Immigrants Are Coming!: Is Nativism Driving The Immigration Debate?

By Axel Caballero, Cuéntame Agreed, the window of opportunity is wide open for the passage of substantial immigration reform. Immigration reform is, after all, the next big ticket item. It’s […]

PRESS RELEASE Illinois is home for over 200,000 undocumented immigrants, and many of them drive without an IL driver’s license because they are barred from obtaining one. As noted by […]

By Hector Luis Alamo Jr., Being Latino Once again, my home state of Illinois is at the epicenter of the immigrant rights movement. From Fox News Latino: “Activists, administrators of Chicago […]

By Reyna Jacqueline Peña, Gozamos On Thursday, June 28th, Gozamos joined The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum for “I Define Myself: Undocumented and Unafraid.”  The Museum collaborated with the national Coming Out of the Shadows campaign […]

When I was only five years old, the railroad company my father was working for laid him off.  His unemployment check was enough for him to survive, but it did […]

Jose Luis Zelaya, 24, is a Honduran immigrant, graduate student in the College of Education and Human Development at  Texas A&M University, expert crocheter, and aspiring teacher, who ran for student […]

Someone once asked me if I would be as outspokenly pro-immigration as I am if the immigrants were not Latino. There is so much implied in that question that it would take […]

After an exhaustive search spanning two decades and countless books, El Guapo has found Waldo.However, now he (El Guapo) wishes he had never embarked on the journey to find the […]

By Mariana Garza What would “good” immigration policy look like? I think about immigration — the act of entering and settling in a country of which you are not a […]

Today a mural in San Francisco, CA was set to be unveiled that addresses the plight of immigrants in general, and their children often caught in the middle as the […]