LatinaLista — News that President Obama plans to address immigration reform as early as May has been met with the expected responses — happiness and dread. Happiness by most Hispanic groups and advocates that finally Obama is making good…
LatinaLista — President Obama has lost no time in reversing policies and addressing campaign promises. Yet many in the Latino community wonder how long it will be before immigration reform becomes politically cool enough for the new administration to…
LatinaLista — For too long the issue of immigration, illegal or otherwise, has been the catalyst that pits conservatives against liberals. Yet a new report warns that people need to get over their hang-ups about the whole issue of…
LatinaLista — It doesn’t matter which side is talking about immigration these days because, like an overboiled egg, there are too many cracks in what’s being said to know if their ideas are fully cooked or not. (Source: cbs.com)…
LatinaLista — It’s now been a couple of months since the editors at the promigrant site The Sanctuary submitted a questionnaire about immigration reform and issues of importance to Latinos to both the presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John…
LatinaLista — This past week, Washington was “invaded” by the annual “Hold Their Feet to the Fire” lobbying event to push Congress to enact immigration reform. One of the leading organizations of the event was the Federation for American…
By Maria del Carmen Salazar, Ph.D. Dr. Maria del Carmen Salazar Dr. Maria del Carmen Salazar of the University of Denver served as the lead author on “Agenda Latina,” a report that evaluated the current economic, health and educational…
LatinaLista — Continuing revelations from last week’s Postville immigration raid at the Agriprocessors kosher meat plant paints the employer as a far worst criminal than any of the 389 detained for using false social security card numbers and/or being…
By Barack Obama LatinaLista Last fall, Latina Lista sent an invitation to the major presidential candidates of both parties to “blog” on Latina Lista as a way to address our readers. As the campaigns are regrouping after what can…
LatinaLista — Dr. Dowell Myers, professor of urban planning and Demography at the University of Southern California, held a telephonic press briefing this afternoon, sponsored by the Washington D.C.-based Immigration Policy Center. Professor Dowell Myers The occasion was the release…
LatinaLista — In Barbara Garcia’s predictions for 2008 that Latina Lista recently posted, we noticed that nothing was said of the most contentious issues facing the presidential candidates in this election — immigration reform and a border fence with…
LatinaLista — In the blogosphere he is known as Duke1676. Among bloggers, he’s better known as the analytical author of Migra Matters. Duke has written and posted at Daily Kos one of the most insightful, certainly most thorough and…
LatinaLista — For those of us who have followed this divisive debate in Congress over immigration reform, we have always felt something was missing. Common sense? The voice of the undocumented? Employers? Industry representatives? The average American voter? (Source:…
LatinaLista — Advocates for comprehensive immigration reform are going to have to light a few more holy candles and pray to their favorite patron saints if they want to see the Senate bring back the bill for debate. It…
LatinaLista — This week in San Jose, California, hundreds of Hispanic journalists are gathered to celebrate the 25-year anniversary of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Hispanic media is as complex as the Hispanic community — in other words,…
LatinaLista — This week’s commentary by Lou Dobbs is titled “Give it a Rest, Mr. President.” (CNN’s Lou Dobbs) Funny, but that ‘s what a group of Latinos are telling CNN about allowing Dobbs to spew his opinions against…
LatinaLista — This week, the state of Arkansas became the latest state to announce that some of their police agencies were going to apply for federal authority to detain undocumented immigrants who are arrested for other crimes. The Arkansas…
LatinaLista — After last week’s Senate’s defeat of allowing the immigration bill to move out of the debate phase, some readers of Latina Lista wondered why we should care that it was defeated since it was a bad bill…
LatinaLista — The defeat of yesterday’s vote on moving forward with the immigration reform bill in the Senate was a huge disappointment for anyone who is tired of the rhetoric and wants to get on with the business of…
LatinaLista — The more it looks like the Senate is making headway in crafting an immigration reform bill, the more small towns across America want to put their own individual stamp of authority on immigration reform — by trying…
LatinaLista — By now, the vast majority of states in the nation have considered or have passed legislation targeting undocumented immigrants living and working within their city limits. (Source: Angus Reid Global Monitor) The driving force to get this…
LatinaLista — At one level, any immigration debate concerns a raw political calculation: Who ends up with more voters? An article in today’s Washington Post makes an interesting observation about the Latino community as a whole — though not…
