FELIX DE BEDOUT, UNIVISION ANCHOR: Senator, I have to move quickly to two current issues such as the nomination of a new candidate to the United States Supreme Court. Your opinion regarding the president’s nominee:
SEN: ROBERT MENENDEZ (D-NJ): This nominee, for me, is unacceptable, because he has shown through precedents that he has set in federal court that he is intolerant towards a series of…
JUAN CARLOS LOPEZ, HOST, DIRECTO USA: So, what happens now? What is the process? And there are 34 legislators that support it, but leadersh…
JENNIFER GONZÁLEZ, RESIDENT COMMISSIONER (R-PUERTO RICO): 38.
LOPEZ: Is it 38 already? Does leadership support it? Do you see any interest? Because many say that if Puerto Rico were to become a state, it would have more representation in the House…
JORGE RAMOS: The World Cup allows for that nationalism that we don’t allow for other things. How’s Colombia doing?
ILIA CALDERÓN: Let’s hope that we play like never before and not lose like always, and that we achieve something.
JORGE RAMOS: I hope that Mexico gets past that damned fourth game…
ILIA CALDERÓN: So that you can enjoy it, right?
JORGE RAMOS: It’s a curse. The curse of the…
SATCHA PRETTO, UNIVISION ANCHOR: Puerto Rico begins the process to, perhaps, become the 51st state of the Union. With support from 14 Democrats and 20 Republicans, the island’s Resident Commissioner in the House of Representatives Jennifer Gonzalez Colon filed the bill that would initiate the transition process and change the territory’s status by 2021. The bill proposes the creation of a…
JORGE RAMOS, SENIOR NEWS ANCHOR, UNIVISION: Time magazine shows President Donald Trump in a composite picture on its latest cover. We will show it. It is the already famous image of a two-year old Honduran girl separated from her mother at the border, crying in front of the President.
ILIA CALDERÓN, UNIVISION ANCHOR: The Supreme Court ruled today against a California law. The high court determined that faith-based pregnancy centers are not compelled to inform women about family planning services, including abortion. These religious pregnancy centers argued that the law forced them to deliver a message that was in direct conflict with their mission.
SATCHA PRETTO,…
PABLO GATO, CORRESPONDENT, UNIVISION: After everything that has happened, do you regret having made the trip to the United States? The answer was as clear as it was blunt.
BEATA MARIANA DE JESÚS: I have no regrets. It is with pride that I am here in this country.
PABLO GATO: And with pride she will remain. She is going to live in Austin, Texas where in August she will have her Immigration Court…
CLAUDIA UCEDA, CORRESPONDENT, UNIVISIÓN. Inside the Center we found more than 1000 people in some 17 cages. Each one had about twenty people. They were divided into groups. Women were in the cages. Adult men were in others. Unaccompanied minors and children were separated from younger children. On one side were mothers with their children. On the opposite side we saw fathers with their children.
LUIS GUTIÉRREZ, CONGRESSMAN: We are not here to deny a part of our immigrant community justice to give a little bit of justice to others. It is for everyone or for no one.
LUIS MEGID, UNIVISION REPORTER: Judge Velasco’s job is complicated. Familial separation saddens him, but he doesn’t make those decisions. What can he say to immigrants?
U.S. MAGISTRATE JUDGE FERNANDO VELASCO: There’s really nothing we can do.
LUIS MEGID: Basically, you can’t give them any advice.
JUDGE VELASCO: No. Don’t come.