Georgia’s Anti-Immigrant Politics Reflect Deep South Sea Change

Is Georgia becoming the new Arizona? An immigration bill that parrots Arizona’s infamous sb1070 is making news in that state. Even while the Arizona law has been successfully challenged in federal court and a […]

Saturday marked the one year anniversary since Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed the controversial anti-immigrant law SB 1070 into law and placed the immigration debate front and center in American […]

We escaped Mexico City this week and spent Semana Santa in Acapulco. My husband, our toddler daughter, his two teen daughters and me. I told a friend of mine back […]

Go figure. I’m not sure what to file this story under. A cop in Anchorage, Alaska, the state’s largest city, has been discovered to have been living under a false identity. […]

Years ago, when I anchored television news for a living, I would read the description of a criminal suspect-Latino male, mid-thirties, medium build, mustache-and think, “holy crap, that’s me!”…me and […]

Here’s another take on why local enforcement of federal immigration laws is a bad idea. This comes from The News Courier, in Athens, Alabama: The sheriff (Mike Blakely) said the combination of […]

We joke among ourselves about getting a barrida or limpia to bring balance to a rash of bad luck or having a curandera do quick work to heal what ails […]

by Janet Murguia Homeownership is the cornerstone of the American Dream, and like all Americans, Latinos work toward that dream and a stable financial future. In recent years, however, problems […]

Albert Pujols (José Alberto Pujols Alcántara) is considered by many baseball fans and analysts to be sitting at the exclusive top of the heap of Major League Baseball, and Mariano Rivera is still one […]

Professional Latino/a? Bilingual? Looking for a job? You may want to try Tennessee. The  Latino population in that state grew by 134 percent, to 290,000. And while that may not […]