U.S. Is Failing Latino Boys

The way things stand, we have failed Latino boys. Twenty percent of Latino boys in the United States drop out of high school – that’s according to the National Center […]

It looks like El Diablo scared some sense into the conservative Southern Baptist congregation. Some background: The Southern Baptists had a two-day convention in Phoenix where they talked about their […]

John McCain says that the wildfires that have destroyed almost half a million  acres of land in Arizona were caused by undocumented immigrants. Seriously. I saw the fires, literally, as […]

That summer he paid me $5 a week to help him on his route. I couldn’t have been more than 11 years old. It wasn’t my idea, nor do I […]

The big news has been the vote in the Texas state senate to approve a bill, SB 9, called the sanctuary cities bill, which allows local police officers to question […]

Let’s give this “problematic Latino Texas legislators” thing one more go-around; it’s that important. News Taco reported yesterday that a prominent Texas Tea Party activist had single-handedly determined that the […]

Forgive me for being cynical, but we’re getting to the point in the political season when candidates become suddenly aware of the Latino community and spend money and time paying […]

A New Jersey high school student finds herself in the unlikely position of suing the government for an opportunity to go to college. According to a report in the Huffington […]

The appointment of Katherine Archuleta as political director of president Obama’s re-election campaign is significant, but not for the obvious reasons. Yeah, it’s a big deal that Obama gave a […]

Already the ripples of the U.S. Supreme Court decision on immigration that I spoke about recently are starting to be felt. Already the wave of premature celebration over  piecemeal legal victories […]