A shared faith was a crucial reason Mexican-Americans came to trust the Kennedys.
Antonio De Loera-Brust
Antonio De Loera-Brust is the communications director for the United Farm Workers. He previously served as special assistant to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. He was an O’Hare fellow at America Media from 2017 to 2018.
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As DACA deadline nears, Catholic voices speak up to fix immigration woes
Catholic leaders and organizers from around the U.S. have been loudly clamoring for relief for the young adults, some who already face deportation and the loss of permits that allow them to work, drive and attend school.
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The problem with U.S. hockey: racial diversity
When I played hockey, other players of color were few and far between.
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The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall and why it matters today.
From now on, Berlin will live with the memory of the wall for longer than it lived with the wall itself.
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The church must ‘speak and live in truth’ to combat racism, bishop says
A majority black parish in downtown Charlotte has fostered an ongoing dialogue on race with members a majority white parish less than three miles away.
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Advocates should work with Trump on immigration despite his racist outburst
Democrats, and the Republicans who understand Dreamers are owed protection, could take a lesson from people of color around the country in how to navigate a political process tainted by racism. The lives of 800,000 Dreamers depend on it.
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Humans and wolves: Are we more alike than we think?
As one delves deeper and deeper into the text, one begins to sense that perhaps the two species are not as different as we might think.
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While Trump taunts North Korea, what can we learn from the Cuban Missile Crisis?
While a comparison with the Cuban Crisis does little to reassure us, it can offer some lessons on how our government avoided disaster in an even worse situation. We have been closer to the brink and still found a way to walk back.
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What Martin Scorsese can teach us about our immigration debate
“Gangs of New York” reminds us that for as long as the United States has been a nation of immigrants, it has been infected by xenophobia.
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Texas execution of Mexican citizen rebuked by President Peña Nieto
Mr. Cardenas’s lawyers argued that Texas authorities had not properly informed him that as a Mexican citizen he was entitled to legal aid from the Mexican consulate.