Hispolitica
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump believes that there is a remote possibility that Hispanics will back his candidacy for president. (Sarcasm) I'm winning with Hispanics. I keep telling everybody, I'm going to win with the Hispanics. I have thousands of Hispanics working for me all over. They are unbelievable people, unbelievable workers. I love them
Like most Republicans who are running for elected office will say about immigration reform, combat veteran and double-amputee Brian Mast believes that in order for real immigration reforms to take place, the U.S. border needs to be secured. In a sit down interview with Mast this week, the married father of three, surprised me when […]
The ongoing tussle between the governments of Colombian and Venezuela continues, as Colombia is now saying that a Venezuelan aircraft entered into Colombian airspace without permission. Venezuela is denying that this incident happened, and it's Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez said that this was just one of a string of "invented incidents" by the Colombians to […]
Egyptian security forces, which included police and military, mistook four trucks carrying Mexican tourists for Islamic terrorists, shooting and killing 12 of the tourists and their Egyptian guides, as well as wounding 10 others. Officials said that the case of mistaken identity was made after the group of tourists ventured into a prohibited area of […]
Just as some Republican presidential candidates, namely Donald Trump, call for an end to birthright citizenship, the birth rate among illegal immigrants has dropped considerably over the past 8 years. In 2013, 295,000 children were born to illegal immigrants living in the U.S. That number falls short of the 370,000 children born to illegal immigrants […]
It is clear that the field of Republican presidential candidates is split on how to deal with the ongoing and growing illegal immigration problem. Trump wants to deport all of the illegal immigrants in the U.S., while Carson says deporting all illegals is "impractical" and would rather see them all receive guest-worker status. While Rubio […]
Spanish-language Univision News is reporting that Mexico is cracking down on illegal immigrant crossings across its southern border with Guatemala. According to a 2014 immigration report, Mexico arrested 102,000 illegal immigrants from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, down from the 239,000 captured by the U.S. border authorities. Because so many illegals immigrants are being detained […]
Another tragic and senseless murder has been committed by illegal immigrants. Three illegal immigrants suspected of being associated with the infamous MS-13 criminal gang, have been arrested in connection to the murder of a 17-year-old Virginia high school on his way to a school bus stop. According to The Washington Post, Danny Centeno-Miranda, who attended Park […]
Back in 1961, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) opened a file on then 33-year-old Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, who they suspected of working with the communist Cuban regime, have now declassified and released to the Washington Post 137 pages of 24-year-long covert dossier of the high-profiled leftist. Garcia Marquez arrived in New York […]
There is a special place in Hell reserved for this 22-year-old mother for drowning her 2-year-old twin boys in her bathtub. According to Avondale, Arizona police, Mireya Alejandra Lopez was arrested on two counts of murder, and one count of attempted murder, after police responded to the grandmothers 911 call, where upon arrival, found the […]
Actress and immigration reform activist Eva Longoria appears to support a sort of Hispanic affirmative action movement with the Hollywood community. The Mexican-American actress has stated that "We (Hispanics) are about 16 percent of the population, but we're only 7 percent in films and television," adding that Hispanics should not just aspire to be actors, […]
With former Republican presidential frontrunner Jeb Bush plummeting in the recent 2016 presidential polls, the current leader of the pack, Donald Trump, is fixated on delivering a death blow to the former governor of Florida, hitting him hard on his most vulnerable position, immigration reform. Trump release this video on his Instagram account where he […]
Univision Anchor Jorge Ramos defended is actions at the recent Donald Trump press conference in Iowa, in which he was kicked out for rudely interrupting Trump, as him just expressing his First Amendment rights. Ramos, who says he has never been told to leave a event like this before, told a "Despierta America" Univision anchor […]
Controversy continues to swirl around Venezuela President Nicholas Maduro's true birth place. Many Colombians believe that Maduro was born in Colombia, and not in Venezuela. A Univision news segment conducted in the Colombian city of Cucuta, interviews several resident who remember, and knew a very young Maduro as one of the inhabitants of a corner […]
From the files of the really dumb and bizarre, we bring you this story of a Hispanic man who tried to take a selfie picture with a venomous rattlesnake in Lake Elsinore, California. We can't begin to tell you how idiotic this move was, so we will just let you read about it. His mother […]
Jose Amaya Guardado's mother said she brought her son to the United States nine years ago to escape the violence rampant in their native El Salvador. But now his family is mourning his death in what police describe as a brutal machete attack. "I brought my son from there because they were killing people," Lucia […]
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump's comments about resolving the "birthright citizenship" problem, has once again thrust illegal immigration (as if it never left) problem into the political limelight. During an exclusive interview with HISPOLITICA, Trump said that he believes that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution has bee "read wrong," and that the amendment was […]
What would happen if you and your brother found out each of you had an identical twin, and they were also living as brothers? It’s a story that made headlines this summer. Two sets of identical twins – raised as fraternal twins – meeting after they had been separated at birth due to a hospital […]
Donald Trump took some time off the presidential campaign trail to talk to me about what else, Politics. In a phone interview with "The Donald," Trump said that he thinks Jeb Bush feels "entitled" to the Republican presidential nomination, and because he continues to best Bush in all of the national presidential polls, that is […]
Donald Trump's recent immigration position of scrubbing the birthright citizenship amendment to the U.S. Constitution has pressed Senator Marco Rubio to respond to his fellow Republican presidential candidate. “I am open to doing things that prevent people who deliberately come to the U.S. for purposes of taking advantage of the 14th amendment but I’m not […]
Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, addressed Iowa Democratic voters this past weekend, using the opportunity to reach out to black and Hispanic voters, saying that his campaign would be focused on "overcoming racial divisions." Sanders spoke of addressing racial divisions, but then drove a deeper racial wedge by telling Iowans that he spoke for all […]
Fugitive Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzmán used planes, submarines, trains, sailboats and tunnels to smuggle narcotics from Mexico into the United States, court filings show. The man who became public enemy No. 1 in the United States after the death of terrorist Osama Bin Laden escaped from a Mexican prison a month […]
Officials in the Mexican city of Acapulco, one of the most dangerous cities in the world, have confirmed that Miguel Angel Jimenez Blanco, the leader of the Xaltianguis community policing group, was shot to death by organized crime, or a drug cartel, and left in the taxi cab he owned. Jimenez was focused on bring awareness […]
A Salvadoran woman who was part of the surge of Central Americans who arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border last year without proper documents is trying to avoid deportation by hiding in a Catholic mission in Atlanta. Claudia Mariela Jurado decided to elude immigration authorities after a judge denied her request for political asylum last week […]
"If you kick every Latino out of this country, then who is going to be cleaning your toilet, Donald Trump?"-Kelly Osbourne After making this comment on The View, will Osbourne be submitted to the same scrutiny any character assassination that Donald Trump has endured after he made those controversial, but true statements about illegal immigration […]
Mexico's ongoing drug war continues to rage on, not just along the U.S. border, but in every corner of the country, including its capitol, Mexico City. Another photographer and four women were found dead in a middle-class neighborhood of Mexico City, and are suspected of being the victims of the crime wave narco-traffickers and […]
Who said Donald Trump wasn't a confident man? The man who will tell you at drop of a dime that he is "successful and rich," and that he builds "great things" is running for president in 2016, says that his "numero uno" (Espanol for number one) with the Hispanic community. Trump, who is riding a […]
A recent Huffington Post article states that the overwhelming majority of Latinos are more concerned with environmental issues, than any other issue, included the current stagnant national economy and education. The writer of the story, who appears to support progressive causes, unbelievably states that "people of color" are "more likely to live near power […]
A Colombian beauty pageant winner will not be competing in any upcoming contests after being busted in China for possession of drugs. 22-year-old Juliana Lopez was arrested on July 18 by Chinese authorities after supposedly smuggling psychoactive drugs in her laptop computer, and could face the death penalty. According to a the girl's uncle, the […]
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has changed her position on Cuba, and will ask Congress to lift the U.S. embargo against the communist island. GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush pointed out that Clinton has opposed the easing of "restrictions against Cuba," but is now changing her tune, as the former First Lady and Secretary of […]
Over the past 11 months, at least 8 people have been jailed in Venezuela, according to Fox News Latino. The arrests come as street confrontations between students demanding free speech and government forces have been raging for years. Fox News lists the arrested opposition: Lessi Marcano (48), Ginette Hernández (23), Leonel Sánchez (47), Víctor Ugas […]
Harlem Suarez, a 23 year old man connected to ISIS was planning to attack Key West and South Beach beach fronts with buried bombs. His target date was July 4th, a popular beach day in South Florida, but the planning did not come together for him. He however remained intent in bringing terror to South Florida. […]
Democratic Congressman Luis Gutierrez (IL), who is one of the most outspoken supporters for a pathway to amnesty for all illegal immigrants living in the U.S., took to the House floor to make the case for why Congress needed to act, and bailout the island of Puerto Rico from its current state of economic misery. […]
The island of Puerto Rico, which is a commonwealth of the United States, has slowly plunged into an seemingly insurmountable $72 billion debt load and spike in unemployment, that is causing a mass exodus of native Puerto Ricans from the island to the mainland U.S. Aside from tourism, Puerto Rico doesn't offer much in terms […]
Jeb Bush broke out the Spanish again. This time during an interview with MSNBC. In the interview Bush said: “I was hurt hearing somebody speaking in such a vulgar fashion. This makes solving this problem much more difficult. When we have politicians like that we cannot progress. In a political sense it was bad, and […]
A chip off the old block. Venezuela's President Maduro continues his Hugo Chavez-like antics when he called Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy a "hitman," prompting the Spanish government to once again summons the Venezuelan ambassador. The Spanish foreign ministry has summoned the Venezuelan ambassador to once again protest comments by Venezuela's president against Spanish Prime […]
