VivirLatino

Actors and other performers — Latino or not — are shutting up about the immigration issue. AP reports on how, with a few rare exceptions (George Lopez, EJ Olmos, and Eva Longoria), Hollywood is keeping its trap shut with regard to this hot button issue for fear of “career suicide”:

Fear of career damage, confusion over a complex issue abruptly supercharged by waves of nationwide protests, and historic detachment from Hispanic realities are among the explanations offered by industry insiders and observers.

Not that the movement has needed famous standard bearers – it has been notable for its bottom-up genesis that has left it without recognizable leaders.

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