On another blog that I write, I mentioned on Monday how the US has issued a travel warning to Mexico and that some in the nativist camp have already started blaming the swine flu on the undocumented immigrants. One blogger who picked up on the irony of this blame game before I did is Nezua [...]

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Last May, we blogged about an investigation with one of Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez’s former staffers, Caroline Valdez, who allegedly misappropriated thousands of dollars. According to the Washington D.C. Examiner, that ex-aide “is expected to plead guilty to stealing as much as $10,000 from a House of Representatives discretionary fund, court documents indicate.” Caroline Valdez had [...]

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Back in the fall, we blogged about Rep. Linda Sanchez possibly becoming the first female Congressional representative to have a baby out of wedlock. Well, it looks like she has joined the ranks of her married Congressional mama colleagues, confirming that she and her long term boyfriend, Jim “Sully” Sullivan, a 43 year old consultant, have in [...]

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The post 9/11 period introduced several changes in the way normal life is conducted in the United States and for that matter the world. Terrorism became a focal point in the daily activities of most Americans in the immediate aftermath. The Bush Administration readily sought to ‘instrumentalize’ or create tools of existing law and institutions [...]

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There is another Latino appointment in the Obama Administration. This time Cuban born Alejandro Mayorkas has been selected to head the United States Immigration and Citizenship Services. He is currently a partner at O’Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles. He was appointed by President Clinton as the United States Attorney for the Central District of [...]

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Esteban Nuñez, the eldest son of former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez who has been accused in the stabbing death of Luis Santos, has been given an October 5 trial date along with his three co-defendant friends. If convicted, they would each face 25 years to life in prison. Nuñez is currently out on bail [...]

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If you haven’t read about the Angie Zapata case, I highly encourage you to do so. Angie Zapata was an 18 year old transgender woman from Greeley, Colorado, who was brutally murdered by Allen Ray Andrade. The trial of Andrade marks the first time that Colorado’s gender identity-inclusive hate crimes statute has been applied in [...]

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The race in California’s 32nd Congressional district, which was the seat held by now Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, has become pretty interesting. This seat will most likely remain in the Democrats’ column, and a lot of people are taking notice because it is a heavily Latino populated district. And there are two Latinos in [...]

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