Arizona Police to Check Immigration Status of Suspects
Prensa Hispana, News Report, Posted: Mar 26, 2010
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance
Tags: Arizona, chandler, felony arrests, policing, undocumented immigrants
Filipinos in Iran Warned Against Acting as Drug Mules
GMANews.TV, News Report, Posted: Mar 25, 2010
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern
Clinton To Mexico: Drug Addiction Not Just An American Problem Anymore
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Mar 24, 2010
U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton traveled to Mexico City on Tuesday to make a joint statement with Mexican officials, announcing U.S. government support for a plan to combat drug addiction in Mexico.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Latino, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance
Kidnappings Thrive in India's Prosperity
Siliconeer, News Report, Posted: Mar 22, 2010
India’s explosive economic growth has led to acute social and economic disparities, with huge wealth and downright penury existing cheek by jowl. One side effect is the rise of a vicious “kidnap and ransom” industry.
Categories: Economy, Ethnic Media Network, Law & Justice, South Asian
Arizona Creates 'Zero Tolerance' Zone
Prensa Hispana, News Report, Posted: Mar 21, 2010
Arizona has become the leading state in the nation in creating "anti-immigrant" legislation, said Rev. Miguel Rivera.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance
Another Stake in the So-Called War on Drugs
La Prensa San Diego, Editorial, Posted: Mar 20, 2010
The war on drugs has once again been proven a failure with the killings of two U.S. citizens in the la Ciudad Juarez this past weekend, when suspected drug cartel hit men killed a U.S. consulate employee and her husband, minutes after the husband of another consular employee was shot to death.
Categories: Latin America, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance
Tags: drug war, latino, mexico, narco, war on drugs
One in Four Inmates Is Latino
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Mar 20, 2010
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Latino, Law & Justice
Tags: chirla, crime, criminal, inmates, jail, jorge mario cabrera, justice, juvenile, la raza, latino, randy jurado ertll, youth
Arizona’s Anti-Anti-Immigrant Politicians and Sheriffs
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Mar 10, 2010
There is another side to Arizona's harsh, anti-immigrant politics and law enforcement that is overshadowed by the tough-talking Sheriff Arpaio and his legislative allies. Among many law enforcement and elected officials, there are voices calling for rational and reasoned approaches to immigration policy.
Categories: Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance
Tags: Arizona, detention, illegal aliens, immigrants, pearce, sheriff arpaio
New America Now: The Oscar Goes To, On the Road with Evo, Global Lives
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Mar 05, 2010
Valeria Fernandez shares a story about the Mexican workers who craft the Oscar, Tupac Saavedra followed Bolivian president Evo Morales during his election campaign in On the Road with Evo, and Executive Director David Evan Harris talks about his Global Lives Project.
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, Audio, European, International Affairs, Latino, Law & Justice, Media, Original NAM Content
Tags: bertolt brecht, caucasian, chalk circle, david evan harris, evo morales, global lives project, john doyle, mexican, on the road with evo, oscar, saavedra, tupac, valeria fernandez, workers
'Terror TV Bill’ Raises Questions about Freedom of Press
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Mar 04, 2010
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed Bill 2278 two months ago, which according to its author Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., “would label certain Middle Eastern satellite providers of incendiary television programming as terrorist organizations, in an effort to prevent radical anti-American propaganda from hitting the airwaves.”
Categories: Law & Justice, Media, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: al jazeera, congress, freedom, iraq, media, middle east, politics, speech, terror bill
Gender Bias: Linda Carty's Last Hope on Death Row
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Mar 03, 2010
Linda Carty is the rarest of rarities. She’s a British subject who once sang for the Prince of Wales. She’s a subject in a film documentary. She’s garnered massive international media, as well as legal and political attention and support. She worked as an informant for the Drug Enforcement Agency. She's also a death row.
Categories: African American, Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Living in the Cradle of the Drug War
New America Now, Audio, Posted: Mar 02, 2010
In the north of Mexico, the state of Sinaloa has become known as the "cradle of drug trafficking." Journalist Manuel Ortiz reports on the conditions and the difficulties in fighting the Sinaloa Cartel.
Categories: Audio, Latino, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Tags: drug war mexico, manuel ortiz, sinaloa cartel drug violence