LatinaLista — Of all the issues with which Congress should have an easy time, there is one that still proves to be a hurdle for some members to wrap their minds around — the DREAM Act. As regular readers…
By COLTON SHONE Cronkite Borderlands Initiative LUKACHUKAI – For more than 80 years of his life, William Yazzie didn’t know what it was like to flick a switch in his own home and have light flood the room. While…
LatinaLista — Ever since the devastating earthquake struck Haiti, the country and its people have been struggling to rebuild a better country than they had before. It hasn’t been easy. With widespread poverty, the destruction of schools and hospitals,…
LatinaLista — The way conservative politicians have continuously latched on to the illegal immigration issue and regurgitated the falsehoods fed to them by groups who have demonstrated their revulsion for the “rainbow” demographics evolving in this country is at…
By Gustavo Martinez Contreras LatinaLista SCRANTON, PA — Crystal Dillman woke up Friday with a feeling so long ago missing in her that it was almost surreal. “I finally feel relief,” she said. “This is justice for me, my…
LatinaLista — Reporter Gustavo Martinez reports from the federal courthouse in Scranton, PA that the jury in the hate crime trial against Derrick Donchak, 20, and Brandon Piekarsky, 18, found both young men guilty of a hate crime. Donchak…
by Gustavo Martinez Contreras LatinaLista Posted on October 13, 2010 SCRANTON, PA — The fate of the two Shenandoah, Pa., men charged with a federal hate crime could be known this Thursday, after both sides took most of Wednesday…
LatinaLista — For anyone who has been monitoring immigration events in Arizona, long before SB 1070 was written, the story was all about Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Federal officials to local activists agree that Arpaio’s law enforcement tactics…
By Gustavo Martinez Contreras LatinaLista October 13, 2010 Derrick M. Donchak and Brandon J. Piekarsky left the courtroom today after their defense presented their case, focusing on an unrelated event the prosecution brought up before resting its case. SCRANTON,…
LatinaLista — Two issues that critics of immigration reform insisted needed to be addressed before serious talk could begin on what to do with 12 million people was secure the border and secure communities. With the deployment of additional…
By Gustavo Martinez Contreras LatinaLista Posted on October 12, 2010 SCRANTON, PA — After a three-day recess, the federal trial against the two Shenandoah, Pa., men charged with a federal hate crime stemming from the 2008 beating death of…
LatinaLista — In this era of New Media, there are countless news sites struggling to figure out what 21st Century journalism should look like, how it should be delivered and most importantly how to sustain it and its creators….
LatinaLista — Today’s revelation that Lou Dobbs, the most vocal and mean-spirited critic of illegal immigration, and undocumented immigrants, was discovered to have employed undocumented immigrants for years on his horse farm goes to show just how intertwined undocumented…
By REBEKAH ZEMANSKY Cronkite News Service TUCSON – In 2004, DNA analysis first helped forensic anthropologist Dr. Bruce Anderson give a family answers about one young woman who disappeared while crossing illegally into Arizona. “It showed everyone in our…
By Gustavo Martinez Contreras LatinaLista Posted on October 7, 2010 SCRANTON, PA — In opening statements today, defense attorneys said race is not an issue in the trial against two white Shenandoah, Pa., men charged with a federal hate…
LatinaLista — If the Obama administration wanted to prove to GOP critics that they are indeed tough on undocumented immigrants, today’s announcement from Dept. of Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano should do the trick. According to departmental record keeping, the…
By Gustavo Martinez Contreras LatinaLista Posted on October 6, 2010 SCRANTON, PA — When opening statements begin at 1:45 p.m. today, there will finally be a jury seated in the federal trial of the two Shenandoah, Pa., men charged…
By Gustavo Martinez Contreras LatinaLista Posted on October 5, 2010 SCRANTON, PA — The trial of the two Shenandoah, Pa., men charged with a federal hate crime for the beating death of a Mexican undocumented immigrant could be under…
By Gustavo Martinez Contreras LatinaLista Posted October 5, 2010 SCRANTON, PA — Judge Richard A. Caputo said he hoped the jury selection would be over by the end of the day just before breaking for lunch on the second…
by Gustavo Martinez Contreras LatinaLista Posted on October 5, 2010 SCRANTON, PA — There are 21 new prospective jurors on the second day of trial of the of two Shenandoah, Pa., men charged with federal hate crime in the…
by Gustavo Martinez Contreras LatinaLista SCRANTON, PA — After an entire day of proceedings, there is no jury yet for the trial of two Shenandoah, Pa., men charged with federal hate crime in the 2008 beating death of Luis…
LatinaLista — If the signing into law of Arizona’s SB 1070 accomplished anything positive, it was that it heightened awareness of racial profiling. While people in authority like to say that racial profiling isn’t practiced within their ranks, it’s…
LatinaLista — Last week’s failure of the Senate Democrats to get the DREAM Act attached as an amendment to the Defense Reauthorization bill was a bitter blow to every student eligible under the DREAM Act to get on with…
LatinaLista — In the state of Oklahoma, 8.2 percent of the population is Latino according to 2009 Census findings. Since 2000, Oklahoma County, the seat of the state’s capitol, Oklahoma City, saw a 67 percent increase since 2000 in…
LatinaLista UNITED NATIONS — At a noon press conference, live streamed from the United Nations (UN), the new Under-Secretary-General for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, former Chilean President Michele Bachelet, faced a room full of international reporters….
