By Jude Joffe-Block Fronteras News Desk PHOENIX — When a federal judge found last week that sheriff’s deputies in Arizona singled out Latinos, he also ruled that a federal training program of those deputies included a legal error. Back in 2007, Immigration and Customs Enforcement began teaching Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies to enforce some immigration [...]
Researchers: Immigration reform should focus on families, less on security
By Emilie Eaton Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – The Senate’s comprehensive immigration reform bill is a step in the right direction, but it puts too much emphasis on border security and not enough on helping families stay together, a group of researchers said Thursday. The University of Arizona students were in Washington to discuss their [...]
Connecticut’s Bridgeport Caribe Baseball League – Changing Lives And Creating Leaders
By Melanie Williams CTLatinoNews.com When the Bridgeport Caribe Youth Leaders (BCYL) celebrated its first opening day back in May 2004, no one in attendance could have imagined the amount of children, many of them Latinos, who would benefit from the program over the next decade — not even BCYL’s co-founder John Torres. Ten years later, [...]
A new degree plan speeds students towards addressing S. Texas’ physician shortage
By Will C. Sansom La Prensa de San Antonio To alleviate the shortage of physicians in South Texas, The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio this spring accepted the first students into a seven-year Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree [...]
Playmate of the Year proud of her border roots
By Pablo J. Sáinz La Prensa San Diego One of the things that caused her the most cultural shock when Raquel Pomplun moved from Tijuana to Chula Vista, when she was in middle school, was having to change clothes in front of her female classmates for gym class. “It’s not that I was ashamed to [...]
The battle of Chicago’s 2013 Puerto Rican Day Parade
By Nikoleta Morales Extra News The Puerto Rican Day Parade was created and started 47 years ago. The parade was traditionally celebrated in downtown Chicago. This year the tradition was broken – there will be no Puerto Rican Parade in downtown. The Puerto Rican Parade Committee is joining forces with the Puerto Rican Cultural Center [...]