Author: Diego Graglia
Bio: Diego Graglia is a bilingual multimedia journalist who has worked at major media outlets in the U.S. and Latin America. He is currently the editor-in-chief at Expansion, Meixco’s leading business magazine.
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Posted on: 27 May 2009
“I adore her,” said Celina Sotomayor. “I can’t feel my body, that’s how proud I am of her.” Sotomayor’s daughter Sonia became President Barack Obama’s first nominee to the Supreme Court on Tuesday and could be the first Hispanic ever to serve on the nation’s highest tribunal. After the announcement, Spanish-language media immediately reflected gleeful […]
Posted on: 21 May 2009
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor A bill now in Congress would allow over a million undocumented farmworkers –or 75 percent of the nation’s agricultural workforce– earn legal status in the U.S. Similar measures have been proposed several times over the last decade, but its proponents are hoping this time the AgJOBS, or Agricultural Job […]
Posted on: 15 May 2009
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor Immigrant women in the U.S. “face formidable barriers” –lack of language skills, discrimination, low wages, lack of health care–, but still their numbers continue to grow and they are “now on the move as much as men,” a poll released Thursday said. As they settle in America, traveling great […]
Posted on: 13 May 2009
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor The economic recession does not seem to be affecting the human smugglers known as coyotes, according to a story published Tuesday in the New York Spanish-language newspaper El Diario/La Prensa. The coyotes‘ business is still doing well, reporter Cristina Loboguerrero wrote after interviewing two men who take part in […]
Posted on: 11 May 2009
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of the raid by immigration authorities on a kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa. The raid at Agriprocessors ended with the arrest of nearly 400 undocumented workers, and became a symbol of the Bush Administration’s hardline approach to immigration enforcement. A year later, news reports […]
Posted on: 06 May 2009
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor There is fear among Latinos in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. “The message the justice system sent to young white men here is that they can continue to beat up and kill Latinos, because in the end, a year in jail is all they will have to pay,” Jon Zamudio, a 26-year-old […]
Posted on: 05 May 2009
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor Last year under the Bush Administration hundreds of immigrants rounded up at work-site raids were charged with “aggravated identity theft” for using Social Security numbers that belonged to other people. Monday, the Supreme Court said in a unanimous decision that the federal government cannot use the charge in those […]
Posted on: 23 Apr 2009
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor It may sound counterintuitive, but despite all the talk about ensuring that underrepresented minorities are counted in the 2010 Census, some Hispanic activists are calling for undocumented immigrants to avoid being counted next year. A group of Evangelical leaders, the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders (CONLAMIC), […]
Posted on: 22 Apr 2009
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor The leading contender for the Republican nomination in the New Jersey gubernatorial campaign is opposing an immigration panel’s recommendations that the state extend licenses to drivers regardless of their immigration status and allow undocumented students to pay in-state tuition rates. Former U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie, however, was careful in […]
Posted on: 20 Apr 2009
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor Four years ago, President George W. Bush arrived in Mar del Plata, Argentina, escorted by U.S. Navy ships and hounded by thousands of demonstrators who rejected a U.S. initiative to create a hemispheric free trade zone. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Bolivian then-presidential candidate Evo Morales joined football star […]
