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DREAMer Interrupts Mitt Romney During Speech On Education, Escorted Out

The Huffington Post | Andrea Long Chavez | Posted 05.25.2012

On Wednesday, presumptive Republican Presidential nominee, and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney gave a speech on the nation’s educational c...

Report: Predominantly Latino and African American Neighborhoods Suffer A New Front of Discrimination

Posted 04.07.2012

Three years since a Wells Fargo Bank loan officer shared the details of how she and her colleagues targeted and directed prospective African American ...

Mexico City Releases A Free Mobile App That Warns Citizens Of Earthquakes

Posted 04.07.2012

This week, the Mexico City Center for Emergency Response and Civil Protection service released a free app for Blackberry mobile users that would warn ...

Baseball Star Gives Back To East L.A. Youth

Posted 04.05.2012

This article is part of a series published in partnership with the Boyle Heights Beat. By Lesly Juarez When reporters ask 27-year-old Toronto Bl...

Why There May Be A Lack Of Minorities In Top-Level Economic Jobs

Posted 04.04.2012

According to a report released last week by the Federal Reserve’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the central bank is having a hard time making t...

A Middle Ground In Immigration Politics For Hard-Line Republicans?

Posted 04.03.2012

When Dan Stein, the longtime President of the country’s leading conservative think-tank, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), got ...

Will Governor Cuomo Seize A Major Opportunity With The DREAM Act?

Michael Wildes | Posted 04.02.2012

Michael Wildes

Governor Cuomo's surprising silence on the New York DREAM Act is business as usual for many elected officials, but it's disappointing coming from him.

Field of Dreams

Vanessa Perez | Posted 05.31.2012

Vanessa Perez

New York has always been a place where people come to make dreams come true. If Governor Cuomo is really considering a run for president in 2016, he should support New York's DREAM Act and show all that our state intends to lead the nation on education and immigration reform.

Remembering Cesar Chavez: LULAC Carries On His Work

Margaret Moran | Posted 05.31.2012

Margaret Moran

Today, LULAC is spearheading initiatives that carry on the work began by Cesar Chavez. Along with labor and civil rights partners, we launched Movimiento Hispano, an initiative to register over 200,000 Hispanics to vote.

State Level Dreams: Why the New York Dream Act Must Pass

Razeen Zaman | Posted 05.29.2012

Razeen Zaman

It is time to free the American Dream from the exclusivity of opportunities based on accident of birthplace. Let us all have the courage to become Dreamers.

Hipsters Wear "Hoodies" Too

Dr. Chris Zepeda-Millan | Posted 05.26.2012

Dr. Chris Zepeda-Millan

Today, as it was during the 1980s and 90s, the problem isn't the external styles of dress of racial and ethnic minorities, but the racist internal mindsets created, maintained, and perpetuated every day by the mainstream media and bigoted politicians.

Love, Without Papers

Erick Huerta | Posted 05.25.2012

Erick Huerta

There's an inherent lack of balance when you're in a mixed-status relationship. My unauthorized immigration status permeates all aspects of life, and when it comes to romantic relationships, it further skews an already unpredictable situation.

Education Not Incarceration for Young Men of Color

Fermin Vasquez | Posted 05.24.2012

Fermin Vasquez

The future of California depends on the brainpower of the next generation. We cannot march victorious into the future without our young men. It is time to turn the page.

The STARS And ARMS Acts Need A Full Review

Juan Escalante | Posted 05.23.2012

Juan Escalante

The STARS and ARMS Acts may not see the light of day in Congress, but as time continues to pass for the ten year-old DREAM Act, maybe it is time that we start considering some different approaches as to how to solve the plight of undocumented students.

Meet California's First Latino Poet Laureate

Posted 03.25.2012

This week, California native and renowned Chicano poet Juan Felipe Herrera was appointed to the post of California Poet Laureate by Governor Jerry Bro...

Marco Rubio: Richard Nixon or Mr. Spock?

Guy Garcia | Posted 05.20.2012

Guy Garcia

What does a Cuban-American politician have in common with a Vulcan space traveler and the 37th president of the United States?

Fernando Dominguez Died In Administrative Limbo In Detention

Fernando Romero | Posted 05.16.2012

Fernando Romero

According to reports, Mr. Dominguez is the sixth person to die in immigration custody in the 2012 fiscal year. I feel that is one too many.

Latino Civil Rights Organizations Join March from Salem to Montgomery on 47th Anniversary

Margaret Moran | Posted 05.17.2012

Margaret Moran

Last week a delegation of Latino leaders that included LULAC, the Hispanic Federation, and LCLAA boarded a bus routed to Selma, Alabama in order to participate in the reenactment of the historic civil rights marches of 1965.

Latinos and the GOP War on Women

Leo Pierson | Posted 05.15.2012

Leo Pierson

As a community, we are beginning to stand up to the GOP assault on our families via their hyper-racialized "self deportation" policies. We need also to begin to vocalize on the other issues that directly affect our families' well being

Undocumented Immigrant Wins Lottery Ticket Lawsuit

Posted 03.09.2012

Almost two years after he bought a winning lottery ticket and gave it to his boss to cash for fear of being exposed as an undocumented immigrant, Jose...

Gabriel Lerner

The Marine vs. Freddie Mac: Winner Takes Home

HuffingtonPost.com | Gabriel Lerner | Posted 02.27.2012

Almost a week after they were scheduled to be evicted forcibly from their home, the De Los Santos family is still living in the Riverside house they b...

Law Tries To Make City Uninhabitable for Undocumented Immigrants

Posted 02.22.2012

Following recent clashes between anti-immigrant sentiment and the law, a U.S. District Court judge struck down the provisions of an ordinance this wee...

Carlos Harrison

Marco Rubio, Telegenic Tea Party Senator, Remains On Sideline Despite Talk Of VP Pick

HuffingtonPost.com | Carlos Harrison | Posted 02.02.2012

As the Republican frontrunners battled for the vote in Florida, the primary race seemed to be as much about the state's freshman senator, Marco Rubio,...

The Florida Vote And The Campaign Of The Absurd

Gabriel Lerner | Posted 04.03.2012

Gabriel Lerner

To really lure Hispanics, Romney said he'll veto the DREAM Act, which would give some undocumented youth a path to legalization, and Gingrich said he'll veto only half of it. Both promised English only in government.

The Fight For The Cuban-American Vote

AP | By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ | Posted 01.30.2012

HIALEAH, Fla. -- If Mitt Romney wins Tuesday's primary, a sliver of the GOP electorate in Florida may be one of the big reasons. Cuban-Americans are d...