El Tiempo Politico: More Latinos are needed in the media. All about the situation in Del Rio – El Tiempo Latino

“For a long time, Latinos have been systematically excluded from the media industry, and too often, they have been portrayed with negative stereotypes,” said Rep. Joaquín Castro. Design: Gabriela Navarro

Good evening, dear ones!

Latinos make up almost 19% of the US, but they are not yet seen in the media. The White House begins preparing federal agencies for a possible government shutdown. Del Rio immigrants have no one to protect them. Big Tech companies resent the waste of green cards.

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How far has Latino representation in the US media advanced? Agree with the latest report from the government agency that does audit and investigation services to Congress, the Government Accountability Office, not much. Between 2014 and 2019, Latinos represented between 11% and 12% of workers in this industry, a percentage that has remained stable despite the fact that Hispanics now make up nearly 19% of the total US population. The report responds at a request from Representative Joaquín Castro (D-Texas), who has taken the exclusion of the media community as a political banner to raise awareness of the negative stereotypes that persist as a consequence of this marginalization. Based on these figures, and within the framework of Hispanic Heritage Month, Latino journalists, writers, actors and artists are demanding greater visibility and opportunities to be represented.

Some data:

• “For a long time, Latinos have been systematically excluded from the media industry, and too often, they have been portrayed with negative stereotypes, which is dangerous for Americans when this is combined with politicians who use them as goats. expiatory and widespread misinformation, “Castro said in an interview with Axios. The congressman presented the results of the investigation before the National Press Club, and highlighted that this area – particularly Hollywood – continues to be the main creator of narratives in American society.
• Another study, published by the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative from University of Southern California (USC), stated that Hispanic and / or Latino actors they only represented 5% of characters with lines or names in 1,300 films released between 2007 and 2019. 567 of the 1,300 films studied lacked representation from the community. Just last weekend, the Emmys were criticized for do not award any actor of color in its main categories.
• And what about the press? During his speech, Congressman Castro criticized publications like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times for having particularly low rates of Latino or Hispanic journalists relative to the demographics of their cities. In this field, only 8% of the positions were held by Latinos in 2019, and their workers have attracted the attention of their superiors due to the lack of diversity in the newsrooms and stereotypical or non-diverse coverage in events that directly affect the community, such as the El Paso, Texas massacre in 2019.
• Although there are media in Spanish aimed at the Latino community in the US , activists for representation in the media argue that its reach is not enough to reach the majority of the white and English-speaking population, so they ask be more visible in narratives directed at this sector and challenge the belief that stories with protagonists of color don’t sell. “Hollywood has the idea that ‘Oh, we can’t do too much diversity, it will scare white people.’ Well, it hasn’t scared white people, ”said Ana-Christina Ramón, director of research and civic engagement at the UCLA College of Letters and Sciences.
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TODAY IN CAPITOL HILL:

1. The leader of the Senate Democrats, Chuck Schumer, announced that both Houses of Congress and the White House they reached an agreement on a funding framework that would cover the $ 3.5 trillion Democratic budget (which contains much of the ideas of the Biden administration), which they hope to pass this fall through the reconciliation process. According to Schumer, who held a press conference with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, and the Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, this agreement will pay the cost of whatever the final proposal is through “a fundraising options menu ”, which include tax collection ideas that were removed from previous proposals.

2. The White House Budget Office warned federal agencies that preparations should begin for a possible government shutdown, given that Congress has not been able to reach a financing agreement within a week of September 30. Despite the fact that the Democratic congressmen presented and approved a plan to finance the government, this project is expected to fail in the Senate, as the GOP representatives refuse to support the suspension of the debt limit.

3. The House of Representatives passed a bill to designate $ 1 billion toward Israel’s air defense system – known as the Iron Dome – after this proposal was removed from the funding plan to avoid a government shutdown, as a group of progressive Democrats threatened to vote against of the legislation if this clause remained in the document. It is not known when it will be voted on by the Senate.

YOU MUST KNOW:

The immigrant camp in Del Rio, Texas had grown to 15,000 people, mostly Haitians, waiting for the opportunity to seek asylum in the United States after crossing the border illegally. For today, that number had drastically decreased to 4,000, according to the Department of Homeland Security, amid deportation flights reactivated by the Biden administration and after a violent encounter with the Border Patrol earlier in the week. Without a concrete plan to control the immigration crisis and with Titile 42 still in effect, uncertainty reigns among those expelled and those left in the makeshift camp, but also for federal government officials as the promise of an immigration system fades. “Fair and orderly” repeated during the campaign.

• Officials ofHomeland Security spoke to the press on condition of anonymity and revealed the figures of the operation: around 1,400 migrants have been repatriated to Haiti in 13 flights, another 3,200 are in US custody and will be processed, while another thousands unaccounted for have returned to Mexico. The State Department is in talks with Brazil and Chile to allow the return of some Haitians who resided in those countries, which have been complicated since many of the immigrants no longer have legal status, leaving them in limbo.
• From the horrific images of Border Patrol officers with whips chasing immigrants, the administration decided suspend use Mounted Police in Del Rio, as he works to increase the frequency of repatriation flights. The US special envoy for Haiti, Daniel Foote, decided to resign after days of mistakes and scandals: “I will not be associated with the inhumane and self-defeating decision of the United States to deport thousands of Haitian refugees and illegal immigrants to Haiti, a country where American officials are confined to safe compounds due to the dangers posed by armed gangs that control life. everyday, ”he wrote in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
• From the Mexican side of the southern border, authorities say the estimates of “thousands” of returnees are an exaggeration. The National Migration Institute stated that, as of Wednesday, there were about 600 returned migrants in Ciudad Acuña and that 250 Haitians have been expelled from the city since Sunday. In the early hours of the morning, patrols of the local municipal police they fenced off the land where several of them are camping while they wait to cross again. For at least two nights, the agents of this organization and the National Guard have been raiding hotels and in the streets.
• INM agents seek to reaffirm to immigrants that, if they voluntarily surrender to the authorities, they will obtain everything they have not received so far: shelter, food, shelter, medical services and assistance in their procedures. Inside the Mexican camp, the immigrants say they have been hungry, thirsty and very hot. They distrust the promises of officials and none of them knows very well what the outcome of their cases will be. For now, the humanitarian crisis on the southern border only promises to spread.

BEFORE YOU LEAVE:

• Wasted green card. If you’re waiting for a Green Card response and you work at Google, Microsoft, or another tech company, you’re probably upset, as companies are. Migration delays are causing thousands of opportunities to be missed. “The delays have created uncertainty for major employers and caused anxiety for our employees and their families who, in some cases, have waited decades to receive permanent residency status,” the Apple CEO wrote in a letter. Via: Axios
• For a change. Trump is putting pressure on the governor of TexasGreg Abbott to support a bill that would authorize an audit of the 2020 election in his state to investigate alleged fraud. “Texas needs you to act now. Your Third Special Session is the perfect opportunity, and probably the last, to pass this project, ”said the former president.
• No to “vaccination apartheid.” While several countries begin to think about providing booster doses against COVID-19 to their populations, African countries took the opportunity to ask the end of “vaccination apartheid” in the UN General Assembly. The leaders of Africa, who are still waiting for shipments of the first doses, left a reminder to world leaders: “No one is safe if we all are not.”