LatinaLista — Today, Hispanic university economists, financial executives and policy analysts gathered at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas to discuss “The Hispanic Economic Experience.” Coming from across the nation and throughout Texas, the economists met to deliver their latest research findings regarding the financial state of Latinos in the United States. Mark Lopez, associate [...]
Immigrants in America: More Skilled and Educated Than Ever Before
MetroLatinoUSA.com Washington D.C. – This Thursday the Brookings Institution released a new report, The Geography of Immigrant Skills: Educational Profiles of Metropolitan Areas, which finds that more working-age immigrants hold college degrees than lack high-school diplomas. This newly-released data has broad implications for an immigration debate that is driven largely by myths and stereotypes of [...]
Alabama’s passage of most cruel anti-immigrant law harkens back to state’s racist past
LatinaLista — According to Merriam-Webster, the word “reform” has these three top meanings: 1a : to put or change into an improved form or condition 1b : to amend or improve by change of form or removal of faults or abuses 2: to put an end to (an evil) by enforcing or introducing a better [...]
The sad, mysterious and predictable murder of Evelia Valencia
LatinaLista — Evelia Villa Valencia was a 29-year-old mother of three when her eldest, an 11-year-old, made the gruesome discovery after school, on May 23, 2011, of his mother’s lifeless body. She had been strangled in the bedroom of the family’s apartment in Arlington, Texas — she was still holding on to her three-month-old baby. [...]
Anastasio Hernández; A year without justice
By Mariana Martínez La Prensa San Diego SAN DIEGO — A year has passed since that night on May 28th 2010, when about twenty federal agents beat and tasered an undocumented immigrant, Anastasio Hernández, as he was being deported to Tijuana. The beating and tasing left him brain dead; he was declared dead at a [...]
President Obama has opened the White House and his agenda to Latinos but lacks opening one more thing
LatinaLista — Lately, President Obama has not made a secret of the fact that he has opened the White House to Latinos. Whether it’s holding various strategy meetings with Latino community leaders, politicians or entertainment personalities or hosting the swearing-in and kick-off meeting of the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, the Obama [...]
