Morning NewsTaco

Tuesday April 24, 2012 Democrats have work to do to encourage voter turnout (Austin American-Statesman): “Everyone talks about the ‘sleeping giant of the Latino community,’ but the sleeping giant will not wake […]

By Eliseo Medina For two years, we have been living with the consequences of state level racial profiling laws that violate our basic human and civil rights. These laws — […]

Two years worth of posturing and protesting, testing and taunting, about immigration and states rights will come to a head this Wednesday when both sides of Arizona’s controversial SB1070 argue […]

Monday, April 23, 2012 Justices to Rule on Role of the States in Immigration (New York Times): The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on Wednesday on the bitterly disputed immigration enforcement law that was passed […]

Today, MALDEF welcomed the Ninth Circuit’s en banc ruling in Gonzalez v. State of Arizona, striking down critical provisions of an Arizona law that restricted voter access. MALDEF had challenged the […]

By Jonathan Higuera, Voxxi Last week’s extraordinary decision to disbar former Maricopa County AttorneyAndrew Thomasand his puppet henchwoman Lisa Aubuchon from practicing law in Arizona should leave Maricopa County Sheriff […]

by Griselda Nevárez, Voxxi Two years after what was then the nation’s toughest immigration bill cleared the Ariz. House and made its way to Gov. Jan Brewer’s desk a coordinated national […]

By Dustin Mendus A truck carrying twenty “Illegal aliens” was intercepted Sunday, April 8th, by “individuals in camouflage uniforms brandishing rifles” in Pima, Arizona. Two people in the truck were […]

The problem with making a lot of noise when you go after undocumented immigrants, ala sheriff Joe Arpaio, is that you’re making a lot of noise. When you do that you draw attention, […]

Is it possible that after all the months of immigrant bashing from the far right, after the relentless hammering at the contrived wedge issue of undocumented immigration we’ve reached a […]