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Latino News

Ohio groups say Senate failed on immigration bill: Ohio advocacy groups for immigrants were slamming the Senate for shelving the immigrant reform bill last week.

Festival offers taste of Latino culture: ….12th annual Festival Latino yesterday. The festival, which attracted about 300,000 people last year, kicked off its first day in full swing and brought not only Latino culture to Columbus but a whole lot of fun, too.

Latinos protest immigration crackdown: Tensions have run high in Lake County’s Mexican immigrant community since May 18, when ICE agents detained 24 people in a single sweep.
Since then, federal agents have returned several times with arrest warrants for specific people. But the agents typically question other Latinos they chance upon and detain those suspected of being here illegally.

Delay in Mexican center raises questions: City of Columbus begins to learn that German Trejo is the fraud we always knew he was.

Mexican immigrants deliver good news: nice, healthy babies: Despite low income, low education levels and insufficient health insurance, Mexican immigrant women were giving birth to healthy infants….The 31-year-old Pittsburgh native crafted her dissertation on the topic titled “Living the Latina Paradox’: An Ethnography of Pregnant and Postpartum Mexicans in Northeast Ohio.” In August, she will receive her doctorate in medical anthropology from Case Western Reserve University.

Wal-Mart to fund Latino soccer field: Adult and youth teams in the Latin League, hailing from Toledo, Fremont, Findlay, Bowling Green, Defiance, Monroe, Adrian, and Temperance will come to play on the fields.