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U.S. Apologizes for Experimenting with STD's in Guatemala
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U.S. Apologizes for Experimenting with STD's in Guatemala

By Mariela Rosario | 10/01/2010 - 15:05 | 0 Comments

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued an apology today for a series of secret public health experiments conducted in Guatemala in the 1940s.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also signed the joint statement: "The sexually transmitted disease inoculation study conducted from 1946-1948 in Guatemala was clearly...

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Obama Fails the Education Test... By Ignoring Latinos

Latina View: Obama Fails the Education Test... By Ignoring Latinos

By Galina Espinoza | 10/01/2010 - 10:04 | 2 Comments

All I kept thinking this week every time I heard the phrase “Education Nation” bandied about was: What nation are they talking about?

The nation I live in has 50 million Hispanics, compromising 17% of the U.S. population—second in size only to the number of white Americans.
 
And yet when President Barack Obama sat down with the Today show’s...

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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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Obama Signs $600 Million Border Security Bill

Obama Signs $600 Million Border Security Bill

By Mariela Rosario | 08/15/2010 - 10:00 | 3 Comments

President Barack Obama signed a $600 million border security bill into law last week in hopes of moving the immigration reform debate forward. For years, conservatives and Republicans have argued that a discussion about reforming the current...

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Republicans Pushing to Change 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

By Mariela Rosario | 08/06/2010 - 08:00 | 0 Comments

Republicans have renewed the call to revise the 14th amendment of the constitution, which guarantees citizenship to anyone born in the United States. Though ratified 140 years ago and listed as one of the...

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Watch: Shakira Advocates for Immigrants in Arizona

By Mariela Rosario | 05/04/2010 - 10:08 | 4 Comments

Shakira has been on a whirl-wind media tour recently, speaking out against the passage of the new immigration laws in Arizona, SB 1070. Although some saw her involvement as an affront since she is not a United States citizen, we think it makes sense that Shaki stepped up to the plate; she herself admitted while speaking to the mayor of...

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