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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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GOP finds a way to get immigrants to self-deport without them even realizing it

Feb 2, 2017, 6:02 PM 0

LatinaLista — In the past, the one solution the GOP offered for thinning out the nation’s undocumented population, without uttering the “d” word (deportation), was to say undocumented immigrants would “self-deport.” When Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP nominee for…

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DREAMer makes a list of what-to-do in case Trump eliminates DACA

Jan 24, 2017, 4:49 PM 0

LatinaLista — With each passing day of the Trump administration, no group is more fearful of the changes – or campaign promises fulfilled by Trump — than undocumented young people known as DREAMers. One DREAMer, and former LatinaLista contributor,…

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Without compromise, Trump and his team will learn all or nada approach creates only chaos

Nov 22, 2016, 5:30 PM 0

LatinaLista — Sometimes it really is all or nada. Take for example what Trump, his administration and the GOP are finding out. After years of failed tries at repealing Obamacare, the GOP leadership is saying they agree with Trump…

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Video: How one teacher keeps dreams afloat for the children of migrant farmworkers

Dec 16, 2015, 8:32 AM 0

LatinaLista — The life of a migrant farmworker may be one of the darkest blemishes on the U.S. labor market. As if it wasn’t bad enough that migrant workers, and their families, are exposed to dangerous pesticides, abusive employers,…

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The Deportation Of Innocence: A Look At America’s Broken Immigration System

Oct 21, 2015, 1:59 PM 0

By Belen Chacon LatinaLista When he was working late one day, Jaime asked his ex-wife if she could pick up his kids from school. Jaime’s wife never showed up, and when school employees got a hold of Jaime…

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Video: An American House where the homeless and undocumented find safe refuge

Sep 17, 2015, 3:23 PM 0

LatinaLista — Saying undocumented immigrants are here in the United States only for handouts and to take advantage of the system is nothing more than rhetoric by desperate politicians who want to capture votes on the tailwind of manufactured…

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This undocumented immigrant works in a Trump hotel. Here’s what he had to say.

Aug 18, 2015, 1:16 PM 0

By Obed Manuel Latina Lista “I am not a criminal. I’m not a drug dealer. I’m definitely not a rapist.” These are the words of Ricardo Aca, a buser who works in the Trump SoHo, the posh New York…

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Immigration lawyer, tireless fighter for the undocumented, now finds himself at mercy of the court — because he exposed an unlawful truth

Aug 12, 2015, 4:52 PM 0

LatinaLista — In the immigration reform narrative, there are specific characters who always get press — the undocumented, the activists, the traumatized family members and those authority figures either enforcing or proposing ‘justice.’ In each and every story, that…

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‘Visions From The Inside’ Taps 15 Artists To Illustrate The Letters Of Detained Migrants

Aug 5, 2015, 12:46 PM 0

By Yara Simón Remezcla Surviving the fourth grade, playing with friends, and being un poco travieso. The life of a 10-year-old in the United States shouldn’t be more complicated than that. But for Delmy Pineda’s son, nearly 10 months…

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The Top 10 Facts You Need to Know About Immigrants Today

Jun 11, 2015, 12:32 PM 0

By Sanam Malik and Philip E. Wolgin Center for American Progress This June marks the second annual Immigrant Heritage Month, when Americans celebrate their immigrant roots and tell their families’ stories of sacrifice and contribution. Woven together, these stories…

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