Immigration

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VIA THE HUFF POST Another three activists belonging to the Dream 30 group were deported over the weekend, La Opinión reported Monday. With the return of Edgar Torres, Karen Hernandez and César Ortiz to Mexico, the total number Dream 30 activists deported comes to five, with another four remaining in detention in El Paso. The rest have […]

Watch this. This isn’t about politics, Speaker Boehner. This is real life. Real stories. So, if you agree with them, what are you going to do about it, Speaker Boehner?

Let’s just say this: we love Juan Escalante, known to us on Twitter as @JuanSaaa, and so when he shared this video today where he debates DA King on Fusion, of course we were going to share it. Here is the segment.

Update: yeah, we shared new info about this. See below. We got this one from from a fan: @latinorebels what’re y’alls thoughts on the new #Bordertown show on fox? Almost all latinos on tv are stereotypes :/ http://t.co/InhsNmHjyX — Zenen Jaimes Pérez (@zenenjaimes) November 12, 2013 So we checked it out, and we read that […]

The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) has launched a Veterans Day postcard petition to demand Congress to pass “commonsense immigration reform” legislation to honor the service of Latino veterans. The postcard, which reads “This Veterans Day Honor Them By Honoring Those They Fight For,” was distributed to LULAC’s 130,000 members to fill out, […]

And so it continues. First, Satan. Now, Latinos posing as Arab terrorists, or is it Arabs posing as Latino immigrants who are also terrorists? Who knows any more. Here is what ABC News reported today: A Republican congressmen this week used insensitive-sounding rhetoric while discussing immigration reform, but he did it while making the case […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: We asked Blanca E. Vega to share her thoughts about the HuffPost Live “Dream 9” segment she appeared on this past week. Blanca is a currently a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, and is also the Director of the Higher Education Opportunity Program at Marymount Manhattan College. Her blog is called Race-work, Race-love and you […]

For all the numbers and debates about immigration, in the end, it is all about real stories. Here is one of those real stories.

While our site was down today due to a server outage, we used our Storify account to publish the following update about the #Dream9. [View the story “The Latest Updates from the #Dream9” on Storify]

According to local reports, 41 immigration rights activists were arrested today in Washington, DC. As CBS reports: Forty-one pro-immigrant activists were arrested outside the Capitol Thursday after blocking traffic while pushing for passage of comprehensive immigration legislation. After marching by the Capitol, the activists joined hands and sat down on Independence Avenue, a major street […]

Latino Rebels welcomes a new contributor to our page: Luis Marentes. This post was originally published on Luis’ blog. You can follow Luis on Twitter: @marentesluis. For most of 2013 I have carefully, perhaps obsessively, followed the debate around comprehensive immigration reform. Beginning with the emergence of the “Gang of 8” the process has been […]

In response to questions as to whether the U.S. State Department authorized and approved a Gangnam-inspired “USA Visa Style” parody video produced and uploaded to YouTube by the U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica, a State Department official provided us with the following statement: Our embassies and consulates around the world are always looking for new […]

Late last night our Publisher @julito77 emailed a request for comment from The Heritage Foundation about two Latino Rebels stories about how the family foundations of Richard M. Scaife, the Vice Chairman of the Heritage’s Foundation Board of Trustees, had been donating millions of dollars for years to anti-immigration organizations linked to John Tanton. This […]

Jason Richwine, who resigned last Friday from The Heritage Foundation over his “IQ and Immigration Policy” dissertation from 2009, went on record today with The Washington Examiner to defend his work and speak about the reaction it received (for example, Google “Jason Richwine racist” and see the millions of entries you will get). Here are just are […]

In the midst of a national tour (dates here) with internationally known reggae group SOJA, the Panamanian-born, Oakland-bred duo Los Rakas found time for a special May Day release called “Mi País.” The song is off their upcoming album, the double-disc “El Negrito Dun Dun & Ricardo” which will see release on their label, Soy […]

Jan Brewer sure knows how to dig in her heels. But if you follower her logic, she too is an “illegal.” Give it up to the Phoenix New Times for making the connection. Here is the exchange they posted between Brewer and ABC News’ Jim Avila: When asked about why she still uses “illegal immigrant,” […]

The Huff Post’s Roque Plenas speaks the truth in his latest piece, titled “No Politico, Not All Undocumented Immigrants Are Latino.” Politico made waves with an article published Monday that attempts to parse out the political efforts of a proposal for comprehensive immigration reform. The article argues that “pumping as many as 11 million new Hispanic […]

This week Cuéntame released the first video of its “Deport Hate” series. The video discusses the “five ways anti-immigrant hate makes its way into media and policy.” The video includes comments and insights from journalist and author Pilar Marrero, national columnist Gustavo Arrellano, writer/broadcaster Wendy Carrillo, and our very own Julito, Latino Rebels founder. For […]

For all those who think that the current national debate on immigration reform is a question of the restrictive right vs. the accommodating left, we offer the latest series of posts by Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato Institute, considered by many to be one of the most influential “think tanks” in the world. Cato bills itself […]

Meet some of the real faces behind the headlines of “11 million.” For more information, visit NotOneMoreDeportation.com