The Manhattan Times reports on the journey of Marco Saavedra, an undocumented New Yorker who traveled to Mexico in order to enter the U.S. as an asylum-seeker.

Carlos Menchaca beats three-term incumbent in Brooklyn to become city’s first Mexican-American elected official.

Mexicans in New York are the youngest and fastest growing group, but also have the highest dropout rate. A Feet in 2 Worlds podcast looks at contributing factors and efforts taken to combat it.

Superstitions like carrying cloves of garlic to keep away bad energy have crossed borders throughout time. To this day, Latino immigrants bring them from their homelands and incorporate them into their New York lives, reports El Diario-La Prensa.

In the death of Mexican immigrant Viridiana Victorio during a domestic attack at her home, the silence of her relatives and neighbors is the culprit that nobody mentions, and the main reason why the future of her three children is uncertain, reports El Diario-La Prensa.

Mexican and Central American workers in upstate New York, know little about immigration reform and whether it could help them, finds El Diario-La Prensa. Being on a farm, they have scant contact with the outside world and just want to earn a living.

Dances that originate from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca will take center stage at the 5th annual Guelaguetza festival in the Hudson Valley town. Local Oaxacans share with La Voz the importance of spreading their culture and traditions so that “we can all be Oaxacans for a day.”

Some couriers transporting goods between the city and Puebla, Mexico, and New York find it too difficult to continue making a living off the business due to expensive plane tickets and increasing crime, reports Diario de México.

After observing a lack of assistance from elected officials in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Carlos Menchaca decided to run for a City Council seat in northern Brooklyn, reports El Diario-La Prensa.

Call it the immigrant factor. Taiwan-born Democratic mayoral candidate John C. Liu seems to be making inroads with Mexican-Americans in the city who identify with his immigrant background.

Mexican service workers will be able to obtain professional certificates through a 15 week program of study in the basics of hotel administration, math and English offered by CUNY and funded by the Mexican state of Puebla, Goya Foods and CUNY.

Feet in 2 Worlds features “audio postcards” in which people from an immigrant background talk about their job, from a Polish-American worker at Greenpoint bakery Peter Pan to the Lebanese-American owner of family-run food store Sahadi’s.

The city has denied Cinco de Mayo organizers CECOMEX a permit for the annual festival, citing a late application, reports El Diario-La Prensa. The decision has left Mexican residents and East Harlem small business owners disappointed and frustrated.

As Catholics around the world celebrate Easter, El Diario-La Prensa profiles a creative Mexican couple who embroiders the costumes for a traditional Via Crucis procession from their living room.

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the challenges faced by undocumented immigrants have accumulated with lost jobs, lost housing, denial of help, and for some, an increased fear of being exposed, reports City Limitsfrom Staten Island.