Latinos May Be Key To Obama Win In Arizona

¿Como se dice “karma’s a witch?” Latest case in point: The New York Times reports that because of a boom in the Latino population of Arizona, and because of a swell of Latinos reaching voting age […]

Does anyone have $100 million they can spare? There’s a club I want to join and I’m a little short on cash to get the door opened. This is purely altruistic, so […]

The last two times I spoke to congressman Charlie Gonzalez I noticed a sense of futility in his demeanor. It wasn’t a fatalism that you’d attribute to someone who’d given […]

Someone once asked me if I would be as outspokenly pro-immigration as I am if the immigrants were not Latino. There is so much implied in that question that it would take […]

This Thanksgiving won’t be like others in Alabama, at least not in the Latino churches and congregations. Latino churches have managed to slip under the English language radar in that state, and there, almost unnoticed, they’ve […]

According to at least one interpretation of at least one poll, Latinos aren’t exactly giddy about President Obama in 2012. The interpretation comes from a pollster named Joshua Ulibarri, from Lake […]

A native American tribe in New Mexico is asking renters in their tribal-owned mobile home park for proof of citizenship. If the renters can’t prove their citizenship or authorized immigrant status, they […]

Back to Alabama for the moment, because I read something that I hadn’t seen regarding the issue of work and immigrants and that state’s economy. I came across an article in Bloomberg Businessweek titled: Why […]

I don’t need to signal my bias, I’ve never hidden it – I deplore the word “illegal” when used in referenced to undocumented workers in the United States. I use it only […]

Yes it was historic – the first state senate president to be recalled since the birth of the nation. Yes there was an overflow of reactive energy – starting with Latinos and spreading to […]