Young Mother Fights Deportation, Hopes for Immigration Reform
Young Mother Fights Deportation, Hopes for Immigration Reform
By Melissa del Bosque, The Texas Observer On Tuesday morning, Veronica Ayala, 33, stood next to her three-year old son Damian in a parking lot across the street from the J.J. […]
For ‘Undocuqueers,’ SCOTUS Rulings Only Half the Battle
By Michael Lozano, New America Media/Long Beach VoiceWaves LONG BEACH, Calif. – Last month’s Supreme Court decision striking down a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act marked a major […]
The Real Housewife of Ciudad Juarez
By Debbie Nathan, The Texas Observer It’s 5:45 a.m. on a Monday, and we’re stuck in traffic, slowly inching northward on a bridge that joins Mexico to the United States at […]
Reluctant Citizens
By Jacob Lewin. Latino USA Not everyone who immigrates to the United States wants to become a citizen. There are around ten million legal permanent residents who aren’t applying. We’ll […]
Top Republicans condemn Steve King DREAMer comments
By Jacquellena Carrero, NBCLatino Top Republicans are not pleased with Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King. House Speaker John Boehner and Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor denounced controversial remarks from King on young undocumented […]
Immigrants self-deport to Mexico, then ask to cross into U.S.
By Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times NOGALES, Ariz. — Chanting, “Undocumented, unafraid,” three young immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children staged an unorthodox — and risky — […]
How immigrant’s dream of opening gym for Latino children in L.A. became reality
By Erika L. Sánchez, NBCLatino Bertha Antaramian, owner of Twister Gymnastics in Los Angeles, was a physical education teacher and gymnast in her native country of Mexico before she came to […]
‘Dreamers’ Who Left US Miss Immigration Reform
By Valeria Fernandez, Associates Press/ABCNews When U.S. President Barack Obama began stopping the deportations last year of some young immigrants living in the country illegally, Adriana Gil Diaz realized that […]
Legal Immigrants Seek Reward for Years of Following the Rules
By Julia Preston, New York Times Angeles P. Barberena has always tried to follow the United States’ immigration laws. She dutifully filed her petition to become a resident, complied with […]
Mexican immigrants’ politics more diverse than pundits assert, study finds
By Deann Gayman, Phys.org In the 2012 presidential election, seven out of 10 Latino immigrants voted for President Obama. As news pundits dissected the defeat of Mitt Romney, they dismissed […]
