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It’s been a rough few days for immigration advocates on the ground. After more than a year of successfully building pressure on the President to step in and turn around his disastrous deportation record through executive action, we forced a full review of the White House’ immigration enforcement programs. With less than a month before […]

Now that the Immigrant Archive Project‘s “Citizenship Test” video went viral and global, our friends at IAP just produced another video. It’s time to “Find the Immigrant.”

The city of Baytown, Texas is facing controversy after video (below) of police allegedly tasering and pepper spraying people —including an elderly person and young children— had led to local protests and charges of racism. Here is a local report out of Houston: video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player According to local reports, the Baytown police […]

We debated about whether we should call attention to a Lossip.com click-inducing piece called “Could They Pass? 10 Latino Celebs That Look Caucasian,” but after reading it (four times), we couldn’t resist. How can you not with copy like this? America’s a melting pot. America’s also the land of interracial families. For these 10 Latinos, […]

Take a moment and read what the “other side” had to say about this weekend’s #2Million2Many demonstrations. The following email comes from a group called “Help Save Maryland.” It is a real email, which we did not edit. We decided to add our response to this letter first before we ran it. Here is our […]

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. […]

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 […]

As we wait to hear back from 72 and Sunny, the global ad agency responsible for a bizarrely offensive “Juanito the Illegal Immigrant” campaign for a UNHATE program sponsored by Benetton and the United Nations, we failed to mention in our original story that the agency was named Ad Week’s Agency of the Year in […]

This story starts when the main Latino Rebels account received an email from someone at 72andSunny, “a full service, modern communications company, recently named ‘Agency of the Year’ by Advertising Age,” according to the agency’s website. The subject line to the email read: “Benetton & UN Create Illegal Immigrant Candidate for Governor of Arizona.” At first we […]

You can catch Chapter 1 here, Chapter 2 here and Chapter 3 here. Indie-inspired, Latin-hearted group Del Exilio brings you new music videos from their new album PANAMERICANO, blending telenovela episodes with traditional music videos.  Check out this web video series that captures the story of how an immigration reform revolution is sparked, and how a young man’s identity is transformed by […]

Let this one speak for itself. A new video from the National Congress of American Indians: More information about the campaign can be found here. This is what the NCAI wrote in an email to Indian Country Today Media Network: This week’s celebration of football is exactly why we need to keep talking about the […]

Ten months after sponsorship decisions by the board of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade (NPRDP) led to a major backlash by New York City’s Puerto Rican community as well as calls for an investigation by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the New York Post is reporting today that Schneiderman is ready to […]

You know many on the right side of the political spectrum are having issues with the constant mocking of immigration issues by conservative media when a tweet alerting us to Drudge Report’s “John Boehner in a Sombrero” image came from an actual Latin@ conservative: I’m surprised @latinorebels didn’t say anything about the cover of Drudge… […]

In response to a Latino Rebels open letter to the new Fusion network, CEO Isaac Lee invited us for a visit to the Newsport. True to their word, the Fusion team graciously welcomed me (an original member of the LR collective since 2011) to its Miami-based headquarters last week. The brand-new Fusion network is a […]

Just weeks after making global headlines for becoming the first publicly-known undocumented lawyer in California history to be admitted to the state bar, Sergio García is now facing another different sort of challenge from bloggers as well as nationally syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette, Jr.—that he is just a “DREAMer Diva” for promoting an “exorbitant $25,000 performance […]

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 […]

UPDATE: VOXXI also ran a piece in December that is a bit more accurate than the one the AP wrote. There are many points that need to be made about a poorly reported Associated Press article claiming that several Spanish speakers are up in arms about how the government’s CuidadoDeSalud.gov page was a computer-generated translation […]

Looks like Sara Legvold, the Cuban American Texas GOP executive committee member who posted some rather bizarre pro-apartheid comments which caused the Texas GOP to distance itself from her and also led Legvold to call fellow Latino conservatives “crimmigrants”, is ready to defend herself. Here is what Legvold shared on a publicly viewable Facebook page […]

UPDATE: For Gustavo Arellano’s excellent local take on all this, go here. Here is another reason why everyone having a blog might not be a such a great idea. As reported yesterday by the Voice of OC (Orange County, CA), “a conservative blogger funded by the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce posted a photo ridiculing the […]

On September 23, 2013, the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic decreed that all persons born to non-Dominican parents after 1929 are denied Dominican citizenship; this measure has stripped more than 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent of Dominican citizenship. Several individuals and entities, from human rights groups to prominent members of the Dominican diaspora, have […]

How did we miss this from Al Punto and Jorge Ramos last month? That was Aníbal de Castro, Dominican ambassador to the United States, basically saying that this is all about nationality and that there any undocumented in the DR and their offspring aren’t Dominican. He also said that this doesn’t affect 200,000 people, just […]