LatinaLista — During this time when Latino immigrants, and some Latino citizens, are continuously being told that they are not needed or wanted in this county, it’s nice to finally see some documentation that Latinos are not only wanted…
LatinaLista — Today, Tyrone Williams was sentenced to life in prison for being the Grim Reaper to 19 undocumented immigrants who suffocated in the back of his 18-wheeler one hot, sweltering day while passing through Texas on the eve of…
LatinaLista — In a previous posting, I spoke about the sad situation in a Los Angeles-area community where Latino on black crime and intimidation was so rampant that a 14-year-old black girl was gunned down by two Latino gang…
LatinaLista — In yesterday’s posting, I mentioned how it seemed odd that while the number of white people arrested for crimes was higher than either blacks or Hispanics, their actual numbers behind bars were far less than what the…
LatinaLista — Today, Dr. Martin Luther King Junior would have been 78 years old. Had he lived, what would he have thought about what’s going on today? Though he would have been somewhat pleased about the strides people of…
LatinaLista — If you’re a regular reader of Latina Lista, then you remember when we first reported last month about the T. Don Hutto Residential facility in Taylor, Texas. T. Don Hutto Residential facility According to the Immigration and…
LatinaLista — There is a bigger verdad (truth) in this whole immigration debate and the proof is in the pizza. By now, we’ve all heard of the special promotion that a Dallas, Texas-based pizza chain called Pizza Patron, was…
LatinaLista — Maribel Santiago and Alma Rivera got “into it” after school on Monday of this past week at Woonsocket Middle School in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Punches were thrown and Maribel ended up punching the school’s vice-principal in the…
LatinaLista — As President Bush delivers his speech telling the nation that it’s going to take over 20,000 more U.S. troops to bring stability to Iraq, I am rereading the sad statistics about the homeless in this country. (Source:…
LatinaLista — This is a tale of two babies. Each was the first baby born in 2007 in their new hometowns, and of course profiled in their local newspapers. One was born in the county of Dallas, Texas. His…
LatinaLista — Brains over brawn. High-tech versus service. Skilled versus unskilled. A new Duke University engineering study titled “America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs,” released today illustrates the extreme spectrum of immigrants who come to the United States to live and…
LatinaLista — There have been many “predictions” as to how the White House is going to get along with the new leaders in Congress but, unfortunately, it doesn’t take a psychic to know that the honeymoon will be over…
LatinaLista — Exactly two years ago this week, the Mexican government found itself under attack for trying to provide a humanitarian aide to the thousands of people who illegally migrate from and through Mexico on their way to the…
LatinaLista — The newswires and blogosphere has been abuzz all day with the swearing-in of Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House. Everyone around the world is taking notice that Ms. Pelosi is now the most…
LatinaLista — This past Christmas season was tight for anyone in college or who is footing the bill for college tuition. With books and fees, today’s tuition hits the majority of families hard. So, it’s to be expected that…
LatinaLista — The most positive news that has greeted us in these first two days of 2007 was how Oprah Winfrey has finally realized her dream of opening up an all-girl school in South Africa. Oprah and the first…
LatinaLista — Every year, The Dallas Morning News chooses one Texan they label “Texan of the Year.” This year’s recipient is a man by the name of Roy Velez. What’s so special about this West Texan, Mexican-American is that…
LatinaLista — Only three days left till New Year’s Day — and the annual parade of stories of the first babies born in 2007. The U.S. Census Bureau released a press release saying that the United States is expected…
LatinaLista — Now before the insults begin to hurl, there is something that is not widely known on this side of the border: In Mexico and all over Latin America, today is known as the Day of the Innocents….
LatinaLista — I often wonder if it was what God intended when He created earth — that man would divide and section off every piece of available space to claim as his own. Somehow it goes against the logic…
LatinaLista — Every red-blooded American school student, while enjoying their school break, are inevitably performing a time-honored-holiday tradition as well — counting down the days till school starts again. Too many students will return to schools where self-segregation is…
LatinaLista — It is now 15 minutes into my new friend Jay’s vigil at the T. Don Hutto Residential facility in honor of all the families detained behind the barbed wire. One would think, being Christmas and all, that…
LatinaLista — For every child who knows of Santa, the countdown till he arrives is winding down. Yet for the children who are being held at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas, and for the children…
LatinaLista — In 2004, at a company investors’ meeting, representatives from Corrections Corporation of America, operators of the family immigration detention facility, the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas, told their investors that business was good. T….
