Roberto Lovato

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Roberto Lovato is the author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas (Harper Collins), a New York Times “Editor’s Choice,” which the paper hailed as a “groundbreaking memoir.” Lovato is also a journalist and Visiting Professor of English at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

Immigration PolicyJuly 13, 2007

A Migrant Summit

Immigration reform may have crashed in Washington, but a very different discussion of the same issues continues below the border.

Roberto Lovato
CitiesMarch 21, 2007

The Smog of Race War in LA

Battles between the city’s black and Latino gangs are the outcome of a dismal racial and economic situation.

Roberto Lovato
Campaigns and ElectionsDecember 4, 2006

Latinos Lean Left: Bringing Down the GOP’s Big Tent

Latino voters walked away from the GOP in the midterm elections, a payback for the party’s ruthlessly anti-immigrant stance.

Roberto Lovato
Immigration PolicyOctober 26, 2006

Immigrants Regroup

This year will be remembered both for massive immigrants rights marches and for the Al Qaedization of immigrants.

Roberto Lovato
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Immigration PolicyJune 1, 2006

Voices of a New Movimiento

As they push for immigrants rights legislation–and brace for the inevitable backlash–a diverse array of emerging leaders have their eyes on a larger prize.

Roberto Lovato
Immigration PolicyFebruary 16, 2006

Envisioning Another World: Integración Desde Abajo

Immigrant advocates at the World Social Forum offered real alternatives to the narrow debate over how to fix the system.

Roberto Lovato
Racism and DiscriminationSeptember 15, 2005

The War for Latinos

In the face of unprecedented manpower problems, the Pentagon is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to target young Latinos for military recruitment.

Roberto Lovato
Election 2004October 14, 2004

Rocking the Cuban Vote

Once-Republican Miami takes a left turn.

Roberto Lovato
PoliticsJune 10, 2004

Fear of a Brown Planet

A wave of minority politics is cresting in California–white minority politics.

Roberto Lovato

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Immigration PolicyJuly 13, 2007

Immigration reform may have crashed in Washington, but a very different discussion of the same issues continues below the border.

CitiesMarch 21, 2007

Battles between the city’s black and Latino gangs are the outcome of a dismal racial and economic situation.

Campaigns and ElectionsDecember 4, 2006

Latino voters walked away from the GOP in the midterm elections, a payback for the party’s ruthlessly anti-immigrant stance.

Immigration PolicyOctober 26, 2006

This year will be remembered both for massive immigrants rights marches and for the Al Qaedization of immigrants.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

Immigration PolicyJune 1, 2006

As they push for immigrants rights legislation–and brace for the inevitable backlash–a diverse array of emerging leaders have their eyes on a larger prize.

Immigration PolicyFebruary 16, 2006

Immigrant advocates at the World Social Forum offered real alternatives to the narrow debate over how to fix the system.

Racism and DiscriminationSeptember 15, 2005

In the face of unprecedented manpower problems, the Pentagon is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to target young Latinos for military recruitment.

Election 2004October 14, 2004

Once-Republican Miami takes a left turn.

PoliticsJune 10, 2004

A wave of minority politics is cresting in California–white minority politics.