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El Periodico USA Staff Featured August 6, 2025

Los Angeles — Teachers Rally for LAUSD to Strengthen Protections for Immigrant Students Amid ICE

Hundreds of educators from United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), joined by students and community allies, marched to the Los Angeles
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El Periodico USA Staff Community News August 6, 2025

Texas House issues arrest warrants for Democrats who left state to block congressional redistricting

By Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune “Texas House issues arrest warrants for Democrats who left state to block congressional redistricting”
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El Periodico USA Staff Community News August 5, 2025

The contradictions of an immoral immigration policy

Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish.
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El Periodico USA Staff Featured August 5, 2025

Trump’s mass deportations have one big winner: the private prison industry

Andres Oppenheimer President Trump’s mass deportations of undocumented nannies, gardeners and construction workers with no criminal records is drawing mounting
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El Periodico USA Staff Community News August 4, 2025

The U.S. Government Denies Hunger Strike at Alligator Alcatraz

Miami (USA), (EFE).— The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday denied that migrants at the Alligator Alcatraz immigration
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El Periodico USA Staff Community News August 4, 2025

Texas GOP Push Generates Retaliatory Threats from California Over Congressional Redistricting

Texas Republicans, under pressure from former President Donald Trump, have unveiled draft congressional maps intended to flip five Democratic-held U.S.
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El Periodico USA Staff Community News August 4, 2025

Texas Legislature Advances Bill Expanding Attorney General’s Authority to Prosecute Election Crimes

The Texas Senate has approved Senate Bill 11 (companion to SB 1026), granting the Texas Attorney General independent authority to prosecute
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El Periodico USA Staff Community News August 4, 2025

Austin ISD Moves to Turn Around Dobie Middle School Following Repeated “F” Ratings on STAAR

The Austin Independent School District (AISD) board has approved an aggressive turnaround plan for Dobie Middle School—alongside two other struggling
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El Periodico USA Staff Community News August 4, 2025

Seth Michelson to Publish Hope on the Border This October—A Poignant Call to Action in

Seth Michelson, associate professor of Spanish at W&L, is set to release Hope on the Border: Immigration, Incarceration, and the
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El Periodico USA Staff Featured August 2, 2025

Venezuelan deportees say they endured months of abuse inside a Salvadoran prison

By Perla Trevizo, The Texas Tribune and ProPublica, Melissa Sanchez and Mica Rosenberg, ProPublica, Ronna Rísquez, Alianza Rebelde Investiga, and
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