By Victoria Cepeda According to today’s NYTimes.com article “Now Arriving: In New York, Mexicans Lag in Education” despite making up for the largest Hispanic population in the city, Mexicans lag in education with severe high school drop out rate and low college enrollment. The reasons cited in the article for this concerning trend are the old too […]
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FBI: 66.6 Percent of Hate Crimes are Against Latinos
November 14, 2011 
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by Efrain Nieves According to the Huffington Post “66.6% of victims of ethnically motivated hate crimes in 2010 were “targeted because of an anti-Hispanic bias” — the highest percentage of such victims in at least the past decade.” The article also suggest the number may be higher since undocumented immigrants are less likely to call police. […]
Read more Undocumented Paid $11.2 Billion In Taxes in 2010
April 25, 2011 2 Comments
By Efrain Nieves According to a study made by the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, undocumented immigrants paid $11.2 billion in taxes in 2010. Undocumented immigrants, specifically of Latino origin have long been accused of not paying their share of taxes and mistakenly told not to be contributors to the United States. For example, […]
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