LatinaLista — This week, when President Obama appeared before the National Council of La Raza’s annual convention, he pledged solidarity with Latinos on the issue of immigration reform and the DREAM Act. Yet, what he didn’t pledge support with was deportations, a very real and ongoing repercussion of not passing either issue. Congressman Luis Gutierrez [...]
Mexican artist puts voice and sound in honoring the dead found along US-Mexico border
LatinaLista — The dead bodies of hundreds of immigrants found along the US-Mexico border is a haunting reality by itself but Mexican artist Luz María Sánchez has created a special sound-based art installation that makes 2,487 of these dead souls hauntingly come alive. The sad statistic reflects the number of dead who were found in [...]
The mindset of Norway’s shooter is alive and well in the US and pointed at Latinos
LatinaLista — He was against Muslims immigrating into his country and he didn’t like that society was turning multicultural. Those have been the two reasons offered as the motives for the bloody rampages of Norway’s most notorious mass assassin, Anders Behring Breivik. As soon as his motives were made public, it caused most people to [...]
Multiple Agencies File Lawsuit Challenging Alabama’s Extreme Anti-Immigrant Law
La Costa Latina MONTGOMERY, ALA. -The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and a coalition of civil rights groups filed a class action lawsuit on July 21 challenging Alabama’s extreme anti-immigrant law, HB 56, passed last month. The law is even more restrictive than the Arizona law it was inspired by–Arizona’s SB 1070. The Alabama law [...]
Chamber leader says state immigration law jumble harms business
By Cristina Rayas Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – A Phoenix business leader warned Tuesday (July 19, 2011) that businesses will continue to suffer from the jumbled approach to immigration issues by states, unless the federal government steps in. “Down the path of inaction on the federal level, we are going to continue to see the [...]
Tulsa police chief asserts: “We are not immigration agents”
By Juan Miret Hispano de Tulsa TULSA, Oklahoma – Police Chief Chuck Jordan says his department’s mission is public safety and fighting crime. “We are not immigration agents.” “My officers are working so all of us can enjoy a safer city,” said Jordan, who was interviewed July 5 in his office downtown. “They are not [...]
