LatinaLista — Gabriel Arana is a Spring 2009 intern at The Nation, as well as, a graduate student at Cornell University. Though Arana is based these days on the East Coast, he is a product of the U.S.-Mexico border region. Gabriel Arana Arana is originally from Nogales, Arizona — a town that sits squarely on the [...]
Why did San Diego TSA authorities and border patrol conduct an immigration raid and deport three students on their way to school?
LatinaLista — Imagine this scene: It’s 6:30 a.m. in the middle of the week at a city trolley station. People are wiping the sleep from their eyes as they hustle to catch a ride that will take them to work and school. Now imagine that suddenly uniformed officers, en masse, storm the trolley station looking [...]
Guest Voz: Princeton sociologist proves federal government responsible for high undocumented population
LatinaLista — Dr. Douglas Massey is a professor of Sociology at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and is an adjunct professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Specializing in the sociology of immigration, Dr. Massey has received numerous recognitions for his work on immigration, especially Mexican migration [...]
Though the critics don’t want to hear it, immigration reform is going full speed
LatinaLista — In the last two days, there has been more positive news regarding aspects of immigration reform than has been seen in the last few months. To start with, the DREAM Act received a very large endorsement from the President of Harvard University. Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust sent a letter to federal officials [...]
Mexican Data Show Migration to U.S. in Decline
La Prensa .- Census data from the Mexican government indicate an extraordinary decline in the number of Mexican immigrants going to the United States. The recently released data show that about 226,000 fewer people emigrated from Mexico to other countries during the year that ended in August 2008 than during the previous year, a decline [...]
Obama administration is expanding a flawed immigration enforcement measure that runs contrary to immigration reform
LatinaLista — It was reported today that the Obama administration is expanding an immigration program that was started under the Bush administration. It entails checking the immigration status of people booked into local jails. The idea being that those who are found to be undocumented and who have served their time for their crimes will [...]
