By Anthony Dewitt Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – There’s nothing simple about Phoenix resident Alex Turley’s simple trip to the grocery store to buy the basics. He might walk more than a mile in triple-digit temperatures so that he…
LatinaLista — The pressure for President Obama to resolve the debate between Republicans and Democrats over whether or not to raise the debt ceiling is reaching the desperate stage. It must be, if as reported by The Washington Post last…
LatinaLista — The news doesn’t get any better than this for any politician who has stalled the debate on immigration reform until there’s proof of a secure border: According to Douglas S. Massey, co-director of the Mexican Migration Project…
LatinaLista — One of the federal government’s strategy in combating illegal immigration is to create a “culture of voluntary compliance” among businesses to not hire undocumented workers says Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Gillian Chistensen. Of course, the voluntary…
La Costa Latina GULF COAST — On Saturday, June 25, starting at 6:30 p.m., Alabama residents and supporters will march in Linn Park in downtown Birmingham to protest the new immigration bill, HB56, signed by Governor Bentley on June 9….
LatinaLista — Having a baby is expensive. A teen mom having a baby is expensive not only for the family but for the state as well. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy released a new analysis…
LatinaLista — Whenever the “i” word, and I’m talking influence, is used in association with Latinos, people automatically resort to defining it as political clout. It’s waved in the air as a defiant threat every time another anti-immigrant legislation…
LatinaLista — Time and time again over the last few years, we have seen how politics trumps common sense and common decency when it comes to protecting the most vulnerable in the nation. It has happened again. Last night,…
By Maggie Pingolt Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON — Arizona has more than 90 illegal tunnels under its border with Mexico, the most discovered in any state in the Southwest, law enforcement officials told senators. Investigators have uncovered 88 in…
LatinaLista — A new report about life expectancies of Americans reveals a deeply disturbing picture, especially for women. Women are now, overall, worse off than men in the number of years they can expect to live and for those…
LatinaLista — This morning’s first-ever Senate hearing on the DREAM Act, chaired by Sen. Durbin, seemed, at times, like an exercise in “preaching to the choir.” The audience was overwhelmingly supportive of the DREAM Act and, in fact, many…
LatinaLista — Within minutes of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s appearance at the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO) conference last week in San Antonio, I was receiving emails from colleagues and friends sitting in the audience. By now,…
LatinaLista — Earlier this month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton announced changes to the immigration enforcement program known as Secure Communities (click on “What’s New” tab). It’s a program that many were lead to believe would…
El Tiempo Hispano DELAWARE — Roxanna is a Venezuelan visual communicator that has lived in Delaware for the past five years working in the design of printed material and web pages. In these past two years she had the…
LatinaLista — Today, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) announced they have selected their first endorsement for the 2012 political season. The PCCC raises millions of dollars for candidates who fit their select criteria. For their first “political investment,”…
LatinaLista — Today, another young person with undocumented status revealed himself to the nation. His name is Jose Antonio Vargas and unlike the other young people we have come to know as “DREAMers,” Jose is already living his dream…
LatinaLista — It’s rather ironic that Latinos, who were blamed for the nation’s housing bust, are now being heralded as the ones who will save the industry from its demise. A new report State of Hispanic Homeownership by the…
LatinaLista — It must certainly seem to President Obama that no matter what he does, he just can’t make Latinos happy. He’s right. He invited various “stakeholders” and Latino community leaders and celebrities to the White House to talk…
MetroLatinoUSA WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Center for Constitutional Rights, Detention Watch Network (DWN), Rights Working Group (RWG), National Day Laborer Organizing Network and the National Immigration Project reject Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) announcement of minor changes to Secure…
LatinaLista — The day of reckoning arrived today for the 1.5 million women who were included in a class action lawsuit suing Wal-Mart over sex discrimination charges regarding equal pay and job promotions. The Supreme Court rendered a decision…
LatinaLista — Latino cyberspace has been “aflame” with Sen. McCain’s unfortunate weekend comments blaming undocumented immigrants for starting the fires raging across Arizona. To his discredit, McCain immediately politicized a tragic event by coupling it with two contentious issues…
By Miguel Orozco After seeing one of the best films since Gregory Nava’s El Norte, feelings of pride and personal connection disappeared when I realized that this powerful film called A Better Life, with an all-Latino cast and already…
LatinaLista — The nation’s budget deficit is serious business. Nobody can argue that. Yet, the fact that some in Congress are arguing that the poor and children of color can most afford cuts or eliminations of programs that don’t…
LatinaLista — Today, Hispanic university economists, financial executives and policy analysts gathered at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas to discuss “The Hispanic Economic Experience.” Coming from across the nation and throughout Texas, the economists met to deliver their…
LatinaLista — A long known profile characteristic of Latinos is that we are a very social people. So, it only makes sense that when it comes to social media Latinos have embraced it wholeheartedly. For example, 54 percent of…
