By Victoria Cepeda The debate is on whether the Obama administration’s illegal immigration deportation policy is harsher than that of the Bush administration. So far, over 1 million illegal immigrants have been deported in the past 2.5 years. A palliative initiative, to what some believe to be the government’s harsh deportation tactics, was introduced in August allowing young […]
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Republicans Stall FEMA Aid
September 14, 2011 
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By Victoria Cepeda, Efrain Nieves Natural disaster victims will have to wait for relief aid a bit longer thanks to House Republicans. Senate Republicans blocked a “$7 billion aid package for relief funding of the natural disasters that have swept the country this summer” (abcnews.com). According to abcnews.com: Democrats again need 60 votes to advance the […]
Read more First Annual International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival
September 8, 2011 2 Comments
The First Annual International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival acknowledges the founding presence & contributions of Puerto Ricans, as Latin@s, in Spanish (East) Harlem. It seeks to educate our audience on the richness of the Puerto Rican community; what Puerto Rican culture and identity is about and how it is expressed in every facet of life and the […]
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