Alabama Is Now Playing The Victim Card

Alabama Is Now Playing The Victim Card

NewsTaco October 21, 2011

Alabama’s highest ranking law enforcement officer is accusing President Obama of pulling the race card to unfairly target his state. Here’s what happened: After Alabama approved the strictest state-level immigration law […]

Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Is Like Republican Viagra

Mary Mata October 20, 2011

It shouldn’t have taken this long to figure out, but the angry anti-immigration rhetoric that’s been around since just after the arrival of the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria apparently […]

GOP Debate Reveals Truths About Romney, Perry

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Just about everyone I spoke to yesterday asked a variation of the same question: Did you see the Republican debate? What they were asking, really, was: Did you see Mitt […]

Kansas’ Attempts To Move DREAMers Into The Workplace

Mary Mata October 19, 2011

It’s LaVerne Bitsie-Baldwin’s job to focus on Latinos and other minorities as the Director for the Multicultual Engineering Program at Kansas State University. But, in the course of doing her […]

U.S Citizens Lack Stamina To Do Alabama Agriculture Work

NewsTaco October 18, 2011

Alabama’s Governor Rob Bentley says he’s insulted. The idea that Americans, Alabamans in this specific case, can’t or won’t do the work available in the state’s tomato fields is…anti-American. But the […]

Cain On Immigration: Electric Fence, Barbed Wire, Alligators

NewsTaco October 17, 2011

Herman Cain, the GOP darling du jour, was in Tennessee this past weekend where he shared 2 main points about his ideas on immigration: build a fence;  electrify it. Context […]

BREAKING: Parts Of Alabama Law Blocked In Federal Court

Mary Mata October 14, 2011

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta blocked the enforcement portions of Alabama’s harsh immigration law, according to CNN. The Obama Administration requested that Alabama’s law be put on […]

Alabama Law Pushes Parents To Desperate Measures

NewsTaco October 12, 2011

This is heartbreaking, but understandable. In the wake of Alabama’s new and strict immigration law, HB56,  we’ve reported about how businesses and schools are being affected. We’ve talked about the immense amount […]

GOP Latino Strategy: Rubio, Immigration, Univisión

NewsTaco October 10, 2011

In case you were wondering, Florida Senator Marco Rubio says he’s not interested in running for vice-president. Rubio was at the Washington Ideas Forum this weekend in Washington, D.C., when a […]

Columbus Day, Also Known As Día De La Raza

Mary Mata

By Sarah Joseph, otherwords.org Many of us will never forget that famous elementary school rhyme: “In fourteen hundred ninety-two / Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” At the time, it’s not […]