Jean Guerrero: Want to stop immigration? Empower immigrants in the US to help their families back home
by Jean Guerrero, Los Angeles Times
Jun 10, 2022
3 minutes
President Joe Biden wants to slow migration to this country, a priority of his administration at the Summit of the Americas. It's a bizarre venue to make such a stand, considering that the event is happening in Los Angeles, a crossroads of the Latino world.
The summit became a snub to Latinos the moment Biden prioritized Florida's conservative Cuban Americans above other Latinos, such as Mexican Americans. This was the rationale behind barring Cuba, along with its perceived allies Nicaragua and Venezuela. The exclusion defied leaders such as Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who decided to
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