July 17, 2008
Latina Lista is reporting on the story of Juana Villegas DeLaPaz, an undocumented pregnant worker who was recently arrested and imprisoned for driving without a license. If that wasn't bad enough, Villegas DeLaPaz went into labor while in prison. The results were horrific. Villegas DeLaPaz was...
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Yesterday Barack Obama gave a speech at the National Council of La Raza Conference in San Diego, California. The speech contains nothing surprising. Obama positions himself as a friend of Latinos, who feels our struggles with education, housing, the economy, health care and of course, immigration. ...
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Excerpts from an article on CaribbeanWorldNews.com:The campaign to get Caribbean nationals accurately counted by the U.S. Census in 2010 will kick off officially in New York on June 20, 2008.“Being visible in America begins and ends with the U.S. Census,” proclaimed CaribID2010 chair Felicia Per...
go to article »July 14, 2008
With a new tenant in the White House, the American policy toward the Maghreb is likely to undergo some important retooling in 2009. The magnitude of the changes is unclear as the new American administration will probably view the region through old and new lenses. John McCain, despite his Republi...
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July 11, 2008
Senator’s Obama and McCain both spoke at the LULAC convention today with Senator Obama receiving the warmer reception. This is no surprise given the Republican Party’s association with tough immigration reform which is seen as quite hurtful to the Hispanic population. I just finished wat...
go to article »July 1, 2008
I love when a woman can show up looking as she does in the picture and people can still say that something "allegedly" went down. Pictured is Irma Marquez, who was shown on a surveillance videotape, being bodyslammed, facedown, by Yonkers, NY police officer Wayne Simoes. "Several officers stated tha...
go to article »June 28, 2008
Michael Savage, the shock jock whose bigoted rhetoric has ruffled more than a few feathers over the years has got something to say about refugees to the United States. An email from media watchdog group Media Matters fills us in:Michael Savage asserted on June 23: "We're getting refugees now who hav...
go to article »June 27, 2008
A California judge blocked a lawsuit that sought to enlist Los Angeles police officers in weeding out undocumented immigrants. The lawsuit was filed by unnamed police officers, allegedly afraid to speak out about what they called a revolving door, where undocumented residents are routinely arrested ...
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