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By Patrick Osio, Jr. |
A silver lining to being held in detention, as I was until recently at the Pitchess Detention Center in Los Angeles County, awaiting my appeal, is the opportunity of meeting inmates, who with rare exceptions, are members of society’s underclass. Last year I had the privilege of meeting and befriending a noble being of giant human values and honest principles. His name is Manuel Baltazar.
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The year 2008, shapes up to be pivotal for Baja’s economy for years to come. It doesn’t promise to be a very good one, but there is potential for holding the course steady or conversely take a reversal that will undo much of the gains made in recent years. Much depends on US border policies, second and retirement home markets, tourism and industrial output affecting Baja’s maquiladora sector. Another important factor along the Tijuana to Ensenada coastal corridor is one of visitors’ personal security… |
Contrary to first expectations, our president, Filipe Calderón, has been making progress in the enormous task of enacting some of the badly needed structural reforms in México. Following is a short score card: Limited government pension reform, passed. We should mention that México, a low wage country, does pay its government employees very, very well. Not only do presidential pensions top those in the US, but also the political class in México ranks up to or above what you will find in developed countries. |
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By Roberto Lovato As he concluded a closed-door congressional hearing into the CIA torture tape scandal, Committee Chairman Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, on Wednesday opened the country to a historic possibility: that the fate of the investigation into the destruction of the tapes will be decided by Latino government officials. Current and former Latino officials may even determine whether the investigation reaches the White House. |
By Roberto Lovato The most interesting development
out of the Nevada caucus votes had little to do with Hillary Clinton
winning a large percentage of the Latino vote – that was predictable. More
fascinating was the sudden and exponential surge in the number of experts in
Latino politics. |
 By Manuel Hernandez-CarmonaJanuary 25, 2008 There is no other way to describe I Am Legend but to depict it as a movie with purpose. The superman, batman and spiderman save the world syndrome is not new but what really places this picture in a league of its own is the willingness of its creators to examine, explore and extract the idea that we are all created for a purpose which may be greater than our own man-made self-served purposes. |
By John P. Schmal El Paso, Texas, has had as many wartime heroes as any other city in the United States. And, in the aftermath of war, the citizens of this border town pay homage to those heroes – both dead and alive – with great enthusiasm. Ironically, the man who is probably El Paso’s most popular soldier is not a native son, but a son of the Mexican State of Chihuahua. Although he was not a native son and he originally joined the army from Colorado, he became El Paso’s adopted son and one of its most revered wartime heroes. |
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Tijuana's new chief knows the cartel's killers are after him |
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By Linda Chavez Come November, voters in several states will not only be picking the next president but deciding whether they want to end a system of racial preferences in public higher education and government hiring and contracting. In 2006, voters in Michigan struck down racial preferences, as did Californians and Washingtonians a decade earlier, and as many as five states will have that opportunity this year if proposed initiatives… |
By Richard Marosi The bullet holes
pockmarking the walls of his home were just three days old when Alberto
Capella Ibarra took over the police force of this violence-plagued city. |
| Sushi, Sensimilla and Slaughter | Internet Wars: Immigration Debate Goes Online |
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By Suzanne Manneh Immigrant rights activists are attempting to change the
face of the immigration debate in the blogosphere – in spite of a fierce
anti-immigration online presence, activists said on Access Washington, a New
America Media-sponsored conference call with ethnic media. |
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Defending the Civil Rights of Immigrants Looking Back, Looking Forward |
Who Really Has The Law And Order Position When It Comes To Immigration? |
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By Maya Harris Editor’s Note: 2007 was a grim year for many immigrants with the double whammy of failed comprehensive immigration reform and increased enforcement measures across the country. What's in store for 2008? Maya Harris is the executive director of the ACLU of Northern California, the organization’s largest affiliate in the country. She is the first African American and first Indian American to hold that position. IMMIGRATION MATTERS regularly features the views of the nation’s leading immigrant rights advocates. |
Reporters, like everyone else, are in a bind when it comes to the immigration issue. Positions taken on immigration in the political realm are typically referred to as “tough vs. soft,” “open vs. closed,” “more restrictive vs. less restrictive” or “liberal vs. conservative.” On the Republican side, a good deal of the rhetoric about immigration coming from the campaign trail is wrapped in Nixonian appeals to law and order, not coincidentally the name of one candidate’s former TV show. |
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By Tom Barry Anti-immigration forces have been hammering into our heads the dangerous link between illegal immigration and increases in violent crime. Their only problem: the facts don't support their alarmist contentions. "Some of the most violent criminals at large today are illegal aliens." That's the lead sentence of a policy report published by…
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An e-newsletter monitoring extremism and the
anti-immigration movement
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U.S. Department of Homeland
Security Press Release Core 9/11 Commission Finding to Secure Drivers’ Licenses Nationwide WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today a final rule establishing minimum security standards for state-issued drivers’ licenses and identification cards…. |
By Katherine McIntire Peters Both national security and economic growth are jeopardized by an overtaxed and dysfunctional system for inspecting people and goods at U.S. land ports of entry. That was the picture painted by government officials, federal employee representatives and business leaders testifying Thursday at a House Homeland Security Committee field hearing in El Paso, Texas. |
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Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com