Teresa Puente, Maynard Institute: A recent proliferation of states enacting immigration legislation—some 1,400 bills were introduced in 2010—sparked a flurry of political coverage, much of it noting how politicians backing the measures risked alienating Latino voters. Yet scant attention has been placed on how such laws will impact Latino and immigrant communities, particularly the likely increase in racial and ethnic profiling.
Colorlines -- Shahed Hossain was a Texan to the core. He spent most of his childhood and adolescence just outside of Fort Worth, dated a young women whose mother worked as an accountant for a military contractor, went fishing on the river with his best friend and held a weekend high school job scooping ice cream at a breakthrough near his family’s house. “Everything that I know and everything that I learned, I learned from Texas,” he says. “I love Texas.”
A couple of weeks ago, we posted a blog on the threat to witnesses and victimes of crime posed by Arizona's anti-immigrant law
Rita Cote tried to do the right thing and ended up in jail because of it.