Speaking at his well-kept apartment near New York’s West Village, Vargas, 30, recounted how his mother told him he was going to live with his grandparents in America someday. His mother’s hope for her son’s future was at the eye of the storm surrounding Vargas. In a personal essay that appeared in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, the journalist revealed that he does not have a legal status in the United States.
New America Media, News Analysis, Sandip Roy, KOLKATA—Facebook might just be the new Gandhi. Barack Obama reached back into history to compare Egypt’s revolution to Gandhi’s great nonviolent struggle against the British Empire. But in Gandhi’s homeland, the bespectacled bald man in a loincloth is just a ghost of revolutions past. In India, where everyone [...]
New America Media/ Los Angeles Sentinel, News Report, Yussuf J. Simmonds, In gauging the reaction to the events in Egypt as they relate to Blacks in America and to Black Africa, it is important to understand a bit of geography, a little history and culture, and a whole lot about the continent of Africa–especially North [...]
EYE ON THE ARAB MEDIA -- Arab scholars and journalists are struggling to come up with answers explaining the sudden uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya and other Arab countries. Many of them, however, believe it has a lot to do with youth empowerment stemming from young peoples' ability to break away from tribal and religious traditions.
New America Media, Op-ed, Karen K. Narasaki, David Cho has a dream—to become a citizen of the country in which he has grew up and now attends college. However, instead of entertaining employment offers upon his graduation next spring like many of his fellow economics majors, this UCLA senior could face deportation from the only [...]
New America Media/Northwest Vietnamese News, News Feature, Julie Pham, Part 2 of 2. Read part 1 here. At the Vietnamese Senior Association (VSA) in Seattle, Marie Thu Le, 75, confessed that “When my time comes, I don’t want to be dependent on machines. I don’t want to be in a nursing home.†Her candor was [...]
New America Media/Northwest Vietnamese News, News Feature, Julie Pham, Ph.D.: Part 1 of 2. Read part 2 here. When nearly six in 10 voters in Washington state approved Initiative 1000, the 2008 Death with Dignity Act, Seattle resident Tam Hue, 73, was one of the few Vietnamese elders who was not only aware of the [...]
New America Media/SeeBeez.com, News Report, Julie Pham, PhD: SEATTLE—If every vote counts, why are political candidates doing so little to reach out to Washington’s significant minority communities? Many ethnic media outlets in Washington state are asking this very question. While mainstream media is on the decline, ethnic media is growing to meet the needs of [...]
New America Media, News Analysis, Elena Shore The day after Meg Whitman said that people who hire undocumented immigrants should be held accountable, a woman named Nicandra Diaz-Santillan came forward claiming to be her former housekeeper. She accused Whitman of knowingly employing an undocumented immigrant in her home for nine years. Whitman denied the allegations, [...]
New America Media, Commentary, Lien Tran: FREMONT, Calif. – My son’s former violin teacher and her son face deportation to Russia in less than three weeks. The reason: what we are used to calling a “broken immigration process.†Thirteen years ago, Tatiana Miroshnik was a “mail order bride.†Married to a U.S. citizen, she came [...]
