LatinaLista — For the last 8 years, the Republican Party has been known as the “Party of NO.” What began as a partisan strategy to humiliate and deny success to the nation’s first Black president evolved into grooming perception…
By Matt Smith Juvenile Justice Information Exchange The private prison industry may end up being one of the winners under the incoming Trump administration, though it’s not clear how or when the new administration will act. Stocks of…
By William D. Lopez The Conversation When immigration officers forcibly remove individuals from their homes, it impacts the psychological, emotional and economic well-being of their families and communities. President-elect Donald Trump stated throughout his campaign that he wanted to…
Marisa Treviño LatinaLista When Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz declared themselves candidates for President, myself, like many Latinos in the nation, were happily anxious at the prospect of having representation in the highest office of the land. So what…
LatinaLista — Sometimes it really is all or nada. Take for example what Trump, his administration and the GOP are finding out. After years of failed tries at repealing Obamacare, the GOP leadership is saying they agree with Trump…
By Philip E. Wolgin Center for American Progress To date, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, has allowed more than 741,000 young people a reprieve from deportation and a renewable work permit. Studies haveshown that having DACA brings…
By Caitlin Fouratt The Conversation Violence in Central America continues to push its citizens to seek refuge. In July, the U.S. government announced a plan for Costa Rica to temporarily host up to 200 refugees from Central America while they are…
By Marlene Woods LatinaLista One Tuesday night my father called, “you must come tomorrow,” he said over the phone. In twelve hours we packed our most basic belongings and our lives. We crossed the border one September day under…
By Ernesto Cicchitelli and Ivan Valladares Council on Hemispheric Affairs The stress faced by the European Union (EU) due to a large inflow of Syrian refugees at its borders, has led an increasing amount of countries towards stricter immigration…
By Rinku Sen Colorlines.com When the immigration, criminal justice and child welfare systems collide in a family’s life, deported parents are too often unable to hold on to their children. Five years ago, Race Forward (then the Applied…
LatinaLista — Perhaps of all the countries in the world, the United States owes its evolution to what it is today to immigrants. At some point in the history of every non-Native family, there can be uncovered proof that…
LatinaLista — While Donald Trump likes to “trump” the insecurity of the border to justify his plans for a border wall, the fact is we know the existing security at the border is working. Otherwise, there would not have…
LatinaLista — “The world is changing” is an understatement both in its certainty and frequency. There’s no greater example of this statement than what we see happening with people. More and more people refuse to adhere to tradition, be…
By Mirna Durón El Nuevo Sol In early 2011, Carla Martínez’s path to college after finishing high school looked very challenging. As an undocumented student, she had no access to jobs in the formal economy or any kind…
By Amanda May VoiceBox Media Tucked alongside I-10 in the busy city of San Antonio sits a picturesque building: the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Antonio. Mary Grace Ketner, the church liaison since 2009, is no stranger to both…
By David Cook Martín The Conversation During the most recent Republican debate, Donald Trump declared “people are pouring across the southern border.” Trump is right that the United States has been a major immigrant destination since the 1960s, but if…
LatinaLista — The White House released a statement by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh C. Johnson defending the administration's forced removal of Central American migrant families that began over the weekend. As news spread of the removals, immigrant advocates began…
By John Rowe LatinaLista The one-eyed man is king. So wrote wise and patient Erasmus. But, alas, immigration policy is not a subject that makes us wise and patient. The Hard Left cannot name the threat from violent Islamic…
LatinaLista — The life of a migrant farmworker may be one of the darkest blemishes on the U.S. labor market. As if it wasn’t bad enough that migrant workers, and their families, are exposed to dangerous pesticides, abusive employers,…
LatinaLista — While the majority of voters view Donald Trump's grossly insensitive declarations about what he will do when he is president as nada más than political rhetoric, it's come to the point that he must be taken seriously. …
By Sophia Campos VoiceBox Media Perhaps since Laredo sits on the southern border, tucked away from major Texas cities, it’s easy for people to be unaware of Laredo’s role with the Central American refugees who escape drug violence…
By Alexa D'Angelo Cronkite News PHOENIX – Immigrant youth who arrive at the border alone and have no family to take care of them in the U.S. often struggle to build a life. Jose Montoya set off from…
LatinaLista — Pew Research released an analysis of some new government data that shows, contrary to what politicians say, the U.S. is actually losing Mexican immigrants rather than gaining them. From 2009 to 2014, 1 million Mexicans and their…
LatinaLista — As more information is revealed about the perpetrators of the Paris attack, some U.S. governors have declared their states are closing its "borders" to Syrian refugees because one of the attackers arrived in Western Europe in the…
By Brenn Dowdy El Nuevo Tennessean His smile was inviting, and the red apples José Vázquez’s daughter placed on the table were starting to turn the color of his warm, brown complexion. Vázquez, 77, laughed as he tried…
