We Are All Alabama When Laws Target The Best Of Us

We Are All Alabama When Laws Target The Best Of Us

Mary Mata November 17, 2011

By Dustin Mendus It all began when the kids stopped showing up to school. Hundreds of Latino kids disappeared from school when Alabama began enforcing it’s brutal immigration law, HB […]

Who Answers Burning Questions For The Children Of Immigrants?

Mary Mata November 16, 2011

By Elaine Dove I wonder about the girls and boys I see during the day at my once-a-week volunteer gig at a local school. Most of “my kids” at the […]

Only U.S. Citizens Allowed At New Hampshire Rick Perry Event

Mary Mata

New Hampshire-based Associated Press writer Steve Peoples reported on Twitter that staffers at a Rick Perry campaign event there were asking reporters if they were U.S. citizens because only citizens […]

13 Arrested In Alabama Protest

Mary Mata

A total of 13 pople were arrested yesterday in Montgomery, Alabama after a protest in front of the Alabama State Legislature. The undocumented students, their parents and supporters were protesting […]

Native Tribe Requiring Proof Of Citizenship Status

NewsTaco November 15, 2011

A native American tribe in New Mexico is asking renters in their tribal-owned mobile home park for proof of citizenship. If the renters can’t prove their citizenship or authorized immigrant status, they […]

Why Aren’t Americans Taking The Dirty Jobs In Alabama?

NewsTaco November 14, 2011

Back to Alabama for the moment, because I read something that I hadn’t seen regarding the issue of work and immigrants and that state’s economy. I came across an article in Bloomberg Businessweek titled: Why […]

White House Came To Listen At New Mexico Summit

Mary Mata

By Maria Elena Alvarez Albuquerque, New Mexico — The White House has put a bead on the Hispanic community, and if Albuquerque were a microcosm of what is happening across […]

17 Years Ago CA Prop. 187 Declared Unconstitutional

Mary Mata

If there’s ever been a case to prove that history repeats itself, Proposition 187 is the perfect example. Let’s go back to the 90s and revisit California’s failed attempt at […]

Attacks On Cecilia Muñoz Escalate In Arizona

Mary Mata November 12, 2011

The scrutnity aimed at President Barack Obama’s Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Cecilia Muñoz ramped up Thursday night in Phoenix, Arizona. Roberto Lovato, co-founder and strategist for Presente.org, has been calling Muñoz to […]

No One Is “Illegal,” Tell The Associated Press

NewsTaco November 11, 2011

I don’t need to signal my bias, I’ve never hidden it – I deplore the word “illegal” when used in referenced to undocumented workers in the United States. I use it only […]