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Latina Lista: News from the Latinx perspective > Brownsville

Culture, Videos, zNew Headline

First-time Latino author reveals the rough side of growing up Latino on the Texas border

Sep 12, 2013, 3:43 PM 0

LatinaLista — Domingo Martinez is Brownsville-born and bred but it’s not a place that he calls home anymore. For the last 20 years, he’s called the Pacific Northwest home, specifically Seattle — about as far away from the tip…

Videos

Latina Lista hosts exclusive 4th of July Web Premiere of documentary about Texas community divided by the U.S. border fence

Jul 4, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — The 4th of July is a special celebration for Americans. It’s the one day in the year when Americans celebrate being Americans — our freedom, our history, our patriotism, our foods and the past battles that shaped…

Local News, South

S. Texas Congressman Filemon Vela tells Napolitano about loss of cross-border culture

Apr 10, 2013, 1:43 PM 0

By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian BROWNSVILLE, TX – Congressman Filemon Vela met recently with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano in Washington, D.C. to discuss the impact sequestration is having on border crossings. The Brownsville Democrat said he came…

Government, Palabra Final, Social Justice

Federal officials deny passports to midwife-born Mexican Americans along Texas-Mexico border

Jul 22, 2008, 7:21 PM 21

LatinaLista — The stories started trickling over the community listserve a few weeks ago. A woman whose mother was born in 1951 along the Texas-Mexico border by a midwife was having trouble getting a passport. It seems passport officials…

Environment, Government, Palabra Final, Southwest

Brownsville Mayor Declares Federal Government is Doing Irreparable Damage to Texas Border Region with Proposed Fence

Jan 28, 2008, 4:53 PM 11

LatinaLista — Residents in the Texas Rio Grande Valley have been fighting two wars: the war in Iraq that has taken many of their young people from the region and the war against the Department of Homeland Security which…

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