Language Issues + Mississippi Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

August 27, 2009

Can the U.S. government take a woman’s baby from her because she doesn’t speak English? That’s the latest question to arise in the hothouse debate over illegal immigration, as an undocumented woman from impoverished rural Mexico — who speaks only an obscure indigenous language — fights in a Mississippi court to regain custody of her infant daughter.

October 11, 2007

Ridgeland Firefighters Learn Spanish – Mississippi

September 13, 2007

Bilingual officers ‘busier than ever’ – Hattiesburg, Mississippi

June 28, 2007

Free Program Helps Hispanic Children Tackle English – Biloxi, Mississippi

April 30, 2007

Police cite need for Spanish classes – DeSoto County has growing Hispanic population – Mississippi