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 1. Comprehensive immigration reform is dead. 2. Giving equal educational opportunities to children of color is now a footnote in our nation’s history. When it came to the immigration bill, hopes were not high, but there were slivers…
LatinaLista — Homeland Security is going on with its plan to construct a double-row steel fence through the city of Laredo, Texas and over 153 miles along the Texas-Mexico border. According to Homeland Security, and Congress, the American people…
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 — Earlier this month, Univision sent a letter to all of the presidential candidates inviting them to come on down to the land of sandy beaches and palm trees and while soaking up the sun, soak up some…
LatinaLista — Advocates for comprehensive immigration reform are going to have to light a few more holy candles and pray to their favorite patron saints if they want to see the Senate bring back the bill for debate. It…
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 — This week in San Jose, California, hundreds of Hispanic journalists are gathered to celebrate the 25-year anniversary of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Hispanic media is as complex as the Hispanic community — in other words,…
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’s commentary by Lou Dobbs is titled “Give it a Rest, Mr. President.” (CNN’s Lou Dobbs) Funny, but that ‘s what a group of Latinos are telling CNN about allowing Dobbs to spew his opinions against…
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 — After last week’s Senate’s defeat of allowing the immigration bill to move out of the debate phase, some readers of Latina Lista wondered why we should care that it was defeated since it was a bad bill…
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 — The more it looks like the Senate is making headway in crafting an immigration reform bill, the more small towns across America want to put their own individual stamp of authority on immigration reform — by trying…
LatinaLista — The 2008 Presidential race has officially begun. There was no clearer indication of this than in last night’s CNN-sponsored televised debate among the 8 declared Democratic hopefuls running for the Presidency. Tomorrow night, it will be the…
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 — This Monday is Memorial Day. Yet, too many of us only know it as one of those rare 3-day holidays from work. Most don’t really know what the holiday stands for, except it may have something to…
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…
