Pat Mora is a poet, novelist and author of children’s books. Her writings often reflect the conflictive nature of being bilingual and bi-cultural. Here she reads the poem “Legal Alien,” which explores the unease of being viewed as neither fully American nor fully Mexican.
Ah, Texas, my adopted homeland. There's so much to love about you, but then you do silly things like this, and so everyone thinks you're insane. One of the most recent anti-immigrant bills to come out of the Legislature basically makes it illegal to not use super duper verification systems…
*This is the kind of "inside baseball" that I know many Taquistas enjoy discussing. I like these stories because they add context to a larger debate, in this case the language of immigration - "anchor babies," and "illegal aliens." Those terms, and that particular language have evolved. It wasn't too…
*Remember how Rep. Joaquin Castro had written a letter suggesting that the federal government stop using the term “illegal alien,” and how the Library of Congress decided it would no longer use the term as a bibliographical reference, and that Tom Graves, a GOP Representative from Georgia, shepherded a bill…
By Tia Tenopia
