LatinaLista — Arlington, Texas is a southern suburb of Dallas and is home to the ninth-largest school district in Texas. Over 64,000 students are enrolled in the Arlington Independent School District (AISD) and the majority of the students are Latino. So when Arlington School Board Trustee Tony Pompa talked about the President’s decision to defer deportation [...]
Like the new NBA champions, DREAMers too relishing a win but know the fight is not over
By Gaby Pacheco LatinaLista As I was watching the Miami Heat beat the Oklahoma Thunder, I drew the parallels between the Heat winning and the President’s DREAMer policy announcement. A week ago, undocumented young Americans celebrated the bold move President Barack Obama made across the country. The policy ensures the 1.4 million DREAM Act-eligible youth [...]
TIME magazine lights the latest fuse in national debate over undocumented immigrants
LatinaLista — A few months ago, TIME magazine profiled Latinos in a cover story about how Latino voters will choose the next president. A by-product of that story had TIME wading into the immigration debate, an issue closely associated with Latinos. This time, the magazine is lighting a fuse to an issue that has become, [...]
American DREAMer: The President Can Wake us up from our Nightmare
By Gaby Pacheco LatinaLista I sat up and realized it was only a dream. But was it really? A few nights ago, I dreamt that I was driving my partner Jose to school. It was raining and the road was slippery. I was flustered because I did not know where I was going and it [...]
Son of Mexican immigrants graduates as college Valedictorian on his way to a Harvard PhD
By Carlo Alaimo CSI Today Irvin Ibarguen, College of Staten Island Valedictorian for 2012, is the first CSI undergraduate to be admitted into Harvard University’s prestigious PhD History program. Irvin, a senior History major with The Verrazano School honors program, began his college career as a Marketing major. When asked why he made the switch [...]
Report: Undocumented youth turn to civic activism to fight for their right to stay in the U.S.
LatinaLista — UC Irvine anthropologist Leo Chavez and Roberto Gonzales, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service, have co-authored a study showing how undocumented immigrant youth, faced with dwindling options in life due to their citizenship status, resort to political and civic activism. The study, “Awakening to a Nightmare”: Abjectivity [...]
