Nearly four decades after the United States government mandated the use of the terms “Hispanic” or “Latino” to categorize Americans who trace their roots to Spanish-speaking countries, a new nationwide survey of Hispanic adults finds that these terms still haven’t been fully embraced by Hispanics themselves. A majority (51%) say they most often identify themselves [...]
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What’s the difference? Other than a constant nagging fear of being deported, not much. Oprah.com has a piece from the April 2012 edition of O Magazine that provides a lot of insight into how and why one woman found her family living illegally in the United States. With no job prospects in Mexico, her husband [...]
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It all started in 1790, with the Naturalization Act, which mainly required immigrants to be “free white” people of “good moral character.” From there, HuffPo counts down the top ten immigration laws over the course of US history including the 14th Amendment, two laws passed in the late 1800′s designed specifically to exclude Asian and [...]
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South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center joined with other interested organizations in filing an Amicus (friend of the court) brief urging the Supreme Court to uphold the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which struck down the Arizona law. Click to view Brief of Amici Curiae SC Appleseed joined with many of the same organizations in [...]
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As it turns out, there was a big giant loophole in South Carolina’s attempt to take the title of unfriendliest state for immigrants. South Carolina lawmakers must have seen stories about crops rotting in the fields in Alabama and Georgia, because as the Latin American Herald Tribune reports, South Carolina exempted farm labor from new [...]
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