Marisa Treviño LatinaLista Regular readers of Latina Lista have kindly noticed that I’ve been taking a little break. After 14 years of chronicling social injustices, I felt drained, even more so since Trump took office. Like many of you,…
LatinaLista — President Donald Trump signed today, under duress, an executive order to stop separating immigrant families. However, this order does not address reunifying families. The ongoing trauma that detained children are being subjected to needs to end and,…
Marisa Treviño LatinaLista If there is one real truth about Trump and his White House staff, it’s that they lie. They distort facts, they take things out of context to purposely create a narrative that makes Trump look either…
By Robert Barba LatinaLista If you’re a DREAMer, you face a difficult financial situation. In February 2018, the Supreme Court declined to hear the Trump Administration’s appeal challenging the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program — better known as…
By Layidua Salazar Rewire.News Tax Day is here and with it comes the reminder of my status in the United States as an undocumented taxpayer—meaning someone who doesn’t have a legal pathway to citizenship, despite having temporary protection from…
LatinaLista — Undocumented immigrants have always lived “in the shadows” of society. Yet, it depends on who is in the Oval Office as to how far their retreat into those shadows. As a result, there are many citizens who…
By Sarah Anderson Inequality.org “I am not speaking about the poor. I am not speaking for the poor. I am the poor.” Claudia De la Cruz was speaking at an April 10 press briefing in Washington, D.C. on behalf…
By Marisa Treviño ncluido In the 14 months since Donald Trump was sworn into office, a fear has been steadily growing across the country that this administration is marching the country back to a period in our history that…
By Nate Balis Juvenile Justice Information & Exchange It’s fair to say that most of us working in the youth justice field do so because we’re committed to brighter futures for all kids, especially the ones facing the longest…
By Sarah Shapiro and Lisette Partelow ncluido In September 2017, President Donald Trump put 20,000 teachers at risk of deportation when he terminated the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program—the Obama-era initiative that grants temporary protection to unauthorized immigrants who were brought into…
By Raquel Aldana The Conversation President Donald Trump has embraced the rhetoric of “chain migration” to spread the message that the United States is legally letting in too many of the wrong kind of immigrant. That term, however, distorts…
By Phillip M. Carter The Conversation Hidden just beneath the surface of the ongoing heated debate about immigration in the United States lurks an often unspoken concern: language. Specifically, whether immigration from Spanish-speaking countries threatens the English language’s dominance….
By Dante Chinni ncluido Washington is struggling, again, with a government shutdown. But this time a nonbudget issue is driving much of the debate: the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration program, or DACA. Congressional Democrats are demanding that…
By Victoria Edwards Juvenile Justice Information Exchange SANFORD, North Carolina — As a high school sophomore and DACA recipient, the connections Danny Rodas made through his mentorship program were invaluable to helping him understand the challenges he would face…
By Edward Rincón ncluido It was indeed news shattering: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos just announced a contribution of $33 million to 1,000 DACA program students to pay for a four-year college education. As you may know, DACA (Deferred Action…
By Stell Simonton Justice Information & Exchange As an undocumented student, David Blancas had to push hard to shape his future. He couldn’t drive without fear of being stopped. He couldn’t get on a plane without worrying about…
LatinaLista — Borders are so last century. And so begins the introduction to a new digital publication dedicated to migrants. Beyond Borders is an online publication created by the Swedish global tech company Rebtel. With a company core belief…
By Jody Agius Vallejo The Conversation American Latino economic elites have incomes and wealth in the top five percent of earners. Some own multi-million-dollar companies or work as corporate executives. Latino politicians – like Kevin De León, who is…
By Nick Roll Inside Higher Ed Princeton University and Microsoft have joined together to file a lawsuit against President Trump’s rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. A DACA-protected student at Princeton, Maria De La Cruz Perales…
By Eric Moreno Salud America Nearly 94% of the 18 million Latino kids living in the United States today were born here. Their moms and dads are a different story. About half of Latino kids have at least one…
By Sharita Gruberg ncluido Last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump administration will end protection from deportation for approximately 800,000 young immigrants under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This program provided temporary protection…
LatinaLista — It’s called the Solution for Undocumented Children through Careers, Employment, Education, and Defending our Nation Act, SUCCEED, for short and the congressional members who drafted this latest version of the 2010 DREAM Act, hope it does exactly…
By Luis V. Gutierrez ncluido Ending the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program was a serious mistake that will harm the United States and will spark a national political crisis. Approximately 800,000 young immigrants who qualify for DACA have…
Marisa Treviño ncluido Tuesday, September 5, 2017, is a day that about 800,000 undocumented youth are nervously awaiting. On that day, Trump will decide what to do about a program that has been a literal lifeline, to a normal…
By George Diepenbrock Futurity Detention centers that hold immigrant women and their families function like jails and prisons, report researchers. The findings challenge federal officials’ description of the centers as “alternative to detention.” Women held with their children in…
