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November 20, 2009
Democrats and Republicans deployed their heavy artillery Thursday in a heated congressional hearing to debate a bill seeking to end the travel ban to Cuba.
ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton announces 1,000 new workplace audits to hold employers accountable for their hiring practices
Ken Salazar Blamed By Oil And Gas Companies For Scant Interest In New Drilling Projects
November 19, 2009
Immigration, Yet Another Issue: How Many Hard Votes Can Congress Take?
November 18, 2009
Poll: Cubans ‘frustrated’ over life in Cuba – A poll conducted in Cuba shows residents unhappy with their government and pessimistic about the economy.
November 16, 2009
Hispanic were more than twice as likely as whites to report that food in their home was scarce – Government report
The Obama administration will insist on measures to give legal status to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants as it pushes early next year for legislation to overhaul the immigration system, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says Washington is the No. 4 source of illegal guns in Mexico.
November 13, 2009
Western New York Native Thomas Perez has earned a high post in the U.S. Justice Department. – Friday, Perez will be sworn in as head of the department’s Civil Rights Division. He’ll report directly to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
HNBA Commends the Confirmation of Ignacia S. Moreno as the Assistant Attorney for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of Justice
November 10, 2009
Electrical Workers of Mexico Take on Calderon Government
US State Dept ‘deplores assault’ on Cuban bloggers
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya: Talks Are Off with Coup Government After Deal Collapses
November 6, 2009
Carmen Ortiz has been confirmed as the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, becoming the first Hispanic and the first woman to hold the state’s top federal prosecutor’s job.
November 5, 2009
Obama and the White House in Spanish
President Obama Nominates Judge Albert Diaz and Judge James Wynn to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
November 4, 2009
Close to 450,000 Chilean public employees went on a 48-hour strike demanding an across-the-board wage hike of 8%
Hispanics urged to make census count – Cities plan outreach to allay fears of government probing that could limit federal dollars – Chicago area
November 2, 2009
Transit Department sponsored bus tours that showed Miami’s Hispanic past
Nine years and Hispanic farmers still waiting for discrimination suit ruling
October 30, 2009
U.S. May Be Open to Asylum for Spouse Abuse – Immigration lawyers said the administration had taken a major step toward clarifying a murky area of asylum law and defining the legal grounds on which battered and sexually abused women in foreign countries could seek protection here.
October 28, 2009
National Law Journal Online Advocates for ‘braceros’ wore opposition down – eight years of heavily defended litigation that required the plaintiffs to win reversal of three trial-court dismissals
October 27, 2009
US workers, immigrants unite vs. work visa program – The program has issued visas for 22 years amid steady complaints, and both sides of the immigration debate say it warrants close scrutiny as the Obama administration prepares to tackle comprehensive immigration reform next year.
October 26, 2009
Call for Investigation of Detention of Mexican Official Who U.S. Government Held as an Asylum-Seeker — But Who Never Asked for Asylum
Second Obama Immigration Detention Official Leaves Abruptly
FEMA launches a Revamped Spanish-language Website
The feds are setting up a Spanish-language version of their popular fuelconomy.gov website en Español
U.S. Census Allots $145 Million to Reach Out to Minorities – about $28 million to Hispanic media
20 years after amnesty, lives reshaped – Ricardo Magallanes – 1 of the nearly 3 million undocumented immigrants to be granted amnesty under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
October 17, 2009
The Homeland Security Department said Friday that it has revamped pacts that allow for greater cooperation between federal immigration authorities and local law enforcement in 55 states and cities, including Carrollton and Farmers Branch.
October 15, 2009
Some state and local police are having second thoughts about working with the federal government to enforce immigration laws.
Hundreds of Thousands of Puerto Rican Workers, Faith Leaders, Students and Citizens to Unite in Hato Rey on October 15 – National March Will Protest Massive Cuts in Essential Public Services; Republican Administration Under Investigation for Civil Rights Violations Against High School Students
October 14, 2009
Lawmakers Scrap Plan for 300 More Miles of Fencing on Mexican Border
A small Miami-based company said the U.S. government has given it permission to lay the first optical communications fiber from the U.S. to Cuba. That could drastically cut the cost of calling the island nation and make the Internet more accessible to Cubans.
Farmers’ Latino lawsuit wends way through courts
October 13, 2009
Calderon Government Sends in Police to Take Over Electrical Company and Bust Union
October 12, 2009
Hispanic Farmers Fight To Sue USDA – In Texas and across the Southwest, Hispanic farmers have been fighting the Agriculture Department for close to a decade.
Hate Crimes Act Passed, Will It Stop Actual Hate Though?
U.S. Can’t Trace Foreign Visitors on Expired Visas – about 40% of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States came on legal visas and overstayed. (of course they weren’t all Latinos)
October 9, 2009
287 (g): The Abuse of Delegated Immigration Enforcement Authority
U.S. Shifts Strategy on Illicit Work by Immigrants – (more on the American Apparel layoffs)
October 8, 2009
Government Terminates “No Match” Rule Harmful To Legal Workers
October 7, 2009
NCLR Applauds Confirmation of Tom Perez as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Division
Eye Opener: Latinos in the Federal Government
Government Lags in Hiring of Latinos – The overall Latino hiring disparity is equivalent to more than 100,000 jobs or roughly $5.5 billion in salaries
African-American, Latino and civil rights groups have launched an ad campaign aimed at pressuring moderate Democratic senators to support health care legislation that allows the government to sell insurance in competition with private industry.
Honduras revokes emergency decree during visit by Ros-Lehtinen, Diaz-Balarts – Honduras’ government canceled an order that outlawed large protests and limited other liberties.
SBA reaches out to Hispanic community – Loan programs that may help survive economic downturn discussed in Stamford, Connecticut
What Does DHS Know About You? – (wow)
Maryland Labor Secretary Thomas Perez easily won Senate confirmation Tuesday as the new head of the civil rights division at the Justice Department. – All of the negative votes were cast by Republicans
PRESIDENT AND MRS. OBAMA HOST ‘IN PERFORMANCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE: FIESTA LATINA’ DURING NATIONAL HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH — PBS Music Special to Feature Latino Performers Marc Anthony, Jimmy Smits, George Lopez, Gloria Estefan and More, Airs October 15
ICE Should Terminate Maricopa County 287(g) Agreement – Scaling Back Sheriff Arpaio’s Immigration Enforcement Authority Does Not Go Far Enough, Says ACLU
DHS Plan To Improve Immigration Detention An Encouraging Step – Due Process, Enforceable Detention Standards And Overhaul Of ICE Enforcement Programs Still Needed
October 5, 2009
Could US visa restrictions played a part in Chicago losing Olympic bid?
October 2, 2009
With the 2010 census 6 months away, the Commerce Department said Thursday it won’t seek a halt to immigration raids as it did in the previous census in hopes of improving participation in hard-to-count communities.
Although President Obama has put off an immigration overhaul until next year, the federal agency in charge of approving visas is planning ahead for the possibility of giving legal status to millions of illegal immigrants, the agency’s director said Thursday.
Upcoming Supreme Court Session to Decide Two Critical Immigration Issues
The government has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the owners of a Best Western hotel in Northern Virginia, charging that they would employ only Hispanic maids.
United States and Four Latin American Countries Partner to Battle Cancer
October 1, 2009
A U.S. government task force (Southwest Border Task Force) recommended Wednesday that the federal Department of Homeland Security scale back an initiative – 287(g) – that allows local authorities to enforce the country’s immigration law.
September 30, 2009
Could bilingual census forms anger snubbed Latinos?
A senior American diplomat has held unannounced, high-level talks in Havana with the Cuban government, three State Department officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday, raising hopes for a thaw in long-icy relations.
Minutemen killers, drugs and the CIA – Is the CIA conducting covert operations along the border using the Minutemen?
Peter W. Davidson of Brooklyn, described as “an experienced dealmaker and executive in the private sector,” has been named to a key post in the state’s economic development agency – will be executive director, the No. 2 person, at the Empire State Development Corp., or ESD – Many of his businesses have been geared toward the Hispanic community, including El Diario/La Prensa.
On this day in 1822, Joseph Marion Hernandez became the first Hispanic-American to serve in Congress as a delegate from the Florida Territory.
Governor Luis Fortuño of Puerto Rico Flees Egg Attack – (eggs are nothing compared to 17,000 people losing their jobs)
September 29, 2009
In an effort to increase response rates and save money, the Census Bureau will automatically mail or deliver 13.5 million questionnaires in English and Spanish in areas with a large concentration of Spanish speakers.
Texas Mexican-Americans birthed by midwives still can’t get Washington to give them a passport
Former Border Patrol Chief Silvestre Reyes Now a Major Player in New Military, Intelligence, and Homeland Security Complex
Immigration officials consider more fee increases – Immigrant rights groups fear that further fee hikes would cut many out of the citizenship application process. The immigration agency, which must be self-supporting, faces a $118-million shortfall.
National Hispanic Heritage Month website – (I personally love the clean design)
September 28, 2009
White House Aide Stresses Importance of Latinos’ Learning English – Juan Sepulveda in Puerto Rico
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.
The Miami Herald’s Thirteenth Annual Americas Conference. Once again this year, leading business, government and academic leaders will come together on Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 29 and 30, to discuss key issues and trends affecting political and economic relationships between Latin America, the United States and the Caribbean.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met in New York with Mexican Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa to discuss the Merida Initiative, especially the chapter on drug trafficking, the Foreign Relations Secretariat said.
Latinos bank on bilingual census form to aid count
September 24, 2009
Sampson County Health Department employees who are in the public health sections of the department and are bilingual in Spanish will receive a salary hike of 5% – North Carolina
White House takes two different stands for Mexico and Honduras and neither one makes sense
U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday appointed several people to a panel studying the feasibility of creating an American Latino museum, the White House said.
The Obama administration launched a new Web site on Tuesday that officials hope will make citizenship and other immigration services more accessible. – gets 230,000 visits a day
Obama picks border czar for Customs commissioner – Alan Bersin
Penalizing children of illegal immigrants is not the answer – North Carolina community colleges – The chair of the policy committee that considered the policy change, Stuart Fountain, told The Associated Press, “These children cannot be held in limbo while the federal government decides what to do with immigration.”
U.S. Census Uses Telenovela to Reach Hispanics – “Más Sabe el Diablo” – “The Devil Knows Best”
September 22, 2009
Maryland’s new labor secretary will be Alexander M. Sanchez, an attorney and United Way of America executive who lives in Virginia
White House seeks advice on getting Hispanics into college
Juan Sepulveda came to Miami on Monday to ask local educators for guidance in how to get more Hispanic students into college
National Council of La Raza President and CEO to Testify at Congressional Hearing on the State of Minorities in the Recession
Obama takes heat from other side of immigrant healthcare debate – He suggests that those here illegally be kept from taking part in an insurance exchange set up by the government. Some on the left say that’s bad policy that panders to the likes of Joe Wilson.
September 21, 2009
Billions for a US-Mexico border fence, but is it doing any good? The cost for adding 600 miles of new barriers is $2.4 billion so far. The new fencing has been breached more than 3,000 times, a government report finds. – also says $6.5 billion will be needed to maintain the new fencing over the next 20 years
The U.S. Embassy in Bolivia says it is closing some democracy-promotion programs at the request of the Bolivian government.
September 15, 2009
The U.S. Forest Service has apologized to the Hispanic community for comments made during an earlier news conference that told hikers to watch for Hispanic-themed forest encampments.
The National Security Complex — Integrating Military, Intelligence, and Homeland Security
New Report Holds Immigration Detention System Up to the Light
September 14, 2009
President Obama has extended the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba for one year
Ohio policy allowed thousands of illegal immigrants to register cars and get license plates, and the outgoing director of the state Department of Public Safety delayed a proposed crackdown for more than a year, a newspaper reported Sunday. – Director Henry Guzman
National Hispanic Medical Association Supports Universal Health Coverage
Is Latino Affairs Commission A Soap Opera? – Twelve months of turmoil have plagued the state’s Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission, and it won’t let up. – Connecticut
September 10, 2009
Report urges US immigration officials to keep better records on sprawling detention system
LuLAC announced a nationwide effort in San Antonio Wednesday to push for health care-reform legislation this year that includes a government-run health insurance plan.
September 9, 2009
Laid-off Undocumented Migrants Seek End to Crackdown and E-Verify
September 8, 2009
Forest Service carries on stereotype – the feds recently issued and then quickly retracted a warning urging America to beware of campers in national forests drinking Tecate beer, eating tortillas and playing Spanish music.
