Immigrant Rights Movement Fights On, Despite Obstacles

America'sVoice, Commentary, Maribel Hastings, Nov 17, 2009

The immigrant rights movement is using social networking and technology to mobilize the public and exert political pressure to make comprehensive immigration reform a reality. This is the fourth part in the series “Immigration Reform: Know the Players.”

Adios, Lou Dobbs

New America Media, Q&A with Roberto Lovato, Marcelo Ballvé, Nov 13, 2009

After Wednesday's abrupt on-air resignation of veteran CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, many Latino advocacy and immigrant rights groups felt vindicated. Roberto Lovato, co-founder of Presente.org and former NAM contributor, emerged as the most visible figure in the anti-Dobbs groundswell.

Goodbye to an Anti-Hispanic

El Diario/La Prensa, Editorial, Staff, Nov 12, 2009

Lou Dobbs' departure from CNN shows that organizations will not be able to profit from promoting hate without a firm backlash, write editors of New York's El Diario/La Prensa.

Slavery Bigger Than Ever in America

New America Media, Commentary, Earl Ofari Hutchinson , Oct 17, 2009

On October 13, the U.S. Coast Guard nabbed 18 persons off Mission Bay near San Diego. All 18 were foreign nationals being smuggled into the country. That story drew scant press attention, but it was noteworthy that they were captured at all.

Bringing Back Due Process for Non-Citizens

New America Now, , Sandip Roy, Oct 12, 2009

Mallika Dutt examines the fundamental problem of the immigration reform debate. Can we bring back due process rights for non-citizens?

Mexicans Don’t Have an Illegal Immigration Hormone

New America Media, , Q&A by Sandip Roy, Sep 26, 2009

A conversation with Luis Alberto Urrea, author of "Into The Beautiful North" about migration, movies and Mexico.

If Health Care Excludes Some Immigrants, Are Quarantines Next?

New America Media, Commentary, Roberto Rodriguez, Sep 16, 2009

Germs and viruses know no boundaries, so to not expand health care access to the undocumented would be playing with fire.

Health Care Woes for Latinos

New America Now Radio, , Odette Keeley, Aug 28, 2009

This week on "Stories From the Ethnic Media": La Opinion on how the health care debate foreshadows the immigration reform debate; La Raza on Latino elders' lack of information on and access to emergency services.

Track How Stimulus Dollars Are Spent, Ethnic Media Told

New America Media, News Report , Eunji Jang, Aug 25, 2009

Several communities, contractors and social service agencies received dollars as part of the federal Recovery Act to stimulate the economy and create jobs. Ethnic media should play the role of watchdogs to make sure the money was being used for what it was intended.