Immigration reform advocates ramped up their protests in the last month with one ending in a dozen arrests Monday outside of the White House. The rise in demonstrations comes amid lack of changes or improvements from both the White House and Congress.
Last week House Speaker John Boehner delivered speech in Cincinnati where he blasted his fellow GOP lawmakers by mocking and imitating them regarding their inaction toward immigration reform, but this week he sang a different tune.
State Sen. Leticia Van de Putte is a Democrat running for the lieutenant governor seat of Texas this year. If she wins the election in November, she will be the first Hispanic and the first woman to hold the position in the state.
During a speech event in John Boehner's Ohio hometown on Thursday, the House Speaker reportedly mocked his fellow GOP Congress members for the gridlock that has stalled immigration reform.
The Obama administration, immigration, and deportation have been lumped topics within recent years, and will continue to be as long as undocumented immigrants continue to be removed from the country at unparalleled rates. The New York Times reported that while the president has aimed his boot at kicking out "criminals, gang bangers, people who are hurting the community, not students... folks who are here just because they're trying to figure out how to feed their families," New York Times analysis shows that more than 60 are guilty of minor infractions.
When it comes to reality -- life off of the page -- the MIT professor, Pulitzer Prize winner and compulsive reader Junot Díaz still flourishes. Díaz recently shared his thoughts on immigration, activism, advocacy and cultural identity in an email interview with Latin Post; the author's answers are as bold and astounding as one might expect from the frank novelist. "I'm an activist before I'm a writer. That's about as much as I can say without sounding ridiculous," said Díaz, who's been extremely vocal about the "sentencia" and stateless Haitians in the Dominican Republic.
Women have mobilized before, prompted by a number of causes. History has shown that education, reproductive rights, equal pay, domestic and sexual violence, sexual harassment and women's suffrage has caused women to act; now women are acting in solidarity with immigrant families.
While the Republican party has failed time and again to connect with the Hispanic and Latino community especially in terms of its tough position on immigrants, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush voiced his opinion about the millions of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.
The Free LA: No More ICE event was one of 10 similar rallies staged in Southern California, which were all part of about 70 #Not1More demonstrations held across the nation.
During the last several months, numerous civil rights and immigration reform advocates have protested at detention centers around the nation calling for President Barack Obama to end deportations and the inhumane treatment of detainees.
Last year Immigration and Customs Enforcement rounded up 193,000 foreign nationals with criminal convictions and charges but deported only 125,000 of them while releasing 68,000, "Fox News" reported.
The unstoppable Eva Longoria, who voices the lead role on the animated series Mother Up! And just wrapped up production for the Michael Berry drama Frontera, is "very happy," according to Prestige Hong Kong -and just in time for the International Day of Happiness.
More than 60,000 children arrive in the United States from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico -- and they make the voyage alone, without their parents. Many children are in search of their parents, who may be undocumented, unlisted, and working to send funds back to their home countries. Some other children travel to the United States so that they can escape homes foreboding lives thrashed with gang violence.
The Republican Party has spent $10 million to gain the interest of the Hispanic population, inundating the public with Spanish-language advertisements that aim to incite opposition to the nation's Affordable Care Act, unseat Democrats, and ensure that a member of the GOP sits in the Oval Office after the next election. The conservative push to disparage Obama over the ACA and immigration overshadows the GOP's efforts to assist the Hispanic community -- and exposes presidential and a desire to shake immigration as a topic.
In what began on March 7 as a hunger strike demonstration with hundreds of detainees at a detention center in the state of Washington has dwindled down six days later to less than 10 remaining protestors.
The Act.Fast month began on March 8, International Women Day, and will continue until April 5, the National Day of Action against Deportation. There will also be a 48-hour fast of 100 women in Washington, D.C. April 7-9.
Immigration reform hits close to home for most Hispanics, and overall is something that's carries more interest with that group than other demographics. 72 percent of Hispanics say it is extremely or very important that the president and Congress pass new immigration legislation, compared with 44 percent of whites and 49 percent of blacks.
The passing and subsequent vetoing of Senate Bill 1062, which would have legalized discrimination towards gays, shows Arizona's resistance to a nation becoming increasingly intolerant towards intolerance.
