LatinaLista — Just as one of the last landowner holdouts in the Rio Grande Valley, Eloisa Tamez, received word this week that her court case had been lost against the federal government and she would have to fork over…
LatinaLista — News that President Obama plans to address immigration reform as early as May has been met with the expected responses — happiness and dread. Happiness by most Hispanic groups and advocates that finally Obama is making good…
LatinaLista — Though the 2008 presidential election is four months gone, it’s surprising that all the talk of Latinos as the proverbial “sleeping giant” has vanished as well. While the Latino community did rise to expectations during the election,…
Special to La Prensa San Antonio, TX (March 31, 2009)—A San Antonio, TX child had the opportunity to meet President Barack Obama today during a visit to the White House with Children’s Miracle Network. Roberto Salcido, 17 years old,…
LatinaLista — Hawaii is 1,625 miles from the U.S. mainland. In this day and age of easy travel and internet usage, it’s hard to imagine that anyone would think that Hawaii is so far away that news of what…
LatinaLista — In honor of April being Immigration Awareness Month, Diversity Inc. has created a handy one-stop page for interesting facts about the role and contributions of immigrants to the United States. One of the most interesting items is…
LatinaLista — According to the Eagleton Institute of Politics, twenty percent of New Jersey’s population is comprised of immigrants. Those numbers make it the third highest state in the nation home to foreign-born residents. So, when it was announced…
By JONATHAN J. COOPER Cronkite News Service NOGALES (Wednesday, March 25) _ Cristina Vasquez moved across the border to protect her children from rising violence in Mexico. She didn’t anticipate that the fighting would follow her to Arizona. Her…
LatinaLista — On the heels of yesterday’s release of the comprehensive US-Mexico border security initiative, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived for two days of talks with Mexican government officials. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Mexican…
LatinaLista — Amnesty International just released a new report on an issue that Latina Lista has been covering a lot lately — immigrant detention. The report, Jailed without Justice, underscores just how broken is the nation’s immigration system. In the…
LatinaLista — The trouble with a broken immigration system is that it’s easy for people to fall through the cracks. And the trouble with so many stories about this broken immigration system flooding mainstream media is that it’s too…
LatinaLista — In the past, as of three months ago, it used to be wherever ICE wanted to build an immigrant detention facility, they would encounter some local resistance, but eventually they got their way. Immigrant detention facility However,…
LatinaLista — Immigration reform is not a dead idea. President Obama said so and a lot more in yesterday’s Town Hall meeting in Costa Mesa, California. Yet as he begins to “think” about tackling the issue, it’s obvious that…
LatinaLista — It’s one thing to express an opinion over who should win an election but to use threatening language that is meant to influence the outcome of an election is quite another. In fact, in many circles it…
LatinaLista — Janet Napolitano may be the new head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) but recent actions emanating from DHS are proving that old habits die hard. First, there was the worksite raid in Washington that Secretary…
LatinaLista — You don’t have to know Spanish to understand the headlines appearing in Chilean and Spanish-language newspapers regarding the senseless murders in Florida of two young Chilean students and the wounding of three others. “Gringo loco” is how…
LatinaLista — True immigration reform may be several months away but there are signs that there is a new attitude in Washington about federal immigration enforcement procedures. It comes as a result of Tuesday’s worksite raid by Immigration and…
LatinaLista — Finally, after two months, Congresswoman Hilda Solis has been confirmed as the nation’s new Labor Secretary. Of all the Cabinet positions in Obama’s administration, Solis was the last one to be confirmed who was an original Obama…
By Kristian Jaime As the crowd gathered at the newly minted “Castro for Mayor†campaign headquarters, it was not long before many realized the race was about to reach a fever pitch. Mayoral candidate Julian Castro spoke to an…
LatinaLista — Just when we thought there had been enough analysis of the 2008 Latino vote — What more can be said? —here comes a new analysis that, at the least, puts a unique spin on dull polls. In…
LatinaLista — The mayor of Carrollton, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, made illegal immigration a part of his victorious campaign platform when he ran for office last year. As is common knowledge, he wasn’t the only small-town mayor who…
LatinaLista — Last week, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the man who enforces the rule of immigration law in his own irresponsible way in Maricopa County, Arizona, made headlines yet again when he shackled 200 undocumented immigrant inmates and marched them…
LatinaLista — When it comes to politics, it’s understood that it can be a rough sport between the opposing parties. Extreme exaggerations, outright lies, name-calling — and that’s the civil part of it. However, Republicans have taken politics to…
LatinaLista — One of the “hallmarks” of the Bush Administration was its knee-jerk responses and “half-ass” preparations to matters that impacted the country or various portions of the populace. Remember the fiasco with the passports? Not enough planning was…
LatinaLista — The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) documented the fact that 60 percent of Latinos who died in Colorado traffic accidents last year weren’t wearing their seat belts. Seeing that it’s a sizeable number, CDOT authorized a public…
