Romney’s Self Deportation Rhetoric Is Offensive To Latinos
Romney’s Self Deportation Rhetoric Is Offensive To Latinos
By Eliseo Medina, SEIU Has Mitt Romney forgotten that Latinos speak English as well as Spanish? How else can he explain his double talk when it comes to the Latino […]
Tucson Students Walk Out Over Mexican American Studies Ban
High school students in Tucson, Arizona walked out of their classrooms Monday in protest over the ban on Mexican American studies in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) recently. NewsTaco […]
TX Redistricting Has Been By Good Ol’ Boys, For Good Ol’ Boys
Texas’ inability to design decent redistricting plans for the two chambers that are supposed to represent the people is more than disappointing — it’s appalling, disgusting, hypocritical, and distasteful. It is […]
Newt Gingrich Uses The Jedi Mind Trick To Win South Carolina
Go ahead, call Newt Gingrich a deceptive, racist, amoral sack of putrid excrement. Go ahead and question his ethics and bring up that, during his tenure as Speaker of the House, […]
The Tale Of Romney And The DREAMer
What happened between an undocumented student and GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney at a recent Manhattan fundraiser reads like something written by the the Brothers Grimm. A deceivingly simple story […]
South Carolina’s Immigration Law Challenges The Constitution
By Christopher Rangel South Carolina ranked number one in Latino growth for the 2000-2010 decade with a growth rate of 148%, at the same time that legislators followed Arizona’s footsteps with one […]
Report Shows Latinos In Colorado Lag Behind Others
A recent report from the Colorado Latino Leadership, Advocacy & Research Organization (CLARO) entitled “Snapshot of Colorado Latinos,” shows that in several realms Latinos in that state lagged behind others. […]
I Don’t Want To Be The Model Minority For The American Dream
I’m tired of having to explain to white folks that many people in my working class Mexican community cannot persevere no matter how hard they may try. I’m often met […]
Anti-Latino Politics In AZ Spurs New Political Leadership
The anti-Latino political environment that has characterized Arizona’s state politics for the past several years is beginning to have it unintended consequence: empowering Latinos in that state to run for […]
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett Shifts Emphasis To Latino Voters
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Dogget (D-Austin) has been serving the people of the State of Texas in some capacity or another for most of his life. As a congressman since 1995, […]