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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 […]

[View the story “The Racist Images Being Shared (So Far) on #NoAmnesty Day” on Storify]

Know what happens when a war on drugs is launched across Latin America? War erupts across Latin America. And yet, after years of failed policy, you still hear people arguing that what’s needed in Central America is more funding for a militaristic campaign against criminals and cocaine dealers. Even the president of Honduras himself argued just […]

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 […]

The other day my friend Laura Homar posted on her Facebook page something that only the members of the Boricua diaspora will understand the Proustian significance of: Mallorcas to Go! She was celebrating the fact that the Panificadora Pepín had just created a website where we, the ones who left, could now order a tiny […]

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:

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently shared information about individuals who have applied for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Over 500,000 individuals were deemed eligible for DACA. The following document presents data according to gender, country of origin and other categories. Characteristics of Individuals Requesting and Approved for Deferred Action for […]

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.

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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 […]

Kids First: A Response to the Southern Border Humanitarian Crisis by Latino Rebels

So, several of you let us know about this: With Gov Perry pic.twitter.com/oLaxlpwgp8 — Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) July 10, 2014 On the boat pic.twitter.com/B9p6eoWkXs — Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) July 10, 2014 America’s heroes protecting the border pic.twitter.com/75OWgpFWql — Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) July 10, 2014 All because we are suddenly afraid of child refugees from Central […]

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.