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<p>For several years now, Mexican migration to the United States has been in steady decline.</p>
<p>According to the Pew Hispanic Research Center, over a million Mexican nationals have returned south of the border since 2009, data which busts claims made by republicans, including President-elect Donald Trump, during this year’s political campaign season.</p>
<p>What are some of the factors involved in this migration pattern? And what does this net departure of Mexican citizens represent for both countries?</p>

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<p>José Cruz es originario de Puerto Rico y emigró a Estados Unidos cuando tenía tres años junto con su madre y su hermano en busca de una mejor vida.<br>
Aunque es ciudadano estadounidense, por haber nacido en Puerto Rico, José no hablaba inglés cuando llegó a San Diego. No hablar inglés lo hizo que se sintiera como si estuviera en una casa ajena mientras crecía.<br>
Esa experiencia fue lo que lo inspiró a hacer lo que hace ahora, a ser Director Ejecutivo de Barrio Logan College Institute.<br>

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<p>Born in Puerto Rico, Jose Cruz immigrated to the United States with his mother and his brother in search of a better life when he was just three years old.<br>
Although he was an American citizen, having been born in Puerto Rico, Jose didn’t speak English when he arrived to San Diego. This situation made him feel like he didn’t belong in the community. That experience was what inspired him to one day become the executive director of Barrio Logan College Institute (BLCI).<br>

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<p>Pese a que California ya ha aprobado un aumento gradual del salario mínimo, trabajadores de distintos rubros exigen que éste se de manera inmediata y no tener que esperar hasta 2022.</p>
<p>Esta semana, cientos de trabajadores y líderes comunitarios en San Diego se unieron a una acción nacional del movimiento La Lucha por $15 (Fight for $15) para exigir justicia económica.</p>

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<p>The number of people apprehended by Border Patrol and other immigration officers has increased by nearly 50 percent; many of these detainees are coming from Central America, rushed out of fear of borders being closed and the construction of the wall, as &nbsp;promised by the now President-elect during his campaign.</p>

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<p>Se espera que el programa de Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia (DACA, por sus siglas en ingles) desaparezca con el mandato de Donald Trump, esto de acuerdo a la abogada experta en inmigración Barbara K. Strickland.</p>

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<p>Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as DACA, is expected to disappear under the Trump administration, this according to immigration lawyer Barbara K. Strickland.</p>
<p>DACA is an American immigration policy ordered by current U.S. President Barack Obama to allow certain undocumented immigrants who entered the country before the age 16 to receive a renewable two-year work permit and exemption from deportation. DACA was signed by Obama in 2012, due Congress’ failure to pass a form of immigration reform.</p>

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<p>Born in Hopewell, Virginia, Barbara Strickland and her family moved from town to town when she was young because her father worked for the state’s Department of Corrections. In the early Sixties, she arrived to Long Beach, California to study her last year of high school.<br>
“We were in the middle of the ‘60s. There was the Vietnam War, and the Social Rights movement, that’s when I got the idea of becoming a lawyer,” she said. “Back then, I didn’t know what would be my focus, I just knew I wanted to be a lawyer.”<br>