Politics

White House Refuses to Answer ‘Tough’ Questions on Immigration During Skype Chat Whether it was Microsoft or the White House screening the questions, you can be certain of one thing: The White House has no interest in answering to criticism or challenging questions. I blogged this for the Huffington Post last week. Today, I received […]

In two comprehensive surveys released today by the Pew Research Center, a majority of Latinos and Asian Americans “believe it is more important for unauthorized immigrants to get relief from the threat of deportation.” You can read the full findings here. What follows are some of the findings’ highlights plus PDFS of the entire report. […]

A summary of #ShutDownICE. Here is the video. For more, visit NotOneMoreDeportation.com.

Each year, millions of men, women and children leave their countries of origin as economic migrants. In recognition of the increasing number of migrants worldwide, on December 4, 2000, the UN General Assembly declared today as International Migrants Day: Member States unanimously adopted a Declaration in which they recognized the important contribution of migration to development and […]

In an article that will resonate with followers of the nation’s immigration debate, Bloomberg Businessweek reported today that the “Obama administration has cut back on deporting undocumented immigrants, with forced departures on track to drop more than 10 percent, the first annual decline in more than a decade.” According to official Department of Homeland Security […]

Yes, this is satire, a unique collaboration between Narco News and Alianza Mexicana contra el Fracking. But it hits too close to home. Frack U. Mexico. Dirigido por Greg “Gringoyo” Berger. Guión de Al Giordano. ¡Buenas noticias! México tiene la cuarta reserva más grande en el mundo de gas de lutitas (gas shale) y el […]

In an interview this weekend with Telemundo, Democratic congressional leader Nancy Pelosi said that her office has been documenting and sharing deportation cases with the Obama Administration, with the hope that “we will see action from the president” in pausing such actions until the House of Representatives addresses comprehensive immigration reform. Pelosi also called the […]

Last week we wrote about story of Cuban American Sara Legvold, a executive committee member of the Texas GOP, who expressed her support for apartheid on a Facebook page for Latino conservatives. Legvold’s comments were brought to the attention of the Texas GOP, who issued a statement basically saying that even though they don’t agree […]

Is the President’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security anti-immigrant? The truth is that nobody knows. Nobody has bothered to ask. Here’s what we do know: Jeh Johnson comes from the Pentagon; he has little experience with the issue of immigration; and he favors legislative (as opposed to administrative) changes to the immigration system. […]

We are a group of students, educators, community activists, and artists living in New York City, composed primarily of Dominican-Americans, as well as allies. We feel a great deal of pain over the decision of the Constitutional Tribunal to revoke the nationality of Dominican-born children of undocumented immigrants, primarily of Haitian descent, applied retroactively to […]

This week, Mexican lawmakers voted to privatize its national oil industry. Most everyone we know feels that such a move was a done deal ever since Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto took office. So in the spirit of how many feel about this move, we give you Antonio Garcia Conejo, a member of the Democratic […]

We received the following release this afternoon from United We Dream: Early this morning, the Obama Administration and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ignored the pleas and calls of hundreds of people and deported Ardani Rosales Lemus back to Guatemala, a country he fled fearing for his life, tearing him away from his two U.S. citizen children.  United […]

God bless Twitter. Who knew that this, “The Handshake” today in South Africa between Barack Obama and Cuba’s Raúl Castro,… would lead to Senator John McCain saying something bizarre? Here’s the audio: Here is what McCain said: “It gives Raul some propaganda to continue to prop up his dictatorial, brutal regime, that’s all.” Then asked […]

This afternoon Sara Legvold, a Cuban American executive committee member of Texas’ Republican Party, took to Facebook to disparage a statement by Cafe con Leche Republicans that strongly criticized her views on apartheid. Here is what Legvold posted on Facebook. Her comments are directed to Bob Quasius, CCLR’s president. The statement CCLR posted before Legvold’s […]

This was shared by the National Immigrant Youth Alliance this afternoon: Santiago: “I see when no one is watching, immigration does whatever they want.” The Obama Administration says that Dreamers and other low-priority immigrants aren’t getting deported. Well, we proved that they’re lying. Santiago, a Dreamer from North Carolina, is now detained inside El Paso […]

In response to a Latino Rebels story about Facebook comments about apartheid by Texas Republican Party executive committee member Sara Legvold, we received a statement this afternoon from Spencer Yeldell, Communications Director for the Republican Party of Texas: Executive Committee members are entitled to their own opinions that may or may not be aligned with the Republican Party […]

Sara Legvold is an executive committee member of Texas’ Republican Party. Say hi to her: Legvold is of Cuban descent, a refugee from the current Cuban government. She is in her mid 50s and came to this country when she was a little girl. According to reports, Legvold is “originally from Cuba and now a […]

The following release came today from the National Immigrant Youth Alliance: NIYA Demands a Full Review of Entire Facility: Jail Organizing Continues El Paso, Texas –Organizers working with the National Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA) have intentionally allowed for themselves to be detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, in order to gain access to the […]

How did we miss this from Al Punto and Jorge Ramos last month? That was Aníbal de Castro, Dominican ambassador to the United States, basically saying that this is all about nationality and that there any undocumented in the DR and their offspring aren’t Dominican. He also said that this doesn’t affect 200,000 people, just […]

The road to historic immigration reform in the United States is paved daily with the gruesome deportation of about 1,100 immigrants. The vast majority of the deported are Latino. The vast majority of the deported pose no threat to public safety. Who is to blame? Initially, everybody. Obama promised immigration reform in his first year […]

U.S. Latinos’ approval of President Obama dropped 23 percentage points in one year, according to a new Gallup poll released yesterday about the President’s second-term performance assessment. Besides seeing his approval rating go from President 53% last December to 41% this November, approval by U.S. Latinos “has dropped 23 points over the last 12 months, […]