Whatever Happened To Millions In Aid To Haiti?

Whatever Happened To Millions In Aid To Haiti?

Mary Mata June 29, 2011

Port-au-Prince, Haiti — Written on the walls of Haiti’s dilapidated palace in crimson-red graffiti, are the words “No president, no government.”  A people who have proven the utmost resilience after a […]

Attacking Racial Profiling In Texas

Mary Mata June 26, 2011

[Editor’s Note: The following post was written by the hosts of The TNA Show, a radio show every Friday night from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m.] In Texas, the legislature […]

Looking For The Last Place In Monterrey That’s Safe

Mary Mata June 22, 2011

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 […]

How Has 40 Years Of The Drug War Affected Latinos?

Mary Mata June 17, 2011

[Editor’s Note: This column is written by Lalo Alcaraz, a cartoonist, artist and creator of the first nationally syndicated, politically themed Latino daily comic strip, “La Cucaracha.”] It’s been 40 years […]

Texas Senate Passes Sanctuary Cities Bill

Mary Mata June 15, 2011

By Melissa Del Bosque After 9 hours of testimony Tuesday by Senate Democrats against SB 9, the controversial immigration bill passed anyway along a party-line vote. It’s pretty certain SB 9 will […]

“Mexican Hunters” Profiled Latinos At New Jersey Airport

Mary Mata June 14, 2011

Screeners for the Transportation Security Administration, TSA, spent about a year from 2008 to 2009 routinely profiling “Hispanic male passengers, especially Mexicans and Dominicans, to see if they had proper […]

New Details Emerge In José Guerena Case

Mary Mata June 9, 2011

So by now we’re all familiar with the story of the twice-Iraq deployed Marine José Guerena who was killed after a Pima County SWAT unit in Arizona shot him in […]

Third Suspect On Trial In Brisenia Flores Case

Mary Mata

Two of the people who killed nine year-old Brisenia Flores in her home have been tried, convicted and sentenced. Shawna Forde was sentenced to death plus 65 years and Jason […]

Latino Gang Profiled African Americans In LA

Mary Mata June 8, 2011

The Azusa 13 gang in the San Gabriel Valley, east of LA, systematically targeted African-Americans in that community with the aim of running them out of town, according to a […]

Latinos, Immigrants Comprise Half Of Federal Felons

Mary Mata June 6, 2011

A new investigation by the Associated Press found that almost half of those sentenced in federal court for felonies are Latino. These numbers are bolstered by immigration cases, the AP […]