Nuevo Riche Immigrants in Texas

Time magazine has a compelling feature about the new, wealthy Mexican immigrants in Texas, and how their money is changing the state.

"Self-deportation" and chasing the edge of racial satire

It seems like only yesterday that prop 187 was tearing apart California, making people pick sides on the issue of immigration, with Republican politicians stoking the fire.

Alabama Reconsiders Immigration Law After German Businessman is Busted

It started when tomatoes rotted on the vine, unpicked by immigrants who fled the state in the wake of the most draconian anti-immigrant law in the U.S. Some of the public (not in Alabama so much) questioned the law. But that wasn't enough to revise the law. But when a non-Hispanic immigrant (a European executive at Mercedes Benz, no less) is stopped for not having his papers. Well.

Latinos move to dying prairie towns

 

 

Take a look at a graph of the new America. From the New York Times comes this amazing image and story.

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