Archive for March 26th, 2009
Suavemente: Elvis Crespo Touches Himself, is Interrogated by FBI
4:55 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bizarro|Celebrities|Chismes|Controversia|Miami|Music|sex · 5 Comments
26 Mar 2009The headline says it all, and it really can’t get much better than this, folks. AP reports on the “little” incident:
Merengue star Elvis Crespo is being investigated after a woman said she saw him masturbating on an airplane en route from Houston to Miami.
According to a Miami-Dade County police report, the Grammy winner was doing it in view of other passengers on a flight last week. That prompted the plane’s captain to radio Miami International Airport.
Officers interviewed the Puerto Rican singer upon his arrival but did not arrest him. No charges have been filed, but an investigation continues.
When asked by police about the incident, Crespo said: “I don’t recall doing that.”
His publicist did not immediately return a message left Wednesday by The Associated Press.
You can’t blame Elvis. Pobrecito can’t get press to save his life, so he had no other choice than to resort to touching himself on a plane. And getting interrogated by the FBI? Priceless.
Via / AP
Like the immigrant community doesn’t have enough to worry about
12:26 pm By la Macha · Immigration · Comments Off
26 Mar 2009From CNN comes the news that
U.S. citizens are stealing the babies of undocumented immigrants
According to police, a woman claiming to be an immigration official spoke to migrant worker Rosa Sirilo-Francisco at the Hillsborough County Health Department and told her she had to turn over her 2-month-old daughter Sandra Cruz-Francisco or face deportation. The baby’s parents are from Mexico and had taken the child to the clinic for a routine check-up, according to Wilson.
After giving up the child, the mother was told by a relative in Georgia that federal immigration officials would not follow such a procedure, so the parents reported their daughter missing.
Ten hours later, Pereira surrendered the child to Manatee County sheriff’s deputies, according to authorities.
There are so many sad things going on here–I betcha million dollars that the woman specifically went after an immigrant child because she was going to try to pass it off as her own. Which makes me sad because I wonder what has this woman gone through mentally in her attempts to have a child? But even more than my sympathy for her, I feel for the family and for an entire community that knows it’s a legitimate practice of the U.S. government to take their children away for no damn reason (please see ICE raids). They have no recourse when somebody says “give me your child.” Even rapists have to be proven to be rapists in a court of law where they have the right to defend themselves before they lose their children.
Is citizenship really the only protection parents have when it comes to keeping their children safe?
Watching Obama’s Live Cast
11:37 am By la Macha · Internet|Obama|Politics · 5 Comments
26 Mar 2009
Obama’s live cast is on right now–you can watch it here!
A highlight for me: Obama is talking about what it was like when Obama was in the hospital for the birth of his daughters!
Other great highlights: Obama is taking questions directly from people and from online participants (would the legalization of pot resurrect the U.S. economy?)–something I don’t think I’ve ever seen.
Many of the questions, I think Obama is glossing over–but I do think that he is showing a certain amount of accountability to us citizens that I don’t think I’ve ever seen before.
Are you listening/watching? What do you think?
A Town Bands Together to Save a Friend from Deportation
10:47 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|Spain|World · 1 Comment
26 Mar 2009
For a change from the posts about raids and militarized borders, an immigration story with a very happy ending.
It happened in Spain, a country with an “immigration problem” like the U.S., but where people as a whole tend to be a lot more likely to look at immigrants as people rather than “problems”. Hassane Moctar, at 21 years old, arrived by night on a makeshift raft to Spain from Mauritania, taking his life into his own hands to try to find a better life in Europe. He ended up in Galicia, where a family from Cangas do Morrazo, a town near Pontevedra “adopted” him. Hassane has been living with the Veiga family for 6 months, and the family who were once strangers now consider him part of their family.
But things weren’t so rosy with Hassane’s legal situation. Two weeks ago, Hassane, now 24, went to court to answer to a deportation order which would send him back immediately if something wasn’t done. His attorney demonstrated that the people of Cangas supported him, that he spoke Spanish, and that he even had job offers. The Veiga family began a signature campaign and managed to collect 5,000 names from townspeople in support of Hassane staying in Spain. His Galician “sister” testified on the stand to the fact that he was now part of the Veiga family:
“Ever since he started living with us, he’s been just like any member of the family. He’s never had any problems and we all love him. My 95 year old grandmother asks where Hassane is as soon as she gets up, and he spends a lot of time with her. If he gets deported, my grandmother will die.”
But initially much of this was considered irrelevant to his case by the judge. Now he had to wait for the verdict.
Read more…
Tweeting, Twitting and Twatting
9:07 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Funny|social networking|Twitter · 1 Comment
26 Mar 2009The recent deaths of two family members, explaining twitter to twitless amigos, and a sort of twitter break up have revealed to me the pros and cons of the twitter and how it changes communication.
So yeah this toon made me laugh and reflect. Pero you should all still totally follow us.
Via / Culture Kitchen
The White House is Officially Open for Questions : Let’s Ask About Ending the Raids
7:44 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Internet|Politics · 2 Comments
26 Mar 2009
You have to give it to the Obama administration. The previous U.S. president wasn’t tapped into the power of the internet or rather the power people think they have on the internet. Obama’s most recent strategy is to “open the White House” to questions focused on the economy and to rate other questions up or down.
Now people may think that asking a question about immigration has nothing to do with the economy but even from the perspective of migrant haters it does. After all, wouldn’t the migrant haters say that immigrants are stealing jobs and all getting public assistance?
Pero seriously, think of the money being put into ICE workplace raids and immigrant detention and deportation. I already told you all about the big business that immigrants in prison bring.
Sometime this morning, the President will conduct an online town hall on the economy and answer some of the most popular questions live.
From the VivirLatino WTF Files
6:27 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Funny|VivirLatino · 1 Comment
26 Mar 2009
Late last night I was reading through some of the site’s stats and I always like to see how people get to our site including keywords.
Now I’m used to the keyword analysis stats that show that many people stumble upon our site while looking for Latino themed porn and are bummed that all the searches for tetas are about me breastfeeding or breast cancer.
Pero last night’s keywords have me saying wtf.
For example: “Why do mexicans do their children’s hair so ugly?”
Huh? And that person came to VL not once pero twice.
and
“What did the latins still from the black man?”
I think it’s steal pero really? That would explain some of our comments.
Hola!
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