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Antonio De Loera-Brust is a first-generation Mexican-American writer and filmmaker from Davis, Calif. He is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and a former Joseph A. O’Hare, S.J., fellow at America.
Residents mourn on Sept. 20 for the 11 victims killed in a church in Atzala, Mexico, during the Sept. 19 earthquake. A Catholic bishop in Mexico said the situation was extremely serious, and much aid would be needed. (CNS photo/Imelda Medina, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Antonio De Loera-Brust
The earthquake feels like yet another crisis tearing at our transnational families. The earthquake was a natural disaster, but the many ways American society fails to value the lives of foreigners, of immigrants, of its own citizens, because of their skin color or their Latino heritage is a disaster of our own making.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Antonio De Loera-Brust
The fight for the Dreamers is a fight for every immigrant.
Dolores Huerta rallies striking farmworkers and supporters during the California grape boycott. (Courtesy of "Dolores: the movie") 
Arts & CultureFilm
Antonio De Loera-Brust
Huerta’s lack of recognition is certainly not due to a lack of proximity to power; she stood alongside giants of American history.
Politics & SocietyVideo

Students, faculty, and staff at Jesuit Universities around the country push back against the Trump administration's plan to end DACA, a policy which could lead to the deportation of students at Jesuit Schools.

Special Thanks to the Los Angeles Loyolan. Their coverage of the LMU demonstration here

 

In this Jan. 26, 2016 photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined by Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of metro Phoenix, at a campaign event in Marshalltown, Iowa (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer).
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Antonio De Loera-Brust
The sheriff is the personification of law enforcement behaving lawlessly.
Politics & SocietyVideo

An undocumented mother of three U.S. citizens finds sanctuary in a New York City church. 

President Donald Trump speaks at Fort Myer in Arlington Va., Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, during a Presidential Address to the Nation about a strategy he believes will best position the U.S. to eventually declare victory in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Antonio De Loera-Brust
An interview with Drew Christiansen, S.J.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Antonio De Loera-Brust
“Nukemap” is a simulator that allows you to conduct a mock nuclear strike.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Antonio De Loera-Brust
The United States’ status as a nation of immigrants has never been perfect.