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Window of opportunity to stop deportations
At last week’s National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Capital Awards dinner, Senator Bob Menéndez (D-NJ) and NCLR President Janet Murguía both made impassioned pleas to President Obama to roll back the deportation machinery that rips families apart on a daily basis.
“Any day now, this Administration will reach the two million mark for deportations. It is a staggering number that far outstrips any of his predecessors and leaves behind it a wake of devastation for families across America. Many ...
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The secret world of undocumented informants
Norma knows what it’s like to live through hell. She says she’s experienced it ever since she was a child, growing up in an abusive family in extreme poverty in South Texas, as a teenager when she was forced by her stepfather to enter the world of drug trafficking, later as an informant for the ... |
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CHCI internship program strengthens diversity
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI), the nation's premier Latino youth leadership development and educational services organization, welcomed the arrival of its 2014 Spring Congressional Internship class to Washington, D.C., this month. Twenty undergraduates arrived from nine ... |
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After parents' deportation, children face mental struggles
Myrna Orozco will never forget the phone call she got from her cousin in October 2011. Immigration officials had arrested her father and taken him to a detention center in Kansas City, where the family was living at the time.
"I was in shock,” she said. “I immediately thought about my mother ... |
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Finding hope in “The State of Arizona”
For filmmakers Catherine Tambini and Carlos Sandoval, another film focused on immigration was not in the cards. Ten years ago they made the award-winning documentary, “Farmingville” about immigration in America set against the backdrop of the murder of two Latino day laborers. The film was a ... |
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