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Tonight during the State of the Union, expect President Obama to make due on his threat to bypass Congress and use Executive fiat to provide more Band-Aids and policy placebos to our immigration problem. Later this week, expect the House Republicans’ outline of immigration “principles” to be an unoriginal and shallow reiteration of the quid […]

Before you catch tonight’s State of the Union… …a reminder.

Editor’s Note: As we prepared this opinion piece by Susanne Ramirez de Arellano, it came to our attention that the headline for the Fox News Latino piece cited in her piece has changed to read, “Puerto Rico’s Governor Says Despite Criticism, Island’s Economy Is On The Mend.” Here is what the current FNL page says: […]

This happened last night via Dallas public television station KERA: a 60-minute debate between four Texas lieutenant governor candidates vying for the state’s Republican nomination. The participants were incumbent Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, Houston Sen. Dan Patrick, Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson and Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples. The candidates covered many topics and you can watch […]

We got this one from Bleacher Report after Twitter follower Esteban tweeted the following story to us: Mexican Skier Hubertus Von Hohenlohe Will Wear a Mariachi Uniform in Sochi http://t.co/2yqIgvMlom @latinorebels #Latism @WeVisitMexico — Esteban Ortiz (@ortizee21ios08) January 27, 2014 No way, we thought. But once we went to NBC’s Olympic page, we saw this: […]

Last night, LA’s La Santa Cecilia (Marisol Hernandez, Miguel Ramirez, Jose “Pepe” Carlos,  Alex Bendaña) won a Grammy for Best Latin Rock, Urban Or Alternative Album. That album is called “Treinta Días” and if you don’t have it, get it. Like today. Ever since the band produced Ice El Hielo last spring, we have always loved them. […]

Last week Fusion’s Jessica Landa wrote a opinion piece called “Every Gringa Needs a ‘Vieja Loca’.” It told the story of how Landa was lucky to have to have a Latina mother-in-law: Every Gringa Needs a ‘Vieja Loca’ http://t.co/z4HfBiVPuc via @ThisIsFusion — Jessica Landa (@LandaNewsie) January 21, 2014   As you can imagine, the response […]

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UPDATE, January 28, 2014: The petition reached 100K signatures. And according to POLITICO, “The White House did not respond to a request for reaction to the petition.” During the whole Justin Bieber arrest hysteria (for example, seriously, MSNBC?), many in our community quickly pointed out the immigration double standard surrounding the Canadian pop star. It […]

Editor’s Note: Edwin Jusino, a regular contributor to Latino Rebels, also weighed in on the latest news surrounding Puerto Rico’s political status. Last week Congress approved to assign $2.5 million so that Puerto Rico can celebrate yet another plebiscite, one that will almost certainly give the same results as the results from November 2012. There […]

This came in from local San Antonio news. Looks like San Antonio mayor Julian Castro is tweeting the walk after the following Twitter exchange between him and Dan Patrick, Republican candidate for Lt. Governor, happened this week: Congratulations .@danpatrick You are the most anti-immigrant Republican running for statewide office. You are the Pete Wilson of Texas. […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: In response to congressional approval of a $2.5 million federal education program for a future vote about Puerto Rico’s status and calls by the island’s pro-statehood Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi saying that such a decision would force a final binding “yes or no” vote on Puerto Rican statehood, Jorge Galva provides a different […]

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Just days after The Heritage Foundation slammed a $2.5 million addition to Congress’ omnibus spending bill which would allow for a federally-sponsored education program about Puerto Rico’s political status, a blog today from the conservative organization called Puerto Rico “America’s Greece” and basically called for the island to experience more “economic freedom:” What the Puerto […]

Can this movie come out right now? Here is the second trailer for “Cesar Chavez: An American Hero.” The movie is now scheduled for a March 28 release. And you can give it a like on Facebook.

Another day, another explanation from singer/actress María Conchita Alonso, who really needs to step away from the interviews and the attention. Yesterday CNN reported that Alonso thought the immigration positions of former Minuteman and current California GOP candidate Tim Donnelly had more to do with stopping “Arabs” at the border and than stopping “Mexicans.” Latino […]

The continuing saga of María Conchita Alonso and her support of former California Minuteman and GOP gubernatorial candidate Tim Donnelly continued over the weekend, when the actress/singer defended Donnelly’s reasons to become a Minuteman and protect Americans at the border. In an article published tonight by CNN’s María Santana, Alonso said the following during a […]

While the struggle in Michoacán continues between the self-defense groups, the Knights Templar drug cartel and the Mexican army and police, media reporting from Mexico has portrayed the various views from locals. But what do those who emigrated from nearby areas of Michoacán, and follow the news from the U.S. think? So far, reports from […]

Here is a video being shared on social media the last few days. It has English subtitles, and speaks for itself.

King visited the island at least two times in his life: in 1962 and in 1965.