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Mother and daughter finally get to hug at the border (video)
In Great Big Story: Love Beyond Borders: Mom and Daughter by haimy assefa, a mother and daughter get a rare chance to hug when the border fence is briefly opened. I’m not crying you’re crying
Nightmare on Your Street: You can say that I’m a DREAMER (video)
In DREAMER, an ordinary Latino dude comes home from work and discovers he has been replaced by a whiter version of himself. And Ms. Latino Dude? Don’t ask! [Written by and starring Eddie Mujica; directed and edited by Chris Sturgeon.]
Happy MLK Day from la MIGRA: GTF out of our country, Mexican (video)
The long fight to keep the Garcia family together ended early Monday at Detroit Metro Airport. Jorge kissed his wife and children goodbye before boarding a plane to Mexico.
Mas…Happy MLK Day from la MIGRA: GTF out of our country, Mexican (video)
Mississippi Mojado: A Mexican immigrant opens a ‘Taco Shop’ (video)
He crossed the river several times to find work in the United States — and got sent to jail or sent back. Now Zacatecas native Pedro Leyva is a citizen and a business owner of The Taco Shop in his adopted town of Oxford, Mississippi.
Link via pocho Profe Chastillez.
The border is a river and there’s a ‘Ferryman at the Wall’ (video)
Originally proposed as an international peace park with Mexico, Big Bend, Texas has a unique relationship with its southern neighbor. For the past 40 years, Mike Davidson — the Ferryman at the Wall — has been ferrying tourists across the Rio Grande for a little taste of Mexican life. He’d like to keep it that way, but some orange pendejo wants to build a great big border wall to divide the park.
Eric Holland: It’s time for ‘Amnistia’ again (music video)
Eric Holland, a former Arizona ESL teacher who moved to Mexico, writes and sings amazing songs about the border. His Amnistia, which we first featured four years ago, paints a picture we’d all like to see! [Video by Danny Worms.]
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Mas…Eric Holland: It’s time for ‘Amnistia’ again (music video)
Manic Hispanic: ‘The I.N.S. took my novia away!’ (NSFW video)
“She left Santana in a Chevrolet, to visit her tia in East L.A. — but she never got there!” [F-bomb.]
SoCal punks Manic Hispanic’s 2003 version of a Ramones tune takes on new relevance with Trump’s DACA threats. The I.N.S. Took My Novia Away is from the CD/album Mijo Goes to Jr. College.
Paola crossed the border as a 5-year old – this is her story (video)
Paola crossed the border into America at the age of 5, wading through the deep Rio Grande river with strangers and being arrested by ICE. She talks about the challenges of growing up undocumented in America, and the increasing tension immigrants are facing since the election.
Tennis on the US/Mexican border is not all fun and games (video)
Swedish sportswear brand Björn Borg orchestrated a tennis match on the US/Mexican border with one player on each side, half the court on Mexican soil and the other half in El Norte. Things didn’t work out exactly like they planned.
Lin-Manuel Miranda ‘Hamilton’ video: ‘Immigrants get the job done!’
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s powerful new video for Immigrants (We Get The Job Done) is based on a track from The Hamilton Mixtape.
Mas…Lin-Manuel Miranda ‘Hamilton’ video: ‘Immigrants get the job done!’
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti: Hey, Trump! Not in my backyard! (NPR audio)
Maria Hinojosa of NPR’s LatinoUSA talks with Los Angeles Alcalde Eric Garcetti.
The mayor’s message for President Trump? YOU ARE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!
Mas…L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti: Hey, Trump! Not in my backyard! (NPR audio)
The truck that feeds New York City: Sidewalk Tacos (video)
The folks who work at Sidewalk Tacos feed the people of New York City, but they have LA MIGRA on their minds. [Video by Elliot Levy, a Belgian living in New Ork.]