What’s Wrong With Using DHS’ Immigration Database To Purge Voter Rolls? (A Lot)

What’s Wrong With Using DHS’ Immigration Database To Purge Voter Rolls? (A Lot)

NewsTaco July 24, 2012

By Erwin de Leon, Feet In 2 Worlds Florida was finally granted accessto the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) immigration database last week. The state will use information from the Systematic […]

Richard Nixon Was America’s First ‘Latino Vote’ President

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By Tony Castro, Voxxi Four decades ago, Hispanics found themselves possibly exercising more power in a presidential campaign than at any time in American history — before or since. It […]

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Mary Mata

Tuesday July 24, 2012 Voting Rights Act petitions reach Supreme Court (Reuters):  Two legal challenges to the Voting Rights Act, a landmark law adopted in 1965 that barred racial discrimination […]

Texas Follows Florida Voter Purge Push For Immigration Documents

Mary Mata July 23, 2012

By Raisa Camargo, Voxxi Texas joined the ranks of at least a dozen other states across the country in an attempt to access immigration databases to purge non-citizen voters from the […]

Latino Vote: It’s The Issues Stupid

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By Victor Escalante “Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain […]

Texas Senate Bill 14 = Voter Suppression

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By Dr. Henry Flores One would think that in a democracy one would want as many possible individuals to participate in the election process.  One would think also that in […]

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Mary Mata July 20, 2012

Friday July 20, 1012 In Arizona, “America’s toughest” sheriff on trial over discrimination claims (Reuters): Arizona’s controversial Joe Arpaio, who calls himself America’s toughest sheriff, went on trial Thursday in a […]

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Mary Mata July 19, 2012

Thursday July 19, 2012 Obama opens up massive 48-point lead among Latino voters (Houston Chronicle): A nightmare scenario for Republicans is playing itself out. In sloooooooow motion. A new poll of Latino voters released […]

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NewsTaco July 18, 2012

Tuesday July 18, 2012 Latinos And The Online Campaign: Where Are They? (kpbs):  It’s conventional wisdom that Latinos will play a key role in the November elections, especially in the West. Democrats and Republicans are […]

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NewsTaco July 17, 2012

Tuesday July 17, 2012 Group creates Web site spur Hispanics to vote (Fox News Latino): A group of professionals has launched a bilingual Web site that is aimed at spurring Hispanics […]