It’s that time of the election season again, when Latino celebs start to make the rounds with appeals for their candidates. Sometimes I question the effectiveness of it all especially since many celebrities are in the 1% and don’t necessarily convey the struggle of the average Latino. Of course, I know that many of these [...]

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The commentary continues on White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Cecilia Muñoz this week with a writer at Fox News Latino asking if she’s being treated as a modern day Malinche? For those of you needing a refresher, Malinche, the lover of Hernan Cortes, is treated as both a heroine and traitor depending upon one’s [...]

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If you haven’t been following the continuing saga of the Obama administration and its defense of record deportation numbers, I’m going to provide some quick links in this post to get you caught up. There is some different of opinion in the Latino and immigrant advocacy community about the perceived targeted criticism of Cecilia Muñoz, [...]

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This week President Obama’s visit to Southern California and his high profile Latino celebrity fundraiser at the home of Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith made big local news. Here’s a little sampling of the press report from USA Today on that event: “Obama later visited the Spanish-style mansion of Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith for [...]

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In the week that has passed since the Obama administration announced some new prosecutorial discretion guidelines for DHS to better prioritize its work, there have been continued protests and actions against the controversial Secure Communities Program. One action that received a bit more press involved the Assistant Director of Secure Communities, who was confronted by [...]

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I have an update on the immigration happenings from last week over at DailyGrito describing the administration’s new policy on exercising prosecutorial discretion. Another piece worth reading for putting last week’s actions in context is this one by Roberto Lovato. Also, today an informal e-mail poll has been circulating sent out by the Latino Voter’s [...]

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The past few days have been a whirlwind of activity from immigration activists who are taking their protests and frustrations over the administration’s Secure Communities program directly to Obama campaign offices and Democratic Party headquarters around the country. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: “Civil and immigrant rights activists demonstrated Tuesday outside the state Democratic Party’s headquarters [...]

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I know many who are have taken to pointing out some of President Obama’s cruel and appalling immigration enforcement policies for months, but there’s also the realization that the Latino vote doesn’t necessarily turn on immigration, meaning that many of us will vote one way or the other based on other issues. I think that [...]

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