To Whom It May Concern: It’s “undocumented” immigrant, not “illegal.” As a classmate of mine justly said recently, people can’t be illegal. So I would greatly appreciate it if from now on, we used the term undocumented immigrant when discussing immigration. I understand that you are frustrated that undocumented immigrants are “taking your jobs,” but [...]

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By Matthew Stieglitz This piece was inspired by a comment on my last blog post about abolishing Chicano Studies departments because “they doom aspiring minorities to a lifetime of poverty.” It reminded of the time-honored American tradition of emphasizing the necessity and superiority of certain fields over others. You’ll be hard pressed to find anyone [...]

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By Melissa Beatriz Skolnick The holiday season is always a time of giving. It is truly wonderful that people feel in a giving mood around this time and assist those less fortunate in any way that they can. I myself feel especially empathetic during the days between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, and am conscious of [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving LPB readers. We will be adding new blogs throughout the holiday weekend. Please check back for more. By Jude Soto So a teacher and a day trader walk into a bar….I know what you’re thinking, this is about to be one of those jokes where one of us turns out to be gay. [...]

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The following letter from Matthew Stieglitz is addressed to the Cuban Three, a play on words of the Cuban Five (five Cubans convicted of espionage against the United States). In this instance, the Cuban Three are those politicians who Stieglitz feels have become the three most powerful Cuban-Americans in the United States: Senator Robert Menendez [...]

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By Dr. David Bearman Barack Obama is trying my patience. Don’t get me wrong, I still believe he inherited a mess from George Bush and is doing the best he can to turn the ship of state around.  However allowing his Attorney General Eric Holder to come out against California’s Prop 19 is not only [...]

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The Pew Hispanic Center came out with a new report today indicating that Latino voter motivation is relatively low with about a third of all Latino voters indicating that they have given the upcoming midterm elections “quite a lot” of thought. And only about half of Latino voters who responded indicate that they are absolutely [...]

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By Bender Bending Gonzalez and the Webmaster Why do immigrants (legal or illegal) come to this country? In search of a better life of course. I am an immigrant myself [Bender Bending Gonzalez], and I came to the U.S. to obtain a better education, a better job, a higher standard of living, and if at [...]

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