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Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum may have drawn the ire of the Puerto Rican community thanks to controversial remarks he made while visiting the island on Wednesday, March 14. In an interview with El Vocero newspaper, Santorum said that the island of Puerto Rico must first make English its official language if it wants to Read More
A few hundred Chicagoans huddled around a makeshift stage on a blustery spring Saturday. They gathered at Daley Plaza, the political heart of the city caged by glittering sentinels of steel and glass. Warm rays from the sun flooded the square where protestors held homemade signs displaying the words: “UNDOCUMENTED. UNAFRAID. AND UNAPOLOGETIC.” They, the Read More
With the primary results of Super Tuesday propelling former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney into a comfortable lead in the race for the Republican nomination, it is becoming increasingly clear that he will carry the torch in the race against the Democratic incumbent, President Barack Obama. However, Romney still has problems convincing enough social conservatives to Read More
The Democratic president who insisted, “Si, Se Puede” hasn’t kept his promise to make immigration reform a top priority. He has also deported more Latinos than anybody in history, despite the fact that there are fewer undocumented people to arrest. So getting the Hispanic vote should be easy for the GOP, which continues to insist Read More
On March 10, potentially hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants and their supporters will march through America’s major cities in honor of National Coming Out of the Shadows Day, when the millions of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. are urged to make their presence known. First organized in Chicago in 2010 by the Immigrant Read More
The cover of TIME magazine’s March 5 issue strikingly proclaims the arrival of the Latino vote with two, simple Spanish words: “Yo Decido.” In the cover article, brazenly titled “Why Latinos will decide the next President,” White House correspondent for TIME Michael Scherer argues that an explosion of Latino populations across the country will endow Read More
Two weeks ago, Time magazine devoted their cover to proclaiming that Latinos would decide the next President of the United States. With the growth of our population and our presence in key swing states such as Florida and our massive presence in huge electoral states such as California, this should come as no surprise. As Read More
On February 28, Compton City Council members reached a settlement involving a 2010 suit filed by two Latinas, Felicitas Gonzalez and Flora Ruiz, who claimed Compton was violating the voting rights of its Latino citizens. In Compton, a historically black city that has in recent times become predominately Latino, city council elections are at-large. While Read More
America, it’s been said, is a “patchwork quilt.” Irish hands helped build the Erie Canal, and Chinese immigrants went to work on the transcontinental railroad, making cross-country travel possible “from sea to shining sea.” America’s present-day economic might was paid for in flesh by millions of African slaves – whipped, beaten, and forced to toil Read More
Recent reporting suggests the federal government intends to draw back from the controversial Immigrant Investor Program, known within the halls of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as “EB-5,” and pejoratively labeled by critics as “cash for visas.” The program offers a pathway to citizenship to wealthy immigrants who agree to invest between $500,000 and Read More