Hispolitica
Every election cycle there are usually a few firsts that are accomplished when newly-elected members of the U.S. Congress are sworn in.
President Trump’s pick to be Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Ronald Vitiello, took harsh criticism from all the Democratic Senators he sat before during his confirmation hearing on Thursday, including Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), who appeared to draw a parallel between ICE and the KKK.
The other Castro, Julian’s twin brother Rep. Joaquin Castro (D), is supporting his brothers play for president.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Univision and Anchor Jorge Ramos did what they were expected to do after Donald Trump booted Ramos out of his press conference for being rude and obnoxious. When you go to the Univision website, no less than 6 separate stories documenting the incident are posted on the site, all of them being anti-Trump. The one […]
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 […]
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 […]
Eight people — including five children and three adults — were found slain inside a Houston-area home and a man who exchanged gunfire with police has been charged with three counts of capital murder, according to Texas authorities and court records. Court records show that one capital murder count against David Conley covers multiple deaths. […]
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 […]
"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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
The effort to relieve, or bail out the U.S. commonwealth of Puerto Rico from its current economic struggles, has just received a big boost form the Obama administration. U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has said that allowing Puerto Rico the opportunity to file for bankruptcy will in fact help the island get out from under […]
Former Governor Jeb Bush becomes the first 2016 presidential candidate to call for Republicans to embrace the Hispanic and African-American communities. While Bush's position supporting pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrations is highly unpopular with the Republican voting base, his message of embracement of Hispanics is correct, because the long-standing Republican "outreach" message has proven […]
A man suspected in the homicides of five people — including his mother and baby daughter — had also been linked to the death last year of a toddler, police said. Martin "Marty" Martinez, 30, was arrested Sunday in the deaths of the five, whose bodies were found a day earlier. Modesto Police Chief Galen […]
The forever-adolescent pop singer Justin Beiber has just had his arrest warrant in Argentina revoked. The warrant was filed due to 2013 incident in Buenos Aires, where he allegedly sent two of his bodyguards to rough up a photographer, or paparrazo. The Argentine court dropped the international arrest warrant that ordered his "immediate detention," but […]
The Cuban-American congressional delegation from Miami, Florida, held a press conference denouncing the opening of the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba, as well as calling the new Cuban embassy in the United States as a " base" for the Cuban Intelligence Service. Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Carlos Curbelo, and Mario Diaz-Balart, all Republicans, each took turns […]
Colombian-American Annette Taddeo is running for the U.S. Congress in Florida's 26th congressional district. Taddeo began her public service by heading the Democratic Party in Miami-Dade County before being tapped by former Republican Governor-turned Democrat Charlie Crist, as his running mate for his failed 2014 gubernatorial campaign against sitting Florida Governor Rick Scott (R). Taddeo […]
Rapper Pitbull, or "Mr. Worldwide" as he is known, took the stage to accept an award at the Premios Juventud 2015 awards, and used the opportunity to delivered a warning to Republican presidential candidates, Donald Trump. Pitbull called out Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, and Hillary Clinton to bolster their respective presidential campaigns because Trump cannot […]
2016 Democratic presidential candidate and self-proclaimed Socialist, Bernie Sanders, is making a push to win over all of those Latino and Black voters that helped usher in President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. Riding his current and unprecedented political wave of support, the anti-Hillary Clinton presidential candidate spoke to at the national conference of […]
One of South Florida's biggest supporters of the ongoing U.S. embargo to Cuba, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D), is breaking with President Obama in regards to his move to reestablish full diplomatic and economic relations with the communist government of Fidel and Raul Castro. “My view is different from President Obama’s,” the DNC chairwoman said […]
The shooting death of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle on a San Francisco, California, pier has taken another twist, as the gun used to killer her appears to belong to a federal agent. Convicted felon Francisco Lopez Sanchez, the illegal immigrant who has been deported back to Mexico on 5 separate occasions, and has been accused of […]
It appears that you really can't have your cake and eat it too. Police in Hagerstown, Maryland have arrested 30-year-old Robert Wilson for first-degree assault and child abuse, after a 9-year-old Jack Garcia (his girlfriend's son), who had been restrained with handcuffs as punishment for eating a piece of birthday cake, and then punched in […]
The backlash continues against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his "colorful" remarks about Mexico and the crime and immigration problem that it facilitates across the U.S. southern border, as Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney have all joined in on the anti-Trump political dog pile. Romney jabbed at Trump, saying that his remarks were […]
The recent theft of 12,000+ border crossing passes could have turned into a big immigration and national security headache for the United States. Fortunately, Mexican authorities have recovered 10,000 of the missing 12,600 immigration border crossing passes that were stolen last month from a semi-trailer in the northern part of Mexico. According to Univision, the […]
President Obama's move to take Cuba off the State Sponsor of Terrorism list, and "normalize" relations between the U.S. and that criminal regime has been met with bipartisan disapproval in the U.S. Congress, leaving many Americans questioning where their values as a country have gone. It goes without saying that the American-Cuban delegation in the […]
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson recently addressed the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) NALEO , a group that is considered by many conservatives as being one that promotes amnesty for illegal aliens, as they push a pro-Latino agenda that echoes the Democrat Party's voter intimidation and discrimination talking points, as […]
