News Taco To Go: Arizona, Drugs, Redistricting & Georgia

News Taco To Go: Arizona, Drugs, Redistricting & Georgia

Mary Mata May 27, 2011

Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Immigration Law Drug And Human Smuggling Under Sheriff Arpaio’s Nose Georgia’s Latino Bashing Misses The Mark GOP Inaction On Redistricting May Cost Texas Big Bucks

GOP Inaction On Redistricting May Cost Texas Big Bucks

Mary Mata May 26, 2011

The way it breaks down is this: Republican-dominated state houses in Texas have not taken up congressional redistricting, now it may be too late, and if a special session needs […]

Will Democrats Pass The DREAM Act This Time? Prolly Not

Mary Mata May 25, 2011

Do you remember the disappointment you felt when the DREAM Act didn’t pass? I do, it was a heavy kind of disappointment, the kind you know will last for a […]

News Taco To Go: Suicide, Tech, Pawlenty, Chávez & Cops

Mary Mata

Cops Shoot Latino Marine 71 Times, Deny Him Care In Arizona Judge Blocks César Chávez Street Renaming In Texas Attempted Suicides High Among Young Latinas Pawlenty’s Latino Voter Pitch: Immigrants […]

Pawlenty’s Latino Voter Pitch: Immigrants Are Terrorists

Mary Mata May 24, 2011

By now you may have seen the 2002 gubernatorial ad in which then-candidate Tim Pawlenty suggests that immigrants are all really secret terrorists. You may have also noticed that, as […]

News Taco To Go: Pawlenty, Georgia, Census And Diabetes

Mary Mata

Pawlenty Set To Take Anti-Latino Policies Nationwide All Georgia Latinos Suffer From Anti-Immigrant Efforts More Latinos Than Amish In Amish Country Which Comes First, Diabetes Or Depression?

Pawlenty Set To Take Anti-Latino Policies Nationwide

Mary Mata May 23, 2011

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty announced he would be seeking the Republican nomination for president today, but what he has neglected to say now that he — like any other presidential […]

Alligators In Border Moats Is Funny Stuff, I Should Know

NewsTaco May 20, 2011

I grew up 2 blocks from the US-Mexico border, on the Mexican side. True story, I was born in Texas so I’m a US citizen, but I lived in Mexico […]

California Politico: Don’t Name Ship For César Chávez

Mary Mata May 18, 2011

A California politician ripped the Navy this week for deciding to name a cargo ship in honor of longtime civil rights activist and organizer César Chávez. Republican Duncan Hunter of […]

Lamar Smith, You Are Wrong On Immigration And The Dream Act

NewsTaco May 16, 2011

By Lionel Sosa Lamar, where did you go wrong? You were such a sensitive fellow when we worked together 30 years ago. You’ve always been an anti-immigration advocate but as […]