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Obama Keeps Offering Latinos The Same Promises

NewsTaco October 26, 2011

This won’t surprise anyone in the Latino community: the past three years have been tougher than most. Unemployment among Latinos is stuck at 11%.  A high number of Latinos have […]

2.7 Million Transit Riders May Lose Tax Parity With Drivers

Mary Mata October 25, 2011

4,000 U.S. Citizens Wrongly Detained By ICE

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Latino Involvement Strategic To Occupy Wall Street Movement

Mary Mata

Latinos have increasingly become an important facet of the Occupy Wall Street movement’s diffusion. By translating messages, the newspaper and website into Spanish and mobilizing others to join in on […]

Immigration Laws Are Affecting Foreign Investments

NewsTaco October 24, 2011

There’s more fallout to report from state-level immigration laws.  It’s important because states like Arizona, Georgia and Alabama have turned into laboratories of consequences. In the weeks and months since those state’s approved […]

Ala. Employers Face Threats, Boycotts For Defending Latinos

Mary Mata

Since the harsh anti-immigrant law in Alabama went into effect last month, employers in the agriculture and restaurant industries have been dealing with the aftermath of labor shortages and even […]

Marco Rubio Lied About Parents’ Escape From Cuba

Mary Mata

The story used to go that Senator Marco Rubios’ parents were forced to flee Cuba, that they were exiles, because of Fidel Castro. The truth, however, which is now reflected […]