Garvin Oliver
MRC Latino intern
PAULINA SODI, NEWS ANCHOR, UN NUEVO DIA: A group of immigrant activists yesterday began a hunger strike in San Diego, California to peacefully ask for the immediate abolition of ICE, the office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The protesters say ICE is being used to terrorize immigrant communities and carry out the Trump administration’s immoral policies of zero tolerance, as they said in…
CONGRESSMAN LUIS GUTIÉRREZ (D-IL): You see and hear the words of the President regarding Latinos, Muslims, women, people of the LGBT community and you, we should not be surprised.
JOSÉ LÓPEZ, DIRECTOR, PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO: And that is what is here: the anti-Latino discourse that this President has promoted is a discourse of exclusion, a discourse of marginalization.
MARÍA CELESTE ARRARÁS, HOST, AL ROJO VIVO, TELEMUNDO: nothing justifies this aggression against a man who was already completely defenseless. The images have angered many and now the police has opened an investigation. Classic abuse.
PAULINA SODI, NEWS ANCHOR, UN NUEVO DIA: President Trump’s administration has put an end to the practice of universities that favor the admission of racial and gender minorities to promote diversity. The suspension breaks with the guidelines that began to be applied in 2011 under the administration of Barrack Obama, in a policy called Affirmative Action. Under the new system, schools will stop…
GALO ARELLANO, CORRESPONDENT, UNIVISION: Today 1800 Puerto Ricans, who after losing all their property during María's lashing were relocated to hotels across the nation, had to vacate. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, says it will no longer pay for the temporary lodging.
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JENNIFER ORTIZ, FEMA BENEFICIARY: What is not being taken into account here is the mental health of all of us…
JAIME GARCIA, CORRESPONDENT, UNIVISION: about the relationship that the President of Mexico will sustain with the United States, and more specifically with President Donald Trump.
MAURICIO MESCHOULAM, POLITICAL ANALYST, UNIVISION: Mexico heavily relies on having a good relationship with the United States, so I do not think that Andrés Manuel will try to break that relationship.
JAIME GARCIA:…
SATCHA PRETTO, NEWS ANCHOR, DESPIERTA AMERICA: Hopefully these protests are effective.
ADRIANA YAÑEZ, NEWS ANCHOR, ESTERELLA: Officials of the Department of Homeland Security have been the target of threats, one of them found the body of an animal burned and beheaded at the door of his house.
FRANCISCA LACHAPEL, HOST, UNIVISION: Hey, also in New York.
ALAN TACHER, HOST, UNIVISION: Yes.
FRANCISCA LACHAPEL: Also in New York, the whole community was celebrating together with the LGBT community, and well everyone was supporting. I also loved seeing the hashtag #loveislove on social media, love is love, any way you look at it. So how good is it to have these kinds of parades that promote…
JORGE RAMOS, SENIOR NEWS ANCHOR, UNIVISION: Trump's Homeland Security Secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, had to cut her dinner short last night while dining at a Mexican restaurant near the White House, when a group of protesters rejected the policy of separating families. The protesters forced her to rapidly leave the establishment, while they shouted "If the children can’t eat in peace, you can’t eat…