Nevada Tax Assessor’s Racist Antics

If you’re Latino and happen to be traveling across Nye County, Nevada, be sure not to wear a hard hat – the Tax Assessor there might think you’re undocumented. Her name is Shirley […]

Every time I write a column about immigration I’ll get the email or phone call du jour telling me about how their grandmother came to this country with only the clothes on […]

By their own admission Minnesotans aren’t the most diverse group of people. 87 percent of that state’s population is white. Minnesota state demographer Tom Gillaspy was quoted in the startribune.com: […]

Given the fact that hell has broken loose in Libya, that our country is still at war on two fronts and that the earthquake in Japan has turned into a nuclear emergency of apocalyptic proportions, […]

It kinda sounds like a cheesy parlor trick – if only it were that easy. There’s nothing new in the the idea. We’ve been consistently talking about the need to […]

As NewsTaco reported yesterday, a state Senator from Kansas made disturbing and extremely disparaging remarks about undocumented immigrants, suggesting that they should be shot from helicopters, like feral hogs. The reaction has been swift and substantial. […]

So this really isn’t about immigrants, undocumented or not. The folks in power in Arizona don’t want anything in their state that doesn’t look or sound like they do. This recent vote […]

How do you get a group of Republican politicians to run away from you as fast as they can? Say something stupid like this, reported in the BuffaloNews.com, in the […]

I’m not sure where to begin this, it’s so beyond incredible. Republican Kansas state Rep. Virgil Peck suggested yesterday that undocumented immigrants be shot from a helicopter, like they do to feral hogs. […]

A group of Latinos in Utah is digging deep into the bag of civil protest tactics to make its point. They’re calling for a good-old-fashioned boycott. The Utah twist is that they […]