Join us Friday for Roberto G. Gonzales

Wonderful to host the amazing Profe Roberto G. Gonzales to UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute #UCLALuskin for his talk on how immigration enforcement and DACA clash and conflict to impact young peoples lives. Enforcement creates exclusion. DACA expands spaces of belonging. #DACA #DREAMAct

DACA created spaces of belonging however the enforcement environment created spaces of vulnerability and these spaces are increasing crashing into each other for #DACAmented youth says Roberto G. Gonzales at the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute Distinguished Lecture Series #UCLALuskin @

Hot off the presses in is this great new piece by @Ayo_Laniyonu where he does a comparative assessment of racial group consciousness among Blacks in the US and in Britain. Check it out: cambridge.org/core/journals/… POCAlsoKnowStuff UCLA Race, Ethnicity & Politics

Congrats on your success, and we are proud of the work you are doing on race in criminal justice. Keep it up!

Matt A. Barreto 🇵🇪 ⚽️ UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute 52% of latino precincts experienced vote change of 70%

Great to see this research by UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute highlighted at the National Press Club in DC, documenting record turnout among Latinos cc LA Social Science Bryan Angie Gutierrez @ana_loaxaca

.Matt A. Barreto 🇵🇪 ⚽️: As President Trump continues his anti-immigrant agenda in his fight with the likely new House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, it is important not to lose sight of just how thorough the defeat of anti-immigrant candidates was in the midterms nyti.ms/2CiRK8O

Trump Thinks He’s Still Winning on Immigration. Matt A. Barreto 🇵🇪 ⚽️ breaks down how he not only got punished in the ‘18 midterms but also why ‘20 will bring even more fatal blows. UCLA Race, Ethnicity & Politics. nyti.ms/2R6iUry?smid=n…

NYTimes op-ed: Trump Thinks He’s Still Winning on Immigration, with data from the team UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute Bryan Angie Gutierrez @ana_loaxaca nyti.ms/2R6iUry

.Matt A. Barreto 🇵🇪 ⚽️: Most political science research, including my own, concludes that in 2016, President Trump mobilized white voters who felt left behind and angry at immigrants, blacks and Muslims. But in 2018, voters had had enough. nyti.ms/2CiYdjU

This is a great article about the cutting-edge research being done by UCLA Race, Ethnicity & Politics PhD student Estefania Castañeda-Perez @transb0rder

LPPI's Matt A. Barreto 🇵🇪 ⚽️ stated on LAist 89.3 AirTalk with Larry Mantle on Tues Jan 22 "you're ultimately going to see a vote on a clean CR such as the one that the Senate passed unanimously on December 19th... and I think that ultimately is going to prevail" Listen here scpr.org/programs/airta…

Very excited to kick off this conference at @ucla with UCLALawReview on Latinos and the Criminal Justice system. Will be discussing my collaborative work with Edward D. Vargas on Latino public opinion and with Hannah L. Walker & @mfr_roman on systemic injustice and political engagement

Thanks to the great . for zooming in to our UCLA Race, Ethnicity & Politics PhD seminar (with #EfrenPerez) to discuss field experiments and POC. womenalsoknowstuff

New! Testimony on Voting Rights Issues lasocialscience.ucla.edu/2019/03/01/tes… #votingrights

New! UCLA Lecturer Works as Lead Attorney on Texas Voter Purge Case lasocialscience.ucla.edu/2019/03/01/ucl… Matt A. Barreto 🇵🇪 ⚽️ #votingrights