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The American way of life and the end of Western civilization |
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US immigration policy, since the country’s birth, is based on what is good for the country, and not what is good for the immigrant. While properly controlled this policy has served the nation extremely well. Today’s immigration problems are not due to faulty policy, rather because a breakdown of that policy beginning in the early 1950s, was not only not fixed then but continued to be disregarded as a potential destructive force to the nation’s historically successful immigration policy. |
By Gil Cisneros
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Just when you think the Los Angeles Police Department has straightened itself out and become in reality what Hollywood portrays it to be, the department of Mark Fuhrman fame crawls out from under a rock to remind us that the LA cops are truly Keystone Kops. |
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By Roberto Lovato After participating in more than 50 small and large immigration vigils and marches in Los Angeles' MacArthur Park, little of what happens there surprises me. The many acts of Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) violence I witnessed – the choke-holds on 50-year-old female street vendors, the blood of marchers spilled on grass by baton-wielding cops, and me myself being hit – never really scared me. That is, until now.
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Paso del Norte group stereotypes Mexicans in El Paso, yet nobody complains |
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By Linda Chavez As details emerge from the plot to kill American soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey, one thing is clear. The United States may have more of a homegrown terrorist problem than some people imagine. The six defendants, whose plot was interrupted before they could do any damage, mostly grew up in the United States or had lived here for a long time. |
By Joe Olvera The one thing that hasn’t been mentioned in this brouhaha over revitalizing El Segundo Barrio is the way Mexicans/Chicanos are being stereotyped and typecast. If you haven’t heard about the ad/slide that was shown to proponents of revitalization, it’s because the mainstream media refuses to bring it out. But, that’s okay there are other ways and means to inform the public. Thanks to the Internet and email, censorship is no longer the most powerful weapon available to mainstream publishers. |
By: Rigo GalvezContrary to the old saying that states: “stick and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” I have found that even simple words may destroy, and hurt us, in many instances, because words are powerful. Just today I was watching an interview on public TV, featuring the author of a book called: “The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why”. Mr. Jabari Asim, who also writes editorials for the Washington Post went into great detail discussing his book and the use of the “N” word. |
CNN host stands by faulty leprosy statistics During a May 6 60 Minutes profile, CBS reporter Lesley Stahl asked CNN anchor Lou Dobbs about a statistic cited on his program regarding immigrants and leprosy. While Dobbs assured Stahl that his show had the facts right, he was wrong. Stahl cited an April 14, 2005 report that alleged that 7,000 new cases of leprosy, or Hansen's Disease, have been discovered in the past three years—presumably due to increased immigration. Dobbs' response was remarkable: |
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By Tamar Jacoby, THE DEBATE about immigration reform is shifting
dramatically, and with it the high-stakes negotiations between Democrats and
Republicans that have been taking place for several weeks now in a backroom
on Capitol Hill. |
By T Griego A recent squall has developed within a small circle of Hispanic Republicans, a subset of which has been consumed by a single question: Why won't Gil Cisneros just keep quiet? The question is not phrased in this blunt way. It would not do to accuse a man of lack of tact in his communications with elected Republicans by employing poor manners oneself. Especially not with a man of Cisneros' stature… |
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An e-newsletter monitoring extremism and the
anti-immigration movement [US] Lou Dobbs Refuses to Retract False Reporting
on Leprosy
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A family's fight 60 years ago against a California school that turned away their kids because they were Mexican helped end segregation in public education By Tyche Hendricks, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer Sylvia Mendez was honored Tuesday at the San Francisco federal courthouse where her elementary school -- one reserved for "Mexicans" -- was outlawed 60 years ago in a decision that led California to desegregate all its schools and public facilities. |
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By Kenneth Emmond One of Mexico’s biggest challenges in its quest for growth and development is the need to convince, coax, cajole, or force more citizens to pay their taxes. The amount of uncollected money under existing tax law is immense. The Finance Secretariat (Hacienda) estimates that about half a million companies and individuals owe a total of 545 billion pesos (about US$50 billion dollars) — more than one-quarter of this year’s federal budget, not including unpaid state and municipal taxes. |
By Fred Rosen Back in the days of Vicente Fox’s presidency, the term “micro-enterprise” became a shorthand reference to the administration’s chief anti-poverty program: promoting the creation of small new businesses. …U.S. President George W. Bush would have called it the creation of an “ownership society.” …But it soon became apparent that without substantial institutional support, Mexico’s small-business sector amounted simply to a risky survival mechanism for people who had nowhere else to turn. |
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Raoul Lowery Contreras/HispanicVista.com
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Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com