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Here is what Talking Points Memo just published at 11:35 AM EST today: House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) offered a sharply worded reprimand for Rep. Don Young on Friday, demanding the Alaska congressman apologize for using a racial epithet to characterize migrant workers. “Congressman Young’s remarks were offensive and beneath the dignity of the office […]

UPDATE, March 29, 2013, 4:45 pm EST: Young issued another apology. UPDATE, March 29, 2013, 2pm EST: KRBD responded to our questions about its broadcast. UPDATE, March 29, 2013, 12:30 pm EST: Speaker John Boehner issued a very strong statement calling Young’s comments “offensive” and “beneath the dignity of the office [Young] holds.” Guess Alaska […]

Today the Facebook page of United We Dream posted the following: Yesterday QUIP leader, Jerssay Arredondo, was asked by HRC to speak in front of thousands of people in front of the Supreme Court to repeal DOMA. Just before getting on stage he was told to not say he was Undocumented! SHARE & Post this picture as […]

On the morning of March 27, 2013, I awoke to the news that four U.S. senators were in my hometown of Nogales, AZ, to speak about immigration teform: Republican Arizona senators John McCain and Jeff Flake, and Democratic senators Michael Bennet (Colorado) and Chuck Schumer (New York). My initial reaction was that of enthusiasm and […]

Yesterday, four U.S. senators from the Gang of Eight (John McCain, Chuck Schumer, Jeff Flake, and Michael Bennet) visited the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona, the city directly north of Nogales, Mexico. The purpose was for McCain and Flake, the two Republican Arizona senators whose state borders Mexico, to show Schumer and Bennet, the two Democratic senators […]

NISGUA (Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala) filed the following Day 6 report of the genocide trial of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt and ex-intelligence chief Mauricio Rodriguez Sánchez in Guatemala City. They have given us permission to republish all their reports about this historic trial. NISGUA continues live coverage of the trial in Guatemala of Efraín Rios […]

The following letter from the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration (PRFAA) was sent to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel yesterday. The past weekend, according the Associated Press, “a young tourist was burned after she picked up an old shell containing white phosphorous dropped by the U.S. Navy when it used the island of Culebra for bombing […]

It is getting to be that even after good things happen to immigrants —like winning $338 million in the Powerball— you still have to hear the hate. This just in from our friends at HuffPost Latino Voices. Pedro Quezada, the Dominican immigrant who seems to have become the happiest person in the world after recently winning […]

Another month another town hall immigration meeting for Arizona Senator John McCain. The last time McCain made the town hall circuit in February, things weren’t so rosy. This time, McCain was lowering expectations and telling people that many won’t be “happy” with what the Gang of Eight is crafting as the final version of a […]

Last night Junot Díaz appeared on “The Colbert Report” talking literature, immigration, and Freedom University, a college for undocumented student. Like he tells Colbert, “Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That’s just the truth of it.” And then what about the “Superman Question?” You do know that Superman is […]

NISGUA (Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala) filed the following Days 4/5 report of the genocide trial of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt and ex-intelligence chief Mauricio Rodriguez Sánchez in Guatemala City. They have given us permission to republish all their reports about this historic trial. NISGUA continues live coverage of the trial in Guatemala of […]

First of all, we want to give props to Jesse Washington, the Associated Press’ National Writer on Race and Ethnicity, for taking the time to tweet with us today. He didn’t have to, but it was really cool that he did. The subject was our response to an AP piece that Washington wrote over the […]

The bizarre irony of a person born in Canada to a Cuban dad and an American mom continues to be on display as Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz was interviewed by The Dallas Morning News on Sunday. Unlike fellow GOP Senators Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, Cruz is steadfast on not having any immigration reform […]

Very few new season premieres get us excited. EastWillyB is one of them. It is one of our favorite shows out there, and a new season is here. We are pumped. Here is episode 1. Enjoy. And here is episode 2.

Originally published at JulioRVarela.com I am tired. I am tired of how the US mainland media continues to portray the island-territory of Puerto Rico with one broad brushstroke—that it is a new hotbed of violence and chaos. Recently, Fortune’s Cyrus Sanati told U.S. billionaires to “beware” of Puerto Rico, saying that the island “has a bevy […]

The Associated Press is trying get more “diverse” when it comes to digging deeper into U.S. Latino issues, and so far it is failing miserably. We gave them a pass when it reported the following story, “Rise of Latino population blurs US racial lines”, and the reporters opened the story with the following lede, “Welcome to the […]

First, the good news: Immigration reform has gained support among Democrats and Republicans. And now, the bad news: Immigration reform also has some very determined opponents in both parties. As recent headlines show, the pro-reform Republicans include national party leaders who see their party in a demographic death spiral without Latino support along with employers […]

Here is one story that isn’t getting much attention, but should be. On February 2nd, 2013, to mark the annual World Wetlands Day, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance has designated its largest site ever in the South American country of Bolivia. At more than 17 million acres, the Llanos de Moxos wetland […]

Texas SB 1128 is a bill introduced by Houston state senator Dan Patrick. On the surface the bill appears tame enough, “relating to curriculum requirements in American and Texas history” for the state’s public higher education institutions. But if you ask Librotraficante (and Rebelde) Tony Diaz and many others who protested in front of the […]

On the morning of March 6th, a fire broke out at Trinity Episcopal Church in Bend, Oregon. It was one of seven fires that morning in Bend, and police believe all the fires were the work of a serial arsonist, according to local reports. Such an event would normally not make these pages, but many […]

In response to the recent events in Steubenville, Ohio, one young man decided to do a simple PSA for “any rapists our there” who need help about how to “treat a drunk girl.” In just 24 hours, the video has gotten over 350,000 YouTube views. Here it is. (h/t Raw Story)