Immigration

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Surprise! Immigrants Didn’t Commit Voter Fraud!

Mary Mata November 5, 2010

Carlos Guerra wrote about the racist extremes people claiming to protect against “voter fraud” were willing to go and, surprise surprise, today NPR reported that, in fact, people without papers […]

Wait! Before You Vote…

NewsTaco November 1, 2010

Ciudad Juárez Violence Breaks Record, 340 Dead in October

Mary Mata

Pew: Illegal Immigration Backlash Worries, Divides Latinos

Mary Mata October 28, 2010

The Pew Hispanic Center released a report today finding that Latinos in the U.S. have renewed concerns over discrimination.  Read the report here. Here are some highlights: About four-in-five of the […]

NPR Discovers the Prison Industry’s Role in SB 1070

Mary Mata

Long after the rest of us have already figured out that the prison industry was an integral part of conceiving, drafting and implementing Arizona’s anti-immigrant law SB 1070, NPR also […]

Arizona’s Governor’s Long Lost DUI

Mary Mata

Arizona governor, immigrant hater and signer of the SB 1070 anti-immigrant bill in Arizona Jan Brewer loves the law — as long as it doesn’t apply to her.  The proof […]

Moving Past Bumper Stickers: The Complexity of ‘Border Issues’

Mary Mata

As you may or may not know, this month’s Texas Monthly magazine is billing itself the immigration issue, “Eighteen Texans tell us exactly what they think about illegal immigration.” Some […]