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From America’s Voice: President Obama has deported a record 2 million immigrants — including Brigido. Visit www.americasvoiceonline.org/2million to take action and find out more. Brigido is the father of two US citizen children and husband to Maria, also a US citizen. Yet he was deported last November and torn apart from his family, one of […]

This happened yesterday: Eliseo Medina, a prominent immigrant rights activist involved with Fast4Families and former SEIU International Secretary, arrested in the Miami offices of Republican Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart: This is a local Miami report about what happened: Diaz-Balart’s Twitter profile responded to the news with two tweets: I’m still committed to #immigration reform. My office […]

Reading the reports of Michelle Bachelet’s inauguration in Chile on March 11 and watching the videos, I couldn’t help but hear former president Salvador Allende’s words reverberating: The seed which we have planted in the good conscience of thousands and thousands of Chileans will not be shriveled forever. They have strength and will be able […]

When we get a Change.org petition from one person, we give it a glance. When we get the same petition from 15 people in the same day, we tend to write a story about it. Such is the case of a petition from Puerto Rico slamming a local Dentyne Ice advertising campaign for being sexist. […]

Lost in the narratives of patriotism and good ol’ American apple pie is the story of Marine Lance Corporal José Gutierrez, one of the first U.S. serviceman to die in combat during the Iraq War. We got this tip from a community member on our Facebook page, and after we checked out the 2003 TIME […]

Remember that Houston middle school principal who got slammed for telling students that they could not speak Spanish in school? Looks like she lost her job. We first found out via Twitter last night from those who were following the story: @HighTechAztec @KHOU @abc13houston @Univision @NPAirwaves #HempsteadmiddleSchool Principal contract nonrenewal approved #HempsteadISD — Tony Diaz […]

On the days following the March 12 tragic explosion that leveled two five-story tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem (that is being attributed as possibly gas-related), the death toll had been officially verified at eight. One of the victims was found just after sunrise, as the surrounding community arose to prepare for another work day, to […]

Two videos, two different views. Here is one video. Here is another. So what is the truth in Venezuela? It is increasingly getting harder to tell.

Yeah, it looks like this “Latina problem” on Saturday Night Live is not going away. First we heard from Ms. Latina Stereotypes and then we said, “Create your own.” Now our friends, The Comedy Girls, filmed a public service open video letter to Lorne Michaels and the rest of SNL, now known as #StillNoLatinas. Watch […]

A story from The Monitor written today by reporters Ildefonso Ortiz, Karen Antonacci and Jared Taylor is sending shock waves through our online community. According to the report, 32-year-old Border Patrol agent named Esteban Manzanares “apparently committed suicide” after ” after kidnapping and assaulting an immigrant family that illegally crossed the border Wednesday evening.” The […]

After the GOP failed last night with the ENFORCE Act, some DREAMers decided to pay another breakfast visit to House Speaker John Boehner again at a DC diner this morning. ) Here is the transcript: Veronica: “Speaker Boehner, I just want to ask you why you want to break the dream of the dreamers, of […]

Let’s be real for a second: the Republican Party does not care about comprehensive immigration reform (CIR). With all the promises and principles made this year, in the end, every indication from the GOP leadership confirms that it shows no desire to progress on CIR and all the tweets, Facebook posts, newspaper articles, columns and […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Latino Rebels contributor Roberto Lovato visited Venezuela last week and wrote the following opinion piece. As of this morning, according to reports, the death toll resulting from the protests in Venezuela is at 25. The most recent violent events have occurred in San Cristóbal, near the Venezuela/Colombia border. CARACAS—Reports and imagery coming out […]

Comedy is a tough industry and the nature and pressure of the SNL schedule is even harder. We have a lot of peers, acquaintances, and friends on the show, so it’s tough for us to completely blame the performers for the lack of ingenuity because, to be honest, we’ve said it before and we’ll say […]

In response to SNL’s dumb Latina skit, we give you this from Ms. Latina Stereotypes (played by the fabulous Lorena Díaz of Dominizuelan). “Is not show art, is show beeeeznessss.”

We are starting to think that SNL just wants to keep on pissing off Latinas by having Cecily Strong (who is not Latina, btw) play yet another stereotypical loud accented Latina in yet another stereotypical skit that borders on the ignorant. Here is the video. We have no words. There is funny and then there […]

For a second, we really thought that this was all fake, but alas, it is not. It all started with this tweet: The Lakewood Shopper uses actor @IAmLuisGuzman‘s pic instead of Druglord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s. @BuzzFeedAndrew pic.twitter.com/DXRUv8VeBD — Malei Rikud (@MaleiRikud) March 5, 2014 That tweet led to a story by Elite Daily, which […]

Before you jump to some Beltway conclusions being shared by Obama apologists that the push for stopping record deportations is limited to just a bunch of “radicals,” here is a video for your consideration: By the way, it’s not just “radicals” like NDLON that are presenting this platform, just read what the “radical” Sen. Bob […]

Wait, a fictional comedy video about an undocumented student organization? Yeah, that is what we said: a fictional comedy video about an undocumented student organization. Here is the first episode of Undeportable Productions’ “The Org.” More episodes will be up on DreamTV soon. Subscribe to them on YouTube. Also give the group a like on […]

This just in from Ysleta Independent School District, which serves the El Paso, Texas area: YISD School Board Meeting – El Paso, TX- March 5, 2014 – At 6pm tonight, the Ysleta Independent School District is set to be the first Texas school district to endorse a Mexican American Studies program. The implementation of Culturally and […]

In response to a troupe dressed in KKK outfits at the Dominican Republic’s Carnival in Santo Domingo this Sunday, the country’s Ministry of Culture said that the troupe was speaking out against the KKK’s past and was not celebrating the organization, according to a statement published today in Spanish. Here is a translation of what […]