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Rep. Raúl Labrador, a Republican from Idaho, is one of three voting members of Congress to be born in Puerto Rico. Labrador was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, while Democrat José Serrano was born in Mayagüez and Democrat Nydia Velázquez was born in Yabucoa. Since Labrador is the only Republican in Congress with birth ties […]

On May 15, Puerto Rico’s Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi (D), a non-voting member of the U.S. House of Representatives, submitted the following bill to Congress:   PUERTO RICO STATUS RESOLUTION ACT Full Text Below is a simple rendition of Congress’ official bill text. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Puerto Rico Status Resolution Act. […]

It looks like the tragic case of the David Sal Silva, whose last moments of life involved an alleged brutal encounter with law enforcement officials in Bakersfield last week, has begun to get national media attention. Yesterday the AP and CNN ran pieces, and today The New York Times published its first story about the incident. […]

There was a time when the Heritage Foundation was looking at immigration through a more rational lens than its recent immigration report and the hornet’s nest it created for Jason Richwine, the study’s co-author, who last Friday resigned from Heritage after fallout from his 2009 Harvard dissertation about immigrants and IQ went viral. In 2006, […]

The Jason Richwine Saga continues, and the latest comes from a Buzzfeed article about how the Heritage Foundation’s Mike Gonzalez stood up for (yet also distanced himself from) Richwine on Univision America’s Fernando Espuelas Show. Yesterday Richwine was identified by the Washington Post as a co-author of Heritage’s latest controversial immigration study but is also […]

Twitter is now the go-to place to confront each other in public, especially when it comes to the ongoing debate on immigration reform. Today is no different, as you will see from the following thread which started when the Twitter profile of America’s Voice, a pro-immigration DC group, got a tweet back from the Twitter […]

Last week an online group called Concerned Chicagoans went online to publicly criticize a neighorhood-wide “Derby de Mayo” celebration being held in several Lincoln Park establishments. You can read more about what they wrote here, but essentially the CC post  asked readers the following: “What we ask is that folks think critically about the Chicago community. We are not post-racial. […]

So yesterday we shared our readers’ first answers to the question, “What Is the Best Pro-Immigration Song Ever Recorded?” The response to that list was so positive that it lead to this post. Yes, we get even more suggestions, and here they are. Feel free to share your own suggestions. Rage Against the Machine’s “People […]

NISGUA (Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala) filed the following Day 22 report of the genocide trial of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt and ex-intelligence chief Mauricio Rodriguez Sánchez in Guatemala City. They have given us permission to republish all their reports about this historic trial. NISGUA continues live coverage of the trial in Guatemala of Efraín Ríos […]

SAN JUAN—After the New Progressive Party (PNP) announced yesterday that they would be working with Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi (D) to promote a statehood bill for Puerto Rico, governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla (D) criticized the entire announcement in a radio interview with local NotiUNO 630 AM. García Padilla, who heads up the island’s pro-commonwealth Popular Democratic […]

SAN JUAN—Puerto Rico’s sole congressional representative, the Hon. Pedro Pierluisi (D), announced today that he would present a bill to Congress that would begin the island’s transition to statehood. Pierluisi is Puerto Rico’s Resident Commissioner, a non-voting member of Congress, as well as the president of Puerto Rico’s New Progressive Party (PNP), which advocates statehood […]

This just in from Washington and today’s Senate Judicial Committee hearing on immigration. Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy (D), the committee’s chairman, shared his comments about the recent Boston Marathon bombings and how they were being used by immigration reform opponents for political gain. This is what CNN’s blog reported: “Last week, opponents of comprehensive immigration […]

The New Progressive Party (PNP) Status Committee, chaired by Luis G. Fortuño, the former Republican governor of Puerto Rico, unanimously voted to support a Puerto Rican Statehood bill that would be presented to Congress by the island’s Resident Commissioner, Pedro Pierluisi, who is also the President of the PNP. The party’s Status Committee also considered […]

UPDATE, April 18, 2013, 8:32 AM EST: We spoke with Phil Berne, Marketing Manager for Technical Media at Samsung Mobile. Berne shared the following official response from the company: “Samsung is not offering any such ringtones on our mobile devices.” We suspected that, since the ringtone comes from third parties, and in an open environment […]

NISGUA (Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala) filed the following Days 11-14 report of the genocide trial of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt and ex-intelligence chief Mauricio Rodriguez Sánchez in Guatemala City. They have given us permission to republish all their reports about this historic trial. NISGUA continues live coverage of the trial in Guatemala of Efraín Rios […]

NISGUA (Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala) filed the following Day 12 report of the genocide trial of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt and ex-intelligence chief Mauricio Rodriguez Sánchez in Guatemala City. They have given us permission to republish all their reports about this historic trial. NISGUA continues live coverage of the trial in Guatemala of Efraín Rios […]

This morning on CBS’ Face the Nation, two members of the bipartisan Gang of Eight, Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY), talked about the current developments in crafting a comprehensive immigration bill. Schumer said that an initial draft of a bill will “hopefully” be ready by the end of this week, while both […]

I will be honest with you: I did a major double-take when the Facebook page of Rick Santorum posted the following plea this afternoon: Yes, the same Rick Santorum who said this at a Republican presidential debate: Q: [to Santorum]:We heard from Gov. Romney, that self-deportation, or illegal immigrants leaving the country voluntarily, is a possible […]

A few things about the Center for Immigration Studies before we use actual statistics from the US Border Patrol to easily refute the claim that the United States southwest border has seen a 500% increase in border apprehensions. We all know where the CIS stands on comprehensive immigration reform: they are not non-partisan (just see […]

For most of my life I did my best to stay away from politics. I always felt that there was no point and that it is just a huge waste of time. In fact I still feel this way most of the time. We have created these imaginary sides, the left and the right. Team […]

Last week Alaska Republican Don Young’s “wetback” comment —describing workers from his dad’s ranch— created a tremendous uproar. As it should, for the label carries with it a history of racism and a continuation of its effects into the present day. A label such as this one clearly reminds you what’s truly in someone’s heart. The […]