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Silent Culprits: Immigrant Detention Centers
Many gaps exist within the law that allow it to be interpreted differently for immigrants. Although the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 is the foundational law for immigration, it has not served all equally. The ...
Prohibido Olvidar
Writing creatively about identity construction through political displacement
Hispanic K-12 Students in the United States Public School System: Why are they Disproportionately Underachieving in School?
Hispanic students account for 22% of all people enrolled in school in the United States and, on average, these students are significantly educationally underachieving compared to their white peers in every academic measure. ...
Narcoterrorism: The Growing Threat in Latin America
This paper will explore and analyze how Latin America and the Caribbean has been such a conducive environment for the growth of narcoterrorism historically, as well as investigate the new developing threat of Islamic ...
Refugee Crisis in the Western Hemisphere: Violence, Movement, and the Response of the United States
The aim of this paper rests on the argument that the nature of the violent conflict in the Northern Triangle of Central America necessitates that those who are fleeing the region should be considered asylum-seekers or ...
Seeking Asylum in the United States: The Process Confronting Those Fleeing From Violence in the Northern Triangle
The purpose of this document is to describe the preliminary portion of the often complex process for seeking defensive asylum in the United States. This document considers “the preliminary portion” of the defensive asylum ...
Chagas Disease: Concerns in Argentina and the United States
American trypanosomiasis, more commonly known as Chagas disease, has been a neglected tropical disease for decades. Endemic to all of Latin America, Chagas disease is found most frequently in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, ...