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One of the long-standing misconceptions regarding immigration is that newcomers are a drain on the system and take up resources paid for by Americans. A new study conducted by Harvard Medical School (drawing from previously completed surveys handled by the Census Bureau and the Department of Health and Human Service) completely turns this idea on Read More
I remember being a couple of weeks into my first grade experience in a school in Florida. My parents had moved there from Puerto Rico so that my dad could take a low-level position in a local telephone company. I did not understand the English language. Actually, had never heard anyone speak it before I Read More
My cousin came to America from El Salvador when he was a toddler. But he didn’t become a citizen until his second tour of duty in Iraq. At one point in his naturalization process, he was told to report to our county courthouse for the exam. “But I’m in Iraq,” he said to the civil servant Read More
Imagine being an immigrant, sustaining an injury, being sent to the hospital for treatment and then waking up in your native country. It sounds like a pitch for a fiction novel, but this is true. It is called “medical repatriation” and according to a report by the Center for Social Justice (CSJ) at Seton Hall Read More
Gun control. Treatment of undocumented immigrants. Police brutality. Voting rights. These are issues of great concern in most U.S. Latino’s minds these days. Even sovereignty in our mother countries. But drones? We hadn’t heard about those. Rand Paul’s recent filibuster and national theatrics have raised awareness about the potential dangers this new sophisticated weapon called Read More
Let me start with a little background: I live in Kenosha, a city in Wisconsin, which everyone in the media and politics identified as one of the ‘battleground’ or ‘swing’ states in the 2012 Presidential election. I am also a Caucasian, socially-liberal, fiscally-conservative Republican male who is involved in my local Hispanic community as the Read More
Never let it be said that Republicans cannot take a hint. After a significant majority of Latino voters favored the president and his policies over the fare that the GOP was offering, there seems to have been a change in the attitudes among some of the Republican faithful. Some of them are looking at their Read More
The issue of immigration policies in the United States is a constantly heated topic, President Obama touched upon it during his inauguration speech as the “journey not being complete”. In the midst of it all, new Cuban immigration rules instituted just a week ago, on January 14, 2013, brings to question the future of American Read More
University of Michigan Anthropology professor Jason De León has for a very long time been fascinated by the human experience of those crossing the US/Mexico border. Since 2009, De León has been the lead author of the Undocumented Migration Project of the personal items left behind in the hot, sandy landscape of the Sonoran desert in Read More
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” When Lady Liberty first displayed these famous words in 1903, it was in earnest. Millions upon millions of immigrants from Read More