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No Country for Brown Women
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...
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LatinoPoliticsBlog speaks with Tony Yapias, Director of Proyecto Latino de...
This past week the Latino community in Utah has been reeling from the infamous “brown list” that included the names, birth dates, addresses, phone numbers and some social security numbers of...
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DREAM Act Pressure Continues & the DREAM Letters Campaign Begins
Earlier this week a dozen DREAM Activists dressed in caps and gowns and engaged in protest were arrested on Capitol Hill. All have since been released from custody. In recent weeks, those who advocate...
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Seneca on Border Security: Thwarting the New Menace
Border Security has become like drug enforcement. In the last 40 plus years, the US is estimated to have spent over a trillion dollars nationally on anti-drug enforcement, feeding that beast until it...
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There. Is. STILL. No. Line
By Pablo Manriquez One of the arguments frequently given in the comments of my most-recent Huffington post is, essentially, that “illegals should apply for entry into the United States and wait in line...
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We’re Happy to Take Your Money! -And then blame you for everything else
By Bender Bending Gonzalez and the Webmaster Why do immigrants (legal or illegal) come to this country? In search of a better life of course. I am an immigrant myself [Bender Bending Gonzalez], and I...
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Yes on Prop 19: a “Yes” Vote is clear, particularly for groups being...
By Dr. David Bearman Barack Obama is trying my patience. Don’t get me wrong, I still believe he inherited a mess from George Bush and is doing the best he can to turn the ship of state around. However...
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What Did You Major In?
By Matthew Stieglitz This piece was inspired by a comment on my last blog post about abolishing Chicano Studies departments because “they doom aspiring minorities to a lifetime of poverty.” It reminded...
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Seneca: Musings on Current US-Mexico ties
By Seneca US-Mexico relations have clearly had a rough time in 2010. Mexico’s seeming inability to deal with the increased violence south of the border plus the disruptive and unfortunate so-called...
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Utah’s New Immigration Laws Signed By Governor Herbert
A few days ago, I blogged about two new immigration laws in Utah that had passed in the state legislature. Today those bills became laws in Utah with Governor Herbert signing a bill similar to...
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