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No Casa Blanca For The GOP
By María Cardona As a Democrat, predictably, I find all of the presidential candidates and the policies they support anathema to everything I believe this country needs right now. Their […]
Juggling Optimism & Pessimism In U.S.-Mexico Relations
By Zach Gonzalez Austin, Texas — The complexity of the issues both Mexico and the United States face in working together to come up with solutions to the drug war […]
Livin’ La Vida En Spanglish
Last week I posted on Facebook that, sometimes, people are frustrated by my Spanglish speaking ways. But, that’s the way I think — so ni modo. I got some interesting […]
Romney Uses Immigration To Challenge Perry, Recruit Rubio
Mitt Romney seems to be using immigration as a way to challenge Rick Perry in the Republican presidential fight. In a speech today at the Republican National Hispanic Assembly in Tampa, […]
Obama’s Immigration Plan B: Similar To Comprehensive Reform
Somewhere in a White House West Wing strategy room there must be an outline of an immigration policy plan scrawled on a whiteboard. And I imagine that the plan is as […]
5 Reasons We Need Migrants
The Wall Street Journal reported an interesting list recently, “Five Reasons to Embrace Migrants” and we wanted to re-share that list here, in a nutshell the gentleman who wrote the […]
Somos Republicans: Cain Should Drop Out Of Presidential Race
[Editor’s note: The following is an op-ed from Somos Republicans.] By Bob Quasius Ankeny, Iowa – Recently, presidential candidate Herman Cain called for solving illegal immigration by securing our border […]
FBI’s Secure Communities Push For Biometric Data
By Melissa Del Bosque Last year the Dept. of Homeland Security led local government officials to believe that they could opt out of the Secure Communities program if they felt […]
Looking For The Last Place In Monterrey That’s Safe
By Wuicho Vargas McAllen, Texas — It has been more than three years, and the violence in Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas has not come to an end. It has gotten […]
John McCain: Arizona Wildfires Caused By Immigrants
John McCain says that the wildfires that have destroyed almost half a million acres of land in Arizona were caused by undocumented immigrants. Seriously. I saw the fires, literally, as […]