Hispanic y Latino Top Stories (Noticias)

Pew Hispanic Center Factsheet: Hispanic Women in the United States, 2007

For some U.S. troops, economic stimulus check is not in mail - REBATE BYPASSES THOSE WITH FOREIGN SPOUSES

Florida woman’s fight with UPS touches nerve over security level

Maricopa County OKs $1M for illegal-immigrant sweeps - Arizona

Depression on the rise among US Hispanic women: experts

DNC Superdelegate Puts His Vote Up For Sale - Sacramento’s Steven Ybarra Wants $20 Million For His Vote

Groups Struggle to Clean Up Mess Illegal Immigrants Leave Behind - (as they cross the border)

Border busts coming and going - U.S. border authorities no longer apprehend illegal immigrants only as they enter the country. Now they’re catching them on the way out.

L.A. Mayor to Answer Limbaugh’s Race Swipe - (thought he was a shoeshine guy)

Experts Discuss Myths about Latino Kids

Ski towns struggle with labor crunch as immigrant crackdown continues

Burger King investigates e-mails slamming farmworker group

South Texas town abolishes 1931 segregation law (against Hispanics)

McCain starts Spanish language website to woo Hispanic voters

Border crackdown, U.S. slowdown has Mexican migrants giving up sooner

Q&A: Jaime Escalante stills stands, delivers advice

Cinco De Mayo Big Business For Advertisers In Denver - (and elsewhere)

Hispanic evangelicals hold potent votes, experts say

Politics and tacos don’t mix on L.A. streets

Cell phone firms’ dream demographic: Latinos

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning refuses to sue for immigrants’ fair housing rights

Nearly 25 Percent of Children Younger Than 5 Are Latino, Census Says

U.S. Hispanic population hits 45.5 million - more than 15% of population now

Fewer Latino Immigrants Sending Money Home - Only 50 percent of some 18.9 million Latino immigrants in this country now send money regularly to relatives in their home countries, compared with 73 percent two years ago, the survey found.

Latinos outraged over CBS report by Katie Couric

Nicaraguan family has 4 siblings in the Olympics - The Lopez family seems to excel in Taekwondo - (saw them on the tonight show last night)

Weary of waiting for Congress to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, the United Farm Workers hopes to recruit Mexican laborers to pick crops on U.S. farms.

U.S. slowdown likely to drive Mexican workers north - As the U.S. economy slows down and Mexican factories are shuttered, more workers may cross the border to look for jobs.

Mexico’s guayabera shirt fights for U.S. market

Latino voting potential is at record level in California

Gay Latinos ‘minority twice over’

Jump in Fatalities of Latino Workers, Reports New AFL-CIO Death on the Job Study

Napolitano vetoes bill on police role in immigration - Arizona - (may have cost as much as $100 million)

Northern Virginia Hit With Cost Of School Migration - Pr. William Policies Drive Immigrants To Inner Suburbs

Director of Chicago’s Latino Union gains respect of day laborers, groups formed to help them - Jessica Aranda

New study builds on old one to track Mexican American progress - After finding questionnaires from a 1965 survey in a UCLA basement, two professors followed up with about 700 of the participants and their children. The news is good and bad.

Nun who led civil rights march in Dallas leaving for Mexico - Sister Consuelo Tovar

SBA Deputy Jovita Carranza Expected to be Nominated as Agency Chief

Diabetes Before Motherhood More Than Doubled In Six Years, Study Finds (52% of the participants were Latinas)

Health risks high for Latinos - Study’s findings suggest poor working, living environments have negative impact

Illegal immigration issues roil Iowa town - Marshalltown, where a quarter of residents are Latino, is seeing rising anti-immigrant sentiments, especially after a deadly car crash involving a woman in the country illegally.

Virtual fence on Mexican border deemed insufficient - $20 million prototype down the tubes

Feds aid Sept. 11 victims’ illegal-immigrant relatives

Joe’s worthless sweeps - Not only are they wrong, they’re not even making dent in illegal migration

Mesa on edge as it awaits promised Arpaio sweeps - Arizona

Shortchanging phone cards probed

Immigration: The Democratic divide

Court orders Goya to negotiate with union

North Carolina governor’s candidates want tough immigration rules

Telemundo Pulls Más vale tarde Off the Air - 1st Latino late-night show gone!