Push to Include Gay Couples in Immigration Bill
Push to Include Gay Couples in Immigration Bill
By Julia Preston, New York Times This has been a good year for gay rights advocates — with public opinion shifting in their favor and same-sex marriage advancing in the states — […]
Immigration Debate Gives Life to Annual Rallies
By Associated Press/Wall Street Journal SAN DIEGO — Social media and text messaging have emerged as indispensable tools for advocates of a sweeping immigration overhaul, but street marches have an […]
Taken for a Ride: Temp Agencies & ‘Raiteros’ in Immigrant Chicago
By Michael Grabell, Pro Publica CHICAGO — Ty Inc. became one of the world’s largest manufacturers of stuffed animals thanks to the Beanie Babies craze in the 1990s. But it has […]
Aging Undoc Immigrants – A Burden or a Boon?
By Paul Kleyman, New America Media SAN FRANCISCO–As the debate over immigration reform tugs predictably back in Washington, an undercurrent of ageism and disability bias has been flowing beneath more obvious […]
A Look at Immigrant Patients Deported by Hospitals
By Associated Press/Boston Herald DES MOINES, Iowa — Over the last five years, American hospitals have sent at least 600 immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally back to their home […]
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 […]
Rubio Spokesman Compares Illegal Immigrants to Slaves
By Eliana Johnson, National Review A spokesman for Senator Marco Rubio yesterday compared the status of illegal immigrants in the United States under current law to that of slaves prior to emancipation. […]
Mainstream Media Getting It: Latino Immigrants Are Immigrating
By Ian Reifowitz, Huffington Post You may be familiar with Samuel Huntington. He’s the political scientist who, in his last years, offered dire warnings that Hispanic and especially Mexican immigrants behave profoundly differently than […]
Gender Wage Gap is Harsher for Immigrant Women
By Erika L. Sánchez, NBCLatino It’s no secret that Latinas are the hardest hit by the gender wage gap. A recent analysis from the National Partnership for Women and Families showed that Latinas are […]
Latinos, the New Italians
By David Leonhardt, New York Times With the arrival of millions of Latinos in recent decades, there have been multiple reasons to wonder if they would assimilate and thrive — […]
