Blog Entries by Cristina Costantini from 11/2011

Jan Brewer: New Book 'Scorpions For Breakfast' Centers On Murder She Says Was 'Probably' Committed By An 'Illegal Alien'

Publicado 11.03.2011

If you're Jan Brewer, and Chuck Norris says that you "eat Scorpions for breakfast", what else are you going to name your next book? Scorpions for...

Conan O'Brien On Argentine Mate Tea: 'Is This Marijuana?'

Publicado 11.03.2011

Conan O'Brien tries Argentine tea in a new segment, and like many first time mate-drinkers, wonders if it is marijuana. In a segment devoted to C...

Benita Veliz, DREAM Act Poster Child, Spared Deportation By Immigration Officials

Publicado 11.06.2011

Benita Veliz, a poster child for the DREAM Act, was spared deportation earlier this week under deportation guidelines established by the Morton Memo o...

Altagracia Guzman, 81, Marches From Washington Heights To Wall Street With Occupy Protesters

Publicado 11.08.2011

Altagracia Guzman, 81, walked slowly but purposefully from northern Manhattan to the financial district, virtually the entire length of the island, in...

Cineo Gonzales, Latino Father In Alabama Claims His Daughter, An American Citizen, Was 'Singled Out' Due To HB56

Publicado 11.08.2011

Cineo Gonzales says his daughter, an American citizen, came home from school with a paper explaining HB56, Alabama's new immigration law thought to be...

Mariela Castro Espin, Raul Castro's Daughter Engages In Twitter Fight With Dissident Blogger, Yoani Sanchez

Publicado 11.09.2011

Raul Castro's daughter, Mariela Castro Espin, and Cuban dissident/HuffPost blogger Yoani Sanchez got into a pretty gnarly Twitter spat yesterday short...

Feds Use More Predator Drones To Secure Southern Border

Publicado 11.13.2011

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- Two Border Patrol agents walked by a patch of brush on a remote ranch and saw nothing. But 19,000 feet overhead in the night ...

FBI Hate Crime Statistics Report Finds Higher Percentages Of Anti-Latino Hate Crimes In 2010

Publicado 11.14.2011

The FBI's annual Hate Crime Statistics report released today reported that 66.6% of victims of ethnically motivated hate crimes in 2010 were "targeted...

Does Immigration Fuel Crime? Without Statistical Consensus, Rhetoric And Fear Reign In Debate

Publicado 11.15.2011

The border town of El Paso, Texas is considered to be the safest big city in the country, according to some estimates. With a sizable undocumented...

Fernanda Marroquin, Undocumented Protester Arrested In Alabama, Speaks Out Against HB56

Publicado 11.16.2011

"My name is Fernanda Marroquin, and if you're watching this I've been arrested," the young undocumented protester begins her YouTube testimony. Mar...

Department Of Homeland Security Commences Review of 300,000 Deportation Cases

Publicado 11.17.2011

Today, the Department of Homeland Security will begin its review of the 300,000 pending deportation cases, distinguishing between "high priority" and ...

Occupy ICE Camps Out In Front Of Immigration And Customs Enforcement Office In San Diego

Publicado 11.18.2011

"Stop deporting workers! Stop deporting workers!," protestors chanted outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in San Diego Yesterday. ...

Tig Notaro Puts A 'No Moleste' Sign On Hotel Doorknob In Mexico, Feels Weird About It

Publicado 11.21.2011

The word for "to bother" or "to annoy" in Spanish is molestar, a fact which creeps out some English speakers. Watch comedienne Tig Notaro discusses...

New York City Announces Expansion Of Legal Services For Immigrants

Publicado 11.22.2011

Mayor Bloomberg, an outspoken advocate for comprehensive immigration reform, announced on Monday an expansion of legal services for immigrants in New ...

Mexicans In New York City Fall Behind in Education

Publicado 11.25.2011
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"In the past two decades, the Mexican population in New York City has grown more than fivefold, with immigrants settling across the five boroughs. Man...

Spanish In Miami: Diciendo 'Hola' Or Saying 'Hello'

Publicado 11.29.2011

The choice of whether to address a stranger in English or Spanish is often a split-second decision -- one which has provoked much conversation in the ...