The Missing Ingredient in Our Immigration Debate
José de la Isla     [Photo]

A recent Zogby International poll has exposed the missing element that U.S. lawmakers need to measure while finalizing an immigration reform bill. It cuts right through the shrill political rhetoric.

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Basque: When Bombs Are Left Behind
Maxim Kniazkov     [Photo]

GARDNERVILLE, Nev. -- In a way, Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” was about their family. The agony captured by the famous painting remains with them to this day, though dulled by the healing layers of time.

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Dolores Huerta — Forest Gump or an Icon?
Christine Senteno     [Photo]

Long before I ever met Dolores Huerta, I used her as a role model for my growing daughter.

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Smuggling in the News
José de la Isla     [Photo]

Not until half a million Latinos marched in Los Angeles last Saturday (March 25) to protest against HR 4437, the federal bill that criminalizes undocumented immigrants and those who help him, did the mainstream media take notice of this rapidly emerging national political force as newsworthy.

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The Political Unfurling of Latino High School Students
José de la Isla     [Photo]

High school students, mostly Latino and approaching voting age, are sending an important political message as part of the new wave of protests against HR4437.

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For many, There’s the Alternative ‘Mexican Dream’
Teresa Puente     [Photo]

GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Despite U.S. news reports about its besieged southern border, Mexico isn’t empty yet. There are still more than 100 million people living here.

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During Immigration Protests,
Where Was San Antonio?
Andrew Hernández     [Photo]

One cannot speak or write about the long and ongoing struggle Latinos have engaged in to secure their human and civil rights, improve their material condition and determine for themselves how they should live without noting the profound contribution the predominantly Mexican American community in San Antonio, Texas, had made for more than four generations.

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Marches Come With Price Tag for Young People
José de la Isla     [Photo]

HOUSTON, Texas — U.S. Senator John McCain encourages graduates to embrace a cause greater than themselves in his commencement addresses. His message resonates because the topic suggests the end of the “Me Generation” and a requiem for the quaint but dysfunctional “greed is good” idea stemming from the 1980s.

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Earth Day: A Clean Environment Is a Civil Right
Richard Ray Pérez

When I was a child, my parents and I didn’t know much about the April 22 holiday called Earth Day, I wasn’t aware of any organized actions some persons around the country were taking to keep their communities healthy. Still, my parents celebrated their connection to the air they breathed, the water they drank and the land that sustained them in their everyday lives.

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Silencing the Voices from the South
Marisa Treviño     [Photo]

As the many political factions within Congress continues to struggle for consensus on a national immigration policy, the House bill’s proposed $2 billion, 700-mile wall dividing the United States and its neighbor Mexico is still an option.

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Mexico City Press Views U.S. Pro-Immigrant
Demonstrations as New Latino Civil Rights Movement
José de la Isla     [Photo]

MEXICO CITY - Instead of its usual banner headline, El Universal, one of Mexico's leading newspapers, carried a full-color photo-spread over two-thirds of the paper's top half, showing a sea of humanity. The signature white t-shirts, United States flags, scatterings of Mexican and other Latin American banners and hand-lettered signs told the story.

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‘Illegal’ Means ‘Apartheid’
Roberto Rodríguez     [Photo]

Wasn't it Howard Dean who predicted last year that 2006 would be the year that conservatives would use the issue of immigration as a subterfuge to distract the nation from focusing on the administration's incompetence and immoral and illegal behavior?

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‘Megamarcha’ Advances Us into the 21st Century
José de la Isla     [Photo]

MEXICO CITY — Sometimes you have to leave home to understand things more clearly. That happened to me after coming here after observing up close the 100,000-person pro-immigrant march in Houston.

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