Around 7AM, Wednesday, 150 to 200 ICE agents raided an East Houston plant, Action Rags U.S.A. The company has 240 employees. Bob Rutt, ICE’s agent in charge, would not specify what led them to plan this raid, which is at least the second major immigration enforcement action in Houston in recent months.
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In an effort to win back lost Hispanic votes, Republican presidential hopeful, Senator John McCain held a closed door meeting with more than 100 Hispanic leaders in Chicago. However, things did not turn out as he hoped.
Blogger Matt Ortega reports that the event was attended by Rosanna Pulido, State Director for the Illinois Minutemen Project, [...]
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The racist Republican attacks on Barack Obama have begun. Last week, Christy Hoppe of The Dallas Morning News’ Trail Blazers blog reported on a controversial button that was sold during the Texas GOP convention in Houston, Texas. The button that touched off a firestorm throughout the blogosphere and the country had said, “If Obama [...]
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Happy Juneteenth!!!
For those who are not aware of this holiday, Juneteenth is the oldest known celebrated holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth is also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day. Only 25 states in the US celebrate this day, Texas being one of them, where the holiday actually began.
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Blogjuice is slowly coming back, but in the mean time, enjoy this little video by Comedian Eric Schwartz aka Smooth-E
Lean Like a Gringo
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
Para Justicia y Libertad is a Latino-centered political blog focusing on the humanistic perspective of politics, history, and society as they relate to the Latina/o community throughout Texas and the United States.
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