Recent trends show Puerto Ricans leaving New York not only looking to retire in Puerto Rico. more>
No one knows exactly how many people remain, but their absence is evident. The streets are empty except for two young men playing basketball. Most people believe that the inhabitants of San Marcos have gone to Staten Island, a town that they only know is close to Manhattan. Some say that there are 100 people left in the town abandoned to God’s will. Others say there are 80. The most optimistic say there are hundreds, but then they take it back. more>
One of the video clips, “The Aztec Al-Qaeda,” accuses Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, of having belonged to the organization Movimiento Estudintil Chicano de Aztlán [Aztlán Chicano Student Movement], which is described as separatist and having communist sympathies. more>
Between 1990 and 2000, according to the U.S. Census, the number of Mexican immigrants in New York City has quadrupled. With it, says Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), comes an increase in cases of child abuse. more>
Protestors from the Minutemen Project claimed that because it advocates for the undocumented Latinos, La Raza is discriminating against other minority groups. more>
“No one ever warned us about the dangers of breathing in the white powder,” said Piedad Castillo, an Ecuadorian undocumented immigrant who assisted in the cleanup around Ground Zero five years ago. "But now that we are ill, no one wants to give us a hand.” more>
A coalition of organizations called on the immigrant community to participate in a “National Day of Disobedience” to reject the bill HR 4437, which mandates the construction of a wall along the entire U.S. border with Mexico, criminalizes immigration, and punishes the organizations that support it. more>