Hispanic News

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…

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…

  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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

Richmond, VA [CapitalWirePR] - A new festival experience is coming to Virginia with “¿Qué Pasa?” Cinco de Mayo on Richmond's historic Canal Walk, with splashes of Latin energy, music, and flavors. On Saturday, May 5th, Richmond’s Canal Walk will undergo a community-based transformation to resemble the famous Floating Gardens of…

Civil And Immigrant Rights Organizations Urge Eligible Immigrants To Apply For Citizenship Before End Of April. To Listen to the Recording of Today’s Call, Please Visit: http://tinyurl.com/MasRespetoAudio WASHINGTON, D.C. — Harsh state immigration laws, such as Arizona’s S.B. 1070, have become a deciding motivator for eligible Latinos, Asians and other…

Rockville, MD (April 10th, 2012) - On Tuesday, April 10th, Montgomery County residents will travel to county police headquarters to protest the forced implementation of the discredited “Secure Communities” program and ask the police department to respect immigrant communities. They will deliver thousands of signed petitions asking to the police…