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08/19/2005 |
| Latinos divided on immigration |
| Contrary to what may seem common sense, Latinos are not a monolithic group when it comes to immigration, especially to the opening of the borders to more legal immigrants, and to measures that would make life easier to the undocumented. |
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07/29/2005 |
| Hispanics’ boom in US south |
The Hispanic population in the US south is growing much faster than in other regions of the United States and it is developing significant differences from the older Latino centers of California and New York, said a report released Tuesday by the Washington-based Pew Hispanic Center.
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07/29/2005 |
| Deceptive immigration practices endanger workers |
| The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) expressed outraged at the recent immigration practices by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, which arrested 48 immigrant workers in North Carolina by organizing a deceptive Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) meeting. |
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07/22/2005 |
| Latinos can't afford to breath |
| Recently, the play Living Out, about the always difficult relationship between a working mother and her babysitter, presented the worst case scenario of poor families in urban neighborhoods, surrounded by factories and pollution. |
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07/15/2005 |
| In-state tuition for immigrants survives in Kansas |
| A federal judge last week, dismissed a lawsuit filed to obstruct a recent Kansas law that makes some undocumented immigrants eligible for lower, in-state tuition rates at state colleges, based on their attendance to high school in the state. |
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07/15/2005 |
| Latinos could gain big for retirement |
As have been said many times, too many Americans, and too too many Latinos are not saving adequately for retirement, and this has, according to experts, a particularly painful effect on minorities who tend to hold lower paying jobs with little or no benefits, or pensions.
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07/15/2005 |
| Three 'musts' for retirement planning |
| Where are you on the road to a comfortable retirement? Are you nearing the exit sign to a retirement you've dreamed about, or is retirement still a long drive away? |
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07/08/2005 |
Girl stays, parents deported |
| A young woman brought to the United States illegally by her Costa Rican parents as a girl and who last year was named Latina magazine's "Latina of the Year" so far has avoided deportation from the United States -- a battle her parents have lost. |
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07/08/2005 |
| Competition is key to cut cost of remittances |
| Competition among banks and money transfer companies, the expansion of their networks and the application of new technologies have dramatically cut the cost of remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean in recent years, Inter-American Development Bank experts said. |
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07/01/2005 |
Are minorities cannon fodder? |
| Recent data has proved what so far was mere anecdotical evidence: Hispanics in particular, and minorities in general are military targets... for recruitment, and their deaths are disproportionate not with their number in society, but with their number in the armed forces. |
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06/24/2005 |
Day labor: Nightmarish route to American Dream |
| A study confirms what anecdotical evidence had been showing: day laborers in the Washington Metropolitan area are regularly cheated out of their wages, sometimes regardless of migratory status. |
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06/17/2005 |
Unauthorized migrants, a new portrait |
| It's a common assumption that every Hispanic looking male sitting in front of a Seven Eleven to get a job is an illiterate, undocumented migrant, whose family is still in a poor village on the so called Third World. Surprise, surprise! |
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05/27/2005 |
Police to double as immigration agents |
| Immigrants’ fears of coming anywhere close to a police station may get a boost from the latest amendment passed by the House of Representatives last week, which gives state and local police the authority to apprehend, detain, and deport immigrants. |
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