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5 Things to Know About Utah’s Immigration Law Model

NewsTaco March 21, 2011

News last week that the Arizona state senate had rejected five stringent anti-immigrant bills seemed to signal a turning point in the fear-the-immigrant narrative that has been spreading across the country […]

How Latinos Are Changing The Electoral College Map

Mary Mata

VIDEO: Prepárate, Own The Narrative

NewsTaco March 18, 2011

ACLU Asks Feds to Intervene in Human Rights Abuses in Puerto Rico

NewsTaco

[Edito’s note: this article first appeared in aclu.org] WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) urging it to intervene in serious […]

World Class Mexican Golfer Can’t Play in the US

NewsTaco

[Editor’s note. This story was originally reported by Sandra Velázquez of ESPNdeportes.com] They call him El Camarón, Jose de Jesus Rodriguez,  the best professional golfer in Mexico. He’s played in tournaments in Canada,Venezuela, […]

AZ Senate Says NO to Immigration Bills

NewsTaco

I read the reports twice, just to make sure, then I went back to read them again. There were five bills dealing with stringent measures that would add spikes to […]

All Latino Youth Are Not Gang Members

Mary Mata March 17, 2011

Northern California Latino youth have been battling injunctions that underscore latent fears that all latino youth are gang members. According to the blog Dream Deployed: On March 4th 2011 , […]