Now that Congressman Gutierrez has introduced the comprehensive immigration reform bill in the House, eyes will turn to the Senate as Senators Schumer and Graham craft their bill, which is rumored to be more enforcement oriented than the Gutierrez legislation. I think that if an immigration bill doesn’t move toward passage by Memorial Day that [...]

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Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-Illinois) will introduce the comprehensive immigration reform bill tomorrow in the House. He has a blog up on the Huffington Post about it now that you can read. The bill’s acronym is CIR ASAP for Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act of 2009. I will have more details on [...]

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This morning I have been watching the health care debate on C-SPAN, and if there is one thing you do today, I encourage you to call your representatives asking them to oppose the Stupak amendment. A woman’s right to chose should not be restricted. Jack & Jill Politics has a good post up summarizing why [...]

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Imagine dedicating yourself to your country’s military, risking your life beyond what most Americans would ever do, you fall in love with someone who was brought to this country as a small child, build a life with her, and then learn that deportation proceedings have commenced to have her removed from the country and the [...]

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Many people like to say that we are now in a post-racial society because the US has elected President Obama, but that certainly isn’t the case. We still witness racial profiling, the proliferation of ethnically tinged lies, and face institutional barriers to equality. One area where Latinos are often the low men and women on [...]

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