Note: This blog post was meant to go online on Friday, but I couldn’t log on for the past few days. With the BP oil spill dominating the news and the growing frustration with the Obama administration and its handle on this disaster, I felt compelled to comment about Secretary of Interior Salazar. Back in [...]

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I have been of the opinion that we wouldn’t see comprehensive immigration reform if there wasn’t any progress being made in the legislature by Memorial Day weekend. We are headed into the midterm campaign season, and soon the summer recess will begin. After the health care battle, few are showing the political will to jump [...]

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File this one under “WTF?” — the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute has decided to bestow a public service award upon Congressman Mike Pence (R-Indiana). Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart stated that the award Pence was given the award for “his extraordinary sensitivity toward and friendship with the U.S. Hispanic community.” Even Roll Call reports that Pence himself [...]

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The following is another blog post by David Molina, a Commissioner on the Oregon Commission of Hispanic Affairs, about Arizona’s SB 1070. I was listening to a local Spanish-talk radio program, and the caller argued for why SB 1070 might be good. He argued that the federal government deducted $287 from his paycheck, for almost [...]

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A New Pew Hispanic Center Report released this week shows that Latinos once again are behind their white and black peers when it comes to educational certification after dropping out of high school. Dropping out of high school is horrible enough, but only one in ten Hispanic high school dropouts has obtained a GED. And [...]

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The Grand Canyon state has done it again. Just weeks after passing the controversial SB 1070, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer today signed into law a bill that targets ethnic studies programs. The bill that Brewer signed today “prohibits classes that advocate ethnic solidarity, that are designed primarily for students of a particular race or that [...]

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One of the phrases that is tossed around by members of both political parties is this idea that undocumented immigrants have to pay a fine, learn English and then get back in line to wait to become legalized. It almost becomes a tired, old, grade-school sounding cliche, ‘get back in line’ as if these people [...]

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Many people come to the blog looking for updates on the Esteban Nuñez murder case because it brought out some public reaction from Latino politicians in California. And of course, Esteban’s father is Fabian Nuñez, former Speaker of the Assembly and currently a partner in the high profile Mercury Public Affairs up in Sacramento. I [...]

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