Obama’s Political Calculus on Immigration

Just a week before announcing the launch of his reelection campaign President Barack Obama sent a message to selected Immigration activists in congress: cool it. The purposely quiet campaign launch made […]

We’ve been saying at News Taco how Texas has become the face of the new America, where Latinos have grown in numbers and influence, where most of the kids in […]

Let’s call it the economic imperative; the argument against stringent immigration laws that had success in Arizona and Utah. The argument makes a case in favor of immigrants for a […]

When I was a kid in Nuevo Laredo I watched American movies, in English, with Spanish subtitles. It drove me crazy. I was perfectly fluent (and literate) in English and […]

Now that so much attention is being paid to the Latino community because of the results of the US Census it’s a good time to dig a little deeper, to […]

by Herny Flores, Ph.D. I’ve been out of the country for a couple of weeks and have had a chance to view United States politics through the eyes of non-Americans.  […]

I’m always on guard on April 1st because my life is filed with pranksters. My natural skepticism is enhanced (it’s a skill I developed over decades as a working journalist). And it’s not easy this year because I […]

This is a cliché good news-bad news story. The national unemployment rate has fallen to 8.8 percent. There were 216 thousand jobs added across the country in the month of […]

Last year on this day President Barack Obama signed a proclamation officially marking March 31st as Cesar Chavez day. I’ve been reading and remembering this morning. I’m not among the fortunate who knew Cesar, […]

It’s an interesting intersection of laws. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) says it will not deny green-card applications to persons of bi-national same sex marriages. The reason: the Defense of Marriage […]