LatinaLista — On a day that has everyone on edge to see who will come out ahead in tonight’s elections, there are pockets of the country where people are nervous for quite another reason. In parts of the country…
LatinaLista — Tomorrow, May 1, is the anniversary of the massive immigration marches that have taken place over the last couple of years. While not even the Latino community is exactly sure how many will turn up yet again…
LatinaLista — Today, an unprecedented marketing move to get (Latino) youth to register to vote was launched. A three-way partnership between get-out-the-vote organization Voto Latino, iTunes and Nacional Records made possible a special album of Spanish Rock, Latin and…
LatinaLista — Earlier this week, Latina Lista reported that the Department of Homeland Security, under the direction of Secretary Michael Chertoff, was tired of going through the legal channels to satisfy Texas border residents who are fighting the intent…
By Ana Maria Hanssen ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires is going through the unimaginable; there’s no meat, anywhere. This quite possibly could be one of the worst moments in history to be a visitor. Protests, chaos, a bouncing dollar and even…
LatinaLista — News that the Department of Homeland Security had grown impatient with efforts by environmental groups, land owners and border towns to thwart the building of a border fence along the southwest border was no surprise. The Bush…
LatinaLista — Saturday nights are busy nights for any night club or restaurant in any part of the world. Yet, for 26 such Latino establishments in Dallas, last night wasn’t just busy but chaotic and frightening for workers and…
By Dr. Dennis Rodgers Dr. Dennis Rodgers is a political anthropologist and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester’s Brooks World Poverty Institute in the United Kingdom. He is also an Associate Fellow of the University of…
LatinaLista — When it comes to national leadership in the country, do elected officials outweigh appointed officials? The natural assumption would be — yes, but Michael Chertoff, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), arguably one of the…
LatinaLista — As an email was circulating this afternoon alerting Oklahoma educators that State Rep. Randy Terrill, known for authoring some of the most punitive anti-undocumented immigrant legislation in the nation, was going to try yet one more tactic…
LatinaLista The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency currently has over 30,000 undocumented immigrants in detention. There are plans to build more detention facilities in the coming year to house the many immigrants the federal government plans to take into…
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 — Today is the five-year anniversary of a war that when viewed through the lenses of history will not be kind to the people who perpetrated it. That’s a given. But what is not a given is the…
LatinaLista — When news first hit the wires today that China had released their assessment of the U.S.’ record on human rights, the reflex action within the United States was to dismiss it. (Source: CNN) After all, it’s China…
LatinaLista — The immigration system is broken. That phrase has been used so often in the immigration reform debate that it’s now a cliche. (SOURCE: jewishworldreview.com) Yet it stands to reason that if the immigration system is broken, it…
LatinaLista — Over the last several months, Latina Lista has posted numerous posts about the strong efforts of some Texas border residents who are fighting back against the federal government’s insistence that the country will be safer with a…
LatinaLista — On February 6, 2008, Barack Obama penned a guest post at Latina Lista where he vowed to reform the nation’s immigration system. In today’s The Dallas Morning News, to coincide with his appearance in Dallas, Obama pens…
LatinaLista — An issue that isn’t on the radar of any political hopeful today but is bound to be facing the nation within the next 2-5 years is the subject of revamping our drug policies. There’s something inherently wrong…
LatinaLista — Past responses to stories posted on Latina Lista regarding the fight South Texans are putting up against the Department of Homeland Security in building the congressionally appropriated border fence have not always been kind to the residents….
LatinaLista — Scanning today’s headlines reveals that even on a day devoted to expressing love and compassion — some in this country have a long way to go. (Source: art.com) In Georgia, a bill to allow the seizure of…
LatinaLista — When it comes to getting the government’s fair (or unfair) share of hard-earned dollars, the Internal Revenue Service or IRS is more widely feared than the Department of Homeland Security — especially among undocumented immigrants. How can…
LatinaLista — Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez does say the darndest things. Maybe it was because he felt invincible after helping arrange the release of two prominent female hostages by the Colombian terror group FARC earlier this month, but whatever…
LatinaLista — Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) delivered their second round of border wall lawsuits against Rio Grande Valley landowners who refuse to voluntarily hand their properties over so that the border fence can be built on…
LatinaLista — Flor Crisotomo is the latest undocumented immigrant to ask for sanctuary at Chicago’s Adalberto United Methodist Church, the former sanctuary of Elvira Arellano. Flor Crisostomo, an illegal immigrant from Mexico arrested at a workplace raid at a…
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…
