We must stop the negative immigration rage!

Latino immigrants generally come to the U.S. driven by a strong desire to provide a better life for their family. Their drive is not that different from the motivating factors that impelled the ancestors of almost everyone in this country. Read more
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Money Trickles North as Mexicans Help Relatives

During the best of the times, Miguel Salcedo’s son, an illegal immigrant in San Diego, would be sending home hundreds of dollars a month to support his struggling family in Mexico. But at times like these, with the American economy out of whack and his son out of work, Mr. Salcedo finds himself doing what [...]

Report Says Immigration Crucial For Housing Recovery

Harvard brain trust predicts “strong” demographics will drive housing recovery, but immigration is a wild card.
A perceived strain on government resources has caused some Americans to begrudge the country’s immigrant population. But Harvard researchers, in a new white paper released Monday, are saying that a slowdown in immigration could hurt the [...]

Divided Families: New Legislative Proposals Would Needlessly Restrict Family-Based Immigration

As Congress deliberates a new comprehensive immigration-reform bill, lawmakers are considering legislative proposals that would drastically restrict the family-based immigration system that has been the cornerstone of U.S. immigration policy for decades. Advocates of this more restrictive approach suggest that family-based immigrants have no vital economic or social role to play in the United States-in [...]

Many Latinos see discrimination and racism as a basic fact of life.

But according to a report released by the Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday, it’s not just undocumented Latinos who have come to that conclusion.
U.S. citizens of Latin American descent also reported racial profiling and discrimination by law enforcement and regular community members on the street — in spite of living in the U.S. legally. [...]

Visa para un sueño/Visa for a Dream

The name of this article is the title of a song by a well known Republica Dominicana singer and composer Juan Luis Guerra depicting the dream and suffers at the same time of every Hispanic to come to the USA and have the American dream.

Those Hispanics who come to the USA to have a decent life and better future will do it usually through a tourist visa, work visa, student visa and lately for security reasons asylum visa; there are more type of visa that you can apply for but for now I will focus on those types stated before.

Broken Families

Those who émigré (emigrated) to live in another country know the meaning of the title of the article.
I am sure that no one took in consideration the tragedy of been apart from their love ones; those who packed their belongings in a pair of suitcases not only brought to the new country clothing, they brought [...]