Archive for 2006
Will the Next State of the Union Address Continue to “Guilt-Trip” Support for the War?
LatinaLista — Every year, The Dallas Morning News chooses one Texan they label “Texan of the Year.” This year’s recipient is a man by the name of Roy Velez. What’s so special about this West Texan, Mexican-American is that his two sons, his only sons, Jose Alfredo (Freddy) and Andrew, lost their lives in Fallujah [...]
Today’s Hispanic Birthrate will Save Tomorrow’s National Defense
LatinaLista — Only three days left till New Year’s Day — and the annual parade of stories of the first babies born in 2007. The U.S. Census Bureau released a press release saying that the United States is expected to register one birth every 8 seconds during the month of January. If I were wagering [...]
Mexican Headline: United States Eliminates the Use of Visas
LatinaLista — Now before the insults begin to hurl, there is something that is not widely known on this side of the border: In Mexico and all over Latin America, today is known as the Day of the Innocents. In other words, it is their April Fool’s Day. To give a little background, December 28 [...]
Is Homeland Security Served by Denying Mexican Woman with Downs Syndrome from Visiting Disneyland?
LatinaLista — I often wonder if it was what God intended when He created earth — that man would divide and section off every piece of available space to claim as his own. Somehow it goes against the logic of the “bigger picture.” Yet, for children, and the young at heart, there are but a [...]
Harvard Research Shows Teachers as Segregated as Students
LatinaLista — Every red-blooded American school student, while enjoying their school break, are inevitably performing a time-honored-holiday tradition as well — counting down the days till school starts again. Too many students will return to schools where self-segregation is the norm, no matter how diverse the student body. Unfortunately, no amount of adults pushing kids [...]
A Special Christmas Program Empowers Inner-City Children to See a New Future for Themselves
LatinaLista — It is now 15 minutes into my new friend Jay’s vigil at the T. Don Hutto Residential facility in honor of all the families detained behind the barbed wire. One would think, being Christmas and all, that whatever celebration they should be allowing the families to have (and in my best Miracle on [...]
Breaking News: The Grinch Has Infiltrated Homeland Security
LatinaLista — For every child who knows of Santa, the countdown till he arrives is winding down. Yet for the children who are being held at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas, and for the children whose parents are being processed for deportation, Christmas Day is going to feel more like the [...]
Operator of Family Immigrant Detention Center Named Among the 400 Best Businesses in America by Forbes
LatinaLista — In 2004, at a company investors’ meeting, representatives from Corrections Corporation of America, operators of the family immigration detention facility, the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas, told their investors that business was good. T. Don Hutto Residential facility (Photographer: Jay Johnson-Castro) At the time, federal prisons were experiencing severe overcrowding. [...]
Unqualified Latino Candidates — An Urban Legend
LatinaLista — The quickest way to discount any candidate for political office, government appointment, job promotion, school admittance, etc. is to automatically resort to the excuse that the particular person is not qualified. It’s a reason that is all too often accepted without a fight, and it happens to Latinos more often than it should [...]
Privatized Immigrant Detention Facilities for Families Revealed to be Modern-Day Concentration Camps
LatinaLista — One of the more disturbing stories that surfaced after the Swift meat plant raids was how too many children were left without a parent and/or farmed out to friends and families with no immediate word on how they will be reconnected with their mami and papi. But if news filtering out of one [...]
