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Justice Sonia Sotomayor lets her inner “wise Latina” roar: “U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday condemned racially charged language used by a federal prosecutor in Texas. The justice, appointed to the court by President Barack Obama in 2009, took the relatively unusual step of writing a statement to accompany the nine-member Supreme Court’s Read More
Juan Crow rears its ugly head in North Carolina. From Fox News Latino: “A North Carolina sheriff and his deputies routinely discriminated against Latinos — whom he called ‘taco eaters’ — by making unwarranted arrests with the intent of maximizing deportations, according to a U.S. Department of Justice two-year investigation. In an 11-page report issued Read More
A second blurb on immigration. Sue us, but it is DREAM Relief Day. This time N.Y.C. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is making news for his insistence that the issue of immigration reform be featured in the presidential debates this fall. “America is committing economic suicide by failing to confront the issue of immigration reform,” the mayor Read More
The NYPD mission statement says that it is the job of the police to “preserve the peace, reduce fear, and provide for a safe environment” for the community. However, I just recently moved to an inner-city neighborhood, and the only time I feel safe is when the police are not around. Even though it seems Read More