LatinaLista — With each passing day that Congress and the Obama administration do nothing to advance immigration reform, passage of the DREAM Act or address the current level of enforcement and deportations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a…
By Angie Washington Latina Lista COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA — Dotted along every major thoroughfare, vendors set up tarps to sell their wares. When I drove by a long line of people, shopping bags in hand, I was curious what wonderful…
LatinaLista — Over the last couple of weeks, the U.S. Census began releasing 2010 Census data as it begins the arduous task of compiling population statistics for each state in the country. Even before the numbers were released for…
LatinaLista — All day long, the US Census has issued one press release after another for the next series of data they have finished compiling for a few states to start their redistricting processes because of a change in…
By Debbie Gordils LatinaLista CHICAGO, USA — Living in Chicago and being Hispanic, makes for an interesting backdrop to Chicago-style politics. In the last 8 years since I became involved, I have run for office twice — in 2003…
LatinaLista — Early on when the Egyptian protests first started, I was struck by one particular interview one of the news shows did with a middle-aged Egyptian man. The man was passionate in his urgency to let the world…
LatinaLista — A quick review of this week’s legislative schedule for Arizona’s state legislators is disturbing and disheartening in how xenophobia and prejudice are being masqueraded as justice and law. For example, today SB1308: interstate compact; birth certificates was…
By Lauren Gambino Cronkite News Service SAN LUIS – U.S. Border Patrol agents Robert Lowry and Mike Espinoza examine a footprint in the sandy road that parallels the U.S.-Mexico border fence south of Yuma. The 20-foot steel fence casts…
LatinaLista — It’s been recognized by many in the immigrant activist community that a strategy of the Obama administration to make immigration reform “palatable” to Republicans was to show them that the rule of law would be enforced when…
LatinaLista.net — A new report released by the Pew Hispanic Center finds that the undocumented immigrant population has stabilized. The report, Unauthorized Immigrant Population: National and State Trends, 2010 finds there are 11.2 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United…
LatinaLista — There’s no denying that one little four-year-old boy, christened with the name Carlitos, and now enjoying life as Jamison, will be the real loser in a custody battle that underscores how little human rights undocumented immigrants have…
By Rebekah Zemansky Cronkite News Service PHOENIX — Traces of guns seized on both sides of the border helped federal agencies break up several rings involved in purchasing firearms in the Valley and shipping them to Mexican drug cartels,…
LatinaLista.net — It probably doesn’t get any more ironic than this. On the same day, I receive a notice that there will be a rally on the campus at the University of Texas at El Paso tomorrow to “Reinstate…
LatinaLista.net — Listening to the President’s State of the Union address, I wasn’t surprised that he mentioned two issues that I’ve devoted a lot of my writing to these past several years: immigration reform and the DREAM Act. It…
LatinaLista.net — These are politically volatile times that trigger immediate responses from people to whatever political rhetoric they are hearing. Sometimes, they agree and sometimes they disagree with what they hear but the important thing is that everyone is…
LatinaLista.net — As the nation prepares to hear President Obama’s State of the Union Address tonight and speculation runs rampant as to what exactly he will say (though excerpts from the speech have been leaked out to the media…
LatinaLista.net — In the upcoming Americas Quarterly Winter 2011 issue, the magazine sits down with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to discuss the political destiny of the DREAM Act, the nation’s relationship with her southern neighbors and the importance…
LatinaLista.net — When the U.S. Census first started releasing preliminary findings from the 2010 survey, there was mild surprise at just how much the country is changing. It wasn’t a total shock since some of these changes were so…
LatinaLista — A recent post I wrote triggered a lot of “discussion” among my Facebook readers. The post was inspired after watching footage of the marches the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr lead at the height of the civil…
LatinaLista — The “About us” page at the decidedly right-leaning site “Shark Tank” explicitly describes their mission as: …”source for sharp analysis and biting commentary on anyone and anything that comprises Florida Politics – federal, state, and local.” Since…
By GRISELDA NEVAREZ Cronkite News Service PHOENIX – Maxine Wadsworth’s father never told her that he was among 10 members of the Hopi Tribe who served as code talkers during World War II. It wasn’t until she spoke…
LatinaLista — As the nation held parades in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. yesterday and paid homage to his legacy, it was somewhat ironic that a group of dairy workers are battling for basic rights like getting…
LatinaLista — Martin Luther King Jr. Day is always an occasion to not just reflect on Dr. King’s legacy but to use the day as a ruler measuring how far we’ve come in the quest for social justice for…
LatinaLista — While it’s been heartening and encouraging to hear our political leaders pledge to start speaking with more “thoughtful consideration,” it’s been as equally disheartening to still hear and read of examples where incivility among people is masked…
LatinaLista.net — A recent study from Scarborough Research outlined how Latinos love their cell phones. In fact, for many low-income Latinos, buying a smart phone is considered a first computer purchase. According to the study, “sixty-four percent of Hispanics…
