LatinaLista — It’s called the Solution for Undocumented Children through Careers, Employment, Education, and Defending our Nation Act, SUCCEED, for short and the congressional members who drafted this latest version of the 2010 DREAM Act, hope it does exactly…
By Milenko Martinovich Futurity A new study sheds light on the impact of rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on immigrant mothers and their children’s health. The Trump administration’s recent decision to end the DACA program,…
By Edward T. Rincón, Ph.D. LatinaLista We produced the attached map and assembled the following facts (source: American Community Survey 5-year estimates covering 2008-2012) to provide some balance to the wave of bad news surrounding immigrants. While it does…
LatinaLista — It’s no accident that one of the requirements for granting citizenship to young DREAMers is that they serve in the military. There has been a long history of undocumented soldiers serving in the nation’s military, though official…
By Von Diaz Feet in 2 Worlds No group has been more visible in the struggle for immigrant rights than undocumented youth. Taking the name DREAMers, evoking both the proposed federal DREAM Act as well as a sense of…
By Ivan Marte LatinaLista A September ruling by the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court stripping Dominican citizenship of children born in the Dominican Republic (DR) to undocumented parents takes the human rights issue to a whole new level, especially since…
By Bryan Johnson Amoachi & Johnson, Attorneys at Law, PLLC Blanca Maria Alfaro has always been a U.S. citizen. She was born in Houston, Texas on December 17, 1979. In 1995, Blanca applied for and received a U.S. passport…
By Andrew Knochel Cronkite News Service PHOENIX – At least 1,400 Arizonans would be allowed to vote only in federal elections under a rule announced this week by Attorney General Tom Horne, according to a survey of county election…
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian MISSION, TEXAS – Some Congressional Democrats are contemplating a compromise on immigration reform that would put undocumented immigrants on a path to legalization but not, directly, citizenship. Under the plan, the 11 or…
By Emilie Eaton Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – More than 93 percent of Hispanic immigrants who are in this country illegally say they want to apply for citizenship, but fewer than half of whose who can apply do so,…
LatinaLista — Revolutions, large and small, peaceful and violent, offline and online, are underway in every part of the world today. The people organizing, executing and demanding to be heard by their governments are young people — millennials. At…
By Evan Bell Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – Voting and civil rights groups cheered a decision by the Supreme Court Monday that struck down an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship for voting. The court’s 7-2 ruling said Arizona’s…
By Dr. Maria G. Hernandez Latina Cubicle Confidential™ According to the Pew Hispanic Research Center two-thirds of legal Mexican immigrants have not become citizens. It means that 5.4 million immigrants who could enjoy the benefits of citizenship have not…
LatinaLista — According to a Yahoo! news item, things are a little crazier than usual in Washington in advance of the President’s State of the Union speech. Rebuttals and pre-rebuttals have become the new forms of communication between the…
LatinaLista — All the 4,000 new citizens who took their oath of U.S. citizenship across the country worked hard to get to this day. They had to study American history and take tests. Before there was the Internet, aspiring U.S….
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT NATURALIZATION CEREMONY July 4, 2012 The White House THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Good morning, everybody. AUDIENCE: Good morning, Mr. President. THE PRESIDENT: Secretary Napolitano, Director Mayorkas, distinguished guests, family and friends — welcome…
LatinaLista — The 4th of July may be all about fireworks, the American flag, hot dogs and apple pie but the soul of the day is our nation’s patriotism. That’s why the national holiday has historically been used as…
By Michael Wildes Michael Wildes serves as mayor of Englewood, New Jersey. In addition, he is an immigration lawyer and a former federal prosecutor. As partner of the NYC-based immigration law firm Wildes & Weinberg, established by his father,…
LatinaLista — It used to be that when talk turned to political elections, the strength of the Latino vote always came into question. A viable threat or wishful thinking? Well, if the number of new citizenship applications is any…
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…
