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Minneapolis students stage walkout to protest immigration policies

NewsTaco January 22, 2016

*Many of the student protesters said they have been personally affected by the Obama Administration’s recent deportation raids. There’s no mention in the story about the similarity with the L.A. […]

Adios Underworld Pioneer Sana Ojeda – I think

NewsTaco January 21, 2016

22-Year-Old Latina Sabrina Pasterski May Be The Next Albert Einstein

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U.S. illegal immigrant population falls below 11 million

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*Facts are pesky things when you’re trying to convince voters that immigrants are swarming across the U.S. border. The number of undocumented in the U.S. has been declining steadily for […]

Déjà Vu in Oregon. Not exactly.

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*It’s unfortunate, Eduardo Diaz tells us, that in the reporting of the takeover of federal lands in Oregon the claims of tribal sovereignty have been ignored. In the summer of […]

The ‘Dreamers’: They anger the GOP and power Democratic campaigns

NewsTaco January 20, 2016

*A big part of the energy of recent Latino political activism is coming from the DREAMers. Their initial focus was immigration and little else, but now they’re branching into electoral […]

Media consolidation at point where Univision buying The Onion makes sense

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*By 2020 34 percent of Latinos will speak only English at home. This percentage isn’t lost on Univision executives who have been looking for a way to enter the bilingual/English […]