Latino community

Newly inaugurated Joe Biden is expected to introduce legislation overhauling U.S. immigration laws. It would create an eight-year pathway towards citizenship for qualifying immigrants and increase the number of refugees and asylum-seekers admitted to the U.S.

It’s been a year of adjustments with the COVID-19 pandemic, and the holidays are certainly different for many of us. The pandemic has changed Latino holiday traditions and this community is adjusting.

Farm and poultry workers gathered outside the state capitol building a month ago urging state officials to set stricter COVID-19 rules for their workplace. North Carolina coronavirus numbers are rising at the same time meat and poultry workers tackle the busy holiday season. After denying the petition, workers are now pushing a Wake County judge to force the Department of Labor to protect them.

From his first days in office, President Trump wasted no time in putting his mark on U.S. immigration policy. And he did it through executive orders. WFAE’s Laura Brache looks at four of those policies and the scope of their impact in North Carolina.

When Latino families across North Carolina had to cancel large social gatherings this year, that included canceling quinceañeras. These elaborate coming-of-age celebrations have created a profitable industry. But the coronavirus pandemic forced both young girls and the industry to adjust their plans.

About a third of Latinos eligible to vote in North Carolina have yet to register. The regular registration period ended Oct. 9, so their only chance to cast a ballot is by going to an early voting site before Oct. 31.

Every 30 seconds, a young Latino becomes eligible to vote, according to the Pew Research Center. Latino voters will make up the second-largest voting bloc behind white people, but they lag behind Black voters in showing up to the polls. North Carolina is no exception. So, what’s on the minds of young Latino voters in the Charlotte area and what will drive them to vote?

In an auditorium with dozens of other people, Alba Sanchez, a Costa Rican mother in Charlotte, took her naturalization oath as her mother and son looked…

Ana Chagoyán lost her 40-year-old brother Juan from what a Charlotte hospital says was COVID-19 pneumonia. Before Juan's death on July 20, Ana said, her…

Sitting at home and from her cellphone screen on July 24, Ana Chagoyán, a Mexican mother who lives near Charlotte, said her last goodbye to her brother…