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Mexican Immigrants

The Mexican Drug Cartels' Reign of Terror Continues

The 420 Times | Posted 02.14.2013 | Crime
The 420 Times

One facet of the cartel's horrific system is to lie in wait for migrants and then abduct them as they are departing the train on the fringes of Mexico City. Once abducted, the ill-fated individuals are subjected to life threats, physical torture, extortion and some cases even murder.

Undocumented Immigration From Mexico Decreasing In The U.S.

The Huffington Post | Posted 02.11.2013 | Latino Voices

The number of undocumented immigrants living in the United States has continually declined after hitting its peak in 2007 with a total of 12 million, ...

Rush Limbaugh's Ridiculous Rant Against Mexican Immigrants

The Huffington Post | Roque Planas | Posted 02.21.2013 | Latino Voices

Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh lashed out at Mexican immigrants Wednesday in a radio rant that portrayed them as lazy and government-dependent...

Elise Foley

Former President Of Mexico Delivers Scathing Critique Of Romney

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.04.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, said Saturday he is confounded by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's decision du...

LOOK: Is Mitt Romney Stretching His Father's Mexican Connection For Votes?

The Huffington Post | Lucette Jefferson | Posted 10.19.2012 | Latino Voices

The second Presidential debate provided us with a lot to chew on. From binders full of women (there's already a fun meme for that one) to request...

Globalization and Human Capital

Ricardo B. Salinas | Posted 12.03.2012 | Latino Voices
Ricardo B. Salinas

It is very probable that the anti-immigrant neurosis will have a serious future impact on the ability of the U.S. economy to recover from the current crisis.

Saki Knafo

Mexican Moms More Nurturing Than White Ones, Study Finds

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 09.11.2012 | Latino Voices

According to a new study published Tuesday, Mexican immigrant mothers performed better on some measures of parenting than white mothers did. The st...

An Olympian's Fight For A Better Life

BSU at the Games | Emily Thompson | Posted 08.04.2012 | Latino Voices

JoJo Diaz grew up as part of a poor family in a rough part of El Monte, Calif. Kids in his neighborhood wanted him to join one of the local gangs, but...

64 Years Later, Dead Undocumented Immigrants Are Still Nameless in the New York Times

Peter Dreier | Posted 09.24.2012 | Politics
Peter Dreier

The 1948 plane crash in California, last Sunday's truck crash in Texas, and the reporting of each incident by the New York Times, are eerily similar. Woody Guthrie's words written 64 years ago "They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves" -- are hardly outdated.

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

Victor Palafox | Posted 07.10.2012 | Latino Voices
Victor Palafox

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

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

Victor Palafox | Posted 05.03.2012 | Latino Voices
Victor Palafox

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.

Armored Gunboats To Patrol Rio Grande

AP | Posted 03.02.2012 | Latino Voices

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

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

Gabriel Schivone | Posted 03.18.2012 | Latino Voices
Gabriel Schivone

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.

Ignored Tragedies Remain in Wake of Giffords Shooting Anniversary

Gabriel Schivone | Posted 03.11.2012 | Latino Voices
Gabriel Schivone

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.

Ethnic Studies Ruling Escalates Arizona Schools Struggle

Michelle Chen | Posted 02.29.2012 | Home
Michelle Chen

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.

Not a Native American? You're an Immigrant

Bernard Starr | Posted 01.02.2012 | Politics
Bernard Starr

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.

Mexican Immigrants Repeatedly Brave Risks To Resume Lives In United States

New York Times | Damien Cave | Posted 12.03.2011 | Latino Voices

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 ...

Immigration

Ray Suarez | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Ray Suarez

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.

Practice, Practice, Practice

Alan Gottlieb | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Alan Gottlieb

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.

High-Tech Border Fence Axed

AP | SUZANNE GAMBOA | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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

Dispatch From Cancún: Developing Paradise in the Suicide Capital

Roberto Lovato | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Roberto Lovato

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.

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

Afton Branche | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Afton Branche

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

Immigration and Mexico: A Time to Tell the Truth

Ben Daniel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Ben Daniel

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.

My Grandmother the Family Anchor ... Baby

Lila Nordstrom | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Lila Nordstrom

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.

Phoenix Rising ... and the Struggle Continues

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Randall Amster

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...