By Gaby Pacheco LatinaLista As I was watching the Miami Heat beat the Oklahoma Thunder, I drew the parallels between the Heat winning and the President’s DREAMer policy announcement. A week ago, undocumented young Americans celebrated the bold move…
LatinaLista — A few months ago, TIME magazine profiled Latinos in a cover story about how Latino voters will choose the next president. A by-product of that story had TIME wading into the immigration debate, an issue closely associated…
By Gaby Pacheco LatinaLista I sat up and realized it was only a dream. But was it really? A few nights ago, I dreamt that I was driving my partner Jose to school. It was raining and the road…
By Carlo Alaimo CSI Today Irvin Ibarguen, College of Staten Island Valedictorian for 2012, is the first CSI undergraduate to be admitted into Harvard University’s prestigious PhD History program. Irvin, a senior History major with The Verrazano School honors…
LatinaLista — UC Irvine anthropologist Leo Chavez and Roberto Gonzales, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service, have co-authored a study showing how undocumented immigrant youth, faced with dwindling options in life due to…
By Gaby Pacheco LatinaLista Next month, the country’s educational community celebrates the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Plyler vs. Doe. In Plyer vs. Doe, the high court ruled in June 1982 that it was…
By Elena Shore New America Media Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio on Wednesday dismissed speculation that he could be the vice presidential nominee, but he is preparing to make another political play
By Gustavo Martínez Contreras Mojado Citizen A Mexican man will be finally able to travel to his 10-year-old son’s burial in Pennsylvania after immigration officials granted his request for humanitarian permission to enter the United States, according to a…
By Gaby Pacheco LatinaLista Recently, I had the opportunity to meet a wonderful 19-year-old Salvadorian woman, fighting for the DREAM Act. At first, I thought she was a DREAMer, but on the contrary, Jocelyne Cardona, is a US Citizen,…
By Gustavo Martínez Contreras Mojado Citizen (Editor’s note: The following is a translation of the original post that appears on Mojado Citizen) While the immigrant youth in Georgia face the possibility of being banned from all public colleges and…
Edited by Gaby Pacheco LatinaLista In the ongoing effort to highlight the stories of DREAMers on Latina Lista, I want to introduce readers to Tereza Lee. It was her story that spurred Sen. Durbin to introduce the DREAM Act,…
LatinaLista — For many high school students, this is the time to start filling out college applications and submitting financial aid forms. For high school students who are undocumented, this is the time of their senior year that most…
LatinaLista — The sad story of 18-year-old Joaquin Luna who committed suicide in November (2011) grabbed national headlines for a few days for one reason and one reason only — he was undocumented. Before anyone could read the letters…
LatinaLista — Undocumented immigrants may be used as the proverbial “whipping boy” by legislators intent on cleansing the country of their presence, but if the U.S. military has their way undocumented immigrants would be the backbone of tomorrow’s military….
By Gaby Pacheco LatinaLista The year 2011 was a year of recuperation. After the failure of the DREAM Act, immigrant youth across the country committed to continue fighting, even as many of them where exhausted from previous years of…
LatinaLista — Racial intolerance has reached such high levels of disbelief that it’s hard to believe we are talking about the United States and not some third world, oppressive country. Yet, two stunning examples of racial intolerance practiced by…
LatinaLista — While most states, in an effort to trim their budgets, are shutting down roadside rest stops — those isles of oasis on the side of the highway where one can stretch their legs, let whining kids and…
LatinaLista — To say Latinos have a love affair with food would be an understatement. Food is enjoyed whether it’s in the family kitchen or out eating in restaurants. In fact, according to an article in FoodBusinessNews.net, the restaurant…
LatinaLista — It’s always assumed that if a person works hard, he/she will succeed in life. The harder you work, the greater your success. It’s the premise for the proverbial “American Dream.” Yet, a new poll released by Colorlines.com…
LatinaLista — It’s estimated that 47 percent of today’s Latino population is foreign-born. It’s a statistic that isn’t all that surprising, though it’s important to note that the US Census attributes current growth in the Latino population from births,…
LatinaLista — Even before today’s release by Pew Social & Demographic Trends announcing the freefall in Latino household wealth, it was known that the recession hit Latinos especially hard. Yet, the real story is that it didn’t hit ALL…
LatinaLista — It’s rather ironic that Latinos, who were blamed for the nation’s housing bust, are now being heralded as the ones who will save the industry from its demise. A new report State of Hispanic Homeownership by the…
By Angela Villanueva LatinaLista College instructor Emmy Pérez taps into her lifelong passion of helping others to share her love of creative writing with troubled youth and incarcerated women. Emmy Pérez is a writer. She’s also a college instructor,…
By Angela Villanueva LatinaLista Corpus Christi native, Suzie Canales, encounters federal bureaucracy, frustration and roadblocks in finding solutions to help her local neighborhoods impacted by environmental abuses. For more than 10 years, Suzie Canales, 51, has been fighting for…
By Angela Covo La Prensa SAN ANTONIO — Rebecca Garza is the only Latina woman in the world who completely owns a pro-sports franchise team. And she wants to bring it to San Antonio. More than that, Garza is…
