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Janet Murguia is the executive director of the National Council of La Raza, the largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States.
Janet Murguia
Janet Murguia is the executive director of the National Council of La Raza, the largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States.
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November 21, 2013
Over the past year, the calls for action on immigration reform have been loud and unwavering. Activists have been arrested for staging sit-ins at their congressional representatives’ offices , DREAMers and their families have risked deportation to bring attention to the cause, and thousands have marched on Washington demanding that Congress do something to fix our broken immigration system. But sometimes the quietest acts of political protest can be the most powerful. This week I visited the National Mall, just a stone’s throw away from the capitol, and walked into a tent with a sign that...
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December 10, 2012
Every morning in this country, mothers and fathers focus on getting their children ready for school and then get to work themselves. But imagine having to do all this knowing that at any moment your family could be separated thanks to outdated immigration policies. This is the reality for nearly one in ten American families, in which at least one parent is a non-citizen and one child is a citizen. One example of this kind of family is Liz and Jose. Liz, a U.S. citizen, is married to Jose, an undocumented immigrant, and they have three children who are also U.S. citizens. In addition to...
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December 4, 2012
Like most voters, Latinos cited jobs and the economy as their greatest concern in the days leading up to the election . The pressing importance of these issues led to an historic turnout of Hispanic voters in the 2012 election and overwhelming support for President Obama’s reelection. In the post-election period, Latinos are looking to our nation’s leadership to pursue policies that spur economic growth and keep us on the path to recovery. That progress, however, will be in jeopardy if our nation falls off the dreaded fiscal cliff on January 2, 2013, the day that deep spending cuts...
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November 5, 2012
As the fastest-growing group of voters in the country, Latinos could make the difference in several key battleground states in the closest presidential election in years. An estimated 12.2 million Hispanics are expected to go the polls on Tuesday. As the largest nonpartisan national Latino voter registration organization in the country, which has registered more than 90,000 new voters in the last few months, the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) knows how eager Hispanics are to participate in this election. But the only way we can turn “could” into “did” is for our community to take a stand...
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April 17, 2012
Today is Equal Pay Day, which marks the end of the catch-up game women in the United States involuntarily play every year. But unlike most games, there is no grand prize. Instead, women receive a brutal reminder that it takes from all of 2011 until April 2012 —more than 100 days since the beginning of the year — for our wages to finally match what men earned in just 2011. No, it’s not that we’ve been paid late — it’s that we’ve been paid less, shortchanged an average 23 cents for each dollar earned by our male counterparts in the same jobs, according to latest U.S. Census Bureau data. The...
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