Our New Anahuac

As far as the achieve act: I only know based on news reports the following: the original DREAM act was a good plan. However, it got changed to require military service or higher education, which I had a big problem with. The vast majority of our brothers and sisters could make no use of the [...]

There has been a great deal made of the Republican theme, “We Built It.” Jon Stewart made some remarks worth a few good laughs. This morning, I saw a facebook post with some slavery-era photos of blacks and a picture of the white house. It was captioned, “We Built It.” I started to think..the post [...]

La Raza Justice Movement applauds the decision by the Supreme Court strike down key provisions of Arizona’s SB 1070. As recently as April, the following was reported by NPR: “Outside after the argument, Arizona’s governor was asked if, in fact, the state does have plans for a mass incarceration of the estimated 400,000 illegal immigrants [...]

President Obama’s recent decision to defer deportation of young people means that many youth might not have to worry about being deported anytime soon.  It means that many of the principles that had been incorporated into the DREAM Act will be implemented directly by the president, even though it failed to pass through Congress as [...]

I had a very human conversation with a white customer of mine yesterday. She was upset that Blomberg walked, because she thought it was a clear case of brutality, but she resented the fact that racism was implied by the protesters, because some whites get harassed too. I shares some of my perspectives, and the [...]

Though I can’t be there in person, I stand with you in spirit in your efforts to denounce Sheriff Adrian Garcia’s efforts to seek more funding for the nefarious 287(g) program. This is the same program which allowed for the abuses perpetrated by Joe Arpaio in Arizona; it is the same policy which has contributed [...]

The US Justice Department is set to release a report which is highly critical of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. As Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, Arpaio has garnered international attention for his high-profile raids in which suspects are paraded in public in their underwear, among other civil rights violations. The report will say that Latinos were [...]

Ron Unz, a conservative operative, writes about how purposefully racializing the body politic could be a very effective way for Republicans to win races. For decades, white voters have tended to lean Republican while non-whites have been strongly Democratic, so the swiftly falling ratio of the former to the latter has become a source of [...]

Several months ago, I debated someone from FAIR live on 740 AM. I did not know at that time, what many are reporting today. Apparently, one of the founders is an ardent white nationalist. Just under three months ago, an article exposing John Tanton as the white nationalist founder of the modern day anti-immigrant movement [...]

A new AP report finds that the new Alabama law has caused perhaps hundreds of thousands of so-called immigrants to flee the state. Farmers are feeling the brunt of it as many have unpicked crops which are rotting on the vine. According to the report: On Chandler Mountain in north Alabama, tomato farmer Lana Boatwright [...]