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NALEO Calls On Obama To Act On Priorities for U.S. Latinos
[Editor’s note: The following is a press release from NALEO.] The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) issued the following statement today calling on President Obama to […]
Can Racist Laws Spur Latino Political Participation?
It’s an interesting question being posed in a story by Julián Aguilar in a story about Texas’ own version of Arizona’s SB 1070, which was SB 9 and ultimately died […]
Arizona Border Fence Too Tragic To Be Serious
I haven’t decided who’s more tragic, the people who thought-up and got to work on the plan to raise donations to build a fence along the border between Arizona and […]
GOP Seeks To Deport More People
Republicans recently introduced a measure in Congress that would remove the President’s discretion to prioritize deportation cases, in essence ending the practice of prioritizing dangerous criminals and stopping delayed deportations. […]
Why Are Latinos Such Social Mediaites?
By María Cardona A mobile phone screen gives a woman in Latin America a glimpse of the son she hasn’t seen since he immigrated to find work in the U.S. […]
SB 1070 Advocate Recalled In Arizona
Arizona State Senate President Russell Pearce is set to be recalled, as enough signatures have been gathered to force a special election this November. If you recall, we reported that the […]
No Latino Legislators Means Plenty of Anti-Immigrant Laws
Remember Rebecca Forest? That lady who blamed all of Texas’ problems on “Hispanic legislators?” Well, according to PolitiFact, she had a point: states with big percentages of Latino legislators didn’t […]
Anti-Immigrant Bill Fails In Texas
You’d need a diagram to figure out exactly how it happened, but suffice it to say that the state senators in Texas gathered their marbles and went home. And just […]
Perry Bombs At National Latino Conference
By Melissa Del Bosque Thursday in San Antonio, the national press got one of their first honest-to-God looks at Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential potential. They got to evaluate his candidate […]
Anti-Immigrant Laws Moving To Moderate States Next
Anti-immigrant laws could soon emerge in states that have traditionally stayed away from passing the divisive legislation within their borders, according to the author of two of the harshest immigration […]