Top Stories + Georgia Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

March 9, 2009

ATLANTA — In a city where Coca-Cola, United Parcel Service and Home Depot are the titans of industry, there are new powerful forces on the block: Mexican drug cartels.

December 20, 2008

A judge has sentenced Jamie Underwood to 120 years in prison without the possibility of parole in the slayings of six Mexican immigrants in the Tifton area three years ago – Georgia

June 17, 2008

Atlanta becoming big market for Mexican acts

May 27, 2008

Latino Activists Face Death Threats in Georgia

March 6, 2008

4 key organizations that cater to Atlanta’s Hispanic community will have to search for new leaders this year.

February 20, 2008

Georgia Hispanic Chamber CEO Sara González dies

January 7, 2008

Georgia immigration law’s effects tough to measure

January 4, 2008

Gwinnett asks feds to pay for jailed immigrants – Georgia

December 5, 2007

Georgia labor commissioner says immigration reform will bring worker shortage

November 12, 2007

Cobb County jail site of confusion, despair over deportation – Georgia

October 11, 2007

Language often barrier in parent-teacher talks – Clarke County, Georgia – (need more than 100 volunteer translators this year to ensure all the county’s 2,300 Hispanic students can make the schedule)

October 4, 2007

Nordstrom sued for racial harassment

September 20, 2007

Hiring off the curb? Not in Marietta – Georgia (you can get busted for picking up a day laborer)

September 15, 2007

Hispanic businesses feel the squeeze – Crackdown on illegal immigration partly blamed for sudden halt in sales – Georgia

September 13, 2007

Georgia’s Hispanic leaders changing tactics – “Labor of Love” campaign

August 2, 2007

Citing Cobb County’s policies, Latino leader quits board – Atlanta

Immigrants to Georgia are among those needing lessons the most in nation, report says.

July 30, 2007

Immigrants deported after calling police – Georgia

Hay Papá!He’s a man of two words – Joe Mariscal sells cars, and himself, with a trademark phrase so valuable that it is, indeed, trademarked. – Atlanta

July 16, 2007

Driver’s license law hits auto dealers – Unable to register, illegal immigrants return vehicles – Georgia

July 1, 2007

Sweeping immigration law goes into effect in Georgia

June 25, 2007

Judge says he will modify courtroom ban in immigrant murders case – Georgia

June 11, 2007

Fewer peaches, fewer workers in Georgia

April 11, 2007

New NCLR Report Finds Severe Health Information Gap among Georgia’s Latino Population

February 25, 2007

Latino housekeepers take out the garbage, but can’t take it home – Savannah

January 17, 2007

Many Hispanic students enroll at Armstrong Atlantic, but very few graduate – Georgia

January 7, 2007

Metro has critical need for interpreters – Atlanta

January 2, 2007

Hispanic Teenagers Join Southern Mainstream – Georgia

December 17, 2006

Illegals to lose in-state tuition – Georgia

December 11, 2006

Mount de Sales using big grant to recruit Hispanic students – Macon, Georgia

November 14, 2006

Study: Construction, service workers drive Hispanic population boom – Atlanta, Georgia

June 4, 2006

Decline in Latino home buying seen as effect of new state law. Georgia