DOJ Monitors Election Day To Guard Against Voter Suppression

Today is the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, or election day as the U.S. Congress calls it. There is voting going on across the country — from gubernatorial […]

South Carolina is up next, they’re calling it Alabama-lite. Think of it as the next falling domino in the contrived line of  state-level immigration laws. The Alabama  law has become the high standard […]

Cecilia Muñoz, a high ranking Latina in the Obama Administration, is under fire. She’s the  Director of  White House Intergovernmental Affairs, and as such represents the President and his policies, […]

We’re one year away from the next presidential election, so you can forgive the speculation, the polls and the fascination with the political horse race. You can also give yourself […]

Consider this: 37 states in the union have either passed voter ID laws or are considering doing so. The proponents of those laws claim they’re needed to fight voter fraud — as […]

The federal government’s official position on Alabama’s immigration law seems to be to let the state wallow in it’s own mess. I don’t think the feds even have plans for an after-mess […]

How many Latino-phobic incidents can you pile on one political statement? Let’s give it a try. According to a story in the Orlando Sentinel, Florida state senator Alan Hays, R-Umatilla, […]

If ever there was an incident that highlights the reason we started NewsTaco, it’s this, as we reported yesterday: an I.C.E. agent in Tennessee, along with a team of federal […]

This won’t surprise anyone in the Latino community: the past three years have been tougher than most. Unemployment among Latinos is stuck at 11%.  A high number of Latinos have […]

What are the odds of an American citizen being accidentally detained or deported by U.S. federal officials? It’s not the kind of thing that Vegas book makers would think of; […]