News Taco To Go: Immigration, Texas Fires, Cuba, Budget And Oil

News Taco To Go: Immigration, Texas Fires, Cuba, Budget And Oil

Mary Mata April 20, 2011

President Barack Obama is beginning his 2012 campaign by talking about comprehensive immigration reform, even as Republicans flatly say anything having to do with CIR will not pass the House. […]

Why Florida Is Really Going After “Illegals”

Mary Mata April 19, 2011

[Editor’s Note: The following was reposted from Somos Republicans with permission.] By Alex Gonzalez As the issue of SB1070 in the southwest is vanishing from state legislatures and return to […]

The Brains Behind The Anti-Immigrant Movement

Mary Mata

The New York Times published a great piece on Sunday about John Tanton, who the story noted was probably one of the most influential, yet unknown people in the country. Essentially […]

Report: the Undocumented pay Billions in Taxes

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So lets put another myth to rest, the one that says that undocumented workers don’t pay taxes. First of all, lets agree that we understand the superficial error in the […]

News Taco To Go: Latino Harassment, Castro & Obama Takes On Immigration

Mary Mata

Fidel Castro will not be be a part of Cuba’s Communist Central Committee. A man who sent threatening emails to Latino activists is headed to jail in New Jersey. President […]

The Trouble With Immigration’s “Legal Way”

Mary Mata April 18, 2011

If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times:  why can’t people without papers do it the “legal way”? Well a great story in Newsweek has the answer: […]

Border Agents Taze LA Resident Into Coma

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The LA Weekly reports that a 41 year-old Los Angeles area resident, who’s been in the US since his childhood, is in a coma in Phoenix after a tazing incident involving the US Border Agents. Jose […]

Reid, 21 Senate Democrats Revive DREAM Act Hopes

Mary Mata April 14, 2011

Nevada Senator Harry Reid and 21 Democratic senators are pleading with President Barack Obama to create  bureaucratic pathway for students currently in trouble with immigration authorities, but who would be […]

Latina Politician Fights Human Trafficking

Mary Mata

By Texas State Sen. Leticia Van De Putte Human Trafficking is the second largest criminal industry in the world. I’m sure that fact, from the Polaris Project, is surprising to many of […]

8 States Try to Keep Immigration Laws Alive

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Just when you thought it was over… The Week.com is reporting that 8 states, besides Arizona, are working on Arizona-style immigration laws,with the effort to purge their states of undocumented […]