ALIDA
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ALIDA
TV CLIPS:
MSNBC // VELSHI & RUHLE: Immigration issues explained: Family separation and missing children
MSNBC // ALI VELSHI: What happened to the children separated at the border?
CNN // CNN NEWSROOM WITH JIM SCIUTTO: Authorities: At Least 377 Migrants Still in Custody After Raids
FOX NEWS // Trump Calls on Congress To Fix Immigration
BBC WORLD NEWS // US Border Immigration Children
PODCASTS:
on one with angela rye // “Daca for dummies”
The APPEAL // JUSTICE IN AMERICA // “CRIMMIGRATION”
LATINO USA // “Is Latino leadership self-censoring?”
IN THE NEWS:
POLITICO // Mark Zuckerberg immigration group puts big pieces in place
THE NEW REPUBLIC // ICE’s Raids Were a Win for Corporate Exploitation
VOX // Americans are stepping up to show reunited migrant families there’s more to their country than Trump
FORBES // Freeing 21 Savage: Inside The Effort That Got A Rapper Released From ICE Detention
THE NEWYORKER // The Five-Year-Old Who Was Detained at the Border and Persuaded to Sign Away Her Rights
VOX // Democrats took a risk by speaking Spanish during the debate
MASHABLE // A handy guide to the immigrant rights activists and experts you should follow on Twitter
OC REGISTER // As deadline looms, more than 1,000 immigrant families separated at the Mexican border yet to be reunified, hundreds deported
BUSINESS INSIDER // 'I'm leaving the Democratic Party today': Democrats are infuriated by their own party's deal with the GOP to reopen the government
QUARTZ // New data shows the US government kept hundreds of immigrant kids, and deported their parents
VOX // Airlines to Trump: we won’t help you separate migrant kids from parents
REMEZCLA // 5 Organizations You Can Support as Families Are Torn Apart at the Border
WASHINGTON CITY PAPER // The People Issue 2017
MCCLATCHY // Kamala Harris emerges as voice of immigrant advocates in the Senate
WASHINGTON POST // The girl who hugged the pope is at the White House. Her parents, who are undocumented, can’t join her.
BUZZFEED // Latino And Immigration Groups React To Nominee Trump: The Pivot Is Dead
MIC.COM // Lupita Nyong'o, Rosario Dawson and Others Want You to Remember Something About Immigrants
HUFFINGTON POST // Latinos Call Out Donald Trump For His Fear-Mongering Speech
CAMPAIGN AND ELECTIONS // Groups Pushing to Diversify Democratic Campaign Ranks Say More Progress is Needed
TIME // Why Conservatives Praise Bernie Sanders on Immigration
HUFFINGTON POST // Hillary Clinton Solved A Problem Corporate America Can’t Seem To Fix
WALL STREET JOURNAL // Obama’s Executive Order on Immigration Deportation Goes Before Supreme Court
LA OPINION // Iniciativa ‘Yo soy Inmigrante’ lleva esperanza a los indocumentados de LA
BUZZFEED // Latino Leaders Slam Report That Jose Diaz-Balart's MSNBC Show Will Be Canceled
UPWORTHY // Why you aren't acting in real life like the hero in your favorite movie.
HUFFINGTON POST // Jose Antonio Vargas To Launch #EmergingUS, Identity Politics Site, In Partnership With LA Times
POLITICO MAGAZINE // Why I Turned Myself in to DHS
VOX // Don’t say “papaya” in Miami, and other lessons for wooing Latino voters
THINK PROGRESS // The Dehumanizing History Of The Words We’ve Used To Describe Immigrants
HUFFINGTON POST // Hillary Clinton Has The Most Diverse Campaign Staff, Report Finds
Education
COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL
J.D. Graduated May 2008
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
B.A. COMMUNICATION
Graduated June 2005