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Senator Menendez Hopeful about New Immigration Reform Bill
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Senator Menendez Hopeful about New Immigration Reform Bill

By Mariela Rosario | 10/01/2010 - 09:22 | 0 Comments

Senator Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) introduced a new immigration reform bill that has many supporters hopeful to see a change within the system sooner rather than later. The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 was filed just as Congress prepares to break until after the November 2 elections.

Introducing the bill yesterday at...

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DREAM Act Activists React to Republican Filibuster
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DREAM Act Activists React to Republican Filibuster

By Damarys Ocaña Perez | 09/22/2010 - 14:15 | 3 Comments

As soon as she heard that Republicans had filibustered a defense bill that would have brought the DREAM Act to a vote in the Senate, Lizbeth Mateo got on a plane and headed to Washington D.C., along with other DREAM Act student activists who are not giving up on getting the decade-old bill passed this year. “I’ve been here since then,...

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DREAM Act Up for Vote Today
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UPDATE: Republicans Filibuster Defense Authorization Bill & DREAM Act

By Mariela Rosario | 09/21/2010 - 16:30 | 6 Comments

The DREAM act is scheduled to come up for a vote before the senate today at 2:30PM after Senate majority leader Harry Reid added the amendment to the defense authorization bill a few weeks ago. But unfortunately (and ironically), Sen. John McCain—once a staunch supporter of the DREAM act and the top Republican on the Armed...

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Jacob Vargas from 'Devil': "The devil manifests itself in many ways, like SB 1070"

By Damarys Ocaña Perez | 09/13/2010 - 18:00 | 3 Comments

For us, Jacob Vargas is a familiar and welcome (not to mention, cute) face, having been in several of Hollywood’s best-known movies about Latinos: Selena, My Family, American Me, and Mi Vida Loca. But you’re about to see him in a whole new light in the M. Night Shyamalan-produced thriller ...

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Watch: Jessica Alba on SB1070

Watch: Jessica Alba on SB 1070: "It's very racist"

By Mariela Rosario | 09/08/2010 - 17:30 | 0 Comments

Jessica Alba recently sat down with MTV Tr3s to promote her new film Machete and they asked her what she thinks about the controversial SB 1070 passed in Arizona last spring and...

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Migrants Mourned
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Families Mourn Massacred Migrants

By Mariela Rosario | 09/08/2010 - 09:00 | 3 Comments

72 Central and South American citizens were found murdered along the northern Mexico border on August 24, and since then there has been an international outcry to bring those responsible to justice. The bodies were found after a shoot-out between suspected drug cartel members and local authorities.

There were two survivors of the gruesome mass murder, 18-year-old...

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Aterciopelados Get Animated for their Latest Video

Aterciopelados Get Animated for Their Latest Video

By Grace Bastidas | 09/07/2010 - 14:15 | 0 Comments

Colombian rockeros Aterciopelados have never shied away from commenting on political and social issues through their music. The band’s latest video tackles the immigration debate with lyrics and images. The clip is for the song "Bandera," which was recorded for the 2008 album Rio but might as well have been written with...

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Report Reveals Numbers of Undocumented Immigrants Down Significantly
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Report Reveals Numbers of Undocumented Immigrants Down Significantly

By Latina Staff | 09/02/2010 - 11:55 | 0 Comments

A new report released by the Pew Hispanic Center shows the annual inflow of unauthorized immigrants to the United States is down sharply. The number was nearly two-thirds smaller from the March 2007 to March 2009 period than it had been from March 2000 to March 2005, according to new estimates.

The Center notes the decline has contributed to an...

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