Check out these cool photos by Dulce Pinzon, co-proprietor of Fresa Salvaje, portraying Latino immigrants in New York City as super heroes. From her website: The principal objective of this series is to pay homage to these brave and...

When they’re not making it illegal to breathe air an immigrant might have farted in or using family members as bait to get one another deported, Oklahoma is erecting shrines to Saint Toribio, patron of immigrants: The idea came...

The Washington Post has identified over 250 cases in which the government injected detainees scheduled for deportation with antipsychotic drugs - without medical necessity. Curious that all these cases have occurred since 2003, which just so happens to be...

SIGMA is a group of about twenty-four science fiction writers who frequent the Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology conferences to offer advice and eat some complimentary mini-muffins. One of SIGMA’s members is Larry Niven, author of, among...

The Whites may become a minority in the U.S. by 2050, when they will make up an estimated 47% of the population. Yet 99.6% of Arbor Mist consumers: The U.S. population will grow to 438 million in 2050 from...

More and more Mexican immigrants who return home to visit their families are deciding to just stay there rather than return to the discrimination and obstacles they face in the U.S: There are no exact figures, but stories abound...

Spain has introduced a new “American Idol”-style show featuring immigrants: TVE officials Tuesday announced their programme ‘Hijos de Babel’ (Children of Babel), which will feature artistes from different countries and musical tradition. ‘The idea is to provide an opportunity...

A Honduran landscaper was viciously mauled by a German Shepherd in Princeton, New Jersey. Princeton residents, however, agree a dog that would shred a person up like some ropa vieja is worth a little more than some brown dude....

Morrissey is threatening British music magazine New Musical Express with a lawsuit over a scathing story they published about him in this week’s magazine. In what their website calls, “his most contentious interview in years,” they allege he spoke...

Two men from South Florida are charged with smuggling 35 Cubans from Camaguey to Palm Beach after one of the Cubans, 39-year-old Carlos Alberto Pons-Arias, drowned during the journey: On Thursday night, federal immigration agents arrested two South Florida...

The U.S. government is expanding a “biometrics-at-sea” program which matches fingerprints and photographs of illegal immigrants intercepted at sea with information listed in a federal database: The program allows Coast Guard personnel, using a handheld device, to take digital...

You might think illegal immigrants are the ones stealing your boyfriend’s radio from his car as he leaves it parked outside your building in Bushwick, Brooklyn. And you might be right. But the same isn’t true in Illinois! Illegal...

The number of people applying for U.S. citizenship has risen dramatically from last year despite a higher application fee. Some experts say this is because of the anti-immigrant (read: anti-brown) views prevalent in the country today. Fishily-named spokesperson for...

Do we have to even go there and say it ain’t their fault? An annual, independent survey of 3 million people sanctioned by the Census Bureau shows that the number of immigrants in the U.S. reached an all-time high...

An Ecuadorian linguist in New York is marketing a boardgame called “The Illegal Game,” where you play the role of an undocumented immigrant winding his way through all the city’s boroughs towards the end goal of a retirement pension....

President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon (a.k.a. Fecal), has proposed to kick up his country’s tax income by about a third every year with a sweeping reform of the way his government collects the shiz. One of the most controversial...

The beginning of the end has come for Juan and Pedro in the fields of California, where crack scientists and engineers are developing various robots equipped with human-like digits, digital maps and other such sci-fi zaniness that’ll some day...

A Texas native with the same name and birthdate as an illegal immigrant was arrested Sunday, then threatened with deportation. Alicia Rodríguez spent the night in jail, and was told the following morning that la migra was coming to...

On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall, many Big Easy residents can’t help but refer to their city as New New Orleans. From what we’ve read, however, it’s more like Nueva New Orleans. (Azúcar!) We’re no mathematicians,...

It seems SAT scores for the high school class of 2007 are the lowest in 8 years and the College Board says its cuz “a more diverse pool of students is taking the exam.” Hmmmm, what could that mean?...

A mini round-up of labor crises throughout the country stemming from President Bush’s “immigration crackdown” appears on a blog dedicated to (what else?) race and politics. Our favorite bummer is this tasty bit it highlighted from the Chicago Tribune:...

3 years and $7.5 million dollars in the making, it’s the Border Patrol Uniform Makeover!!! (Pictured is a ‘before’ shot.) Tired of drowning in the Rio Grande cuz your Batman-esque utility belt weighs you down? Fret no more, now...

Given that the estimated number of undocumented immigrants in this country varies from 7 million to 12 million to 20 million depending on who you talk to, the Census Bureau probably takes pride in its constitutional mandate to count...

If you got deported after trying to enter America at the U.S.-Mexico border without papers, step forward. Not so fast, Cubans! Over 9,000 of you were welcomed at said border this fiscal year alone. There’s nothing new about the...

A herd of eggheads has gathered in New York over the weekend for the American Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting 2007, whose most intriguing presentation so far is a study showing that Latinos who’ve “replaced their traditional cultural beliefs with...

Some striking parallels came to mind when we read an article about the treatment of migrant construction workers who build the high-priced hotels that make Dubai, United Arab Emirates a getaway for the obscenely rich. The South Asian immigrants...

Here’s a fascinating piece of news. Did you know that the Univision network ranked #2 amongst all American adults aged 18-34 during July sweeps? Beating out every other American network except for Fox. Not only that, according to Hispanic...

Talk about playing the race card: the star of the above clip has it down to an absurd science. Short for super-native Nauiocelotl, Naui appears to be a guerrilla YouTuber who attends various anti-immigrant protests, pisses off the crowds...

The poor College Republicans. They invite disgraced former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to speak at their annual convention in D.C. over a year after the Texas representative stepped down from Congress amidst conspiracy indictments, and what they get...

Seems money and K-Mart clothing aren’t the only thing migrant workers return to Mexico with these days. Research shows that they’re singlehandedly responsible for an alarming increase in HIV/AIDS rates among rural Mexicans, contracting the disease during their loneliest...

The upcoming online release of a video game called ICED! I Can End Deportation has people on both sides of the immigration debate talking about video games for the first time since Donkey Kong got his papers. To kick...

Something’s going on down south that has some Americans very nervous. It’s the Latinization of New Orleans. In his recent HBO special, George Lopez said (and we paraphrase), “Who do you think is handling the clean-up in New Orleans...

There’s an interesting trend going on that’s going to make it even tougher for illegal aliens trying to gain amnesty. In light of the whole illegal alien debate, it seems legal aliens in this country, especially Hispanic ones, are...

Many of you have written in wondering what happened to poor, little Juan Manuel, the Mexican who waited in line all day last Friday for our iPhones. Did he get them? (Duh.) Did he pee his pants? How was...

• Latin alternative hot dog toppings. We bet if you Google those words, you’ll get a whole other thing. [Nueva York] • Everyone’s at the beach and we hate them. [New York Magazine] • What better time to buy...

There’s really no way of telling. What we do know, though, is that nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Big Easy, New Orleans’ population has taken on a considerably browner hue. The droves and droves of Latino...

Illegal immigrants who gamble feel cheated out of their winnings when lotto companies and casinos refuse to pony up without proof of papers. The gamblers claim that nowhere on a lottery ticket do the rules say the winner must...

A bizarre piece of news from Milwaukee, Washington caught our eye early this morning: former police officer and undocumented immigrant Oscar Ayala-Cornejo faces 6 to 12 months in jail for assuming the identity of his dead and buried cousin...

Local authorities allege that enterprising Latino businessman (i.e., pimps) are practicing the world’s oldest profession in a region of Tennessee frequented by dozens and dozens of migrant workers from Mexico, cashing in on the ol’ economic rule of meeting...

The L.A. Times ventured into the backwoods of Georgia to file a story about hundreds of Mexicans there who’re now out of work and out of town because the peaches they pick at this time of year died in...

The New York Times has discovered a pattern among Mexican mothers that defies the general decline of fertility in the Big Apple: namely, they’re having babies and refusing to let up. Thanks to a 28% increase in births from...

Fast food for thought from Time online…unwitting American ambassador McDonald’s has lobbied for the Oxford English Dictionary to change its six year-old entry for the word McJob, calling it ‘insulting’ to employees—this, coming from a company whose entire workforce...

Take five minutes to get cozy with a clip of The Colbert Report where our favorite right-winger illustrates a modest proposal for controlling the border. Wish we had thought of that! Props to U.S. Representative Raúl Grijalva for taking...

The New York Times reports that Hispanic immigrants assimilate in this country not only by watching American Idol and eating Combos, but also by going to less church. It's not that they don't believe in God, it's that they...