reuters Institute y reportajes de Associated Press, entre otros, que retratan un contexto preocupante sobre el fenómeno y su evolución en los últimos años.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
latinousa.org | Nour Saudi |Tara Terranova
This election year, housing has emerged as one of the top five concerns for Latino voters for the first time ever. With mortgage rates and housing prices on the rise, the dream of owning a home has become more elusive. Many Latinos and Latinas face barriers beyond finances, starting with the difficulty of securing a bank loan. In July 2021, Jusleine Daniel walked into a New Jersey bank with her family, confident and ready to start their homeownership journey by applying for a mortgage loan.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
latinousa.org | Nour Saudi |Luis Eduardo Luna
For eight months now, the war on Gaza, which many experts and historians have called a genocide, has gripped the world’s attention. Demands for a permanent ceasefire have echoed across the world. Over 100 cities in the United States have passed ceasefire resolutions. And in places like Southern California, it’s Latinos who’ve shown up to pressure their local governments to join the ceasefire movement. Polling also shows Latinos are the most likely group to oppose sending more military aid to Israel.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
latinousa.org | Nour Saudi |Luis Luna
Melissa Barrera has been consistently making a name for herself in recent years. The Mexican actress is probably most recognizable in the United States for her horror roles, namely in the legacy franchise “Scream.”But in her more than a decade-long career that has taken her from Monterrey to Hollywood, she’s done it all — telenovelas, musicals, drama, romance and even comedy.
