LULAC Members Push For New Leadership Amid Immigration Debate

LULAC Members Push For New Leadership Amid Immigration Debate

Victor Landa February 12, 2018

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – LULAC, the oldest Latino civil rights organization in the U.S. is facing turmoil over its leader’s initial support for President Donald Trump’s immigration plan and it comes […]

If Democrats Can’t Deliver on DACA, It Could Cost Them In Key Battleground States

Victor Landa

LAS VEGAS—Jose Echeverria held back tears, sitting at a table in the Culinary Workers Union offices in Las Vegas, as he laid out, simply and clearly, how the Trump administration’s […]

2018: a year for the Latino Vote

Victor Landa January 8, 2018

We have said it before: being a minority does not mean being powerlessness, especially when a large part of the outcome of an election could be transformed thanks to the mass […]

Trump Administration Targets and then Mocks Immigrant with Prosthetic Leg

Victor Landa November 15, 2017

A 20-year-old undocumented immigrant with prosthetic leg and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status has been detained by federal immigration agents and held without charges for over a month, treated inhumanely […]

The Trump Administration’s DACA Renewal Deadline Was Moved Forward & Dreamers Weren’t Notified

Victor Landa October 5, 2017

The news that the Trump administration was ending the DACA program didn’t come as big of a shock to advocates as did the rushed deadline to process renewals — they […]

Trump DACA Decision Aimed at Fear of a Brown Electorate

Victor Landa September 8, 2017

When Donald Trump swanned down the escalator at Trump Tower in June 2015 and announced he was running for president, he said he felt called to duty in order to […]

Here’s What You Can do to Support DACA

Victor Landa September 5, 2017

Eight-hundred-thousand DREAMers are in a free fall, for the moment. As of today, the US Congress has 6 months to legislate a fix for their situation – just as it […]

Man Who Drowned Trying to Save Harvey Victims Benefited from the DACA Program Trump Wants to End

Victor Landa September 4, 2017

A 31-year-old man who benefitted from the DACA program President Donald Trump is expected to end reportedly drowned while trying to save others from deadly floodwaters that besieged Houston in the wake of Hurricane […]

Trump leaning toward ending DACA program

Victor Landa August 25, 2017

  President Donald Trump is leaning toward ending DACA, a U.S. immigration policy the Obama administration started for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children, according to multiple sources. The […]

How DREAMers are in the middle of a political showdown

Victor Landa July 21, 2017

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco  I’m looking at a perfect storm brewing for DREAMers. It’s been building for a while, but I think it’s going to hit soon. Sen. Dick Durbin, […]