The GOP Candidate for the Senate in California, Carly Fiorina, has come out with a Spanish language website, Amigos de Carly. I should note that Fiorina supports the controversial new Arizona immigration law, SB 1070, even though one of her chief Latino supporters, former U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, does not. Note that on the [...]

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Esteban Nuñez, son of former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez, was sentenced yesterday to 16 years in prison (the maximum term for this crime). I suspect that with good behavior, prison overcrowding, and/or any influencing of his Papi that the younger Nuñez may end up only serving about 8 years. San Diego 6 has a [...]

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It has been a busy week, and I haven’t had as much time to devote to blogging as I would like, but here are some items that I think everyone should be reading this week: 1. The now infamous Rolling Stone profile of General McChrystal. This is a must read. It’s very well done, and [...]

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After engaging in a nasty and expensive fight with her GOP rival Steve Poizner in the primaries, Meg Whitman is ramping up her Latino voter outreach with new ads. I must admit that the ads are slick. They show Whitman interacting with a range of constituencies within the Latino community, and this particular ad has [...]

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The Latino blogosphere is abuzz about the case of Eric Balderas, a DREAM Act student who was detained last week after attempting to board a plane from San Antonio to Boston. He currently attends Harvard and just finished his first year. Balderas has lived in the US since he was four years old. His mother [...]

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The prospects for comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) are dwindling day by day. Even the proposed Dream Act to help the children of the undocumented (aka illegals) secure university-level education is slowly diminishing. Moreover, I am convinced that the heartless and even poisonous positions being taken by many fellow Americans will sink any hopes of achieving [...]

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For people who follow the immigration debate closely, this should come as no surprise, but the state of Arizona is stepping into another constitutional quagmire with the fourteenth amendment that establishes birthright citizenship. There is a new law being proposed in Arizona that would deny birth certificates to children of undocumented immigrants who are born [...]

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By Pablo Manriquez On 11 February 2009, Celia Alejandra Alvarez-Herrera was arrested by a sheriff’s deputy in a workplace raid during which her jaw was dislocated against a wall.  Regrettably, my notes are obscured by a teardrop that escaped me as she described being beaten with a clipboard for crying out for medical treatment while [...]

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