White House Continues Own Work on Immigration Legislation

White House Continues Own Work on Immigration Legislation

Mary Mata February 18, 2013

By Michael D. Shear, The New York Times The White House is working on early drafts of a comprehensive bill that would offer 11 million illegal immigrants a pathway to […]

Ted Cruz and Knee-Jerk Opposition to Immigration Reform

Mary Mata February 15, 2013

By Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post It is not surprising that some lawmakers instantly reacted negatively toward the bipartisan immigration reform proposal rolled out on Monday. But I must say I was disappointed, based […]

State of the Union: 3 Things we Didn’t See Coming

NewsTaco February 14, 2013

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco For what it’s worth, President Obama’s State of the Union Speech delivered. In other words, it did what it was supposed to do: satisfy a constitutional […]

Latinos Fail to win Latino Electoral Districts

Mary Mata

By Nathan L. Gonzales, NBCLatino One year ago, Democratic state Sen. Ruben Kihuen declared himself the best candidate to represent a newly-drawn, Hispanic-heavy congressional district in North Las Vegas. Thirteen days […]

Jose Antonio Vargas: ‘What do you want to do with me?’

Mary Mata

By Griselda Nevarez, Voxxi Unlike last week’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration, the panel of witnesses for Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration included an undocumented immigrant, Pulitzer-Prize winning […]

Immigration: Old Reform, New Lessons

Mary Mata February 13, 2013

By Maria Hinojosa, Latino USA Critics of the “path to citizenship” provisions of the immigration reform blueprint call it amnesty and say it will cost the American taxpayer millions to […]

House GOP, Tweeting in Spanish

Mary Mata February 12, 2013

By Elizabeth Llorente, Fox News Latino A Spanish-only Website. A Twitter account aimed at Latinos. New staff members focused uniquely on building relationships with Hispanics. It’s all part of a new […]

Staunch Anti- Immigrant CO Congressman has Change of Heart

Mary Mata February 11, 2013

By Nic Turiciano, Denver Post Mike Coffman, a Republican who has proposed anti-immigration legislation in the past, said his change in stance was personal because of interaction with various families. […]

How Is One Able to Get Absolutely Nothing Done?

Mary Mata

By Dr. Henry Flores, NewsTaco Tuesday evening our president will deliver his annual State of the Union address to the nation when he will report as to how healthy our […]

Menendez Backed Donor on Port Security Plan

Mary Mata

By Eric Lipton and William K. Rashbaum, New York Times Senator Robert Menendez sought to discourage any plan by the United States government to donate port security equipment to the Dominican Republic, citing […]