NewsTaco To Go: Cold, TSA, Juárez, Immigration, Middle East

NewsTaco To Go: Cold, TSA, Juárez, Immigration, Middle East

Mary Mata February 2, 2011

The Middle East continues to boil over, the TSA tests new body scanners, undocumented immigration has remained stable in the U.S., it’s cold across the country and Ciudad Juárez sees […]

How To Respond To Anti-Latino Racists

Mary Mata January 31, 2011

[Editor’s Note: This is the first of periodic re-posts from the blog Pa’lante Latino. The following was authored by Christina Saenz & Albert Downing.] Have you ever needed the best […]

The Truth About the Immigration Side-Show

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We at News Taco have been wondering how all of these state level immigration laws were going to happen. What with budget shortfalls, unemployment, redistricting and such, what is the […]

Mississippi Legislature Approves Arizona-Like Immigration Law

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Heads up! If you’re Latino or look Latino you may want to avoid Mississippi. That state’s legislature has approved an Arizona style immigration bill that, according to Fox News Latino, […]

Minuteman Vigilante on Trial for Murder of 9 Year Old Latina

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Here’s a story that has been recently getting attention because of its lack of attention. The story of Brisenia Flores, a nine year old girl killed during a home invasion […]

Originalists: Uphold Constitution by Changing It

NewsTaco January 28, 2011

I’m starting to think that the new leadership in Congress didn’t think their plan through very well; and by extension, neither did the people who voted for them. Case in […]

GOP Hits the Ground Going Backwards

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So enough speculation, we’re starting to get a real sense of what the new House Republican leadership will be doing with their feet on the ground and their agenda in […]

Video Update – Immigration: Issues, State Laws and Challenges

NewsTaco January 27, 2011

Republicans want a return to workplace immigration raids US steps up illegal workers crackdown Bills Denying Birthright Citizenship to be Introduced in Arizona California Republicans Split Over Push to Create […]

You Can’t Work for La Migra if You Think for Yourself

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One of our faithful readers, Linda Cuellar, sent us this incredible story reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education. A Border Patrol agent was fired for voicing his opinion on […]

Border Vigilante Trial Begins For Girl’s Death

Mary Mata January 26, 2011

And now for a very sad story from Arizona. In May of 2009 two people entered the home of Raul Flores Jr., his wife Gina Gonzalez and their daughter Brisenia […]