| Feb 10, 2021 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyMy father’s tired eyes lit up in a way that I had not seen since my sister was born. “Esto nos podría cambiar la vida,” he said. “This could change our lives.” This was his hopeful reaction to the Biden-Harris administration’s proposal of legislation that would create...
| Nov 15, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyClearly, we Latinos love President Barack Obama. He garnered nearly three-fourths of our vote. In battleground states like Nevada, Florida, and Colorado , we helped catapult the incumbent president to victory. Unlike African Americans, Latinos didn’t always back...
| Sep 24, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyWhen I watched Mitt Romney on a candidates forum on Univision, the country’s largest Spanish-language TV network, something about him looked different. He actually looked browner. At first I figured it was my imagination, but soon everyone from Washington Post...
| Jun 18, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyWhen Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced she was instructing all her agencies to stop automatically deporting young undocumented immigrants and grant them work permits, I breathed a sigh of relief. The new policy closely resembles the Development,...
| Apr 16, 2012 | Rights / DemocracySen. Marco Rubio will release his memoir, An American Son in June. In what his publisher is billing as an inspirational story, the Florida Republican writes about his family’s emigration from Cuba and details the sacrifices that his working-class parents made so...
