LatinaLista — Attacks on Latinos and/or Latino immigrants are nothing new. The nation has witnessed countless examples over the past few years of irrational hatred and brute force directed at Latino immigrants. Sometimes Latino immigrants lived to tell the…
LatinaLista — Ever since the insurance company Aflac announced Monday that they had fired comedian Gilbert Gottfried, the quacky voice of their company mascot, for his tasteless tweets about the Japanese tragedy, not too many people, aside from Joan…
LatinaLista — When former NPR fund-raiser, Ronald Schiller, was covertly captured on video allegedly pronouncing Tea Party supporters were “seriously racist” and that NPR would be better off without federal money even though many stations would “go dark,” the…
By Elizabeth Lopez LatinaLista My Shoes and I by René Colato Laínez, and published by Boyds Mills Press, is an inspiring story about a boy named Mario and the journey he makes with his father across three borders to…
LatinaLista — Utah’s Republican legislators have bucked the national trend of states passing punitive legislation aimed at driving undocumented immigrants out of their communities. Utah legislators understand the value of immigrant labor and have a realistic assessment of how…
LatinaLista — Whenever there’s an attempt to define the United States, the two answers that inevitably pop up are: baseball and apple pie. Yet, whenever anyone tries to define the essence of the nation, the standard reply — always…
LatinaLista — It’s long been the worry of immigrant advocates and law enforcement that fringe organizations like the Minuteman and other border vigilante groups would take the law into their own hands and kill innocent people. That was certainly…
By Alyson Zepeda Cronkite News Service SAN LUIS – The sun won’t come up for another few hours, but Miguel Gonzalez’s day began not long after midnight, when he made his lunch and then made his way to the…
LatinaLista — It’s become legislatively chic these days to include a number of bills in statehouse debates dealing with illegal immigration. It doesn’t matter which state it is or how far from the U.S.-Mexico border, every state feels compelled…
LatinaLista — The Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) is an annual international effort published by the British Council and the Belgium-based Migration Policy Group that measures how easy or hard it is for immigrants with legal residency to feel…
By Jolie McCullough Cronkite Borderlands Initiative PHOENIX – Leslie Barnhizer teaches the only kindergarten class for English-speaking students at Balsz Elementary School in southeast Phoenix; the other three are English Language Learning classes. With enrollment – and consequently, state…
LatinaLista — The statement from the attorney of Safe Horizons, the largest assistance agency for victims of domestic violence in New York City, was shocking. According to an interview she granted with Women’s Enews, the attorney confessed that she…
LatinaLista — The Department of Justice released a statement this afternoon regarding the sentencing of the two young Shenandoah, PA men convicted of a hate crime in the beating death of undocumented immigrant, Luis Ramirez. In part, the statement…
LatinaLista — While the rest of the world is transfixed and horrified by the cruel retaliation — some are saying it’s genocide — against protesters in Libya today by their president, Col Muammar Gaddafi, the U.S. Latino community in…
LatinaLista — Juarez may literally be under siege these days by drug cartels that would like to stifle any kind of expression, whether it be from the people, the news media or the artists. One Juarez artist, Gilda Lorena…
LatinaLista — Tomorrow, five women will travel to Capitol Hill to deliver testimony at an ad-hoc congressional hearing examining violence against immigrant women. They will speak on behalf of the hundreds of immigrant victims of domestic violence who have…
LatinaLista — Once again, the issue of illegal immigration goes from the halls of Congress, grassroots protests and Latino communities under siege by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel to — gameland. Ever since the issue has become almost…
LatinaLista — A quick review of this week’s legislative schedule for Arizona’s state legislators is disturbing and disheartening in how xenophobia and prejudice are being masqueraded as justice and law. For example, today SB1308: interstate compact; birth certificates was…
By Lauren Gambino Cronkite News Service SAN LUIS – U.S. Border Patrol agents Robert Lowry and Mike Espinoza examine a footprint in the sandy road that parallels the U.S.-Mexico border fence south of Yuma. The 20-foot steel fence casts…
LatinaLista — It’s been recognized by many in the immigrant activist community that a strategy of the Obama administration to make immigration reform “palatable” to Republicans was to show them that the rule of law would be enforced when…
By Lisa Lopez LatinaLista Jane Medina’s “The Dream on Blanca’s Wall” is an outstanding bilingual collection of poems from Blanca’s point of view. Similarly to Medina’s previous notable book “My Name is Jorge”, this poetic collection presents the female…
LatinaLista.net — A new report released by the Pew Hispanic Center finds that the undocumented immigrant population has stabilized. The report, Unauthorized Immigrant Population: National and State Trends, 2010 finds there are 11.2 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United…
LatinaLista — There’s no denying that one little four-year-old boy, christened with the name Carlitos, and now enjoying life as Jamison, will be the real loser in a custody battle that underscores how little human rights undocumented immigrants have…
LatinaLista — The Tucson region has the dubious distinction of being a place where two nine-year-old girls were horrendously murdered — Christina Taylor Greene and Brisenia Flores. By now, the world knows about Christina Taylor Greene. She was an…
By Rebekah Zemansky Cronkite News Service PHOENIX — Traces of guns seized on both sides of the border helped federal agencies break up several rings involved in purchasing firearms in the Valley and shipping them to Mexican drug cartels,…
