Will reparations for Black residents in California become a reality? If not, are they likely to happen anywhere else in the United States? All eyes are on California, long considered the nation’s test tube for progressive policies, and its pioneering reparations task force, which this week gave the state Legislature its recommendations for repairing the damage of slavery and racism. Reparations, a topic steeped in historical and contemporary significance, gained new momentum following the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd in 2020. That’s when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law...…Will reparations for Black residents in California become a reality? If not, are they likely to happen anywhere else in the United States? All eyes are on California, long considered the nation’s test tube for progressive policies, and its pioneering reparations task force, which this week gave the state Legislature its recommendations for repairing the damage of slavery and racism. Reparations, a topic steeped in historical and contemporary significance, gained new momentum following the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd in 2020. That’s when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement Two California women are being investigated for alleged ties to organized crime after being arrested Saturday traveling southbound into Tijuana from San Ysidro with approximately $2.5 million in cash, Mexican federal authorities said Monday. The women tried to smuggle the cash through the border in a 2019 white Cherokee SUV with a California license plate at about 10 p.m. Saturday night, authorities said. Officials have not yet released their identities. Mexican border agents sent the pair to a secondary inspection...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement Two California women are being investigated for alleged ties to organized crime after being arrested Saturday traveling southbound into Tijuana from San Ysidro with approximately $2.5 million in cash, Mexican federal authorities said Monday. The women tried to smuggle the cash through the border in a 2019 white Cherokee SUV with a California license plate at about 10 p.m. Saturday night, authorities said. Officials have not yet released their identities. Mexican border agents sent the pair to a secondary inspection...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement As coronavirus restrictions make it more difficult to cross the border, some San Diego-area residents say they are struggling to get the medications they normally purchase at a discount in Tijuana. Chula Vista resident Liz Salcido has diabetes and regularly purchases her insulin in Tijuana. “Even with the insurance, it’s twice as much here in Chula Vista as it is in Tijuana,” said Salcido, 52. Before the pandemic, Salcido would regularly cross the border and purchase her insulin at half the price. With a new baby...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement As coronavirus restrictions make it more difficult to cross the border, some San Diego-area residents say they are struggling to get the medications they normally purchase at a discount in Tijuana. Chula Vista resident Liz Salcido has diabetes and regularly purchases her insulin in Tijuana. “Even with the insurance, it’s twice as much here in Chula Vista as it is in Tijuana,” said Salcido, 52. Before the pandemic, Salcido would regularly cross the border and purchase her insulin at half the price. With a new baby...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement A band of the Kumeyaay Nation whose native land spans both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border filed a federal lawsuit this week against the Trump administration seeking an injunction to stop further construction of the border wall through sacred, ancient burial lands. Human remains have been disrupted and unearthed by recent pre-construction blasting at the border, according to the lawsuit and the Kumeyaay Heritage Preservation Council. “In the Kumeyaay faith, they don’t see the material as ‘human remains’; they see them as humans,”...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement A band of the Kumeyaay Nation whose native land spans both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border filed a federal lawsuit this week against the Trump administration seeking an injunction to stop further construction of the border wall through sacred, ancient burial lands. Human remains have been disrupted and unearthed by recent pre-construction blasting at the border, according to the lawsuit and the Kumeyaay Heritage Preservation Council. “In the Kumeyaay faith, they don’t see the material as ‘human remains’; they see them as humans,”...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Even as deaths soar at factories in Mexico, the United States is sending a clear message: It’s time for plants that have stopped production to get back to work.The U.S. government has mounted a campaign to persuade Mexico to reopen many factories that were closed because of the country’s social distancing guidelines, warning that the supply chain of the North American free-trade zone could be permanently crippled if factories don’t resume production soon.“The destruction of the economy is also a health threat,” Christopher Landau,...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Even as deaths soar at factories in Mexico, the United States is sending a clear message: It’s time for plants that have stopped production to get back to work.The U.S. government has mounted a campaign to persuade Mexico to reopen many factories that were closed because of the country’s social distancing guidelines, warning that the supply chain of the North American free-trade zone could be permanently crippled if factories don’t resume production soon.“The destruction of the economy is also a health threat,” Christopher Landau,...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Throughout March, even as business and manufacturing slowed to a halt across much of the world in an effort to contain the new , work in foreign-owned factories in northern Mexico carried on as usual. Hundreds of thousands of workers continued to toil side by side in Juarez, Tijuana and other border cities, churning out electronics, medical equipment and auto parts. Meanwhile, the virus was spreading. At a plant owned by Michigan-based Lear Corp. that makes textiles for automobile seats, workers began turning up at the on-site...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Throughout March, even as business and manufacturing slowed to a halt across much of the world in an effort to contain the new , work in foreign-owned factories in northern Mexico carried on as usual. Hundreds of thousands of workers continued to toil side by side in Juarez, Tijuana and other border cities, churning out electronics, medical equipment and auto parts. Meanwhile, the virus was spreading. At a plant owned by Michigan-based Lear Corp. that makes textiles for automobile seats, workers began turning up at the on-site...WW…