MTV And Becerra To Revive Immigration Reform with Reggaeton
Well well well. If Congress can’t handle immigration reform the next logical step is take it to MTV. Also, how the hell did Becerra sneak in there??
MTV Tr3s, MTV’s year-old channel for U.S. Hispanics, is bringing the immigration debate to an audience intimately familiar with the issue in Beyond Borders: An MTV Tr3s Immigration Forum (btw, why did they title it like a bad Angelina Jolie movie??).
The program airs at 6 p.m. Saturday on MTV Tr3s, which is Channel 605 on Comcast cable in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, and Channel 416 on DirecTV.
MTV Tr3s hopes to mobilize and inspire a potentially powerful voting bloc. According to the Pew Hispanic Center, 50,000 Hispanics turn 18 every month in the United States, and 87 percent of them are eligible to vote.
The forum, hosted by Gustavo Arellano, creator of the nationally syndicated Ask A Mexican column, includes Residente, the outspoken rapper/lyricist of popular reggaeton duo Calle 13, actress Betty Ortiz of the hit ABC show Ugly Betty, Los Angeles rapper Malverde, and U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif.
It’s like their new reality show where Latino gangstaton plus lowly politician unites us all into a single brown vote! I’m sure the viewership will be through the roof, although I’m still holding out for the Mirthala Salinas telenovela…
Themocracy