The Science Behind Obama’s Deportation Record

The Science Behind Obama’s Deportation Record

Mary Mata December 14, 2010

[Editor’s Note: I wrote last week about the way the Obama Administration had immigration enforcement agencies twist the rules so they could reach their “record” deportations goal. This week we […]

Book Review: Quixote’s Soldiers And The Chicano Movement

Mary Mata

By Vincent Bosquez Call it cosmic faith, or a poignant buena suerte, but a few hours before I learned of San Antonio icon Carlos Guerra’s death last week, I had […]

BREAKING: San Antonio DREAMers Will Not Be Charged

Mary Mata December 13, 2010

As we reported at the end of last month, DREAM Act protesters in Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s San Antonio, Texas offices were arrested after a sit-in there. Carlos Guerra […]

LIVESTREAM Carlos Guerra Memorial Service

Mary Mata December 11, 2010

Govt Leaves Latino Farmers Hanging

Mary Mata December 10, 2010

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently settled a discrimination lawsuit alleging that the government didn’t award loans and other federal benefits to minority farmers since the 1960s. The New York Times reports […]

Hasta Luego, Carlos Guerra Event

Mary Mata December 9, 2010

DREAM Act Passes House

Mary Mata December 8, 2010

The DREAM Act passed the House late Wednesday night. Hallelujah! See our previous DREAM Act coverage here. The bill now moves onto the Senate, as The Hill reports: “House lawmakers […]

Missing Carlos Guerra

Mary Mata December 7, 2010

We at NewsTaco have been struck hard by the loss of our friend and colleague Carlos Guerra this week, but so have many people. I wrote about my memories of […]

Remembering Carlos Guerra

Mary Mata

By Stace Medellín Most of my memories of Carlos Guerra come from reading articles he had written as a freelancer for various publications. One read and I was hooked. When […]

Carlos Guerra As I Knew Him, Last Week

Mary Mata

I was one of the last people to see Carlos Guerra alive. The day after Thanksgiving I went to visit him in Port Aransas, we did some NewsTaco videos and […]