The latest news relating to the political world as it impacts the US Latino community.
Leslie Sanchez, a republican strategist has stated that Republicans should treat Hispanics as part of mainstream America. As members of the Republican National Committee prepare to choose a party chairman this weekend, Sanchez recognizes that President Obama’s election marks the beginning of a post-partisan, post-racial America where Hispanics are no longer a minority group. Sanchez [...]
Last November when Suffolk County prosecutors charged seven youths in the deadly assault of Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorean immigrant on Long Island. Their accusations charged that “hunting Hispanics” was a regular pastime for the accused. Yesterday, prosecutors announced new indictments that accuse the seven teenage defendants of attacking eight other Latino men. Prosecutors believe that [...]
The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund issued the following statement in response to today’s succession of Kirsten Gillibrand to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by former Senator Hilary Clinton: “Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s record and public statements as a U.S. Representative raise troubling concerns about her lack of commitment to [...]
Former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros has announced he will create a nonprofit that will help integrate Latino immigrants to U.S. society by helping them improve their English and expanding their participation in military service and civic activities. Cisneros, who previously served in the Clinton administration, said he hopes to launch the group this coming year [...]
PROBLEM The House Appropriations Committee made a serious mistake when it approved an amendment to the economic stimulus bill (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) that would require all businesses and other public or private “entities” that receive money from the stimulus package to use the flawed federal E-Verify program (aka Basic Pilot). [...]
In a new report released by the Arizona-based Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW); Arizona reportedly has 300 immigrant women who are incarcerated. Problems that negatively impact the welfare of female immigrants are discussed in Unseen Prisoners: A Report on Women in Immigration Detention Facilities in Arizona, including serious issues that affect many Latinas [...]
Hispanic and women-owned businesses will find relief in the latest passed reforms that include improvements to the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) in H.R. 354, the TARP Reform and Accountability Act, which was passed late Thursday in by the House of Representatives. The TARP program includes new provisions that would improve opportunities for women- and [...]
A report by the Center for American Progress entitled “The State of Minorities: Recession Issue” demonstrates that minorities have been hit the hardest out of all Americans undergoing the economic crisis, especially because of fewer employment opportunities available to them. Traditionally, minority workers have had fewer job opportunities and lower wages, leaving them with lower [...]
Yesterday as the first African-American president was sworn in, many Hispanic immigrants who live in homeless shelters on Los Angeles’s Skid Row cheered Barack Obama as he became the nation’s 44th president. Los Angeles’ Mission and Saint Vincent Mission,two homeless shelters, held watch parties so its residents and neighbors could see history unfold in Washington. [...]
More than 4,200 people gathered at Washington’s Union Station on Sunday night to celebrate President Barack Obama’s arrival to Washington at the 2009 Latino Inaugural Gala. Latin superstars including Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Edward James Olmos, “Ugly Betty” TV father Tony Plana, “American Idol” runner-up David Archuleta and “70′s Show” star Wilmer Valderrama were among [...]
