Latino Kids In Alabama Bullied Since Immigration Law Passed

Latino Kids In Alabama Bullied Since Immigration Law Passed

Mary Mata October 24, 2011

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 […]

Ala. Employers Face Threats, Boycotts For Defending Latinos

Mary Mata

Since the harsh anti-immigrant law in Alabama went into effect last month, employers in the agriculture and restaurant industries have been dealing with the aftermath of labor shortages and even […]

NewsTaco Weekly Roundup: October 17-22, 2011

Mary Mata October 22, 2011

It was a great week in NewsTaco news this week, including information about the rise of young Latinos in Texas, Steven Seagal hunting immigrants, veterans, comics, voluptuous latinas, corporate leadership, […]

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 […]

Latino Civil Rights: Dolores Huerta

Mary Mata October 20, 2011

Dolores Huerta was born in 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico but was raised by her single mother in the San Joaquin Valley community of Stockton, California. She became involved with […]

Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Is Like Republican Viagra

Mary Mata

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 […]

Puerto Ricans: Thoroughbreds or Mutts?

Mary Mata

By Izzy Sanabria, for the National Institute for Latino Policy History has taught us that conquerors plundered, raped, killed and destroyed cultures. As conquerors go, the Spaniards were one of the […]

GOP Debate Reveals Truths About Romney, Perry

NewsTaco

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 […]

10 Things to Know About Alabama’s New Immigration Law

Mary Mata

By America’s Voice Education Fund On September 28th, 2011, the most sweeping anti-immigration law in the country went into effect in Alabama.  The law, HB 56, has already had harsh […]