LatinaLista — Today is the 17th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The legislation was supposed to empower women, who were victims of violence, to know they didn’t have to tolerate the abuse they were receiving from the men in their lives. Abuse that left them with black eyes, bruises, chipped teeth, broken [...]
Education is the new brown currency
by Kathleen O. Vale La Voz de Austin COMMENTARY — I am a proud sixth-generation female member of a Mexican- American family whose roots begin in San Antonio, Texas, meander back to Rio Grande City, Texas (in Starr County, on the Mexican border), continue the trans-national stretch across the Gulf of Mexico to Tampico, Mexico, [...]
University of Georgia professors create Freedom University to give undocumented students a chance at college
LatinaLista — Undocumented college students in Georgia were facing a pretty dismal start to the school year this year. A ruling in 2010 by the Georgia State Board of Regents barring any state college or university from accepting undocumented immigrants on their campuses, if those schools had rejected academically qualified students in the previous two years, [...]
El Paso school districts have no idea how many new students fled Juárez
By Aaron Martinez and Mariel Torres Borderzine EL PASO — As the drug war rages on in México, the number of students that have enrolled in El Paso schools due to the violence remains unknown and unrecorded by schools. Ysleta and the Socorro Independent School Districts said there is no clear indication that people fleeing [...]
New Pew research underscores something is wrong with the education of Latino students
LatinaLista — The latest report on the status of Latino college enrollment rounds out an interesting snapshot. Though the high school dropout rate is the highest among Latino students, and is a statistic that fits with the popular stereotype of what some believe is the norm among Latino youth, today’s report from the Pew Hispanic [...]
Change in immigration policy helps thwart deportation of two Georgia boys — none too soon
LatinaLista — When the Obama administration announced last week the changes to how Immigration and Customs Enforcement would prioritize the deportation cases of undocumented immigrants — deport those with criminal backgrounds and defer others with no criminal history — the news was met with cautious enthusiasm. After all, no one knew how soon the changes [...]
