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Focusing U.S. Immigration Detention Costs

Mary Mata March 5, 2013

By Ali Noorani, Reuters There was much controversy last week about federal officials releasing hundreds of immigrants from detention centers ahead of the looming budget cuts. But the real issue […]

Latino Tops Most Influential in Food Industry List

Mary Mata March 4, 2013

Allá en el Rancho Grande: Latino Farmers Sue U. S. Ag Dept.

Mary Mata

Lourdes Flores Helps Texas Colonia Residents Help Themselves

Mary Mata

By Priscila Mosqueda, Texas Observer Lourdes Flores didn’t know she wanted to help others until someone helped her. She was born in Reynosa, Mexico, and moved to Mission, Texas, at age […]

Dwindling Catholic Schools See Future in Latino Students

Mary Mata March 1, 2013

By Aaron Schrank, Religion News Service As the country’s fastest-growing population, Latinos now make up nearly 40 percent of all U.S. Catholics, but represent less than 14 percent of students at […]

U.S. Sequester Cuts Would Harm Latino Babies

Mary Mata

By Khalil Abdullah, New America Media WASHINGTON, D.C.–Thousands of unborn Americans have no say on whether the process of across-the-board federal budget cuts – the so-called “sequestration” — should move forward […]

Obama Names Latina to Head Federal Trade Commission

Mary Mata February 28, 2013

By Andrew Zajac & Hans Nichols, Bloomberg Edith Ramirez, a campaign official for President Barack Obama and one of his law school classmates, will be named as head the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, where she […]