Legal harassment is being used to threaten freedom of expression in certain Latin American.
Viewpoints Americas
By 2050, Hispanics will account for 30 percent of the U.S. population, making their integration a top policy priority.
Every ten years the Census attempts to provide a demographic snapshot, but some people are undoubtedly uncounted, miscounted, or overlooked, writes Carlos Yescas, author of Indigenous Routes: A Framework for Understanding Indigenous Migration.
The Hispanic population, traditionally undercounted in population estimates, should resist calls from some national Hispanic groups to boycott the 2010 Census.
As financial institutions work to attract the unbanked, effective programs must be better tailored and implemented as part of a long-term empowerment process, writes Qualitas of Life Exectuiver Director Adrián Franco.
A new report issued by the Maryland Council for New Americans recognizes that that the state “needs the contributions of immigrants.”
Passage of the Colombia trade deal would expand a robust market for U.S. goods and help combat the effects of the financial crisis, writes Benjamin D. Wolf of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.