Susana Martinez Blasts Rick Perry: What Is She After?

Susana Martinez Blasts Rick Perry: What Is She After?

NewsTaco September 12, 2011

By the latest accounts Texas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry has surged ahead of the GOP presidential crowd. The most recent CNN/Opinion Research poll puts him at a […]

Border Fence To Flood U.S. Town, Violate Mexican Treaty

Mary Mata

By Melissa del Bosque The Department of Homeland Security is pushing for 14 miles of border wall to be built through Hidalgo and Starr counties even though it could flood […]

Anti-Immigrant New Mexico Gov Admits Abuelos Had No Papers

Mary Mata September 9, 2011

So here we go, again: the staunchly anti-immigrant New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez admits that, well, her grandparents came to the U.S. without papers. So all of this anti-immigrant work […]

What’s A “Good” Immigration Policy?

Mary Mata September 8, 2011

By Mariana Garza What would “good” immigration policy look like? I think about immigration — the act of entering and settling in a country of which you are not a […]

Latinos Targeted In Calling Card Fraud

Mary Mata

Ever buy a calling card to phone a loved one south of the border and later felt that the 60 minutes advertised and paid for felt more like 15?  Well, […]

Rick Perry’s Latino Campaign Strategy: Dilute Their Votes

Mary Mata September 7, 2011

Rick Perry is not a pro-Latino candidate; we’ve said this before and this week as a lawsuit over Texas’ recent redistricting makes its way through the courts, this fact is […]

8 More Major Cities Now Have White Minorities

Mary Mata

Eight major metropolitan areas can have joined the ranks of minority-majority regions, according to a new study. Data from the 2010 Census showed that Washington D.C., Memphis, Las Vegas, New […]

Rick Perry Walks An Immigration Tightrope

NewsTaco September 6, 2011

In what may have been the most surreal moment of the present GOP presidential campaign, Arizona’s sheriff Joe Arpaio tweeted this: Just received phone call at my house from TX. […]

Romney Courts Latino Voters, Ignores Latino Press In Florida

Mary Mata September 3, 2011

Yesterday at the Republican National Hispanic Assembly in Tampa, Florida GOP candidate Mitt Romney took the opportunity to try to court Latino voters — by ignoring the Latino press. This seems […]

Romney Uses Immigration To Challenge Perry, Recruit Rubio

Mary Mata September 2, 2011

Mitt Romney seems to be using immigration as a way to challenge Rick Perry in the Republican presidential fight. In a speech today at the Republican National Hispanic Assembly in Tampa, […]