By Richard Jones, El Hispanic News Portland, OR — After the 2012 election came and went in November, political observers spent weeks debating what the re-election of President Barack Obama might mean to the United States. While TV political savants debated tax rates and health care issues, another significant change slipped through the door [...]
By Anna Challet, New America Media Well over 4 million homeowners affected by the foreclosure crisis are eligible for an independent review of their cases — but only a small percentage of them have requested one through a recently available federal program, and the deadline to do so is looming. The Independent Foreclosure Review (IFR) [...]
By Richard Jones, El Hispanic News Portland, OR — On Aug. 15, the door to citizenship opened — if only a crack. The so-called Deferred Action program will make it possible for an estimated 1.7 million undocumented teens and young adults to obtain a two-year work permit without fear of being tagged by the [...]
By Anthony Advincula, New America Media New York, NY — Thousands of young undocumented immigrants formed long lines at help-centers and churches across the United States Aug. 15 to start their process of gaining temporary legal status, under President Obama’s new program to defer deportations for many brought to this country as children. But others [...]
By Khalil Abdullah, New America Media If no one provides him with a ride, José Zúñiga, 83-years old and wheelchair-bound, would have to take two or three buses and travel 20 miles to reach the nearest south Texas government office that could issue the new photo ID he will need to vote in upcoming [...]
By Richard Jones, El Hispanic News Portland, OR — Just when the presidential race began getting dull, President Barack Obama lit a pre-Fourth of July firecracker that seemed to catch presumed Republican nominee-to-be Mitt Romney unprepared. In the White House Rose Garden on June 15, Obama introduced a limited immigration reform program allowing [...]
By Richard Jones, El Hispanic News Portland, OR — On a clear morning on the last Monday in June a squadron of broadcast and print journalists came together in northeast Portland to learn details about an opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States released a few hours earlier in Washington, D.C. [...]
By Alberto Moreno, El Hispanic News Everything has a shape. Our lives have a shape. Love has a shape. Fear and courage have a shape. And even hope has a shape of its own. Four years ago our president invited us out of the dark shadow of fear and promised to return to us [...]
By Erin Rook, PQ Monthly As the marriage equality movement builds momentum in states across the nation, many couples are stuck in a tragic Shakespearean time warp. Like modern-day Romeos and Julians, Romitas and Juliets, binational same-sex couples are struggling for the right to simply be together. “It’s a really exciting time,” says Rachel B. [...]
By Renee Ambacher Student Guest Columnist I didn’t spend my spring break with my family, and I didn’t spend it tanning on a beach; instead, I took my head and my heart on a trip and spent a week learning about the immigration issues facing our country. Why would I want to do [...]
