Latinos May Be Key To Obama Win In Arizona

Latinos May Be Key To Obama Win In Arizona

NewsTaco December 2, 2011

¿Como se dice “karma’s a witch?” Latest case in point: The New York Times reports that because of a boom in the Latino population of Arizona, and because of a swell of Latinos reaching voting age […]

NewsTaco Weekly Roundup: Nov. 19 – 27, 2011

Mary Mata November 27, 2011

Some great stuff this week, my favorite being the great political chisme of the week: a complete reshuffling of Texas’ congressional candidates. Check that out, for sure. Then there was […]

Obama Campaign Brings On National Latino Vote Director

Mary Mata November 21, 2011

The Obama campaign hired Texas native Adrian Saenz to be the National Latino Vote Director last week, part of the campaign’s efforts to drive the Latino vote in 2012. While […]

Obama’s Newest Immigration Policy Not Being Enforced

Mary Mata November 10, 2011

By Palma Yanni, AILA Media-Advocacy Committee On November 10, 2011, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and the American Immigration Council (AIC) issued a report chronicling the implementation of Immigration and Customs […]

Obama Tops Univision Polls, GOP Seen As Openly Hostile

Mary Mata

According to the latest Univision poll, Barack Obama leads the top three GOP candidates by a two-to-one margin among Latino voters.   But that doesn’t mean it’s smooth sailing for […]

The GOP’s Empty Rhetoric On Obama’s Immigration Record

Mary Mata November 7, 2011

By Matias Ramos, otherwords.org The Obama administration, which is currently deporting a record 400,000 people each year, took a minor step to protect immigrants. Now many Republicans are accusing him […]

Obama Keeps Offering Latinos The Same Promises

NewsTaco October 26, 2011

This won’t surprise anyone in the Latino community: the past three years have been tougher than most. Unemployment among Latinos is stuck at 11%.  A high number of Latinos have […]

4,000 U.S. Citizens Wrongly Detained By ICE

NewsTaco October 25, 2011

What are the odds of an American citizen being accidentally detained or deported by U.S. federal officials? It’s not the kind of thing that Vegas book makers would think of; […]

Alabama Is Now Playing The Victim Card

NewsTaco October 21, 2011

Alabama’s highest ranking law enforcement officer is accusing President Obama of pulling the race card to unfairly target his state. Here’s what happened: After Alabama approved the strictest state-level immigration law […]

Record ICE Deportation Numbers Are Nothing To Be Proud Of

Mary Mata October 19, 2011

 By U.S. Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez Today, the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Bureau released new statistics on how many people are being deported from the […]