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Treasury Designates Major Mexican Drug Chemical Traffickers

The Drug Enforcement Administration i(DEA) announced that the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Ezio Benjamin Figueroa Vasquez and his son, Hassein Eduardo Figueroa Gomez, as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act) for their significant role…

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Hispanics Are Tolerant to LGBT Community

Countering popular assumptions that Hispanics are more anti-gay than other segments of society, a new report co-released by NCLR (National Council of La Raza) and Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS) finds that Latinos are, in fact, as open and tolerant, if not more tolerant, than the general population in the…

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NCLR Launches Orlando “Mobilize to Vote” Campaign

Campaign to register thousands of Central Florida Latinos to vote   MIAMI—NCLR (National Council of La Raza) will officially launch its Central Florida Mobilize to Vote (M2V) campaign in Orlando thisTuesday, April 17th, at 12:30pm.  The campaign, which began field operations two weeks ago, has already begun registering local Latinos to…

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This Week in Immigration

The Coming Wave of Second-Generation Voters The Latino vote is widely discussed at election time, yet little analysis is dedicated to the “immigrant vote,” and even less to the growing bloc of voters who are the U.S.-born children of immigrants. Yet, both immigrants and their children are showing tremendous growth…

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New Campaign Emphasizes the Political Power that Comes with Citizenship

Civil And Immigrant Rights Organizations Urge Eligible Immigrants To Apply For Citizenship Before End Of April   To Listen to the Recording of Tuesday's Call, Please Visit: http://tinyurl.com/MasRespetoAudio UPDATE: The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Immigration Statistics has released a report on naturalizations in 2011. The new data indicate that 694,193 legal…

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“Tweak” Bill Reinforces Rather than Repeals the Ugliness of Alabama’s Anti-Immigrant Law

  Premise Remains the Same – Force Immigrant Workers and Families to Self-Deport   The backers of Alabama’s “show me your papers” anti-immigrant law introduced new legislation to tweak, but not repeal, the state’s law.  The following is a reaction to the new bill from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s…

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Romántica 900am Hosts Radiothon to Benefit Mary’s Center

Local organization provides health care, family literacy and social services to more than 24,000 area residents   Laurel, MD- WILC Romántica 900am has partnered with Mary's Center for the first annual Mary's Center Radiothon on Friday, May 11th from 6am to 7pm. The one-day radiothon is a local effort to raise funds for the organization's…

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IDB, ALAS Foundation announce winners of early childhood development awards

A Mexican teacher, an illustrated book about a girl with autism, a center for children with HIV/ AIDS and a Brazilian NGO dedicated to improving the health of children from poor families won awards from the Inter-American Development Bank and the ALAS Foundation for their outstanding contributions to early childhood development.…

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FBI Brings CODIS Software to Costa Rica

The FBI announced plans to share the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) technology with our law enforcement partners in Costa Rica. The initiative demonstrates and reaffirms the FBI’s commitment to assist international law enforcement agencies in combating violent crime. A letter of agreement will allow the Poder Judicial Republic of…

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DEA Announces Sanctions Against Top Guatemalan Drug Trafficker tied to Los Zetas

The Drug Enforcement Administration announced that the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Guatemalan national Horst Walter Overdick Mejia, a critical link in the drug trade between Colombian producers and the violent Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas, as a specially designated narcotics trafficker. Today’s…

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