By Janet Murguia LatinaLista Janet Murguia is President and Chief Executive Officer of NCLR. She sits on the Board of the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility and the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda. In addition, she is an executive committee…
LatinaLista — Today’s guilty verdict for Jose Padilla was hailed by the White House as a “just verdict.” Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council at the White House said that Jose had received a fair trial…
LatinaLista — The U.S. Census released a report today stating the obvious: Nearly one in every 10 of the nation’s 3,141 counties has a population that is more than 50 percent minority.
LatinaLista — Most of the time politicians are saavy in hiding their true agendas when passing a particular bill. They usually can sneak an amendment in that caters to their own special interests or ideology without anyone being the…
LatinaLista RAYMONDVILLE, TEXAS: Reports are filtering out from the Willacy County detention center in Raymondville that the 2,000 detained immigrants waiting for deportation are suffering in such bad conditions that one detainee has tried to commit suicide. Willacy County…
LatinaLista We will lead the unified national effort to secure America. We will prevent and deter terrorist attacks and protect against and respond to threats and hazards to the nation. We will ensure safe and secure borders, welcome lawful…
LatinaLista — Barely 24 hours after the Senate shelved trying to reform the immigration system, small-town America is back implementing their own reforms. The latest case is in Waukegan, Illinois where Mayor Richard Hyde and city aldermen have decided…
LatinaLista 1. Comprehensive immigration reform is dead. 2. Giving equal educational opportunities to children of color is now a footnote in our nation’s history. When it came to the immigration bill, hopes were not high, but there were slivers…
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 — Today, nationally syndicated radio talk show host Eddie Sotelo, better known to his legions of Spanish-speaking fans as Piolin, delivered one million letters to the steps of Congress today from immigrants and citizens across the country who…
LatinaLista — This Monday is Memorial Day. Yet, too many of us only know it as one of those rare 3-day holidays from work. Most don’t really know what the holiday stands for, except it may have something to…
LatinaLista — The United States’ global reputation as being a World Power who sets the standard for other countries when it comes to championing the human rights of the less fortunate has officially been unmasked by a Mexican named…
LatinaLista — The violence is escalating — not in Iraq, but in our own backyard. This week there have been reports of the drug cartel violence that has long plagued Mexico moving north into towns along the border. In…
LatinaLista — It has always been too easy to depersonalize individuals when using group adjectives like: “immigrants” or “illegals.” When this is done, it is very easy to forget that they are human beings, like us all, with families…
LatinaLista — In cities across the country this weekend, there will be Cinco de Mayo celebrations. Always a chance to see Mexican folklorico dancing, eat tacos, drink flavored aguas and let the children play games, the annual observance has…
LatinaLista — In an edited translation of an article published in Mexico City’s El Financiero last Thursday, it was stated that a Mexican organizaton released statistics that show that on average, 32 underage boys and girls try to cross…
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 — With each and every abuse of power that has come to light under this Administration, it’s no stretch of the imagination to think that ICE, otherwise known as Immigration Customs and Enforcement, may not be enforcing their…
LatinaLista — Today, the first real step towards immigration reform was introduced on Capitol Hill. Rep. Luis Gutierrez Two Representatives, Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) offered their version of bipartisan immigration reform with the “Security Through Regularized…
LatinaLista — As the plot thickens in Washington over the firings of the eight Democratic federal prosecutors: Who will testify? Who will be the scapegoat? Who will be proven to be the real mastermind? The White House There comes…
LatinaLista — The second most read article today in the Mexican newspaper La Cronica de Hoy is an article about President Bush. The article isn’t about his trip to Mexico or his face-to-face with Felipe Calderon, Mexico’s president. Rather…
LatinaLista — The minute President Bush designated Jose Padilla an illegal enemy combatant on June 9, 2002, the Latino community couldn’t distance itself farther from the boy. Jose Padilla (Source: wikimedia.org) Jose’s sad story of being involved in gangs,…
LatinaLista — I guess in another one of those things that can be filed under “It Can Only Happen In Texas” is the story of a newly elected judge being raked over the coals because she’s doing what she…
LatinaLista — It’s always amazed me that as many Central and South American migrants make it as far north as they do — especially after having to cross through Mexico. As Latina Lista reported last spring, Los Angeles Times’…
LatinaLista — The U.S. Census reports that between July 1, 2003 and July 1, 2004, California led all states in an increase of Hispanics. Overall, the state added 715,000 Latinos. In Los Angeles County alone, there was an increase…
