LatinaLista — Things are heating up along the South Texas border and it’s not because it’s spring. Ever since Michael Chertoff, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, announced that his department was intent on seeing a physical barrier…
LatinaLista — Residents in the Texas Rio Grande Valley have been fighting two wars: the war in Iraq that has taken many of their young people from the region and the war against the Department of Homeland Security which…
LatinaLista — It’s been the trend across the country for state legislators to stand behind their respective chamber podiums, declare they’re doing the will of the people and proceed to create and pass laws aimed at making life so…
LatinaLista — If there will be a running joke in this presidential election, it has to be the line that Gov. Bill Richardson shared during the Univision debate, and one that has been repeated often by critics of the…
LatinaLista — There’s advance word that things along the Texas-Mexico border will be heating up this weekend. No, it has nothing to do with the temperatures hovering near 100 degrees, nor are there any Minuteman protests planned that Latina…
LatinaLista — Mention homeland security and the immediate argument has been to “secure our borders.” The implication is always the U.S/Mexico border. Somehow we’ve allowed the mindset that scary people, aka terrorists, don’t come from Canada. That perception is…
LatinaLista — Homeland Security is going on with its plan to construct a double-row steel fence through the city of Laredo, Texas and over 153 miles along the Texas-Mexico border. According to Homeland Security, and Congress, the American people…
LatinaLista But now the family is scared. “We will have to start all over again from the bottom,” she said. “I went through so much to get here, and look what happens.” “Vamonos a Mexico [Let’s go back to…
LatinaLista — Since members of the Minuteman group took their stations over the weekend along the U.S. Mexico border near Nogales, Arizona on the lookout for anyone trying to slip into the United States illegally, a funny thing has…
LatinaLista “To put this death toll in perspective, the fortified US border with Mexico has been more than 10 times deadlier to migrants from Mexico during the past nine years than the Berlin Wall was to East Germans throughout…
LatinaLista — One day in October 2004 in Douglas, Arizona, Ronald Morales, his two young daughters and his father Arturo decided to cut through some land leased by rancher Roger Barnett while out hunting. Barnett, with his AR-15 rifle…
LatinaLista — It was a Page One story in the print edition and could be found front-and-center on the homepage. The headline reads: In McKinney, illegals are no cause for panic. The story was basically about how a group…
