No Politico, Not All Undoc Immigrants Are Latino

No Politico, Not All Undoc Immigrants Are Latino

Mary Mata April 23, 2013

By Roque Planas, Huffington Post Latino Voices  Politico made waves with an article published Monday that attempts to parse out the political efforts of a proposal for comprehensive immigration reform. The […]

Rubio Spokesman Compares Illegal Immigrants to Slaves

Mary Mata April 22, 2013

By Eliana Johnson, National Review A spokesman for Senator Marco Rubio yesterday compared the status of illegal immigrants in the United States under current law to that of slaves prior to emancipation. […]

Recall Bid Against Arizona sheriff Faces Tough Odds

Mary Mata

By Jacques Billeaud, Associated Press/NBCLatino PHOENIX (AP) — Volunteers set up a table outside a music festival one day last month togather signatures for a drive to oust the notoriously polarizing sheriff […]

5 Ways Immigration Reform Will Help Low-Wage Workers

Mary Mata

By Ezra Klein, Washington Post Something odd happens whenever immigration reform enters the news: Politicians and pundits who barely spare a word for low-wage workers in normal times suddenly become extremely […]

Gun Bill’s Failure May help Immigration Legislation

Mary Mata

By Chris Cillizza, Washington Post Here’s an odd political reality: The collapse of the gun bill in the Senate last week may well make the passage of immigration reform legislation slightly easier. “I think the […]

Shameful to Use Terrorism to Stop Immigration Reform

Mary Mata

By Raul A. Reyes, NBCLatino While millions of Americans were riveted by the manhunt for the Boston bombing suspects, some lawmakers and commentators were demanding that Congress reconsider immigration reform. “Given […]

Latinos, the New Italians

Mary Mata

By David Leonhardt, New York Times With the arrival of millions of Latinos in recent decades, there have been multiple reasons to wonder if they would assimilate and thrive — […]

Foes of Immigration Reform Pounce on Boston Bombing

Mary Mata April 19, 2013

By Greg Sargent, Washington Post There’s still a lot we don’t know, but it’s being widely reported that the two suspects in the Boston bombing — one of whom has been […]

Immigration Bill: Some Deportees Could Reunite With Families in U.S.

Mary Mata April 18, 2013

By Valeria Fernández, New America Media PHOENIX –– Maria Del Rosario Rodríguez first heard the good news via a text message from her husband. She rushed to tell her co-workers […]

The Immigrant ‘Welfare Queen’ Myth

Mary Mata April 17, 2013

By Alex Nowrasteh, The Blaze A common conservative refrain is that immigrants, once they enter the U.S., “immediately begin to depend on government welfare,” as Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama recently […]