Jessenia Guzman, NYPD Officer, Reprimanded For Speaking Spanish To Fellow Cop
An NYPD officer says she was reprimanded for speaking Spanish while on duty. The Daily News reports Jessenia Guzman was briefly talking to a fellow officer in Spanish, when several hours later she was...
View ArticleTed Cruz Slams Democrats For 'Playing Race Card' On Immigration (VIDEO)
This white man is sick of Democrats "playing the race card." Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) blasted liberals for appealing to Latino voters by supporting immigration reform Tuesday during an appearance on...
View ArticleImmigration Reform: Building An Expensive Border Wall To Nowhere
Commentary | Immigration reform took a step forward, of sorts, Monday evening as the push to include major provisions regarding border defense got approved in a Senate vote. As the New York Times...
View ArticleFemale Farmworkers And Rape: Sexual Assault And Harassment Persist In...
Maria, a farmworker from Guatemala, says never again will she look at any supervisor with the same trust she once had. The 40-year-old mother of three was hired last November to pick pomegranates near...
View ArticleAnderson Cooper Hosts CNN's George Zimmerman Special At 10 P.M.
CNN is trying something different at 10 p.m.: a nightly special about George Zimmerman's trial, hosted by Anderson Cooper. "Self-Defense Or Murder? The George Zimmerman Trial" examines each day of...
View ArticleJohn Oliver Mocks Media Coverage Of George Zimmerman's Trial (VIDEO)
John Oliver has some major beef with the media over its coverage of George Zimmerman's trial. After mocking Zimmerman's lawyer Don West for starting his opening statement with a knock-knock joke, he...
View ArticleStroke Victim Deported While Unconscious After Hospital Discovers He's...
Wladyslaw Haniszewski was at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Jersey when he suffered a stroke that left him comatose. However, when hospital staff learned he was an undocumented...
View ArticleFBI To Track Latino Arrests For Uniform Crime Report
The FBI will begin collecting nationwide data on ethnicity next year to be published in its annual Uniform Crime Report, making it possible to test the assertion of some advocacy groups that police...
View Article>In nation's breadbasket, Latinos stuck in poverty
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — On a warm spring day, farmworker Cristina Melendez was bedridden and unable to make her way back into the asparagus fields of central California for the kind of backbreaking work...
View ArticleCensus: Asians eclipse Hispanics as fastest-growing group in Whatcom County
Immigrants from Asia - not Latin America - are leading the trend to a more diverse Whatcom County, the latest U.S. Census Bureau statistics show. Among county residents claiming only one race or...
View Article>All about immigration: Green cards? Citizenship?
WASHINGTON (AP) — This may be the year Congress does something about the millions of immigrants living illegally in the U.S. After years of gridlock, the "moment is now," says President Barack Obama....
View ArticleAll about immigration: Green cards? Citizenship?
WASHINGTON This may be the year Congress does something about the millions of immigrants living illegally in the U.S. After years of gridlock, the "moment is now," says President Barack Obama. All...
View ArticleIn nation's breadbasket, Latinos stuck in poverty
Click photo to enlarge This photo taken Saturday June 1, 2013, in Fresno, Calif. shows farmworker Cristina Melendez posing for a photo in front of her mother's apartment. A Mexico native who came to...
View ArticleBloomberg: 'Nobody Racially Profiles'
Mayor Michael Bloomberg lashed out Friday morning at two bills recently passed by the New York City Council that aim to check the NYPD's controversial use of stop and frisk. "The racial profiling bill...
View ArticleLatino Farmers Stuck In Poverty In Nation's Breadbasket
FRESNO, Calif. — On a warm spring day, farmworker Cristina Melendez was bedridden and unable to make her way back into the asparagus fields of central California for the kind of backbreaking work...
View ArticlePhyllis Schlafly: Latinos Don't Get Bill Of Rights, Have Too Many Kids
Phyllis Schlafly is doing her part to keep the Republican Party white. The conservative activist lashed out at Latinos during an appearance on the Clay and Marty Show last week, saying Hispanics don’t...
View ArticleAnn Coulter: Win Latino Vote By Rejecting Immigration Reform
The key to winning the Latino vote is rejecting immigration reform, conservative pundit Ann Coulter said Tuesday. Coulter offered her bad advice during an appearance on Fox News personality Sean...
View ArticleThe War on Marijuana Has a Latino Data Problem
We know that the War on Marijuana unnecessarily drags hundreds of thousands of people into the criminal justice system every year for having marijuana. And, because of a new ACLU report, we know that...
View ArticleJessenia Guzman, NYPD Officer, Reprimanded For Speaking Spanish To Fellow Cop
An NYPD officer says she was reprimanded for speaking Spanish while on duty. The Daily News reports Jessenia Guzman was briefly talking to a fellow officer in Spanish, when several hours later she was...
View ArticleNYPD 'Hunting Of Man' T-Shirts Seen On On-Duty Officers In Queens (PHOTO)
On-duty members of the NYPD's Queens Warrant Squad were spotted outside a city courthouse last week wearing t-shirts imprinted with a Ernest Hemingway quote, that in the context of the officers' work,...
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