LatinaLista — If ever proof was needed to show that this Administration would go out of its way to connect terrorism with undocumented immigrants, we have it now, courtesy of a federal audit. The Department of Justice’s Internal Controls…
LatinaLista — It was only a matter of time. It was only a matter of time before some in the Latino community would feel that they had to take a more public and vocal stance against the wave of…
LatinaLista — It really is difficult being an undocumented immigrant in this country. Forget the ICE round-ups or the vague immigration reform debate supposedly happening in DC or even the penalizing ordinances being passed by towns and cities across…
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 — The answer to the title of this post sounds like it should be a no-brainer but with the Army under pressure to meet its quota to help with the additional troops President Bush has decided is needed…
LatinaLista — As we reported this morning, the Ibrahim family has been released from the T. Don Hutto Residential facility. Mrs. Ibrahim hugs her 3-year-old daughter whom she hasn’t seen in 3 months. Children hug their long-missed 3-year-old sister….
LatinaLista — The first family at the T. Don Hutto Residential Facility, the converted prison where non-Mexican immigrant families awaiting processing of their deportation cases, have been released. T. Don Hutto Residential facility E-rumors were circulated late last night…
LatinaLista — This morning, the Williamson County, Texas commissioners had an important decision to make — either renew the lease with Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the ones who run the T. Don Hutto Residential facility where nonMexican, undocumented…
LatinaLista — In yesterday’s posting, I mentioned how it seemed odd that while the number of white people arrested for crimes was higher than either blacks or Hispanics, their actual numbers behind bars were far less than what the…
LatinaLista — If you’re a regular reader of Latina Lista, then you remember when we first reported last month about the T. Don Hutto Residential facility in Taylor, Texas. T. Don Hutto Residential facility According to the Immigration and…
LatinaLista — As President Bush delivers his speech telling the nation that it’s going to take over 20,000 more U.S. troops to bring stability to Iraq, I am rereading the sad statistics about the homeless in this country. (Source:…
LatinaLista — Only three days left till New Year’s Day — and the annual parade of stories of the first babies born in 2007. The U.S. Census Bureau released a press release saying that the United States is expected…
LatinaLista — Now before the insults begin to hurl, there is something that is not widely known on this side of the border: In Mexico and all over Latin America, today is known as the Day of the Innocents….
LatinaLista — I often wonder if it was what God intended when He created earth — that man would divide and section off every piece of available space to claim as his own. Somehow it goes against the logic…
LatinaLista — For every child who knows of Santa, the countdown till he arrives is winding down. Yet for the children who are being held at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas, and for the children…
LatinaLista I am a Chicana and my identity was stolen by an illegal alien. Yes, an illegal alien. Not an undocumented worker, not an economic migrant, not a border crosser, not an entrant. It ruined my credit, cost thousands…
LatinaLista — In the aftermath of the continuing bad press Immigration and Customs Enforcement is receiving over the timing of the Swift plant raids, the puzzlement remains over how many were known to be involved beforehand in the identity…
LatinaLista Dec. 15 Update: News reports this morning quote ICE officials as having charged more than 100 undocumented immigrants with identity theft. In Colorado, affidavits filed for the search warrant for a Swift plant in Greeley, Colorado showed that…
LatinaLista — News of yesterday’s raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, at six plants owned by the meat processing company Swift & Company, greeted most of us early this morning. (Source: ICE.gov) With frontpage headlines or lead…
LatinaLista — In 2002, Building Blocks for Youth released a report titled ¿Donde Esta la Justicia? Though the report centered on the unjust disparities in our juvenile justice system when it comes to the treatment of Latino children, there…
LatinaLista — The U.S. Census reveals that Utah is pretty much a homogenous state when it comes to ethnic diversity. In 2004, 93.8 percent of the population was categorized as “white.” Hispanics, the largest population of color, comprised only…
LatinaLista — Did Latinos wield considerable voting strength in this month’s election, or not? Were Latinos the pivotal factor in deciding who kept the congressional office or who was sent packing? Should Democrats be indebted to Latinos for winning…
LatinaLista — Yesterday was the three-month anniversary of Elvira Arellano’s stay in a Chicago-area church seeking sanctuary from deportation to Mexico. During these three months, Elvira dare not leave the church because then she would be fair game for…
LatinaLista — It is safe to say that the United States was a bit distracted the first weekend of November. There was so much focus on the November 7 elections that, as usual, the rest of the world, aside…
LatinaLista — In today’s opinion section of USA TODAY, there appears a column of mine. In the column, I basically explain that while the turnout numbers weren’t great for Latinos in this election it didn’t mean that we don’t…
