Oct 25, 2007: Obama Calls for Ouster of Official After Remark (The New York Times)
Senator Barack Obama said the leader of the civil rights division of the Justice Department should step down after suggesting that minority voters were not widely disenfranchised by laws requiring photo identification because many members of minorities died before reaching old age.
Oct 22, 2007: GOVERNOR CORZINE ANNOUNCES RECOMMENDATIONS BY THE WORKING GROUP ON LATINO AFFAIRS
Oct 18, 2007: MIAMI HERALD: Boy, 11, left behind as parents are deported (MIAMI HERALD)
In an extraordinary move, Miami's Mexican Consulate has gained custody of an 11-year-old boy left behind in Homestead when immigration officials deported his parents recently after police stopped them for driving a vehicle with an expired tag.
Oct 17, 2007: DUSA Partners with TV Networks to Promote Hispanic Voter Registration and Participation (D-USA)
Oct 15, 2007: Effort to Curb Illegal Workers' Hiring Blocked (Washington Post)
A federal judge barred the Bush administration yesterday from launching a planned crackdown on U.S. companies that employ illegal immigrants, warning of its potentially "staggering" impact on law-abiding workers and companies.
Oct 15, 2007: DUSA Partners with TV Networks to Promote Hispanic Voter Registration and Participation
Oct 15, 2007: Illegal Immigrants Are Bolstering Social Security With Billions (NY TIMES)
Since illegally crossing the Mexican border into the United States six years ago, Ángel Martínez has done backbreaking work, harvesting asparagus, pruning grapevines and picking the ripe fruit. More recently, he has also washed trucks, often working as much as 70 hours a week, earning $8.50 to $12.75 an hour.
Sep 27, 2007: Towns Rethink Laws Against Illegal Immigrants
Sep 27, 2007: Ceremony welcomes 58 new Americans (Reading Eagle)
'I can't wait to vote in my first election,' says Waldo B. Alvarado after naturalization formalities at the Berks County Courthouse.
Sep 27, 2007: Ceremony welcomes 58 new Americans
Sep 26, 2007: Measure Would Offer Legal Status to Illegal Immigrant Students (NY TIMES)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 - A bill to offer legal status to illegal immigrant students who have graduated from high school was revived this week in the Senate, the first effort to advance a piece of broad immigration legislation that failed in June.
Sep 26, 2007: Legal Immigrants Rally at Capitol to Protest Backlog (NY TIMES)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 - About 1,000 highly skilled legal immigrants, carrying placards and wearing T-shirts emblazoned with American flags, rallied Tuesday at the Capitol to protest long delays and vast bureaucratic backlogs in the immigration system.
Sep 26, 2007: Politics in Black and White (NY TIMES)
Last Thursday there was a huge march in Jena, La., to protest the harsh and unequal treatment of six black students arrested in the beating of a white classmate. Students who hung nooses to warn blacks not to sit under a 'white' tree were suspended for three days; on the other hand, the students accused in the beating were initially charged with second-degree attempted murder.
Sep 24, 2007: S. Florida Colombians aim for political unity (MIAMI HERALD)
With their numbers reaching about 375,000 in Florida and an estimated 1.1 million nationwide, Colombians want to become a more formidable force. They now count on an estimated 40,000 Colombian-American voters in South Florida and 30,000 more statewide, according to information compiled by local organizations and given to the Colombian consulate.
Sep 19, 2007: ACLU Applauds Repeal of Anti-Immigrant Ordinance in Riverside, NJ
Sep 19, 2007: Town quietly rescinds tough law aimed at illegal immigrants (The Associated Press)
This southern New Jersey town has voted to rescind a law that made it illegal to rent or hire illegal immigrants.The 3-1 vote Monday night puts an end to a law that got national attention and made big changes in a small town, but was never enforced.
Sep 19, 2007: GOP losing its grip on Miami's Cuban-Americans (TampaBay.com)
For decades it has been a ritual of American politics for presidential candidates to visit this city hoping to win over Cuban-American voters.
Sep 17, 2007: Non-Partisan Task Force Announces
Democracia USA (D-USA) has partnered with the Orange County League of Women Voters and a non-partisan coalition of Hispanic leaders, businesses, media and organizations to launch ¡Vamos A Votar!, a new campaign in Central Florida to motivate a record Hispanic voter turnout in the January 2008 presidential preference election and the 2008 primary and general elections. Along with Democracia USA, the coalition includes La Prensa newspaper, Spanish network Telemundo, and local radio station VIVA 1160 AM.
Sep 10, 2007: Univision postpones debate after GOP candidates ignore invites (South Florida Sun-Sentinel )
The debate was to be broadcast from coast to coast, with questions in Spanish and simultaneous translations piped into candidates' ears. Analysts touted the invitation as a landmark opportunity for Republican presidential hopefuls to woo a huge Hispanic audience and collect their contributions.
Sep 10, 2007: A Big Night for Latinos (Courant.com)
As a teenager in Santiago, Chile, Werner Oyanadel loved watching "The A-Team," the 1980s television show best known for Mr. T and what seemed like nonstop violence.
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