Split Verdict for Ex-Cops in Shenandoah, Pa.
El Diario/La Prensa, News Report, Posted: Jan 28, 2011
A jury issued a split verdict Thursday against three former police officers accused of obstructing justice in the probe of a fatal beating of an immigrant.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice
A Reminder to President Obama: Don't Forget Immigration Reform
El Diario/La Prensa, News Report, Posted: Jan 28, 2011
An op-ed in El Diario/La Prensa argues that Obama must not lose sight of his promise to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Latino, Politics & Governance
Tags: cir, comprehensiveimmigrationreform, hispanicvote, immigrationreform, latinovote, obamalatinos
Arizona Bills to ID US-Born Children of Undocumented Immigrants
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 27, 2011
A baby born in Arizona to two undocumented parents would have a birth certificate that indicates he is not a U.S. citizen.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: anti-immigrant, anti-immigrant laws, arizona, birth, citizenship, racism, sb1070, undocumented
Filipinos Worry After State of the Union Address
"Balitang America"-The Filipino Channel, Video, Posted: Jan 27, 2011
Many Filipino Americans who watched the President's State of the Union Address remain apprehensive about the country's slow economic recovery including seniors who fear cuts on health care & Social Security benefits because of the national deficit.
President Obama gave his State of the Union speech last night. Education, Medicare, Social Security, economy, and immigration reform were issues that the president talked to America about.
Categories: Asian, Education, Elders, Ethnic Media Network, Health, Immigration, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, Video
Tags: $1.45 T deficit, government cuts on Medicare and Social Security, President Obama's State of Union Address
Calif. University Accused of Being Front for Visa Fraud
India West, News Report, Posted: Jan 27, 2011
A private university is being accused of making millions off foreign nationals, mostly Indians, by registering them for classes while in reality they were working illegally.
Categories: Asian, Education, Ethnic Media Network, Immigration, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: ICE, immigration, Tri-Valley University
How Much Do Anti-Immigration Bills Really Cost?
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 26, 2011
As legislators across the nation consider passing bills to fight illegal immigration, two reports lay out the costly legal battles that could ensue.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Immigration, Latino, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: anti-immigrant laws, CAP, costly, legal battles, sb1070
Abused Immigrant Woman Plans to Withdraw Green Card Petition
World Journal, News Report, Posted: Jan 25, 2011
An immigrant Chinese woman is threatening to withdraw her husband's green card petition for abusing her.
Categories: Asian, Chinese, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Law & Justice
Koreans Flock to Manila for English Lessons
Philippine News, News Report, Posted: Jan 24, 2011
More South Korean youngsters were getting special study permits to take English lessons while in the Philippines, the Bureau of Immigration reported last Sunday.
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration
Tags: English lessons, illegally staying, Manila, South Koreans
Next Wave of Immigration Legislation Introduced in Arizona
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 21, 2011
As states across the nation pass laws similar to SB1070, Arizona legislators are hard at work drafting the next wave of anti-immigrant legislation.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Immigration, Latino, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: Arizona, immigration, SB1070
New America Now: Heard 'Round the World
New America Now, Audio, Posted: Jan 21, 2011
Tunisia's uprising through social media, the Ellis Island of the western U.S., and the book that sparked a controversy heard 'round the world.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Chinese, Ethnicities, Immigration, Media, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic, Multimedia, New America Now, News, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Sections, Top Stories
Tags: amy chua, angel island, social networking, tiger mother, tunisia
Korean Woman, Adopted as Infant, Facing Deportation in Arizona
Korea Daily, News Report, Posted: Jan 20, 2011
Seo was adopted and brought to the U.S. when she was 8 months old. Now she is 31 and sitting in an immigration detention center in Arizona.
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Network, Immigration, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Tags: arizona, deportation, immigration, immigrationdetentioncenter, Korea
Letter From New America: From China to India to Calif.'s Far North
New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Jan 19, 2011
Cliff Chang’s is a quintessential American story of Communist takeovers, the British Raj, San Jose cabbies and a Mexican eatery in California's rural north.
Categories: Chinese, Front Page, Immigration, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: china, cliffchang, immigration, India, Tucsonkillings
Extremist Killing Is as American as Apple Pie
TomDispatch, News Analysis, Posted: Jan 19, 2011
In the two years before the Tucson massacre, a string of other attacks by right-wing extremists left 19 dead and 26 wounded.
Categories: African American, Arizona Watch, Front Page, Immigration, Law & Justice, Media, Multi-ethnic, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: america, bill o'reilly, democrat, extremist, gabrielle giffords, george tiller, glenn beck, homeland security, james cummings, james von brunn, jared loughner, jim david adkisson, john patrick bedell, joseph stack, Joshua cartwright, keith luke, michael savage, michelle malkin, republican, Richard Poplawski, rush limbaugh, sarah palin, scott roeder, sean hannity, timothy mcveigh
Letter From New America: NY's Nepalese Community, Hungry for Home
New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Jan 16, 2011
Nepalese restaurants are thriving in the borough of Queens, thanks to a flood of new immigrants over the past five years.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Economy, Front Page, Immigration, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, food
Tags: business, food, indian, jackson heights, nepalese, new york, queens, restaurant, south asian cuisine, tibetan
Dubai Jails 150 Filipinas for Moonlighting
Inquirer.net, News Report, Posted: Jan 14, 2011
Some 150 Filipina workers have been languishing in a Dubai prison cell since last month for working part-time at a wedding reception, in violation of the United Arab Emirates' immigration laws.
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration
Tags: broken, Dubai, Filipina workers, immigration laws, jail, languishing
Roy and Rodriguez: The Aftermath of Arizona
New America Media, Video, Posted: Jan 14, 2011
Essayist Richard Rodriguez and radio host Sandip Roy discuss the wider implications of the tragedy in Tucson and what it says about us as Americans.
Categories: Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, South Asian, Top Stories, Video
Tags: Arizona, Gabrielle Giffords, Pakistan, Salman Taaseer, Tucson massacre
Billions Pledged and Raised, but Haiti Continues to Suffer
Final Call, News Report, Posted: Jan 12, 2011
January 12, 2010, at 4:53 p.m., a devestating earthquake forever changed the people living in the island nation of Haiti.
Categories: African, African American, Caribbean, Economy, Environment, Immigration, International Affairs, Intersections, Top Stories
Tags: anniversary, earthquake, haiti, ngo's, united nations, unites states
Haiti on Our Minds: One Year After the Quake
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Video, Posted: Jan 12, 2011
Twelve months after an earthquake devastated the island of Haiti, the crew at YO!TV has kept the people and their struggles in our hearts and minds.
Categories: Caribbean, Environment, Front Page, Health, Immigration, Intersections
Tags: clinic, earthquake, food, haiti, school. rape, shelter, water
How the P'urhépechas Came to the Coachella Valley
New America Media, Photo Essay, Posted: Jan 12, 2011
Sitting on an Indian reservation in the southern California desert, the Duros trailer camp is now home to a large number of indigenous Mexican migrants, the P'urhépecha people.
Categories: Immigration, Indigenous, Latino, Photo Galleries, Top Stories
Tags: coachella, coachellavalley, duros, duroville, farmworkers, indianreservation, indigenousmigrants, nativeamerican
Cultural Tradition Traps Many Chinese Elder-Abuse Victims in U.S.
New America Media/Sing Tao Daily, News Report, Posted: Jan 10, 2011
Elder abuse is a growing but hidden problem in Chinese communities in the United States.
Categories: Asian, Chinese, Elders, Health, Immigration, Top Stories
Tags: abuse, chinese, elders, immigrants, language barrier
What Palin & Company Sowed, Arizona's Innocents Reap
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 09, 2011
The hate-filled politics of ultra-right leaders like Sarah Palin—and their frequent use of gun imagery to attack Democrats—bears direct responsibility for the Tucson tragedy.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Featured Columnists, Front Page, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Media, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: BarackObama, GabrielleGiffords, GOP, gunviolence, Johnroll, SarahPalin, teaparty, Tucsconshootings
Giffords Shootings: Poisonous Fruit of Arizona's Vicious Politics
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 09, 2011
As a bloody rampage leaves six dead and Democrat Gabrielle Giffords fighting for her life, sheriff says Arizona has become "the mecca for prejudice and bigotry."
Categories: Arizona Watch, Front Page, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Media, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: GabrielleGiffords, illegalimmigration, Johnroll, SarahPalin, SB1070, violence
Slain Judge Faced Threats in Immigrant Suit: "He Should Be Dead"
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 08, 2011
Arizona federal judge John Roll was inundated with threats after he allowed undocumented immigrants to sue a vigilante rancher for $32 million in 2009.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Front Page, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: GabrielleGiffords, illegalimmigrants, Johnroll, MALDEF, RogerBarnett, SouthernPovertyLawCenter, vigilantes
Conservative Church Leaders Condemn Moves to Repeal Birthright Citizenship
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 08, 2011
Across the political spectrum, criticism is mounting of new efforts in the states and Congress to deny citizenship to the U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Economy, Front Page, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: 14thamendment, Arizona, birthrightcitizenship, constitution, RussellPearce, SB1070, steveking
What's the Matter With Anchor Babies, Anyway?
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 08, 2011
Why aren’t we encouraging anchor babies, rather than vilifying them? Don’t we want immigrants to commit to making the United States their home?
Categories: Economy, Front Page, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: 14thamendment, Anchorbabies, Arizona, birthrightcitizenship, dredscott, immigrants, U.S.constitution
New America Now: A Decade in Review
New America Now, Audio, Posted: Jan 07, 2011
With another decade behind us, NAM takes a look back at the past 10 years through the eyes of the ethnic media.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Audio, Ethnicities, Immigration, Indigenous, Latino, Middle Eastern, Multimedia, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Sections, South Asian, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: bhutto, ethnicmedia, year in review
17-Year-Old Fatally Shot on Border Fence
EFE, News Report, Posted: Jan 06, 2011
Sonora state police are investigating the death of a young Mexican man who was reportedly shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Latino
Chinese Seniors in U.S. Fall Victim to Elder Abuse (Part I)
New America Media/Sing Tao Daily, News Report, Posted: Jan 06, 2011
Elder abuse is a growing but hidden problem in U.S. Chinese communities. This is the first in a two-part series.
Categories: Asian, Chinese, Elders, Immigration, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Tags: abuse, chinese, elders, language barriers, retirement age, US, victims
Health Reform Grows Job Market for Interpreters
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 06, 2011
One out of four jobs created in the United States through 2018 is expected to be in the health care industry.
Categories: Asian, Health, Immigration, Top Stories
Tags: healthcare, immigrants, jobs, medical interpretation, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Suit Challenges California's Approval of Cancer-Causing Pesticide
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 05, 2011
Earthjustice filed the suit challenging the state's approval of methyl iodide on behalf of labor and environmental groups, including United Farm Workers.
Categories: Environment, Front Page, Health, Immigration, Latino, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: bromide, california, cancer, environment, farm workers, law suit, methyl iodide, pesticide, strawberry
60 Days to Get Rid of Ethnic Studies in Tucson
Prensa Hispana, News Report, Posted: Jan 04, 2011
On his last day as Arizona School Superintendent, Tom Horne gave an ultimatum.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Education, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Latino
More States to Copy Arizona Law
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Jan 03, 2011
The new year will bring new versions of the controversial Arizona immigration law SB 1070).
Categories: Arizona Watch, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Latino, Politics & Governance
Tags: arizonacopycatlaws, copycatlaws, immigrationlaw, sb1070copycat