Harry Reid Still Set To Fight For Immigration Reform

Harry Reid Still Set To Fight For Immigration Reform

Mary Mata December 20, 2010

By Stace Medellín After leading the Senate in passing some major bills, whether you liked the bills or not, The New York Times political blog is telling us that Senate […]

DREAM Act Dreamers, Plan B

NewsTaco

To think that the Dreamers have a viable option is to misunderstand their reality. Dreamers are the students and their supporters who organized themselves across the country in support of […]

Senate DREAM Act Vote was a Watershed

NewsTaco December 18, 2010

If the outrage is maintained, if the anger takes root, then today’s DREAM Act vote in the US Senate will have consequences that the politicians in Washington have yet to […]

DREAM Act Vote Tally; 5 Dems Vote No

Mary Mata

Five Democrats — all the votes needed to pass it — voted “No” this morning to kill the DREAM Act. Remember in November! We at NewsTaco will keep you updated […]

DREAM Act Doesn’t Pass, 55 To 41

Mary Mata

I had hoped against all hope that the DREAM Act would pass this morning, but alas, it did not. It went down in the Senate 55-41. We’d written extensively about […]

Latino State Of The Union

Mary Mata December 17, 2010

[Editor’s Note: The following is an edited version of a blog from LatinoPoliticsBlog.com blogger Seneca. Re-posted with permission.] The “state of the union” of the Latino community appears to be […]

Republicans, The DREAM Act And Surging Latino Voters

Mary Mata

Illinois U.S. Rep. Luis Gutiérrez wrote a piece in The Huffington Post today in which he recounts many reasons why the DREAM Act is important. Perhaps one of the most […]

DREAM Act: A Call to Action

NewsTaco

During the past few weeks many News Taco readers have asked for specific ways in which they can help the DREAM Act cause. This is a action alert, distributed through […]

DREAM Act Vote Delayed, Passage Doesn’t Look Good

Mary Mata December 16, 2010

Today the Senate delayed a vote on the DREAM Act, making it seems ever more likely this thing won’t pass. Sigh. Here’s what the AP reported: “The Senate moved Thursday […]

Latino Backlash Against GOP Hardliners

NewsTaco December 14, 2010

[Latinalista.net‘s Marisa Treviño published a great piece about a growing wave among Latino Republicans against their fellow GOP’ers who have acted against passage of the DREAM Act. It’s good, it’s […]