News from Washington - August 2022
Red-Flag Gun Laws Pushed by Hispanic Congressman Salud Carbajal
Peggy (Dr. Margaret) Sands Orchowski Ph.D. has been the credentialed Congressional Correspondent for the Hispanic Outlook on Higher Education magazine in Washington DC since 2006. Her new book “The Law That Changed the Face of America: the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965” was published by Rowman & Littlefield in September in time for the 50th anniversary of its signing.
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Red-Flag Gun Laws Pushed by Hispanic Congressman Salud Carbajal
Now ten years and three presidents later, Congress never passed a law giving legal status to DACA recipients (now about 600,000) and DREAMERs (over 2 million).
Early last year, it seemed that free community college tuition and student loan forgiveness would be slam dunk achievements for the newly inaugurated President Biden.
April was not a good month for Hispanic cabinet members and major agency Secretaries appointed by President Biden
In 2021, enrollment of undergraduate men fell by nearly 7 percent -- nearly three times lower than female enrollment, according to a Chronicle of Higher Education report called “Missing Males.”
Federal pandemic relief funding stemmed some bleeding for colleges, but that money will run out in 2023.
The new theme for Hispanics in 2022 on Capitol Hill may well be that they represent the diversity of America in every way -- the ultimate American.
"Biden hasn't been very keen on forgiveness from the start, so I suspect the chances are low."
Three of the nine “moderate” Democratic Congressmen who are flexing their muscles to block approval of the $3.5 trillion social infrastructure bill until the $1.2 trillion physical infrastructure is signed into law are all Hispanics
Hispanic enrollment fell by more than 5 percent during the fall 2020 semester amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Deborah Santiago, co-founder of Excelencia in Education that tracks student success in the nation’s designated Hispanic Serving Institutions.