Republicans Take Republicans to Task for use of Anchor baby

Republicans Take Republicans to Task for use of Anchor baby

NewsTaco January 5, 2011

You can’t expect people to stop a behavior if you don’t take them to task for doing it. I’ve been writing in general terms about the use of the words […]

Escándalo With New Jersey’s Latino Supreme Court Justice

Mary Mata January 4, 2011

It’s a really long story, but here goes. The escándalo began in 2007 when New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto improperly used his position to intercede in a matter […]

The Importance Of Latino Group Cohesion

Mary Mata

As we start off 2011, I find it an important opportunity to make a comment about something we all tend to take for granted:  Why do we lump together ethnicities […]

Birthright Battle Looms

NewsTaco

I think this is more than a mere battle line. This is digging the trenches, filling the sandbags and raising the flag. There’s gonna be a fight. A cadre of […]

Three Latinas in Colorado Senate, a First

NewsTaco

It’s a first, for Colorado at least. Three Latinas will be sworn-in as Colorado state senators on January 12th, and that, for many, is reason to celebrate. All three-Angela Giron, […]

New Law Challenges Voters Rights

NewsTaco

Here’s one I didn’t see coming this soon. The soon to be minted legislators in Kansas are going after voter ID. Specifically, according to the Lawrence Journal, Secretary of State-elect […]

Federal Immigration Raids Growing Under Obama

Mary Mata January 3, 2011

In a very detailed analysis, David Bacon points out that the Barack Obama administration has upped the ante of enforcement against immigrant workers in ways that are either comparable, or […]

Attitudes Shifting on Immigration, Slowly, Predictably

NewsTaco

So now that the dust has settled after the mid-term election and the holiday daze is beginning to clear, people are thinking a little differently. The most recent poll, reported […]

Illinois Could Add Latino Congressional District

Mary Mata December 30, 2010

Even though Illinois lost a congressional seat in the recent Census, the fact that the state’s growth was fueled by Latinos may mean the new congressional districts will have to […]

2011 Will Bring Slew of State Immigration Bills

NewsTaco December 29, 2010

Get ready for the onslaught. Almost every state legislature across the continental US will be taking-on immigration law proposals in 2011. Most of them, as you’d imagine, parrot Arizona’s sb1070. […]