Latina Moms | Daughters
Today’s voting report from the Census Bureau is promising in the sense that over a million more Latinos voted this past election. However, our voter turnout rate is down since President Barack Obama’s first election in 2008, and way below that of other ethnic groups. Read Related: The Latino Vote: Shaping Our Future For the [...]
The award-winning film, Smuggled written and directed by Ramón Hamilton, brings to life the sacrifice immigrant mothers make to provide their children with better opportunities by leaving their own countries for the United States. The film is about is about Hilaria Rodriguez, played brilliantly by Denisse Bon, and her 9 year-old son Miguel, played by [...]
Your children are taken from you. You’re not allowed to see or speak with them. They’re given to a new family and you’re sent back to a country you haven’t seen in years. When you try to reunite with your children, you’re told you must complete a number of classes, find a job, [...]
STATEN ISLAND – Vanessa Ramos does her homework in the bathroom. Family dinner is served on a folded table, a checkered green cloth adding a homely feel. She jostles with eight others for television time, though adults have first-dibs because telenovelas rule. No more than two at a time are allowed [...]
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series on immigration, leading up to our Twitter Talk on February 13 at 9pm EST with Emmy-winning journalist Jorge Ramos. To take part in the conversation, follow #CountryForAll on Twitter. Given that Twitter will be very busy tonight when Jorge Ramos chats immigration with Mamiverse, Latino Rebels, [...]
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series on immigration, leading up to our Twitter Talk on February 13 at 9pm EST with Emmy-winning journalist Jorge Ramos. To take part in the conversation, follow #CountryForAll on Twitter. Jorge Ramos’s book A Country for All talks about an immigration manifesto. As the push for comprehensive [...]
As the debate over immigration reform develops, one segment of the immigrant population has been significantly missing from the conversation: the children. Unaccompanied children risk the long journey to the United States to escape abuse, violence, exploitation, and in hopes to reunite with family members. But once they reach they U.S., they face the challenge [...]
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series on immigration, leading up to our Twitter Talk on February 13 at 9pm EST with Emmy-winning journalist Jorge Ramos. To take part in the conversation, follow #CountryForAll on Twitter. Welcome to the land of two million deportations, a land that you might know well. It is [...]
Editor’s note: This post is part of a series on immigration leading up to our Twitter Talk on February 13 at 9pm EST with Emmy-winning journalist Jorge Ramos. To take part in the conversation, follow #CountryForAll on Twitter. Celebrated television journalist Jorge Ramos has for years been a powerful advocate for immigration reform that opens [...]
Editor’s note: This post is part of a series on immigration leading up to our Twitter Talk on February 13 at 9pm EST with Emmy-winning journalist Jorge Ramos. To take part in the conversation, follow #CountryForAll on Twitter. Award-winning Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos has long taken a strong stand in favor of comprehensive immigration reform [...]
