Eye Openers + Georgia Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
September 30, 2009
The number of students in ESOL programs is on the rise in the United States, with huge growth in Georgia in particular. The state’s student population of English language learners has grown more than 200% between 1995 and 2005
June 8, 2009
Georgia needs more Hispanic judges -There are no Hispanics now, nor have there ever been any, on the Supreme Court of Georgia or on the Georgia Court of Appeals
March 10, 2009
Mixed signals along South’s ‘Immigrant Highway’ – The strip of Buford Highway that runs through Chamblee and Doraville has attracted a huge influx of immigrants
December 3, 2008
Hispanics leaving Georgia’s coastal area in downturn – estimates that almost 1,000 Hispanics have left Brunswick
July 21, 2008
‘Flood’ of drugs from Mexico linked to area abductions – Georgia
July 15, 2008
More Latinos Going To Georgia’s Polls – 60,000 Hispanic voters
June 11, 2008
120 suspected Latino gang members busted in Georgia – Did You Know? The arrests were part of a national effort in which 8,900 members of more than 700 gangs have been arrested since 2005.
May 15, 2008
Georgia’s Gov. Perdue vetoes Mills’ driver’s license bill
April 25, 2008
Sheriff wants $700K for jailing illegal immigrants – Gwinnett County, Georgia
February 21, 2008
Georgia Lawmakers Work To Make English The State’s Official Language
February 14, 2008
Bill Would Seize Illegal Immigrants’ Cars – Georgia
January 10, 2008
Immigrants’ unlicensed stores easy prey to crime – Georgia
December 9, 2007
Federal agents target Mexican drug cartels, 67 people charged in Atlanta area
Hispanics want apology for ‘wetback’ comment – from Carroll County Commissioner Bill Head – Atlanta
November 30, 2007
Most immigrants in Georgia illegally, study finds – (from the ‘anti-immigration’ Center for Immigration Studies)
November 25, 2007
Hispanics now one-third of Hall County students – Gainsville, Georgia
November 19, 2007
Georgia Officer Arrested, Accused of Stealing from Motorists – Targeted Hispanic men
November 13, 2007
Former Mexico president: Cobb immigration policy ‘going too far’ – Vicente Fox, in Atlanta today, faced Minutemen protestors at Carter Center
November 11, 2007
Business down for those with Hispanic clientele – Georgia (do to state’s crackdown on illegal immigration)
