By Ruby Perez New America Media
Raul Rodriguez and Alberto Ledesma live parallel lives. Both proudly claim UC Berkeley as their alma mater. Both have worked hard academically. And both have published personal essays about the stigma of being an undocum…
Archive of posts tagged Immigration
A Tale of Two Undocumented Graduates
The Farm Workers’ Filipino American Champion
By Dick MeisterAuthor, Journalist
The birth date of Cesar Chavez, the late farm workers’ leader, will be celebrated next month, and rightly so. But it’s well past time we also celebrated the life of probably the most important of the other leader…
Iraq’s Unfinished Story—Millions of Refugees Abandoned by U.S.
By Andrew Lam New America Media
Each time Uncle Sam ventures abroad he leaves an unfinished story, and nowhere is it most unfinished than the story of Iraq, where despite flowery speeches regarding freedom and sovereignty by the Obama administration, d…
Why the Latino Vote Will Remain Democratic
By Rosa Martha Villarreal
As the next presidential cycle approaches, pundits and journalists alike are staking their position on the Latino vote. Most correctly surmise that President Obama will not only win the Latino vote but do so in an overw…
Across the Country, Voters Reject Right-Wing Extremists
By Paul Hogarth Beyond Chron
Across the country voters rejected en masse the right-wing Tea Party politics that have plagued national politics. Nowhere was it more obvious than Ohio – where voters decisively, by a 2-1 margin, crushed Republican Gover…
Latino Orgs Defend Cecilia Muñoz, Amid Calls for Her Resignation
By Elena Shore New America Media
A Latino radio host and blogger is calling for Cecilia Muñoz to resign from the White House for her defense of the administration’s deportation policies. Presente.org, the immigrant rights group that led the petition…
Latino College Enrollment Skyrockets, But Will Upward Mobility Follow?
By Jacob Simas and Vivian PoNew America Media
Maricruz Cabrera, a 17-year-old high school senior from Thermal, Calif., a rural community in the east Coachella valley that stretches from Indio to the Salton Sea on the southern edge of Riverside County, …
