No Help for The Help

Equal Voice News, News Report, Susannah Nesmith, Posted: Feb 29, 2012

Reyna works nine, 11, sometimes 14 hours a day taking care of another family’s children for $400 a week. She hasn’t seen her own daughter in seven years.


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Steel Workers Strike in Berkeley

New America Media, Video, Josue Rojas, Posted: Feb 29, 2012

Two hundred immigrant workers and their families joined hundreds of supporters in a march through downtown Berkeley to protest their firing from Pacific Steel.


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Alabama, Georgia Immigration Laws Head to Court

New America Media, News Report, Posted: Feb 29, 2012

A federal appeals court in Atlanta will hear arguments Thursday in the legal challenges against the controversial new immigration laws in Alabama and Georgia.


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LAPD to Reform Car Impound Policy for Unlicensed Drivers

New America Media, News Report, Posted: Feb 29, 2012

The Los Angeles Police Commission, in a 4-to-1 vote, approved LAPD Chief Charlie Beck’s proposal to update the city’s car impound procedures for unlicensed drivers


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Arizona Dreamers Ask GOP to Drop Tough Rhetoric on Immigration

Univision, News Report, Juan Gastelum, Posted: Feb 29, 2012

Undocumented youth delivered approximately 8,000 petitions to the Arizona Republican Party headquarters in Phoenix, Ariz.


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Deportation Could Mean Death For Gay Ugandan

New America Media, News Feature, Rosa Ramirez , Posted: Feb 29, 2012

For one Ugandan, proving he is gay could mean the difference between staying in the US or being deported to a country that criminalizes homosexuality.


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Limited Preschool Access Dims Success for Latino Children—And California’s Future

Vida en el Valle/New America Media, News Report, Rebecca Plevin, Posted: Feb 29, 2012

California's migrant preschool programs are an educational safety net. But limited access to them is stifling success for Latino children -- and the state's economic future.


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Angela Davis Calls DREAM Act One of Today’s ‘Most Important’ Fights

Colorlines, News Report, Posted: Feb 28, 2012

Activist, scholar, and author Angela Davis says she is “absolutely” a “supporter of the DREAM Act.


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Report Finds Growing Hostility Against Latinos in Alabama

Southern Poverty Law Center, News Report, Posted: Feb 28, 2012

Latinos in Alabama have experienced discrimination as a result of anti-immigrant law HB 56, and the xenophobic climate it has created.


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Women at the Fore in Day Laborer Movement

New America Media, News Report, Sarahi Uribe, Posted: Feb 27, 2012

Women have played a leading role in the day laborer movement, which celebrated a Supreme Court ruling last week safeguarding their right to work.


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For One Undocumented German, San Francisco No Longer Home

New America Media, Profile, Alex Emslie, Posted: Feb 27, 2012

Liska Koenig's immigration status may force her to leave the country, and the only city she has ever felt truly at home in.


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Daniel Alarcón Launches Spanish-language Radio Ambulante

Melville House, News Report, Posted: Feb 24, 2012

Novelist Daniel Alarcón is looking for funding for a new initiative: he and his colleagues at Radio Ambulante aim to create a Spanish-language radio show of the quality and appeal of English-language institutions like This American Life.


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Spanish-language Media Help Shape Public Policy

UCR Today, News Report, Posted: Feb 24, 2012

A UC Riverside Ph.D. candidate finds that ethnic media focus on public opinion and issues influences state legislators of every ethnicity.


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Comcast to Launch Two Latino TV Channels

New America Media, News Report, Posted: Feb 24, 2012

Comcast, the parent company of NBCLatino, announced this week it is launching two new Hispanic TV cable channels.


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Human Trafficking a Growing Global Scourge

New America Media / SF Public Press, News Feature, Andrew Lam, Posted: Feb 24, 2012

Human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal business in the world, though its victims remain hidden from view.


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U.S. Visas Aid Trafficking Victims, At Their Peril

SF Public Press, News Report, Ambika Kandasamy, Posted: Feb 22, 2012

Chance for permanent residency, access to federal benefits hinge on cooperating with law enforcement.


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Nationwide, States Move to Ban Shackling

New America Media, News Report, Valeria Fernández, Posted: Feb 22, 2012

A movement to ban the use of shackling women detainees while pregnant or in labor is growing across the United States.


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NYT Crossword Puzzle's Use of Term 'Illegal' Causes Uproar

Univision News, Commentary, Juan Gastelum, Posted: Feb 22, 2012

The clue, No. 54 Across, read: “One caught by border patrol.” The answer: ILLEGAL.


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Aging Migrant Workers Face Perilous Future in Salinas

New America Media/Coachella Unincorporated, Commentary, Joaquin Magon, Posted: Feb 20, 2012

I know an old man who bends down low, his hands calloused and eyes going blind. He looks at the fields he worked for decades


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Girl Power: First Latina CEO of the Girl Scouts Hopes to Increase Diversity

PODER, News Report, Damarys Ocaña, Posted: Feb 18, 2012

The first Latina CEO of the Girl Scouts contemplates what it will take to get more Latino families involved in the Girl Scouts.


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In Contraception Clash, Catholic Latinas Stray From Doctrine

Fronteras, News Report, Posted: Feb 17, 2012

In recent weeks, Catholic bishops across the country have turned to their congregations to pressure Obama to repeal his contraception rule. And since Latinos now make up about one-third of all Catholics in the U.S., they should be key players in that campaign.


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States Move on Tuition Equity for Undocumented Students

Colorlines, News Report, Posted: Feb 17, 2012

Despite tough economic times and a hostile political environment, immigrant rights activists are forging ahead, and having success, pushing a pro-immigrant youth agenda at the state level.


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Bay Area Agencies Improvise Tactics to Battle Human Trafficking

SF Public Press, News Report, Jason Winshell, Posted: Feb 17, 2012

Across California, local agencies have been left to scramble for limited resources and improvise strategies to fight human trafficking.


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Spanish-Language Editor Honored as a ‘Woman Who Could be President’

El Mensajero, News Report, Erika Cebreros, Posted: Feb 16, 2012

María Antonieta Mejía, editor-in-chief of San Francicso-based Spanish-language weekly El Mensajero was recently honored by the League of Women Voters, as one of five women “Who Could be President,” reports El Mensajero.


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How Lakireddy Case Spurred California Sex Trafficking Laws

New America Media/SF Public Press, News Feature, Viji Sundaram, Posted: Feb 16, 2012

A look back at the 10-year-old Berkeley sex trafficking case that changed the conversation around trafficking in California.


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Fair Pay for 2.5 Million Home Care Aides Facing Industry Opposition

New America Media, Commentary, Jodi Sturgeon and Ai-Jen Poo, Posted: Feb 16, 2012

President Obama wants over 2.5 million home care aides protected by the U.S. Fair Labor Act, but the home care industry is fighting the move.


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Fear of Deportation Kept Miramonte School’s Parents From Reporting Sex Abuse

Colorlines, News Report, Posted: Feb 13, 2012

Lawyers say at least three alleged victims have not been interviewed by law enforcement because their parents fear deportation.


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Two Longtime U.S. Residents Face Deportation

India West, News Report, Sunita Sohrabji, Posted: Feb 13, 2012

Attorneys and friends of the South Asian men -- with no criminal records and history of community service -- say they should benefit under ICE's "prosecutorial discretion memo."


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U.S. Starts Chinese Forums to Move More Immigrants to Citizenship

New America Media, News Report, Odette Keeley, Posted: Feb 12, 2012

U.S. immigration officials will hold the first in a series of Chinese-language forums, Feb. 16, to answer questions about the U.S. naturalization process.


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NALEO: 12.2 Million Latinos to Vote in 2012

NALEO, News Report, Posted: Feb 09, 2012

Latinos will turnout in record numbers in the next Presidential election, with at least 12.2 million casting ballots, according to projections released today by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund.


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La Opinión: From Prop. 187 to Prop. 8, Majority Doesn't Always Rule

La Opinión, Editorial, Staff, Posted: Feb 09, 2012

The history of Proposition 187, the 1994 voter-approved measure that punished undocumented immigrants, is another case where having a majority of votes in favor of a proposition does not mean it is automatically legal.


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Republican Tax Proposal Called 'Attack on Immigrant Children'

Univision, News Report, Posted: Feb 08, 2012

Immigrant rights activists are calling a Republican proposal to deny child tax credits to undocumented immigrants an attack on immigrant children, Univision reports.


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CA Court’s Prop. 8 Ruling Does Not Benefit Undocumented

New America Media, News Report, Zaineb Mohammed, Posted: Feb 08, 2012

An appellate court rules that CA’s Prop. 8 is unconstitutional, but the ruling won’t benefit undocumented immigrants in same-sex partnerships.


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Amid Sex Abuse Tragedy, Immigrant Families Afraid to Turn to Police

America’s Voice Education Fund, News Report, Posted: Feb 08, 2012

Parents of some Miramonte Elementary School children are afraid to go to informational meetings or talk to the police because they worry that contact with the authorities could lead to deportation.


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Civil Rights Groups Call on Alabama Automakers to Oppose HB 56

New America Media, News Report, Elena Shore, Posted: Feb 07, 2012

In building opposition to HB 56, civil rights groups are using a strategy similar to the one they took in Arizona -- seek new allies in Alabama’s business community.


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Arizona Bill Would Bar Shackling of Mothers Giving Birth

New America Media, News Report, Valeria Fernández, Posted: Feb 03, 2012

Arizona’s shackling of incarcerated women in labor jeopardizes the health of mother and baby. GOP legislators are proposing bills to halt the practice.


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Russell Pearce Elected First Vice Chairman of Arizona Republican Party

Univision, News Report, Posted: Feb 01, 2012

Two months after being ousted in a recall election, Russell Pearce was elected by GOP leadership to the second highest position in Arizona's Republican Party.


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Study: HB 56 Will Shrink Alabama's Economy by $2.3 Billion

Alabama Coalition of Immigrant Justice, News Report, Posted: Feb 01, 2012

A new study from economist Dr. Samuel Addy of the University of Alabama, finds that HB 56 is an economic disaster for the state of Alabama.


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