It’s no secret that Trump, a white supremacist, dislikes immigrants. It would have seemed his administration’s attempts to ban migrants from certain countries, separate migrant children from their parents, deny asylum waits on US soil, make it more expensive…
In some parts of the country, Columbus Day is a big celebration. In other parts, not so much. In the latter areas, cities are creating an alternative that is catching on; The Trump administration is ramping up deportations for…
By Marisa Treviño ncluido In the 14 months since Donald Trump was sworn into office, a fear has been steadily growing across the country that this administration is marching the country back to a period in our history that…
LatinaLista — Every 60 seconds, 20 people leave their homes, belongings and communities behind to escape persecution, violence or war. They are known in the global community as refugees. A day doesn’t go by that there’s not a news…
By Parvati Nair The Conversation A dozen years before the influx of refugees and migrants to Europe’s shores would force policymakers to take heed, Michael Winterbottom’s 2002 docudrama In this World brought the inside story of international migration to…
By Marisa Treviño LatinaLista The news today out of Pew Research Center should put a grinding halt to Trump’s campaign promise to build a border wall, if it’s Mexico he’s blaming for a southern invasion. According to a Pew…
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 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 Nancy Landa LatinaLista Beatriz is a transgender woman originally from El Salvador, who has made Mexico her new country of residence, not voluntarily as she is unable to return to her country because her life there is in…
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 — 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…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Bringing the necessities of life to desperate refugees Two weeks ago, the White House reached out to Kickstarter with an idea. What if Kickstarter could be used, they asked, to help the millions of refugees seeking…
By Kent Patterson Frontera NorteSur Like 20 years ago, migrants still come to Tijuana in need of food, warmth and a place to rest their heads. But in important respects, the circumstances of newcomers have changed at two Roman…
By Mike Allison Central American Politics Norma Stoltz Chinchilla and Nora Hamilton have what looks to be an interesting paper on Identity Formation Among Central American Americans. Here’s part of their conclusion: The individual stories of the Central American…
LatinaLista — Families in Syria. Human rights activists and journalists in Mexico. Colombians standing up to local gangs. All these people and millions more in other parts of the world are today’s displaced people or refugees. People who fear…
LatinaLista — In almost any conversation dealing with immigrants and/or immigration reform, someone points out the obvious — “Immigrants come to work.” A new social media campaign strives to expand on that sentiment by declaring that immigrants are Here…
