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By now regular visitors to this site will have seen the images coming out of Murrieta, California, where an angry mob this week blocked three buses from delivering immigrant detainees apprehended in southern Texas. Presumably among the close to 140 detainees on-board the buses were unaccompanied child migrants from Central America, tens of thousands of […]

The City of Murrieta, California is working really hard to make sure that the country’s current “immigrant crisis” doesn’t actually affect it. To be absolutely certain, the city’s official website has an “Immigration Update.” (H/T to this post from a fan.) Here’s a sampling of some of the questions: Can I donate goods for the […]

We love Las Cafeteras. And now we love them more. Watch their remake of the “This Land is Your Land,” the Woodie Guthrie classic. This Land is your Land (Reimagined and performed by Las Cafeteras in collaboration with The California Endowment) This Land is your Land This Land is my Land From California to the […]

I am starting to wonder if we are living in 2014 or whether it’s 1902 or 1857 because all of sudden the paranoia of unaccompanied minors invading the United States with plague, pestilence and illness is beginning to dominate the comments of people like this woman (yes, an actual photo from Monday’s shameful Murrieta protests): […]

Sitting at my desk in Brooklyn, I read with sadness and anger the news coming out of Murrieta, California. I watch the raw video—the contorted grimaces of hate, the chants of “USA, USA,” the misspelt racism aimed at a busload of undocumented immigrants from Central America, mainly women and children. My thoughts drift back 26 […]

Leave it to local San Diego media to produce one very fear-mongering and one-sided story the day after the now-infamous Murrieta protests. Watch: If anyone can tell us who else besides a Border Patrol union representative was interviewed for the piece, we would love to know. Unconfirmed stories of diseases and poxes. Quarantines and fear. […]

Welcome to the USA. This happened yesterday in Murrieta. Watch: Classy. Lupillo Rivera is related to the late Jenni Rivera, the legendary singer who advocated for immigration reform during her life. He is her brother.

I was 4 years old in a comfy neighborhood 4 year old dreams of running running through fields of tall grass the top of my head and the soles of my feet are all you can see I am 4 years old casually walking into neighbors’ houses asking for cookies and juice to their bemusement […]

On Monday President Barack Obama promised to bypass Congress and use all of his legal powers as president to fix the nation’s immigration system. With tens of thousands of unaccompanied kids from drug war-torn Central America showing up at the U.S. border, creating what President Obama has labeled an “urgent humanitarian situation” —plus Speaker John Boehner […]

You saw the pictures and tweets, now see some of the video from today’s anti-migrant protest in Murrieta, California. For more, read the story at The Desert Sun. Some more local reports from San Diego add more details: San Diego, California News Station – KFMB Channel 8 – cbs8.com San Diego, California News Station – […]

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Rose Garden 3:04 P.M. EDT (VIDEO can be seen here) THE PRESIDENT:  Good afternoon, everybody.  One year ago this month, senators of both parties —with support from the business, labor, law enforcement, faith communities— came together to pass a commonsense immigration bill. Independent experts said that bill would strengthen our borders, grow our economy, shrink […]

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…

EDITOR’S NOTE: In response to the controversy surrounding chants by Mexican soccer fans, we received the following opinion essay in Spanish by Luis Gomez Romero, a native of Mexico. Luis now lives Australia, where he teaches at the University of Wollongong. We are running this original post in Spanish and will not be translating it. The Spanish […]

“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 […]

UPDATE, June 25: Huppenthal said he won’t resign. We won’t gloat, no, we really won’t, but there is something incredibly vindicating about the news that John Huppenthal, Arizona’s Superintendent of Public Instruction and the man who said that Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American Studies program was a violation of state law, is also an […]

Ever since Latino Rebels formed more than three years ago, we never tended to shy away from raw and honest discussions relating to culture, identity, ethnicity and race. It is what we do, so it was no surprise to see the comments from a June 20 Facebook post go completely insane.  Just another normal day at […]

After more than half a decade since its successful premiere in the Sundance Film Festival, Alex Rivera’s “Sleep Dealer” is being distributed once again. A sci-fi thriller, it depicts an uncannily familiar future when infomaquilas, new factories in Mexico where people are physically connected to computer networks to handle robots in the United States, fulfill their […]

One of the more interesting backstories surrounding the World Cup looks like a non-issue, now that FIFA has weighed in today with a statement about coordinated “puto” chants by Mexican fans at this year’s global tournament: Disciplinary proceedings were opened against Mexico for improper conduct of spectators during the match, Mexico v Cameroon. The FIFA […]

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 […]