By Silva Mathema ncluido The April arrival of the Central American caravan at the southern U.S. border once again placed the nation’s focus on individuals and families who traveled thousands of miles to seek asylum in the United…
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…
LatinaLista — For over 30 years, Nancy Ghertner saw the migrant farm workers in her rural western New York town pick the apples in the surrounding apple orchards. Yet, as she describes, these workers were mainly invisible to her…
LatinaLista — In August 2010, US Border Patrol discovered a decomposing body under the blazing heat of the Sonoran desert, along the Arizona-Mexican border. The find is not unusual. Many migrants attempting to enter the United States unlawfully unwisely…