MRC Latino | March 22, 2019
  LUIS MEGID, CORRESPONDENT UNIVISION: The Customs and Border Protection service said, in a statement: “Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and loved ones...our agency remains committed to ensure...fair, humane, and dignified treatment of those who are in our custody.” In spite of their good intentions and considering the most recent deaths, border activists demand to know exactly…
MRC Latino | March 21, 2019
JULIAN CASTRO, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE (D): I would say that she was a trailblazer. You know... RAMOS: Yeah. Yes, she was, no? CASTRO: I’ve always had this issue with people that label the chicano movement radical. Because, fundamentally, all they were asking for was to be able to participate in the system. And I see that as just fundamentally American- quintessentially American...trying to…
MRC Latino | March 19, 2019
PABLO GATO, CORRESPONDENT, UNIVISIÓN: Just hours after an attack by a white supremacist against two mosques in New Zealand which claimed 49 deaths PRESIDENTE DONALD TRUMP: I don´t really, I think it’s a, uh GATO: Trump said that he does not think that white supremacists are a threat. FEDERICO DE JESÚS, DEMOCRATIC ANALYST: I believe that the President does not openly condemn white supremacism…
MRC Latino | March 12, 2019
ILIA CALDERÓN, PRESENTADORA, UNIVISIÓN: … unemployment fell to only 3.8%, the lowest in 55 years. […] JUAN CARLOS LÓPEZ, PRESENTADOR, CNN EN ESPAÑOL: Para los hispanos la tasa pasó de 4,9 a 4,3 por ciento.
MRC Latino | March 5, 2019
LUIS MEGID, CORRESPONDENT, UNIVISION: The latest Census figures reveal that the level of poverty among Hispanics fell to the lowest level in history. In 2017 it reached 18.3%, a significant drop of more than one percent over the previous year. PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much MEGID: The President is celebrating it as one of his accomplishments. And while you can attribute it to a growing…
MRC Latino | February 27, 2019
JOSÉ DIAZ-BALART, ANCHOR, TELEMUNDO: The United States lives times of hatred. Crimes against Latinos and other minorities have had a record increase, and many attribute it to the anti-immigrant rhetoric of President Trump. […] HEIDI BEIRICH, SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: Trump has given a voice to the ire and paranoia of white supremacists […] FRANCISCO CUEVAS, CORRESPONDENT, TELEMUNDO. In…
MRC Latino | February 20, 2019
Noticiero Univisión, February 19, 2019 6:40 p.m. Eastern JORGE RAMOS, ANCHOR, UNIVISION: Is Nicolas Maduro a dictator and should he be removed from office? BERNIE SANDERS, U.S. SENATOR, I-VERMONT: I definitely believe he has been very abusive. This is a decision for the people of Venezuela. I think, Jorge, that there has to be a free and fair election, but what cannot happen is that the…
MRC Latino | February 14, 2019
LORI MONTENEGRO, WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT, TELEMUNDO: They fear that in the negotiations over border security that considers funding for the wall, there may also be a funding increase for ICE and the Border Patrol. REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ, (D) NEW YORK: DHS and ICE deserve not one more dollar… MONTENEGRO: Beyond controlling the funding that these agencies receive… REP. JOAQUIN CASTRO, (D…
MRC Latino | February 14, 2019
JOSÉ DÍAZ-BALART, ANCHOR, TELEMUNDO: Trump said that the southern border lives an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. The truth is that illegal crossings are at the lowest level in 18 years.
MRC Latino | February 14, 2019
JOSÉ DIAZ-BALART, ANCHOR, TELEMUNDO: if the trend continues at this rate, the year 2019 would be the year with more immigrant entries since 2007. So that we understand, in the last four months immigration authorities detained about 200,000 immigrants at the border which means a rise of 84 percent over the same period of the previous year which ended with the detention of 109,000 persons. By…