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Students in Angle 'Asian' gaffe told not to record video - My News 4 - KRNV, Reno, NV The high school's Hispanic Student Union advisor Isaac Barron says her comments made everyone in the room very uncomfortable. "I felt my jaw drop," Barron recalled. "I saw Mr. Angle. He was kinda visibly upset when she said that. The more she spoke, the worse it got. She was on a slippery slope, I think." Myra Monts de Oca, a member of the Hispanic Student Union, says both Hispanic and Asian students at the school feel insulted. "I thought that was kinda ridiculous, because it's already in the name. It couldn't be more obvious what we were. I don't know what was going through her mind. Maybe she meant something else but her point wasn't made." Angle's campaign insists Angle was referring to an instance where a reporter mistakenly referred to her as Asian and that she was trying to make a point about judging on appearance and stereotypes. KS...

News Analysis - Angle Video Reopens Topic of Race - NYTimes.com Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, a professor of sociology at Duke, said the ad and Ms. Angle’s comments about it reflected the country’s new “racial terrain.” “I think the new boogeyman is Latino,” Professor Bonilla-Silva said. Still, Ms. Angle “managed to offend two communities at once: Asians and Latinos,” he said. “Her statements come across as patronizing, and hark back to an old racist tradition where we all look the same.”

Who’s Hispanic? - Pew Hispanic Center Q. What about Brazilians, Portuguese, and Filipinos? Are they Hispanic? A. They are in the eyes of the Census if they say they are, even though these countries do not fit the official OMB definition of "Hispanic" because they are not Spanish speaking. For the most part, people who trace their ancestry to these countries do not self-identify as Hispanic when they fill out their Census forms. Only about 4% of immigrants from Brazil do so, as do just 1% of immigrants from Portugal or the Philippines.3 These patterns reflect a growing recognition and acceptance of the official definition of Hispanics. In the 1980 Census, about one in six Brazilian immigrants and one in eight Portuguese and Filipino immigrants identified as Hispanic. Similar shares did so in the 1990 Census, but by 2000, the shares identifying as Hispanic dropped to levels close to those seen today.

Why the U.S. Census Misreads Hispanic and Arab Americans - TIME Many feel the Census also needs to fine-tune its idea of what is and isn't Hispanic. It tends to define Latin America as just the Spanish-speaking countries of the western hemisphere, when the term also encompasses Portuguese-speaking Brazil. It also includes Spaniards in the "Hispanic Origins" box, when in fact a Spaniard is a European, not a Hispanic.

Staten Island Grapples With Attacks Against Mexicans : NPR Police are investigating a string of at least 10 alleged hate crimes in the borough's Port Richmond area since April — all violent, and all perpetrated against Mexicans.

Principal bans U.S. flag T-shirts on Mexican holiday Principal bans U.S. flag T-shirts on Mexican holiday Students sent home for wearing 'incendiary' stars and stripes on Cinco de Mayo

Data and Resources: Country of Origin Profiles - Pew Hispanic Center Country of Origin Profiles

Statistical Portrait of Hispanics in the United States, 2008 - Pew Hispanic Center Statistical Portrait of Hispanics in the United States, 2008

Hispanics and Arizona’s New Immigration Law - Pew Hispanic Center Hispanics and Arizona’s New Immigration Law

Mexican Immigrants: How Many Come? How Many Leave? - Pew Hispanic Center The flow of immigrants from Mexico to the United States has declined sharply since mid-decade, but there is no evidence of an increase during this period in the number of Mexican-born migrants returning home from the U.S., according to a new analysis by the Pew Hispanic Center of government data from both countries.

Mexico's remittances down 12 pct in 1st quarter - BusinessWeek Mexico's central bank says the amount of money sent home by Mexicans working abroad dropped 12 percent in the first quarter of the year compared to 2009. The Bank of Mexico says the country received $4.8 billion in remittances in the first three months of the year, compared to $5.5 billion during the same period in 2009. Mexico's remittances have been falling for more than a year amid an economic crisis making it difficult for migrants to find jobs in the U.S. However, a statement from the bank Wednesday says the pace of the decline is slowing. Remittances are Mexico's No. 2 source of foreign income after oil exports. Almost 12 million Mexicans live in the United States.

Explaining the Increase in Remittances to Mexico - Southwest Economy, July/August 2007 - FRB Dallas Banco de México has good data on where remittances go within Mexico (Table 1). The central–western states attract most of these financial flows, with Michoacán at the top with almost $2.5 billion, 16.1 percent of gross state product (GSP). Guanajuato follows at $2.1 billion (14.8 percent), then Jalisco at $2 billion (2.4 percent) and Estado de México at $1.9 billion (6.3 percent). As a share of GSP, remittances are also significant in Guerrero, Zacatecas, Oaxaca and Nayarit.

Remittances to Mexico down sharply - Los Angeles Times MEXICO CITY — Mexico's reeling economy received another jolt of bad news Monday with reports of the largest monthly decline yet in the amount of money Mexicans working abroad send home. Remittances for the month of April totaled about $1.7 billion, 18.6% less than the $2.1 billion recorded in April 2008, Mexico's central bank said.