Texas Legislature Looks To Outlaw Sanctuary Cities

By Daniel Setiawan House Bill 12—the sanctuary city immigration bill— is scheduled for debate Friday on the House floor and legislators on both sides of the aisle are gearing up for […]

Texas Congressman Blake Farenthold recently told a town hall meeting audience in Brownsville, Texas that people who are unemployed and on other public benefits should probably be drug tested, because it’s […]

Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan is learning a valuable political lesson. He’s become the darling of the GOP with his radical ideas grounded in the Tea Party movement’s ideology. He’s got […]

A recent article in the Washington Post says that 14.7 million Latinos sat out the 2010 midterm elections. I’m not sure that that’s entirely accurate. The numbers come from the Pew Hispanic Center, but […]

Do you remember the so-called Tequila Party? It was a conservative movement that rumbled in Nevada, claiming to be a conservative Latino alternative to the often anti-Latino Republican party? The […]

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) defended the guest worker program that he signed into law earlier this year after the state’s legislature passed it as part of an overall immigration […]

Remember the Utah immigration law? It hasn’t been that long. It’s the law that was approved last month by the Utah legislature that made room for a guest worker program and […]

President Barack Obama is beginning his 2012 campaign by talking about comprehensive immigration reform, even as Republicans flatly say anything having to do with CIR will not pass the House. […]

[Editor’s Note: The following was reposted from Somos Republicans with permission.] By Alex Gonzalez As the issue of SB1070 in the southwest is vanishing from state legislatures and return to […]

At best he punted, at worst he miscalculated. Every year since 2003, when Republican Dennis Hastert was Speaker of the House, there’s been a Cinco de Mayo celebration on the […]