Confrontation In Arizona Between Mexican Soldiers, Border Patrol Confirmed
Confrontation In Arizona Between Mexican Soldiers, Border Patrol Confirmed
*This is interesting on many levels. It was an international incident (that we didn’t hear about until now); ICE agents and Mexican soldiers pulled weapons on each other, on U.S. […]
Alabama school won’t let Latino teen enroll, rights group says
*The interesting thing about this case is that the student in question is a minor, so most of his/her information is not available to the public. What is left is […]
Mexican-American Studies in Texas: One Vote, Two Takes
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco News of the Texas State Board of Education vote on the issue of Mexican-American studies spread quickly across social media yesterday. It’s been an uphill battle […]
Remembering a Modest Cesar Chavez
*Anita Quintanilla was Cesar Chavez’s first female bodyguard, a fact I learned through a Facebook exchange during the recent days of the premiere of the Chavez bio-pic. Two things stand […]
Report: More Mothers Stay Home Full Time In The U.S., Especially If Immigrants
By Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) – More women are staying at home full-time to raise their children, according to a new Pew Research Center report released Tuesday. Factors cited […]
The Growing, Neglected Challenges of LGBT Latino Elders
By Robert Espinoza, Huffington Post Latino elders who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) face additional challenges as they age, compounded by barriers rooted in their racial and ethnic […]
Urban Heat Islands amplify global climate change impacts for Latinos
By Juan Declet-Barreto, PhD, NRDC The effects of climate change are negatively impacting the health of people worldwide. In the United States these impacts affect Latinos more, largely because most live […]
Why Coffee Is Good For Many Latinos’ Health
*As if a reason were needed to like coffee. But if anyone asks, tell them this. VL By Hope Gillette, Saludify Are you a Hispanic? Do you like coffee? Well good […]
L.A. Immigrants Push City Officials To Name Neighborhoods After Their Home Countries
*Tip O’Neill is credited with coining the phrase “all politics is local.” I’m not sure if Little Venezuela is what he had in mind, but the spirit of the phrase […]
Another wave of undocumented immigration may be near
*If the prediction in this article is to be believed, the immigration debate is about to become more complicated. Political, market and international economy factors are churning to form a […]
