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Children Of Latino Immigrants Skew More Democratic Than Parents
By Gene Demby, NPR While most immigrants from Latin America identify with the Democratic Party, Hispanic members of the second generation — those born in the United States with at […]
Latino Immigrants Assimilating As Fast As Earlier Groups
By Dylan Matthews, The Washington Post Wonkblog In 2007, the political scientists Jack Citrin, Amy Lerman, Michael Murakami and Kathryn Pearson decided to test Huntington’s theory against the available evidence about Latino assimilation. They found […]
Latino Immigrants Fear Evacuations More than Hurricanes
By Peter Malof, Texas News Service ALAMO, Texas – June marks the beginning of hurricane season – when many residents of Texas’ Rio Grande Valley find themselves weighing the dangers […]
Non-Latino Immigrants In Alabama Not Worried
Turns out that Alabama’s law seems to be pretty targeted to Latinos after all, at least non-Latino immigrants do not appear to be afraid. Some of Alabama’s Vietnamese, Korean and […]
Latino Immigrants Use Cell Phones To Save Money
A new text message program has proven effective in helping Latino immigrants in California take a serious look at their budget and allow them to save thousands of dollars in […]
Latino Immigrants Integrating Better Than Past, Not As Well As Others
It’s a double-edged sword, but good news overall – and it flies in the face of the nay-saying, anti-immigrant, nativist lot. According to a report by the Migration Policy Institute, […]
American Latino literature has focused more on undocumented immigrants
*The literature of the undocumented has “become an important piece of the immigration policy debate that often can be discussed only in black-and-white legal terms.” VL By George Diepenbrock, The University […]
Bernie Sanders tells Latino lawmakers: Undocumented immigrants should benefit from Obamacare
*The law doesn’t provide for the undocumented to access the ACA, but “On Wednesday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), a vocal immigration reform supporter, and other Democrats introduced a bill that would […]
Immigrants, Latinos Helped Drive Business Creation Last Year
*More evidence of how Latinos are transforming the U.S. Immigrant entrepreneurs launched 28.5 percent of new businesses in 2014. VL By Ruth Simon, The Wall Street Journal Immigrants and Latinos […]
How a Latino Retiree Is Saving the Lives of Undocumented Immigrants
*Beyond politics and laws, there’s a humanitarian need that can only be met with human action. While some people look to Washington for answers, others are looking at what they […]