Pew Hispanic Center

John McCain, Fellow Republicans, Scurry Like Rats To Embrace Immigration Reform

What a difference a couple of years makes. The same U.S. Senator John McCain who in 2010 snuggled up to illegal-immigrant-screwing (in more ways than one) Sheriff Paul Babeu, supported Sand Land's racist Senate Bill 1070, and insisted that America "complete the danged fence" on the U.S.-Mexico bor ... More >>

Ask a Mexican on Leprecanos and Christmas Trips

After Election Day, AZ's Far Right Now Has a Fight on Its Hands

Catholic Conundrum: What's an Anti-Abortion, Pro-Immigrant Voter to Do?

SB 1070 Fuels a Movement of New Voters

Raul Castro's Treatment by Border Patrol an Argument for BP's Elimination

I despise the United States Border Patrol. One-hundred miles from the U.S. Border, the entire U.S. border, they are a law unto themselves, in what the ACLU refers to as a "constitution free zone," that encircles the entire contiguous United States.They regularly treat U.S. citizens with contempt. Th ... More >>

Ask a Mexican on Love's Travails and Spanish vs. Mexican

SB 1070 Arguments Loom As Mexican Immigration to U.S. Slows To Standstill

Don't know if the Pew Hispanic Center intentionally released its fascinating, statistics-based report on the in-flux state of illegal immigration just prior to tomorrow's U.S. Supreme Court arguments on controversial Arizona SB 1070, but the timing has provided the respected non-profit with maximum ... More >>

Mexican Folks Are Crossing the Border -- the Other Way, According to Pew Research

It wouldn't be surprising to anyone that Mexican people are crossing the border between Mexico and the United States, but according to research, they're actually going the other way -- leaving the United States and going to Mexico.According to a report released today by the Pew Hispanic Center, it a ... More >>

Ask a Mexican on Illegal Immigration

Bad Mormon: Mitt Romney's Anti-Immigrant Stance Doesn't Jibe with LDS Teachings

Mexican-American Birth Rate Drives U.S. Latino Population Higher

​The Latino population has risen significantly in the United States in the past decade, but not  just because of immigration. Actually, a higher birth rate among Hispanic women is now the dominant factor in the rise, according to a new study.The driving force for this surge: Mexican-Amer ... More >>

Undocumented Youth Blocked from Entering the U.S. Workforce Are Starting Their Own Businesses to Survive

Ask a Mexican on the Tea Party and Making the Rich Richer

Tea Party, Meet the Tequila Party; Latinos Launching Vote Drive Organization

tequila.netDeeDee Blase is taking a shot at changing Latino voting habits.​DeeDee Blase, Arizona's Republican immigration activist, has a message for the Tea Party. "Move aside, the Tequila Party is here," she said at an afternoon press conference. The Tequila Party is a non-partisan voter-regis ... More >>

What Would Comprehensive Immigration Reform Look Like If the Feds Got Off Their Duffs?

Russell Pearce and Other Illegal-Immigration Populists Rely on Misleading, Right-Wing Reports to Scapegoat Immigrants and to Terrify Penny-Pinched Americans

Sidebar: Mexican Macroeconomics

Ask a Mexican: On Moving to Mexico and Argentinians

Regarding Birthright Citizenship, What Is It About the U.S. Constitution That Nativists Don't Understand?

ILLEGAL Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone (Chapter 6)

Badlands: For Those Living in the Arizona County That's Ground Zero for Drug and Human Trafficking Along the Border, the Illegal Immigration Crisis Is Personal

St. Patrick's Day in Arizona: the Irish, the Mexicans, and the Nativists

There's something particularly obscene about the fact that state Senator Russell Pearce's bigoted, anti-immigrant legislation SB 1070/HB 2632 will be heard today on the House floor, falling, as the date does, on St. Patrick's Day.Because before nativist hatemongers had Mexican immigrants to kick aro ... More >>

Return to Sender: The Feds, Fueled by Local Anti-Immigration Hostility, Are Draining Talented Undocumented Youth into Mexico

Emil Pulsifer's Intriguing Essay on the Subject of Immigration

If Emil's right on immigration, it may all come down to oil... Regular readers of the Feathered Bastard blog are familiar with the trenchant, and often amusing observations of regular commenter Emil Pulsifer. So you will be interested in Pulsifer's recent, thought-provoking guest column for Jo ... More >>

On Gobbling Aztlan and Mexican Poetry

On Frequenting Cantinas and Being Opposed to Illegal Immigration

On Cutting Hair and Killing Gringos

Joe Arpaio & Lt. Joe Sousa: We Don't Need No Stinking Badges!

from Channel 5's raw footageLt. Joe Sousa, helping MCSO maintain its knuckledragging imageIn a mentally-challenged media stunt, made more so by the ravings of Rhode Island redneck Lt. Joe Sousa, Sheriff Joe's self-described unit commander for human smuggling, MCSO's 287(g) task force members placed ... More >>

On Making Something of Your Life, plus George Bush Jr.

Recession Causes Mexican Immigrants Here to Run for the Border, Study Shows

  www.tutor2u.netWith the current state of the United States economy being, well, horrifying, Mexican immigrants here are running for the border.  A study released Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center shows that the number of Mexican's entering the United States illegally has d ... More >>

Rob Haney, Maricopa County GOP Chair, and His Anti-Mexican Rant to the Catholic Church

Maricopa County GOP Chair Rob Haney I've really got to wonder about these so-called "Christians" who spend all of their time hating on Mexican immigrants, legal and otherwise. I mean, did they ever go to Sunday school? Hear the parable of the good Samaritan? Read the Sermon on the Mount? Or an ... More >>

On Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Only Coast That Counts

The Bird Wants to Take a Blowtorch to 287(g) and Looks Forward to Saturday’s Anti-Arpaio March

On Counting Illegal Immigrants and a Thanksgiving Reading List

On illegal immigrants agitating to improve their citizenship status and legal immigrants growing complacent

On the Iraq invasion and losing your lengua

Strange but true: Legal immigrants are known to rat out their undocumented countrymen

Penn and Teller: Bullshit! on immigration...

Jibes Sans Frontiers

In which you are sent away to bordering school

Balls on the Tree

Lies, avocados, and statistics