The accidental deportation of Salvadoran immigrant José C. Rodríguez-Portillo some two months ago has opened up a can of worms for those who did not formerly realize that ICE is made up of a gang of marauding thugs with the reasoning abilities of a drug-addled lab monkey.
18 November 2009
Accidental Deportation Of Salvadoran Man Should Come As Surprise To No One
By Alex Alvarez at 11:30 AM.
15 November 2009
Torn Apart: A Look At How Deportation Policies Impact The Families Left Behind
By Alex Alvarez at 9:57 AM.
Check out the launch video from Torn Apart, a video series that focuses on how the current practice of deporting foreign-born criminals after they have served their time impacts the families that they leave behind.
13 November 2009
Tancredible!: Tom Tancredo Says He Intends To Run For Governor Of Colorado
By Alex Alvarez at 11:21 AM.
Although he has yet to fill out the necessary paperwork required to run, Tom Tancredo has publicly stated he “fully intends” on running for governor of Colorado. God, we missed him.
11 November 2009
Lou Dobbs Quit CNN Because There Are Too Many Mexicans In America Now
By Cindy Casares at 8:20 PM.
Well, all your campaigns finally paid off, crazy people. Lou Dobbs who hates Mexicans, but is married to one, (it happens), announced tonight that this was his last broadcast on CNN where he has worked for almost 30 years.
22 October 2009
Lou Dobbs Invites Basta Dobbs Onto His Show
By Alex Alvarez at 1:04 PM.
Perhaps in light of the publicity and attention CNN has garnered for its two-part Latino in America series, the network has decided to invite one of Lou Dobb’s most vocal detractors, writer and advocate Roberto Lovato of Basta Dobbs, onto his program.
20 October 2009
Wilmer Valderrama Will Star In A Sitcom Version Of The Dog Whisperer
By Alex Alvarez at 2:50 PM.
Not only is Wilmer starring in a Latinofied adaptation of Sense and Sensibility called From Prada to Nada, he’s also set to star in a sitcom inspired by Cesar Millan’s The Dog Whisperer series.
Top Ten Innovative Ways To Cross The Border
By Alejandro Paz at 10:01 AM.
Crossing the border from Mexico into the US is no fucking joke. It sucks major ass from start to finish. But immigrants have to get creative. Let’s take a look at the Top Ten Innovative Ways To Cross The Border.
19 October 2009
“Illegal Alien” Halloween Costume Stirs Up Controversy
By Alex Alvarez at 11:55 AM.
Target and Toys R Us have decided to discontinue sales of the costume pictured at left after it received backlash from immigrants’ rights groups.
17 October 2009
Central American Immigrants Risk Kidnap On Their Way To The Land Of Lou Dobbs
By Alex Alvarez at 4:48 PM.
Human rights groups have noted that it is becoming increasingly dangerous for Central American immigrants to make their way through Mexico in order to reach the United States.
15 October 2009
Ad Urging CNN To Fire Xenophobe Lou Dobbs Will Not Be Aired On CNN
By Alex Alvarez at 5:58 PM.
CNN has announced they will not air an ad urging that very network to drop Lou Dobbs, he of the racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant rhetoric. This comes mere hours after the network had actually given an initial ok for the PSA to run. What ¢hanged their mind$?
9 October 2009
Sheriff Joe Arpaio Says, “Badges? I Don’t Need No Stinking Badges.”
By Cindy Casares at 5:06 PM.
Sheriff Mexican Hater Arpaio does not need no stinking jurisdiction from no pinche Department of Homeland Security.
7 October 2009
Julio Maldonado Faces Deportation After Being Victim Of Hate Crime
By Alex Alvarez at 4:01 PM.
Julio Maldonado and his cousin, Denis Calderon, are both lawful permanent residents of the United States who were born in Peru. And now the Statue of Liberty is kicking Maldonado back to South America.
2 October 2009
Woman Posing As ICE Official Steals Baby
By Alex Alvarez at 11:44 AM.
A woman posing as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official abducted a newborn baby after stabbing his mother several times. The baby, Yair Anthony Carillo, was born last Friday and taken from his Nashville, Tennessee home on Tuesday.
22 September 2009
Newt Gingrich’s New Hispanic Site Shows He’s Okay With Us Speaking Spanish, We Think
By Cindy Casares at 6:49 PM.
Gingrich Communications–a company owned by Newt Gingrich–launched an online news network for Latinos this week and, guess what? It’s bilingual.
21 September 2009
Texas Trailer Park Won’t Allow Undocumented Immigrants To Tarnish Its Image
By Alex Alvarez at 2:16 PM.
A trailer park in Grand Prairie, Texas is at the center of a struggle against undocumented immigrants. The struggle does not, unfortunately, involve lawn flamingos or Christmas lights in July.
18 September 2009
Astronaut Jose Hernandez Thinks America Should Legalize Undocumented Workers, And He Said It, Too!
By Cindy Casares at 6:39 PM.
Astronaut Jose Hernandez continues to shove his big, brown, Mexican migrant workerness right in your face.
2 September 2009
New Company Allows Colombian Immigrants To Afford Burial Insurance
By Alex Alvarez at 5:12 PM.
One expense we’ve never focused on when it comes to thinking about the lives of recent immigrants is the cost of funerals. But it IS pricey, especially if you have to worry about shipping your loved one’s remains back to your country of origin instead of surreptitiously dumping them off Brighton Beach.
New Company Allows Colombian Immigrants To Afford Burials
By Alex Alvarez at 5:12 PM.
One expense we’ve never focused on when it comes to thinking about the lives of recent immigrants is the cost of funerals. But it IS pricey, especially if you have to worry about shipping your loved one’s remains back to your country of origin instead of surreptitiously dumping them off Brighton Beach.
1 September 2009
How Are We Treating Immigrant Viejitos?
By Alex Alvarez at 11:15 AM.
The New York Times published a look at what is being referred to as “the .5 generation” - foreign-born immigrants to the U.S. who are over the age of 65 who may not speak English fluently or feel acclimated to American culture.
28 August 2009
Jonathan Bleiweiss Pleads Not Guilty To Sexually Assaulting Undocumented Latinos, One Victim’s Mother Speaks Out
By Alex Alvarez at 12:16 PM.
Sheriff’s Deputy Jonathan Bleiweiss pleaded not guilty today to multiple charges, including sexual assault, sexual battery by a person in authority and stalking. …And his lawyer is still talking caca.
