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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In response to a headline calling Honudran child migrants “border-crashers,” last night Latino Rebels received the following quote from Newsweek’s managing editor Kira Bindrim: While no offense was intended—if we didn’t think this was an important issue, we wouldn’t have Karla [Zabludovsky] covering it—we understand that the headline was insensitive, and so changed it after […]

REMARKS TO THE PRESS WITH Q&A BY VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN Residence of the United States Ambassador Guatemala City, Guatemala 4:37 P.M. (Local) THE VICE PRESIDENT: Hello, folks. Thank you for waiting. I appreciate it. I’ve just finished, as most of you know, a day of meetings, and I would say very constructive meetings here […]

Yesterday a headline for Newsweek story about the current crisis on the US-Mexico border made us do a double-take and insert a WTF: “Honduras’ First Lady Says She Will Collect Her Country’s Child Border-Crashers.” We would expect such a headline from a Town Hall or a Breitbart, but this is Newsweek. Has the quality of one of […]

Leave it to the Internet. Just hours after Mexican goalkeeper Guillermo “Memo” Ochoa thrilled the world with a legendary performance in a 0-0 draw against Brazil, there was already a corrido about him. (Oh yeah, besides the obligatory Memo memes.) Give it up to Los Tres Tristes Tigres and their latest viral video. For those […]

The good news is that Scott Fistler, the former Republican who legally changed his name to César Chávez and then entered his name in an Arizona congressional Democratic primary, was kicked off the ballot yesterday. The sad news is that he is a true pendejo. Watch this from yesterday.

Commissioned by NALIP, the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) at Columbia University, The Latino Media Gap is now available. The report’s conclusion states: In sum, for Latinos, the current landscape presents exciting new possibilities alongside old challenges. After analyzing Latino talent diversity in […]

This morning Puerto Rico’s El Nuevo Día reported that United States flags with 51 stars and an extra stripe were on display in different locations around the island. According the article, pro-statehood advocates displayed the flags in celebration of Flag Day. Here is one of the flags at El Morro in Old San Juan (you […]

The Proyecto Más Color campaign is using an online petition and social media “to promote the awareness of the lack of representation of Afro-Latinos and other minority groups in Latin American media.” The following video explains more about the project: As the Proyecto Más Color organizers say on their petition site: This is important because […]

So about a month since Nate Cohn of The New York Times boldly proclaimed that more Latinos were becoming “white” after basing his “analysis” on a partial report chronicled by a Pew senior research reporter, the actual authors of the study Cohn had referenced finally offered a more specific clarification about their initial study. Here […]

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You know SOMEONE would talk about the guy named César Chávez who’s running for Congress out of Arizona, and that someone was Colbert: The Colbert Report Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Colbert Report on Facebook

Here is the copy of a letter sent to the Department of Homeland Security from the following organizations: National Immigrant Justice Center, Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project, Americans for Immigrant Justice, Florence Immigrant Rights & Refugee Project and the ACLU Border Litigation Project: Systemic Abuse of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children by U.S. Customs and Border Protection by […]

So it’s official. Ted Cruz has renounced his Canadian citizenship. He even has a letter (in English and in French) to prove it.   We wonder if Cruz will also renounce the fact that his dad bribed his way into the United States from Cuba. Nonetheless, back to crapping on immigrants.

File this one under “Colonialism is Still Colonialism.” A new social media page calling for Puerto Rico’s return to Spain has gotten media attention on the island, the U.S. and of course, Spain. And guess what? The organizers are serious about it. A Facebook page is calling (in Spanish) for the “Reunification of Puerto Rico […]