latino immigrants
Latino members of Congress denounce King on House floor for “demonizing immigrants”
By Liliana Llamas, NBCLatino Following remarks made by Iowa Republican congressman Steve King about DREAMers, members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus took to the House floor on Wednesday to denounce his “ignorant” comments, […]
Study: Latinos Learn English Faster Than Past Immigrants
By Cristina Costantini, ABC News/Univision Many who oppose high levels of Latino immigration argue that these new immigrants don’t learn English as quickly as prior waves of European immigrants did. A series […]
Coulter: America has too many Latino, Mexican immigrants
By NBCLatino Ann Coulter says America should be more like it used to be with immigrants — specifically, by letting in fewer immigrants from Latin America and Mexico. In a […]
No Politico, Not All Undoc Immigrants Are Latino
By Roque Planas, Huffington Post Latino Voices Politico made waves with an article published Monday that attempts to parse out the political efforts of a proposal for comprehensive immigration reform. The […]
Latinos Were Some of the First Immigrants in the US
By Ignacio Torres, NBCLatino Dr. Yadira Perez, Oral Historian from New York City’s Tenement Museum, and Dr. Jose C. Moya, historian at Barnard College, go through our country’s history of […]
NHMC: Negative Media Portrayals of Latinos and Immigrants
By Latino Rebels This morning in Washington, the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) released the results of a national poll “showing that media portrayals of Latinos and immigrants are fueling rampant negative stereotypes among […]
La Gran Mentira: Babies, Not Immigrants Grow U.S. Latinos
So here it is: the biggest lie we’ve been sold in this country is that Latino growth in this country is the result of throngs of “illegals” swarming over here […]
News Taco To Go: Latino Students, Babies, Immigrants & More
Georgia Sees Immigrant Farmworkers Aren’t So Replaceable Half Of Male Grads Of Color End Up in Jail, Jobless Or Dead White Babies In Minority, Latinos Growing On Both Coasts Outed […]
Latinos, Immigrants Comprise Half Of Federal Felons
A new investigation by the Associated Press found that almost half of those sentenced in federal court for felonies are Latino. These numbers are bolstered by immigration cases, the AP […]
Pawlenty’s Latino Voter Pitch: Immigrants Are Terrorists
By now you may have seen the 2002 gubernatorial ad in which then-candidate Tim Pawlenty suggests that immigrants are all really secret terrorists. You may have also noticed that, as […]