It is no longer a secret that undocumented youth across the country are becoming a changing force in the 2012 elections. Some of us have mastered electoral politics, others continue telling their stories and motivating their family members and friends to go out and vote. But why would someone who doesn’t have the power and the privilege of casting a ballot in November care so much about who gets elected and ...

by Erika Andiola   Since 2010, after hearing the news that Arizona was about to become the "papers, please" state, I found myself walking on the streets of Mesa, Arizona, where I have lived for the past 15 years of my life, asking every Latino I could find the same questions. I would go to churches, neighborhoods, stores and would even crash one or two parties. The questions where usually either "Are y ...

via The Huffington Post Fifteen years ago, my mother asked me to pack one bag with my most valuable belongings. I was only eleven, so I decided to pack three of my best outfits and dozens of letters that I had collected from my closest friends in the 5th grade. I wanted to take everything from our home in Mexico, where I lived for the first eleven years of my life, but I knew we were going to walk for a cou ...

DREAMers and Latinos across the country have been outraged by presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s promise to veto the DREAM Act.  As a result, DREAMers from across Arizona protested outside of his rally in Mesa to remind Romney that Latinos will not be misled simply because he made an appearance to an Univision set or putting his name behind the ARMS Act, a second-rate bill that won’t truly serve Latino co ...