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CCA Lawyers Make an Irresistible Offer to Williamson County officials to Ignore What Happens at Hutto Family Detention Center

Oct 11, 2007, 5:28 PM 10

LatinaLista — It’s approaching the one-year anniversary of when news exploded nationwide about conditions at the T. Don Hutto family immigrant detention facility outside Austin, Texas. After reports surfaced of children being intimidated by guards to behave by using…

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The Solution to Immigration Reform Lies with Combining the Best of Two Worlds

Oct 1, 2007, 4:54 PM 20

LatinaLista — Several news stories over the weekend highlighted the heart of what has gone terribly wrong with this whole immigration debate. The focus has been on the undocumented workers themselves. Guest Mexican workers prepare sandwiches at a Texas…

Business, Media, Politics

Latina Lista to appear on new XM Satellite Radio Channel P.O.T.U.S. ’08

Sep 30, 2007, 3:23 PM 3

LatinaLista — These days, it doesn’t matter if we’re talking about immigration or the candidates or the bills being discussed in Congress — it’s all politics. In fact, the topic of politics has broadened so much in the last…

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Another Immigration Battle: Guatemalan Immigrant Fights to Get His Earnings Back, Seized by Federal Officials

Sep 28, 2007, 9:22 PM 51

LatinaLista — For 11 years, Pedro Zapeta lived the typical life of an undocumented immigrant. He came to this country with two intentions: to work and save his money. He had no delusions about staying and building a life…

Books, Business, Culture, Faith

Being Successful Means “Keeping the Faith”

Sep 10, 2007, 8:42 PM 0

LatinaLista — These days, associating corporate America with Christian values sounds more like an oxymoron than a plan for Latinas to achieve professional success. Yet, Cubana-Latina and corporate executive veteran, Ana Mollinedo Mims, lays the blueprint for Latinas to…

Business, Diversity, Film

Anglo Independent Filmmaker Needs Investors for Project Focusing on Latino-Anglo Relations

Sep 9, 2007, 12:55 PM 0

LatinaLista — Utah filmmaker Nathan Jones is an Anglo through and through, but he has a corazon of a Latino due to a background that has included a stint as a high school teacher in South Central Los Angeles…

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When the Mexican Rich Get Richer, The Poor Come North

Aug 14, 2007, 8:18 PM 5

LatinaLista — So what if we build a 30-foot, double-steel, reinforced fence at the border with Mexico and do random worksite raids gathering hundreds of undocumented immigrants and filling planes and buses to deport them en masse back across…

American Dreams, Business, Culture

Cracking open business success with a yolk of an idea

Aug 14, 2007, 2:20 PM 1

Businesswoman Carrie Ferguson Weir proves it’s never too young to express Latino pride with her line of baby t-shirts. LatinaLista — Carrie Ferguson Weir spent all of her professional life asking the hard questions. As a daily newspaper journalist,…

American Dreams, Business, Culture, Economy, Women

Transforming Ordinary Business Owners into Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

Aug 4, 2007, 9:33 PM 0

Empowerment coach, Nancy Marmolejo, sells clients on recognizing and valuing their own strengths to achieve their greatest potential. Nancy Marmolejo LatinaLista — Entrepreneurialism is in Nancy Marmolejo’s blood. Having a father who loved being his own boss, and who…

Business, Economy

Latino Buying Power Set to Soar Nearly 500 Percent

Aug 1, 2007, 1:49 PM 3

LatinaLista — Though some doubt the power of a Latino electorate, there is no doubting the buying power of Latinos. In the latest annual report on minority buying power by the Selig Center for Economic Growth at the University…

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Do U.S. Citizens Really Want to do Back-Breaking Labor for Minimum Wage?

Jul 20, 2007, 7:19 PM 5

LatinaLista — The title of a new Arizona coalition sounds more like the name of an early morning talk show than an organized effort to combat the first fallout of the state’s do-it-yourself approach to immigration reform. (Source: bp2.blogger.com)

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Immigrants and Their Children Will Account for All of the U.S. Work Force Growth Between 2010 and 2030

Jul 3, 2007, 2:20 PM 2

LatinaLista — Tomorrow, the United States of America is 231 years old. What has become a cliche, courtesy of the immigration reform debate, that our nation is a nation of immigrants, has never been more true than tomorrow. According…

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The Value of “Cheap Labor”

Apr 27, 2007, 9:00 PM 0

LatinaLista “The American Dream.” We’ve been conditioned to believe that the American Dream is all about home ownership, and living in peace and prosperity. Well, in a country that is facing rising home foreclosures , under constant fear of…

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PBS Basically Tells Latino Community Tough Sh.., No Changes to Burns’ WWII Flick

Mar 16, 2007, 4:29 AM 0

LatinaLista — Can’t say the reaction of PBS to demands that they edit the Ken Burns’ film on WWII to include Latino contributions was totally unexpected (Account of meeting is below). Chances are they probably said no for one…

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California is Second State to Release Research Finding Economic Benefits to Undocumented Immigrant Labor

Mar 1, 2007, 2:22 AM 0

LatinaLista — The U.S. Census reports that between July 1, 2003 and July 1, 2004, California led all states in an increase of Hispanics. Overall, the state added 715,000 Latinos. In Los Angeles County alone, there was an increase…

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Not All Life’s Lessons Can be Learned from Telenovelas

Feb 24, 2007, 7:27 PM 0

LatinaLista — This morning, it was revealed that Univision, the nation’s largest supplier of Spanish-language imported programming, got slapped with a record $24 million fine from the Federal Communications Commission. It seems that Univision was lacking when it came…

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The Point of No Return for Immigration Reform: The Proof is in the Pizza

Jan 13, 2007, 2:31 AM 0

LatinaLista — There is a bigger verdad (truth) in this whole immigration debate and the proof is in the pizza. By now, we’ve all heard of the special promotion that a Dallas, Texas-based pizza chain called Pizza Patron, was…

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New Study on Immigrant Entrepreneurship Fails to take into Account the Value of All Immigrant Labor

Jan 8, 2007, 11:36 PM 0

LatinaLista — Brains over brawn. High-tech versus service. Skilled versus unskilled. A new Duke University engineering study titled “America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs,” released today illustrates the extreme spectrum of immigrants who come to the United States to live and…

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Operator of Family Immigrant Detention Center Named Among the 400 Best Businesses in America by Forbes

Dec 22, 2006, 2:37 AM 0

LatinaLista — In 2004, at a company investors’ meeting, representatives from Corrections Corporation of America, operators of the family immigration detention facility, the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas, told their investors that business was good. T….

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Privatized Immigrant Detention Facilities for Families Revealed to be Modern-Day Concentration Camps

Dec 20, 2006, 2:58 AM 0

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…

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Unanswered Questions Remain After ICE Raids

Dec 16, 2006, 2:16 AM 0

LatinaLista — In the aftermath of the continuing bad press Immigration and Customs Enforcement is receiving over the timing of the Swift plant raids, the puzzlement remains over how many were known to be involved beforehand in the identity…

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The State of Texas Makes It Official: Undocumented Contribute More to State Revenues than Receive in Services

Dec 8, 2006, 2:50 AM 0

LatinaLista — A day after Latina Lista reported on the attempts by a Texas lawmaker to revoke American citizenship of children born in the United States of undocumented immigrants comes a “Special Report” from the state’s comptroller that undocumented…

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Tax Law Professor Shows Research Proving that the Undocumented Don’t Exploit U.S. Economy

Nov 21, 2006, 3:33 AM 0

LatinaLista Since the enactment of the Revenue Act of 1913, the federal government has subjected non-U.S. citizens residing in the United States (with or without documents) to income tax in the same manner as U.S. citizens. Low-income undocumented immigrants…

Business, Culture, Media

The Other Latino Revolution

Nov 19, 2006, 10:51 PM 0

LatinaLista — There’s a new television show specifically targeting Latinos, and it’s not on Univision, Telemundo, Telefutura or Galavision (some of the more widely known Spanish-language cable channels.) It’s a community service program titled “Worcester Latino” and it airs…

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