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Arizona gets its doze of “Death by Media”	Liberals in Sheep’s Clothing
By Patrick Osio, Jr. Editor/HispanicVista.com August 15, 2010 On March 28, 2008, my Death by Media article was published. The article dealt with how the US press had literally scared the pants out of people, and visiting Baja with emphasis on Tijuana, all but stopped. The reports that visitors to Baja were in danger were tremendously exaggerated and overly dramatized was the basis of Death by Media.	By Sal Osio, JD *Mi Punto de Vista* From the Publisher’s Corner August 15, 2010 A label often fails to describe its contents. In the political arena, where form trumps substance and bullet sounds dwarf content, a new label has surfaced, ‘neo-conservative’ to describe the opposition to liberalism – the right wing versus the left wing. The problem is that the labels are inaccurate.
Felony Stupidity	The Unwinnable War
By Raoul Lowery Contreras August 15, 2010 The squeals from those who have never read the Constitution of the United States or who have and don’t believe in it drown out reasonable people who know that the entire combined weight of the Constitution and Supreme Court squelched Arizona’s attempt to secede from the United States of America.	By Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com August 15, 2010 While México looks at the growing division in the United States over the two wars that they are engaged in the Middle East, Mexicans can understand the feelings of many that the US is fighting wars that have no clear ending. And as the casualties slowly mount (about 5,000 deaths in both Iraq and Afghanistan after nine years of fighting), Mexicans understand this frustration. Of course, the mixed signals that the US administration is making now adds to that frustration.
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Dear Tom, the 14th Amendment Has Come Before the Supreme Court	GUEST COLUMNS
By Philip Wolgin Recently I saw a CNN debate between Michele Waslin of the Immigration Policy Center and Former Representative Tom Tancredo (R-CO) on the issue of birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment. The most incredible part of the video, for me at least, was Tancredo's insistence that the issue of birthright citizenship has never come before the Supreme Court.	The 14th Amendment and Birthright Citizenship Experts Explain the History and Ramifications of Amending the Constitution Immigration Policy Center Mexico's violence not as widespread as seems By Chris Hawley USA TODAY
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Protofascism Comes to America: The Rise of the Tea Party By Ted Rall I’m American. And You? By Matt Bai The Politics of Scapegoating Latinos and Other Racialized Minorities By Ron Schmidt	Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege *America still owes a debt to its black citizens, but government programs to help all 'people of color' are unfair. They should end* By Senator James Webb The U.S. Hispanic Community: Promoting Diversity of Thought in the Public Sector By Octavio A. Hinojosa Mier
The Non-Profit Industrial Complex Eats Reform and Spits Out DREAMs	Mexican Migration and World Trends
By Maegan la Mamita Mala VivirLatino The Non-Profit Industrial Complex is like the Prison Industrial Complex in that despite the name, it is a capitalist model based in struggling for money. While private prisons fight amongst themselves for contracts with the Federal government and cut corners that usually equal abuses against those housed behind concrete and barbed wire, non-profits fight amongst themselves for money given out by corporate tax shelters and cut corners by watering down what should be revolution for reform and the end result is abuse ...	Immigration News Frontera NorteSur Studies by Mexico’s BBVA Bancomer Foundation lay out the general trends of Mexican migration in an international context. A periodic, bilingual publication sponsored by the Foundation’s economic services unit, Migration Watch Mexico, details demographic, geographic, economic, environmental and even technological characteristics of contemporary migration in Mexico and other countries.
Arizona's next illegal immigration target: Babies	Ending Birthright Citizenship Would Not Stop Illegal Immigration
By Lindsay Goldwert The New York Daily News They might not be old enough to walk or talk but newborns are the next likely center of the Arizona immigration firestorm. State Sen. Russell Pearce says that he is intent on introducing legislation that would deny birth certificates to "anchor babies," the children of illegal immigrants born in the U.S.	From Immigration Policy Institute Anti-immigrant groups and legislators have persisted in their attempts to restrict or repeal birthright citizenship in State Houses and the U.S. Congress. Several bills have been introduced that would deny U.S. citizenship to children whose parents are in the U.S. illegally or on temporary visas.
Mexico’s “Permanent” Crises	Do Republican Hardliners on Immigration Have a Shoe Fetish?
Special Report Frontera NorteSur Although the Arizona immigration law and two recent US Border Patrol detentions that resulted in the deaths of two Mexican nationals have upset US-Mexico relations, close economic and political ties between Washington and Mexico City are unlikely to change in the near future. Under the policies of the Obama and Calderon administrations, the strategic thrusts of the bilateral partnership- the North American Free Trade Agreement and anti-drug Merida Initiative-are likely to deepen.	Steve King and Brian Bilbray Offer Guidance to Arizona Law Enforcement: Check their Shoes Washington, DC – Evidently, House hardliners have compared notes when it comes to backing the “papers please” Arizona anti-immigrant law. Representatives Steve King (R-IA) and Brian Bilbray (R-CA) are defending the Arizona anti-immigrant law against charges of racial profiling by arguing that footwear is the key to identifying who is in the country illegally. Really? Yeah, really.
Manufacturing a Border Crisis	Stirring the Pot: Republican Senators Preempt Imaginary Action on Immigration
By Kent Paterson Unlike Mexican border states where drug-fueled violence has been on the upswing, violent crime rates in U.S. states bordering Mexico have been decreasing for the last several years. El Paso and San Diego are rated among the safest cities in the United States. Since 9-11, no terrorist has been detected crossing from Mexico. Even detentions of border-crossers are way down, up to 90 percent in the New Mexico corridor alone, according to media reports.	By Mary Giovagnoli Political hype and hypocrisy was on display this week in Washington as eight senators sent an oddly worded letter to President Obama... filled with moral outrage, alleging some kind of secret conspiracy... The letter has also been linked to warnings from the restrictionist group Numbers USA, who claim that the president intends to grant “amnesty” to 12 to 18 million illegal aliens, even though by DHS’s own estimate there are no more than 10.8 million people here illegally in the U.S. These two items feed off one another, helping to perpetuate an urban legend of massive proportions—that somehow, with the stroke of a pen, the president can grant “amnesty.” How do rumors like this get started?
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