Immigration

In case you missed it, Enrique Peña Nieto appeared on CNN yesterday Fareed Zakaria. The Mexican president shared his thoughts about the U.S. and immigration. Here is a clip:

You know you have major problems when even the most sympathetic of outlets says you that your story is whack. That is exactly what Breitbart is telling the organizer of the silly “Shut Down All Ports of Entry” protest, which was suddenly cancelled in the early hours of September 20 because of a “bloodbath” threat […]

The following excerpt is from the official Vice President’s pool report for a Hispandering (sorry, Hispanic) Heritage Month event where Vice President Joe Biden spoke: [Biden] said comprehensive immigration reform was needed and that if Congress did not “get it done” before the end of the year, “the President’s going to do it, and he’s […]

Give it up to Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) for sharing actual truth about this whole “Is ISIS on the Mexican border?” paranoia crap. As O’Rourke said last week: There’s a longstanding history in this country of projecting whatever fears we have onto the border. In the absence of understanding the border, they insert their fears. […]

“No Democrat is safe because they chose politics over giving relief to families.” With these words, DREAMer activist Erika Andiola gave voice to the new spirit infusing “Hispanic Heritage” celebrations taking place throughout the country from now until October 15. Andiola made these comments in Iowa, where last Sunday, she and other members of the […]

Looks like the much-hyped Border Convoy trip into Texas has become an absolute disaster for the “Stop the Invasion” organizers. Yesterday, the group was in San Antonio, and according to local press, only six people showed up. A half-dozen people from the San Antonio area gathered to hear radio host Pete Santilli talk about illegal immigration […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: José Ángel N. wrote to Latino Rebels and gave us permission to publish this letter. It has also appeared here and here. You can visit José Ángel at his blog. July 25, 2014 Dear President Obama, I know you will probably never read this letter. But, as a good Mexican, I’ve been taught to […]

On Monday President Barack Obama promised to bypass Congress and use all of his legal powers as president to fix the nation’s immigration system. With tens of thousands of unaccompanied kids from drug war-torn Central America showing up at the U.S. border, creating what President Obama has labeled an “urgent humanitarian situation” —plus Speaker John Boehner […]

You saw the pictures and tweets, now see some of the video from today’s anti-migrant protest in Murrieta, California. For more, read the story at The Desert Sun. Some more local reports from San Diego add more details: San Diego, California News Station – KFMB Channel 8 – cbs8.com San Diego, California News Station – […]

[View the story “This Racism Happened in Murietta, California Today” on Storify]

I spent Memorial Day weekend in Tijuana, Mexico doing the same thing I did the weekend before, honoring U.S. military veterans. The sound of that still sounds strange to me, but unfortunately it is what it is. Tijuana is a place I’ve been to many times, but this time it was way different for me […]

This afternoon, Boston’s Spanish-language El Planeta newspaper tweeted the following to us: @latinorebels Boston Herald insists on using backward yellow journalism to cover immigration #WTF http://t.co/ooVTUATv3S … … — El Planeta (@elplanetaboston) May 21, 2014 The link lead to an editorial written in Spanish, where El Planeta lambasted today’s front page of The Boston Herald: […]

¡PENDEJO ALERT! Let the fear-mongering begin. The following “news” (cue dramatic music) by faux outlet Breitbart has American’s Favorite Pendejo, Rep. Steve King of Iowa (R), talking ignorance. Again. Here is the “shocking” video: Here is what King told Breitbart (we emphasized the big nugget for you): If we’re going to put out the bait, […]

Recently, I met a a young man, about 23 years old or so, and he was doing construction work on our bathroom. Juan shared that he was here “sin papeles,” which translated means “without papers,” aka undocumented. Juan is one of over 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Juan spoke with me about […]

Remember the immigration mural in Wichita, Kansas defaced with racist graffiti this week? We have some good news to share. The folks at The Seed House/Casa de la Semilla updated us this evening about the mural. It has been restored. Here are three images the group shared on its Facebook page. And this, too: A […]

Everyone knows that Dr. Stephen Steinlight of the Center for Immigration Studies has already earned #NoMames Emeritus status, and Steinlight shows no signs of losing such an honor. We found the following comments via RightWingWatch, which referred to a January 1 interview with Steinlight in a Washington Times community interview with Joseph Cotto. Here is […]

Much love and respect to Dreamers Adrift, especially homies Jesús Iñiguez and Julio Salgado. 2014 is upon us, and the journey continues. Read more at DreamersAdrift.com

It is no surprise to us that when news of Sergio C. Garcia’s admission into the California state bar as the “first publicly known undocumented lawyer” (h/t Colorlines) hit the mainstream media, that the message would be skewed depending on the outlet. It only proves to us that the immigration partisanship will only get worse […]

Remember early in November when New Jersey governor Chris Christie was being praised for being a Republican that was able to garner the Latino vote in an election? The Daily Beast, for example, reminded readers that right before Christie’s re-election sweep, he had changed his position on New Jersey’s version of a DREAM Act, making […]

UPDATE, November 19, 2013: The “Catch an Illegal Immigrant” game has now been cancelled. This just in from Librotraficante: Houston, TX (November 18, 2013) – It will be a full day of defying oppression for the Librotraficantes who were headed to Austin Wednesday morning to protest HB5 (More info: www.mastexas.org). Afterwards, they will head over […]

UPDATE, November 19, 2013: The event has now been cancelled. UPDATE, November 18, 2013: a counter-protest is now being scheduled. UPDATE, November 18, 2013: UT has responded with a statement. Apparently drawing from a 2005-06 plan of Young Conservative organizations on campuses across the country, the UT Austin chapter of Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT) […]