New NADBank Bill Expands U.S.-Mexico Collaboration
By Tina Kosikowski at MATT.org U.S. Rep. Rubén Hinojosa, has recently filed a bill titled H.R. 2216: NADBank Enhancement Act of 2011, allowing the North American Development Bank (NADBank) to finance...
View ArticleAlabama immigration law: prejudice over common sense
While we set to dedicate and unveil the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial in our nation’s capitol, a whole community in Alabama is about to be segregated and no one seems to be noticing. Alabama HB 56,...
View Article9/11…How Our Lives Have Changed
As a nation and global community takes time to pause this weekend to mark the anniversary of the attacks on September 11th, we take a moment to see how our lives have changed. Everyone has their...
View ArticleThe American Jobs Act of 2011: It will affect us all
By: Leyla Tess Berlanga On September 8, 2011 President Barack Obama addressed Congress, and the nation as a whole, and presented the American Jobs Act of 2011. The Bill would help create, and...
View ArticleNational Hispanic Heritage Month 2011
By: Leyla Tess Berlanga September 15th through October 15th has been proclaimed as National Hispanic Heritage Month and has been given the theme “renewing the American Dream.” On September...
View ArticlePresident Calderon’s visit to the United Nations and New York
Felipe Calderon, President of Mexico, convened with other world leaders at the 66th General Assembly Session of the United Nations, in a time in which Mexico is plagued with violence in some regions by...
View ArticleObama marked Record High Deportation of Undocumented Immigrants
By: Eduardo Pacheco, Researcher On September 30th the fiscal year ended with the Obama Administration breaking their previous record set last year of deportations of undocumented immigrants residing in...
View ArticleSemana Nacional de Migración 2011
Con la presencia del Presidente de la República Mexicana el Lic. Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, la Lic. Margarita Zavala Gómez del Campo, El Secretario de Gobernación Francisco Blake Mora, entre otras...
View ArticleNearly 20 years after NAFTA, the first Mexican cargo truck crosses United...
By: Leyla T. Berlanga Last week, a Mexican cargo truck carrying electronic equipment and destined for Garland, Texas, was the first truck to enter the United States under the North American Free Trade...
View ArticleEnglish needs to be like Chips and Salsa in Texas
By: Cristian Sandoval This being my first blog for Yes al Inglés, I wanted to make sure to share the reason why we started the program and why the organization is so committed to the English language....
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