Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities

Alvaro Huerta holds a joint faculty appointment in urban & region planning and ethnic & women’s studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He’s the author of the book Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate: Towards a Humanistic Paradigm.

A passionate and insightful account of that complex condition we refer to as immigration. Huerta brings to the fore the deeper meanings of us all, people on the move.

• List of FiguresForeword by Dr. José Z. CalderónIntroduction by Dr. Alvaro HuertaBrief History Notes on Mexican Immigration to the U.S.By Dr. Alvaro HuertaLa Realidad: The Realities of Anti-Mexicanism—A Paradigm By Dr. Juan Gómez-QuiñonesImmigration Should be a Basic Human RightBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaThe Day I Learned I was Poor and MexicanBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaOnce Ashamed of My Mexican Parents, but not AnymoreBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaA Chicana/o Manifesto on Community Organizing: Reflections of a Scholar-ActivistBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta“Just Say No” to Senate’s “Gang of Eight” Immigration BillBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaNo White Christmas for Brown ImmigrantsBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaLessons on Community Organizing in Chicana/o Communities: Educate, Agitate & OrganizeBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaSocioeconomic Inequality Impacting Marginalized Communities Must ChangeBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaRepublican Leaders Will Regret Attacking Latina/o Immigrants By Dr. Alvaro HuertaScaremongering Over Child Refugees is DeplorableBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaWithout Hope, Blacks and Latinas/os Will Take to the StreetsBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaEl Robo: In Memory of My Mexican MotherBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaLa Pistola: In Memory of My Mexican FatherBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaLessons My Mexican Father Taught MeBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaThe Day My Mexican Father Met Cesar ChavezBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaA Chicana/o Love Story: Tribute to a Wise and Beautiful ChicanaBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaTrump’s Racist Comments Help Democrats in the FutureBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaNew Republican Xenophobic Policies Will Inevitably Backfire By Dr. Alvaro HuertaTrump Exemplifies True Colors of GOPBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaTrump’s Mass Deportation Plan Symbolizes White PrivilegeBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaCity of Los Angeles Should Regulate Street Vendors By Joaquin Montes Huerta and Dr. Alvaro HuertaSaturday Night Live Must Dump GOP Candidate Donald J. TrumpBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaU.S. Courts Maintain Undocumented Immigrants in the ShadowsBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaThe Shameful Case of Latino Republican Leaders: Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco RubioBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaRepublican Policies and Christian Values: Inherent Contradictions?By Dr. Alvaro HuertaAn Open Letter to Candidate Clinton on Trouncing Trump in the General ElectionBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaUrban Planners Unite Against TrumpBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaThe Hustler: Trump and the Mean Streets of East Los AngelesBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaAn Open Letter to President Donald J. Trump: Confessions of an “Anchor Baby”By Dr. Alvaro HuertaThe Hustler 2.0: President TrumpBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaAn Open Letter to Gov. Jerry Brown on California Becoming a Sanctuary StateBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaThe “War on Immigrants”: Racist Policies in the Era of TrumpBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaOn the Chicana/o Moratorium of 1970 and the Case of Ruben SalazarBy Dr. Juan Gómez-QuiñonesAdvocating for the Immigrant Domestic WorkforceBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaPresident Barack Obama Should’ve Halted Mass DeportationsBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaDemanding a Clean DACA Bill, Now!By Dr. Alvaro HuertaNo Deal on “Sh*thole” Border Wall!By Dr. Alvaro HuertaViva the Scholar-Activist!By Dr. Alvaro HuertaIn Memory of My Beloved Brother: Noel “Nene” HuertaBy Dr. Alvaro HuertaTrump Epitomizes America’s History of Anti-Mexicanism By Dr. Alvaro HuertaA Call for Urban Planning Latina/o Faculty: In Memory of Dr. Leo Estrada By Dr. Alvaro HuertaI Am Not Your “Wetback”By Dr. Alvaro HuertaConclusion by Dr. Alvaro HuertaWorks CitedIndex About the AuthorAbout the Contributors