Suzanne Gamboa

At least 50 people have died after the bodies were found in the abandoned tractor-trailer on a sweltering day in Texas.

The first lady’s reference to a San Antonio culinary favorite unleashed a political and cultural firestorm — which some then rebuffed.

“I’ve been to this space many times, many conferences, many seminars, This is probably the most Latinos who have shared this very space,” a Colorado-based Latino advocate said.

“There is no capacity in El Paso” shelters, said Fernando García, executive director for the Border Network for Human Rights. “We have been talking about this the last two years.”

The former president of the Los Angeles City Council who was caught on tape comparing the Black son of a colleague to a monkey and saying Indigenous Mexicans were ugly said in an exclusive interview that she is not racist and paid a “huge, huge, huge price” for her comments. Nury Martinez, who stepped down a year ago amid an uproar over the comments, told Telemundo52 and NBC4 in Los Angeles, that she has had a long, painful year since the comments recorded in a 2021 closed-door meeting were lea…

The Justice Department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have sued a Texas developer whom they accuse of targeting Hispanics with predatory loans, false advertising and subpar housing as part of an illegal land scheme. The lawsuit alleges Colony Ridge Development LLC and its affiliates lured in Hispanic homebuyers by falsely advertising homes with full basic utilities and selling them flood-prone property that did not always have promised utilities. The lawsuit names Colony Ridge Dev…

Carolina Wassmer, Florida director of a group focused on building Latino political power, said Tuesday her organization could be devastated if a court allows the state to ban noncitizens across the country from participating in the effort to register voters in Florida. The restriction, part of the new Florida law SB7050, was blocked by a federal court with an emergency injunction last July. But the state is appealing the ruling and oral arguments are scheduled for Thursday before the 11th Circui…

CONROE, Texas — Years before a shooter opened fire at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, residents in the small neighborhood said they had run-ins with the suspect, who frightened them. Six women who live in the neighborhood in Conroe, a north Houston suburb, said the woman, Genesse Ivonne Moreno, targeted them, harassed them, threatened them, displayed firearms and made them fear being outside their homes. Late Monday afternoon, the women held a news conference in the driveway of a home…

Latino organizations and national civil rights groups blasted a lawsuit filed by conservative legal activist Edward Blum to end a Smithsonian Institution internship designed to draw more Latinos into museum studies and jobs. The groups say in a friend of the court, or amicus, brief that the selection criteria for the internship do not include race or ethnicity and that application materials do not limit entry to any race or ethnicity. The selection process is entirely race- and ethnicity-neutr…

Educators in Arizona are sounding the alarm about a proposed ballot measure that, if supported by voters, would allow local and state officers to arrest people they believe entered the country illegally — and they would be able to do so at schools, hospitals and places of worship. Unlike the Texas law it is patterned after, the proposed ballot measure in Arizona, HCR2060, does not prohibit making arrests at those institutions. The measure also allows judges to order those arrested to be detained…