Banda Music, Or Tamborazo, Nurtures The Soul

Banda Music, Or Tamborazo, Nurtures The Soul

Mary Mata March 1, 2012

By Eres Nerd To me and my family, banda is life. Banda is spiritual renewal. The sounds of the clarinet and sousaphones were part of the Pandora playlist of my childhood. […]

DeathStar Built By Undocumented Immigrants

Mary Mata

And now an editorial cartoon from El Guapo of The Daily Refried.

Georgia’s Immigration Law Highlights Reality Vs. Politics

Mary Mata February 29, 2012

By Christopher Rangel Georgia’s Latino population growth ranked the state tenth nationwide for the 2000-2010 decade, with a Latino population of about 854,000. The state also ranked sixth in the number of unauthorized immigrants […]

Undocumented Student Ran For Texas A&M Student Body President

Mary Mata

Jose Luis Zelaya, 24, is a Honduran immigrant, graduate student in the College of Education and Human Development at  Texas A&M University, expert crocheter, and aspiring teacher, who ran for student […]

CA Apology To Deported Mexican Americans 80 Years Too Late

NewsTaco February 23, 2012

There are many parallels between what’s happening today with regard to immigration in America, and what happened 80 years ago during the Great Depression. The obvious comparisons are the economic […]

Arizona To Create An “Armed Militia” Along Its Border

Mary Mata February 22, 2012

America for the most part has been cringing and shaking it’s head at the state of Arizona’s absurd behavior in recent years. Aside from the few advocating that we should […]

Daniel D. Portado Explains Self Deportation

Mary Mata February 15, 2012

Conservative Republican Hispanic activist Daniel D. Portado, the original self-deportationist, explains the origin of the self-deportation movement in his own words. Portado’s rallying cry is now backed by GOP wannabe […]

American Prosperity Runs Through The U.S. Latino Community

NewsTaco

We’ve been beating this drum since we started NewsTaco, looking at it from every pertinent angle: Latinos are surging and now form the most important and fastest growing part of the U.S. […]

Mississippi’s Gulf Of America Representative Is My Hero

NewsTaco February 13, 2012

Mississippi State Representative Stephen Holland has become my personal hero. Seriously. He’s the guy who filed a bill in the Mississippi state legislature (HB150) to change the name of the Gulf of […]

Indiana’s Immigration Law Tests Constitution, Foreign Agreements

Mary Mata February 9, 2012

By Christopher Rangel Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed the Compromise Illegal Immigration Reform bill, SB 590 into law on May 10, 2011. Then, the ACLU and the National Immigration Law […]