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Jose Antonio Vargas: ‘What do you want to do with me?’

Mary Mata February 14, 2013

By Griselda Nevarez, Voxxi Unlike last week’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration, the panel of witnesses for Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration included an undocumented immigrant, Pulitzer-Prize winning […]

Latino Voters Need Section 5 Today More Than Ever

Mary Mata February 13, 2013

Latinos are the Holy Grail of the Religious Right

Mary Mata

Immigration: Old Reform, New Lessons

Mary Mata

By Maria Hinojosa, Latino USA Critics of the “path to citizenship” provisions of the immigration reform blueprint call it amnesty and say it will cost the American taxpayer millions to […]

Why the GOP is Setting Itself up for a Rubio Letdown

NewsTaco February 12, 2013

Vcitor Landa, NewsTaco I don’t envy Marco Rubio. Especially not tonight, sandwiched as he will be between the President and the Tea Party. I don’t envy the attention, or the hyped expectation. […]

Three Latinos on First Lady’s State of the Union Guest List

NewsTaco

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Tonight, as President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union speech, the First Lady, Michelle Obama, will be there as First Lady’s always are. Sitting […]

Can the Supreme Court Make the Voting Rights Act Better?

Mary Mata

By Emily Bazelon, Slate At the end of this month, the Supreme Court will hear Shelby County v. Holder, a challenge to the continuing validity of Section 5, brought by the state of […]