Gustavo Arellano

Businesses aren’t open or have signs stating that walk-ins aren’t welcome. Popular restaurants like El Gallo Giro and Tam’s are mostly empty. Traffic flows faster. Events and classes are canceled. Once-vibrant neighborhoods are quiet.

Trump corre el riesgo de cometer el error que los republicanos de California cometieron en los años ochenta y noventa: tomar una victoria política que obtuvieron con los latinos y convertirla en basura.

But this wasn’t about saving MacArthur Park from the bad guys. Instead, the deployment of masked troops in tactical gear showed Trump and his berserkers only care about optics.

The vivacious MacManus became Cielito Lindo’s co-manager and public face. Blessed with a palate that could catch even the slightest tweak, she made sure that the restaurant’s hallmark meal, beef taquitos, always came out crunchy yet supple.

Trump risks making the mistake California Republicans made in the 1980s and 1990s: taking a political win they earned with Latinos and turning it into trash.

The Protect HB campaign won, leaning on social media outreach, door knocking, rallies and a nonpartisan message stressing the common good that was the city library.

Her delivery was terrible, but the message stands, to gang members and really to anyone else who hasn’t yet stood up for immigrants: if not now, when? If not you, who?

“José” is what Vance thinks of Alex. Anyone who thinks this was a slip of the tongue doesn’t know their anti-Latino history.

Gustavo Arellano writes that ‘the Dodgers need to summon the moral courage of their past and once again set an example others can follow.’

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