Prospects for Immigration Reform are Bleh…er, Bleak
Prospects for Immigration Reform are Bleh…er, Bleak
In case you were wondering, what with the swearing-in of the new congress and all, the prospects for immigration reform, according to thehill.com, are bleak. I don’t like that word, […]
Telling the Digital Latino Story
I LOVE THIS STORY! OK, I’m biased. I love storytelling and I love taking down the walls of stereotypes. This story does both. An organization called Mobile Voices is putting […]
Attitudes Shifting on Immigration, Slowly, Predictably
So now that the dust has settled after the mid-term election and the holiday daze is beginning to clear, people are thinking a little differently. The most recent poll, reported […]
Top 5 Immigration Stories of 2010…really?
It’s inevitable. At this time of year the media and their minions like to do top ten lists because: They have nothing better to do. Their editors/producers told them to. […]
Iowa Congressman Wants To Deport Taxpaying Immigrants
¡Dios mío! These things just keep getting worse. Iowa U.S. Representative, and Republican, Steve King said in a recent interview that, if he were to become chairman of the House’s […]
2011 Will Bring Slew of State Immigration Bills
Get ready for the onslaught. Almost every state legislature across the continental US will be taking-on immigration law proposals in 2011. Most of them, as you’d imagine, parrot Arizona’s sb1070. […]
Legal Wait for Entry to US is Decades Long
Here’s a part of the immigration debate that gets little play in the general, national, debate: the infamous ‘line” that immigrants must stand in in order to enter the US […]
Obama Has Failed Latinos, Latin America
The Miami Herald’s Latin America correspondent Andres Oppenheimer wrote a scathing and analytical piece about President Barack Obama’s broken promises to Latinos and Latin America. A few of his points: […]
How Obama Can Strenghten Ties with Latinos
We’re at the point of the year when folks are shaking off the dust of this year’s battles and making plans for the one’s to come. Much of the speculation […]
U.S. Border Guards Operate With Violent Impunity
An interesting story from The Dallas Observer that details the violent death of an immigrant in Border Patrol custody in San Diego, Calif. and then tells us about the bigger […]