By Obed Manuel Latina Lista “I am not a criminal. I’m not a drug dealer. I’m definitely not a rapist.” These are the words of Ricardo Aca, a buser who works in the Trump SoHo, the posh New York…
By Yara Simón Remezcla Surviving the fourth grade, playing with friends, and being un poco travieso. The life of a 10-year-old in the United States shouldn’t be more complicated than that. But for Delmy Pineda’s son, nearly 10 months…
By Luis Badillo EXTRA! CHICAGO — Last week, Twitter saw a spike in the use of the hashtag #Not1More, which had users calling for the end of deportations and the detention of immigrants in the U.S. However, the movement…
By Martha Ramos LatinaLista The struggle for gender equality is very closely associated with defending the environment, both relate to human rights. They serve as the three main pillars for the development of a civilized society. So the events…
By Sanam Malik and Philip E. Wolgin Center for American Progress This June marks the second annual Immigrant Heritage Month, when Americans celebrate their immigrant roots and tell their families’ stories of sacrifice and contribution. Woven together, these stories…
By Larissa Converti Council on Hemispheric Affairs “Do not send your children to the borders. If they do make it, they’ll get sent back. More importantly, they may not make it.” – President Barack Obama The past few years…
By Rodrigo Juarez, Jr. LatinaLista Sara fled her home in Central America after gangs tried to recruit her 12-year-old son. They would wait for him after work and tell him that he had to join. He would reply that…
By Soyenixe Lopez Cronkite News WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday refused to intervene in a case that overturned Arizona’s voter-approved ban on bail for criminal defendants who are in this country illegally. The high court denied an…
By Obed Manuel LatinaLista The end of the Texas legislative session was met by a sigh of relief from undocumented college and high school students around the state after the Republican-dominated state legislature failed to repeal HB1403, a 14-year-old…
LatinaLista — Throughout history, the immigration experience has always been a bittersweet experience. People in search of a better quality of life leave behind friends, family and in many cases, children, wives and husbands. Yet, in every case, immigrants…
A U.S. Census Bureau research project found in 2013 that since 2009 a “greater proportion of foreign-born immigrants have been non-Hispanic Asian alone (34.7 percent) than Hispanic (30.1 percent).” That trend continued, and in 2013, the percentage of non-Hispanic…
By Melanie Diaz and Timothy Keen Council on Hemispheric Affairs In February 2015, a large-scale prison uprising broke out at the Willacy County Correctional Center in Raymondville, Texas. The detention center has experienced riots like this in the past…
LatinaLista — The most common Latino stereotypes consist of Latinos (usually migrants) doing the jobs most Americans won’t do. The kind of back-breaking, death-defying climbs and exposed-to-the-elements kinds of jobs that would have most Americans call in sick rather…
By Obed Manuel LatinaLista “Them Hispanics work hard as hell,” Jesse Durr tells Vice correspondent Thomas Morton during a segment of Friday’s new episode titled “Sweet Home Alabama.” Durr was one of the few people in Alabama who took…
By Aaron Montes Borderzine El Paso – Alexi Cruz may not have realized he had friends in this border community until he was on the verge of being deported. Cruz, 24, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who has lived…
By Laurie Liles Cronkite News WASHINGTON – Opponents of an Arizona law that denies bail to felony suspects who are in this country illegally urged the Supreme Court on Monday to let stand a lower court ruling that overturns…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Invisible Immigrants (Spaniards in the US 1868-1945) When people think about Spaniards in the Americas, they think mainly of the handfuls of conquerors, friars, explorers and settlers who crossed the Atlantic during the heyday of the…
By Anastasia Reynolds Cronkite News PHOENIX – If a state lawmaker gets his way, high school students would have to pass the same civics test required of immigrants before receiving their diplomas. “We believe there are certain facts of…
LatinaLista — There’s a lot of speculation, inside and outside the Beltway, as to exactly how President Obama will exercise his Executive powers to bypass Congressional inaction and institute real change in the nation’s immigration policies. Yet, most people…
LatinaLista — Mexican American Grace Parra has some “pretty strong opinions.” It’s what is making her YouTube videos so compelling to watch. Not because she rants and raves but inserts a HUGE dose of humor to present a different…
LatinaLista — Recent reports indicate that the swell of undocumented children is easing and that many of those who have arrived have either been reunited with long absent parents or deported back to the countries they fled. However, there…
By Hecko Flores Borderzine EL PASO – Employees at a children’s shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, found 12-year-old Noemi Alvarez Quillay’s lifeless body hanging from a shower-curtain rod last March. The Ecuadorian girl had been trying to cross the…
By Michael Bacos Extra! n May 27, Veterans for Immigration Reform held a discussion at the Pritzker Military Library to discuss the role of immigrants in the U.S. Armed Forces and how immigration reform is needed to protect these…
LatinaLista — Fleeing life-threatening violence, extreme poverty or just wanting to be with their parents are reasons cited as to why there has been a 90 percent increase over last year of children from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and…
LatinaLista — Where did La Virgin de Guadalupe originate? Why is she such an iconic symbol for Mexicans wherever they live? These are just two questions that don’t concern too many people of devout faith. But for those who…
