Arizona Latino School Board Association

Congratulations Class of 2022!

Last night we facilitated our Running for School Board candidate training to a group of leaders who understand the importance of ensuring equitable opportunities for all students to succeed. The curriculum was robust and the conversations amongst the attendees were productive and collaborative, sharing experiential knowledge and best practices.

Congratulations to the Class of 2022! Thank you for your unwavering commitment to uplifting our students, teachers and staff.

Photos from The Azlsba 2030 Project's post

Strong statement from the Arizona School Boards Association re: Governor Ducey's most recent Executive Order.

Read ASBA's statement on Gov. Ducey's Executive Order regarding school reopening: https://azsba.org/asbas-response-to-executive-order-requiring-schools-to-offer-in-person-learning/

U.S. detained migrant children for far longer than previously known

The data, obtained through a public records lawsuit filed by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, show that the U.S. government has detained more than 25,000 migrant children for longer than 100 days over the last six years. In that time, at least 266,000 children were held in government custody, the records show, meaning that nearly 1 in 10 of them experienced prolonged detention.
Nearly 1,000 migrant children have spent more than a year in refugee shelters. At least three children have spent more than five years in custody since 2013.
In some instances, pregnant teenagers gave birth while in refugee agency custody. New records reveal six babies born with U.S. citizenship were held for a year or more in shelters in Texas and Arizona.
“Your findings point to a systemic failure,” said Neha Desai, one of the attorneys in the landmark Flores agreement that sets the rules for government care of migrant children. In the 1997 settlement, the government agreed to release minors “without unnecessary delay.”

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-30/migrant-children-have-languished-in-u-s-custody-for-as-long-as-7-years

U.S. detained migrant children for far longer than previously known Newly obtained data show that the U.S. government has detained more than 25,000 migrant children for longer than 100 days over the last six years.

Trump administration's family separation policy marked by 'intentional cruelty,' House panel concludes

The Trump administration's 2018 family separation policy at the southern border was marked by "reckless incompetence and intentional cruelty," the House Judiciary Committee concluded in a scathing report released Thursday.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2020/10/29/report-trump-family-separation-policy-marked-intentional-cruelty/6075484002/

Trump administration's family separation policy marked by 'intentional cruelty,' House panel concludes The policy was implemented border-wide even though a pilot program revealed the administration's inability to track separated children and parents.

Arizona Edition: Charlene Fernandez Seeks Historic Change As First Latina Speaker For Arizona House

Fernandez says she’s just trying to make a difference. Her priority now is energizing Democrats to vote in November.

But she understands she could make history as the first Latina Speaker of the Arizona House and she knows what that would mean to young Latinas.

“Hopefully, if some little girl sees me if things go well for me and I am the Speaker, and one little girl sees me, just one little girl. I can change life. I hope so,” Fernandez said.

https://www.kawc.org/post/arizona-edition-charlene-fernandez-seeks-historic-change-first-latina-speaker-arizona-house?fbclid=IwAR0k-C6zQiRxBmZaC1HMm1DQqE4tP9YTXGik6lBYlpk84sZBQUhiCXyASWY

Arizona Edition: Charlene Fernandez Seeks Historic Change As First Latina Speaker For Arizona House Before COVID-19 quarantines were imposed, Charlene Fernandez drove to the state capitol every Sunday when the Arizona House of Representatives was in

Column: How Latinos raised in Southern California are changing politics in small-town America

As Rudy Monterrosa wrapped up his final year at Notre Dame Law School in 1998, he also readied a return to Southern California.
South Bend, Ind., had treated him well, but the son of Mexican and Salvadoran immigrants didn’t see a future there. His family and friends lived in unincorporated Bloomington in San Bernardino County. He was a volunteer with the Inland Empire Future Leaders Program, which has trained generations of high schoolers to better their communities.
And that’s what Monterrosa planned to do back home — set up a law practice, then eventually enter politics.
But one night, he served as an emcee when Edward James Olmos came to Notre Dame. Latinos drove for hours from across the Midwest to hear the actor speak, thirsty for a touch of their culture and for an event where they weren’t an anomaly, at only about 8% of the population.
“Something clicked,” Monterrosa now says. “It made me realize we can make a difference here.”
So he gave himself five years to try to establish a life. He became a respected leader, the type of guy whose career allowed him to cross paths with former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and the husband of newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Meanwhile, the Latino population in South Bend and the surrounding region doubled.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-28/latino-politicians-small-towns

Column: How Latinos raised in Southern California are changing politics in small-town America Latinos raised in California are slowly starting to gain positions of power and influence across small-town America.

Immigration fact check: "Who built the cages?"

Immigration rights activists and lawyers argued in court that the separations were unlawful and accused the administration of exploiting loopholes to continue to separate families in a 2019 lawsuit. In court filings, the ACLU said the administration used allegations of criminality or even mere suspicion to justify family separations.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-27/presidential-immigration-debate-fact-check-and-who-built-the-cages

Immigration fact check: "Who built the cages?" Last week's Trump-Biden debate raised questions about which administration first caged kids separated from their parents. We examined the record.

Opinion | Do we tolerate the kidnapping of children? This election is our chance to answer.

"What kind of people are we? As a society, are we so decadent and insecure that we show "toughness" by deliberately being cruel to innocent children? Is this what our nation has come to? Or are we better than that?
This election demands we answer those questions. The choice between President Trump and Joe Biden is not just political. It is also moral. And perhaps nothing more starkly illustrates the moral dimension of that decision than the Trump administration's policy of kidnapping children at the southern U.S. border, ripping them away from their families — and doing so for no reason other than to demonstrate Trump's warped vision of American strength."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/do-we-tolerate-the-kidnapping-of-children-this-election-is-our-chance-to-answer/2020/10/22/0f60d17c-1496-11eb-ad6f-36c93e6e94fb_story.html

Opinion | Do we tolerate the kidnapping of children? This election is our chance to answer. The choice between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is not political. It’s moral.

Lawyers: We can't find parents of 545 kids separated by Trump admin

“Unlike the 2,800 families separated under zero tolerance in 2018, most of whom remained in custody when zero tolerance was ended by executive order, many of the more than 1,000 parents separated from their children under the pilot program had already been deported before a federal judge in California ordered they be found.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/lawyers-say-they-can-t-find-parents-545-migrant-children-n1244066

Lawyers: We can't find parents of 545 kids separated by Trump admin About two-thirds of the 1,000 plus parents separated from their kids under a 2017 pilot program were deported before a federal judge ordered they be found.

Column: The Exide fiasco shows how companies get away with poisoning the environment

"It is not uncommon to see the polluter extract whatever they can from a minority community, go bankrupt, put the keys on the table and walk away."

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-10-20/exide-fiasco-companies-environment

Column: The Exide fiasco shows how companies get away with poisoning the environment How government inaction and pro-business bankruptcy law enabled Exide to evade the cost of its environmental disaster

Mexican restaurant takes political stand with sign declaring 'No Love, No Tacos'

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/18/us/no-love-no-tacos-la-carreta-mexican-grill-trnd/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1u2OzQYRkA3tuBya7nxk1LN2pNWkXKzSMTZUm7bZEo-IqOj8Utwjdujtk

Mexican restaurant takes political stand with sign declaring 'No Love, No Tacos' A Mexican restaurant in a small town in Iowa has wrapped itself in the middle of political discourse after some customers of the popular eatery took offense to a yard sign the owner placed outside.

2017 memo: Separated migrant kids will struggle to find parents again

The pilot program in El Paso, Texas, laid the groundwork for what became the Trump administration's "zero tolerance policy," which separated more than 3,000 children from their parents in 2018. But the memo, prepared for John Bash, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, was never sent to Justice Department officials in Washington, according to a draft report from the department's inspector general obtained by NBC News. And, the draft report says, Rod Rosenstein, then the deputy attorney general, told federal prosecutors on the southern border in a conference call that no child was so young that a parent should not be separated for prosecution under the zero-tolerance policy.

Rosenstein declined to comment.

The Jan. 7, 2018, memo from El Paso also indicates that neither the pilot program nor the zero-tolerance policy enacted across the southern border later that year was created with a plan to reunite families; instead, it expected that children would see their parents again when both were deported to their home countries.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/officials-said-2017-separated-migrants-under-12-couldn-t-find-n1242439?fbclid=IwAR0_aZlozVoMSvghDOhpXmr9nPkqI0ueavminxikp9F5aIjhLswKdv_Yckg

2017 memo: Separated migrant kids will struggle to find parents again The memo, written by federal prosecutors in Texas, was never sent to Washington. The Trump administration launched its family separation policy in mid-2018.

'We need to take away children': Bombshell report alleges former AG Jeff Sessions and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein were aggressively in favor of separating migrant families at the US-Mexico border

“The Times reported on Tuesday that the draft report on Michael Horowitz's investigation into the "zero tolerance" policy said Sessions and former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein called for the separation of children no matter how young they were. The draft, which is being reviewed by officials, is subject to change, the newspaper said.”

https://www.businessinsider.com/justice-department-officials-driving-force-behind-trumps-child-separation-policy-2020-10

'We need to take away children': Bombshell report alleges former AG Jeff Sessions and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein were aggressively in favor of separating migrant families at the US-Mexico border "No, this is not President Xi talking about incarcerating Uighurs. This is the former US AG," Hans Kristensen said.

Why Joe Biden can't expect to automatically get the Latino vote

"We rightly speak out against voter suppression tactics aimed at Latinos, such as purging voter rolls, moving polling sites to inhospitable locations, shutting down polling sites, and making it harder for people to register to vote by imposing new 11th-hour requirements.
But nothing is as detrimental to Latino political participation as closed primaries. Closed primaries are the biggest form of voter suppression that there is in this country because they shut out millions of voters and force all of us into partisan silos."

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2020/10/03/joe-biden-wont-automatically-get-latino-vote-heres-why/3533570001/

Why Joe Biden can't expect to automatically get the Latino vote Pundits assume that because Trump has insulted Mexicans, Latinos are a sure vote for Biden. A recent survey of Arizona Latinos suggests otherwise.

Far-Right Activists Charged Over Robocalls That Allegedly Targeted Minority Voters

"In the calls, the robocaller told recipients to "beware of vote by mail" and falsely said that doing so would feed personal information into a database accessible to the police pursuing warrants, credit card companies collecting debts and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aiming to track people for mandatory vaccines."

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/01/919309649/far-right-activists-charged-over-robocalls-that-allegedly-targeted-minority-vote

Far-Right Activists Charged Over Robocalls That Allegedly Targeted Minority Voters The robocalls came from a nonexistent group and falsely warned recipients that voting by mail would result in being "finessed into giving your private information to the man."

A stunned Mata was forced to explain: The child was his grandson. Mata’s daughter, Athena, had dropped 2-year-old Milo off for babysitting, as she did routinely, and the boy was inside the house with his grandmother.

As Mata and the officers walked toward the door, a blond woman came out of a neighboring apartment and approached them, shouting that he was the abductor. She carried a samurai sword, Mata said.

“She said, ‘You’re the one kidnapping the child,’ ” he said.

His offense, by all appearances, was being the brown-skinned grandfather of a light-skinned child. The contrast — not unusual in a state where mixed-race families are common and Latinos, like other groups, have kin whose skin and hair color span the spectrum — had been pointed out before. But kidnapping?

“I was totally caught off-guard,” said the 55-year-old Mata, who works as a seventh-grade history teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District. “Literally like somebody punching you in the face and knocking you down.”

Here’s how Trump and Biden’s Spanish ads target Latino voters

"With just weeks before election day, both campaigns are spending millions on Spanish-language ads in battleground states like Arizona and Florida, where turnout among Latinos could decide the outcome. In September alone, both campaigns have channeled hundreds of thousands of dollars into the Spanish-language TV market in Florida, a state Trump needs to win.
So far, the Biden campaign has put out more unique ads than Trump’s and in nearly twice as many Spanish-language media markets. Biden has spent nearly $6.7 million running Spanish-language TV ads, compared with Trump’s approximate $4.9 million from June to mid-September, and both have targeted cities like Miami, Orlando and Phoenix, according to the ad-tracking firm Advertising Analytics. The Biden campaign has also outspent Trump on Spanish-language radio, with about $885,000 in ad buys to the Trump campaign’s $32,500, according to the firm’s tracker."

https://www.latimes.com/projects/election-2020-trump-biden-ads-latino-voters/=00000173-4a29-dafc-a977-dabb7b330001-liA2promoSmall-7030col1-main

Here’s how Trump and Biden’s Spanish ads target Latino voters Both President Trump and Joe Biden know a win on Nov. 3 means getting part of the Latino vote. So what are they saying to voters in Spanish?

Kathy Hoffman on Twitter

A responsible and effective school board is all about transparency and communication. How transparent and communicative is your school district?

Kathy Hoffman on Twitter “Transparency and communication regarding positive cases in school communities are critical to maintaining trust with educators, families, and students. Read my full statement here. ⬇️”

University Relations Speakers Series: The Impact of COVID19 on the Latino Community | Hispanic Heritage Month | UTSA | University of Texas at San Antonio

https://www.utsa.edu/hispanicheritage/week3/ur-speakers-series-impacts-of-covid-to-the-latino-community.html

University Relations Speakers Series: The Impact of COVID19 on the Latino Community | Hispanic Heritage Month | UTSA | University of Texas at San Antonio Sarah Zenaida Gould, Ph.D. is Interim Executive Director of the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute, a national project to collect and disseminate Mexican American civil rights history. A longtime museum worker and public historian, she has curated over a dozen exhibits on history, art, and cult...

15-year-old girl who spent her life in the U.S. facing deportation after hospital arrest

A 15-year-old girl who has lived in the U.S. with her family since she was an infant is now alone in government custody and facing deportation after she was arrested by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials at a Texas hospital.
The teenager, who was born in Mexico and does not have legal status, went to a hospital in Edinburg, Texas, with her aunt last week after experiencing gallbladder-related pain, her attorney, Sarah Valdes, told CBS News. She was then referred to undergo surgery in another hospital in San Antonio.

But the girl and her aunt, who is also undocumented, did not have proper documents to travel through a CBP checkpoint on the way to San Antonio. CBP operates dozens of highway checkpoints in the interior of the country near the borders with Mexico and Canada. At these checkpoints, designed to curtail human and drug smuggling, agents can ask travelers for their immigration status.
CBP told CBS News that it learned of the family's status and sent Border Patrol agents to the Edinburg hospital to provide documents the child could use to travel through the checkpoint and to "process her and her aunt consistent with their immigration status."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/15-year-old-girl-who-spent-her-life-in-the-u-s-facing-deportation-after-hospital-arrest/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=100512294&fbclid=IwAR2nX8CTF3HHQfzmq1fu9BfeqLf7sTXgYjkkNQF4mD8_7TKCZIzNkbKYRw4

15-year-old girl who spent her life in the U.S. facing deportation after hospital arrest A Texas teen's hospitalization led to her aunt's immigration arrest and her placement in a U.S. government shelter for migrant minors.

Latinos are disproportionately getting sick, dying of coronavirus, exacerbating historic inequalities

The novel coronavirus is devastating Latino communities across the country, from California’s Imperial Valley to suburban Boston and Puerto Rico. Workers at Midwestern meatpacking plants and on construction sites in Florida are getting sick and dying of a virus that is exacerbating historic inequalities in communities where residents, many of whom are “essential” workers, struggle to access health care. The undocumented are largely invisible.

Latinos, who are not a racial group and come from diverse backgrounds, make up an increasing portion of deaths from covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. More than 36,500 Latinos have died of the virus, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed by The Washington Post.

“If you look at all the negative factors, risky jobs or unemployment, unsafe housing, poor air quality and preexisting conditions, it’s all people of color,” said Carlos E. Rodriguez-Diaz, an associate professor at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/22/latinos-us-coronavirus/?arc404=true

Latinos are disproportionately getting sick, dying of coronavirus, exacerbating historic inequalities The novel coronavirus is devastating Latino communities across the United States, exacerbating historic inequalities in areas where residents, many of whom are “essential” workers, struggle to access health care. More than 36,500 Latinos have died of the virus, according to data from the Centers...

John Leguizamo boycotts the Emmys: 'If you don't have Latin people, there's no reason for me to see it'

“I’m boycotting,” he tells Yahoo Entertainment. “If you don’t have Latin people, there’s no reason for me to see it. What’s the point?”
“It’s unbelievable that our stories aren’t being told and there’s one reason for that,” he explains. “Executives don’t see us, don’t get us — don’t care about us.”
There are zero nominations for Latinx shows or actors in any of the major categories. “We’re less than one percent of the stories being told by Hollywood streamers and networks, that’s cultural apartheid,” he says.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/john-leguizamo-boycotts-emmys-155117385.html?soc_src=community&soc_trk=fb

John Leguizamo boycotts the Emmys: 'If you don't have Latin people, there's no reason for me to see it' The actor turned director blasts Hollywood executives for the lack of Latinx stories and representation in TV and film.

Column One: Ma*****na seller’s story of ‘badass’ Mexican sisters was a cultural misstep, Latinas say

"When the Del Rosario sisters launched their L.A.-based cannabis company this year, they named it La Chingona: The badass woman.
There was one problem. The sisters were the creation of Michael Kaiser, the owner and founder of healthcare and cannabis manufacturing companies. The sisters were at most a composite of the strong women in his life.
The rest was fiction."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-17/latinas-accuse-marijuana-company-cultural-appropriation

Column One: Ma*****na seller’s story of ‘badass’ Mexican sisters was a cultural misstep, Latinas say Susie Plascencia and Savina Monet weren't going to let La Chingona cannabis get away with cultural appropriation.

Column: One family’s COVID-19 nightmare shows the pandemic's unjust burden on Latinos in California

"Sales began to plummet in February as customers lost their jobs. Pancho began to open mid-morning and even as late as noon for the first time ever. He tried to make everyone feel at ease by mandating masks early on and took care to decontaminate himself every night before enjoying family time for a couple of hours.
But in mid-July, COVID-19 hit all four of the Gonzalezes.
Teresa, Mabel and Camila quickly recovered.
But Pancho — who didn’t show any symptoms, until he seemingly had them all at once — spent more than a month in the hospital. A barrel-chested, regal man, the 63-year-old was left so weak that a task as simple as sipping soup with a plastic spoon leaves him exhausted.
Now in a nursing facility, he can muster a couple of minutes of FaceTime a day with his family, and not every day. Lung scarring makes it hard to take full breaths. Months of physical therapy loom ahead.
So in early August, Teresa closed Pancho’s for good, at his request."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-16/family-readjusts-losing-liquor-store-covid-19

Column: One family’s COVID-19 nightmare shows the pandemic's unjust burden on Latinos in California If you’re Latino in California, even if you have the luxury of a white-collar job, it’s almost a certainty that COVID-19 will stalk the life of someone you love.

Journalist Maria Hinojosa Tells Latinos, Silenced Voices: 'We Need You'

"Hinojosa, who came to the U.S. from Mexico with her family as a child, worked as a reporter at CBS, NPR and CNN when journalism was whiter and even more male than it is now. In an interview with NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, she recalled the prejudice she faced in newsrooms as a Latina."

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/13/912335900/journalist-maria-hinojosa-tells-latinos-silenced-voices-we-need-you

Journalist Maria Hinojosa Tells Latinos, Silenced Voices: 'We Need You' The Latino USA host, who's spent a career covering those silenced in the media, now tells her own story in a new memoir. "We all have to work at making the immigrant story much more public," she said.

Most L.A. households face serious financial problems amid coronavirus pandemic, poll finds

"Although they account for about 39% of the population in California, Latinos make up 60% of positive cases and 48% of deaths, according to the California Department of Public Health; during the peak of transmission in July, Black residents “had a rate at four deaths per 100,000 people,” county officials said at that time. That rate was three times that of white residents during the same time period.
“When we look at other public health emergencies, whether it’s other infectious diseases like measles or natural disasters like heat waves or hurricanes, what we see is communities of color, Black or Latino communities, hurt more significantly because of the structures and systems in place,” Morita said. “They have less to begin with, less cushion to support them in these times of stress.... They bear the brunt of the impacts.”
The poll, the first of five conducted by the researchers, surveyed 3,454 adults from July 1 to Aug. 3, including 512 adults in New York City, 507 in Los Angeles, 529 in Chicago and 447 in Houston. The margin of error is 3.3 percentage points overall, and 7.1 percentage points for Los Angeles."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-09/la-me-coronavirus-los-angeles-economic-problems

Most L.A. households face serious financial problems amid coronavirus pandemic, poll finds The survey offers further proof that the heaviest impact of the outbreak often falls on Black and Latino households.

Separated: The Plight of Incarcerated Children, organized by Jim Covarrubias

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A ‘Dreamer’ helped oust Arpaio. Now, after facing deportation following a George Floyd protest, she's battling Penzone

"Máxima Guerrero had just turned 30. Even during a pandemic, her friends had remembered. But there wasn’t time for celebration.
On this last Sunday in May, Máxima sat in the dark, staring at a swarm of police officers barricading streets and blocking protesters from leaving a downtown Phoenix demonstration demanding justice for George Floyd and an end to violent policing.
After years of organizing civil disobedience actions — rallies against former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, protests to remove immigration officers from Phoenix jails, and fighting injustice — Máxima knew momentum for real change is rare. With this many people in the streets across the nation, this was their chance to be heard."

https://www.azcentral.com/in-depth/news/politics/immigration/2020/09/03/daca-recipient-helped-oust-joe-arpaio-but-paul-penzone-put-her-brink-deportation/5393703002/

A ‘Dreamer’ helped oust Arpaio. Now, after facing deportation following a George Floyd protest, she's battling Penzone An undocumented teen found her voice as an activist who fought Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Then, Phoenix police arrested her and the policies of Arpaio's replacement sent her to ICE.

Immigrants, hit hard by the pandemic, are sending even more money back to Mexico

Mexico received $3.53 billion in remittances in July — most of it from the U.S. — a 7% increase over the same month in 2019, Mexico’s central bank data showed.
Even as the unemployment rate in the United States soared to 14.7% in April, and the World Bank predicted global remittances would tank by about 20%, Latinos working in the United States baffled economists by sending more money home to Mexico and Central America than ever before.
In March, remittances hit their highest level since record-keeping began in 1995, surging 36% to $4 billion. July was the third-highest level on record, central bank data showed.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-08/remittances-mexico-pandemic

Immigrants, hit hard by the pandemic, are sending even more money back to Mexico Experts expected a dropoff in remittances, but cross-border families say they stick together in tough times.

Latino journalists group sees glaring omission among presidential debate moderators

The head of the National Assn. of Hispanic Journalists sent a harsh message to the Commission on Presidential Debates regarding the lack of a Latino moderator in the upcoming sanctioned face-offs between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.
NAHJ President Hugo Balta said in a video posted Wednesday night that the commission that sanctions the debates — expected to be watched by as many as 80 million TV viewers — is perpetuating the “erasure” of Latinos by failing to represent them in the moderator choices announced earlier that day.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-09-04/hispanic-journalists-presidential-debate-moderator

Latino journalists group sees glaring omission among presidential debate moderators The head of the National Assn. of Hispanic Journalists calls the exclusion of Latinos from the presidential debate moderators' table "preposterous."

Close-knit Latino family ties bring coronavirus dangers to traditional gatherings

Reymond Padilla, director of the Whittier Spartans Softball league, has plans to protect himself, his team and his children from COVID-19 that he follows with zealous devotion.
The girls — including his 12-year-old daughter — must wear masks while practicing and playing. They take breaks every 30 minutes to sanitize their hands, even though they stand yards apart. Before agreeing to play games with other teams, he asks for a list of COVID-19 protocols they follow. If their rules don’t meet his standards, he cancels the game.
But that line of resistance fades when it comes to family.
His daughter lives in her mother’s household, where uncles, nephews and other family are invited for weekend gatherings without wearing masks. Padilla himself made an exception to celebrate the Fourth of July at his sister’s Simi Valley home. The 42-year-old warehouse manager and his sister, a Los Angeles Police Department detective, wore masks. But their children did not.
There is a “false sense of safety” around loved ones, Padilla acknowledged.
"[People feel] that just because they’re home, they’re isolated and protected. But that’s not true,” he said. “You don’t know where your cousin or uncle has been.”
In the U.S., Latinos have been disproportionate casualties of the virus that has brought parts of the world to a standstill. They are about 39% of the population in California, but Latinos make up 60% of positive cases and 48% of deaths, according to the California Department of Public Health.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-04/latinos-family-events-break-covid-19-protocol

Close-knit Latino family ties bring coronavirus dangers to traditional gatherings In the U.S., Latinos have been disproportionate casualties of the virus. They are about 39% of the population in California, but Latinos make up 60% of positive cases and 48% of deaths.