“Anytime the GOP can say the words, ‘Castro,’ ‘communist’ and ‘Obama’ in the same sentence, it’s a good bet the GOP will use it,” says Stephen Nuño, a political science professor at Northern Arizona University and an NBC Latino contributor.

“Gutierrez is right to support Rubio’s efforts because his bottom line is that it would stop the deportations and it does not exclude these immigrants from alternative citizenship pathways, making it substantively similar to the original Dream Act, but with important political nuances.”

Perhaps Ms. Inclan made a mistake in her answer about Mitt Romney’s stance on immigration, but she certainly personified it, and for that she should not be punished. Maybe if Latinos were more integrated into the Party, these mistakes wouldn’t happen. Inclan’s response was not the problem, but the symptom of a decades long effort [...]

Some in the GOP have long seen Hispanics as a source for power and growth, just as Ronald Reagan did.  Perhaps you may not like their policies, but then that would be a refreshing debate to have, instead of being distracted by fools like Russell Pearce and Joe Arpaio.

Easy enough to predict, I suppose. The Democrats have Latinos cornered and if you are Latino and did not see Russell Pearce’s testimony defending Arizona’s infamous anti-Latino law, SB1070, you’ll see why.  What a grumpy old man. The aesthetic leader of the GOP, the grumpy old party.

“I’m not that big of a fan of the NRA because they care less about good policy and more about the free flow of firearms,” says NBC Latino contributor and Arizona resident Stephen Nuño, who owns several guns and says he is very protective of the right to bear arms.  He adds that lobbies like [...]

Longoria and Vergara are both beautiful women.  Hardly resistible. I am sure the money, too, is difficult for them to resist.  But their roles are detrimental to Latinas and to society as a whole when they unwittingly play into the narrative of the Latino Threat. As the father of three girls, their message is loud [...]

“To those of us committed to a liberal democracy, Joel Olson presented a disturbing challenge to confront. He forced us to be conscious of the mechanisms of privilege, and dared us to live in a truly equal world. He wrote, “No privilege held can compare to a world in which privilege does not exist”. Rest [...]

It’s Debbie Riddle’s world, for now. And in Riddle’s world wearing the “right” clothes is still no guarantee that my son will ever walk this world above suspicion. She and her ilk are doing their very best to keep it that way.