LatinaLista — The old adage “Be careful what you wish for” is beginning to hang heavily over the debate on comprehensive immigration reform or CIR. While the immigrant activist and national Latino communities have been actively pushing the Democrats…
LatinaLista — News that Senators Reid, Schumer and Menendez would be releasing an outline today of an immigration reform proposal surprised many who had heard Sen. Reid repeatedly say that he couldn’t slate immigration reform on the senatorial docket…
LatinaLista — The minute Sen. Reid uttered the statement this morning “We won’t get to immigration reform this work period,” the mainstream news sites couldn’t wait to announce that the Nevada Sen. had “backpedaled” on his promise to the…
LatinaLista — Rumors are running rampant across the country as to the fate of immigration reform in this legislative season. Will another Republican Senator sign on to the Schumer/Graham bill? How committed are Democrats to the issue? Would there…
LatinaLista — If the Sunday morning appearance by Senators Schumer and Graham on NBC’s Meet the Press accomplished anything, it clarified, threats aside, as to Republican Senator Graham’s commitment to the issue: MR. GREGORY: …immigration reform, where you two…
LatinaLista– The unexpected statement from the President arrived late this afternoon. It was short and to the point: Statement by the President Praising the Bipartisan Immigration Reform Framework In June, I met with members of both parties, and assigned…
LatinaLista — Politico is reporting that Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s architect on the latest Senate version of immigration reform, is feeling “optimistic” about producing immigration legislation this year. He and his congressional colleague, Sen. Lindsey Graham, are scheduled…
LatinaLista In areas across the country, a lot of people are looking forward to the month of March. Not because it heralds the arrival of Spring (March 20, 2010) but because they’ve been told that is when Comprehensive Immigration…
LatinaLista — It’s being reported that the Tea Party Movement has created a new political organization, Ensuring Liberty Corporation, whose mission will be to endorse, support and elect conservative candidates. The announcement came with an official platform that could…
LatinaLista — Last week, I wrote a commentary about being left unimpressed, unmotivated and uninterested in setting up any neighborhood watch parties to watch the President’s State of the Union address. It’s not that I’m on the GOP bandwagon…
LatinaLista — While 2009 will historically be seen as the year when Latinos garnered some long-sought respect: Obama named more Latinos to top administration posts than any other president; Sonia Sotomayor cleared Congressional review to earn a seat on…
LatinaLista — There’s no denying that Rep. Luis Gutierrez’s immigration reform bill that he introduced in the House of Representatives this week caused a lot of buzz — from both sides of the aisle. Besides the point that immigration…
LatinaLista — Today was a big day in Washington. There was the bipartisan passage of the Senate Finance Committee’s health reform bill, even though there was only one Republican that signed on — and there was the immigration rally…
LatinaLista — Since Senator Ted Kennedy’s death, advocates, editorial cartoonists, commentators and politicians have tried to turn the contentious debate over healthcare and immigration reform by proposing that Congress work extra hard to pass both bills in tribute of…
LatinaLista — For those of us who advocate the government get started on reforming the nation’s immigration system, President Obama’s announcement that he’s pushing back the issue on his agenda until other priorities, like health care, get resolved are…
LatinaLista — Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s immigration subcommittee, made headlines last week when he announced that he planned to have a new immigration reform bill put together by Labor Day. Sen. Chuck Schumer’s…
LatinaLista — The issue of undocumented immigration and its consequences is not unique to the United States. Countries throughout the world are grappling with the same problem. Sometimes, their approaches to solving this universal dilemma is worse than what…
LatinaLista — Editor’s Note: In association with New America Media, a national association of ethnic media, the following post was published by ethnic media across the country this week to bring attention to the urgency of immigration reform. The…
LatinaLista — Benita Veliz has become the national face of the DREAM Act, a bill before Congress that would allow students who were brought to this country illegally as children by their parents to attend college at in-state tuition…
LatinaLista — Though the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor has dominated the buzz in Washington, this week there’s another event that plans on sharing that spotlight. It’s called the Reform Immigration for America Campaign Summit. It’s a week-long event that…
LatinaLista — Tomorrow is when people in cities across the country will be taking to the streets in the name of immigration reform. There hasn’t been this much buzz for May 1 marches since the original marches when hundreds…
LatinaLista — Compared to three years ago when the first immigration marches were held, the Latino community has evolved into a more political savvy and networked group that finds itself on the cusp of making history all over again….
LatinaLista — In October of last year, filmmaker Almudena Carracedo took time from basking in her Emmy win for her documentary Made in LA to share her thoughts and feelings on Latina Lista about how making the film on…
LatinaLista — Just as one of the last landowner holdouts in the Rio Grande Valley, Eloisa Tamez, received word this week that her court case had been lost against the federal government and she would have to fork over…
LatinaLista — Ever since, it was reported last week that President Obama was going to address immigration reform probably as early as May, critics have argued that the White House’s attention on the issue deprives warranted attention on the…
