Media

Oh, Bill Maher. While everyone you cater to is applauding your latest “Oh the Places You’ll Go…And Get Kicked Out Of!” skit, when we finally caught it, there was something about it that made it feel a bit too patronizing, insulting and stale. What the Huff Post called an “epic Dr. Seuss parody,” we just […]

This is what happens when people just read interpretations of a poll from third parties and don’t actually read the poll itself. This week, Breitbart ‘s John Nolte wanted to let the world know the following: “BORDER CRISIS POLL: 64% OF HISPANICS BACK DEPORTATIONS.” That headline is so definitive, so real, so confident—how could it […]

This is a summary of my talk with a friend from Central America.   Immigration debate on Facebook led to a phone call: Recently I had a three-hour conversation with a life-long friend from Central America. She shared first-hand accounts of what her family is currently experiencing in her home country. Her words leave me […]

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Today, Fusion’s Cristina Costantini filed the following report based on a Freedom of Information request submitted to the U.S. government:

Earlier this week, our group wrote an editorial about what one fan called the “Jorge Ramos Swimming Thing.” The intent of the piece was not to ask why such a respected news anchor went Geraldo Rivera on us. A tiny few didn’t like that we took the time to write about the segment, yet after […]

According to the White House pool report we received this afternoon about the meeting President Obama had with the leaders of the three Central American countries most impacted by the latest immigration crisis, this is what the President told Guatemala’s Otto Pérez Molina, Honduras’ Juan Orlando Hernández and El Salvador’s Salvador Sánchez Cerén: “Children who […]

July 25, 1978 will forever be seen as a tragedy in the history of Puerto Rico.

Earlier today, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley talked with @julito77 on Latino Rebels Radio about how his state is addressing the growing number of unaccompanied minors entering the United States. Recently, O’Malley said that children who fled Central American countries should not be sent back to a “certain death,” winning kudos from many immigration rights activists. […]

VICE’s “Immigrant America” series added a new episode this week. Milking cows is a dirty, monotonous job, and as we found out in our latest episode of Immigrant America, it’s not a job many unemployed Americans are willing to do. But for some reason the government doesn’t give dairy farms a way to recruit foreign […]

So this past weekend, the following tweet from Jorge Ramos got our attention: Swimming the Rio Grande, following the journey of Central American children. Soon on @ThisIsFusion pic.twitter.com/kXgDv5OZTP — JORGE RAMOS (@jorgeramosnews) July 19, 2014 It also got the attention of many others who admire and respect the veteran news anchor. One journalist even wrote […]

Earlier today, HuffPost Latino Voices published an open letter addressed to noted undocumented activist and journalist Jose Antonio Vargas. The letter, co-authored by undocumented activists Luis Serrano and Cesar Vega, discussed the recent attention Vargas’ arrest in McAllen, Texas, received. The letter, to put it bluntly, did not mince words. Here is one excerpt: We […]

UPDATE: Dr. Steinlight got reprimanded. He didn’t lose his job, just disciplined. Looks like neo-nativist racist Stephen Steinlight is at it again. The notorious “expert” from the misleading Center for Immigration Studies organization (read more about them here), is now stirring up the No Amnesty crowd to the point that that he thinks that for […]

I wrote this poem a few years ago while touring the United States with the play N*GGER WETB*CK CH*NK. N*W*C is a work that reveals stereotypes that people may harbor about people of color, but my interactions with people across America also challenged perceptions I held about people who are, well, not of color. The […]

Yesterday, my Twitter feed led me to the following link from AdWeek: “Honda Targets Hispanic Millennials by Mocking the Way Brands Target Hispanic Millennials Bilingual.” If you are one of those people who feel that agencies and brands have been pandering to Latinos for decades, the following videos from Honda kind of explain themselves. Watch […]

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This one comes from Mi Blog Es Tu Blog. And to quote Gawker’s Adam Weinstein, “The video… is what Wes Anderson-produced political ads for grumpy Maricopa County rotarians might look and sound like.” Yeah, that wasn’t racist at all. Yeah, not racist at all.

Before I start, a word: there are outlets that present a fuller picture when it comes to the root causes of current immigration issues, and those outlets that hide behind “journalism” to feed into your fears. It is a digital media game all too common now, because in the end, like Natalie Merchant once sang, “Give […]

Yesterday, it is safe to conclude Adam Kwasman had one of the worst political days of his life. After a hilariously tragic video where the GOP congressional candidate and Arizona state rep mistakenly thought a bus with YMCA kids were actual migrant children ready to “invade” Oracle, Arizona went viral (yes, even TIME covered it […]

Last week, we shared the tale of how the City of Murrieta, California had hired a “crisis management” expert, who proceeded to brag about his accomplishments on public social media networks. Anyone with a brain knows by now that Murrieta officials have been trying to spin a message that no one is buying. The “new” […]

Brilliant. Just brilliant. (H/T @latinovoices) If you are outside the US: