Florida Congressman Objects To “Hispanic Speaking” District

Florida Congressman Objects To “Hispanic Speaking” District

NewsTaco October 28, 2011

How many Latino-phobic incidents can you pile on one political statement? Let’s give it a try. According to a story in the Orlando Sentinel, Florida state senator Alan Hays, R-Umatilla, […]

ICE Agent Uses Genitals For Warrant: Story Must Be Told

NewsTaco October 27, 2011

If ever there was an incident that highlights the reason we started NewsTaco, it’s this, as we reported yesterday: an I.C.E. agent in Tennessee, along with a team of federal […]

Immigration Agent: His Warrant Is His Genitalia

Mary Mata October 26, 2011

Nashville, Tennessee residents were the victims of overzealous and perhaps unlawful policing when police there entered their homes to search without warrants. When asked for those warrants, one of the […]

Why I’m Not Leaving The Republican Party

Mary Mata

By Bob Quasius, Somos Republicans Although two Somos Republicans leaders recently left the GOP, I fully intend to stay in the GOP as I believe I have much more influence […]

I Do Not Want To Translate All Latinos For You

Mary Mata

I am not the national spokeswoman for all Latinos. In fact, I have never claimed in any even ambiguous way to represent Latinos at all. As a matter of fact, […]

4,000 U.S. Citizens Wrongly Detained By ICE

NewsTaco October 25, 2011

What are the odds of an American citizen being accidentally detained or deported by U.S. federal officials? It’s not the kind of thing that Vegas book makers would think of; […]

Immigration Laws Are Affecting Foreign Investments

NewsTaco October 24, 2011

There’s more fallout to report from state-level immigration laws.  It’s important because states like Arizona, Georgia and Alabama have turned into laboratories of consequences. In the weeks and months since those state’s approved […]

Latino Kids In Alabama Bullied Since Immigration Law Passed

Mary Mata

It should come as no surprise that, in the wake of Alabama’s anti-Latino immigrant law, sentiments towards Latinos in that state are becoming less than civil. If it wasn’t something […]

Alabama Is Now Playing The Victim Card

NewsTaco October 21, 2011

Alabama’s highest ranking law enforcement officer is accusing President Obama of pulling the race card to unfairly target his state. Here’s what happened: After Alabama approved the strictest state-level immigration law […]

Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Is Like Republican Viagra

Mary Mata October 20, 2011

It shouldn’t have taken this long to figure out, but the angry anti-immigration rhetoric that’s been around since just after the arrival of the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria apparently […]