Politics

Here is what President Obama said this afternoon at the White House during a Cinco de Mayo reception (let the Hispandering continue): 5:46 P.M. EDT  THE PRESIDENT:  Hello, everybody!  (Applause.)  Bienvenidos a la Casa Blanca!  (Applause.)  This is a rowdy crowd, I can tell.  (Laughter.)  They’re ready to party.  (Applause.) AUDIENCE MEMBER:  Love the margaritas. THE PRESIDENT:  […]

Earlier today, we shared a post about a Cinco de Mayo breakfast hosted by Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden. It got some attention, for the obvious reasons listed here. (By the way, we must credit the label “Hispandering” to the fabulous @AdrianaMaestas.) This afternoon the Hispandering from the White House […]

Today Vice President Joe Biden visited the Miami suburb of Kendall, and according to an official White House pool report we just received, the VP is suggesting that the Obama Administration is ready to do more about easing deportations in this country. Here is what the pool report said, as Biden gave a speech at […]

The public relations push for Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto continues. EPN will be on the cover of Mexico’s Rolling Stone magazine now. Talk about bizarre. As you might imagine, the image of Peña Nieto as a “reformer” has always been in question. We’re not surprised that some Twitter profiles have already started to slam […]

Once again, compassion is absent from the current political landscape that is immigration reform. While politicians from both sides of the aisles posture, real stories like the video below continue to get shared. If you don’t get emotional after seeing this video, you have serious issues. And before you say that this mother’s focus is […]

With every cause, there is an effect. For a California school district, the cause is the prospect of rallies to celebrate American patriotism and protest a court ruling banning students from wearing US flag t-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. The effect of the rallies’s promotion and subsequent hate language being used by supporters have led to […]

In a scathing opinion piece slamming Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s now epic dissent about this week Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling, Mike Gonzalez, the VP of Communications for The Heritage Foundation (the same person who defended Jason Richwine’s Latinos are stupid dissertation), wrote the following to explain why Sotomayor needs to calm down (boldface emphasis is ours): There […]

Here is the latest update we have received from NotOneMoreDeportation.com: April 21, 2014 – Washington, DC On the heels of the Philadelphia Mayor signing an executive order rejecting ICE holds in the city and a federal court finding in an Oregon case that the detainer requests violate the Fourth Amendment, members from Massachusetts will arrive this afternoon as part of their campaign […]

I hear crying in the next room and I stop writing. It’s my nanny. I was sitting at my computer writing, which is my daily ritual. But I think that it’s more like a ritual that monks do. More like the monks in the Middle Ages, like a flogging, really. Rough leather whipped on my […]

Today in a press conference, President Obama took two questions from Maria Peña of La Opinión about the immigration reform debate: Did Peña’s second question even get answered?

Meet Florida Senate President Don Gaetz (R), who earlier today said the following about a proposed state bill (SB 1400) that would give undocumented students the ability to pay in-state tuition rates at Florida’s public universities and colleges: To give that quote some more context, here is more of what Gaetz said about SB 1400, […]

Last year, LatinoRebels.com ran a three-part series by local Bakersfield journalist/writer Nicholas Belardes about the in-custody death of David Sal Silva. This weekend’s news that no charges would be filed by the local district attorney led to the following epilogue by Nicholas. The previous posts in the series are linked here: “Part One: Culture of […]

Just watch. For more, go to NotOneMoreDeportation.com, Puente Arizona or follow #Not1More on Twitter.

The drug war has increasingly become a war against migrant communities. It fuels racial profiling, border militarization, violence against immigrants, intrusive government surveillance and, especially, widespread detentions and deportations.  Media and politicians have tried to convince us that everyone who gets deported is a violent criminal, a terrorist or a drug kingpin. But a newly released, first-of-its-kind report […]

UPDATE, November 23, 2015: Thompson revisited Big Papi again. And we haven’t changed our opinion. Now we REALLY know that NBC’s Saturday Night Live does not give a crap when it comes to mocking Latinos. A few weeks back, we saw a non-Latina (Cecily Strong) fail with perhaps one of the most unfunny loud Latina […]

Watch the following video in this post. It shows Illinois state Democratic Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia (pictured below) debating charter schools and education reform last Wednesday. At one one point in the video, Rep. Chapa LaVia (from Aurora) said the following: “Listen to me, minorities. I’m over here, because we’re all over on this side, […]

What follows is an executive summary published today by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) containing the findings of a Blue Ribbon Commission that NDLON helped to form. As it states on its site, “former and currently undocumented immigrant leaders formed a Blue Ribbon Commission to perform an independent review and present its recommendations […]

UPDATE: We changed the head since it suggested that Border Patrol agent entered the church as well. That is not clear, but what is clear is this: undocumented immigrants were in a church, local sheriffs found them and then BP showed up. This story got our attention when we received the following email from a […]

A grainy video tweeted to us tonight from the National Queer and Trans Latin@ Alliance shows immigration rights activist Erika Andiola confronting Rep. Loretta Sánchez (D-CA) about the arrests of immigration protesters made yesterday in Sánchez’s DC office. Another tweet shows a picture of Sánchez and Andiola talking during what appears to be the confrontation […]

This is a statement that The Orlando Sentinel got from Lew Oliver, chairman of the Orange County Republican Executive Committee, in response to a story that the Florida county is getting more and more blue: Voter registration stats are nearly perfect reflections of demographics or national trends, rather than local efforts. Actually we’re a little […]

Imagine how the U.S. government might react if it were discovered that officials in Beijing tapped President Obama’s cellphone. What if protesters set fire to Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, only to learn afterward that the protests were secretly sponsored by the Kremlin? The American public would be screaming for heads, of course. Republicans […]