Latinos Saved Dying US Cities

Here’s another way to look at the incredible growth of the Latino community over the past ten years: if not for Latinos 50 of the nation’s largest cities would have […]

I’m coming at this from two distinct points of view: one, I have two kids in college; and two, I teach at a local community college. On the one hand, […]

You have to read this opinion piece in the New York Times, and put it in that memory place where you store things that make sense and are useful when […]

Just a week before announcing the launch of his reelection campaign President Barack Obama sent a message to selected Immigration activists in congress: cool it. The purposely quiet campaign launch made […]

We’ve been saying at News Taco how Texas has become the face of the new America, where Latinos have grown in numbers and influence, where most of the kids in […]

Let’s call it the economic imperative; the argument against stringent immigration laws that had success in Arizona and Utah. The argument makes a case in favor of immigrants for a […]

When I was a kid in Nuevo Laredo I watched American movies, in English, with Spanish subtitles. It drove me crazy. I was perfectly fluent (and literate) in English and […]

Take this from a certified border brat, you’re not going to gain traction in a fight against undocumented migration or drug smuggling by putting more bodies along the border, especially […]

Now that so much attention is being paid to the Latino community because of the results of the US Census it’s a good time to dig a little deeper, to […]

by Herny Flores, Ph.D. I’ve been out of the country for a couple of weeks and have had a chance to view United States politics through the eyes of non-Americans.  […]