Hispanic
Census: Minorities surpass whites in U.S. births
WASHINGTON — For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.
Date: 05/16/2012 | Nation & World
Analysis: President takes big risk in election year
President Barack Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is an election-year boost to his liberal base that comes with some risks.
Date: 05/09/2012 | Nation & World
Supreme Court could back Arizona immigration law
PHOENIX — The United States could see an official about-face in the coming months in how it confronts illegal immigration.
Date: 04/26/2012 | Nation & World
Prosecutors: Trayvon killer ignored warning to back off (video)
SANFORD, Fla. — After weeks in hiding, George Zimmerman made his first courtroom appearance Thursday in the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, and prosecutors outlined their murder case in court papers, saying the neighborhood watch volunteer followed and confronted the black teenager...
Date: 04/11/2012 | Nation & World
Hispanics prefer listing by national identities
WASHINGTON -- Most Hispanics prefer to identify themselves according to their families' countries of origin, rather than by the government terms "Hispanic" or "Latino," Pew Hispanic Center said Wednesday.
Date: 04/05/2012 | Nation & World
Obama rule would ease immigration for illegals
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is proposing to make it easier for illegal immigrants who are immediate family members of American citizens to apply for permanent residency, a move that could affect as many as 1 million of the estimated 11 million immigrants living illegally here.
Date: 03/30/2012 | Nation & World
Video raises doubts about Trayvon gunman's story (video)
MIAMI — Newly released police video of a handcuffed George Zimmerman may be important for what it doesn't show: No obvious cuts, scrapes, blood or bandages. No clearly broken nose. No plainly visible evidence of a life-and-death struggle with Trayvon Martin.
Date: 03/30/2012 | Nation & World
Employer gets criminal conviction for hiring illegal aliens
PHOENIX -- A contractor who pleaded guilty to knowingly hiring illegal immigrants was sentenced to probation Thursday in the first case in the state in which authorities pursued criminal charges instead of just fines against an employer in an illegal hiring case.
Date: 03/30/2012 | Nation & World
Banda music blamed for tuba-theft crime wave (video)
They've still got their trombones and their trumpets, their cornets and their clarinets. But the high school marching bands of Southern California are tuba-less these days, and their music directors think they know why.
Date: 03/08/2012 | Nation & World
Interracial marriages hit a new high in U.S.
WASHINGTON -- Interracial marriages in the U.S. have climbed to 4.8 million -- a record 1 in 12 -- as a steady flow of new Asian and Hispanic immigrants expands the pool of prospective spouses. Blacks are now substantially more likely than before to marry whites.
Date: 02/16/2012 | Nation & World
City council candidate removed from ballot for poor English skills
YUMA, Ariz. — A judge ruled that a city council candidate in Arizona must be removed from the ballot due to lack of English proficiency.
Date: 01/26/2012 | Nation & World
Bank of America to pay $335 million in fair-lending case
WASHINGTON -- Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and federal officials on Wednesday announced a $335 million national settlement with Bank of America Corp. stemming from former mortgage giant Countrywide allegedly steering minority borrowers into subprime loans and charging them higher interest...
Date: 12/22/2011 | Business
Supreme Court may consider Arizona immigration case
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court, already poised to decide one hot-button political issue during an election year, also may tackle the Obama administration's challenge to Arizona's law requiring its police to check the immigration status of people who are stopped.
Date: 12/11/2011 | Nation & World
GOP leaders in Alabama reconsider support for immigration law
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama Republicans who pushed through the nation's toughest law against illegal immigrants are having second thoughts amid a backlash from big business, fueled by the embarrassing traffic stops of two foreign employees tied to the state's prized Honda and Mercedes...
Date: 12/09/2011 | Nation & World
Poorest poor in U.S. hits new record: 1 in 15 people
WASHINGTON — The ranks of America's poorest poor have climbed to a record high — 1 in 15 people — spread widely across metropolitan areas as the housing bust pushed many inner-city poor into suburbs and other outlying places and shriveled jobs and income.
Date: 11/03/2011 | Nation & World
Author’s books bring Latino heroes to life
When Monica Brown became a parent nearly 15 years ago, she was surprised to find so few children's books with a Latino focus.
Date: 10/31/2011 | Life
Alabama battle with illegal aliens recalls state's civil rights past
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The epicenter of the fight over the nation's patchwork of immigration laws is not Arizona, which shares a border with Mexico and became a common site for boycotts. Nor was it any of the four states that were next to pass their own crackdowns.
Date: 10/30/2011 | Nation & World
GOP showcasing its rising Hispanic stars
ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval and Florida Sen. Marc Rubio are popular, relative political newcomers in presidential battleground states.
Date: 10/16/2011 | Nation & World
Court blocks Alabama from checking student immigration status
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — In a blow to Alabama's toughest-in-the-nation immigration law, a federal appeals court sided with the Obama administration Friday when it blocked public schools from checking the immigration status of students.
Date: 10/14/2011 | Nation & World
Alabama Hispanics leave work to protest immigration law
ALBERTVILLE, Ala. — At least a half-dozen poultry plants shut down or scaled back operations Wednesday and many other businesses closed as Hispanics in Alabama skipped work to protest the state's toughest-in-the-nation immigration law.
Date: 10/12/2011 | Nation & World
Feds order 25 states to provide bilingual ballots
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the run-up to the 2012 elections, the federal government is ordering that 248 counties and other political jurisdictions provide bilingual ballots to Hispanics and other minorities who speak little or no English.
Date: 10/12/2011 | Nation & World
Town hall topic: Latino issues
EVERETT -- A town-hall-style meeting Saturday aims to explore social and economic issues facing Latinos in north Puget Sound.
Date: 10/03/2011 | Local News
Hispanic students vanish from Alabama schools
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state's tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration.
Date: 10/01/2011 | Nation & World
Hispanics fuel population growth for whites
WASHINGTON — In a twist to notions of race identity, new 2010 census figures show an unexpected reason behind a renewed growth in the U.S. white population: more Hispanics listing themselves as white in the once-a-decade government count.
Date: 09/30/2011 | Nation & World
Judge upholds strict immigration law
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal judge refused Wednesday to block key parts of a closely watched Alabama law that is considered the strictest state effort to clamp down on illegal immigration, including a measure that requires immigration checks of public school students.
Date: 09/29/2011 | Nation & World
Hispanics now a majority in federal prisons
SAN FRANCISCO -- More than half of all people sent to federal prison for committing felony crimes so far this year were Hispanic, a major demographic shift swollen by immigration offenses, according to a new government report released Tuesday.
Date: 09/07/2011 | Nation & World
Federal agencies to review diversity strategy
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama signed an executive order Thursday directing federal officials to design a government-wide strategy for making the federal workforce more diverse.
Date: 08/19/2011 | Nation & World
U.S. will review cases of aliens in deportation proceedings
LOS ANGELES -- The Obama administration said it will review the cases of 300,000 illegal immigrants currently in deportation proceedings to identify "low-priority" offenders -- including the elderly, crime victims and people who have lived in the U.S. since childhood -- with an eye toward allowing...
Date: 08/18/2011 | Nation & World
Fairgrounds hosts a jaripeo — a rodeo tradition from south of the border
MONROE -- This is not your typical rodeo. Saturday, the Evergreen State Fairgrounds hosts a jaripeo -- sometimes called Mexican rodeo -- which combines bull riding with regional Mexican music and a horse show.
Date: 07/02/2011 | Local News
Minority babies now the majority in U.S.
WASHINGTON -- For the first time, more than half of the children under age 2 in the U.S. are minorities, part of a sweeping race change and a growing age divide between mostly white, older Americans and fast-growing younger ethnic populations that could reshape government policies.
Date: 06/23/2011 | Nation & World
More Hispanic students finish high school
MIAMI -- A higher percentage of young Hispanic adults is finishing high school, and the number attending a two-year college has nearly doubled over the last decade, according to census data released Wednesday.
Date: 06/09/2011 | Nation & World
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