Texas Follows Florida Voter Purge Push For Immigration Documents
Texas Follows Florida Voter Purge Push For Immigration Documents
By Raisa Camargo, Voxxi Texas joined the ranks of at least a dozen other states across the country in an attempt to access immigration databases to purge non-citizen voters from the […]
Morning NewsTaco
Monday July 23, 2012 Latinos react to Aurora movie theater shooting (NBCLatino): A gunman, identified as 24-year-old James Holmes, allegedly shot and killed 12 people and injured 50 in a midnight […]
Enthusiasm Grows Among Florida Latino Voters
By Stephanie Carroll Carson, Public News Service – FL TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – President Obama’s recent immigration policy changes are igniting enthusiasm among Latino voters, according to a recent survey. The survey found that […]
Why The Feds Are Suing Florida For Allegedly Purging Voters
By Suevon Lee, ProPublica On Tuesday, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Florida over its voter purge program aimed at removing non-citizens from voter rolls. We’ve taken a closer look […]
The Undocumented And Taxation Without Representation
By Matias Ramos, Other Words Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free. I’ll give them some taxation without representation. With apologies to Emma Lazarus, […]
Are Latinos On GOP VP Short List For Real?
I’m not sure what the Vegas line is on the Republican vice-presidential sweepstakes, but CNN, at least, has 2 Latinos vying for the second-to-the-top-post on the GOP ticket. Never mind the premature timing of […]
The Racism In The Trayvon Martin Case, Voter ID Is The Same
The recent shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida led me to think more deeply about the issue of race in America today. I’m old enough to have remembered municipal buses […]
How A Florida Law Makes Trayvon Martin’s Death “Reasonable”
By Paul Adams On the 26 of February, a rainy night in Sanford, Florida, Trayvon Martin was walking through his neighborhood to get home to his father after buying Skittles candy […]
Thousands Protest HS Valedictorian Facing Deportation In Miami
North Miami Senior High gained national attention Friday when more than 2600 students and teachers walked out of class in the biggest immigration protest in South Florida since 2004. Colombian sisters […]
Romney’s “Self-Deportation” Policy Is No Joke
By Raul A. Reyes, OtherWords.org I bet Mitt Romney has a sweatshirt that says I (heart) Florida. His victory in the Sunshine State revitalized his campaign for the GOP presidential […]