Latino rights group's name change reflects new reality
by By Mary Sanchez, Tribune Content Agency
Jul 14, 2017
3 minutes
To be a Latino in the United States is to be forever imagined as the newcomer.
Latinos are always linked to the latest wave of Spanish-speaking immigrants, even though the majority of people who can be described as such -- be they of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South American or Central American descent -- are U.S. citizens.
There have always been Americans who benefit by portraying Latinos as outsiders, an invading force that will damage
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