LatinaLista — Did you know that 49.6 percent of Brazilians are black? Or that Brazil boasts the largest population of African descendants outside Africa? These are just two of the facts visitors learn from a site that wants to educate Americans, especially African Americans, on the culture of Afro-Brazilians. Dubbed Afro-Brazilian.com, the site was launched [...]
Mexican Migration Patterns Signal a New Immigration Reality
MetroLatinoUSA WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fewer Coming, Fewer Leaving, and 3/5 of Unauthorized Have Been Here for a Decade or Longer The Immigration Policy Center released a summary of recent data on Mexican migration to and from the United States. This data provides an important reminder that as migration patterns change over time, so too must [...]
Illegal re-entry topped all other charges in country’s federal courts
By Cristina Rayas Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – Illegal re-entry became the most-frequent federal criminal charge in the United States during the first six months of fiscal 2011, a pattern that was mirrored in Arizona during that period. From October through March, federal prosecutors filed 18,552 illegal re-entry cases nationally, more than any other charge, [...]
Obama admin breaks immigration enforcement records, along with, trust of Latino community
LatinaLista — There is a perfect storm of data emerging about illegal immigration that at any other time Congress and the President would have been expected to act upon in a rational manner. Yet, after the recent spectacle on Capitol Hill over the debt ceiling debate, it can no longer be expected that this government [...]
Getting to the root of the “real” problem why immigrant women are scapegoats for today’s politicians
LatinaLista — A question posed this week by the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health in their annual blog carnival strives to get to the heart of the immigration problem in a way that Congress has no appetite for doing by asking — “What’s the real problem?” Specifically, the question is why immigrant women have [...]
Latino Congressman explains to Europe why he’s unhappy with Obama
LatinaLista — Rep. Luis Gutierrez from Chicago has been labeled a “thorn” in President Obama’s side when it comes to trying to convince the president to use his executive powers to relieve the agony of deportations inflicted upon undocumented Latino families. The President has refused and Rep. Gutierrez has refused to give up illustrating that [...]
