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Little-known immigration mandate keeps detention beds full

Mary Mata November 20, 2013

By Ted Robbins, NPR/KPCC Imagine your city council telling the police department how many people it had to keep in jail each night. That’s effectively what Congress has told U.S. […]

Holiday Recipes With a Latino Twist

Mary Mata November 19, 2013

Mexican author, Elena Poniatowska, wins Cervantes letter prize

Mary Mata

Providence Mayor Taveras wants to become the first Latino Governor of RI

Mary Mata

By Susana G. Baumann, Voxxi The natural progression in a politician’s career seem to always aim for higher offices, and Mayor Angel Taveras is ready to fall into his path’s next […]

Health care politics seeps into Latinos’ re-election races

Mary Mata

By Suzanne Gamboa, NBCLatino Republicans have not moved on immigration reform. The public put much of the blame on the GOP for the government shutdown. Yet three Latino Democratic lawmakers who are expected […]

Latinas Wrongfully Convicted Of Molesting Children Are Expected To Walk Free

Mary Mata

By Lila Shapiro and Saki Knafo, Huffington Post Latino Voices In 1994, Elizabeth Ramirez, then 20, was arrested in San Antonio, Texas, for allegedly molesting her two young nieces, aged […]

Mock Immigration Sting At UT Austin Canceled

Mary Mata

By  Mónica Ortiz Uribe, Fronteras News spread quickly Monday about a mock immigration sting being organized by a student group at the University of Texas at Austin. The UT chapter of […]