Is There Justice Two Years After Brisenia Flores’ Death?

Is There Justice Two Years After Brisenia Flores’ Death?

Mary Mata May 31, 2011

On May 30, 2009 Brisenia Flores and her father Raúl were killed in their Arizona home. Brisenia’s mother Gina was also shot. Two years later, two of those accused of […]

News Taco To Go: Arizona, Drugs, Redistricting & Georgia

Mary Mata May 27, 2011

Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Immigration Law Drug And Human Smuggling Under Sheriff Arpaio’s Nose Georgia’s Latino Bashing Misses The Mark GOP Inaction On Redistricting May Cost Texas Big Bucks

Wisconsin Rep. Files Arizona-Type Immigration Bill

NewsTaco May 26, 2011

Now it’s Wisconsin’s turn. State Representative Don Pridemore of Hartford, Wisconsin, has filed a strict anti-undocumented immigrant bill that mirrors Arizona’s SB1070. According to a report on fox11online the legislation would […]

Has The State Level Anti-Immigrant Push Lost Steam?

NewsTaco May 24, 2011

Movement on the anti-immigrant front has pretty much stalled. The fervor that  was ignited by Arizona’s controversial SB1070 has, in the words of the Associated Press, fizzled. This doesn’t mean that we can […]

All Georgia Latinos Suffer From Anti-Immigrant Efforts

Mary Mata May 23, 2011

It doesn’t matter what your legal status is in Georgia, if you are Latino the anti-immigrant frenzy there will affect you, or so said Jerry Gonzalez, the Executive Director of […]

Georgia Gov Signs Anti-Immigrant Bill Into Law

Mary Mata May 13, 2011

Today Georgia Governor Nathan Deal, a Republican, signed into law HB 87, The Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act of 2011, which targets Latino immigrants in a variety of different ways. We […]

News Taco To Go: Voting, Immigration Reform & Arizona’s SB 1070

Mary Mata May 10, 2011

Latino Voting Power In Nebraska Diminished President Obama In Texas Today To Promote Immigration Reform Arizona Appeals To The Supreme Court To Keep Anti-Latino Law

Arizona Appeals To Supreme Court To Keep Anti-Latino Law

Mary Mata May 9, 2011

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced on Monday that the state will directly appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court over the injunction currently blocking parts of the state’s anti-immigrant law, SB […]

Arizona Protests Begin Ahead Of Ethnic Studies Ruling

Mary Mata

In a few weeks Arizona Schools Superintendent John Huppenthal will issue a ruling on whether or not Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican-American Studies program is in violation of state law. […]

Arizona Will Raise Private Funds To Build Border Fence

NewsTaco

Lawmakers in Arizona are so intent on building a wall along the US-Mexico border that they’re passing the hat to get it done – it’s going to have to be a very […]