La Prensa San Diego

Commentary: By Cong. José Serrano    In response to a new report out [last week] on families separated by deportation, I have to express my profound disgust with a system that has left more than 5000 citizen children in foster care because their parents were deported. These policies are un-American and deeply troubling.    The [...]

Commentary: By Scott Nicol    How does waiving the Endangered Species Act in Glacier National Park help secure the border?    Simple. It doesn’t.    But that doesn’t matter to Rep. Rob Bishop of Utah, author of the National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act (HR 1505). Bishop claims that U.S. Customs and Border Protection [...]

Story and Photos by David Bacon   If there’s one experience that Mexicans have in common more than any other, more even than hatred and repudiation of the mutual violence of the narcos and the government, it’s migration. In Oaxaca, 18% of its 3.7 million people have left for other parts of Mexico, and especially for [...]

Commentary: By Hector Balderas    An electrified fence. On the border. Designed to kill people. Along with “real guns with real bullets.”    This is the immigration “plan” recently proposed by Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.    And he’s one of his party’s frontrunners.    There’s no question that immigration is a serious issue that [...]

Commentary: By Maribel Hastings Birmingham, Alabama – Illinois congressman Luis Gutiérrez has always said that the fight for immigration reform is a civil-rights issue for the immigrant community in the United States.    That community finds itself in dire straits in Alabama under its new law HB 56, which, even after a court ruling temporarily [...]

Commentary: By Pedro Rios Program Director, American Friends Service Committee – San Diego    Obama Administration officials this week touted their high record numbers of deportations – nearly 400,000 last fiscal year – as “smart and effective” law enforcement. It is neither.    Rather it reflects a precipitous loss of moral ground by a Washington [...]

Commentary: By Raoul Lowery Contreras    Alabama is famous for self-deception, lying and stupidity unmatched in American history, except of course, by its neighboring sister state, Mississippi.    Starting with the Big Lie that the American Civil War was fought for state’s rights, not to protect slavery, Alabama went on to totally subjugate the huge [...]

National Hispanic Media Coalition is moving forward after canceled meeting with Latino leadership By Elia Esparza    The National Hispanic Media Coalition is moving forward with a boycott of the John and Ken Radio Show after KFI management canceled a meeting with the immigrant rights group.    Latino leaders were surprised and disappointed with the [...]

Comentario: Por Humberto Caspa, Ph.D.    El estado de Alabama volvió a mostrar su naturaleza intolerante. Fue uno de los bastiones de los Ku Klux Klan; ahora se ha convertido en la meca de la reacción antiinmigrante y el centro del racismo norteamericano.    Algunos pasajes de su nueva ley estatal, HM56, vista en el [...]

By Pamela A. MacLean New America Media     As the U.S. Supreme Court begins its new term on Monday, immigration is likely to be one of the most significant issues it tackles, with Arizona’s draconian SB 1070 front and center.     The law’s supporters have asked the justices to review the legislation, which went into [...]

Alabama’s meanest anti-immigrant law in the country will spread division and hatred     Most portions of what has been accurately described as the meanest and farthest-reaching anti-immigrant law in the country have been allowed to stand in the State of Alabama in a significant ruling by U.S. District Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn. Blackburn ruled on [...]

Commentary: By David Cho    For three years as a UCLA undergraduate student, I was the drum major conducting the 250-member UCLA marching band with great fanfare in front of 75,000 people at the Rose Bowl. I became the first Korean American drum major in UCLA history. Majoring in international economics and Korean, I maintained [...]

Comentario: By Maribel Hastings America’s Voice    Tras el desafortunado fallo que dejó en efecto algunas de las cláusulas más onerosas de la ley migratoria HB 56 de Alabama, el gobierno federal se adentra más en la complicada maraña legal de evitar que la lista de estados con leyes migratorias propias siga ampliándose mientras el [...]

By Valeria Fernández New America Media PHOENIX, Ariz. – The number of apprehensions of undocumented immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border has dropped, but reports of abuses against immigrants are on the rise.     Those are the findings of a new report released by the Arizona humanitarian aid organization No More Deaths.     The report, “A [...]

By Marty Rosenbluth     Xiomara Benitez Blanco was 19 years old with little formal education when she came by herself to the U.S. from El Salvador to find work. She made her way to Durham, and by 2009 had worked in a series of service jobs that gave her hope for a better life. She [...]

By Lynn Tramonte New America Media     The Task Force on Secure Communities, a non-governmental body appointed by the Department of Homeland Security this summer, just announced its recommendations to reform this deeply flawed program.     According to Lynn Tramonte, Deputy Director of America’s Voice Education Fund, “Because of Secure Communities and similar programs, fear [...]

Por Angela Maria Kelley, Marshall Fitz , Philip E. Wolgin, Ann Garcia     El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS por sus siglas en inglés) anunció recientemente una nueva iniciativa para concentrar sus recursos en la detención y la expulsión de personas de la más alta prioridad, los que representan una amenaza para la seguridad pública [...]