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For those of us who have contact with people in other countries and in their own language, we must from time to time, put up with, “Why is there so much ignorance about other people in the US?” So I fully expected to get hit with the question again while during a telephone interview with a Mexico City company executive, he mentioned a CNN program, but instead of the expected question, he commented that there was little doubt but that in the US we have the best sit-com programs in the world. The program? Lou Dobbs. |
The Republican Party reached the stratosphere of political might when George W. Bush was elected president with a majority Congress in 2000. And the GOP reached its zenith after September 11, 2002 in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on American soil. The American nation, with the sympathy of the rest of the world, was united behind President Bush and his party and supported his initiative in waging war on terrorism.
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A wag once said that Custer's last words were "Where did all those Indians come from?" Maybe we should change that to the Department of Homeland Security saying, "Where did all those Mexican's come from?" Back in the late 1980s, I worked for a Midwest company that specialized in a highly technical operation that also demanded hard work. We were competing successfully against some of the largest corporations in the US for this business. And it so happened that we were using a largely Mexican crew. Not because we were pro-Mexican, but it happened that Mexicans proved to be the best workers for this work. |
Fiction: All Islamic people are peace loving religious,
tolerant and kind people. |
By Joe ArmendarizGovernor Schwarzenegger has prescribed a new health care proposal that will require everyone living in California, including those who came in through the back door, to have health insurance, at an estimated cost of $12 billion. What ever happened to "rescuing California"? If this proposal becomes law, someone will need to rescue California from Arnold. The Democrats love this plan and so does Barbara Streisand and Sean Penn. |
The Mexican state of Oaxaca has been receiving a great deal of attention lately. Although most Americans know that Oaxaca is a state with a heavy concentration of indigenous peoples, many are not aware that Oaxaca has a higher level of indigenous diversity than any other Mexican state. The Mexican state of Oaxaca, located along the Pacific Ocean in the southeastern section of the country, consists of 95,364 square kilometers and occupies 4.85% of the total surface area of the Mexican Republic. Located where the Eastern Sierra Madre and the Southern Sierra Madre come together, Oaxaca shares a common border with the states of Mexico, Veracruz and Puebla (on the north), Chiapas (on the east), and Guerrero (on the west). |
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By Roberto Lovato Just three hours before President Bush delivered his State of the Union speech, my nephew, Eric, a former undocumented Salvadoran immigrant who is now stationed with the National Guard near the Afghan-Pakistani border, wrote me an email in Spanish. “A suicide bomber blew himself up at our front gate this morning. Ten people were killed, 15 wounded. I volunteered and helped pick up the dead and human remains. Esta bien feo esto (this is really ugly).” |
By Pilar Marrero, Translated from Spanish by Elena Shore When immigrants marched through the nation’s streets
last year protesting an anti-immigrant law, rumors of discomfort in other
communities, especially the African American community, became more and more
prevalent. |
| Desalinization, last resort for water conservation for Loreto | |
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By Talli Nauman A lot of people outside the Gulf of California Region are just beginning to take notice of the development boom threatening natural resources here in northwest Mexico. But concerned local citizens and international agencies already are convinced that projected population growth in the desert and fragile coastal areas is cause for preventative action. In that vein the International Community Foundation, based just across the Mexico-U.S. border in San Diego, California, released a study this month that can help decision makers deal with the biggest challenge of the impending influx: water conservation. |
The governor and mayor have set a new standard of leadership in California. By Tom Hogen-Esch It is clear that political leadership is creating new political dynamics in Sacramento and Los Angeles. Together, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa may represent what voters see as a model for political leadership in California — the charismatic consensus-builder whose powers of persuasion enable him to transcend the institutional weakness of office and rise above partisan gridlock. |
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By Fred Rosen The price controls on tortillas announced by the Calderón government constitute a compromise between two opposite "lessons learned" from Mexico’s sudden corn shortage — the shortage that has led to a dramatic rise in the price of tortillas, the Mexican staple. …The compromise, agreed to by the government and the major corn and tortilla distributors — including Maseca, Bimbo and Wal-Mart — reflects the Calderón government’s acknowledgement that free-market ideology has its limits, and… |
By Bill Dahl
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e-newsletter monitoring extremism and the anti-immigration movement For the week of Jan. 23, 2007 [CA] Push comes to shove for Antelope Valley Minutemen Antelope Valley Press / Jan. 21, 2007 SaveOurState coordinator Don Silva scuffled with a teenage Hispanic girl he called "ghetto trash" and used a bullhorn to order day laborers to fetch him tacos during a boisterous protest organized by the Antelope Valley Independent Minutemen. |
(AP) – January 11, 2007 - Western Union Co., the largest U.S. money-transfer company, won a court ruling that bars Arizona from seizing funds sent by customers in other states to Mexico as part of a probe into drug and immigrant smuggling. Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard obtained a warrant in September to put a hold on money transfers of US$500 or more |
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U.S.-Mexico Border Fence Plan Will Be 'Revisited' By Congress |
Chertoff waves environmental regulations and laws impeding wall construction |
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By James Rowley
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The construction is part of a Bush administration initiative announced last year that aims to provide a mix of high-tech virtual fencing and a traditional physical barrier. |
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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Washington, DC – The following is a statement by Frank Sharry, Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum, a pro-immigrant advocacy organization in Washington, DC. The momentum is building. A growing number of the nation's political leaders are moving courageously in the right direction. They are responding to a frustrated public with pragmatic solutions instead of simplistic sound bites. They get that now is the time to step up and solve the problem of illegal immigration |
By Mike Hall In the November elections, when national voter turnout dropped by 8.5 percent from 2002’s off-year election, it would be logical, says Gabriela Lemus, that the nation’s Latino voters would show a similar decline. Wrong, says the new executive director the AFL-CIO’s Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA). In a new Point of View (POV) column at |
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By Michael Doyle
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2006 Election Underscored Public Expects Solution As the 110th Congress kicks off its first session with calls in both chambers to overhaul the immigration system, advocates for change have launched a new alliance to ensure that those promises become legislative reality. |
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By Patrick Harrington Jan. 16, 2007 - (Bloomberg) -- Mexico's industrial production rose more than expected in November, buoyed by a surge in building and construction. Industrial output increased 4.8 percent in November from a year earlier after growing a revised 4.5 percent in October and 5.1 percent in September. Economists expected output to rise 3.8 percent, according to the median of 13 estimates in a Bloomberg survey. |
BUSINESS (AP) – Jan 25, 2007 - Lowe's Cos. plans to expand into Mexico, opening as many as five stores in 2009 as it tries to keep pace with larger rival Home Depot. The stores will be in Monterrey and will cost as much as $20 million each, Lowe's said in a statement. |
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