Hundreds of people claim the presence of a Republican congressman asking him not to affect their health insurance. Hundreds of residents in the Central Valley of California, a district governed by Republican Rep. Jeff Denham, went to a public forum to demand his opposition to the elimination of the health reform bill called Obamacare unless there is a previous plan to protect the insured. More than 100,000 people in this district, which includes the city of Modesto, have access to health services through this law’s reforms. At the assembly, one of several that have occurred in the nation’s Republican districts, dramatic testimony was heard and, confronted by the absence of the congressman, they shouted, “Come forward and do what is right!” Our reporter Fernando Andres Torres has the details.
Tens of thousands take the streets in Wisconsin to be part of a “Day Without Immigrants”. Last Tuesday, tens of thousands protesters marched on the streets of Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s largest city. The organizers of the march launched a call for one day strike, naming it “a day without immigrants,” their call was answered by more than 170 companies in 25 cities of this state. The demonstrators also showed their repudiation to the plans of the local Sheriff David Clarke to convert his police officers in immigration agents. Our news director, Samuel Orozco, interviewed Christine Neumann Ortiz, executive director of Milwaukee’s “Voces de la Frontera”, the organization which launched the call for a general strike.
Pre-candidate to the Mexican Presidency begins campaign in the United States criticizing Trump. With strong criticism of President Trump, the candidate for the Mexican presidency for the political party MORENA, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, begins an intermittent tour through seven cities of the United States. Favored by the polls to win the presidency in the elections of 2018, Lopez Obrador takes a step ahead of the other pre-candidates approaching to its paisanos in the United States. This pre-candidate is asking the Mexican émigrés that they organize in a network of committees to combat the xenophobia. The tour began and will end at the iconic Placita Olvera, Los Angeles’ historic downtown. Rubén Tapia has the story.
