Eye Openers + Massachusetts Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

November 18, 2009

Governor Deval Patrick urged Massachusetts residents today to avoid getting mired in “the usual debate” over illegal immigration as he gave his cabinet 90 days to craft a plan for better integrating all foreign-born residents into the state’s daily fabric.

Massachusetts immigrant tuition bill to get new push

September 30, 2009

Police in Framingham, Mass., say an illegal immigrant from Guatemala entered a police station, told officers he had stolen another man’s identity and asked to be deported because he could no longer make ends meet in America.

September 10, 2009

Six boys were charged with severely beating a Guatemalan immigrant with bricks, bottles and rocks as he slept near railroad tracks, an attack that civil rights groups decried Tuesday as “hateful.”

September 7, 2009

Where’s the Latin crowd? Even with popular acts coming to town, audiences have been sparse in Boston

June 29, 2009

Hispanics May Get Lower Quality Bypass Surgeons – Massachusetts Hispanics nearly three times more likely to have CABG surgeon in bottom decile

June 26, 2009

Next month, Melrose resident and Berklee College of Music percussion and ensemble professor Ricardo Monzón will bring his Orquesta Bacharengue to Mozart Park in Jamaica Plain, Boston, to kick off Berklee’s fifth-annual Tito Puente Latin Music Series.

June 5, 2009

Controversial right wing radio talk show host Jay Severin, suspended for a month for making derogatory comments about Mexican immigrants, will return to the airwaves Tuesday. – was suspended April 30 after calling Mexican immigrants “criminaliens,” “primitives,” and “leeches,” and saying Mexico’s leading exports included venereal disease and “women with mustaches and VD.”

December 10, 2008

ACLU report blasts violations of basic rights for hundreds of immigrants detained in Massachusetts – First-of-its-kind study details poor jail conditions, denial of medical care and violations of due process against immigrants held for months without being accused of a crime

December 6, 2008

Race on to become 1st elected Latino mayor in Massachusetts – William “Willy” Lantigua in Lawrence

December 5, 2008

New England Border Patrol chief charged with hiring illegals

September 15, 2008

Hispanic church pelted with eggs – Fall River, Massachusetts

August 7, 2008

Manny Ramirez is one of several Latino superstars who helped grow Red Sox nation “en Espanol.” But die-hard Latino fans, even his Dominican countrymen, grew tired of his antics.

May 22, 2008

Tuition aid to illegal immigrants falters – Massachusetts’ Gov Patrick declines to act on behalf of graduates

April 8, 2008

Teenage Birth Rates in Massachusetts Highest Among Hispanics; Legislation Needed To Address the Issue, Experts Say

March 11, 2008

Super Mario Barros – This teacher has a radio show, a newspaper column, and a satirical take on social issues – Boston

January 11, 2008

Governor Deval Patrick mulls new tack on immigrant tuition – Massachusetts

January 8, 2008

Hardships here spur local Brazilian exodus – Massachusetts

December 10, 2007

Conference Calls for Latina Solidarity – Harvard

November 12, 2007

A door to Ecuador – A kidnapping drove him to Boston, music brought him home – Alex Alvear