Injustice

Sources have told Latino Rebels that an undocumented 22-year-old Honduran pregnant woman in her third trimester was held for almost three days with no food at the McAllen Border Patrol Station earlier this year. According to the sources, the woman passed out on the third day, and when she woke up, a U.S. Customs and […]

Earlier this morning, the main Latino Rebels email account received the following message: Hello, My name is Harry Ramos and I am Mayor Pro Tem of the city of Murrieta. I saw you guys had some stories about what is going on here so I thought I would reach out. If you guys ever want […]

With all the attention now on Murrieta, California, the city’s Manager took the time to publish the following official July 3 message at www.murrieta.org: Message to the Community July 3, 2014 This has been a difficult week in the city of Murrieta. We have been challenged and in some ways we fell down in the face of […]

This just in from Ruptly: “A face-off between anti-immigrant protesters and immigrant supporters happened outside Murrieta’s US Border Patrol facilities on Monday, with a verbal skirmish over who has the ‘right’ to reside in the USA taking place.”

We don’t think we have ever written a headline with so many quotation marks, but after seeing a ‘damning’ (there go those quotes again) on the public Facebook page of LibertyNews.com’s Eric Odom, how could we not succumb to such ‘truth?’ Are you ready to see it yourself, with your own very eyes—15 seconds of […]

Last night, Latino Rebels Radio featured the incredible work of Enrique Morones and Border Angels. During the show, Morones shared the following email and pictures (all taken about by María Teresa Fernández) about what the Border Angels did yesterday: This week we saw the worst of the American spirit in Murrieta and today we see […]

UPDATE: Another account of the July 4 protests is a bit more detailed, especially when it comes to allegations of flag burning. Read it here. One thing to note about Diana Serafin, the candidate running for Murrieta City Council who is organizing the current immigration protests that have gotten national attention: she is not being […]

I’m in Murrieta, California, ground zero in the immigration debate. I’m watching hundreds of protestors and supporters at a hastily called town hall meeting at the local high school. Police surround the auditorium to shield between protestors and supporters. A massive wall of news vans fill the parking lot. Reporters with news cameras troll the crowd hunting for sound bites. On […]

The City of Murrieta, California is working really hard to make sure that the country’s current “immigrant crisis” doesn’t actually affect it. To be absolutely certain, the city’s official website has an “Immigration Update.” (H/T to this post from a fan.) Here’s a sampling of some of the questions: Can I donate goods for the […]

I am starting to wonder if we are living in 2014 or whether it’s 1902 or 1857 because all of sudden the paranoia of unaccompanied minors invading the United States with plague, pestilence and illness is beginning to dominate the comments of people like this woman (yes, an actual photo from Monday’s shameful Murrieta protests): […]

Leave it to local San Diego media to produce one very fear-mongering and one-sided story the day after the now-infamous Murrieta protests. Watch: If anyone can tell us who else besides a Border Patrol union representative was interviewed for the piece, we would love to know. Unconfirmed stories of diseases and poxes. Quarantines and fear. […]

Welcome to the USA. This happened yesterday in Murrieta. Watch: Classy. Lupillo Rivera is related to the late Jenni Rivera, the legendary singer who advocated for immigration reform during her life. He is her brother.

I was 4 years old in a comfy neighborhood 4 year old dreams of running running through fields of tall grass the top of my head and the soles of my feet are all you can see I am 4 years old casually walking into neighbors’ houses asking for cookies and juice to their bemusement […]

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]

EDITOR’S NOTE: In response to the controversy surrounding chants by Mexican soccer fans, we received the following opinion essay in Spanish by Luis Gomez Romero, a native of Mexico. Luis now lives Australia, where he teaches at the University of Wollongong. We are running this original post in Spanish and will not be translating it. The Spanish […]

“After 9/11, the word ‘homeland’ took the country by surprise,” writes Todd Miller in the pages of his new book Border Patrol Nation. Furthermore, the notion of an American “homeland” materialized into our public psyche at just the exact moment when the country seemed to be at its most vulnerable. The main effect of that […]

The distance from Guatemala City to El Paso, Texas, is roughly the same distance as from El Paso to The New York Times headquarters in Manhattan.  Amazingly, but unsurprisingly, rumor mills, half-truths, petty self-interest, and sheer desperation are as effective a means of opinion formulation at the Gray Lady as it is the downtrodden kids […]

When a coup removed the democratically-elected leftist president of Honduras in June 2009, receiving tacit support from the U.S. State Department, the American people barely took notice. Then when the United States increased military funding in its little protectorate to reinforce the new right-wing regime installed there, the American public still remained largely unaware and unconcerned. […]

Here is the copy of a letter sent to the Department of Homeland Security from the following organizations: National Immigrant Justice Center, Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project, Americans for Immigrant Justice, Florence Immigrant Rights & Refugee Project and the ACLU Border Litigation Project: Systemic Abuse of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children by U.S. Customs and Border Protection by […]