Texas GOP’s secret anti-Hispanic plot: Smoking gun emails revealed

Texas GOP’s secret anti-Hispanic plot: Smoking gun emails revealed

NewsTaco July 14, 2014

*Meanwhile … away from the border and the crisis that’s nudged all other issues important to Latinos to the sidelines, a precedent setting lawsuit began toady in Texas. At stake […]

Poverty, violence fuel exodus of youths from Honduras to U.S.

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*It’s hard to find something new in the media-din coverage of the immigrant children border crisis. The same information is hashed and rehashed in spiraling levels of decibels, anger, and intolerance. Here’s […]

Faustino Diaz: Trombone master from Oaxaca in L.A.

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*What a wonderful interview! What a wonderful opportunity to listen and learn from a Latino master – from Oaxaca to the Rotterdam conservatory. The podcast is in Spanish,well worth the […]

‘The Book of Unknown Americans’ tells immigrant tale

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*Gregg Barrios will be dong a series of book reviews for Newsday. This is his first review – Christina Henriquez’s “The Book of Unknown Americans.” VL By Gregg Barrios, Newsday […]

Mundial de Fútbol, More Than Just a Game

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By Dr. Henry Flroes, NewsTaco The World Cup is known throughout the Americas as “el Mundial,” the worldwide championship.  It concluded yesterday with a newly crowned champion who will have […]

The So-Called Immigration Border Crisis Is Neither

NewsTaco July 11, 2014

*It’s been hard to ignore the recent flood of stories, opinion and commentary about the child immigrant humanitarian crisis. It’s understandable, given that mainstream media finally noticed the uptick in […]

Hispanic population surging across Middle Georgia

NewsTaco July 10, 2014

*What I like about this story is that there is a potential for political change in places where politics was a set-in-stone deal. It’s exciting to see Latino influence growing […]

Latinos go to college, but do they actually graduate?

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*Interesting statistic: a larger percentage of Latino students enroll in college than white students. But Latinos are half as like to graduate. VL By Jessica Salcedo, Voxxi EL PASO — Eight […]

The Unnecessary Expense of Immigrant Detention

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* By Cindy Casares, Texas Observer Over the past decade and a half, the federal governmenthas created a cash cow for private prison companies by detaining record numbers of undocumented […]

Class-action suit: Wrong to put kids into immigration court with no lawyers to help

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*Immigration proceedings provide no established right to legal counsel. When an undocumented child goes before a judge, Homeland Security has a lawyer arguing for deportation but the child stands alone. […]