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SHARE Saturday, May 25, 2013 Immigration: The Amazing, Incredible Video Diary of Stephanie Pucheta
In January 2013, the staff at Cuentame received a phone call from 9-year-old Stephanie Pucheta and her mom Maria Ortiz. Their request seemed simple and straightforward: Would Cuentame help in preventing the deportation of Stephanie's dad, Julio Cesar Pucheta?
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 8, 2012 VIDEO: U.S. Guns, The Awful, Shocking Truth
The failure of the United States to enact meaningful gun regulation is not only affecting the United States; it is also fueling violence in Mexico.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 23, 2013 "The Immigrants Are Coming, The Immigrants Are Coming!": Nativism and the Immigrant Debate
Don't let anti-immigrant rhetoric drive the immigration debate. Nativist, racist and fear-mongering hate groups are working hard to drive their narrative on immigration. For years now, anti-immigrant groups have successfully infused their message into the national immigration debate.
SHARE Friday, April 19, 2013 Top 5 ways anti-immigrant hate makes its way into media and policy
Our current immigration system is broken. Deportations are at a record high, families are being separated, immigrant workers exploited, human lives are being lost at the border, there is rampant persecution and discrimination of immigrants and a perpetuation of negative stereotypes and criminalization of migration in the media.
How did we get here? How did we sacrifice basic human and civil rights in the name of political po