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There is a sector in the United States that no matter what the issue or occasion when it comes to Mexico, the spin is always negative. To this sector, Mexico can never do right and Mexico is always out to hurt or take advantage of the U.S. That such sector exists is not surprising because there has always been, and will forever be, people of such mentality be it about Mexico/Mexicans, Blacks, Jews, Catholics, Asians, Arabs, or of a multitude of other ethnic or religious groups. |
The flow of intensive affordable labor will become an increasingly and critical need to sustain our American service, construction and agricultural sectors. To overly counter this needed flow of labor from Mexico is the equivalent of 'cutting our nose to spite our face'. Once more: the law of unintended consequences due to lack of vision and over-reaction to a problem. |
Whether you are in the market to purchase cat and dog food or not, there are some interesting things about the recent recall of defective cat food. What started out to be reports of sick and dying pets in the US progressed into a massive recall of pet foods that spanned over 100 brands of food. Many cats were sickened and over 16 died. The recall spanned Canada, the US and México. More interesting is that the products recalled comprised so many seemingly unrelated brands. And the affected animals spanned the US. |
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By Raul Reyes When I was growing up, there was a subject around home that made everyone uncomfortable. My Aunt Lola used to call it the shame of our family. It was a dark secret that my relatives didn't like to talk about, although it affected many Mexican-American families just like ours. The source of this embarrassment was the fact that my brothers and I didn't speak Spanish. Worse, we didn't care about speaking Spanish.
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By Roberto Lovato When Newt Gingrich equated bilingual education with teaching "the language of living in a ghetto" this week, it took me back to my own linguistic roots. San Francisco’s Mission district was a place where the crowded housing projects overflowed with sounds of English, Spanish, Ebonics, Spanglish and other languages spoken and sung and mixed and dubbed until those moments when night and morning became one. The multilingual polyphony of this environment still makes it hard to define whether I grew up in a “ghetto” or a “barrio.” |
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By Sanford "Sandy" Goodkin Good Sabbath, Happy Easter, Happy Passover! The mixture of liberties, to think what you are, to practice your precious liberties. "The God Who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time." (Thomas Jefferson) The aim was to protect us from the inevitable stresses of liberty and of tyranny. Kings behave like kings and power makes even the mediocre seek out royal powers. "Religion and liberty must flourish or fall together in America. We pray that both may be perpetual" (RevWilliam Smith on the day that George Washington took over as commander of the Continental army)
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By Lisa R. Olivas It is true that our federal government is not adequately dealing with illegal immigration appropriately. But it is also true that this issue masks another problem. Unfortunately, what we resist persists. The American Defamation League's recent Klan Report reports a rise in Klan membership and that their newest recruiting tool is anti-immigrant sentiment. Supporters of anti-immigration groups may unknowingly support documented hate groups who are using immigration as a platform to assert some bizarre and extreme conclusions about races of people.
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By Linda Chavez The Bush administration is desperate for a victory somewhere — anywhere — and White House operatives are hoping that they may eke one out on an unlikely issue: immigration reform. For weeks now, administration officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, have been meeting with Republican senators to... |
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La fuerza de las cosas parte 2... a la memoria de Martha Sepulveda |
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Por Miriam Ventura El boricua que arreglaba relojes y todo tipo de artefactos "pro- stress" en Morris avenue, en el Bronx, un día me dio de bajas: Aquí no hay mas na' que arreglar... Todo se mueve en orden divino...era finales de abril del 2005. Jugar con el spam y los delete era un retiro confortable. Las madrugada mi dominio favorito, donde ejerzo con ellas y desde ellas poder, era el tiempo deseado de la paz para sentada en la computador a dar delete y declarar spam a dos por cheles. |
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By Fred Rosen Last week’s Democratic National Convention (CND) has renewed the Mexican left’s eternal debate with itself. Once renewed, the debate has continued on op-ed pages, TV and radio talk shows and local encounters. Organized by the leftist Broad Progressive Front (FAP), the political alliance dominated… |
By Kenneth Emmond The National Democratic Convention met March 23-25 to set its agenda for the coming months. No, this wasn´t the big hoopla to decide whether Hillary or Obama or somebody else should be the candidate for the 2008 U.S. presidential election. It was a purely Mexican affair, and it already has a "legitimate president" — Andrés Manuel López Obrador. |
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Random Readings: Foreign reflections — Using the outside to look in |
Will we have enough workers? - In the near future, the U.S. may be begging people to cross the border. |
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By Kelly Arthur Garrett David Lida is a New York journalist, a fictioneer, and a fairly visible fixture in the Mexico City literary world for more than a decade now. That combination makes him an eligible receiver for endless one-way conversations launched at him by those with strong opinions about the United States, which is to say nearly everybody. |
By Shannon O'Neil AS MANY IN Congress, in the media and in homes across the country debate the best way to stem the flow of undocumented workers across the Rio Grande, they don't seem to be aware that this perceived problem is becoming increasingly irrelevant. In fact, the immigration concern of the future could well be how to entice Mexicans and other Latin Americans to cross into the U.S. in the numbers we need. |
| Immigration 2.0 | Talking Nonsense |
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CHICAGO TRIBUNE (Editorial): Last year’s immigration debate started on a sour note and stayed shrill to the end. Republicans in the U.S. House -- furious that 12 million people had settled here illegally with the tacit approval of those who were supposed to keep them out -- attacked the problem with a punitive bill designed to round ‘em up, toss ‘em out and lock down the border.
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WASHINGTON POST (Editorial): PREOCCUPIED with scandal at home and war overseas, the Bush administration is resting its hopes of making a dent in the nation's domestic agenda largely on its stated goal of overhauling immigration policy. Yet the White House is doing too little to craft a plan that can attract bipartisan support and effectively reshape the nation's unrealistic rules on immigration. Rather than nudge its Republican allies toward such a strategy, the administration seems more intent on placating party hard-liners. |
| IMMIGRATION WATCH | Sen. Clinton Takes Commanding Lead |
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anti-immigration movement [CA] KKK crashes Minuteman Project rally
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Sen. Clinton Takes Commanding Lead Among Latino Voters in Hypothetical Presidential Primary, New Non-Partisan Survey Finds Survey also Finds Latinos Steadily Becoming More Democratic United States Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has a commanding lead among Latino voters over her democratic rivals for the presidential nomination and bests her Republican rivals in hypothetic match-ups according to a new non-partisan survey of Latino voters conducted by… |
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Released - March 2007 Jim White has been blessed with a very unique perspective on the Holocaust. Some of his closest friends had family members who either died there, or survived Hitler's atrocities. They shared with him their personal stories of pain and suffering. They also relayed the long-lasting affect they have endured, and still suffer to this day.
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Raoul Lowery Contreras/HispanicVista.com