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Latino Reports Round-up: Latinx college students, New anti-sex trafficking PSA & The state of Latinx attitudes

Apr 24, 2020, 2:32 PM 0

LatinaLista COVID-19 puts the financial squeeze on full-time Latinx college students As the COVID-19 pandemic deepens, it’s clear that more populations are affected by the economy’s self-induced downturn than others. Namely, researchers are finding that it’s communities of…

Politics, Voting, Women, zNew Headline

New report offers in-depth analysis on women’s place in politics — now and in 2020

Oct 10, 2019, 1:00 PM 0

LatinaLista — Women rule — when it comes to voter turnout. Over the last few years, women voters have consistently turned out at higher rates than men. As has been the case in the last five midterm elections dating…

Immigration, Politics, zNew Headline

Ranchers in one border town, losing their lands to Trump’s immigration wall, have their sights set on 2020 election too

Sep 17, 2019, 2:01 PM 0

By Marisa Treviño Latina Lista Real estate moguls, hotel entrepreneurs and land developers must have thought they hit pay dirt when one of their own was elected president. But recent headlines reveal that their enthusiasm is running dry. Nowhere…

Economy, Social Justice, zNew Headline

Latinx workers may have a great work ethic but it doesn’t always translate into comfortable living

Dec 5, 2018, 3:50 PM 0

By Danyelle Solomon and Christian E. Weller LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: The following is the summary for an in-depth report by the Center for American Progress on the wealth disparity between whites and Latinx families. Read the full report here.)…

Politics, zNew Headline

A midterm election unlike others calls for new rules for electoral analysis

Nov 5, 2018, 1:18 PM 0

by Dr. G.S. Potter LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: The following article originally appeared at StrategyCamp) The November 2018 Midterm Elections will be like no other in modern American history. We need new rules for electoral landscaping and analysis. When…

Immigration, zNew Headline

Guest Voz: Did Trump administration get it right blaming court ruling for increase in families arriving at the Southwest Border?

Oct 16, 2018, 9:47 AM 0

By Tom Wong LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared on the Center for American Progress website.) In a recent notice of proposed rulemaking, the Trump administration claimed that the Flores settlement agreement led to an increase in the…

Politics, zNew Headline

Guest Voz: A tight Texas Senate race exposes the true meaning of political ‘Hispandering’

Oct 15, 2018, 11:56 AM 0

By Dr. Edward T. Rincón LatinaLista The first debate between Senator Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke was intensive and covered many issues of substance to Texas voters. Interestingly, news coverage of the debate also highlighted the accusation by the…

Immigration, zNew Headline

Trump’s executive order ending immigrant family separation doesn’t address getting current child detainees back to their parents

Jun 20, 2018, 2:08 PM 0

LatinaLista — President Donald Trump signed today, under duress, an executive order to stop separating immigrant families. However, this order does not address reunifying families. The ongoing trauma that detained children are being subjected to needs to end and,…

Politics, zNew Headline

Look at what the White House just released to justify the Trump administration’s own policy of separating immigrant children from their parents

Jun 15, 2018, 2:44 PM 0

Marisa Treviño LatinaLista If there is one real truth about Trump and his White House staff, it’s that they lie. They distort facts, they take things out of context to purposely create a narrative that makes Trump look either…

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New online map shows aspiring Latino politicians which races they could win

May 29, 2018, 4:07 PM 0

LatinaLista — It’s said that the only way to change a culture is to change it from within. What better way than to change the rampant racism and insensitivity towards Latinos in U.S. politics than to get more Latinos…

Guest Voz, Politics, zNew Headline

Why Lupe Valdez’s quest to be Texas’ first Latina governor isn’t a long shot anymore

May 24, 2018, 4:51 PM 0

Marisa Treviño LatinaLista The odds of Lupe Valdez becoming the first Latina governor of Texas were always considered a long-shot but did a new lawsuit just tip the balance in her favor? Former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez made…

Immigration, zNew Headline

5 financial moves DREAMers should make now

Apr 19, 2018, 11:50 AM 0

By Robert Barba LatinaLista If you’re a DREAMer, you face a difficult financial situation. In February 2018, the Supreme Court declined to hear the Trump Administration’s appeal challenging the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program — better known as…

Immigration, zNew Headline

Trump administration turning back the clock on many US policies but immigration marches to different timekeeper

Mar 28, 2018, 1:34 PM 0

By Marisa Treviño ncluido In the 14 months since Donald Trump was sworn into office, a fear has been steadily growing across the country that this administration is marching the country back to a period in our history that…

Immigration, Politics, zNew Headline

Trump admin continues erasing what originally made America great. Now, it’s removing “nation of immigrants” from USCIS Mission Statement

Feb 22, 2018, 3:35 PM 0

LatinaLista — When Trump was proclaimed the winner of the 2016 presidential election, it didn’t just send shock waves throughout the nation. It chilled most to the bone because they had seen the kind of people he stocked his…

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Another senator reaches his moral limit supporting a divisive president

Oct 24, 2017, 1:57 PM 0

LatinaLista — Another senator who has reached his moral limit in supporting a presidency seen as dividing the country, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake delivered a heartfelt resignation that calls out fellow Republicans to stand up and do something.

Immigration, Politics, zNew Headline

DHS Memorandum outlines steps to be taken with DACA recipients

Sep 5, 2017, 10:10 AM 0

LatinaLista — The following is the Memorandum sent by Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke announcing the steps going forward with the DACA program. Rescission of the June 15, 2012 Memorandum Entitled “Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with…

Immigration, zNew Headline

June 1 marks renewed urgency to observe Immigrant Heritage Month

Jun 1, 2017, 4:19 PM 0

LatinaLista — Though Washington may be retreating further and further from the global community, no amount of alternative facts can deny that the history of the United States is built on the foundation of immigrant service and contributions. Four…

Political Commentary, zNew Headline

Sprint’s CEO’s response to customer’s racist tirade against Latino serves as model for others

May 23, 2017, 3:26 PM 0

By Marisa Treviño LatinaLista The retail mantra “the customer is always right” is a golden rule that retail stores have bent over backwards to accommodate since the beginning of retail but with more aggressive customers verbally abusing staff and…

Politics, zNew Headline

Privilege or Right? A segregating question

May 15, 2017, 2:42 PM 0

Marisa Treviño LatinaLista Only 2.9 million of us were watching the Miss USA pageant last night, according to Nielsen. So, we’re to be forgiven if none of us noticed another story of the pageant, than the crowning of Miss…

Discrimination, Immigration, zNew Headline

Military veterans fight immigrant haters in new social media initiative

May 3, 2017, 1:54 PM 0

LatinaLista — All eyes may be on North Korea wondering if Trump will drag the nation into our most dangerous conflict abroad yet but a group of veterans are engaged in a conflict on U.S. soil that has the…

Immigration, zNew Headline

Having ‘Mexican’ as default label for all Latinos harms plight of Central American refugees

Apr 28, 2017, 2:05 PM 0

By Marisa Treviño LatinaLista The news today out of Pew Research Center should put a grinding halt to Trump’s campaign promise to build a border wall, if it’s Mexico he’s blaming for a southern invasion. According to a Pew…

Immigration, zNew Headline

Are saner minds in the White House prevailing over the future of Trump’s border wall?

Apr 5, 2017, 2:01 PM 0

Marisa Treviño LatinaLista Though Donald Trump has only been in office about 75 days, past administrations have already been unified under their Commander-in-Chief by this time, more than what can be said about the Trump White House. While Trump…

Immigration, zNew Headline

Why it’s in the nation’s best interest to help undocumented students graduate from college

Apr 3, 2017, 2:17 PM 0

Marisa Treviño LatinaLista The aggressively broad enforcement of Trump’s immigration policy has some Democrats worried so much that they’re imploring the White House to remind schools they must educate undocumented children. However, it may be more for Trump’s benefit…

Immigration, Politics, zNew Headline

Latest poll shows why Congress may never agree on immigration bill

Mar 22, 2017, 2:07 PM 0

Marisa Treviño LatinaLista It’s no surprise that a recent Gallup poll recorded that 59 percent of Americans are worried about illegal immigration. But like everything else with this administration, Trump has managed to create an even greater divide among…

Immigration, Politics, zNew Headline

Latino immigrant homicide victims are an inconvenient truth for the Trump administration

Mar 2, 2017, 5:21 PM 0

Marisa Treviño LatinaLista As any wise parent, teacher or leader knows — there are always two sides to every story. I was reminded of that basic fact when I heard President Trump declare during his hour-long speech to Congress…

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