Top Stories + Community Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 18, 2009
Environmentalists alarmed by Puerto Rico policies – Sweeping from lush mountain rain forests to pristine beaches, a corridor of land protected by Puerto Rico’s last governor hosts dozens of rare and endangered species and was championed by celebrities who helped fight off resort proposals. – Now new Gov. Luis Fortuno has revoked the reserve as part of a drive to bring jobs and investment for the U.S. territory’s struggling economy. And activists see a broader pattern of looser protection for the island’s environment.
November 13, 2009
ASU, ALRE release major study on Arizona’s Latino population – (direct link to report & powerpoint)
Postville Raid: Eighteen months have passed since immigration agents raided Agriprocessors Inc. meat plant, arrested nearly 400 workers, and sent the plant spiraling into bankruptcy. – On Thursday, the plant’s former vice president – Sholom Rubashkin – was found guilty of 86 of 91 counts of financial crimes. – Verdict brings closure to many in Postville
November 5, 2009
Cuban Tomas Regalado was elected mayor of Miami with a pledge to control spending, limit property-tax increases and curtail development
November 4, 2009
Lawrence elects Massachusetts’ first Latino mayor – William Lantigua
October 28, 2009
Mexicans Fleeing Violence Spur a Boom in El Paso – Spike in Murder Rate in Juárez Is Among the Factors Boosting Nightlife and Home Sales in U.S. Border City
October 26, 2009
Arson or accident? FBI, ATF investigate fuel depot fire in Puerto Rico
Sacramento Police Chief Rick Braziel has joined other chiefs in the nation in calling for an immigration overhaul that considers legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants.
Poll: Tomás Regalado leads Miami mayoral race – 40% favored him, with 18% supporting his opponent, Joe Sanchez. 42% of voters were undecided.
In Dallas, Drivers Ticketed for Inability to Habla Ingles – over the past three years, wrongly ticketed at least 39 drivers for not speaking English
October 17, 2009
More than 100,000 turned out here Thursday for a protest against Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuño’s decision to lay off 17,000 public employees,
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio launched a sweep in Phoenix on Friday, a half day after officials in Washington limited his powers to make federal immigration arrests.
October 14, 2009
Decapitated body among 100 girls, women killed in Cuidad Juárez in ‘09 – “first time a woman has been decapitated and her body displayed in this manner” – (NOT GOOD but nothing seems to change) + The death toll in Juárez has surpassed the 1,900 mark for the year over the weekend, according to a tally kept by the El Paso Times.
October 13, 2009
Iowa, U.S. gripped by trial in wake of historic immigrant raid – Postville raid aftermath
October 12, 2009
Beyond the Barrio, With Growing Pains – El Museo del Barrio reopens with a new glass facade, a redesigned courtyard and modernized galleries, including one devoted to its permanent collection in East Harlem, NYC – Rafael Montañez Ortiz
October 6, 2009
“Toughest Sheriff in America” Stripped of ICE Agent Status – According to a statement released by MCSO, the new 287(g) agreement has “stripped Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s deputies of their ICE agent status to act as federal immigration authorities.”
September 30, 2009
NASHVILLE: Amber alert issued for abducted 4-day-old baby – Yair Anthony Carillo – Police believe a woman posing as an immigration worker went to Carrillo’s home and demanded his mother Maria Gurrolla, give her the baby. When refused, the woman stabbed her.
Las Vegas figures prominently in Hispanics’ growing clout – CNN and a federal agency director looked west for input on a burgeoning segment of U.S. population
September 28, 2009
Puerto Rico’s government announced that it will lay off more than 16,000 public workers – adding to an unemployment rate higher than that of any U.S state.
September 24, 2009
Salvadorans Seek a Voice To Match Their Numbers – Summit Aims to Raise Political Visibility – First Salvadoran American Leadership Summit
September 21, 2009
Diabetes is killing Latinos in Ventura County, CA at twice the rate it is claiming lives in other racial and ethnic groups. – Nearly 6% of Latinos who died in Ventura County in 2005 and 2006 were killed by diabetes
Ciudad Juarez has passed 1,700 murders this year, topping the number for last year with three months to go. Rather horrifically, of the 3,200 people killed in Juarez over the past two years, 500 of them have been drug addicts or those in addiction recovery programs.
September 17, 2009
Brian Sandoval on Wednesday entered the Nevada governor race, a day after leaving a lifetime appointment to the federal judiciary.
New Study Finds Local Enforcement of Immigration Laws Led to Racial Profiling – UC Berkeley
September 10, 2009
2010 and counting: Growing influence – More counties are mostly Hispanic – Texas
September 8, 2009
In a strange twist, police busted a Hispanic man for tossing a bottle and a piece of wood at parishioners of a Hispanic church in an area of Long Island long plagued by racial strife — and charged him with a hate crime. (wt!@$)
Christhian Munguia Garcia
El Dia, Houston’s Spanish-language daily newspaper, quietly folded last week, leaving thousands of Spanish-speaking residents without a daily voice.
September 3, 2009
Hispanics the focus of early push to register – Nevada hand-picked for initiative because of demographic’s clout – (I guess it is never to early)
September 2, 2009
Southern Poverty Law Center: Climate of Fear – Latino Immigrants in Suffolk County, N.Y.
September 1, 2009
Massachusetts Cuts Back Immigrants’ Health Care – 31,000 legal immigrants
August 24, 2009
Unemployment in California hits post-World War II high – In July, Latino unemployment rate hit 12.7%, dwarfing the white jobless rate of 9.5%
August 18, 2009
Cases of swine flu higher among Boston’s blacks, Hispanics
August 16, 2009
Hispanics in New Orleans are hurting for health care
In Los Angeles, Songs Without Borders – In clubs, bars, swap meets and concert halls, from car radios and ringing cellphones, you will hear corridos, old-time folk ballads in the banda and norteño styles
August 3, 2009
FDNY written exams excluded hundreds of black and Hispanic firefighters, federal judge rules
July 23, 2009
Hispanics have highest rate of uninsured in Colorado – 40% of adult Hispanics are without health insurance
June 25, 2009
Hispanics make up majorities at 7 Cleveland public schools, prompting call for special help
June 15, 2009
Computer ‘raid’ in Vernon leaves factory workers devastated – No immigration agents descended on Overhill Farms, a major food-processing plant in Vernon. No one was arrested or deported. There were no frantic scenes of desperate workers fleeing la migra through the gritty streets of the industrial suburb southeast of downtown Los Angeles. For more than 200 Overhill workers, however, the effect was devastating: All lost steady jobs last month
May 30, 2009
A title bout between two Eastsides in Los Angeles – The protest is no mere issue of semantics. It’s a threat to their community’s identity, the Eastsiders said. They argue that the term Eastside is synonymous, in California and beyond, with the Chicano movement; home to working-class immigrants and the city’s first Latino mayor in more than a century
March 13, 2009
For relatives, travel to Cuba just got easier – The Treasury Department has issued a general license allowing annual visits with no time limits by Cuban Americans who want to visit relatives on the island. But other restrictions remain in place.
March 9, 2009
ATLANTA — In a city where Coca-Cola, United Parcel Service and Home Depot are the titans of industry, there are new powerful forces on the block: Mexican drug cartels.
March 4, 2009
2 Indicted in Fatal Beating of Ecuadorean Immigrant – The two suspects, Keith Phoenix, 28, and Hakim Scott, 25, are charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and assault, all as hate crimes, for the Dec. 7 attack on the immigrant, Jose O. Sucuzhañay, and his brother Romel, who survived.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wins second term as L.A. mayor – first Hispanic mayor in more than a century
March 3, 2009
Activists Protest Immigration Raids In Phoenix – Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has dispatched deputies into Hispanic communities in the Phoenix area.
February 16, 2009
Some states, cities and counties that plunged into the immigration debate are having second thoughts. In Texas, Alabama and elsewhere, lawmakers have repealed or modified measures that cracked down on illegal immigrants or made English the official language. In Iowa and Utah, legislators are proposing similar reversals.
Day Laborers Are Easy Prey in New Orleans – “walking A.T.M.’s”
February 11, 2009
In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370 cases last year alone. – spurred by Mexico’s drug cartels
January 23, 2009
Nashville voters rejected a proposal on Thursday that would have made it the largest U.S. city to require that all government business be done in English
January 15, 2009
New York City police stopped, questioned and frisked more than half a million people last year, 80% of them black and Hispanic, a civil-rights group said Thursday.
December 28, 2008
City of Immigrants Fills Jail Cells With Its Own – Central Falls, Rhode Island (a mostly Latino community) :: look into the fastest-growing, least-examined type of incarceration in America, an industry that detains half a million people a year, up from a few thousand just 15 years ago. The system operates without the rules that protect criminal suspects, and has grown up with little oversight, often in the backyards of communities desperate for any source of money and work. – In a sinking economy, immigration detention is a rare growth industry. – (A MUST READ)
December 22, 2008
There’s no stopping the shopping for Valley Latinos – Valley’s Latino consumers appear to buck national economic slowdown – Yakima, Washington
December 15, 2008
Hundreds protest New York immigrant’s fatal beating – Jose Sucuzhanay
December 9, 2008
UC Santa Cruz senior Danielle Soto follows family footsteps in politics – The 22-year-old environmental studies major will be sworn into the Pomona City Council on Dec. 13, just two days after her last final. – granddaughter of the late Philip Soto one of the first two Latinos elected to the California Assembly in 1962
East L.A., Latino heartland, revives its dream of cityhood – More than 30 years after the last attempt, the chances of success seem higher.
An Ecuadorean immigrant was in critical condition Monday after being brutally beaten by four attackers who authorities say may have mistaken him and his brother for gay men. – New York City
December 5, 2008
Pedro Espada will take office as majority leader of the New York State Senate in January. – 33rd Senate District – Bronx, NYC
November 3, 2008
Spanish driver’s license tests drop 90% – tricter driver’s license requirements, which block illegal immigrants from getting a license, have slashed the number of Spanish speakers taking the license test in Oregon.
October 23, 2008
A report being released Thursday at the 2008 Hispanic Business Expo and Economic Summit in downtown Detroit shows the Hispanic/Latino community’s economic impact on Southeast Michigan is at least $14.5 billion.
October 15, 2008
A San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that the city’s plan to issue municipal identification cards to residents regardless of immigration status does not violate state and federal law.
Immigrants integral to Nebraska state economy, UNO study finds – If immigrants vanished and weren’t replaced in three of its key industries, Nebraska would lose 78,000 jobs, including some filled by U.S.-born workers. Production throughout the state would drop nearly 9 percent, or by $13.5 billion.
One of the nation’s poorest school districts, already tousled by a hurricane and nervously awaiting division by a fence being built along the U.S.-Mexican border, won a coveted $1 million prize Tuesday for making academic advances. – The Brownsville Independent School District serves nearly 50,000 students — 98 percent Hispanic and 43 percent learning English.
September 30, 2008
Border visits no longer will be day at beach – The federal government’s effort to slam the door on illegal immigration, drug smuggling and the threat of terrorism means a new secondary fence will be built in the park, creating a 90-foot-wide no-man’s land of patrol roads and security lights that extends to the sea. – Southern California
September 25, 2008
Texas cleanup spurs labor need – Undocumented workers will be linchpin in efforts
September 23, 2008
Judge orders sheriff’s office to stop targeting Hispanics – Otero County Sheriff’s Office in Chaparral, New Mexico
September 22, 2008
Hispanic law students help others up Offering practical advice and serving as role models, they urge high schoolers to aim for college – (Great photo) Corina Rocha, Siria Gutierrez and Leslie Nino Fidance who lead UNLV’s La Voz, an organization of Hispanic law students, recently named No. 1 in the country.
September 17, 2008
15 LAPD officers face discipline in May Day melee – Police Chief William J. Bratton calls for four of the officers to be fired in connection with the 2007 debacle
September 10, 2008
Fewer than 2% of people charged with crimes in Prince William County since the well-publicized crackdown on illegal immigration began in March have turned out to be undocumented, Police Chief Charlie T. Deane told county supervisors yesterday.
September 9, 2008
Answers still lacking in Shenandoah – Pennsylvania
Southern California’s taco truck war continued to sizzle as county officials asked a judge to reinstate a law he threw out last month that had forced truck operators to move every hour or face the threat of jail.
September 3, 2008
Illegal immigrants opted to stay during Gustav – New Orleans
August 26, 2008
Howard Industries is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of electronic transformers and transportation equipment. Early Monday morning, the Laurel facility was swarming with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. After hours of interviewing all the employees on site, 350 illegal immigrants were identified. – Mississippi
August 19, 2008
If it weren’t for Hispanic births, the U.S. could be confronting long-term population declines similar to those in Germany, Japan and other industrialized countries.
August 17, 2008
Eight people serving on Gov. Don Carcieri’s Commission on Hispanic Affairs have resigned to protest Carcieri’s immigration crackdown in Rhode Island.
August 14, 2008
Census report sees minorities becoming majority by 2042 in the US
August 11, 2008
Republican state lawmaker Doug Bruce blasted the El Paso County Sheriff’s office last week for booklets Bruce said tell suspected illegal immigrants how to avoid law enforcement officers. – Colorado
August 7, 2008
A surge in Hispanic immigration over the past decade has dramatically altered the racial and ethnic composition of the region’s youngest residents, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released today. – Washington DC area
August 6, 2008
Latino immigrants suddenly avoiding the DMV – The number of Spanish-speaking people taking Oregon’s driving test plummeted in February, just as Gov. Kulongoski’s executive order took effect requiring test-takers to provide valid Social Security numbers.
July 30, 2008
70% of Houstonians over the age of 60 are Anglo. 75% of Houstonians under the age of 30 are non-Anglo, mostly Hispanic. The conclusion is obvious. In a few years Houston will be a predominantly Hispanic city. Further, if Hispanics don’t prosper, Houston won’t prosper.
July 27, 2008
According to reports from WNEP-TV and the Associated Press three white Schuylkill County teens are charged with the beating death of a Hispanic man nearly two weeks ago. All are from well-known families in Shenandoah and some are on the high school football team. One of the teens charged is a Bloomsburg University student.
July 24, 2008
Luis Ramirez was beaten to death last week by a group of white teenagers yelling racial slurs in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. Despite eyewitness testimony, no charges have been filed. Democracy Now speaks with Arielle Garcia, a friend of Ramirez who witnessed the attack.
July 23, 2008
Latino MBTA employees, angry over anti-Hispanic comments allegedly made by the transit authority’s antidiscrimination chief, took their frustration to Governor Deval Patrick yesterday, seeking a high-level ally to air their grievances. – Massachusetts
July 21, 2008
For North Carolina’s Hispanic leaders, the biggest hazards of the job were once long hours. Now, they include death threats.
July 10, 2008
A Hispanic Population in Decline – Illegal Immigrant Policy Alters Prince William County on Many Levels – Virginia
June 26, 2008
Less than half of California Latinos (48%) have home computers compared to about eight in 10 or more for whites (86%), Asians (84%), and blacks (79%). Just four in 10 Latinos (40%) have Internet access and a third (34%) a broadband connection at home. – Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC)
June 11, 2008
Some Cuban emigrants choose to head back home – Whether for financial or family reasons or just plain homesickness, a growing number of Cuban emigrants are returning to the island.
June 9, 2008
New Jersey landlord sued over renting to illegal immigrants
States Take New Tack on Illegal Immigration (online title) vs. (newspaper title) Local Officals Adopt New, Harder Tactics On Illegal Immigrants – New York Times
May 29, 2008
In Miami, Spanish is becoming the primary language
May 27, 2008
A Washington town confronts its language barrier – In a program seen as a bellwether, the Justice Department steps in with a formal plan to bridge the English-Spanish divide in Mattawa.
South L.A. backyards are becoming barnyards – Once predominantly African American, the area has seen an influx of Latino immigrants, along with their roosters, chickens and other barnyard beasts not typically part of the urban scene.
Miles away, Postville raid’s impact is still acute
Prince William’s county sees signs of change amid crackdown
May 14, 2008
What’s Next for Postville? – (update: near 400 arrested – town may dry up)- Iowa – (you should read the comments below the original article)
May 6, 2008
Ski towns struggle with labor crunch as immigrant crackdown continues
April 28, 2008
Northern Virginia Hit With Cost Of School Migration – Pr. William Policies Drive Immigrants To Inner Suburbs
April 25, 2008
Illegal immigration issues roil Iowa town – Marshalltown, where a quarter of residents are Latino, is seeing rising anti-immigrant sentiments, especially after a deadly car crash involving a woman in the country illegally.
Mesa on edge as it awaits promised Arpaio sweeps – Arizona
April 16, 2008
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, on April 4th, told a largely African-American audience in Compton that when Latino gangs are at war with black gangs over drugs and turf they are sometimes satisfied to kill any young black living in their rival’s territory in order to flex their criminal muscle.
April 14, 2008
An unusual blend of cultures: Mexican and black – Costa Chicans in Los Angeles – Immigrants from Costa Chica share an ancient ethnic heritage and culture that few outsiders know about.
Phoenix Mayor Asks FBI to Check Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Immigrants boost economy — but how much? – A study could help state avoid more surprises, but politics preserve willful ignorance – Las Vegas
March 28, 2008
In North Virginia, a Latino Community Unravels
March 13, 2008
Study: McAllen area Hispanic children have fewer opportunities – Texas
March 10, 2008
Activists take over L.A. streets celebrating 1968 ‘blowouts’ – Thousands re-enact the East Los Angeles high school boycotts by marching from Lincoln H.S. to Hazard Park. – Los Angeles
March 6, 2008
A year after raid, immigration cases drag on for many – New Bedford, Massachusetts
4 key organizations that cater to Atlanta’s Hispanic community will have to search for new leaders this year.
February 21, 2008
Money shortages doom service for Latino students – The Oregon Council for Hispanic Advancement started in 1983 to close this week
January 22, 2008
Round Two: Farmers Branch Vs. Illegal Immigrants
January 3, 2008
Keeping up with day laborers not easy – Police officer in Orange devotes time to enforcing new rules that crack down on problems associated with day workers. – Orange, California
December 12, 2007
Worthington still smarting one year after Swift raid – Minnesota
November 25, 2007
The black-Latino blame game – Los Angeles
November 19, 2007
Survey: More see immigration as cultural threat – Most of region’s whites also want those who hire undocumented workers punished – Houston
November 4, 2007
Language barrier plagues Mesa police – Arizona
Immigration Debate Goes Digital – Prince William County’s illegal immigration debate has now reached YouTube
Hispanic sure to win seat on Phoenix City Council
October 14, 2007
Even allies divided in Irving’s immigration fight – United in opposition to migrant policy, one group gets aggressive while other urges dialogue – Texas
October 10, 2007
Farmers Branch residents in a paint brawl – Some see shades of racism in move to tone down home colors – Texas
October 2, 2007
Immigrants stir up Greeley – Some say a forum hosted by the DA was more about politics. Others say the effect on crime is a real issue.
September 27, 2007
Sue CASA – Right-Wing D.C. Group Makes Case Against CASA Latina – Seattle
September 18, 2007
Town quietly rescinds tough law aimed at illegal immigrants – Riverside, New Jersey
August 28, 2007
Immigration Reform Already Affecting Hispanic Businesses – Tulsa, Oklahoma
August 3, 2007
Hispanic groups gain $3.8 million in state aid – New Jersey
July 17, 2007
Top Latina officers demotion upsets Hispanic leadership – Boston
June 11, 2007
Showing Boricua pride – Thousands flock to 50th Puerto Rican Day Parade, but barricades, security break up flow of marchers, floats – New York City
March 27, 2007
Hispanic drivers nearly four times more likely to be arrested, not cited – Nashville
February 22, 2007
Latino, black activists form coalition – Chicago
February 15, 2007
Jury sides with Hispanic police officer in bias suit – Michigan
February 13, 2007
Nashville mayor vetoes measure that would make English official language
February 12, 2007
A town that wants illegal immigrants – Lindsay, California
January 29, 2007
Hispanics in U.S. feel pull of the suburbs – Chicago
January 25, 2007
As poor families migrate, can aid keep up? – Chicago
January 22, 2007
Abused Latino tenants find a voice – Chicago
January 11, 2007
Feds indict 13 of Nashville’s most allegedly violent gang members – MS-13
December 20, 2006
One in 20 Latinos goes hungry
