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

August 27, 2009

Can the U.S. government take a woman’s baby from her because she doesn’t speak English? That’s the latest question to arise in the hothouse debate over illegal immigration, as an undocumented woman from impoverished rural Mexico — who speaks only an obscure indigenous language — fights in a Mississippi court to regain custody of her infant daughter.

August 26, 2008

Howard Industries is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of electronic transformers and transportation equipment. Early Monday morning, the Laurel facility was swarming with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. After hours of interviewing all the employees on site, 350 illegal immigrants were identified. – Mississippi

July 28, 2008

The Immigration Fight Gets Ugly – A law making it a felony to be an undocumented worker is sowing conflict in Mississippi, as states take action in the absence of federal immigration reform

April 24, 2008

Facing South: How Mississippi passed the country’s biggest crackdown on immigrant workers