Georgia’s Immigration Law Blocked By Fed Judge

Georgia’s Immigration Law Blocked By Fed Judge

Mary Mata June 27, 2011

GALEO and the AP reported today that a federal judged granted a request to issue a preliminary injunction against HB 87 to halt its implementation. To recap exactly what we’re […]

Want Latinos To Vote? Just Ask

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Latino voter turnout is expected to reach record numbers in 2012. That’s according to a National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) projection. The estimate is that 12.2 million Latino […]

Attacking Racial Profiling In Texas

Mary Mata June 26, 2011

[Editor’s Note: The following post was written by the hosts of The TNA Show, a radio show every Friday night from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m.] In Texas, the legislature […]

Texas Senator John Cornyn Heckled At NALEO Over DREAM Act

Mary Mata June 25, 2011

San Antonio, Texas — Last night during a speech to NALEO attendees, Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn gave what many believed was a great speech. He said right off the […]

Senate Democrats Re-Introduce Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill

Mary Mata June 24, 2011

A new comprehensive immigration reform bill introduced on Wednesday by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and other Senate Democrats includes tougher provisions that the legislators hope will sway their Republican counterparts to […]

John McCain Uses One Fire To Start Another

Mary Mata

By Randy Parraz Most recently Arizona has been in the national headlines because of the outbreak of wildfires. At no time in our history have we ever experienced fires of […]

Texas Gov. Perry Gets Cold Reception At NALEO Conference

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There was a point during Texas Governor Rick Perry’s speech to a packed lunch crowd at this year’s National Association of  Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) conference that I […]

News Taco To Go: Latino Students, Babies, Immigrants & More

Mary Mata

Georgia Sees Immigrant Farmworkers Aren’t So Replaceable Half Of Male Grads Of Color End Up in Jail, Jobless Or Dead White Babies In Minority, Latinos Growing On Both Coasts Outed […]

Georgia Sees Immigrant Farm Workers Aren’t So Replaceable

Mary Mata June 23, 2011

The state-run program in Georgia that puts the probation population to work in farms to make up for the shortage of farm laborers in the wake of an anti-immigrant law […]

Outed Undocumented Journalist Challenges Our Sense Of America

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Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas outed himself as an undocumented worker. The story ricocheted  across the inter-webs. By now the particulars of his life story are well known. […]