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| 1880s Nativists replaced by modern day Nativists but message remains the same | |
A Nebraska elementary school teacher was arrested and convicted for teaching in a foreign language. He was fined and jailed as the law read that teaching elementary school children a foreign language or using a foreign language to teach was a crime. How can this possibly happen in America? |
In case you don't know what is going on in México, let me explain. We are in the middle of an escalating drug war that shows no end. Not only are the border areas involved, but also increasingly... |
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Uncle Sam Te Desea (Wants You!) |
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Background and Corporate memory concerns that must be addressed as critical issues when the briefings involve the ”Hispanic Community”. Some points to remember as the process goes on:
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By Susy Buchanan and Tom Kim One of them says he'd like to bring nuclear weapons to the border. Another vows to stop the alleged Mexican invasion of Idaho. Several have links to white supremacist hate groups; others are given to dire warnings of horrible diseases, "barbaric" practices, and secret Latino conspiracies to "reconquer" the American Southwest… |
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UTEP Library in Receivership: Racism Still a Factor in Top Hires |
Envisioning Another World: Integración Desde Abajo |
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By Felipe de Ortego y Gasca In a surprise move on August 16, 2005, the administration at the University of Texas at El Paso announced that it had selected an interim director for the university library since none of the three finalists recruited by Greenwood and Associates for the position were acceptable to the administration. |
By Roberto Lovato Under a white tent on the Francisco de Miranda Air Force Base in the La Carlota neighborhood of this Venezuelan metropolis, immigrant leaders from all over the hemisphere debated and discussed immigration policies, critiquing the obsession with national security that has warped the debate… |
| Skull & Bones allegedly has the Skull of Geronimo on its secret mantle | “Much Ado About Nothing” - A Broken Educational System |
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By Joe Olvera’ Now comes this harrowing story of desecration, grave robbing, diabolical racism, witchcraft, and other atrocities that were committed by none other than students at Yale University in 1918, including one Prescott Bush – the grandfather of our current President. The accusations against Skull & Bones - a secret society founded in 1832 at the storied school – are that this fun-loving group of Anglo men stole… |
By Hector M. Barajas After a three-day retreat with fellow Democrats, Fabian Nuñez, the Speaker of the California Assembly, declared that education would be a major priority in the legislature this year….If actions speak louder than words, then I’m wondering what it means to make something a priority? Actions would indicate that when looking at the priorities of Democrats… |
| Tijuana sewage problem resurfaces in new year | Anti-Migrant Legislation According to Jesus |
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By Talli Nauman Unusually alarming amounts of raw sewage dumped in Tijuana the first month of 2006 set off alarm bells for environmentalists who have been trying for years to clean up the pathogens running through the northwestern Mexico border city’s waste drainage to the sea. |
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| Immigration Matters: America Needs the Dream Act for Undocumented Students | Immigration Matters -- 150 Years of Black Fears of Job Loss |
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By Deepak Bhargava Children of undocumented immigrants are in the crosshairs of anti-immigrant advocates’ attacks on new Americans. Across the country, efforts are under way to strip these students of the ability to go to college. If they succeed, this will be a tragedy for all Americans, not only for youth relegated to a permanent underclass. |
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson “Every hour sees the black man elbowed out of employment by some newly arrived emigrant." A century and a half ago, a deeply conflicted Frederick Douglass saw immigration as a looming threat to the fragile economic gains that Northern blacks had made in some trades and industries. |
| US-Mexico: Is civilization at stake? | The Travails of Mexican Journalist Lydia Cacho |
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By Fred Rosen What’s on Washington’s mind? Why the public challenges to Mexico? First Tony Garza, then John Negroponte, now the Hotel María Isabel Sheraton. The gauntlet has been thrown. But why? |
By COHA Research Fellow Michael Lettieri As Mexico launches itself into the most heated presidential campaign season in the country’s history, controversial issues of the past will loom large. It is a certainty that voters will reject any candidate who seems to embody the excesses… |
| The Island of Jorge Hank Rhon | California Enacts Resolution Critical of PATRIOT Act |
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By Josh
Kun |
On Thursday, February 16, the California Senate voted 23-10 in favor of Senate Joint Resolution 10 relative to the USA PATRIOT Act (scroll to end for resolution text), making California the 404th government entity and the largest of eight states to have done so. |
| The Second Founding of Bolivia | Un Muro más… |
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By Eduardo Galeano Deputy Morales was ejected from the Parliament. On the 22nd of January of the year 2006, in the same hall of pomposity, Evo Morales was consecrated President of Bolivia. In other words: Bolivia begins to discover that it is a country of an indigenous majority. |
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Report: California Energy
Policy Provides Model for President |
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Salma Hayek donates time and money to aid battered women in Mexico The star handed over checks to groups fighting domestic violence while promoting her new film. Hollywood actress Salma Hayek has made donations to groups aiding battered women in her native Mexico… |
Washington State apples: $962.5 million – Marijuana: $270 million Law enforcement officers harvested a dubious record last year: enough marijuana plants to rank the illegal weed as Washington state's No. 8 agricultural commodity, edging sweet cherries in value. |
First came an armed standoff between Texas lawmen and drug smugglers disguised as Mexican soldiers. Next, federal officials seized a stockpile of heavy-duty weaponry - assault rifles, hand grenades, and improvised… |
Despite criticism from advocates for immigrants, federal immigration officials said in recent days that they would not forswear the practice of impersonating occupational safety officials to round up illegal immigrants. |
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Teresa Fritschi seeks out artisans in hidden corners of Scotland, pays generously for their lamb's-wool blankets, Orkney driftwood chairs and organic-tweed jackets, and peddles their indigenous craftsmanship to a far-flung audience over the Internet. |
The 100-mph car chase ended in a blaze of gunfire at the Peace Arch, the graceful marble monument that straddles the U.S.-Canada border here and proclaims the two nations to be "Children of a Common Mother." |
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More tourists travel to Mexico, despite hurricanes Nearly 22 million foreign tourists visited Mexico last year, 6.5% more than in 2004, according to Tourism Department data. The visitors spent a total of $11.8 billion in Mexico, the department said in a news release Saturday. |
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As she breezed off the plane from Salt Lake City, the woman who had come to protest illegal immigration crossed paths with a man who first set foot here as an illegal immigrant. |
Dear Mexican, Why do Mexicans call white people
gringos? |
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A Southern Poverty Law Center e-newsletter monitoring extremism and the anti-immigration movement…. (Five articles are included in this week’s Immigration Watch.) |
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Delta Air Lines today launches its new flight from the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport to Los Cabos, Mexico, and airline officials say the new flight may not be the only one from its Cincinnati hub to Latin America. |
The Associated Press – February 19, 2006 - In the biggest joint Mexico-U.S. scientific venture ever, builders are finishing a monster telescope on top of a volcano that will let astronomers look back 13 billion years and uncover secrets about the creation of the universe. |
For more than a decade, the high-rise tower at Calafia Resort and Villas was an empty shell, a stark reminder of oceanfront dreams gone sour. Built on the northern Baja California coast shortly before the Mexican peso crash of 1994, the project couldn't find any buyers. |
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By Patrick Osio,
Jr./HispanicVista.com
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Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com
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Raoul Lowery Contreras/HispanicVista.com