Mexican Imms In New York Struggling With Education

Mexican Imms In New York Struggling With Education

Mary Mata November 28, 2011

The New York Times reported this week about the fastest growing immigrant group in New York City — Mexicans — and the terrible statistics associated with this group’s educational attainment. […]

Romney’s Harsh Immigration Stance Draws Criticism

Mary Mata

GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s performance at a debate last week has drawn criticism particularly for his hard stance on immigration. Democratic Texas Congressmen Silvestre Reyes and Charlie Gonzalez said […]

Immigration Training For Undocumented Of Occupy Wall Street

Mary Mata

Immigration training classes are now being offered to undocumented immigrants who want to participate in Occupy Wall Street protests but are wary of the legal risks involved. The Occupy movement […]

5 Jobs For Recently Unemployed SB1070 Sponsor Russell Pearce

Mary Mata November 22, 2011

Times are tough. After his recent recall in Arizona, the architect of Arizona’s SB1070, Russell Pearce, is out of work and hanging around a Home Depot east of Tempe hoping […]

Bogus Border War Rumors

Mary Mata

By Jim Hightower, otherwords.org Far from being a chaotic war zone, a study of the 14 Texas counties bordering Mexico shows that the number of murders has actually declined in […]

Chinese Immigrants Will Be The Next Undocumented Wave

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Someone once asked me if I would be as outspokenly pro-immigration as I am if the immigrants were not Latino. There is so much implied in that question that it would take […]

Digitally Documenting The Immigrant Experience

Mary Mata November 21, 2011

The Immigrant Archive Project was started to preserve the stories of immigrants in the U.S. and lets people tell their own tales of struggle and triumph in a new country. […]

Georgia Politico Wants To Revisit HB 87 Add More E-Verify

Mary Mata

Georgia State Rep. Katie Dempsey (R-Rome) said at a recent question and answer session that the HB 87 law requiring that companies with 10 or more employees use e-verify should be changed […]

Latino Congregations Unite To Fight Alabama Law

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This Thanksgiving won’t be like others in Alabama, at least not in the Latino churches and congregations. Latino churches have managed to slip under the English language radar in that state, and there, almost unnoticed, they’ve […]

10 House Dems Head to AL Monday For Immigration Hearing

Mary Mata November 18, 2011

A Statement From The Office of Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and nine other House Democrats are traveling to Alabama on Monday for an ad hoc hearing […]