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Not content with scaring the bejesus out of white families around the nation’s freeways, the Mexicans are now taking over the heart of the Big Apple: Times Square.
Open 7 days a week, the Mexican Bar -and its scantily clad señoritas– is waiting for you to celebrate its gran “inaguración,” which is kind of like an “inauguración” but way, way better.
So what are YOU waiting for? Come have some real Latin fun! This joint is 100% mMexicano [sic].
You can say anything you want about Eddie “Piolín” Sotelo, but the guy sure knows how to interview a president. The influential radio personality (and former undocumented Mexican) kicked off a one-on-one interview with Barack Obama this Monday by offering the president four possible topics of conversation:
EPS: I’m gonna give you the option, you know, which topic would you like me to begin with.
POTUS: We can talk about anything you want, Piolín.
EPS: I’m gonna give you options. Multiple choice. Are you ready?
POTUS: I am.
EPS: A.) Immigration reform B.) Immigration reform, C.) Immigration reform or D.) All of the above.
POTUS: I think I’ll take D.) All of the above
Click here to hear the rest of the interview until the end. I’m happy enough with the way it began.
Louisiana Senator David Vitter does not like his opponent, Charlie Melancon, apparently because he gave us (the Mexicans) a warm welcome in this country, greeting us with marching bands, fireworks, balloons and even a stretch limo.
This is bogus, man! Can Mr. Melancon please explain why I got none of these when I came in? Is it ’cause I didn’t pass through Louisiana? If so, I will keep that in mind for future reference and tip my paisanos. Who wouldn’t want such a festive welcome to the U.S.A?
Hat tip: Hispanic Tips
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu was quick to point out he has nothing to do with the billboard above (found standing on private property just north of Tucson, Arizona.) And this is bad, really, because who on Earth is going to explain this blogger what this is supposed to communicate?
What -or who- is a “public safety issue” and “national threat to America”?
Is it people with baseball caps? Families wearing same color tops? Anybody?
I told you, people… But sometimes you just don’t listen: Getting your U.S. residency can be as easy as becoming Miss Universe first.
Consider newly minted Jimena Navarrete of Mexico, who was seeing chatting away cozily with immigration attorney Michael Wildes of Wildes & Weinberg PC, barely minutes after winning the Miss Universe pageant Monday night.
Why? because we think she has big plans for her U.S. stay: Mr. Wildes is not only an expert in immigration law but he serves as the legal counsel of the stars, having secured green cards for Stefania Fernandez and Dayana Mendoza, Misses Universe 2008 and 2009, respectively.
See? these señoritas are smarter than you think!
If you are still unconvinced about how bad things are in Arizona, consider this. Even our very own Jorge Ramos, Univision’s cute-as-a-button, blond and blue-eyed news anchor, fears he could be stopped in Arizona because of the color of his skin.
In his Aug. 2 syndicated column, Ramos expressed a little relief about Judge Susan Bolton issuing an injunction to suspend some of the most controversial parts of the SB1070 Law:
Not sure about the accent thing -yet- but if you think you look a bit browner than this guy, be afraid, be very afraid!
I told you, people, it was just a matter of time before the GOP and other non-GOP gringos discovered our plot to take over their country. First it was the Queens mother who gave birth to six healthy babies in what is believed to be first sextuples ever born to a Hispanic couple in the U.S.
Now, according to the Associated Press, four sisters from one family have each given birth within four days. Yep, that’s four sisters, four babies, four days… And in case you were wondering, all these sisters are conspicuously named Sepúlveda or Pazos or López.
So there you have it, gringos, be afraid, people, be very afraid!
I told you! It was just a matter of time before somebody found out what we (i.e. immigrants) have been cooking up all these years: Taking over America by birthing lots of little creatures to populate this country.
According to the brilliant, anti-immigrant movement, what America is undergoing right now is a serious case of “Invasion by Birth Canal,” by which “illegal immigrants smuggle themselves into the U.S. to have ‘anchor babies,’” which I can only suppose means babies of people such as Jorge Ramos or María Elena Salinas, right?
[I always knew those two -and some 12 million more- were a sneaky bunch.]
Watch some more about this nonsense below:
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So help me out here: If the above statement is true, can we infer that Legal is NOT illegal?… Gee! It is so hard to keep up with great minds.
NOTE: This blogger is quite busy this week, but will be posting a translation real soon, I mean, for the monolingual crowd.
Blame it on the Mexicans, or rather, on Big Mexican Women (BMW’s.)
According to the folks at the not-so-fair-nor-balanced network Fox News, a loose network of Mexican-American women, “some of whom may be illegal immigrants,” have helped some very dangerous Afghan military deserters go AWOL from an Air Force Base in Texas.
Apparently, the Afghan fellows refer to these ladies as the “BMWs” —Big Mexican Women– whom, according to Fox News:
Pick them up in a car? Run errands for them? Help them escape Texas? I don’t know about you, but this sounds like a nice, willing-to-help bunch. Who cares if they’re big or not?
I always knew I wanted a BMW.
New York City’s Hamilton Heights, the cradle of the Hispanic lettuce, is also home to “Superior Market,” a Dominican-owned bodega that now caters to an increasingly Mexican clientele.
Not only they offer Mexican produce, but they seem to know that hat-wearing Mexicans with pants à la Michael Jackson tend to lurk around the ATM machine.
Photo: Laura Martínez
One of the few good things about Arizona’s SB1070 (besides opening a world of business opportunities to this blogger) is that it has proven to be very good for the creative minds. On the heels of Zubi Advertising’s Gringo Mask, comes this year’s winner of the Círculo Creativo’s Not So Young Creatives contest.
Thanks to this piece, Flor Leibaschoff and Matías Sada, of Dallas-based Dieste, are now on their way to Cannes, where I am sure they will not be asked for their documents… [given they don’t look like Algerian immigrants, that is.]
Remember the Gringo Mask?, Zubi Advertising’s provocative –yet hilarious- idea to protest against Arizona’s SB1070 immigration law?
Well, turns out it is no longer out there.
Apparently, yielding to criticisms by some gringos who didn’t like Zubi using the word gringo to describe gringos, the agency this week pulled it off the Web, replacing it with an explanation of what the mask intended –and didn’t intended to do.
Gone with the Gringo Mask was the dedicated Facebook fan page and previous URL’s linking to the Gringo Mask on Zubi’s own blog
I think Zubi doesn’t care what I think… but I think it shouldn’t have yielded to the pressure. The mask was not only funny; it was one of the very first attempts I’ve seen from a Hispanic ad shop trying to push the envelope and make a strong –yet witty- statement about one issue that touches the nerve of the very market they are supposed to serve (immigrants, specifically U.S. Hispanics).
Only the ignorant would take offense: the mask was a comical tool to show that we (non-gringos) know very well that “gringos” come in all shapes and colors. And no, I do not think the word “gringo” is a racial slur.
I don’t know you, but I was among the lucky ones who managed to download my gringo mask. You never know when you’re going to need it!
And you thought the whole thing about Dora the Explorer’s mug shot was funny? The poor thing is already being forced to bear a yellow star. At least that’s how I found her yesterday afternoon.
Who will be next? Run, Diego, Run!
Photo: Laura Martínez
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