The attack on the nation’s compassionate immigration policy continues to be under assault. An appeals court just granted another Trump administration anti-immigration wish; No secret the wildfires in the West are wreaking havoc on the economy, environment and health…
Sadly, the body of missing Latino Fort Hood soldier, Elder Fernandes, was found last night by railroad tracks. Initial reports reveal he had been dead for a few days. The circumstances around his death deserve continued public outcry and…
It’s often said by Doctors Fauci and Birch that the coronavirus knows no boundaries, political parties, etc. To say that this is an equal opportunity virus is — something not entirely known. Important data is not being collected uniformly…
By Mike Gempler ncluido Congress needs to pass a clean DREAM Act by the end of December. It’s the right thing to do for our country, and it is the best start toward resolving the larger immigration issues…
LatinaLista — Campaign: 2015 Student Farmworker Alliance Encuentro The Student/Farmworker Alliance (SFA) is a national network of students and young people organizing with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to eliminate sweatshop conditions in the fields and build a…
LatinaLista — Two weeks ago, at the annual conference of the William J. O’Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, a group of economists, policy analysts, academic researchers and anthropologists gathered to…
HIPGive is a Latino-focused online giving platform focused on facilitating smart investments in innovation and Latino communities across the U.S. and the Americas. Every Monday, HIPGive and Latina Lista team together to highlight one of HIPGive’s worthy campaigns. Provide…
LatinaLista — At a recent Washington screening for his new English-language directorial debut, Cesar Chavez, Diego Luna explained to the audience one of the reasons he wanted to make the film — for his Mexican-American-born son. He said that…
By Michael G. Harpold Latina Lista In the State of the Union speech, President Obama said, “Americans overwhelmingly agree that no one who works full time should ever have to raise a family in poverty.” Who would disagree, I…
By Jeremy C. Nagel AgriNotes & News LANSING — Fruit and vegetable growers aren’t the only segment of Michigan’s vast agriculture industry clamoring for comprehensive, federal-level immigration reform. Dairy farming remains the single largest component of the state’s expanding…
LatinaLista — For over 30 years, Nancy Ghertner saw the migrant farm workers in her rural western New York town pick the apples in the surrounding apple orchards. Yet, as she describes, these workers were mainly invisible to her…
By Hector Sanchez LatinaLista How valuable is a man or woman? How valuable is a farmworker? How do you measure the value of a life? These are questions Cesar E. Chavez once asked us to consider. The revered labor…
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian EDCOUCH, TX — When the Rio Grande Valley gets interstate-designated highways next Monday and when Gov. Rick Perry signs legislation to create a new university for the region on Tuesday, thanks should go…
LatinaLista — Farmwork is hard enough. Being a migrant farmworker — subjected to the whims of a “profit-first, workers-last” employer mentality can be life-threatening, but being a female migrant farmworker, well, there are no words to describe the horror…
By Michelle Peirano Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – Francisco Duarte stood in the Arizona sun with little shade or water for hours, waiting to go pick lemons. But he never complained. That’s because the guest worker from San Luis,…
By Arturo S. Rodríguez LatinaLista If a motorist killed a person while driving drunk, would a police officer stop him and say, “You’re free to go, but next time you are going to jail?” As ludicrous as it sounds,…
LatinaLista — Eating healthy is all the rage these days in light of the exploding rates of obesity occurring across the nation. As anyone knows, eating healthy doesn’t just mean throwing less salt on our mashed potatoes or ripping…
