We fed the lyrics of 10 hit songs by Chris Brown to wordle and girl got like just one kiss.

The top 15 most used words and their frequency: know (58), air (52), ever (50), like (47), wall (44), got (39), one (36), kiss (35), girl (34), diss (32), just (32), ooh (32), yeah (28, cause (27), forever (27)

The list of 10 hit songs by Chris Brown:

"Forever"
"Gimme That (Remix)" ft. Lil Wayne
"Kiss Kiss" ft. T-Pain
"No Air" ft. Jordin Sparks
"Run It!" ft. Juelz Santana
"Say Goodbye"
"Superhuman" ft. Keri Hilson
"Wall to Wall"
"With You"
"Yo (Excuse Me Miss)"

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This week's top story: Eleven people, including a teenage girl, were killed in drug-related violence within a 24-hour period last weekend in Tijuana, México. The girl, who was 14 years old, was shot dead with two others while walking down a street at night.

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This week's top story: Marcello Lucero, a 37-year-old immigrant from Ecuador, was killed by seven New York City high school students in an apparent hate crime. Police officials say the group of teens, which includes one Latino, are facing charges of first-degree "gang assault."

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This week's top story: Over 65 percent of Latinos in the U.S. voted for Democrat Barack Obama, helping him become the first black President-elect in U.S.

We fed the lyrics of 10 hit songs by Wisin y Yandel to wordle and oye, bien pegao anoche, sabes?

The top 15 most used words and their frequency: si (43), pegao (42), ahora (41), hey (36), sabes (32), dembow (25), rakata (24), bien (21), oye (21), noche (20), yandel (20), dale (17), miedo (17), anoche (16), voy (15)

The list of 10 hit songs by Wisin y Yandel:

"Ahora Es"
"Dime Que Te Paso"
"Llame Pa Verte"
"Noche De Sexo"
"Pam Pam"
"Pegao"
"Rakata"
"Sexy Movimiento"
"Siguelo"
"Yo Te Quiero"

We fed the lyrics of the top 10 Latin songs from 2007 and 2008 to wordle and you do know amor!

15 most-used words: you (60) amor (58) know (51) do (50) si (39) ahora (36) corazón (32) quiero (31) baby (26) the (27) dónde (27) bendita (24) vida (22) mirada (21) tiempo (21)

Lyrics from Latin hits of 2007:

"Manda Un Señal" by Maná
"Todo Cambio" by Camila
"Me Enamora" by Juanes
"Ser o Parecer" by RBD
"Do You Know/Dimelo" by Enrique Iglesias
"Si Nos Quedara Poco Tiempo" by Chayanne
"Bendita Tu Luz" by Maná
"Eres Para Mi" by Julieta Venegas
"Ojala Pudiera Borrarte" by Maná
"Sexy Movimiento" by Wisin y Yandel

Lyrics from Latin hits of 2008:

"Soy Igual Que Tu" by Alexis y Fido
"Cancion De Amor" by Don Omar
"Te Quiero" by Flex
"Inalcanzable" by RBD
"Sexy Movimiento" by Wisin y Yandel
"Ahora Entendi" by Yuridia
"Gotas De Agua Dulce" by Juanes
"Donde Están Corazón" by Enrique Iglesias
"Ahora Es" by Wisin y Yandel
"Por Ti Baby" by Kumbia All Starz ft. Flex

We fed the lyrics of 10 hit songs featuring T-Pain to wordle and like, yea, got ooh now.

The top 15 most used words and their frequency: like (88), yeah (63), got (55), ooh (47), now (41), know (39), flirt (35), way (35), fly (32), kiss (32), diss (32), girl (31), wit (31), hey (29), shawty (29)

The list of 10 hit songs featuring T-Pain:

"Bartender" ft. Akon
"I'm N Luv (Wit a Stripper)"
"Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')" ft. Yung Berg
"Can't Believe It" ft. Lil Wayne
"Got Money" by Lil Wayne ft. T-Pain
"Shawty" by Plies ft. T-Pain
"Good Life" by Kanye West ft. T-Pain
"I'm a Flirt (Remix)" by R. Kelly ft. T-Pain and T.I.
"Cyclone" by Baby Bash ft. T-Pain
"Kiss Kiss" Chris Brown ft. T-Pain

We fed the lyrics to every song listed on Billboard magazine's list of the "Top Latin Songs of All Time" into wordle and now baby you know love, like, now.

The top 15 most used words and their frequency: love (93), baby (91), know (88), come (67), go (59), want (59), can (58), just (53), now (52), got (50), way (48), like (46), girl (44), make (38), wanna (33)

The list of Billboard's Top Latin Songs of All Time:

"Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)" by Los Del Rio
"Maria Maria" by Santana ft. The Product G&B
"I'm Real" by Jennifer Lopez ft. Ja Rule
"La Bamba" by Los Lobos
"Anything For You" by Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
"I Need To Know" by Marc Anthony
"Genie In a Bottle" by Christina Aguilera
"If You Had My Love" by Jennifer Lopez
"Don't Wanna Lose You" by Gloria Estefan
"Coming Out of the Dark" by Gloria Estefan

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A press release from A.B. Quintanilla confirms rumors that Pee Wee has left the Kumbia All Starz. According to the letter, the split was amicable and there will be a search for a new member via the group's MySpace page.

Hola amigos les habla A.B.,

Quiero comunicarles que en común acuerdo con Peewee y otros miembros de la agrupación, decidimos que ellos seguirán su carrera como solistas.

Desde el fondo de mi corazón les deseo lo mejor y mucho éxito en sus carreras individuales. Ellos son muchachos extraordinarios y juntos vivimos momentos hermosos.

A todos ustedes les pido que el cariño y apoyo incondicional continúe hacia ellos, ya que seguirán siendo partes de esta gran familia.

Yo seguiré como productor y cabeza de los Kumbia All Starz trabajando y apoyando el lanzamiento de "Planeta Kumbia”, nuestra nueva producción, con la cual aún nos queda un largo camino por recorrer.

No había anunciado esto antes, esperando el resultado de nuestras conversaciones. Kumbia All Starz buscara su nuevo integrante entre sus fanáticos. Los detalles de esta convocatoria serán anunciados durante los próximos días en www.myspace.com/kumbiaallstarz

Gracias por su apoyo, comprensión y cariño con esta decisión.

A.B.

(image by the Korean Resource Center via Flickr.)

Two weeks ago, Elvira Arellano, a 32-year-old single mother from Mexico, walked out of Our Lady Queen of Angels church in Los Angeles, stepped into a waiting car and drove off. Five blocks away, she was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

ICE had spent a year trying to arrest and deport Arellano for twice violating U.S. immigration laws. Not that Arellano had been hiding from the law – everyone, especially the media, knew exactly where she was for most of that year: inside Adalberto United Methodist Church in Chicago.

When Arellano took sanctuary in the Humboldt Park church last summer after failing to convince immigration officials that she should be allowed to stay in the United States with her eight year-old son (a natural-born U.S. citizen), she instantly made headlines. But there was nothing new about her – or the government's – predicament.

At least 500 years before the U.S. Constitution was ratified, Church law in the Old World provided sanctuary to both fugitives and debtors. Two thousand years earlier, the Book of Numbers in the Old Testament related God's instruction to Moses: "select for yourselves cities to be your cities of refuge that the manslayer who has killed any person unintentionally may flee there." While Arellano's offense was far less serious than manslaughter, violations of federal immigration law are probably more contentious today than they have been in over 20 years.

In the 1980s, immigration raids were common enough to show up in movies like Cheech Marin's comedy Born in East L.A.. Then, like now, churches and synagogues sought to invoke the ancient tradition of sanctuary to provide shelter to illegal immigrants, especially when these were considered to be refugees from Central American civil wars in which the U.S. government played no small role. Eventually, entire cities, from San Francisco to New York, extended a similarly quasi-legal protection to immigrants facing deportation.

But today's raids and the reborn sanctuary movement are happening in a very different political moment. During the 1988 presidential campaign, being "soft on crime" meant keeping serial rapists like Willie Horton locked up. Today, it could mean preventing single mothers like Elvira Arellano from working and residing in the U.S. with a fake Social Security card.

Republican presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney recently released a radio spot condemning sanctuary cities for being "magnets that encourage illegal immigration and undermine secure borders." Romney also blasted Republican frontrunner Rudy Giuliani for endorsing sanctuary policies during Giuliani's two terms as the Mayor of New York City. The sparring prompted another Republican hopeful, Congressman Tom Tancredo, who personally called for the deportation of an 18 year-old illegal immigrant with a 3.9 GPA, to claim that his competitors are "sounding like [him] when it comes to illegal immigration."

After two illegal immigrants were arrested as suspects in last month's brutal murders of three college students in Newark, New Jersey (a "sanctuary city"), would-be candidates Romney, Giuliani and Tancredo all associated the heinous crimes on the failures of immigration policy and singled out sanctuary cities, in particular.

A recent telephone survey by Rasmussen Reports found that 58% of the nation's voters "favor cutting off federal funds for 'sanctuary cities' that offer protection to illegal immigrants."