Media

File this one under perhaps the most hilarious (and tragic) thing we have seen this week. Or this month. Or ever. As azcentral.com reports, it wasn’t a good day for state representative and Republican congressional candidate Adam Kwasman. Watch. You can read the whole story here. Amazingly funny. And sad. By the way, Rep. Kwasman: […]

Leave it to the Canada Free Press (yes, that is the name of the site) to share a complete list of detailed locations online for a “National Protests Against Amnesty” on July 18 and 19. The site has chronicled as “master list of times, dates, and locations of our protests against illegal immigration!” CFP’s page […]

Our friend EddieG recently weighed in on the recent migrant refugee crisis.

[View the story “Why It’s Not Just About #Murrieta” on Storify]

Today, The Arizona Republic published a special report about the current immigration crisis: You can read the longform article (with more videos) here.

The following video shot by Justice for Immigrants Coalition (JFIC) coordinator Fernando Romero was taken at a migrant refugee site in California’s Inland Empire. Watch as three individuals trespassed the site as a means of making their point. The site houses migrant families and children. We also received this message in Spanish (which we translated […]

As with any embarrassingly disappointing opinion piece that gets my attention, I usually find out about it via Twitter. This weekend was no different, when @RachelDecoste tweeted this: @julito77 Historical amnesia: @EnriqueKrauze in NYTimes «Latin America’s Talent for Tolerance» http://t.co/7HtHdJT0N7 #latino #racism — Rachel Décoste (@RachelDecoste) July 12, 2014 After tapping my laptop to make sure […]

Being a single mother is a challenge. Immigrant mothers face those challenges every day, and they also have extra hurdles to jump. To document these aspects of their lives, an inter-generational photography workshop organized by Mano a Mano, NYC (Mexican Culture without Borders) gave cameras to immigrant parents and their children born in the United […]

In case you missed it, MSNBC’s Joy Reid today talked with Eduardo López, “Harvest of Empire” co-director, about the United States’ historic involvement in Latin America fueled the current immigration crisis. This is a must-watch segment. And if you haven’t caught “Harvest of Empire,” you need to. Visit the film’s site here.

Just a week after disturbing images of neo-nativist protesters went viral, social media is leaving clues that the City of Murrieta is actively trying to change its image through a crisis management group. Today a public Facebook post by Xavier Hermosillo revealed that Hermosillo’s group, CrisisPros.com, has been actively involved in Murrieta’s new change of […]

I’m 21 and not pregnant. That’s what everyone expected from me, right? I have black hair, dark skin, and curves. Aren’t all of us who look this way supposed to be pregnant by now? We get criticized for the clothes we wear, the way we act, the things we think. We are often the subjects […]

For more, visit here. A Letter to President Obama About the Child Migrant Crisis and Sexual Violence (FINAL)

Can you see Vanity Fair doing a callout to its female readership, inviting them to write an essay on their body parts they liked the most? You really can’t see Graydon Carter putting pen to paper to ask for pictures of his readers best features—all this accompanied by an image of a “hot” Latina, can […]

This happened yesterday. Watch. What is going in this world? Your browser does not support iframes. Did we just watch what we thought we watched? Glenn Beck actually offered analysis about Central America, too, as well as U.S. Latin American policy. Our cynical question: how many Latinos evangelicals are subscribing to The Blaze? But still… […]

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 […]

UPDATE, July 8, 2014: How has NPR responded? With a memo. Granted, we were focusing on other serious matters over the July 4 weekend, but when a Twitter follower tweeted the following to us, we admittedly did a double-take: @npr_ed wtf? seriously? #nomames @latinorebels — elena mary (@ElenaMary1) July 7, 2014 We checked it out […]

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 […]