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The Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) are two community-based organizations that seek to foster the comprehensive development of the Latino community.CARECEN in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region was founded in 1981 to protect the rights of refugees arriving from conflict in Central America and to help ease their transition by providing legal services.
This exhibition was an invitational curated exhibition which featured the work of ten Washington, DC area artists who were immigrants to the United States from Latin America. [2] The work was selected by Jack Rasmussen, director and curator of the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center. [3]
The metro DC area is the second-most popular destination for African immigrants, after New York City. More than 192,000 African-born people live in DC and nearby suburbs as of 2019, just shy of the 194,000 African-born in New York. [37] This includes Nigerians with 19,600 residents and Ghanaians with 18,400. [38]
May 23—WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed Congressman August Pfluger's legislation by a bipartisan vote of 262-143 to block noncitizens from voting in ...
More immigrants from Latin American countries have settled in the district, and there has been an increase in births to Latina mothers compared to other racial and ethnic groups. [3] Latinos living in D.C. are more likely to be immigrants than non-Latinos, and Latino immigrants in the district are predominantly from El Salvador , Mexico , and ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump aims to deport all immigrants in the U.S. illegally over his four-year term but wants a deal to protect so-called "Dreamer" immigrants, he ...
Asian Americans started to become a significant part of the Washington metropolitan area in the late twentieth century. Fairfax County, Virginia, Montgomery County, Maryland, and Arlington, Virginia are the largest jurisdictions with high concentrations of Asian Americans in the region: Fairfax County. Korean – 3%; Indian – 3%; Vietnamese ...
Nurses in Washington, DC, rallied outside Howard University Hospital on Thursday, January 13, demanding better working conditions, amid staff shortages and a surge in coronavirus cases.This ...