Two Women Climb Arizona Border Wall In Seconds

Two Women Climb Arizona Border Wall In Seconds

Mary Mata May 12, 2011

So the entire United States strategy to “control” the border was undermined in 18 seconds by two girls wearing jeans who had never tried it before in the Arizona desert. […]

News Taco To Go: Voting, Immigration Reform & Arizona’s SB 1070

Mary Mata May 10, 2011

Latino Voting Power In Nebraska Diminished President Obama In Texas Today To Promote Immigration Reform Arizona Appeals To The Supreme Court To Keep Anti-Latino Law

Arizona Appeals To Supreme Court To Keep Anti-Latino Law

Mary Mata May 9, 2011

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced on Monday that the state will directly appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court over the injunction currently blocking parts of the state’s anti-immigrant law, SB […]

Arizona Protests Begin Ahead Of Ethnic Studies Ruling

Mary Mata

In a few weeks Arizona Schools Superintendent John Huppenthal will issue a ruling on whether or not Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican-American Studies program is in violation of state law. […]

Arizona Will Raise Private Funds To Build Border Fence

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Lawmakers in Arizona are so intent on building a wall along the US-Mexico border that they’re passing the hat to get it done – it’s going to have to be a very […]

National Latino Redistricting Roundup

Mary Mata May 6, 2011

We at News Taco have been doing our best to keep you informed of redistricting battles affecting Latino population areas (really redistricting affects all Latinos everywhere, but that’s a pretty […]

Tequila Party Launches To Promote Latino Votes In 2012

Mary Mata May 5, 2011

Somos Republicans founder DeeDee García Blase has taken up the reins of the so-called Tequila Party movement that originated in Nevada to combat the Tea Party and launched today in an […]

Arizona’s Joe Arpaio’s Office Filled With Racist Jokes

Mary Mata May 4, 2011

And now for the surprise of the century: Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office routinely and frequently circulated racist, anti-Latino jokes among employees via email. What’s more, Arpaio distributed letters […]

Undoing Tucson Ethnic Studies Illegal, Nonsensical And Expensive

Mary Mata April 29, 2011

[Editor’s Note: The following was written by myself and Christina Saenz of Pa’lante Latino] The Tucson Unified School District’s attempts to unravel the ethnic studies program there doesn’t really make any […]

Latino Baseball Players May Boycott All-Star Game In Arizona

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The rumors started flying at spring training. Half of the 30 Major League Baseball teams hold their spring training ritual in Arizona and this year part of that ritual included […]