Is The Utah Compact The U.S. Immigration Solution?
Is The Utah Compact The U.S. Immigration Solution?
By Christopher Rangel Utah’s immigration reform, signed into law on March 15 of last year by Governor Gary Herbert, is composed of four separate bills. They range from the creation […]
Mississippi’s Gulf Of America Representative Is My Hero
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
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 […]
Workers Fired Over Legal Status While Trying To Unionize
On December 2, 2011, Pomona College in Claremont, California fired 17 workers for failing to produce sufficient proof of their ability to work legally in the United States. Before the […]
California’s Gay Marriage Ban Ruled Unconstitutional
The appeals panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco ruled today that California’s ban on same-sex marriage violates the constitutional right to equal protection.
A Visual Guide: Where Texas Redistricting Goes From Here
By now most of you are frustrated by the goings on in the Texas Redistricting Telenovela and I don’t blame you. Although it’s frustrating to me to keep retelling the […]
Why Should Latinos Care About SOPA?
By Amalia Deloney, Grassroots Policy Director at the Center for Media Justice Today websites across the country will purposely black out their pages so visitors will see only information about Stop […]
Texas GOP Used Redistricting To Destroy Latino Voting Power
Before I launch into a discussion of the recently completed redistricting trial in San Antonio let me give you a bit of information concerning the sections of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) […]
Houston Law Professor Honored As “Texas Primera”
The first Latina tenured law professor in Texas, Sandra Guerra Thompson, was honored last month by the Hispanic National Bar Association. Thompson is a University of Houston Law Foundation Professor of […]
Rick Perry’s Voter Legislation Disenfranchises Latino Voters
By Rebecca Acuña, Dep. Political Director for Base Outreach for the Texas Democratic Party The 82nd legislative session began on a precipice of disaster. Absent of the federal stimulus dollars […]
