LatinaLista — Watching Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer deliver her reaction on Monday to the Supreme Court’s decision on the bill that she signed into law — SB1070 — was kind of like deja vu. She was thrilled and proclaimed…
LatinaLista — The month is winding down and the greater Latino community in Arizona and across the country have been on pins and needles waiting for the Supreme Court decision on the state’s infamous SB1070 law. When the Supreme…
LatinaLista — Unfortunately, travel alerts have become all too common when it comes to traveling outside the United States. But inside the country? For immigrant and Latino travelers who just have to see the Grand Canyon or visit a…
LatinaLista– Since Arizona passed SB 1070, there have been protest marches, rallies, resolutions passed and boycotts enacted. Now, there is a new campaign to show disgust with the new law and how it plans to be implemented. The campaign,…
LatinaLista — Tomorrow there’s going to be a showdown at the White House. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and President Obama are going to sit face-to-face and discuss the infamous SB 1070. The exchange is predictable — Obama opposing the…
LatinaLista — A recent headline trumpeting Arizona Boycotts Could Backfire on Latinos illustrated just how much non-Latinos don’t get the issue of SB 1070. It shouldn’t be surprising. A new study released this month in the journal Current Biology…
LatinaLista — Poll after poll gauging non-Latinos’ feelings about Arizona’s immigration bill show the same thing — overwhelming support for every element of the new law, ranging from seeing nothing wrong with requiring people to produce evidence they’re in…
LatinaLista — The list of who is boycotting Arizona because of their passage of SB 1070 — which makes law enforcement officials stop, question and demand proof of legal residency of anyone whom they feel is in the country…
LatinaLista — The force of the Latino consumer is widely recognized by retailers. With an estimated buying power of $1 trillion, it’s no wonder department stores carry Latino-influenced product lines that sport either bright colors and shapely silhouettes or…
LatinaLista — When it comes to the new Arizona immigration law, everybody has an opinion. The latest organization to weigh in on the new law is the American Psychological Association (APA). The APA wanted to know if such could…
LatinaLista — It wasn’t long after Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 that people began to wonder how many other politicians across the country would follow her lead and think the most foolproof way to win their respective…
LatinaLista — How do you get young people to care about the national debate on immigration? You take their picture and let them post it on Facebook! That was the thought behind El Paso photographer David Quintanilla’s idea when…
LatinaLista — If anybody thinks that laws like the one recently signed in Arizona targeting undocumented immigrants is something solely born out of local citizens’ frustrations with border violence — then, think again! These laws or bills making their…
LatinaLista — The title of the opinion column by a “Pulitzer-nominated” journalist, named Gregory Kane, had me shaking my head in disbelief — and disgust. The headline read Do Latinos take priority over whites in Arizona? Unfortunately, this question,…
LatinaLista — The furor over the signing of Arizona SB 1070 that allows for the citizenship status of all Latinos to be questioned by the state’s police has overshadowed an equally disturbing bill that Arizona Gov. Brewer may be…
LatinaLista — Every day the list of city councils and organizations that either call or plan to boycott Arizona keeps growing. The (Washington) D.C. Council waded into the fight over illegal immigration today, as all 13 members sponsored a…
LatinaLista — If it weren’t for the fact that the columnist George Will is held in such high esteem by The Washington Post or ABC News, I wouldn’t even comment on Mr. Will’s latest column where he applauds Arizona’s…
LatinaLista — Arizona has a total population of 6,595,778. If you factor in the undocumented population, which is reported to be between 400-500,000, that still leaves over six million people. So, why is a telephone poll that surveyed 500…
LatinaLista — Today, leaders from national civil rights organizations gathered together for a press conference call to 1) voice their opposition to Arizona SB 1070 and 2) urge Arizona Governor Brewer not to sign it into law — they…
LatinaLista — Immigrant advocates are steeling themselves for bad news to come out of Arizona any day now. There is high expectation that Arizona Governor Brewer will sign into law the most destructive bill yet on Latino constitutional rights….
LatinaLista — Maybe it was the fact that the Arizona senate passed SB 1070 and are only waiting for Arizona Governor Brewer to sign it into law — or do nothing and have it pass into law anyway. Or…
LatinaLista — On this 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing when we all should be remembering that hatred has no place in a civilized society, we are confronted with the reality that hatred exists to an even greater…
LatinaLista — A disgusting story has emerged from Paris, Texas. It seems at a company called Turner Industries it was “open season” on black workers. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found evidence that black workers were harassed with Confederate…
LatinaLista — When it comes to state mandated immigration enforcement, two states that top the list of literally trying to drive out undocumented immigrants, and make Latino residents uncomfortable, are Arizona and Oklahoma. What’s happening in Arizona is more…
LatinaLista — In yet another disturbing story to come out of Arizona this week — and it’s only Tuesday! — is news that Latinos make up the ethnic majority in the Maricopa County jails. Seeing that this is the…
