The State of the State for Washington Latinos

From the Huffington Post’s Latino Voices section:   (follow link for video) Cineo Gonzales says his daughter, an American citizen, came home from school with a paper explaining HB56, Alabama’s new immigration law thought to be the toughest in the country. Her teacher, Gonzales says, handed the document to his daughter and the only other [...]

My research focuses on Latino youth in the juvenile justice system. It addresses questions of why Latino youth are disproportionately represented in the juvenile system compared to their proportion in the general population. Specifically, this report examines how race and ethnicity impact case processing and how Latino youth receive differential treatment within the juvenile system. [...]