By Thailandia Alaffita On Saturday, October 8th, Governor Brown signed the “California DREAM Act” into law. This was a great success for, not only California DREAMers, but for DREAMers all around the nation, for one success means we are one step closer to our ultimate goal which is the DREAM Act. Is this confusing to [...]

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This week President Obama’s visit to Southern California and his high profile Latino celebrity fundraiser at the home of Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith made big local news. Here’s a little sampling of the press report from USA Today on that event: “Obama later visited the Spanish-style mansion of Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith for [...]

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The primary race for the 69th Assembly District in California is shaping up to be an interesting one. It’s a largely Democratic district, so whoever wins the primary is very likely to win the general election. What makes this race interesting is that two young Latinos are in the race, Michele Martinez and Julio Perez, [...]

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Given the increasing Latino prison population and the recent news and commentary surrounding the Troy Davis case, I thought I would share this piece. One reason why Latinos may want to study up on the death penalty issue involved how our population is already treated in the judicial system. As this piece points out: “This [...]

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This week marked the 10 year anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, making it the longest period of sustained warfare in our country’s history. The item I find most notable about this is less than half of Americans in the general public think that the Afghanistan War is worth fighting and just half of post-9/11 [...]

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Almost two years ago while in campaign mode, then candidate Rubio started to take a more conservative position on immigration talking about sealing borders. And recently, he has started to straddle the in state tuition issue for undocumented youth, which he was once a supporter of as a state legislator in Florida now indicating that [...]

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Webmaster’s Note: As immigration becomes a more amplified issue in the GOP race for President, especially in regards to the actions of Governor Rick Perry and his support for the TX State DREAM Act, it is worth listening to what one DREAMer in Texas has experienced.  By Thailandia Alaffita Every morning, for fourteen years, I [...]

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