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Despite a financial commitment of tens of millions of dollars from several government agencies, progress toward moving residents out of Oasis Mobile Home Park in Thermal — where contaminated water, trash build-up and sewage issues have long been the norm — has stalled due to a lack of affordable housing in the eastern Coachella Valley.
The U.S. Senate passed a bill Thursday fulfilling the vision of a Cathedral City veteran who died from pancreatic cancer developed from her service in Iraq.
Jennifer Kepner was an Air Force medic exposed to toxic burn pits which caused her to develop pancreatic cancer.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla and Representative Raul Ruiz (both D-Calif.) introduced bicameral legislation to create the César E. Alex Padilla senator official portraitChávez and the Farmworker Movement National Historical Park. This bill would preserve the nationally significant sites associated with César E. Chávez and the farmworker movement in California and Arizona. The legislation is cosponsored by Senator Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Representatives Grijalva and Gallego (both D-Ariz.).
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The historic Forty Acres site near Delano would become part of the César E. Chávez and the Farmworker Movement National Historical Park under proposed legislation by Sen. Alex Padilla and Rep. Raul Ruiz of Palm Desert.
Forty Acres served as the headquarters of the United Farm Workers movement when it was purchased in 1966. The site hosted growers who signed a historic labor agreement with the UFW in 1970.
It's been an ongoing battle for thousands of Coachella Valley residents across more than 100 mobile home parks to get safe drinking water.
On Wednesday, Congressman Dr. Raul Ruiz, along with the Environmental Protection Agency, visited the Oasis Mobile Home Park in Thermal.
Ruiz and the EPA's regional Administrator, Martha Guzman, met with residents to discuss clean water access in the Eastern Coachella Valley.
Washington, D.C. – Today, on the first day of National Police Week, Congressman Raul Ruiz, M.D. (CA-36) took to the House floor to call for Congress to take up his legislation, the Heroes Lesley Zerebny and Gil Vega First Responders Survivors Support Act, which would increase the financial assistance provided to the families of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. The legislation was inspired by the deaths of Palm Springs Police Department Officers Lesley Zerebny and Gil Vega, who were tragically killed in the line of duty on October 8, 2016.
Local representatives visited two Tijuana shelters that specialize in caring for LGBTQ asylum seekers while they wait to request protection in the United States
José Geovanny Torres Morataya cannot go back to her country because, as a trans woman in transition, she is sure that she will be killed.
"Guatemala is a very mentally closed society to LGBT people," Torres, 22, said in Spanish.
RIVERSIDE (CNS) – Federal and state lawmakers from the Inland Empire expressed a mix of emotions Tuesday in the wake of a leaked U.S. Supreme Court decision indicating the majority's preference to undo federal preservation of abortion rights under Roe v. Wade.
For all the efforts of well-meaning advocates, there seemed to be a point at which the sale and purchase of horses in the United States for transport to foreign slaughter facilities became nothing more than a minor irritation to a Thoroughbred industry obsessed with Lasix, takeout, and conflicting post times.
For months, members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus have fumed that YouTube and other social networks haven't forked over enough data about Spanish misinformation on their sites, including how many moderators review such content and how effective they have been.
But they notched a partial victory in a private meeting with YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki on Thursday, where lawmakers said the mogul pledged to finally give them some answers about an issue the caucus considers a major priority.