Politics

This morning the White House released the following letter from President Obama: Letter from the President: Efforts to Address the Humanitarian Situation in the Rio Grande Valley Areas of…

“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 […]

This happened today in Arizona. John Huppenthal “repudiated” his anonymous blog posts but he won’t resign as Arizona’s Superintendent of Public Instruction. No flipping way. Huppenthal needs to resign right now for what he wrote and what he has done in the past. Karma sucks, John. Time to go. Step away from it all. This […]

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 […]

REMARKS TO THE PRESS WITH Q&A BY VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN Residence of the United States Ambassador Guatemala City, Guatemala 4:37 P.M. (Local) THE VICE PRESIDENT: Hello, folks. Thank you for waiting. I appreciate it. I’ve just finished, as most of you know, a day of meetings, and I would say very constructive meetings here […]

Yesterday a headline for Newsweek story about the current crisis on the US-Mexico border made us do a double-take and insert a WTF: “Honduras’ First Lady Says She Will Collect Her Country’s Child Border-Crashers.” We would expect such a headline from a Town Hall or a Breitbart, but this is Newsweek. Has the quality of one of […]

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. […]

The good news is that Scott Fistler, the former Republican who legally changed his name to César Chávez and then entered his name in an Arizona congressional Democratic primary, was kicked off the ballot yesterday. The sad news is that he is a true pendejo. Watch this from yesterday.

This morning Puerto Rico’s El Nuevo Día reported that United States flags with 51 stars and an extra stripe were on display in different locations around the island. According the article, pro-statehood advocates displayed the flags in celebration of Flag Day. Here is one of the flags at El Morro in Old San Juan (you […]

So about a month since Nate Cohn of The New York Times boldly proclaimed that more Latinos were becoming “white” after basing his “analysis” on a partial report chronicled by a Pew senior research reporter, the actual authors of the study Cohn had referenced finally offered a more specific clarification about their initial study. Here […]

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You know SOMEONE would talk about the guy named César Chávez who’s running for Congress out of Arizona, and that someone was Colbert: The Colbert Report Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Colbert Report on Facebook

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 […]

Yesterday, President Barack Obama awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to the 65th U.S. Army Infantry Regiment, also known as the “Borinqueneers.” A decade ago no one would have predicted such an occasion nor was the 65th as popular as it is now. Not only was the 65th virtually forgotten by Puerto Ricans but the contribution of  hundreds of thousands of […]

So it’s official. Ted Cruz has renounced his Canadian citizenship. He even has a letter (in English and in French) to prove it.   We wonder if Cruz will also renounce the fact that his dad bribed his way into the United States from Cuba. Nonetheless, back to crapping on immigrants.

File this one under “Colonialism is Still Colonialism.” A new social media page calling for Puerto Rico’s return to Spain has gotten media attention on the island, the U.S. and of course, Spain. And guess what? The organizers are serious about it. A Facebook page is calling (in Spanish) for the “Reunification of Puerto Rico […]

This congressional primary campaign going on in New York City between incumbent Rep. Charles Rangel and State Senator Adriano Espaillat, his main challenger, is officially ugly. Last week, the debate focused on race and ethnicity. Today, as reported by The New York Observer, Dominican-born Espaillat told supporters that President Obama could do more to end […]

Cuando sonó la trompeta, estuvo todo preparado en la tierra, y Jehova repartió el mundo a Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda, Ford Motors, y otras entidades: la Compañía Frutera Inc. se reservó lo más jugoso, la costa central de mi tierra, la dulce cintura de América. When the trumpet sounded everything was prepared on earth, and Jehovah […]

Original version here. It’s a far too familiar scene happening everyday all over the country: a person is arrested, incarcerated, possibly deported, for a non-violent drug related offense, and a family is torn apart. Thanks to the failed war on drugs, that person is most likely an African-American or a Latino even though whites use […]

Recently, a controversy about Latinos and racial classifications has led to heated debate based on a toxic mix of incomplete conclusions from research and rampant speculation. A draft presentation at the Population Association of America (PAA) chronicled by a Pew Research senior writer was then picked up by Nate Cohn, writing for The New York […]

On Sunday, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, who went by the nom de guerre “Comandante Leonel González” during El Salvador’s 12-year civil war, was adorned with the presidential sash as he officially assumed the office of the presidency. Gripping the sides of the podium with both hands, he addressed the nearly six thousand guests, including 13 foreign leaders, invited […]