Supreme Court appears divided on question of citizenship in the census – The US Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of whether or not to include the question of citizenship in next year’s Census. Three lower courts have already ruled against the Trump administration’s plans to include the controversial question in the census count. During the deliberations, hundreds of civil rights defenders protested outside the court building. José López Zamorano covered the hearing and has the report.
Women of Honduras flee from hatred and violence – Contrary to insistent statements of the White House, often disparaging the reasons of the families that seek asylum, migrant women from Honduras really arrive at the border as a last resort to save their lives. That’s the opinion of the writer and journalist Sonia Nazario, awarded with a Pulitzer, after publishing an investigation carried out in the Honduran region of Choloma, ground zero of the massacre of women. In that area ruled by narco-cartels and gangs, men kill women with extreme cruelty and sadism.
Family Paid Leave Campaign Gains Steam in the Country – Stating that the levels of infant and maternity mortality in the United States are a national shame and that many of those deaths could be prevented through a sound family leave program, a California congressman holds hearings to craft a national bill. This plan is inspired in part by the first state law on family leave, which has been in effect in California for more than 15 years. Fabiola Santiago is the coordinator of the campaign called Paid Family Program for the United States.
