By Lewis Borck & D. Shane Miller The Conversation When President Barack Obama created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the 2012 program that offered undocumented young people brought to the U.S. as children a path into society, for…
By Katherine Leal Unmuth Latino Ed Beat The American Dream narrative is a storyline so deeply embedded in American popular culture that as writers, we use it often in our storytelling. Most journalists who seek to write narrative stories…
By Rodolfo F. Acuña LatinaLista The National Committee for Protection of Foreign Born Workers was established in 1923 in reaction to the virulent xenophobia of a Republican Congress and President toward immigrant workers, and their right to organize and…
LatinaLista — The one line of defense critics use to denounce issues like the DREAM Act or in-state tuition for undocumented students or allowing undocumented parents to stay with their families while their deportation cases are being heard is…
LatinaLista — Everybody has an idea of what they want to work towards in their lives, or what should be accomplished in their countries and even in the world. When we envision goals for ourselves at this time of…
LatinaLista — What happens when video cameras are put into the hands of teenagers and they are instructed to create films about the American Dream, community violence and immigration? Three powerful documentaries, one which was selected to be screened…
