Non-Latino Immigrants In Alabama Not Worried

Non-Latino Immigrants In Alabama Not Worried

Mary Mata October 31, 2011

Turns out that Alabama’s law seems to be pretty targeted to Latinos after all, at least non-Latino immigrants do not appear to be afraid. Some of Alabama’s Vietnamese, Korean and […]

Feds Let Alabama Wallow In Its Mess

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The federal government’s official position on Alabama’s immigration law seems to be to let the state wallow in it’s own mess. I don’t think the feds even have plans for an after-mess […]

Senator Marco Rubio Blames Family Immigrant Story On “Lore”

Mary Mata October 27, 2011

By Latino Rebels And the spin is spinning hard today from the office of Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio. This afternoon around 12:55 pom EST, MSNBC broadcast on its ticker […]

ICE Agent Uses Genitals For Warrant: Story Must Be Told

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If ever there was an incident that highlights the reason we started NewsTaco, it’s this, as we reported yesterday: an I.C.E. agent in Tennessee, along with a team of federal […]

Immigration Agent: His Warrant Is His Genitalia

Mary Mata October 26, 2011

Nashville, Tennessee residents were the victims of overzealous and perhaps unlawful policing when police there entered their homes to search without warrants. When asked for those warrants, one of the […]

Kids With Undocumented Parents Less Likely To Finish HS

Mary Mata

A new study from UC Irvine finds that children of legal immigrants are more likely to complete high school and spend an average of two more years in school than […]

4,000 U.S. Citizens Wrongly Detained By ICE

NewsTaco October 25, 2011

What are the odds of an American citizen being accidentally detained or deported by U.S. federal officials? It’s not the kind of thing that Vegas book makers would think of; […]

Thoughts On The Dominican Republic And Its Diaspora

Mary Mata October 24, 2011

By Ambassador Raul Yzaguirre [Editor’s note: This is the text of the keynote speech given by the United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Raul Yzaguirre, to the 14th Annual […]

Immigration Laws Are Affecting Foreign Investments

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There’s more fallout to report from state-level immigration laws.  It’s important because states like Arizona, Georgia and Alabama have turned into laboratories of consequences. In the weeks and months since those state’s approved […]

Latino Kids In Alabama Bullied Since Immigration Law Passed

Mary Mata

It should come as no surprise that, in the wake of Alabama’s anti-Latino immigrant law, sentiments towards Latinos in that state are becoming less than civil. If it wasn’t something […]