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Today in some select markets, the following ad by DefineAmerican.com will air during the 2013 Super Bowl. You can join the conversation of how to change the immigration dialogue by going to DefineAmerican.com or by following #timeisnow on Twitter. People can also support the ad here so that it can broadcast after the game as […]

Today Emilio Sánchez, President and Editor-in-Chief of the Miami-based VOXXI news site, wrote a three-page post entitled “A Fierce Campaign Against the Dignity of Salomon Melgen.” In the piece, Sánchez suggested reasons as to why he thinks the latest FBI investigation of Melgen, who is listed on VOXXI’s site as the company’s Chairman and Founder (UPDATE: […]

You’re kidding us, right? If you click on the following link from the Facebook page of the Conservative Veterans for America, you are greeted with this: Yeah, this whole anti-immigration reform thing has NOTHING to do with the Fear of a Latino Nation. There is no doubt: Racism is thriving on social media. According the […]

Earlier this week, several outlets, including NBC News, The New York Times, and The Miami Herald, reported about the undetermined FBI investigation of Dr. Salomon Melgen, a top Democratic donor with deep ties to New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez and a Latino community leader who founded the Miami-based VOXXI news site. As details continue to […]

Here is a clip that you might have missed during the post-election cycle. Hear what attorney and Hispanic political activist Andrés López, a member of the Democratic National Committee and head of the Futuro Fund has to say about “the growing political clout of the country’s largest minority voting block.”

While Latinos do share culture, language and history, Latinos as a whole don’t fit any traditional category you try to place them in—from the variety of physical appearance, level of education or income and cultural traditions to the distant and diverse countries called home. This is the root cause of all failed attempts at reaching […]

The prospects for comprehensive immigration reform have never looked brighter. After 71% of Latinos voted to re-elect Barack Obama, a stunned Republican party saw the consequences of pandering to its xenophobic fringe during the Republican primaries and the general election. In the wake of this demoralizing defeat, some GOP leaders have publicly reconsidered their hardline […]

#NoMames, National Review. Has no one in the mega-conservative media gotten the memo about U.S. Latinos? Did anyone really look at the last election results? Guess they are just in denial. Oh yeah, and racist, too. Here is an excerpt from NR’s editorial this week: “A Pointless Amnesty.” Republican immigration reformers with an eye to […]

This morning I was contacted by Colombia’s W Radio to make a live appearance on its morning show. The topic? A piece the Rebels wrote about the “Fulgencio” episode which aired last week on ABC’s “Modern Family.” I said yes, and within five minutes of agreeing to talk, the show had me on live to […]

We started paying attention to Stephen Steinlight after Latina conservative strategist Linda Vega wrote a scathing piece against Steinlight and the nativist Center for Immigration Studies earlier this week called, “Mexicans Are Inferior According to FAIR and CIS.” Just watch this pendejo. We have no words. Here is an excerpt of what Vega says about […]

On the very same day that President Obama was giving a speech in Las Vegas about immigration, the family of Edi Arma García was trying to get the United States to not deport him. On January 14, ICE agents took Edi away as his children watched. Ever since then, immigration activists in Arizona and beyond […]

UPDATE January 31, 9:45 AM EST: Melgen’s lawyer issued the following statement to the press: “The government has not informed Dr. Melgen what its concerns are. However, we are confident that Dr. Melgen has acted appropriately at all times.” UPDATE, January 30, 10:45 PM EST: NBC Latino reported that last month Senator Menendez reimbursed Salomon […]

In case you missed it, here is what President Obama had to say about immigration today in Las Vegas. So, what do you think? For Immediate Release January 29, 2013 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM Del Sol High School Las Vegas, Nevada 11:40 A.M. PST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you! (Applause.) Thank you! […]

And the hits keep on coming. In response to the news of a bipartisan immigration reform framework, Pennsylvania Rep. Lou Barletta told a local paper the following: It’s amnesty that America can’t afford. We have to stop people from coming in illegally. This will be a green light for anyone who wants to come to […]

Now that everyone is an immigration expert all of a sudden, you just knew that some politicians would overlook a few issues surrounding the debate. Case in point, New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, who appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” this morning and just had to go there. Here it is. Those “illegals.” Yo, Senator […]

Here comes the narrative. Immigration reform. Bipartisan support. The U.S. Latino vote is pissed. Etc, etc, etc. Today MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” the bipartisan push for comprehensive immigration reform was front and center. And it kind of bothered us. First, watch the video that featured Senators John McCain and Chuck Schumer. We have watched the video […]

Any predictions from certain Mexican American columnists that rhyme with Venderrette saying that Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R) would have a more open mind to the latest bipartisan immigration reform framework announced today were put to rest when Cruz issued the following statement: I appreciate the good work that senators in both parties have put […]

You would think that the bipartisan push for comprehensive immigration reform would be seen as positive development by many Americans, but alas, it is not. We are pretty sure that the following video posted by a YouTube channel called “Nobama Period” must have had the uploader gritting his or her teeth. (FYI: You can see […]

Now that a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators released a set of principles related to comprehensive immigration reform, pro-reform groups are reacting to the news. Here are just a few of the public reactions and statements we have received today: Greisa Martínez, a DREAMer from Dallas, TX and member of United We Dream’s National Coordinating […]

We received the following statement today from The Hispanic Coalition NY: On The Dawn of President Obama’s Speech on Immigration Reform,  We Must Rally to Denounce Current Policy ALBANY, NY (1/28/13)  The Obama Administration failed to address the broken immigration system upon taking office in 2009. Millions of Latinos voted for him expressly because of his promise […]

Bipartisan Framework for Comprehensive Immigration Reform (original PDF here) From Senators Chuck Schumer, John McCain, Dick Durbin, Lindsey Graham, Robert Menendez, Marco Rubio, Michael Bennet, and Jeff Flake Introduction: We recognize that our immigration system is broken. And while border security has improved significantly over the last two Administrations, we still don’t have a functioning […]