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Diversity, Global Views, Government, Health

CDC explains why Puerto Ricans left out of major report documenting HIV incidence among U.S. Latino population

Aug 4, 2008, 6:13 PM 0

LatinaLista — This past weekend at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released the much anticipated report, Estimation of HIV Incidence in the United States. One group that was anxiously awaiting the…

Government, Human Rights, Immigration, Palabra Final

Government how-to manual on expediting guilty pleas from undocumented immigrants uncovered by ACLU

Jul 31, 2008, 9:38 PM 25

LatinaLista — This week, we learned from a Justice Department report that the White House interfered in the hiring of immigration judges by politicizing the hires. In other words, if the candidates met the conservative criteria or were recommended…

Government, Immigration, Palabra Final

Justice Department report reveals manufactured White House strategy to deny undocumented immigrants the “rule of law”

Jul 30, 2008, 8:14 PM 11

LatinaLista — A disturbing report was released this week by the Justice Department. In the 140-page document entitled An Investigation of Allegations of Politicized Hiring by Monica Goodling and Other Staff in the Office of the Attorney General, it…

Global Views, Government, Linking Latinas, Politics

Colombia: Marching for freedom until FARC disappears

Jul 29, 2008, 3:04 PM 0

By Rocio Arango Giraldo COLOMBIA: Their low steps advanced between the crowds. The yell of Â¡Freedom and No More FARC! rung from their throats. The children don’t understand about the causes of Colombia’s conflict but do understand how the…

Government, Palabra Final, Social Justice

Federal officials deny passports to midwife-born Mexican Americans along Texas-Mexico border

Jul 22, 2008, 7:21 PM 21

LatinaLista — The stories started trickling over the community listserve a few weeks ago. A woman whose mother was born in 1951 along the Texas-Mexico border by a midwife was having trouble getting a passport. It seems passport officials…

Global Views, Government, Immigration

Smaller passport now available for quick trips across the border

Jul 22, 2008, 11:45 AM 1

LatinaLista — It’s been government policy that everyone needs a passport to leave the country. Up until now, that passport has been the traditional dark blue book that is small enough to fit into a pocket but not small…

Environment, Government, Immigration, Palabra Final

Hurricane potential off S. Texas coast leaves some wondering if Border Patrol will make good on threat to screen for undocumented

Jul 21, 2008, 7:21 PM 5

LatinaLista — Dolly is getting her act together and while that’s usually a good thing for most of those with this name, it isn’t for this Dolly â€” Tropical Storm Dolly, that is. Proposed trajectory of Tropical Storm Dolly…

Government, Immigration, Palabra Final

Another ICE detention facility gets a failing grade for poor treatment of undocumented immigrants

Jul 17, 2008, 8:44 PM 0

LatinaLista — The intention of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to criminalize all undocumented immigrants caught living in the United States illegally has reached a saturation point with courts in the southwest region of the country. According to a Dallas…

Government, Human Rights, Immigration, Palabra Final

Special Sunday Post: Nashville-area police department’s abuse of ICE’s 287(g) program calls for federal review

Jul 13, 2008, 2:46 PM 90

LatinaLista — Juana Villegas DeLaPaz, a Nashville, Tennessee resident, should be happily tired these days since the recent birth of her fourth child. And Villegas DeLaPaz is tired but it’s one derived of an emotional ordeal that has drained…

Government, Human Rights, Immigration, Palabra Final

Eyewitness comes forward to tell the true story of what happened at Postville, Iowa

Jul 9, 2008, 1:00 PM 31

LatinaLista — The Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE Department of Homeland Security has a lot of job responsibilities. According to their web site: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland…

Economy, Government, Immigration, Palabra Final

Before passing draconian immigration bill, one state conducts self-audit to see if illegal immigration hype matches the facts

Jul 7, 2008, 4:28 PM 26

LatinaLista — An article in The Dallas Morning News over the weekend reported that, according to the Mexican Consulate in Dallas, 400 immigrant families have or are in the process of returning to Mexico. The consulate knows this because…

Causes, Education, Government, Politics, Women

Latina Vote campaign challenges Latinas in anticipation of November election

Jul 7, 2008, 12:25 PM 0

LatinaLista — There’s a new campaign underway to register as many Latinas as possible who are as yet unregistered to vote come November. The Latina Vote campaign spearheaded by the Southwest Voter Registration and Education (SVREP) organization has been…

Education, Government, Palabra Final

Federal judge “compels” Department of Homeland Security to honor original agreement with Texas university

Jun 30, 2008, 8:10 PM 28

LatinaLista — As the nation gets ready to celebrate the 4th of July this week, Texans along the U.S.-Mexico border are defending their property rights in the face of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) scooping up land to…

Business, Economy, Environment, Government, Guest Voz

Guest Voz: Congresswoman Solis demands oil companies stop withholding oil from the market

Jun 27, 2008, 9:25 AM 7

LatinaLista — Democratic Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis represents California’s 32nd Congressional District. The Congresswoman has been instrumental in creating legislation that has addressed issues important to Latinos: H.R. 359 – Cesar Estrada Chavez Study Act of 2007, H.R. 468,…

Government, Immigration, Palabra Final, Social Justice

New report finds U.S. deportation policy found to be endangering both migrants and border communities

Jun 26, 2008, 10:40 AM 28

LatinaLista — Disturbing news was reported out of Tijuana, Mexico recently. In research conducted by Victor Clark-Alfaro, director of the Binational Center for Human Rights and a guest lecturer at San Diego State University, he and his students identify…

Causes, Government, Immigration, Palabra Final

New campaign aims to set up a Night of 1,000 Conversations

Jun 16, 2008, 10:35 AM 0

LatinaLista — Conducting warrantless and aggressive work site and home raids, detaining raid victims without granting them access to legal counsel or allowing contact with their family members by phone, property seizures for construction of the border wall, building…

Government, Immigration, Palabra Final

Humanitarian legislation to keep federally detained undocumented immigrants safe before Senate.

Jun 12, 2008, 5:21 PM 8

LatinaLista — In a report released this week, and cited in an earlier Latina Lista post, the researchers noted that family reunification was driving illegal immigration, along with, search for work. Douglas Ramirez of Guatemala is shown being escorted…

Government, Palabra Final, Politics

A Latino vote that made a difference and is sending chills down the spines of city officials

Jun 9, 2008, 2:35 PM 8

LatinaLista — The Latino swing vote has arrived early and if the city officials of Dallas, Texas are any indication, it will be an unsettling experience for the nation. Dallas is not unlike hundreds of other metropolitan cities across…

Government, Palabra Final, Politics

Mexico must put machismo pride aside and accept the Congressionally-revised Merida Initiative

May 29, 2008, 12:43 PM 66

LatinaLista — The day before yesterday in Culiacan, Sinaloa seven federal agents were killed, presumably at the hands of the Sinaloa drug cartel. In spite of this loss of life, the Attorney General of Mexico, Eduardo Medina Mora, assured…

Government, History, Immigration, Palabra Final

Ret. Maj. Gen. Alfred Valenzuela: A Voice for Forgotten Immigrant Soldiers

May 26, 2008, 8:27 AM 19

In honor of Memorial Day, Latina Lista shares a special article that appeared last week in an issue of the magazine Diversity, Inc. LatinaLista — As the highest-ranking active-duty Latino officer prior to his retirement in 2004, Maj. Gen….

Children, Government, Immigration, Palabra Final

Why do we watch and say nothing while ICE traumatizes the children of the undocumented?

May 23, 2008, 10:31 AM 34

LatinaLista — Earlier this week, a congressional hearing was held in Washington, DC to discuss the impacts of immigration raids, conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, on children and families. ICE representatives, community leaders from across the…

Government, Immigration, Palabra Final

Homeland Security ignored Iowa officials’ pleas to postpone Postville raid until criminal investigation of plant management completed

May 19, 2008, 5:44 PM 9

LatinaLista — In Washington, D.C. tomorrow, there will be a hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Workforce Protections to discuss the impact of Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids on children and…

Government, Immigration, Palabra Final

Update: Latino community still under siege in Postville and Waterloo, Iowa

May 17, 2008, 4:11 PM 13

LatinaLista — On Monday, May 12, the biggest single-site immigration raid in the history of the country took place in Postville, Iowa where 389 suspected undocumented immigrants who were worked for Agriprocessors Inc., a kosher meat-processing plant, were detained….

Education, Government, Guest Voz

Guest Voz: Nebraska Educator Values Mexican Government’s Efforts to Elevate Quality of Life for U.S.-based Mexican Immigrants

May 16, 2008, 3:16 PM 2

By Maria Vazquez LatinaLista College Dean Maria Vazquez Maria Vazquez is Dean of the South Omaha Campus of the Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska. This daughter of Mexican immigrants has a distinguished career in the state ranging from…

Environment, Government, Immigration, Palabra Final

When fleeing deadly hurricanes in S. Texas, Border Patrol agents say undocumented won’t be allowed to evacuate

May 14, 2008, 11:05 AM 14

LatinaLista — The Atlantic hurricane season begins June 1. This Friday, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will hold a press conference releasing a new computer model simulation that shows there will be fewer hurricanes later in…

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