Supreme Court Declines Reconsidering DAPA and DACA – Millions of potential beneficiaries of the expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and the version for adult parents, DAPA, will continue in limbo for now. The Supreme Court decided this week not to reconsider the case and the judicial block that hangs over these executive actions. The result revived national attention to the immigration debate within the presidential campaigns, with contrasting plans from the Democrat and Republican candidates. José López Zamorano reports.
Washington State Berry Workers to Begin Negotiations with Farm – After three years of strikes, marches and boycotts, a group of berry workers from Washington state won recognition of their union by the company they work for. In an election that is considered historic, the workers of Sakuma Brothers Farms voted to be represented by the labor union. Now, company directors and union leaders are getting ready to begin negotiations to draw up a collective bargaining agreement. Jose Luis Buen Abad has more.
In Colombia, “No” to the Peace Agreement – Last Sunday, Colombians voted in a plebiscite, and, by a very small margin, rejected the historic peace agreement between the government and the rebel Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia, or FARC. Opinion leaders around the world and residents of the war zones are now asking, Will there be peace? Will the war continue after the ceasefire? Radio Bilingüe’s news director, Samuel Orozco, spoke with Mario Murillo, a Colombian-American analyst and communications professor at Hofstra University in New York City, about the surprise result of the referendum.
