A Texas town wants to ban undocumented immigrants from renting houses
A city in Texas has for years been attempting to ban undocumented immigrants from renting houses but constant legal battles have prevented the town from doing so.
Top 10 metro areas with largest Hispanic population
The Pew Hispanic Center has released the top 60 metropolitan areas by Hispanic population.
132 inmates escape from Mexican jail: Not a record in Mexico
One hundred and thirty two prisoners escape from a dusty Mexican jail, through a 4 foot wide tunnel that starts at the prison's carpentry shop.
At Chicago’s teacher strike no one is thinking about the children
When school children start paying union dues, then perhaps they can expect unions to represent their interests. One has to wonder what the CTU is thinking. It’s certainly not the children.
Voter ID laws, in Texas and elsewhere, face continued legal wrangling
A federal court struck down a Texas voter ID law Tuesday, in a major blow to Republican legislatures and governors around the country that are pursuing such legislation.
Court rejects Texas legislative districts as discriminatory against Latinos
A three-judge federal court threw out the Texas legislative districts drawn by the state's Republican-controlled Legislature, holding that they discriminated against Latinos and blacks and violated the Voting Rights Act.
Young and alone, facing court and deportation
Immigration courts across the country are confronting an unexpected surge of children who traveled here without parents and were caught as they tried to cross illegally into the United States.
Former undocumented immigrant Leo Manzano wins silver medal for U.S.
On Tuesday, Mexican-born American runner Leo Manzano won a silver medal in the men’s 1,500-meter final, running the fastest time ever by a U.S. athlete at the Games.
Romney counterattacks with new bilingual ad (Video)
Mitt Romney’s new campaign attempts to reel in Spanish-speaking voters by emphasizing how the presumptive Republican presidential nominee plans to help small business owners.
Ted Cruz wins Texas Senate primary in a victory for tea party
Onetime long shot Ted Cruz won the Republican nomination in a U.S. Senate race in Texas on Tuesday, providing tea party activists with renewed momentum in what they said was their biggest victory of the year.
Closure of Border Patrol stations across four states triggers alarm
The Obama administration is moving to shut down nine Border Patrol stations across four states, triggering a backlash from local law enforcement, members of Congress and Border Patrol agents themselves.
U.S. Border Patrol agents shoot across border and kill a Mexican citizen
Mexican officials condemned a fatal, cross-border shooting of a Mexican citizen by U.S. Border Patrol agents that took place on Saturday, July 7.
Texas woman stuck in Mexico after allegedly being coerced to deny citizenship
Brenda Vázquez was born in Texas. On her way back from Mexico, though, she told border patrol agents she was in fact born in Mexico. Now she is not allowed to return to the U.S.
El Paso elects openly gay state lawmaker
El Paso voters have elected Mary E. Gonzalez, an openly gay woman, to the Texas House of Representatives.