Hispanic y Latino Top Stories (Noticias)

Pew Hispanic Center Report: The Role of Schools in the English Language Learner Achievement Gap

Primer Impacto: How Spanish-Language Ads Could Decide The Election

Births fueling Hispanic growth - NOT IMMIGRATION - (I have pointed this out before)

Cuban-American woman leads McCain’s Florida campaign - Arlene DiBenigno

NEW VIDEO SHOWS LINK BETWEEN ANTI-IMMIGRANT GROUPS AND WHITE SUPREMACISTS - National Council of La Raza

A Curmudgeon Leaves Millions to Poor Children of Panama, and the Battles Begins

Puerto Rico creates 8-team soccer league

LAPD won’t ask about immigration status - lawsuit thrown out

Latino media getting cold shoulder from campaigns?

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)

Univision, Zubi Advertising Complete $80 Million Deal - The deal includes advertising on all three Univision TV networks (Univision, TeleFutura and Galavision), among other areas of the company

Border farmers seek change on guest workers

Border fence challenge rebuffed by Supreme Court - The justices decline to hear a petition from environmentalists, allowing the Department of Homeland Security to continue construction.

Author Jerry A. Rodríguez dies at 46

Obama on wrong side of Elian Gonzalez saga

People who are bicultural and speak two languages may actually shift their personalities when they switch from one language to another

Jaime Jarrin links Dodgers to Spanish-speaking audience - Jarrin has gone from early slights to a 50-year broadcasting career that includes not only baseball but also covering the pope, White House visits and the slaying of Ruben Salazar.

Professor to join Hispanic journalists’ hall of fame - Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez

Latino children are behind in preschool enrollment - California

Group Wields Racketeering Law Against Landlords to Combat Illegal Immigration - Plainfield, New Jersey

CDC finds mostly foreign-born farm workers had rate 20 times higher than general work force

Mexico reforms its justice system - Legislation allows U.S.-style public trials. Change will take time.

Bureau of Prisons ranks immigration as third highest offense in nation’s jails (Latina Lista)

Cuban immigrants reach Texas after being snatched by gunmen in Mexico

Congressional Hispanics pledge to help Obama win

Ex-rivals’ merge to ‘megacartel’ intensifies brutality in Mexico

Abandoned two-year-old is the poster child for immigration debate (Latina Lista)

Federal prosecution of illegal immigrants soars

Barack Obama meets with Hispanic Democrats to court Latino vote

Andrea Bazan, a longtime leader of the North Carolina Hispanic community, was named chairwoman of the National Council of La Raza’s board of directors Tuesday.

U.S. cars swarm Tijuana gas stations

Patti Solis Doyle Joins Obama Campaign

Taking It To ‘The Heights’ - won the Tony award for best musical, one of four it won overall.

Atlanta becoming big market for Mexican acts

Hard times for Merco Group - South Florida’s real estate boom ends in a tangle of litigation and financial demands for a family-owned development enterprise. - the Meruelo family

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF LA RAZA AND WACHOVIA LAUNCH $16.25 MILLION PARTNERSHIP TO ADVANCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN U.S. LATINO COMMUNITIES

Raul Alarcon Sr. Dies - founder of Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS)

Sheriff Arpaio’s thugs threaten to arrest a New Times reporter for looking at public records - (wow, you have to read this one) - Phoenix, Arizona

Lawsuit Thrown Out Over Underrepresented Latino Jurors - San Diego

New report shows that family reunification is one of the driving forces of illegal immigration (Latina Lista)

Hispanics suffer highest pedestrian death rate

Border Patrol implements zero-tolerance policy for illegal immigrants in the Rio Grande Valley - Some fear ‘Streamline’ could overburden federal courts

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.

How Desperate Homeowners Got Caught Up in an Alleged Scam - California

Texans head across the border to save on gasoline

Border Crossings - Spain, Like U.S., Grapples With Immigration

Puerto Rico in independence bid - Puerto Rico Governor Anibal Acevedo Vila has called on the UN to back his people’s right to self-determination.

Federal contractors must ‘E-Verify’ employees’ eligibility to work

Denver promise of free college is breaking some hearts - Illegal immigrants graduating from high school find that the 2004 pledge won’t cover out-of-state tuition, and they’re not entitled to Colorado resident prices.

Few Latin artists mobilize for immigration reform