Cuidado! Watchale! Darth Vader is Watching YOU!!! Border Patrol Drone, VADER, Tracking Undocumented Sojourners in the U.S. Southwest

Click the bad guy for the story via the LA Times...

Here's a quick infographic on how the next-gen migra system works... Sleep Dealer ain't science FICTION!

 

Undocumented and in Plain Sight: JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS in The New York Times

Great article.

and video...

The New Way to Get Rich! Fill Private Prisons While Hating Mexicans and Hunting Undocumented Immigrants | via cuentame...

more? go here...

The Son of Mexican Immigrants in on the Raid on Osama bin Laden

update

Thanks to Ask A Mexican, for the link above; another cool recent link from his site on Lou Dobbs and his racist/hygiene anxieties:

Call the Migra' and a Photographer! Salma Hayek, "Wetback" | A Story on the Rich, Famous, and Undocumented

Here's a direct link to V España

Heidi J. Boisvert's ICED Immigration Video Game

I am just beginning to learn about Heidi J. Boisvert's amazing agit-prop video games; learn more at her site, through the film below, and at icedgame.com

Another Film I Missed: DE NADIE

Thanks to Orin Weintraub for making me aware of this timely film.

The BBC on the Undocumented Mexican Worker Death (Anastasio Hernandez) via Taser Incident

update!

Coroner rules death of Mexican migrant a homicide

NOW STREAMING--TextMex LIVE on Gustavo Arellano's Show Today on KPFK at 3:00pm, Thursday, January 7, 2010

The Gustavo Arellano Show on KPFK last Thursday is now available as a podcast, stream, or download--if these links tank or crash, go here for the main KPFK archive.




Hit this link to listen live at around 3:20pm today; alternatively, the podcast/streaming link will appear here later this week!

Mexican Superheroes, Working Immigrants, XicanOSMOSIS, and Dulce Pinzón

original posting: 3/5/08

It may be the times (and a facebook query from a regular reader), but I think the present anti-immigrant zeitgeist demands that we rethink the way we see these mostly brave, valiant, documented and undocumented sojourners--no one makes us do that better than Dulce Pinzón.

Xicanosmosis is one of the key concepts that emerges in the closing sections of Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucination of the "Mexican" in American. A mouthful of a word, XicanOSMOSIS is a name loaded with salacious, reproductive overtones; it describes a peculiar process or phenomena where the high-brow and low-brow miasmal excesses of U.S. pop culture and the equally sordid and delicious emanations of Mexican mass arts fuse, co-mingle, spoon, and "splorf" into and onto each other in a veritable orgy of creative synergy and aesthetic synesthasia. You can see xicanosmotic climaxes and much, much, much more at work in the brilliant art of Dulce Pinzón, especially her Superheroes project.


Pinzon's fabulous gallery of ocular delights imagines an urban metropolitan setting where working Mexican immigrants are re-imagined at their labors clothed in the garb of DC and Marvel comics finest--Spiderman, the Flash, the Thing, Batman, and more. The go-to target of fascist racist pundits, the working poor, the swarthy immigrant, is re-visioned as the epitome of American fantasy, the Superhero.


Gracias, gracias to the BorderLore newsletter, a project out of the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona! More info? Hit this.

Migrant Workers Image Archive from LIFE MAGAZINE @ Google Images

Edward Kennedy: A Champion for Immigrant Rights

Surgeon General Lou Dobbs and the Specter of Pathological Mexicans

Apparently, Mexican-fearing, CNN-talking-head, (and I do mean HEAD, as in cabezón) Lou Dobbs has gone utterly bonkers--all those years on his knees sucking the gas of Corporate CEOs must have left more than just lesions on his soul. The latest rage? Dobbs, a Mexican-American marrying, Mexican suegros harboring yerno, is going around spreading (talk about needing some hygiene) the word that undocumented Mexican immigrants are befouling the clean medical lands of America with leprosy and other diseases from their varmint-ridden bodies.

Dubious?

Check out this thread forwarded by ace reporter Josephine Veronica Nericcio, our North Hollywood industry mole.

Media Matters is hot down on Dobb's sources as well.

and, lastly, in living color, from San Diego, the home of some of our nation's most heated Mexican loathers, Dobbs's key Mexican Leprosy outbreak science correspondent, Dr. Madeleine Cosman:



The "Dr" in Cosman's title, and not just by the way, is for a PhD in Literature from Columbia. (credit!)