LatinaLista — This weekend will always be etched into the memory of Marlen Moreno. It’s when she will either be deported to Mexico or allowed to remain with her husband and two young children who all are U.S. citizens….
LatinaLista — Human trafficking is the pipeline for today’s slave trade. Through movies, the public has learned that human trafficking is more than just sexual exploitation of women and young girls. It also involves the forced labor, with no…
LatinaLista — By the year 2020, the likelihood that Latinos will be the majority in Texas is pretty much a certainty, if it doesn’t happen sooner. In the 2000 Census, 52 percent of Texans were Anglo, and 32 percent…
LatinaLista — With Democrats and Republicans seemingly at each other’s throats all the time, it’s hard to imagine that they can come together for any issue — but thankfully they have. A bipartisan bill was introduced on February 4,…
LatinaLista — Since the immigration debate began in earnest back in 2006 when marchers filled the streets from Los Angeles to Washington DC, students have had a pivotal role. In some cities, it was the students who organized marches…
LatinaLista — Today in Washington DC, in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building, several students dressed in graduation caps and gowns were handcuffed and led away by Capitol police. These students were staging a passive protest hoping…
LatinaLista — There are over 63,000 women in state and federal prisons. Of these women, 80 percent are mothers who will reunite with their children being their main caregiver once they’re released from prison. Unfortunately, many of these women…
LatinaLista — Today was the first day that a Phoenix judge, Judge Susan Bolton, heard the first of six lawsuits aimed at making the now infamous immigration bill SB1070 disappear. While it’s too early to say how Judge Bolton…
LatinaLista — Washington DC is home to some of the country’s finest universities — Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon, Howard — and it is also home to a new one christened DREAM University. DREAM University (DU) is for those students…
LatinaLista — There were over 500,000 children in the foster care system in 2006, according to the most recent statistics. Forty-six percent of these children were in non-relative foster family homes. In 2006, 289,000 children exited the foster care…
LatinaLista — The horror stories of what happens to women who are illegally in the United States are the kinds of stories that evoke both sympathy and rebuke for the women. Sympathy for having to endure such torture and…
LatinaLista — Altogether there are six legal challenges to Arizona’s SB 1070. A federal judge announced today that the hearing date for the federal government’s suit against Arizona will take place July 22 — seven days before SB1070 is to…
LatinaLista — The phrase “Si se puede” has been used so much in the last couple of years that it has become almost a cliche. Though most know the term originated with Cesar Chavez, most people have forgotten how…
LatinaLista — The 2010 FIFA World Cup Soccer matches are really starting to heat up as the quarterfinals begin. For fans that means going all-out to show their support. The most popular way for fans to support their teams…
LatinaLista — Finally, there’s some movement in DC regarding the immigration issue. I’m not talking about the President’s much anticipated speech, that word has it will contain nothing more than stressing accountability and clarifying what side of the wall…
LatinaLista — Unfortunately, travel alerts have become all too common when it comes to traveling outside the United States. But inside the country? For immigrant and Latino travelers who just have to see the Grand Canyon or visit a…
LatinaLista — As much as the proponents of rounding up undocumented immigrants and sending them back across the border hate it, the majority of Americans have made it a point to publicly support one type of undocumented immigrant —…
La Prensa de San Antonio — The Department of Homeland Security issues a statement Friday to put rumors to rest about expanded executive action to grant blanket amnesty for undocumented immigrants. The Department of Homeland Security issued a…
LatinaLista — In this country, the notion that someone would be arrested and jailed for not committing a crime is considered one of the risks for being at the wrong place at the wrong time for members of communities…
LatinaLista– Dr. Carlos Cuevas is an assistant professor at Northeastern University in Boston. He’s dedicated his professional life to studying the psychological impact of victimization and trauma, sexual abuse and sex offending and family violence. Being Latino, he…
LatinaLista — Harvard sophomore and undocumented student, Eric Balderas, got some welcome news over the weekend — he would no longer face deportation to Mexico. It seems Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had a change of heart. It could…
LatinaLista — On the heels of the public learning about the stepped-up immigration enforcement ICE is planning against employers, comes word that the agency is making good on its promise to stop treating undocumented immigrants as criminals. ICE Director…
LatinaLista — This week the State Dept. released the The 2010 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. The release of the report also marks the 10th anniversary of the fight against the 21st Century version of slavery. In 2000, the…
By Natalia A. Bonilla-Berrios SAN JUAN — He sold drugs and robbed people of their social security checks. He dropped out of school after earning from $80 to $120 dollars a day — as a victim of human…
LatinaLista — As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) gets ready to step up their efforts targeting employers who knowingly hire undocumented workers, according to a plan that was recently leaked to the Texas Tribune and titled “Strategic Priorities for…
