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: 21 Jul 2009
He was born in New York, reared in Limerick, Ireland, and then returned to the U.S. as a young man. After decades as a public school teacher, fame found him when he published Angela’s Ashes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of growing up in a poor Irish family. Even in his later years he had “unfinished […]
Posted on: 20 Jul 2009
President Barack Obama is again insisting on keeping the pressure on Congress to pass immigration reform… on Spanish-language media. Obama, in a conference call with Hispanic broadcasters Friday, said he hopes a comprehensive immigration reform bill will take shape by the end of this year or in early 2010. As has happened in the past, […]
Posted on: 17 Jul 2009
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor With the end of Senate hearings Thursday, Spanish-language media are taking Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as a given — and Puerto Ricans in New York and elsewhere are getting ready to celebrate. “This has been bigger than when Menudo came to New York,” Bronx State Assemblyman […]
Posted on: 13 Jul 2009
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor While the whole nation will be watching to see if New York-born judge Sonia Sotomayor becomes the third woman and first Latina on the U.S. Supreme Court, Hispanics will be paying special attention to Sotomayor’s Senate confirmation hearings set to begin Monday. “It is expected the hearings will send […]
Posted on: 30 Jun 2009
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor Hondurans in the United States are intensely following the events in their home country, after the military on Sunday rushed President Manuel Zelaya out of bed and sent him into exile in Costa Rica. But not every talk-show caller nor every demonstrator in American cities is asking for the […]
Posted on: 29 Jun 2009
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor President Barack Obama finally sat down with legislators from both parties last week to talk about immigration reform and the news media saluted the meeting with editorials and op-ed pieces on how to proceed. The meeting, said Los Angeles newspaper La Opinión, was “the first step toward immigration reform. […]
Posted on: 25 Jun 2009
What: President Barack Obama will meet Congressional leaders from both parties to discuss the way forward in fixing the U.S. immigration system. The White House has insisted on tamping down expectations, saying this is just the beginning of the conversation. Pro-immigration advocates, on the contrary, are anxious for Congressional action to start. Anti-immigration activists seem […]
Posted on: 24 Jun 2009
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor Pro-immigration activists want the Obama Administration to approach immigration reform with a much stronger sense of urgency than it has shown so far, as Feet in 2 Worlds reported yesterday. As Thursday’s much-awaited –and twice-cancelled— White House meeting with lawmakers on the issue approaches, some activists are trying to ramp […]
Posted on: 23 Jun 2009
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor Despite the sense of urgency among immigration advocates, the White House seems prepared for a drawn-out debate over immigration reform. The conversation should start this Thursday in a meeting with lawmakers from both parties, if President Barack Obama’s schedule finally permits it. The administration’s deliberate approach suggests that the meeting will not […]
Posted on: 19 Jun 2009
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called Thursday on President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders to pass comprehensive immigration reform, saying that the system “requires repair” and that immigrant “suffering should not continue.” In San Antonio this week for their annual spring meeting, the bishops said in a statement by their president, Cardinal Francis George […]
