LatinaLista — For 11 years, Pedro Zapeta lived the typical life of an undocumented immigrant. He came to this country with two intentions: to work and save his money. He had no delusions about staying and building a life…
LatinaLista — One consequence of the immigration debate is that it has tagged all Latinos with the same labels: immigrant, Spanish-speaking and illegal. Nothing matters to those who are intent on seeing every brown face or hearing every Spanish…
LatinaLista — The 2006 Community Survey reports that the total population of Irving, Texas stands at 205,920. It’s a figure that is steadily dropping. Not because of deaths or people relocating, but rather because of deportations. Between June 1,…
LatinaLista — We know the immigration debate has divided the country, and we know it has clearly defined the differences between the Republicans and the Democrats. But it’s always an eye-opener to see the issue used as the scapegoat…
LatinaLista — Well, it’s official. The next big business along the Texas-Mexico border is (drumroll) — the 17-foot ladder business! (Source: claybennett.com) Department of Homeland Security today released where they plan to build the Texas-Mexico portion of the border…
By Rocio Arango Giraldo COLOMBIA: Ever since Eve offered the apple to Adam, every woman has had the same destiny regarding her place in the world, and more so if we are Latina women. For this reason, I want…
LatinaLista — Do “illegal” immigrants scare you? Demonstrator Inocencio de Jesus, M, walks through the Barrio Logan area during an immigration march on May 1, 2007 at Chican Park in San Diego, California. Demonstators from around the United States…
LatinaLista — A popular description of the Latino community during election season is to refer to the community as the “sleeping giant.” The implication always understood to be that Latinos wield an untapped strength that can change the course…
By Janett Chavarry Garcia PERU: When Marisa contacted me to write in Latina Lista, I thought a whole week on what topic I could share with you. I thought about talking about a controversial law where older men or…
LatinaLista — Friends in Washington are telling Latina Lista that a group of students from California are hitting the halls of Congress in presenting their cases to Senators as to why they should vote for the Dream Act as…
LatinaLista — The Hour of Reckoning is fast approaching for the fate of the Dream Act. In the balance hangs the hopes of roughly 60,000 young people who want nothing more to be able to afford college and put…
LatinaLista — One characterization of Latinos that everyone likes to parrot is that as a group we don’t vote for the political party, as much as, we vote for the issues. But when the issues are so intertwined with…
LatinaLista — Mañana kicks off national Hispanic Heritage Month. In the past, there hasn’t been a whole lot of coordination among the different groups of a city in celebrating the once-a-year, 30-day observance. And that has usually resulted in…
LatinaLista — It’s pretty much acknowledged that the undocumented don’t have a whole lot of recourse when trying to fight the current immigration enforcement system, a.k.a. ICE or Immigration Customs Enforcement. But as we’ve seen, and will continue to…
LatinaLista — Hispanic Heritage Month kicks off this week and people will celebrate how far Latinos have come, the strides that have been made, the progress, etc. But when it comes to the issue of equality, it is an…
LatinaLista — If there will be a running joke in this presidential election, it has to be the line that Gov. Bill Richardson shared during the Univision debate, and one that has been repeated often by critics of the…
Political newcomer, Mary Abeyta, builds on her history of helping others to pursue a run for public office. LatinaLista — At the age of 9, when most girls are enjoying weekend sleepovers and outings to the mall with…
LatinaLista — These days, associating corporate America with Christian values sounds more like an oxymoron than a plan for Latinas to achieve professional success. Yet, Cubana-Latina and corporate executive veteran, Ana Mollinedo Mims, lays the blueprint for Latinas to…
LatinaLista — If anything controversial erupted from last night’s debate, it had to do with the issue of language. From the language the debate was conducted in to one of the questions regarding making Spanish the second national language…
LatinaLista — Tonight’s Univision debate was refreshing on so many levels that when it was finally over it proved to be an event that was not just historic but one all Latinos could be proud of. Democratic presidential candidates…
LatinaLista — Utah filmmaker Nathan Jones is an Anglo through and through, but he has a corazon of a Latino due to a background that has included a stint as a high school teacher in South Central Los Angeles…
By Sabrina De Santiago MEXICO: Mexico and the U.S. are very different. I know that should be obvious, but since I’ve grown up sharing both cultures, somehow before all I ever noticed were the similarities — hard-working, traditional, family-oriented…
LatinaLista — With so much happening this weekend, we thought we would combine three days of posts into one. We begin with the headliner, if you will, of the mainstream press: Countdown for Spanish Democratic Presidential Forum Sunday’s Univision…
By Mayra Beltran de Daetz GUATEMALA: Like everybody knows, Guatemala is located in Central America. Our topography is extremely mountainous and we have many volcanos. In fact, our area of Central America is known as the fire belt. For…
LatinaLista — Today in Washington, in Room 2141 of the Rayburn Building, the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law held a hearing on the STRIVE Act — a bipartisan immigration reform legislation introduced…
