Pablo Manriquez

At South Middle School in O'Fallon, Missouri, the Zumwalt Alternative Education Program (ZAEP) was in-school suspension. ZAEP was overseen by a man named Lipka. Teachers sent Lipka assignments for problematic students who sat all day in an over-air-conditioned room by the school's main office. Lipka rented students new to ZAEP's...

I just changed my Twitter background to a Latinos for Obama pattern I designed last night in my free trial of Photoshop CS5.1. It's available for download here. To use:

1. Go to your Twitter profile settings.
2. Click 'Design'.
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Soon after my story appeared in Huffington Post Politics that the infamous 28 May 2009 'Promesa de Obama' interview with President Obama on Univision's Al Punto con Jorge Ramos had disappeared from YouTube's search indices, Univision.com's Director de Noticias Manuel Aguilera tweeted a link to Spanish-language transcript of...

In 2009, a nation of undocumented immigrants watched Barack Obama add a bold timetable to the completion of a comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) bill to be delivered from Congress to his desk and that he would be ready to sign. In an English-language interview filmed for Spanish-language primetime, Univision's Jorge...

A national survey by the Pew Hispanic Center shows that by "a ratio of more than two-to-one (59% versus 27%), Latinos disapprove of the way the Obama administration is handling deportations of unauthorized immigrants." This should come as no surprise to anyone following Latino affairs under Obama. Unfortunately, Pew...

In mid-2008, LatinosforObama.com was a default Blogspot.  This was a sad effort alongside some of other ethnic advocacy sites launched by the Obama for America media machine.  Recognizing that the campaign's funding priorities were elsewhere, I searched for skilled Latinos in online media who might volunteer to help improve...

In a letter to Congress on Thursday, Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano argued that immigration judges "will be able to more swiftly adjudicate high-priority cases, such as those involving convicted felons," now that President Obama's immigration policy finally differentiates between devout busboys and serial rapists.

In short, Napolitano...

One of the arguments frequently given in the comments of my most-recent Huffington post is, essentially, that "illegals should apply for entry into the United States and wait in line like everyone else."  In a perfect world, this argument makes sense. Historically the U.S. has been a harbor for...

Last month, after a quick, quiet, morning vote approving approximately $600 million in border security funding, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office issued a statement calling for "comprehensive immigration reform that secures our borders, cracks down on unscrupulous employers, and requires those here illegally to get right with the...

In February, a report issued by the Congressional Hispanic Staff Association (CHSA) discovered that among Congressional staff on Capitol Hill, "Latinos are almost completely left out of key staff positions and are drastically underrepresented at all staff levels." Further, the CHSA report concludes that Latinos "are not only being...

On 11 February 2009, Celia Alejandra Alvarez-Herrera was arrested by a sheriff's deputy in a workplace raid during which her jaw was dislocated against a wall. Regrettably, my notes are obscured by a teardrop that escaped me as she described being beaten with a clipboard for crying out for medical...

In an op-ed published in Time last month, Republican political consultant Mike Murphy wrote, "[it] was a huge shock to the GOP when Barack Obama won Republican Indiana last year. The bigger news was how he did it. Latino voters delivered the state. Exit polls showed that they provided...

Here's a question for Sarah Palin: How many Mexicans live in Alaska? Or Puerto Ricans? Or Chileans? Or Latinos in general?

Tonight, I threw some search terms through Google but came up with no current data on Alaskan Latinos. However, I did find this 1997 report in the University...