With most of Washington concentrating on economic policies and health care, reforming immigration isn't a priority. Marchers at an immigration rights rally Monday in Chicago hope to change that and called on President Obama and Congress to act or face political trouble at election time.
Continue
»
Low-wage workers in American cities -- busboys, child-care providers, textile workers, dishwashers, stockroom clerks, groundskeepers, security guards and the like -- comprise an underclass seen practically everywhere but not much heard from.
Continue
»
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio may have a way to bypass possible changes in federal immigration law by arresting illegal immigrants on outstanding charges such as unpaid traffic tickets and fines for not having drivers licenses, according to immigration attorneys and Hispanic activists who monitor the agency's activities.
Continue
»
"The authors of the chain e-mail and the phony government report fear what Los Angeles has become -- a multilingual, multiethnic city with multicultural tastes. They search for information to persuade others to be afraid, but the actual numbers don't quite add up to the big monster they think...
Continue
»
Latino immigrant workers took to the pulpits of African-American churches in the East Bay on Sunday morning and sought to gain allies in the fight to overhaul America's immigration system.
Continue
»
The e-mail that popped into my inbox started with an insult and included an attachment full of "facts."
After calling me a "crybaby" for writing a sympathetic story about Mexican immigrants, the sender insisted I read a series of statistics on the effects of illegal immigration on Los Angeles and...
Continue
»
Sep 6, 2009
06/09/09 a 7:27pm por Rafael Prieto Zartha Bitácora El gimnasio de la escuela elemental J.V. Washam, localizada en Cornelius, un suburbio del área metropolitana de Charlotte, en Carolina del Norte, reverberaba como una olla de presión en la noche del último miércoles de agosto, con motivo de la realización...
Continue
»
06/09/09 a 7:04pm por Maribel Hastings El Congreso retorna a una tensa sesión legislativa donde el primer tema en la agenda es la reforma de salud que ha puesto al presidente Barack Obama contra las cuerdas y a sus altos índices de aceptación en picada. El tema migratorio, aunque...
Continue
»
The Center for Urban Economic Development, National Employment Law Project, and UCLA Institutute for Research on Labor and Employment, released a study titled "Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers that explored the treatment of approximately 4,500 workers in three of America's biggest cities - New York, LA, and Chicago.
It cites a...
Continue
»
A new report entitled "Climate of Fear," released this week by the Southern Poverty Law Center, has exposed something ugly lying just beneath the surface of American politics and American life. The report highlights how Latino immigrants in Suffolk County, have become frequent victims of violence and racial intimidation--...
Continue
»
