By Richard Jones, El Hispanic News Salem — Five years after cutting off driver licenses for those living in Oregon without immigration documents, Oregon’s legislators went back to work and created a means to allow undocumented immigrants to drive on the streets and highways of the state. Oregon Senate Bill 833 will create [...]
By Richard Jones, El Hispanic News
By Julie Cortez, El Hispanic News If comedy is hard, try hustling for laughs while belting out arias. Oh, and you’re going to have to pass muster as a Shakespearean actor at the same time. And wear a fat suit. “You have a body over your body that you don’t feel,” says bass baritone [...]
By Valeria Fernández, New America Media Phoenix, AZ — Maria Del Rosario Rodríguez first heard the good news via a text message from her husband. She rushed to tell her co-workers — there might be a chance for her to reunite with her family on U.S. soil for the first time since she [...]
By Julie Cortez, El Hispanic News Robin Castro and John Halseth were married once — for a very short time. The brevity of their union was not caused by infidelity, or youthful haste, or disregard for the hard work needed to make a marriage last. Together almost 18 years, Castro and Halseth are, [...]
On April 2, Gov. John Kitzhaber signed House Bill 2787, also known as the Tuition Equity bill, into law. The bill, which was passed by the Oregon House in February and the Oregon Senate in March, allows undocumented youth to pay in-state tuition if they have lived in the U.S. for five years, attended [...]
By Richard Jones, El Hispanic News Woodburn, OR — Oregon’s educators have a goal for the year 2025: 40 percent of adults will have a four year college degree or higher, another 40 percent will have two years of-post secondary preparation — a two year college degree — and the remaining 20 percent will [...]
By Richard Jones, El Hispanic News Portland, OR — With a growing number of Latino students in Oregon’s public schools and colleges, only a few Latinos hold seats on school boards in the state. On the other hand, Hispanic enrollment has increased from 9.5 percent in 1999 to 17 percent in 2009, according to an [...]
Young activists reflect on the historic intersection of the LGBTQ and immigrant rights movements By Sofía Campos, Catherine Eusebio, and Jorge Gutiérrez, New America Media The undocumented immigrant youth movement has gone through a powerful evolution since its genesis. In the beginning, the ever-present risk of deportation forced only the bravest of us to [...]
