California Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday called for the state to commemorate the Mexican Repatriation of the 1930s, a 15-year period when nearly two million people of Mexican descent were deported to Mexico.
Senate Majority Leader Lena Gonzalez, D-Long Beach, and Sen. Josh Becker, D-Menlo Park, introduced Senate Bill 537 to address injustices committed against Mexicans and Mexican Americans during the Great Depression. “People don’t know that the Repatriation ripped families apart.
California lawmakers are promoting legislation to place a statue or memorial in Los Angeles to recognize Mexican repatriation of the 1930s.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers are promoting legislation to place a statue or memorial in Los Angeles to recognize Mexican repatriation of the 1930s.
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A Democratic senator in California is trying to pass legislation that would speed up the construction of temporary tiny homes to shelter homeless people, relieving the Golden State's ongoing crisis.
As her junior year of high school came to a close in 2023, Tamara Gisiger’s history teacher tasked the class with a research project of their choosing.
A then-17-year-old Gisiger narrowed in on what she called an “underground, hurtful and dark part of history that just isn’t talked about” — the Mexican repatriation that took place in the 1930s amid the Great Depression.
Watch: State senator discusses injustice of 1930s US deportations
State Sen. Josh Becker discusses a new push to call for justice and recognition for a dark chapter in U.S. history: the forced deportations and injustices that devastated hundreds of thousands of Mexican and Mexican-American families in the 1930s.
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In the absence of federal guardrails on artificial intelligence in health care, state governments are figuring out their own rules of the road.
Why it matters: Artificial intelligence is health care's biggest wild card. But it's drawing hundreds of millions of dollars in investment, and health providers and drug developers are already using it -- essentially without oversight.
(FOX40.COM) — New legislation in California is seeking to speed up production of temporary tiny homes amid the state’s housing and homelessness crisis.