Mexican Immigrants

HB 56: How the People of Alabama Fought Back Against the Worst Anti-Immigrant Law in the Country

Victor Palafox | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Mexican Immigrants, Mexican American, Immigrant Justice, Dreamers Blog Series, Dreamers, DREAM Act, Birmingham-Alabama, Latino Voices News

Alabama has an opportunity to right a wrong and ridding ourselves of HB 56 is our only solution.

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HB 56: How Alabama Won the Anti-immigrant Race by Beating Arizona at Its Own Game

Victor Palafox | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Mexican American, Dreamers Blog Series, Dreamers, Birmingham-Alabama, DREAM Act, Mexican Immigrants, Immigrant Justice, Latino Voices News

I remember having to sit down with my brother and mother, looking up apartment prices, schools, universities, and humorously sitting aghast when I noticed the lack of Southern restaurants. My family was not the only one.

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Armored Gunboats To Patrol Rio Grande

AP | Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Mexican Immigrants, Mexican Cartels, Immigration Reform, Video, Latino Politics, Immigration, Rio Grande Boats, Border Patrol, Rio Grande, Texas Immigration, Mexican Immigration, Latino Voices News

MCALLEN, Texas -- The Texas Department of Public Safety says it'll have two armored gunboats patrolling the Rio Grande later this month. DPS Director...

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An 'Animal Farm' Enters the Annals of US Border Enforcement

Gabriel Schivone | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Illegal Immigration, US-Mexico Border, Border Patrol, Undocumented Migrants, Illegal Immigrants, Border, Mexican Immigrants, Immigration and Border Enforcement Policy, George Orwell, Prison Divestment, Detention and Removal, Deportation, Border Militarization, Latino Voices News

The federal deployment of horses to the border is creating a rodeo of dramatic irony that would assail even the imagination of classic satirist George Orwell.

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Ignored Tragedies Remain in Wake of Giffords Shooting Anniversary

Gabriel Schivone | Posted 03.11.2012

This week as communities the world over justly mourn the victims of last year's Tucson's shootings, the violent death of young Torres--one case in a larger pattern--remain barely known.

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Ethnic Studies Ruling Escalates Arizona Schools Struggle

Michelle Chen | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Latinos, Mexican Immigrants, Ethnic Studies, Education, Youth, Tucson, Neoliberalism, sb1070, Schools, Arizona, Education News

Analyzing problems in the real world and coming up with solutions. If officials think that's anathema to a sound education, they've given civil rights advocates the most principled argument yet for why ethnic studies is so vital for the next generation of leaders.

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Not a Native American? You're an Immigrant

Bernard Starr | Posted 01.02.2012

Contrary to the popular belief that we are swimming in more immigrants than ever, in 1890 14.8 percent of our population was foreign-born compared to today's 12.5 percent. And the number of illegal immigrants is on the decline.

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Mexican Immigrants Repeatedly Brave Risks To Resume Lives In United States

New York Times | Damien Cave | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Mexican Immigrants, Illegal Re-Entry, Undocumented Immigrants, Deportation, U.S.-Mexico Border, Latino Voices News

AGUA PRIETA, Mexico — "My wife, my son — I have to get back to them," Daniel kept telling himself, from the moment he was arrested in Seattle for ...

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Immigration

Ray Suarez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexican Immigrants, Latinos, 14th Amendment, John Boehner, Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Immigration, Borders, Immigration, Lindsey Graham, Hispanics, Democrats, Barack Obama, Deportation, Republicans, Politics News

When the clock, the year, and the lame duck congress all ran out, so did what the Conventional Wisdom considered President Obama's best shot at immigration reform.

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Practice, Practice, Practice

Alan Gottlieb | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexican Immigrants, Education Reform, Zacatecas, Colorado Education, Mike Johnston, Csap, Denver News

The frenetic pace of new mandates and initiatives have made it almost impossible for educators to settle in and get good at implementing any particular series of changes.

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High-Tech Border Fence Axed

AP | SUZANNE GAMBOA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexican Immigrants, High-Tech Border Fence, Border Fence Project, Janet Napolitano, Mexican Border, Obama Administration, Immigration, Mexico Border, Border Fence, High Tech Border Fence, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday ended a high-tech border fence project that cost taxpayers nearly $1 billion but did little to i...

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Dispatch From Cancún: Developing Paradise in the Suicide Capital

Roberto Lovato | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copenhagen Climate Talks, cop16-Cancun-Mexico, Mexico City, Environmental Policy, Cancun Climate Conference, Mexico, Globalization, Janeth Paola, Cancun Climate Talks, Cancun Beach, Mexican Immigrants, Reyna Osorio, cop16, Cancun, Spring Break Cancun, Cancun 2010, Climate Change and Immigration, Environment, Immigration and Climate Change, Obama and Climate Change, Climate Change, Cilmate Migration, cop16 Cancun Mexico, Cancun Climate Change, Immigration Debate, Immigration Policy, Global Warming, Cancun Climate Summit, Green News

Cancun is the suicide capital of Mexico. That's a subject that's not likely to come up as thousands of people gather here over the next two weeks for the U.N. Conference on Climate Change.

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Spotlight on Mexican New Yorkers Reveals Ugly Truth of Low-Wage Labor

Afton Branche | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexican Immigrants, Minimum Wage, Hilda Solis, Wage Theft, Undocumented Immigrants, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, New York State Senate, Illegal Immigrants, Department of Labor, Obama Administration, Immigration, New York State Assembly, Undocumented Workers, New York News

Undocumented immigrants remain the sole group whose right to basic workplace protections is constantly questioned and routinely ignored.

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Immigration and Mexico: A Time to Tell the Truth

Ben Daniel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Victor Davis Hanson, Mexican Immigrants, Mexico, Victor Davis Hanson Immigration, Religion News

Immigration is a serious issue in the United States. Whatever we may think about which measures and policies should be enacted to curb immigration, no one is helped by conversations informed by misleading or inaccurate information.

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My Grandmother the Family Anchor ... Baby

Lila Nordstrom | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexican Immigrants, American Revolution, Anchor Baby, Immigration, Undocumented Immigrants, Lindsey Graham, American History, Canadians, Family, Politics News

Every family that has moved to the United States, at some point, gives birth to an anchor baby. It's no use isolating recent immigrants and their children as some vague harmful group.

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Phoenix Rising ... and the Struggle Continues

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexican Immigrants, Nonviolence, Civil Disobedience, Phoenix, Protest, Joe Arpaio, Immigration, Arizona, Arizona Politics, Arizona Immigration Law, Sb 1070, Compassion, Politics News

I've written a lot about Arizona since the national controversy over SB 1070 took hold, and in particular during recent weeks as the struggle over the...

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After Arizona

James Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexican Immigrants, Immigration Reform, Immigration, Arizona Immigration Law, Illegal Immigrants, Vietnam War, Chinese Culture, Korean War, China, Politics News

From California north to Alaska, west to Colorado and south to New Mexico, posters told the Chinese to get out and that those who hesitated faced the barrel of a white man's rifle.

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Arizona's Message: Don't Tread on Me, Tread on Them

David Frey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexican Immigrants, Colorado Politics, Tea Party, Colorado Immigration, Arizona Immigration Law, Illegal Immigrants, Denver News

The brave cowboys in Arizona have proven once again that the most powerful country in the world is also the most frightened. In this case, we're afraid of poor Mexicans.

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Not the Arizona I Knew

Salena Tramel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexican Immigrants, Politics News, Politics, Jan Brewer, Trade, Phoenix, Arizona Immigration, Arizona Immigration Bill, Mexico, Arizona, Nafta, Politics News

Today I couldn't be more ashamed of where I'm from. The racist immigration bill signed into law by Gov. Jan Brewer more or less turns my childhood home into a xenophobic police state.

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"Hey, Jose, You Look Mexican! Pull Over!"

Tamara N. Holder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexican Immigrants, Immigration, Governor-Jan-Brewer, Arizona, Fourth Amendment, Crime, Illegal Immigrants, Home News

Arizona can't really think its new criminal law allowing the police to stop "suspected undocumented" Mexicans is Constitutional! There's something e...

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Gustavo De La Rosa, Mexican Human Rights Activist, Put Into Forced Asylum By U.S.

washingtonpost.com | William Booth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexican Immigrants, Immigration Reform, Illegal Immigrants, Mexican Trucks, Mexico, Gustavo De La Rosa, Immigration, Immigration Debate, Mexico Drug Wars, Mexican Immigration, World News

MEXICO CITY -- Gustavo de la Rosa looks over his shoulder, notes suspicious license plates, changes his routine. As one of the most prominent human ri...

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Depression and Suicide Rise for Hispanic Teenagers in Queens

Ruchika Tulshyan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexican Immigrants, Latinos, Undocumented Immigrants, Colombia, Queens, Colombian Immigrants, Suicide, Immigrants, Immigration, Hispanics, Elmhurst Hospital, Make the Road New York, New York News

There are a growing number of severely depressed Hispanic adolescents in Queens who hide suicide attempts. In some traditional pockets, to talk about mental illness is considered shameful.

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VIDEO: Lou Dobbs vs. 'Latino in America'

Arturo Perez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lou Dobbs, Immigration, Immigrant, Dobbs, Cnn, Illegal Immigrants, Mexican Immigrants, Soledad O'Brien, Lou Dobbs Tonight, Rick Sanchez, Video, Media News

I decided to start writing to Dobbs, pointing out his many errors, and the danger his words could cause. I don't know how many emails I wrote, but needless to say, he never wrote me back.

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Pennsylvania Burning: Feds Levy Charges In Immigrant Killing and Police Cover-Up

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexican Immigrants, Immigration, Undocumented Immigrants, Pennsylvania, Civil Rights, Politics News

The United States Department of Justice announced a sweeping set of indictments levied by a federal grand jury connected to a racially motivated killing and alleged police corruption in Shenandoah, PA.

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Thanks for the Welcome

Raúl de Molina | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hispanics, Latinos, Univision, Mexican Immigrants, 2010, Sonia Sotomayor, Lou Dobbs, Spanish, Mexico, Immigration, Immigrants, New Year's Commentary, Miami, 2009, Media News

So as we advance into 2010, Lou Dobbs, take a moment to reflect. Remember that one of the Latinos you so systematically bash could well be your president one day. You can bet your Senate run on it.

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