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Arizona’s Controversial Laws: A Crash Course

By Lourdes Medrano | 02/15/2011 - 19:05 | 0 Comments

Arizona lawmakers are continuing their push this week to deny automatic citizenship to children of illegal immigrants. Senator Ron Gould (R-AZ) recently called off the vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee because he believed the bill would have been defeated, but more receptive legislators are expected to again take up the agenda this week. The goal is to force the U.S....

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Latino Leaders Raise Awareness of Congressional Redistricting
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Latino Leaders Raise Awareness of Congressional Redistricting

By Damarys Ocaña Perez | 02/15/2011 - 16:45 | 0 Comments

It’s time for Latinos to put on their boxing gloves and get ready to fight: It’s redistricting time and the stakes for our political clout have never been higher —say Latino leaders.

“Because of the size of the Latino population, this redistricting will determine the political destiny of Latinos for the next 10 years,” says Rosalind Gold, senior director of policy,...

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Push to End Birthright Citizenship Sparks Opposition
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Push to End Birthright Citizenship Sparks Opposition in Arizona

By Lourdes Medrano | 02/01/2011 - 17:45 | 4 Comments

A push by Arizona lawmakers to deny citizenship to children of illegal immigrants has spawned two separate efforts to oust the architect of the proposed legislation from office.

The leader of a Latino Republican group...

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Adoption Controversy

Guatemalan Mother Fights to Get Son Back

By Erika Ramirez | 01/28/2011 - 17:30 | 2 Comments

It’s a madre’s worst nightmare. Guatemalan immigrant Encarnacion Bail Romero, had her son taken away from her when she was detained for being in the country illegally back in 2007. Romero was arrested during an immigration raid at a poultry processing plant and sentenced to two years in a federal prison after she pleaded guilty to “aggravated...

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Republicans Push Obama for More Workplace Immigration Raids

By Irasema Romero | 01/28/2011 - 16:00 | 1 Comment

The latest push on immigration reform by the newly Republican-controlled House of Representatives is to reinstate workplace raids, reports The Los Angeles Times. The strategy—followed by the Bush administration, but abandoned by ...

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AZ Rep. Raul Grijalva: "Politics in Arizona Fueled by Hate"

By Mariela Rosario | 01/12/2011 - 17:30 | 1 Comment

Rep. Raul Grijlalva (D-AZ) talked Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! yesterday about the recent senseless shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. He knew Giffords well and worked with her both in their home state and...

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It Takes 18 Seconds to Climb the U.S./Mexico Border Fence
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WATCH: 18 Seconds to Climb the U.S./Mexico Border Fence

By Mariela Rosario | 01/12/2011 - 15:00 | 0 Comments

Colorlines recently posted a video showing two young women who both manage to climb to the very top of the controversial U.S./Mexico...

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Puerto Rico loses vote in House of Reps
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Puerto Rico Loses Its Voice in the House of Reps

By Mariela Rosario | 01/06/2011 - 16:30 | 1 Comment

The House of Representative ruled yesterday to revoke the voting rights of delegates, which means that lawmakers representing Puerto Rico, Washington DC, American Guam, Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands no longer have any power in congress.

For Puerto Rico, the revocation of voting rights basically strips the approximately four million residents of the...

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