The recent Conference on Policies for Hispanics brought 160 Hispanic community leaders to the White House to address the most pressing issues for the more than 50 million Latin Americans in the U.S. today, including jobs, education, immigration reform, and civil rights.

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A member of the Salvadorian gang MS-13 in Long Island, New York, was given 35 years in prison for the murder of another Salvadorian national, also a member of the gang.

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One of the biggest problems facing immigrant families is that there is very little understanding on the part of social services agencies of who they are dealing with. The language barrier is just the most obvious one. Little is known of how the families feel about disciplining their kids, how they go about parenting, what they feel is important, who makes the decisions in the household, what experience they had back in their own country with the government intervening in their families’ lives. more>