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Should Border Patrol agents be exempt from criminal prosecution? |
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When the principles, “We must support law enforcement officers,” conflict with, “We are a nation of laws,” which should we turn our backs on? If an officer is accused of committing a crime, should we support the officer, dismissing the accusation or should such officer stand trial in keeping with an obligation to law? In Iraq we faced the conflict with prison guards who were accused and found guilty of prisoner abuse… |
A Biographical Tribute by Sal Osio, JD Conceived in Mexico - Born in the United States. Providence bestowed on him two cultures, a fusion of which he has embraced throughout his life. A bi-cultural heritage which he has generously shared with family and friends, always enhancing and promoting the respect among the diverse American communities. His cause is well illustrated by his auto biography: "A Life in Two Cultures." |
In a speech our new president Felipe Calderón both praised our present constitution but also called for modernization of the document that is the foundation of our government. It has been amended repeatedly before, but most prior changes occurred under the one party rule of the past in which the president effectively ruled by decree. Now things are different with a multi party government. Welcome to an effective democracy. |
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The Baja California Peninsula is located in the northwestern portion of the Mexican Republic. This body of land extends approximately 775 miles (1,250 kilometers) from Tijuana in the north to Cabo San Lucas in the south and is separated from the rest of Mexico by the Gulf of California (also called the sea of Cortés). Occupying the northern half of the peninsula, the state of Baja California shares its northern boundary with two American states… |
Latino education in the United States is a concern for all those involved in the educational community. One of the hardest experiences for Latinos has been getting parents involved in their children's education. Because of financial need, recently arrived immigrants tend to work overtime and into late evening hours; the great majority of first generation and foreign born Latino kids in the United States find themselves without the support ever so needed and useful to assist on daily assignments from school…. |
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By Luis G. Osio Christianity’s first tenet is love, orderly love: God, neighbour and self. To know in order to love is thus the first requirement. Both, the knowledge and the love have never been easy. Some even hate other men thinking it's love of God. So the question is obvious: What can justify such commandment?
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"¿Todos Somos Americanos? Cultural Diversity in the 21st Century." |
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By Dr. Michael Hogan Isn't it strange that we call people from the European continent Europeans, people from the Asian continent Asians, and people from the African continent Africans, but the only people on the American continents who get to be called Americans are those from the United States? Also, people from Europe who immigrated to the U.S. such as my grandparents get to hyphenate their Americanism… |
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A New Window of Opportunity for Latinos: Catholic Universities in the Americas. |
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By Janet Murguía After President Bush highlighted the need for a temporary-worker program as part of a larger immigration reform in his State of the Union address, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) compared the president's proposal to slavery. Rangel is right to be concerned. Our nation's history with such programs has been dreadful. |
By Michael Hogan As tuitions rise at universities in the United States and scholarship funds pay for an even smaller percentage of costs, many parents are finding college education for their children beyond their financial reach. For some, the answer has been to mortgage the home, or for the student to take out prohibitive loans. For others, the choice has been a community college or even to forego college entirely, and for the student enter the work force as untrained labor. |
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By Laura Carlsen The titles that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attaches to its operations reveal a great deal about the logic behind current U.S. immigration policy. Among the most suggestively titled is the ongoing Operation "Return to Sender," one of the largest such operations in U.S. history…. |
By Dan Lund President Felipe Calderón has projected the strategy of his administration: (1) not-being-Fox; (2) providing continuity with past efforts at reform but this time with the competence to bring them off; and, (3) presenting himself as a strong wartime president in full combat command against organized crime and the drug cartels. |
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By Cynthia Tucker Profiles in political courage are rare, indeed, but there's an early contender for the awards Caroline Kennedy hands out every May: Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell. About a week ago, defying the xenophobes, know-nothings and nativists, Purcell vetoed a local ordinance that would have enshrined "English-only" as official city policy and dictated that virtually all government communications be in English…. |
NEW YORK TIMES Editorial Almost a year ago, hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers and their families slipped out from the shadows of American life and walked boldly in daylight through Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, New York and other cities. “We Are America,” their banners cried. The crowds, determined but peaceful, swelled into an immense sea. The nation was momentarily stunned. |
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Mexican trucks are about to roll into the U.S. It's about time. |
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In late January, a Korean American woman wondered out
loud where Asian Americans fit into a workshop’s “Black, Brown, and Beyond”
ethnic categories. |
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LOS ANGELES, CA — February 16, 2007 — A formal celebration — which included traditional guacamole prepared by abuelitas (Mexican grandmas) and a 21st-century recipe demo by Chef Franco De Dominicies of the Millennium Biltmore — marked the formal entry of authentic Avocados from Mexico into the California market. |
LOS ANGELES – (Wall Street Journal Feb. 13, 2007) - In the latest sign of the U.S. banking industry's aggressive pursuit of the Hispanic market, Bank of America Corp. has quietly begun offering credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers -- typically illegal immigrants. |
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Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com
By
Raoul Lowery Contreras/HispanicVista.com
By Manuel Hernandez-Carmona