LatinaLista — Ankle monitors have long been considered the humanitarian alternative to detention for undocumented immigrants who have been flagged for deportation. Yet, because of the actions and statements by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the Dallas field office one lawyer is taking ICE to federal court alleging that ICE is using ankle monitors [...]
Groundbreaking report finds over 5,000 children of undocumented immigrants kept in foster care system by ICE
LatinaLista — Immigration enforcement is not an issue that can just be reduced to the black and white rationale of being the “law of the land.” Though it’s true that immigration enforcement entails finding people who are in the country illegally and deporting them back to their native countries, it’s much more complicated than that. [...]
10-year-old’s murder underscores how citizenship status doesn’t make the criminal
LatinaLista — Chances are 10-year-old Jasmen Gonzalez didn’t worry or even know too much about the big national immigration reform debate. The Oklahoma City fourth-grader probably didn’t even understand the concept of “citizenship status.” And why should she? She was a young girl, not unlike any other 10-year-old, who was excited to be coming to [...]
Michelle Bachmann practices own brand of religion when it comes to undocumented immigrants
LatinaLista — For Michelle Bachmann, Halloween holds special significance — it was the day she discovered Christ as her Savior. She told the story of accepting Jesus Christ as her savior – a conversation that happened almost 40 years ago when as a teenager she went to church one evening expecting to attend a Halloween [...]
Mexico: Understanding the Motivation to Migrate
By Dr. Jacqueline Zaleski Mackenzie LatinaLista GUANAJUATO, MEXICO– My stomach knots when my gate bell fails to ring a few seconds after the 3:45 p.m. bus passes. I replay a familiar assumption: “Kirt’s mother must not have had four pesos this week.” When I last saw 3-year-old Kirt, his spine behaved as though it was [...]
American Immigrant: Alabama
By By Valeria Pretto-Calder, Esq. La Costa Latina Gulf Coast — Due to the new Alabama immigration law, I want to share some history on the United States Constitution and explain why certain parts of the Alabama law violate the US Constitution. The US Constitution was written in 1787 and took effect in 1789, the [...]