Duke City Fix has a nice photo retrospective on their Flikr page, and be sure to check out Johhny Mango's 36 Hours with Jim Baca.
Maggie has a great post on the "Failed Diversion" of "the recent embroilment over illegal immigration was created as a media
diversion to take our eyes off of the Bush Administration's completely
failed Iraq policies."
La Queen Sucia tells us of the stupidity that lands in her in box from anti-Latino folks.
Susan G over at Daily Kos has a nice wrap up of national coverage
And Atrios points out Bush flip flopping and actually singing on the National Anthem in Spanish.
A commenter at Think Progress caught this. Bush a couple of days ago:
After saying he did not consider the anthem sung in Spanish to have the same value as the anthem sung in English, Mr. Bush said: "I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English. And they ought to learn to sing the anthem in English."
From Kevin Phillips' American Dynasty:
When visiting cities like Chicago, Milwaukee or Philadelphia, in pivotal states, he would drop in at Hispanic festivals and parites, sometimes joining in singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in Spanish, sometimes partying with a "Viva Bush" mariachi band flown in from Texas.

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