Latino Youth, Mobility Affecting Generational Politics

Latino Youth, Mobility Affecting Generational Politics

NewsTaco May 12, 2011

Here’s a different way to look at how Latinos are affecting business as usual in the United States. It comes from a report in the Seattle Post Intelligencer: because Latinos are younger […]

News Taco To Go: Sanchez In Senate, DREAM Act, Race Labels

Mary Mata

Ricardo Sanchez To Run For Senate In Texas San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro: Immigration Initiative Soon Mexican & Mexican-American Are Not The Same Thing Analysis: Senate Democrats Re-Introduce The DREAM […]

San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro: Immigration Initiative Soon

NewsTaco May 11, 2011

Before he traveled to El Paso to make a speech about immigration President Obama convened three different groups of Latino leaders and celebrities at the white House to, supposedly, lay […]

Analysis: Senate Democrats Re-Introduce DREAM Act

Mary Mata

President Barack Obama made a first push for immigration reform yesterday in a speech in El Paso, Texas, and today his fellow Democrats in the Senate followed suit by re-introducing […]

Obama Rallies And Punts On Immigration

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I’m struggling to find a point to President Obama’s visit to El Paso. It sounded more like a stump than a policy speech, but I think most of that has […]

News Taco To Go: Guadalupe, Tortillas, Gas & Violence

Mary Mata

Latinos Disproportionately Affected By Rising Gas Prices Republicans Fibbing About Violence Along The Border Police, Dogs Confuse Tortilla Flour With Cocaine The Top 5 Places La Virgen De Guadalupe Has […]

Texas Republicans Pass Racial Profiling Law

Mary Mata May 10, 2011

Texas Republicans pushed through a measure today that would prohibit cities from prohibiting racial profiling by preventing law enforcement officials from asking those they arrest their legal status. In other […]

Bien Hecho: 6 Indiana DREAMers Arrested, 5 To Be Deported

Mary Mata

On the day President Barack Obama made a speech about the importance of immigration reform, news of six DREAMers being arrested in Indiana comes to light. The students were protesting […]

Watch President Obama’s Immigration Address LIVE

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The buzz is that President Obama will kick-start a push for comprehensive immigration reform during his trip to El Paso, Texas. In the past weeks he’s invited three separate groups […]

Undocumented Victims Of Alabama Tornadoes

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Heart-wrenching story out of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Aid workers are having trouble reaching Latino immigrants after the epic storms and tornadoes that ripped through the state. There is a sizable community of undocumented immigrants in that state but […]