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By Gaby Pacheco LatinaLista Next month, the country’s educational community celebrates the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Plyler vs. Doe. In Plyer vs. Doe, the high court ruled in June 1982 that it was against the law to prohibit primary and secondary education to an undocumented student. Although the decision [...]

Commentary: By Carmen Miranda The City of Escondido has demonstrated once again how NOT to run a city government. With the evidence presented by the ACLU and documentary filmmaker John Carlos Frey that Escondido has been profiting on the backs of immigrants and the poor with towed vehicles from driver license checkpoints, City Manager Clay [...]

By Elena Shore New America Media Fourteen-year-old Jocelyn wants to be the first person in her family to graduate. But now she may have to do it without the one person who most wanted to be there: her mom. When Alabama enacted the nation’s toughest immigration law, HB 56, her mother was faced with an [...]

By Mark R. Day When director Michael Weitz showed up recently at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, he couldn’t have picked a better audience for his new film, “A Better Life”. In attendance were more than 200 members of the National Day Labor Organizing Network (NDLON) gathered for a weeklong national assembly. The [...]

Frontera NorteSur Despite an adverse economic and political landscape, immigrant and low-income workers celebrated victories this past week. In California, labor and community activists announced the winning of two new union contracts for car washers, or carwasheros, as they are called locally. The agreements with the Vermont Car Wash and Nava’s Car Wash in the [...]

Commentary: By Ernie McCray Oh, Governor Brewer, I look at a photo of you flashing such a sunny smile and I can’t help but think of a song Maya Angelou sings: When it looked like the sun wouldn’t shine anymore, God Put a rainbow in the clouds. With that smile of yours you could surely [...]

Perspective: By Raul Rodriguez New America Media  BERKELEY— As President Obama delivered his third State of the Union Address, the 11 sentences he dedicated to addressing my current immigration status did little to instill in me any more optimism than did similar statements from the last State of the Union… or the one before that. [...]

 By Marshall Fitz and Sarah Jane Glynn By next month Congress must extend the 2012 payroll tax cut to help boost our nation’s economic recovery. In 2011 this tax cut resulted in 122 million American households boosting their take-home-pay worth to the total tune of $120 billion. The extension and expansion of the payroll tax [...]

Story and Photographs by David Bacon OAXACA, MEXICO — The Oaxacan Institute for Attention to Migrants, and its director Rufino Dominguez, called for a new era of respect for the rights of migrants, in commorating the International Day of the Migrant in the Palacio del Gobierno, Oaxaca’s state capitol building. Representing the newly-elected state government, [...]

By Kent Paterson Frontera NorteSur  Pro-immigrant and civil liberties groups are stepping up the pressure against US Immigration and Customs Enforce-ment’s (ICE) Secure Communities program. Designed to remove immigrant lawbreakers from the United States, Secure Communities enlists local law enforcement agencies in a cooperative relationship with ICE in order to identify, hold and deport foreign [...]

 A Celebration Peace and Goodwill By Vivian Marlene Dunbar Sat. Dec. 10 20ll — People of two nations came joined together, at the border, to celebrate the Annual Posada Sin Frontiers. This event marked the 18thyear of people gathering at Friendship Park to share in this traditional holiday. This year’s them is ‘The Star Still [...]

Commentary: By Marisa Treviño LatinaLista    Much news has been made overAlabama’s tough immigration policy, HB 56, and how it has adversely affected the state’s agriculture economy by driving the immigrant labor out of the state.    Rather than scrap the law or make changes that could help the farmers, politicians would rather have officials [...]

By Leslie Layton chicoSol Editor’s Note: Victor Escobar said today he has received notification from ICE that his case will be reviewed at some apparently undetermined point; the Dec. 7 deadline for leaving the country has been lifted. Escobar said he can remain in the country until the review is completed. The best possible outcome, [...]

Perspective: By Julianne Hing ColorLines     Can GOP voters stomach a presidential candidate who talks about undocumented immigrants without calling them “illegals”?     Can the tea party base that’s driving the Republican Party handle a presidential hopeful who acknowledges the impossibility of deporting every one of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country, [...]

By Valeria Fernandez New America Media     The contents of Maria Teresa Fuentes’ immigration file take up an entire table. Legal appeals, government letters carrying bad news, attorney advertisements clipped from newspapers, technical explanations of cryptic immigration laws, a Spanish prayer printed on blue paper… Collectively, they tell the story of a fight that’s been [...]

Commentary: By Angelica Salas    There are real problems and there are distractions. The former require our undivided attention and focus but it’s the latter that often make the morning headlines.    Recently, our partner and ally Presente.org, joined by some writers, took issue with a statement signed by CHIRLA and eighteen other organizations decrying [...]

By Vivian Marlene Dunbar     On Nov. 19, 2011, the Border Angels will hold their 25 anniversary celebration at the San Diego Centro Cultural de la Raza. The event marks a quarter of a century of defending and protecting immigrant rights on the US border and throughout America.     The Border Angels was founded by [...]