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…
Christianne Meneses Jacobs creates a Spanish-language children’s magazine as a tool to help bicultural families keep the Spanish language alive for their children. LatinaLista — Nicaragua-born Christianne Meneses Jacobs had a problem: How could she ensure that her U.S.-born…
LatinaLista — With Christmas just over two weeks away, toy drives are going into overtime to fulfill the wishes of children. Safe to say, there will be a large group of children who won’t be asking for any new…
Disclaimer: The word “illegal” is denoted in quotation marks in solidarity with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ call to end media usage of the word as a noun or descriptor of undocumented immigrants. Manuel Jesus Cordova Soberanes may…
LatinaLista — The “Coming of Age” of young Latina girls has always been a big deal in Latino families. Now, it’s also big business. Known as a Quinceañera, the celebration marking the transition of a young girl into womanhood…
LatinaLista — It used to be ABC books were just for pre-schoolers learning the letters of the alphabet and growing their vocabulary with very simple words. A for apple. B for bus. C for cat — you get the…
LatinaLista — A disturbing event happened at an elementary school in Phoenix, Arizona this month. A 9-year-old boy was suspended for committing a hate crime — he is accused of using the term “brown people.” Whether or not he…
LatinaLista — By the time a reader brought the story of Jesus Manuel Cordova, a Mexican national who was crossing the Arizona border illegally and found and cared for a 9-year-old boy involved in a car accident that killed…
LatinaLista — The March 6, 2007 immigration raid on the Bianco factory workers in New Bedford, MA was all the more heartbreaking when stories surfaced of mothers and fathers being taken into custody and leaving behind their children. The…
LatinaLista — It’s a telling coincidence that today of all days the National Council of La Raza would release a new report that is downright scary! Paying the Price: The Impact of Immigration Raids on America’s Children is documentation…
By Hillary Clinton LatinaLista Latina Lista has invited all the major candidates running for President of the United States to blog on Latina Lista to address our readers. So far, several candidates have accepted our invitation. In the coming…
By Mayra Beltran de Daetz GUATEMALA: In September, Guatemala was caught up in the difficult decision of choosing a suitable political leader to govern the country. It was difficult because no one had the minimum qualifications wished by the…
LatinaLista — Children are sacred. Industrialized countries understand that universal edict and defend children — no matter their circumstances. The countries that enslave children and prostitute, exploit and press them into soldier-duty are routinely considered less than civilized and…
LatinaLista — Yesterday’s deal between the Department of Homeland Security and ACLU and University of Texas Immigration Clinic attorneys representing the children detained at the T. Don Hutto immigrant detention facility in Taylor, Texas signals not just a clear…
By Mayra Beltran de Daetz GUATEMALA: Last month, Guatemala celebrated an annual nationally televised event. In a way, you could say it was our version of the Olympics. Not the one where athletes from all over the world compete…
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 — The Annie E. Casey Foundation has released The 2007 KIDS COUNT data book online. The book is a compilation of kid-centric data and how states rank against one another in meeting the needs of the children living…
Lupe Ruiz-Flores is a children’s book author who discovered it’s never too late to tell a good story. LatinaLista — Being a published writer was Lupe’s life-long dream. Growing up with little money, especially to buy such luxury…
LatinaLista — A landmark study released by the American Journal of Public Health just days before the close of 2006 revealed an alarming trend: Latino pre-schoolers are twice as likely as white or black children to be overweight or…
LatinaLista — Tomorrow, the United States of America is 231 years old. What has become a cliche, courtesy of the immigration reform debate, that our nation is a nation of immigrants, has never been more true than tomorrow. According…
LatinaLista — It’s been two days since Gilberta Estrada-Vega committed suicide and decided to take 3 of her 4 young daughters with her. Gilberta Estrada-Vega As always happens when news spreads of a mother committing suicide and taking her…
LatinaLista — Sometimes the people in Washington say the darndest things. Education Secretary, Margaret Spellings, appearing before a special conference in Washington D.C. last week said that inner-city schools are nothing more than dropout factories — DUH! It’s taken…
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 — As everyone across the country waited today to see just how many marchers will try to duplicate last year’s stunning success of the immigration marches, an article that appeared in the media yesterday seemed to fan the…
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…
