Venezuelans in South Florida
Earlier in October, comments about Chavez’s re-election in Venezuela flooded my Twitter and Facebook timeline. Friends living in Miami mentioned how their abuelitas, parents, and cousins were crying and upset […]
Tag Archives: Immigration
The Absence of Voice
When a story is told, the perspective of the writer is not always taken into consideration by those reading or listening to the story. Although a source may be credible, […]
Taking Ownership of Undocumented Status in Popular Culture
Although immigration has always been a hotly contested topic in American politics, it has typically been marginalized by American popular culture. That is, until now. Jose Antonio Vargas is a […]
DACA program has immigrants in a bind
Undocumented immigrant youth are facing a catch 22. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act (DACA), which Congress implemented this summer, would allow undocumented youth who have been in the […]
Joe Arpaio: The Illegal-Immigration Enforcement Movement’s Poster Child
Over the past decade, Maricopa County Sheriff, Joe Arpaio has played a central role in the movement towards enforcing laws regarding illegal immigration. He has spent 20 years in office […]
The World Series: A New Record Has Been Broken!
In this year’s World Series, the baseball teams already broke a record! The Tigers and Giants broke a World Series record for highest number of foreign-born players on the World […]
The Life and Times of Dia de los Muertos
With October coming to a close, children all over America are excited about Halloween. But, for some Mexican-American families the excitement is less about Halloween and more about the two […]
Marco Rubio
Aren’t all Hispanics Democrats? Nope. Not in this case. However, most Hispanic voters tend to vote Democratic. Knowing this, Republican candidates must manipulate their political ideologies so they appeal to […]
And the Morals Continue to Decrease
I have heard many stories about the arrest of undocumented immigrants but for some reason, they never stop astonishing me. I did not react differently to this new story I […]
Hipster Hijabis
“Between me and my sisters, we probably own at least 100 headscarves” once said my ultra-fashionista, Muslim, hipster friend from Portland, Oregon. “I used to wear it for […]
Immigration Talk 