The ghosts of Jim Crow and certain infamous Texas Rangers are certainly dancing in their graves with Gov. Rick Perry’s recent move.
Recently, at a news conference, Gov. Rick Perry announced a special team of Texas Rangers will be deployed to the border. He said the effort was launched in August because of “the federal [...]
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As Hurricane Ike makes its way towards Texas, the Associated Press reports, emergency officials are getting ready to evacuate 1 million people from the Rio Grande Valley. However, they are running into problems convincing many immigrants to leave because they were afraid of being arrested if they board the buses.
They also fear that Immigration [...]
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Hurricane Dolly wreaks havoc in South Texas. From the Rio Grande Guardian:
It’s like a war zone. I do not know how else to describe the Bahia Mar Resort and Conference Center following the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Dolly.
The first floor has disintegrated and it is covered in glass. The executive offices are gone. One wall [...]
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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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