Same old discrimination story in new places

Just when you thought we’d taken forward steps… The problem with Latino immigrant expansion, with Latino communities springing up where there’d never been Latinos before, is that their presence engenders […]

The good people at dailyyonder.com (Thanks to Pamela Price for the suggestion) take a focused look at what’s happening in rural America. In a recent post they took a look […]

There’s no substituting a good idea, no matter how old it may be. But it’s fair to renew them, in mind and in practice. Remember the garden your abuela had? […]

It was interesting, the number of times the question came up while I was registering voters back in 2004. Can an ex-felon register to vote? or the more personal, “I’m […]

The latest projection is that 3 million homes will be foreclosed by the end of the year.  The effects of what’s been called the “foreclosure crisis” are obvious in the […]

I know, it’s kind of schitzo. On the one hand Texas has called a full court press to identify and deport undocumented criminals. And on the other, Homeland Security officials […]

While the immigration debate has been focused on Arizona and its SB1070 there are developments across the country that merit more than a passing glance. Case in point, a federal […]

I’ve never liked that word. The problem I have with it is that it dehumanizes the immigration debate. An illegal anything is an act, not a person, defined by a […]

I get that political scientists like to slice poll results and electorates into all manner and sizes of groups and sub-groups…pero esto? Turns out that if you’re Latino and Catholic […]

Carlos Guerra called our attention to this political ad last week on FaceBook and Twitter. It seems that he and we are not alone in thinking it’s an extreme example […]