LatinaLista — Barely 24 hours after the Senate shelved trying to reform the immigration system, small-town America is back implementing their own reforms. The latest case is in Waukegan, Illinois where Mayor Richard Hyde and city aldermen have decided…
LatinaLista — Round II of the immigration debate has begun in the Senate. Already the National Council of La Raza is emailing alerts out detailing the amendments that the Senate will vote on, and which ones we should encourage…
LatinaLista — The Georgia Radio Hall of Fame is not short on worthy nominees for their annual Career Achievement awards. So, it’s puzzling why they would include syndicated radio host Neal Boortz in light of his decidedly anti-Hispanic (immigrant)…
LatinaLista — It is called Tent City and it is the largest immigrant detention facility in the United States. Found in Raymondville, Texas, the detention camp houses mostly undocumented immigrants from El Salvador, and according to peace activist Elizabeth…
LatinaLista — Congress has had a change of heart and has now put immigration reform back on to the table for debate. It remains to be seen if it will stumble again in the Senate or actually make its…
LatinaLista — Today, nationally syndicated radio talk show host Eddie Sotelo, better known to his legions of Spanish-speaking fans as Piolin, delivered one million letters to the steps of Congress today from immigrants and citizens across the country who…
LatinaLista — This week, the state of Arkansas became the latest state to announce that some of their police agencies were going to apply for federal authority to detain undocumented immigrants who are arrested for other crimes. The Arkansas…
LatinaLista — The defeat of yesterday’s vote on moving forward with the immigration reform bill in the Senate was a huge disappointment for anyone who is tired of the rhetoric and wants to get on with the business of…
LatinaLista — With only a five vote difference against cloture in today’s final vote, the Senate has failed in not only coming together to reach a consensus to stop the grandstanding and roadblocking of what has been called The…
LatinaLista — From all news accounts, the bill designed to fix our “broken immigration system” narrowly missed losing one of its key components of being an effective bill — addressing the humanitarian reality of the undocumented immigrants. The missile…
LatinaLista It took: 1 man 2 transatlantic flights 5 countries visited 80 people exposed to showcase how unequal security enforcement at the US-Canadian border is compared to the US-Mexican border.
LatinaLista — It’s been two days since Gilberta Estrada-Vega committed suicide and decided to take 3 of her 4 young daughters with her. Gilberta Estrada-Vega As always happens when news spreads of a mother committing suicide and taking her…
LatinaLista — By now, the vast majority of states in the nation have considered or have passed legislation targeting undocumented immigrants living and working within their city limits. (Source: Angus Reid Global Monitor) The driving force to get this…
LatinaLista — One of the most contentious parts of the Senate-proposed immigration bill is the point system it proposes to implement making access to this country easier for immigrants with advanced education. But along the way, the authors of…
LatinaLista — At one level, any immigration debate concerns a raw political calculation: Who ends up with more voters? An article in today’s Washington Post makes an interesting observation about the Latino community as a whole — though not…
LatinaLista — When the Senate first passed their version of the immigration reform bill, Latino groups and organizations who advocate for undocumented immigrants, urged us all to politely applaud the effort and be thankful that SOMETHING was put together…
LatinaLista — Not even 24 hours after it was announced the Senate had passed their version of the immigration reform bill, critics were jockeying for place in front of television cameras to denounce it. Now, you would think that…
LatinaLista WASHINGTON, May 17 Senators from both parties announced an agreement this afternoon on immigration-reform legislation that would bring illegal immigrants and their families “out of the shadows and into the sunshine of American life,†as Senator Edward M….
LatinaLista — The United States’ global reputation as being a World Power who sets the standard for other countries when it comes to championing the human rights of the less fortunate has officially been unmasked by a Mexican named…
LatinaLista But now the family is scared. “We will have to start all over again from the bottom,” she said. “I went through so much to get here, and look what happens.” “Vamonos a Mexico [Let’s go back to…
LatinaLista — In light of what has happened this week in the state of Oklahoma and the town of Farmers Branch, Texas where legal grounds have been created to help drive undocumented immigrants out of town/state, it seems talk…
LatinaLista — News has arrived that Elvira Arellano, the young Mexican mother who has sought sanctuary in a Chicago church and who went on a hunger strike to protest the government’s actions against undocumented immigrants, is now eating. She…
LatinaLista — While the Latino community is over 42 million strong, surprisingly there are still very few of our voices that have been able to find a platform from which to be heard. One either has to be in…
LatinaLista — It has always been too easy to depersonalize individuals when using group adjectives like: “immigrants” or “illegals.” When this is done, it is very easy to forget that they are human beings, like us all, with families…
LatinaLista — In an edited translation of an article published in Mexico City’s El Financiero last Thursday, it was stated that a Mexican organizaton released statistics that show that on average, 32 underage boys and girls try to cross…
