Joe Arpaio Accused Of Ignoring Sex Abuse Cases

Joe Arpaio Accused Of Ignoring Sex Abuse Cases

NewsTaco December 5, 2011

It turns out that Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been so busy harassing undocumented workers that he’s neglected to go after sexual predators, the type that assault little girls as young as three years-old […]

Mexican Imms In New York Struggling With Education

Mary Mata November 28, 2011

The New York Times reported this week about the fastest growing immigrant group in New York City — Mexicans — and the terrible statistics associated with this group’s educational attainment. […]

NewsTaco Weekly Roundup: Nov. 19 – 27, 2011

Mary Mata November 27, 2011

Some great stuff this week, my favorite being the great political chisme of the week: a complete reshuffling of Texas’ congressional candidates. Check that out, for sure. Then there was […]

5 Jobs For Recently Unemployed SB1070 Sponsor Russell Pearce

Mary Mata November 22, 2011

Times are tough. After his recent recall in Arizona, the architect of Arizona’s SB1070, Russell Pearce, is out of work and hanging around a Home Depot east of Tempe hoping […]

Chinese Immigrants Will Be The Next Undocumented Wave

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Someone once asked me if I would be as outspokenly pro-immigration as I am if the immigrants were not Latino. There is so much implied in that question that it would take […]

Digitally Documenting The Immigrant Experience

Mary Mata November 21, 2011

The Immigrant Archive Project was started to preserve the stories of immigrants in the U.S. and lets people tell their own tales of struggle and triumph in a new country. […]

Georgia Politico Wants To Revisit HB 87 Add More E-Verify

Mary Mata

Georgia State Rep. Katie Dempsey (R-Rome) said at a recent question and answer session that the HB 87 law requiring that companies with 10 or more employees use e-verify should be changed […]

Latino Congregations Unite To Fight Alabama Law

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This Thanksgiving won’t be like others in Alabama, at least not in the Latino churches and congregations. Latino churches have managed to slip under the English language radar in that state, and there, almost unnoticed, they’ve […]

Latinas Lag In College Graduation Rates Compared To Peers

Mary Mata November 17, 2011

A new study shows that while second-generation Latinas are enrolling in college at the same rates as their third-generation non-Hispanic white counterparts, they are 18% less likely to finish school […]

We Are All Alabama When Laws Target The Best Of Us

Mary Mata

By Dustin Mendus It all began when the kids stopped showing up to school. Hundreds of Latino kids disappeared from school when Alabama began enforcing it’s brutal immigration law, HB […]