LatinaLista — It’s a sad ending to an even sadder crime — the three Shenandoah police officers on trial for trying to help a group of white teenagers cover up the beating death of undocumented immigrant Luis Ramirez received…
LatinaLista.net — As the nation prepares to hear President Obama’s State of the Union Address tonight and speculation runs rampant as to what exactly he will say (though excerpts from the speech have been leaked out to the media…
LatinaLista — Regular readers of Latina Lista will remember the special series published last year regarding the hate crime trial of the two young men from Shenandoah, PA who beat to death undocumented immigrant Luis Eduardo Ramirez Zavala. The…
LatinaLista — The “About us” page at the decidedly right-leaning site “Shark Tank” explicitly describes their mission as: …”source for sharp analysis and biting commentary on anyone and anything that comprises Florida Politics – federal, state, and local.” Since…
LatinaLista.net — From June 4-5, 2010 in Bucharest, Romania, women from around the world met to discuss the human rights of one class of women who have no voice in how they are treated — migrant women. The result…
LatinaLista — From June 4-5, 2010 in Bucharest, Romania, women from around the world met to discuss the human rights of one class of women who have no voice in how they are treated — migrant women. The result…
LatinaLista — While it’s been heartening and encouraging to hear our political leaders pledge to start speaking with more “thoughtful consideration,” it’s been as equally disheartening to still hear and read of examples where incivility among people is masked…
LatinaLista.net — January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Yesterday, January 11, was Human Trafficking Awareness Day. It’s reported that 27 million people worldwide are enslaved today. Whether it’s prostituting children and women or forcing people to…
LatinaLista — Things aren’t going so hot in Texas these days. First, the state is faced with a revenue shortfall estimated at $13 billion, but the state legislature is said to actually have to raise revenue closer to $25…
LatinaLista — In the last weeks before the DREAM Act was defeated in the Senate, more and more undocumented students were “coming out” to reveal their citizenship status. Yet, as a New York Times article reported, these students were…
LatinaLista.net — The beating death case of undocumented Mexican immigrant Luis Eduardo Ramírez Zavala at the hands of four white teens in Shenandoah, PA probably has the distinction of being in court more times than any other attack on…
LatinaLista — When the students, who are dubbed DREAMers, because of their undocumented status, revealed their citizenship status in the hopes of convincing members of Congress to pass the DREAM Act, many of us wondered what would happen to these…
LatinaLista — Ever since the GOP garnered big wins in the 2010 midterm elections, the immigration extremists in the party, who couldn’t care less about the Latino vote or Latinos, have acted like the mid-term wins were a sign…
LatinaLista — No one is expecting those members in Congress who voted against the DREAM Act to suddenly be enlightened in 2011 that passing the DREAM Act and/or immigration reform are actually in the best interest of the country….
LatinaLista — Something interesting has been happening since the Senate defeat of the DREAM Act before Christmas. It seems more columnists and constituents, who never wrote about the issue before, are writing about it now and all seem to…
LatinaLista — Before President Obama left on vacation, he reassured Latino leaders that he had not given up on getting the DREAM Act passed or tackling immigration reform. Yet, some members of his own party are parroting GOP rhetoric…
LatinaLista — Now that a little time has passed since the Senate’s defeat of the DREAM Act, it’s easier to look back and see what went wrong. On the one hand, the Senate was able to repeal “Don’t Ask,…
By Mariana D. Zamboni LatinaLista USA — Just three years ago, my friends and I gathered a compilation of different stories of undocumented immigrant students and titled it, “Underground Undergrounds: UCLA Undocumented Immigrant Students Speak Out.” Three years later,…
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LatinaLista — Statements of support for the continuation of the fight for passage of the DREAM Act continues to pour in from advocates, supporters and sympathizers. Today, the President met with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. According to a press…
LatinaLista– The DREAM Act may be history for this year but reaction to its defeat in the Senate on Saturday is far from over. While some politicians were outwardly smug in their defeat of it, the level of anger…
By REBEKAH K. ZEMANSKY Cronkite News Service PHOENIX – When her husband started hitting her, Juana knew it was wrong. But she stayed, fearing that since he was a U.S. citizen and she was undocumented he could make good…
LatinaLista — After the Democrats in the Senate decided yesterday to vote no against a cloture vote on the DREAM Act, several news outlets erroneously reported that the bill was dead. It’s not. In fact, it was the smartest…
LatinaLista — Actually, if GOP senators continue to play mean politics tomorrow and prevent passage of the DREAM Act, they will frankly be seen as far worse than the green-skinned outcast who eventually found his heart. A blockage by…
LatinaLista — One of the major concerns expressed about Latino immigrants is their “perceived” reluctance to assimilate into the mainstream. Just to be clear — assimilation has nothing to do with giving up one’s native language. But it does…
