Actual Anchor Baby Operation Found In LA

Actual Anchor Baby Operation Found In LA

Mary Mata March 25, 2011

An actual “anchor baby” operation was recently shut down outside of Los Angeles, California involving pregnant Chinese women who paid to receive pre- and post-natal care and have their babies […]

Docs: Racist Arizona Teacher Letter, School Response

Mary Mata March 24, 2011

I wanted to post the actual letter from substitute teacher Tony Hill, and then the response from the school where his alleged experiences took place, Harold W. Smith Elementary. He […]

Arizona Senator Reads Racist Letter: Latino Kids Are Gangbangers

Mary Mata March 22, 2011

An Arizona Republican state senator, Lori Klein, decided to add her name to the list of racist politicos in that state last week when she read what she said was […]

People Under 20 Developing Diabetes At Alarming Rates

Mary Mata

More young people than ever are being diagnosed with diabetes, meaning that the future of health care in this country is going to be even worse than we thought, and […]

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 , […]

Budget Cut Unrest Spreads To Texas, Education

Mary Mata March 14, 2011

[Editor’s Note: The following post was written by Abby Rapoport and originally appeared in The Texas Observer.] 11,000 parents, teachers and advocates stormed the Capitol Saturday to demand lawmakers spend […]

This Lent I Confess the Sins of Adulthood

NewsTaco March 10, 2011

We live in a very expedient society, and maybe that’s our fault. We’re always in a blind hurry to get there, to get it done, to have it made, to […]

Latino Children are Now the Majority in California

NewsTaco March 9, 2011

The Census numbers are out for California and there’re two big stories to talk about; first, that Latino children are now the majority in California, and second, that as Latinos […]

News Taco To Go: Dead Kids, NPR, Libya, Ché And Juárez Violence

Mary Mata

Seven children aged 7 months to 11 were killed in a barn fire in a Mennonite community in Pennsylvania. A former NPR executive was taped by the same guy who […]

Texas Report: Poor Latinos Have Really Bad Health

Mary Mata March 1, 2011

A report released from the Health Collaborative in San Antonio, Texas shows that Latinos in this city suffer from poor health — especially the poor ones. It’s not a surprise […]