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Resumes of Latinos delivered to Corbett’s office

Mary Mata June 3, 2013

By Vernon Clark, Philadelphia Inquirer Outraged by Gov. Corbett’s recent remarks about the lack of Latinos in his administration, about two dozen people gathered outside the governor’s Philadelphia office Friday […]

The Redistricting Wars Redux

Mary Mata

Recall effort against Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio fails

Mary Mata May 31, 2013

Two Border Villages Reunite For One Day

Mary Mata

By Lorne Matalon, Fronteras IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RIO GRANDE — In the rural border areas of Texas, seven so-called ‘informal crossings’ were shut down following Sept. 11. These were […]

Immigration reform could fail just like gun control did. Here’s why.

Mary Mata

By Aaron Blake, Washington Post Poll after poll shows a strong majority of Americans — upward of two-thirds, in some polls — support a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. So […]

Latinos push immigration reform on social media

Mary Mata

By Lois Romano, Politico For forty-eight hours last week, a highly coordinated virtual “iMarch” on Washington promoting immigration reform swamped Twitter, generating thousands of tweets that landed more than a half billion […]

Texas GOP vs. Latinos

Mary Mata May 30, 2013

By Brent Budowsky, The Hill Texas Republicans, led by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (R), are using a special session of the Texas legislature to launch an aggressive attack against […]