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Call it political pandering in an election year, but last week’s announcement by Pres. Obama on immigration was another dizzying punch to Romney and his attempts to gain ground with Latinos. It’s a winning strategy in any election to define your opponent, rather than allow them to define themselves. On June 15, Obama announced that Read More
As we get closer to this year’s election, President Obama has been making important decisions that many of his supporters expected him to make the whole time he has been in office. Last month, Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage. Today, June 15, he has made an announcement that will affect the lives of Read More
Growing up in a home in which most of my family members were undocumented, I understood that many options were unavailable due to immigration status. I gained a strong sense of what it could be like to be undocumented. Many doors had been locked to them before they even arrived to try opening them. I Read More
Pope Benedict XVI has begun to sing praise of the generosity of American Catholics in their welcoming of new immigrants, as well as backing the commitment by bishops toward immigration reform in the country. This announcement comes at a time when immigration is all the rage in America (or object of rage), with the DREAM Read More
Weekend News for the Monday Blues Last week, Judge Petra Jimenez Maes became the first Latina appointed to the New Mexico Supreme Court. Political observers familiar with Maes’ career as a jurist predict a drastic rise in the number of people sentenced to chancletazos. I’ll Have Another, ridden by Mexican jockey Mario Gutiérrez, won the Read More
By now, everyone is clearly tired of hearing about immigration, and 2012 has already proven to be another frustrating year for advocates of immigration reform. Between Marco Rubio’s pathetic, watered-down DREAM Act and the several versions of the bill that were voted down in states like Colorado and Florida earlier this year, immigration reform has proven to be a real Read More
About just as many Mexican families are leaving the U.S. as they are coming. A recent report by the Pew Hispanic Center shows that from 2005-2010, roughly 1.4 Mexicans immigrated to the United States, but about the same number of Mexican immigrants (and their U.S.-born children) moved from the United States to Mexico. These numbers Read More
Alicia Torres Don, La Aguila Dorada, knows how to fight. She is a luchadora inside the ring and outside the ring as she fights for the rights of undocumented youth living in fear and uncertainty in the United States. The Fighter is a story about North Carolina Dream Team activist and luchadora Alicia Torres-Don and Read More
I’m tired of hearing about immigration. Reading about the latest immigration news or the current status on immigration reform can get really monotonous. It’s even worse writing about it. And today, I and at least 100,000 other people will saunter through cities from L.A. to Boston in support of immigration reform. It’s promising to be Read More
Mark your calendars, fight fans. The battle many Americans have been waiting for has finally arrived – the immigration Fight of the Century. In the red corner, weighing in at a dainty 100-something pounds: Jan Brewer, a.k.a. “the Great White Dope.” And in the blue corner, from parts unknown: Barack Obama, a.k.a. “Chocolate Jesus.” Today, Read More