LatinaLista — The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi has an ironic name that served him very well yesterday during a protest of the new immigration law the state wants to enact. Bishop Joseph Latino joined fellow Bishop Roger Morin of the Biloxi diocese to protest the Alabama-style proposed immigration legislation now being [...]
Marco Rubio’s continued opposition to DREAM Act fuels steam into new national movement
LatinaLista — If the rumors circulating on Capitol Hill are true, the GOP thinks they have an Ace up their sleeves on how to at least split the Latino vote in the November presidential election. Now that Mitt Romney has won both Arizona and Michigan, no matter how marginally, talk is that he’s pretty much [...]
National pollster on American Latino attitudes shows more similarity among Cubans, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans than differences
LatinaLista — A recent open letter from one group of Latino Republicans to another exposed, yet again, the differences that exist within the Latino community. We may share the same umbrella label but there are distinct “handles” that prove time and time again the Latino population is much more complex than saying we are a [...]
TIME magazine errs on two fronts: thinking an Asian-American is Latino and that all Latinos have the same “look”
LatinaLista — TIME magazine marketers must have been giddy with excitement over this week’s magazine’s cover featuring what they thought were 20 Arizona Latinos, judging by the advance press releases they sent out announcing the cover story “Yo Decido. Why Latinos will Pick the Next President.” After all, by virtue of the cover story, they [...]
A first step in immigration reform — granting the undocumented driver’s licenses
LatinaLista — The idea that keeping undocumented immigrants from having driver’s licenses is somehow a good thing for the safety of the nation is as absurd in its logic as saying smoking cigarettes is good for our health. Usually, the people deciding that driver’s licenses should be off limits to undocumented immigrants are the same [...]
AZ GOP debate highlights the Latino vote, immigration reform and (lack) of Latino/a pundits
LatinaLista — The latest installment of the GOP presidential debates happens tonight and is garnering a lot of national attention, for one reason — it’s in Arizona, Ground Zero for the legislative trend of creating mean-spirited laws meant to drive out undocumented immigrants. The significance of tonight’s location wouldn’t mean much if it weren’t for [...]
