DREAM Act Vote Tally; 5 Dems Vote No

Five Democrats — all the votes needed to pass it — voted “No” this morning to kill the DREAM Act. Remember in November! We at NewsTaco will keep you updated […]

I had hoped against all hope that the DREAM Act would pass this morning, but alas, it did not. It went down in the Senate 55-41. We’d written extensively about […]

During the past few weeks many News Taco readers have asked for specific ways in which they can help the DREAM Act cause. This is a action alert, distributed through […]

Today the Senate delayed a vote on the DREAM Act, making it seems ever more likely this thing won’t pass. Sigh. Here’s what the AP reported: “The Senate moved Thursday […]

Visits by U.S. travelers are growing steadily thanks in part to President Barack Obama’s lifting of restrictions on Cubanos visiting their native land, but also probably because Raúl Castro’s government […]

No apology yet. But the latest reports are that Fox News Latino has taken down their link to a story that referred to the baby of actors Penelope Cruz and […]

A horrible milestone, to be sure, but reports are that Ciudad Juárez counted its 3,000th murder victim in 2010; the deadliest year yet.

While they’re just preliminary estimates, advances of the official numbers to come, the US Census pre-release releases are giving us an indication of what we should expect. The official population […]

Remember Hazleton, PA? Not as in “last time you were there,” but as in the headlines the town generated back in 2006. That was when Hazelton’s city council considered restrictive […]

[Editor’s Note: I wrote last week about the way the Obama Administration had immigration enforcement agencies twist the rules so they could reach their “record” deportations goal. This week we […]