LatinaLista — Minutes ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the DREAM Act garnered 216 votes in favor versus 198 votes against it in the House of Representatives. As the debate waged in the House, speakers on both sides…
LatinaLista — Tomorrow, both the House and the Senate are expected to vote on the DREAM Act. While hope runs high that enough Republicans will join in granting these deserving young people a chance to make a true life…
LatinaLista — Today, I received sad news that a colleague, Carlos Guerra, had died. Carlos was a former columnist with the San Antonio Express-News and after he left the newspaper he did what most retired or laid-off journalists do…
LatinaLista –As talk of a cloture vote for the DREAM Act increases on the Hill, some Republicans, who actually have no political will to vote for the bill, are going on record continuing to make disingenuous demands. For example,…
LatinaLista — As the time draws nearer that Congress could vote on the DREAM Act, more and more supporters are coming forward: The Wall Street Journal published an editorial in support of it, as did: The Milford Daily News,…
By Ivan Marte President of the Center for the Defense of Civil Rights & Equality in Rhode Island In this past midterm election, I couldn´t help but notice that there was one platform element shared by many politicians,…
LatinaLista — In a post written last week, Latina Lista pointed out that the Associated Press continues to use the term “illegal immigrant,” thus sanctioning its use by media outlets that follow its lead. A representative from the AP…
LatinaLista — No one ever said fighting for justice or human rights is easy. The problem is that, compared to the total U.S. population, only a smattering of people have ever actually fought for these issues. Aside from marching…
LatinaLista — The Associated Press (AP) headline was meant to startle not denigrate someone. After all, it was about a young college student body president who had grown up living in the United States illegally since he was three-years-old,…
LatinaLista — When it’s said that undocumented immigrants do the jobs most Americans don’t want, there is one industry that is the poster child for that statement — the food industry. It is reported that six in ten of the…
LatinaLista — “Hope springs eternal” is one of those sayings that can either be taken positively or negatively. In light of today’s announcement from Sen. Harry Reid that he will introduce the DREAM Act as a stand-alone bill after…
LatinaLista — Momentum to pass the DREAM Act is accelerating. Today, the White House issued a statement saying that President Obama had met with several representatives from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) and he supported the strategy of the…
LatinaLista — A single line in a commentary written by a young woman in Salt Lake City about a speaker she had heard at a teacher’s conference caught my attention: “He came, he spoke, he inspired … and very…
LatinaLista — The Washington political news site Politico reports this evening that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to push for a vote by next week for the DREAM Act. It’s not a surprising mandate. Whether it was Pelosi, Sen….
LatinaLista — A newly released Gallup Poll must be music to the ears of all conservatives who have laboriously hammered on the point of illegal immigration. According to the poll, four million U.S. Hispanics would leave the country permanently…
LatinaLista — A funny thing (read sad) has happened since the midterm elections — Republicans have claimed that the American people have voted them back into office because they miss GOP leadership. Hardly. Every exit poll published since the…
LatinaLista — “We’re a nation of immigrants.” It’s a fact that is invoked by politicians when they try to make themselves relevant to minority communities. Yet, if there is one lesson to be learned from the 2010 midterm campaigns, it’s…
By Mary Moreno LatinaLista USA — In Louisiana, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia and across the country, politicians in heated races have turned to vilifying immigrants and Latinos to appeal to their white base. Some, like Sharron Angle, have tried to…
By Gustavo Martinez Contreras LatinaLista Guilty. It was a verdict the defendants, Brandon Piekarsky and Derrick Donchak, were not expecting. After all, Piekarsky had already been acquitted of third-degree murder and both were acquitted of ethnic intimidation during a…
LatinaLista — A newly released Pew Hispanic report, Illegal Immigration Backlash Worries, Divides Latinos, highlights the fact that Latinos don’t all think the same. In fact, they don’t all think the same of each other. For example, in 2007, 50 percent…
LatinaLista — It’s been reported that Nevada’s GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle has raised a war chest worthy of intimidating her opponent, Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid. But she didn’t have to use any funds from that chest in…
LatinaLista — Of all the issues with which Congress should have an easy time, there is one that still proves to be a hurdle for some members to wrap their minds around — the DREAM Act. As regular readers…
LatinaLista — When it comes to politics, I have always striven to be respectful of peoples’ candidate choices. I’ve had to. Within my own family exists a variety of political persuasions that taught me long ago I can debate…
LatinaLista — The way conservative politicians have continuously latched on to the illegal immigration issue and regurgitated the falsehoods fed to them by groups who have demonstrated their revulsion for the “rainbow” demographics evolving in this country is at…
By Gustavo Martinez Contreras LatinaLista SCRANTON, PA — Crystal Dillman woke up Friday with a feeling so long ago missing in her that it was almost surreal. “I finally feel relief,” she said. “This is justice for me, my…
