LatinaLista — As much as the proponents of rounding up undocumented immigrants and sending them back across the border hate it, the majority of Americans have made it a point to publicly support one type of undocumented immigrant — the children. Newly released bipartisan poll about the DREAM Act. We have seen that whenever a [...]
DHS denies rumors that executive action will be used to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants
La Prensa de San Antonio — The Department of Homeland Security issues a statement Friday to put rumors to rest about expanded executive action to grant blanket amnesty for undocumented immigrants. The Department of Homeland Security issued a statement Friday denying they would use executive action to grant blanket amnesty to millions of illegal [...]
New site tracks immigration enforcement
LatinaLista — In this country, the notion that someone would be arrested and jailed for not committing a crime is considered one of the risks for being at the wrong place at the wrong time for members of communities of color. If someone is an undocumented immigrant, then deportation is the ultimate punishment for being [...]
Guest Voz: Study finds Latinas often face risk of sexual violence at early ages
LatinaLista– Dr. Carlos Cuevas is an assistant professor at Northeastern University in Boston. He’s dedicated his professional life to studying the psychological impact of victimization and trauma, sexual abuse and sex offending and family violence. Being Latino, he realized that when it came to these areas of study one demographic was under-represented — Latinas. [...]
Deportation case of Harvard student stirs unrest in Latino community for passage of the DREAM Act
LatinaLista — Harvard sophomore and undocumented student, Eric Balderas, got some welcome news over the weekend — he would no longer face deportation to Mexico. It seems Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had a change of heart. It could have been because of Sen. Durbin, who lobbied for leniency on behalf of Balderas, or maybe [...]
ICE admits a civil charge isn’t the same as a criminal offense with detention makeovers
LatinaLista — On the heels of the public learning about the stepped-up immigration enforcement ICE is planning against employers, comes word that the agency is making good on its promise to stop treating undocumented immigrants as criminals. ICE Director John Morton announced last year that the agency would make detention facilities less prison-like because immigrant [...]
