Sabrina Vourvoulias

1 week ago | inquirer.com | Luis F. Carrasco |Luís Carrasco |Helen Ubinas |Sabrina Vourvoulias

Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla (D., Calif.), addressed his colleagues in Congress about the events of last week, when he attempted to ask questions at a news conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. On June 12, the Mexican American senator was jostled, shoved and forcibly removed from the news briefing by several security officers, who pushed him first to his knees and then to the ground as they handcuffed him in the hallway outside the room.

2 months ago | inquirer.com | Sabrina Vourvoulias

Hours after the death of Pope Francis Monday, the celebrated Mexican-American writer Luis Alberto Urrea posted a remembrance of the pontiff that ended with a simple sentence: “There won’t be another like him.”That sentiment, with its inbuilt speculation about which cardinal might succeed Francis as the next leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Roman Catholics, has filled news story after news story in the wake of his death.

2 months ago | inquirer.com | Sabrina Vourvoulias

Spanish is a delicious language. For example, Spanish speakers have aclever way to say someone is behaving in such a disgraceful way as to trigger acute secondhand embarrassment in those of us observing them. Mexicans chose the delightfully singsongy pena ajenato describe it; Cubans use the slightly starchier vergüenza ajena.

Feb 1, 2025 | inquirer.com | Luis F. Carrasco |Luís Carrasco |Helen Ubinas |Sabrina Vourvoulias

Donald Trump’s barrage of executive orders last week included several related to immigration, including an attempt to limit birthright citizenship and declaring a national emergency at the southern border. The administration has also increased the number of mass arrests made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with Philadelphia seeing the detention of seven people at a car wash on East Hunting Park Avenue on Tuesday. Luis F.

Dec 20, 2024 | centredaily.com | Sabrina Vourvoulias

President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk have thrown a wrench into the bipartisan stopgap funding plan intended to keep government agencies and processes running through March 14. On Wednesday, the duo tanked the spending bill, which Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson had signed off on, which includes $100 billion in disaster relief for areas impacted by Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and another $10 billion in economic assistance for farmers.