Mexican & Mexican American Are Not The Same Thing

You know what really gets my goat? When I either hear or read or receive comments equating Latinos with Mexico. Or when something I write about my experience as a […]

Texas Republicans pushed through a measure today that would prohibit cities from prohibiting racial profiling by preventing law enforcement officials from asking those they arrest their legal status. In other […]

Poor Antonio Hernandez Carranza was just minding his own business, trying to get to Tennessee when he made a wrong turn through North Carolina. That’s when he became embroiled in a […]

It’s a tired line — one that’s been in vogue at least since the 1980s — “we cannot consider immigration reform until the border is secure.” Texas Congressman Silvestre Reyes, […]

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced on Monday that the state will directly appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court over the injunction currently blocking parts of the state’s anti-immigrant law, SB […]

Lawmakers in Arizona are so intent on building a wall along the US-Mexico border that they’re passing the hat to get it done – it’s going to have to be a very […]

I remember the first time I read Oscar Zeta Acosta’s super-Chicano novel, “The Revolt Of The Cockroach People.” I was in eighth grade, during silent sustained reading, and happened to […]

Recently a few sensationalistic stories came to light: women were found to be hiding things in their privates. Some of these women happened to be Latina. And, perhaps most amazingly, […]

By Daniel Setiawan House Bill 12—the sanctuary city immigration bill— is scheduled for debate Friday on the House floor and legislators on both sides of the aisle are gearing up for […]

The gist of the budget cuts is this: ultimately, those cuts will weaken institutions that are critical to economic ascension just as Latinos coming out of our nation’s schools and […]