Category: Children
The American Concentration Camp: Children to Receive Full Day of Schooling
LatinaLista — This morning, the Williamson County, Texas commissioners had an important decision to make — either renew the lease with Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the ones who run the T. Don Hutto Residential facility where nonMexican, undocumented immigrant families are being held while they await resolution of their noncriminal cases — or not [...]
Latina All-Girl School Rivals Oprah’s Leadership Academy
LatinaLista — The most positive news that has greeted us in these first two days of 2007 was how Oprah Winfrey has finally realized her dream of opening up an all-girl school in South Africa. Oprah and the first class of girls for the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy (Source: oprah.com) Christened the Oprah Winfrey Leadership [...]
Will the Next State of the Union Address Continue to “Guilt-Trip” Support for the War?
LatinaLista — Every year, The Dallas Morning News chooses one Texan they label “Texan of the Year.” This year’s recipient is a man by the name of Roy Velez. What’s so special about this West Texan, Mexican-American is that his two sons, his only sons, Jose Alfredo (Freddy) and Andrew, lost their lives in Fallujah [...]
Today’s Hispanic Birthrate will Save Tomorrow’s National Defense
LatinaLista — Only three days left till New Year’s Day — and the annual parade of stories of the first babies born in 2007. The U.S. Census Bureau released a press release saying that the United States is expected to register one birth every 8 seconds during the month of January. If I were wagering [...]
Harvard Research Shows Teachers as Segregated as Students
LatinaLista — Every red-blooded American school student, while enjoying their school break, are inevitably performing a time-honored-holiday tradition as well — counting down the days till school starts again. Too many students will return to schools where self-segregation is the norm, no matter how diverse the student body. Unfortunately, no amount of adults pushing kids [...]
A Special Christmas Program Empowers Inner-City Children to See a New Future for Themselves
LatinaLista — It is now 15 minutes into my new friend Jay’s vigil at the T. Don Hutto Residential facility in honor of all the families detained behind the barbed wire. One would think, being Christmas and all, that whatever celebration they should be allowing the families to have (and in my best Miracle on [...]
Privatized Immigrant Detention Facilities for Families Revealed to be Modern-Day Concentration Camps
LatinaLista — One of the more disturbing stories that surfaced after the Swift meat plant raids was how too many children were left without a parent and/or farmed out to friends and families with no immediate word on how they will be reconnected with their mami and papi. But if news filtering out of one [...]
Texas Lawmaker Takes Illegal Immigration Reform to New Lows
LatinaLista — Another sign of just how nasty and low the debate has gotten regarding illegal immigration, a Texas state Representative has filed the mother of all bills when it comes to intimidating, demeaning and further driving home the point that too many of these politicians are using this sad situation to further their political [...]
Are Some Latino Infants Being Denied Medicaid Benefits Illegally?
LatinaLista — It’s funny just how small the United States has become since undocumented immigrants were declared Public Enemy #1. Suddenly, our country isn’t big enough to house, employ or otherwise tolerate undocumented immigrants or their children, even when those kids hold American citizenship themselves. Until it is sanctioned by Congress, children born on U.S. [...]
A Growing Crisis with Too Many Latino Children Caught in Child Welfare System
LatinaLista — In 2002, Building Blocks for Youth released a report titled ¿Donde Esta la Justicia? Though the report centered on the unjust disparities in our juvenile justice system when it comes to the treatment of Latino children, there was a small paragraph in the report that virtually went unnoticed until my friend Tomás of [...]
