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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 […]

STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT ON IMMIGRATION Dallas Love Field Dallas, Texas 6:00 P.M. CDT FOR VIDEO GO HERE. THE PRESIDENT:  Hello, everybody. I just had a good meeting with Governor Perry, local officials, and faith leaders to talk about the steps that we have taken and that we need to take to address the humanitarian […]

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

Sources have told Latino Rebels that an undocumented 22-year-old Honduran pregnant woman in her third trimester was held for almost three days with no food at the McAllen Border Patrol Station earlier this year. According to the sources, the woman passed out on the third day, and when she woke up, a U.S. Customs and […]

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 […]

Considering the crisis is mostly a product of the United States itself, you would think since tens of thousands of unaccompanied child refugees are showing up at the U.S.-Mexico border seeking asylum that the best plan of action would be to invest in the region crippled politically and economically by over a century of U.S. policies. 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 […]

Here is the full ‘Meet the Press’ interview between United States Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and host David Gregory. By the way, what is up with Gregory? He sounds like he lives in Murrieta. Is saying the word “refugee” too hard for Gregory? Also, Johnson’s words are clear as well. Then there is […]

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 […]

Yesterday Latino Rebels founder @julito77 appeared on NPR’s On The Media in a segment about the rise of English-language outlets in Latino media. The hosts of the show were discussing “No Mames” and Julito appeared at the beginning of the show and also at the end. Here is the full show: BREAKING BAD IN SPANISH, […]

Meet Diana Serafin. She is running for Murrieta City Council. In 2010, Serafin was quoted in The New York Times about efforts to stop the construction of a mosque in Temecula, California: Recently, a small group of activists became alarmed about the mosque. Diana Serafin, a grandmother who lost her job in tech support this year, […]

I’m in Murrieta, California, ground zero in the immigration debate. I’m watching hundreds of protestors and supporters at a hastily called town hall meeting at the local high school. Police surround the auditorium to shield between protestors and supporters. A massive wall of news vans fill the parking lot. Reporters with news cameras troll the crowd hunting for sound bites. On […]

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