“Show me Your Papers,” When Your Papers are Pesos

by Melissa del Bosque from the Texas Observer where this article was first posted. The United States has become awfully hostile to immigrants crossing its southern border in recent years—unless […]

There are plenty of places to keep an eye on today – with the budget impasse in Washington and all. At the state level there are important bills and ideas […]

Whether the federal government shuts down or not is yet to be seen. The hard and fast deadline for a negotiated agreement on the federal budget is midnight, tonight. In the mean […]

I’ve written several times about how of all of the Latinos that live in the US, only 41 percent are eligible to vote. That means that they are citizens at […]

So while the President and the leaders of congress were working to avert a government shutdown in the past few days the Tea Party was launching an assault on the […]

If you’re keeping score, Alabama is the latest state to move on enacting an Arizona-type immigration law. The measure, that approved by the alabama House of Representatives by a vote […]

If Texas is an indication of what the rest of the country will be like and look like in the future-and we at News Taco have been pounding that drum […]

Here’s another way to look at the incredible growth of the Latino community over the past ten years: if not for Latinos 50 of the nation’s largest cities would have […]

I’m coming at this from two distinct points of view: one, I have two kids in college; and two, I teach at a local community college. On the one hand, […]

You have to read this opinion piece in the New York Times, and put it in that memory place where you store things that make sense and are useful when […]