While I benefit from being a U.S.-born citizen, it’s not something that I’m proud of. In fact, as I witness Brown immigrants being dehumanized, kidnapped, caged and deported by the inhumane administration, I’m ashamed of it. I don’t say this …
Over the past week, protests have erupted across Southern California following a series of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids. Re…
Every year, thousands of Californians walk out their front doors never to return home—not because of war or natural disasters, but because of …
As a California State Assemblymember representing one of the most diverse communities in the most vibrant state in the nation, I cannot stay s…
I grew up watching public television. In the 1990s, it was less common for poor and working-class families, like my own, to have access to cab…
I wrote the breaking news story on Donald Trump’s second victory from a hospital bed.
The dust has yet to settle on the 2024 election, yet much is being written about Latino voters and their unexpected support for Trump. As a po…
It only took a little more than a week for Democrats to go from crying foul over a pro-Trump comedian’s insulting remarks on Puerto Rico to hu…
Donald Trump secured a surprising 42% of the Latino vote, enough to swing the election in his favor. Now, Democrats are forced to confront the…
Contrary to what the mainstream media reporters and others say, Brown men didn’t elect the convicted felon Donald J. Trump and his sidekick J.…
This year's elections have brought a lot of emotions to the undocumented community. Every year we see our loved ones get their hopes up about …
This month, La Opinión published an editorial in support of Proposition 36, which would send people to jail or prison for years for low-level,…
I felt like a rebellious teenager as I went to my local pharmacy to buy the morning-after pill.
“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment…
I stopped going to church in 2016. I became a Christian in 2005, but I could not keep going to a place where politics became more important th…
Every minute of the day for the last couple of weeks—or months, something horrific has happened, or been told on national television, often st…
Over the course of these past 10 months, transitioning from public service into philanthropy, I have heard firsthand from California’s Latino …
