They all come hand in hand.

With high unemployment, people spend less. If people spend less, then business will sell less and won’t need to hire new employees. Finally, if you don’t have a job it is impossible to buy a home and if you are in one already, you might be one of the millions that are facing a foreclosure.

Steve Montenegro is one of two State Representatives from Legislative District 12 in Arizona and one of the most promising politicians in the state. He is also a leading member of the Arizona Latino Republican Association. Known for his strong defense of conservative values, Steve Montenegro has issued the following statement about Sen. Harry [...]

Not so long ago, in an interview I conducted with veteran Florida politician Maurice Ferré, he uttered one of the most sensible statements about the issue of illegal immigration I have ever heard from a public figure, especially from a long-time Democrat such as him: “The average American is fed up with illegal immigration –and this is a feeling we must all respect,” he said to me then.

As it happens with coins, in politics there are two sides to every story That is not new. What is new, and dishonest, is when one party takes a hard stand attacking its rival and then in turns out that behind the scenes the party is doing the same thing.

This story that ran in the front page of The Washington Post Monday makes is painfully clear.

As the stereotype goes, all Latinos should be opposed to Arizona’s new immigration law, because all Hispanics are in favor of granting amnesty to illegal aliens.

Wrong!

The Arizona Latino Republican Association (ALRA) on Thursday is scheduled to become the first Hispanic organization in the country to actively oppose the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against the state of Arizona’s new immigration law.

Smack in the middle of a very hot summer, officials in President Barack Obama’s Administration are beginning to sweat the real possibility that Democrats will lose control of the House of Representatives in the November mid-term elections.

This comes not from elected Republican officials, or from news analysts. This comes directly from a top level administration official. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said so directly Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press.

By Star Parker.

New Census data show the continued trend that the United States is becoming a nation increasingly less white. According to this latest report, 48.6 percent of children born in the U.S. between July 2008 and July 2009 were “nonwhite minorities.” That’s up 2 percentage points from two years earlier, and soon the figure will cross the 50 percent mark. The largest growth demographic is Hispanics, who accounted for almost 55 percent of our population growth. And, most of this growth – two-thirds – came from births, not from immigration.

The battle in this war began weeks before September of 2007. That was when Ken Burn planned to air a 14 hour documentary on PBS stations that completely disregarded the presence and contributions of Latino soldiers, sailors and aviators in World War II.
Latino civic leaders including Dr. Maggie Rivas-Rodríguez, a journalism professor at the University of Texas in Austin; Angelo Falcón of the National Latino Policy in New York City; Marta García, 2nd Vice Chair of the Executive Board of the National Hispanic Media Coalition, and Gus Chávez, retired Administrator from San Diego State University, considered was Burns was doing as “insulting and discriminatory.”

By James Nava.

The successful integration of Hispanic immigrants into American society is a crucial challenge for the nation, because future prosperity, as well as employment and educational opportunities for millions of people, depend on it. So it follows that programs and initiatives supporting immigrants’ education from the ground up are very important.

By Israel Ortega.

Two myths about Hispanics will soon be exposed.

The first myth is that Hispanics are mostly concentrated in our country’s major cities. The second is that Hispanics are largely being left behind by the growing online revolution that’s changing the way we socialize, learn and shop.