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Hispanic y Latino News :: November 20th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Do Long Island Police Ignore Hate Crimes?

US indicts 19 members of Hispanic street gang – Maryland branch of the “Latin Kings”

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 19th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

The wave of crime besetting Puerto Rico seems to be out of control with 800 murders being committed here so far this year, but the island’s top police official says the problem does not fall exclusively within his department.

Murder charges were filed Wednesday in the slaying of a gay teenager, Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, whose decapitated, partially burned body was found last week, while U.S. authorities said they were still considering whether to make it a hate crime case. – Puerto Rico

CIS Report Attempts to Erase 100 Years of Data on Immigrants and Crime

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 18th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Hundreds of defendants awaiting trial for violent crimes in Dallas County have been deported by federal immigration officials and then set free in their home countries. – The practice goes back to at least 1991 and includes the release of murder, kidnapping and child rape suspects.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has launched its 13th immigration and crime sweep and reported 27 arrests by Monday night.

Statement on Sec. Napolitano’s First Speech on Immigration Reform

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 13th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

HNBA Commends the Confirmation of Ignacia S. Moreno as the Assistant Attorney for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of Justice

Postville Raid: Eighteen months have passed since immigration agents raided Agriprocessors Inc. meat plant, arrested nearly 400 workers, and sent the plant spiraling into bankruptcy. – On Thursday, the plant’s former vice president – Sholom Rubashkin – was found guilty of 86 of 91 counts of financial crimes. – Verdict brings closure to many in Postville

Federal authorities have identified more than 111,000 immigrants with criminal records being held in local jails, during the first year of a program that seeks to deport immigrants who have committed serious crimes.

National Hispanic Media Coalition Media Policy Priorities

After immigrant killed (Marcelo Lucero) in NY, others tell of abuse

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 6th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Lizette Olmos, LULAC and MillerCoors Lideres Campaign – she needs your help to win

Activists Push for Immigration Reform on Anniversary of Long Island Hate Crime – Marcelo Lucero

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 5th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

AZ GOP Committeman: Ask “Brown People” About Crime in Tucson

Remembering Marcelo Lucero : One Year Later, The List of Hate Crimes Grows Longer

Coalition calls for public oversight in new San Bernardino 287(g) agreement

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: November 4th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

ICE gives voice to victims of human trafficking in the United States

A news reporter who wrote about violent drug crimes has been strangled in the northern Mexican state of Durango – El Tiempo de Durango journalist Jose Bladimir Antuna

‘Sin Social’, an Independent Latin Film, Recent Winner of the Platinum Reel Award at the Nevada Film Festival, Premiers on November 20, 2009

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 27th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Passage of Hate Crimes Bill Signals a New Day for Justice, Says NCLR

“BROWNSVILLE BRED…Growing Up Elaine” – A New York Latina’s Memoir and Coming of Age Story set in the 1980’s Brownsville Brooklyn Projects

Central America is most crime-ridden region in world, U.N. report finds

Police Leaders from Across the Country Call For Immigration Reform – Law Enforcement Officials Describe Impact of Broken System on Public Safety and Community Trust

Domestic Violence and Latina Immigrants: Seven Reasons Why Some Are Reluctant to Seek Help Q&A With Monica C. Roldan, MSW Manager of Community Outreach and Supervising Supervisor Sanctuary for Families

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 26th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Men charged in Plainfield, NJ beating death of Hispanic immigrant, Lazaro Tista, also accused of hate crime

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 17th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Mexican Illegal Immigrant (Mario Vera) Badly Beaten In Brooklyn – Devastated Wife Asks For Witnesses To Come Forward; Woodhull Hospital Under Fire Over Initial Treatment – (yet another apparent hate crime called “bias attack” – $12k reward for info) + video

Parents of victims furious to learn that DWI mom Carmen Huertas mocked her own daughter’s pleas to be careful – NYC

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 12th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Hate Crimes Act Passed, Will It Stop Actual Hate Though?

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 9th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

NCLR President and CEO Janet Murguía Named one of “Washingtonian’s 100 Most Powerful Women”

Julio Maldonado : Hate Crime Survivor Scheduled for Deportation

NCLR Applauds Confirmation of Tom Perez as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Division

MillerCoors Selects LULAC’s Lizette Jenness Olmos For Its 2009 Líderes Campaign

LULAC Applauds Senate Confirmation of Tom Perez as Head of Department of Justice Civil Rights Division

DHS Plan To Improve Immigration Detention An Encouraging Step – Due Process, Enforceable Detention Standards And Overhaul Of ICE Enforcement Programs Still Needed

American Bar Association Diversity Commission Names 2010 Spirit of Excellence Awardees including Francisco Angones

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 5th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

A training program sponsored by law enforcement aims to reduce crime in the Hispanic community in the South Carolina Lowcountry.

Over the past year, an average of nine woman were murdered by their spouses, boyfriends or ex-partners each month in Peru and many of these crimes were motivated by jealousy

Most Mexicans See Better Life in U.S. – one in three would immigrate to the United States if they could – new Pew Research report

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 17th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

National Council of La Raza Joins Campaign Aimed at CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight Advertisers

A new team of federal agents operating in Iowa this year has arrested immigrants with previous convictions for sex crimes, cocaine possession, kidnapping and carjacking. – But arrests of such criminals have been the exception, not the rule, new statistics obtained by The Des Moines Register show.

NAHJ Urges News Media to Stop Using the Term “Illegals” When Covering Immigration

El futuro de los latinos en Estados Unidos – Hispanic Heritage Month Supplemental Information en Español

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 9th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

In a strange twist, police busted a Hispanic man for tossing a bottle and a piece of wood at parishioners of a Hispanic church in an area of Long Island long plagued by racial strife — and charged him with a hate crime. (wt!@$) Christhian Munguia Garcia

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 1st, 2009 :: 5 minute to empowerment

Another Latino targeted in Patchogue “hate crime” – Long Island, NY

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 27th, 2009

Un inmigrante ecuatoriano está filmando una película que aborda un tema oportuno en la isla de Long Island: crimen por prejuicios.

Governor Discusses Water Reform at California Latino Water Coalition Press Conference

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 18th, 2009

A Hispanic man told investigators he was beaten and robbed in a racially charged attack in a Long Island community where another Hispanic was killed in an alleged hate crime last fall, police said.

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 12th, 2009

Critically Acclaimed Suspense Series EPITAFIOS(R) Kicks Off Second Season Sept. 18 on HBO Latino

Pratt student Eduardo Sanchez still in coma almost a week after savage beating by gang of teenagers

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (OR) said Monday that it’s time for the federal government to aid police and prosecutors seeking Mexican nationals who commit violent crimes in the United States and flee to Mexico.

Pan American Bank (Los Angeles) CEO Jesse Torres to Co-Chair Anti-Money Laundering Chapter – Yahoo! Finance

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 5th, 2009

NAHJ Condemns Venezuela Government Shutdown of Radio Stations; Opposes Proposed Sweeping ‘Media Crimes’ Law

The Hispanic / Latino Anti-Defamation Coalition SF, gratefully lauds the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for their Action on behalf of the actual and the potential victims of hate speech and hate crimes.

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 3rd, 2009

The self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff in America” has never gotten so much resistance from the federal government. The Homeland Security Department wants Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., to stop arresting illegal immigrants whose only crime was crossing the U.S.-Mexico border without documents.

Maria Conchita Alonso Narrates New Documentary About Latin American Dictators And Immigration

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: July 23rd, 2009

State Ruled by Crime and Chávez Family – Barinas, Venezuela – Stretching over vast cattle estates at the foothills of the Andes, Barinas is known for two things: as the bastion of the family of President Hugo Chávez and as the setting for a terrifying surge in abductions, making it a contender for Latin America’s most likely place to get kidnapped.

New York City Councilman Miguel Martinez resigns amid Dept. of Investigation probe into slush fund scandal

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: July 13th, 2009

Anguished family wants answers in death of FIT student Carmen Saldana – Queens, NYC

The Juárez drug cartel has denied involvement in the killing of an anti-crime activist even as drug-related murders in Mexico are on pace to surpass last year.

Leahy, Sessions Announce Witness List For Sotomayor Hearing – scheduled to begin on July 13 at 10:00 a.m

Justice in the Rough – As a border town becomes a murder capital, Mexico pushes for dramatic rule-of-law changes

SUMMARY: FCC Petition for Inquiry on Hate Speech in Media – Filed January 28, 2009 by Georgetown Law’s Institute for Public Representation on behalf of the National Hispanic Media Coalition

Grassroots Groups Tell FCC: Stop Hate Radio! – San Francisco

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: June 25th, 2009

Attorney General Eric Holder urged Congress Thursday to pass a new hate crimes law which would allow the federal government to prosecute cases of violence based on sexual orientation, gender or disability.

New Jersey’s first Latina county prosecutor takes the high road – Camelia M. Valdes

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: June 23rd, 2009

News special on hate crimes against Hispanics tonight at 10 pm ET on Univision – Odio a Muerte in Spanish

Hispanic y Latino News :: June 19th, 2009

Weekly Immigration Wire: Why Are Hate Crimes on the Rise?

Mexico levied organized crime and drug charges Thursday against seven mayors, the former state attorney general and 19 other officials in the western state of Michoacan for allegedly aiding a drug cartel.

Hispanic y Latino News : June 18th, 2009

As Hate Crimes Rise, Police Chiefs Call Immigration System an Obstacle to Prosecution

2 teens get jail time in Mexican’s beating death – received 7 to 23 months for their roles in the beating death of 25-year-old Luis Ramirez

Hate crimes against Hispanics increased by almost 40 percent between 2003 and 2007, according to a report released Tuesday by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund.

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