14 States To Tackle Birthright Citizenship

Seriously? According to a recent report, 14 states have legislators who are set to file bills about birthright citizenship this year. That is, they are going to propose laws that would […]

Here’s a sobering finding by a Mexican agency that deals with discrimination: “‘The prevailing image of Mexico as supportive and open towards foreigners is debatable,’ notes the study for reflection […]

The BBC took a good interview with Mexican president Felipe Calderón (no relation, ha ha) and we wanted to share it with you here. The BBC interviewer comes off a […]

The Miami Herald’s Latin America correspondent Andres Oppenheimer wrote a scathing and analytical piece about President Barack Obama’s broken promises to Latinos and Latin America. A few of his points: […]

A new documentary called “8 Murders A Day” chronicles the human rights disaster that followed Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s declaration of war on the drug cartels in 2006. The story […]

There’s a wonderful story about a Latina law student who petitioned for and won legal protection for an indigenous group in Oaxaca, Mexico. The story of Carla Espinoza’s fight for […]

An interesting story from The Dallas Observer that details the violent death of an immigrant in Border Patrol custody in San Diego, Calif. and then tells us about the bigger […]

You may or may not have heard of Ponchi, the 14 year-old drug cartel assassin recently arrested in Mexico. The Chicago Tribune wrote up an interesting piece about how young […]

Well this is a little random. Talking Points Memo reported that  Mexican unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) crashed in someone’s backyard outside of El Paso, Texas: “CBP/U.S. Border Patrol responded to […]

The Texas Department of Public Safety followed the U.S. State Department’s lead in warning people not to travel to Mexico during the holiday season. According to a press release: “‘The safety […]