Today, the Spanish-Language press reports on Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) priorities for 2010-2014. At the same time, ICE is looking to improve their immigration detention centers; Farmworker Justice and Oxfam release a report that shows farmworkers are still being exploited.
Today, the Spanish-Language press gives significant coverage to Sen. Russell Pearce’s proposal to deny U.S. citizenship to children born in the country; Civil disobedience continues in North Carolina, Denver, and California. Maribel Hastings of America’s Voice, interviews Harvard student and DREAM Act activist Eric Balderas.
Today, the Spanish-language press gives significant coverage to the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Oklahoma City, where mayors from around the country condemned SB 1070 and called for action on immigration reform; The Supreme Court ruling in favor of immigrants charged with minor drug posession also received wide coverage.
The Spanish-Language press covers the Mexico-U.S. Interparliamentary meeting in Campeche, Mexico in where Legislators talk about immigration reform. Guatemalans are denied temporary protected status (TPS) while Harvard student who was detained over the weekend, faces deportation back to Mexico.
A hearing in the Capitol yesterday featured Arizona women and girls speaking out against SB 1070, as activists launch a new wristband campaign to protest the law. Meanwhile, the death of Sergio Adrian Hernández remains a top story in the Spanish-language press as it reverberates on the international stage.
