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	<description>Latin American voices observe and comment from New Orleans</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Connecticut police charged with abuse of authority toward Latinos</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas Diaz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Four police officers from a Connecticut suburb have been accused of abusing their legal authority to harass, intimidate and deprive Latinos of their rights, the latest in a series of charges brought by the federal government against local police departments.
The charges against four East Haven police officers follow a Justice Department report last month that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FBI arrests 4 Conn. officers in town where investigation found pattern of anti-Hispanic bias</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas Diaz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Four police officers, including the president of the local police union, were arrested Tuesday by the FBI on charges that they used excessive force against illegal immigrants and covered up abuses in a New Haven suburb where a federal investigation found life was made miserable for Hispanics.
The East Haven officers assaulted people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students Protesting Book Ban Can Clean Toilets In Tucson Arizona</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas Diaz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Students Protesting Book Ban Can Clean Toilets In Tucson Arizona.
Check out this video detailing more in depth about this controversial punishment.
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		<title>Ethnic book ban in Arizona even includes Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’</title>
		<link>http://latinolanow.org/latinola-speaks/2012/01/ethnic-book-ban-in-arizona-even-includes-shakespeare%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98the-tempest%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas Diaz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[An Arizona school district largely made up of Mexican-Americans has been forced to slash its ethnic studies program, and now the books are going, too.
The Tucson Unified School District released the titles of its banned books on Friday, a lengthy list that removes every textbook dealing with Mexican-American history — and even Shakespeare.
The book ban [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Teen Mistakenly Deported to Colombia is Back in US</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas Diaz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Texas teenager who U.S. officials mistakenly deported to Colombia after she claimed to be an undocumented immigrant was returned to the United States Friday evening.
Her family has questioned why U.S. officials didn&#8217;t do more to verify  her identity and say she is not fluent in Spanish and had no ties to  Colombia. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latino Teachers Needed For Classroom Role Models</title>
		<link>http://latinolanow.org/latinola-speaks/2012/01/latino-teachers-needed-for-classroom-role-models/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas Diaz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One day during his first week teaching fourth grade in San Antonio’s largely Hispanic Bonham Academy, David Nungaray &#8212; a Teach for America teacher whose parents emigrated from Mexico &#8212; posed a question:
&#8220;How many of you think you may want to go to college?&#8221; Nungaray asked.
Within seconds, almost every student had his or her hand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latino Health Access is a Charity Built on Moxie and Masa</title>
		<link>http://latinolanow.org/latinola-speaks/2012/01/latino-health-access-is-a-charity-built-on-moxie-and-masa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas Diaz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Soon after America Bracho started a health nonprofit in Santa Ana 18 years ago, a student in her diabetes self-management class needed eye screening. He didn&#8217;t have enough money to pay for it, so Bracho and the class decided to raise the funds — by selling tamales.
The man had the screening, and Bracho had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National judge gives green light to case seeking counsel for mentally disabled immigrant detainees</title>
		<link>http://latinolanow.org/latinola-speaks/2011/12/national-judge-gives-green-light-to-case-seeking-counsel-for-mentally-disabled-immigrant-detainees/</link>
		<comments>http://latinolanow.org/latinola-speaks/2011/12/national-judge-gives-green-light-to-case-seeking-counsel-for-mentally-disabled-immigrant-detainees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas Diaz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal judge has granted class-action status to a case brought on behalf of mentally disabled detainees who lack legal representation in immigration court.
The order issued under seal in November by U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee was made public Monday. The case involves detainees in California, Washington and Arizona who have been deemed mentally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latinos Get Little Thanks For Rebuilding New Orleans</title>
		<link>http://latinolanow.org/latinola-speaks/2011/12/latinos-get-little-thanks-for-rebuilding-new-orleans/</link>
		<comments>http://latinolanow.org/latinola-speaks/2011/12/latinos-get-little-thanks-for-rebuilding-new-orleans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas Diaz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since Katrina, the Hispanic population in the New Orleans metro area  has skyrocketed by more than 33,000 people. That&#8217;s a 57-percent increase  in the past decade, much higher than the national average.
They  came for the construction jobs — and they&#8217;ve chosen to stay. Often, you  can find about a dozen Latino [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Proposes Unmanned Border Crossing With Mexico</title>
		<link>http://latinolanow.org/latinola-speaks/2011/12/us-proposes-unmanned-border-crossing-with-mexico/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas Diaz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas — The bloody drug war in Mexico shows no  sign of relenting. Neither do calls for tighter border security amid  rising fears of spillover violence. This hardly seems a time the U.S. would be willing to allow people to  cross the border legally from Mexico without a [...]]]></description>
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