LatinaLista — It’s not often that Republican politicians will willfully stray from the party platform and do what they know in their hearts is the right thing to do, though the rest of their party doesn’t see it that…
LatinaLista — Not since Michael Steele was the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) perennial “foot-in-mouth” chairman have news web sites, bloggers and social media streams been ablaze, aflutter, aghast and amused at what someone from the RNC has said regarding…
LatinaLista — Most Latino voters have been feeling ignored, dismissed and pretty much invisible to the Romney camp up to this point. Though he is considered the presumptive GOP candidate, Romney has yet to soften his tone to show…
LatinaLista — It’s never been a secret that US employers preferred to hire undocumented Latino immigrants for three reasons: they’re cheap labor, they’re expendable and they have no recourse, but to quit, if they don’t like job conditions, their…
LatinaLista — When the Pew Hispanic Research Center released their report last month stating that unauthorized migration from Mexico was at a standstill, many wondered if the GOP would pay attention to it. Well, we have our answer. Republican…
LatinaLista — A new poll shows that not even sharing the same religion can deliver a voting bloc to a political candidate. According to today’s Gallup survey, Roman Catholics are divided between Obama and Romney. Hispanic Catholics — about…
LatinaLista — It is rare to read two prominent nonpartisan political analysts agree in condemning one political party over another. Yet, two such nonpartisan, Washington-based analysts did just that over the weekend and what they wrote should not only…
LatinaLista — One of the numerous arguments conservatives and immigration restrictionists have historically used against undocumented immigrants is trying to convince the American public that where there are more (undocumented) immigrants, there are higher crime rates. It didn’t matter…
LatinaLista — This week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offered to temporarily suspend the deportation cases of an estimated 16,500 people. That’s more than 70 percent of the immigration cases pending as of mid-April. Though it sounds like a…
LatinaLista — Colorado’s SB 15 would have allowed undocumented students, who had attended at least three years of high school in Colorado and graduated, eligible for a tuition rate higher than the one in-state students have to pay, but…
LatinaLista — As the end of April approaches, a quick review of news headlines underscores why it is imperative that both sides of Congress come together for the sake of victims of domestic violence. Husband Charged With Second-Degree Murder…
LatinaLista — For the 21st Century, an old-fashioned, western-style showdown doesn’t get anywhere close to the real thing than this. Tomorrow, the US Supreme Court will finally hear oral arguments in Arizona v. United States. The Court will focus…
LatinaLista — It doesn’t get any clearer than this, or as definitive, but the real question arising from today’s Pew Hispanic report, Net Migration from Mexico Falls to Zero—-and Perhaps Less, is if conservatives and anti-immigrant zealots will believe…
LatinaLista — As the presidential campaign officially gets underway and debate dates lined up, one issue that Mitt Romney will inevitably chastise President Obama over is the issue of national security.
LatinaLista — Fox News released results of a poll today that the conservative news organization conducted which claims to show 70 percent of Americans favor Voter ID laws. Since the law refers to the fact that you must show…
LatinaLista — Long before I read today’s Nielsen report that outlined, among other things, that the language to reach the Latino market was Spanish, I knew that Nielsen wasn’t alone in their “assumption.”
LatinaLista — In an interview with Univision’s Jorge Ramos this past weekend, President Obama clearly had a message for Latinos — he hasn’t forgotten about immigration reform. In fact, he was so on message that a question about racial…
LatinaLista — When it comes to the national recovery of this nation’s worst economic times since the Great Depression, it has been no secret that blacks and Latinos have fared worse in the recovery period than whites and Asians….
LatinaLista — Though public outrage was loud and clear over the shooting of Treyvon Martin, the shooter, George Zimmerman, was legally protected by Florida’s Stand your Ground law until today
LatinaLista — Today in Arizona, a state notorious for how their officials treat undocumented immigrants, set a precedent that shocked those who thought they were above the law and shocked those that thought justice didn’t exist in the state.
LatinaLista — Media commentators have been calling Mitt Romney the GOP presidential frontrunner and general consensus has him as the unofficial party nominee for president. So excited speculation is shifting to who will be the vice president.
LatinaLista — While everyone was paying attention to the drama happening among the Republican presidential candidates as they went from state to state primaries, the nation, outside of California, mostly missed another political drama.
LatinaLista — Most immigrant advocates and members of the Latino community, who care about immigration reform, have just about given up hope that the issue will ever be tackled by Congress.
LatinaLista — In today’s Pew Hispanic report When Labels Don’t Fit: Hispanics and Their Views of Identity, an inconvenient truth is laid bare — we are a conflicted bunch.
By Gustavo Martínez Contreras Mojado Citizen A Mexican man will be finally able to travel to his 10-year-old son’s burial in Pennsylvania after immigration officials granted his request for humanitarian permission to enter the United States, according to a…
