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A Biographical Tribute by Sal Osio
- DIONICIO MORALES -
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGEND
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HispanicVista Columnists & Guest
Columns
- June 1, 2007
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A fine imposed by law is
amnesty no matter what the crime. |
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Betrayal of the Credit Card
Class - Part II |
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 By
Patrick Osio, Jr./HispanicVista.com
- June 1, 2007
- “That will be $250 or 5 days in jail for speeding,” the judge said.
- “If I pay the $250, I go free and continue driving?” the man asked.
- “Yes, that’s the deal,” the judge replied.
- “Well, thank you for the amnesty, your honor. I’ll pay the fine.”
- “Amnesty? What do you mean amnesty? This is not amnesty your guilty
and paying a fine.”
- “Not according to Lou Dobbs, Pat Buchanan, Congressmen Tancredo,
Hunter, Bilbray, and a bunch of others. Paying a fine in admission of
guilt is still amnesty.”
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 By
Sal Osio, JD
- From the
Publisher's Corner
- June 1, 2007
On April 25 we published an advocacy report denouncing
the many abuses of the banking industry cheating credit card holders
charging excessive interest rates, by retroactively increasing the rates,
assessing unjustifiable penalties and, in general, abusing an unregulated
system aimed at enriching themselves at the expense of a defenseless credit
card holder. We made the observation that the consumer victims are
predominately the ethnic minorities and lower income class Americans. For
our viewers convenience the commentary of April 25 follows this article. |
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On Separation of Church
and State |
A Glance at History
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 By
Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com
- June 1, 2007
- FROM MEXICO
This
column is devoted to political commentary and I have avoided any commentary
on religious issues. But when the line between the two becomes blurred,
religion becomes fair game from a political aspect.
In case that you haven't noticed, the Federal District
of México (México City) has signed into law the right of any woman to an
abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy. And in a supposedly solid
Catholic country, this is noteworthy. But it is necessary to understand some
history in regard to the Catholic Church in México. |
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 By
Dionicio Morales
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- For one who has been at the forefront in the fight for civil rights
over seven decades, the present firestorm of misinformation on the
issues of immigration form “shoot-from-the-hip” politicos has been
acutely painful. The wave of hysterical, natives, and xenophobic
rhetoric about the undocumented immigrant is deeply troubling.
- It is unfathomable that in this “Era of the Latino,” truth and logic
have been thrust aside to open a floodgate of vilification against
Mexico and our people in the United Sates: the very words “immigrant”
and especially “undocumented” have been branded with shame. I am also
forced to remind those who band around the work that people are not
“illegal”.
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The U.S. Senate
Nukes Immigration Critics |
The U.S. Senate
Nukes Immigration Critics |
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 By
Raoul Lowery Contreras/HispanicVista.com
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June 1, 2007
Part One of two
- Finally, after months of negotiations among
Republican and Democratic Senators and constant attempts to sabotage them
by talking heads in the media and a small gaggle of congressmen from
fringe districts in Iowa and Colorado, we have a deal for Congress to vote
on.
- The issue is complex not only because millions of people are involved
but because trillions of dollars are also involved. What is interesting is
that the reaction to the Senate’s compromise isn’t complex.
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By
Raoul Lowery Contreras/HispanicVista.com
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June 1, 2007
Part Two of Two
- Does the immigration compromise announced by a bipartisan Senate
coalition solve any problems currently vexing our country?
- Problem: Millions of illegals, mostly from
Mexico though many are from other countries who came legally to the United
States, but overstayed and those who jumped the border.
- The compromise allows those in the country here illegally before
January 1, 2007, to be issued a temporary visa that allows them to stay if
they can prove regular employment and no criminal activities.
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Immigration Debate Used
to Detract from Iraq War |
Goodbye, Jessica |
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By Robert Miranda
In the debate between science and theory discussion can
become brutal. In politics, debate is often mired in cruel rhetoric and
conjecture.
In this writing, I offer more conjecture than rhetoric
in the hopes of stimulating discussion around the rightwing media’s use of
the immigration issue to detract from the failures of the Iraq War.
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- By Robert Miranda
One of Milwaukee's most zany conservative media types seems to be
experiencing a melt down…. In one fubar, Jessica McBride, who was recently
canned by WTMJ Radio to make room for some "Miller Time" (their words not
mine), posted a story on her WTMJ blog one can only surmise was ripped
from the pages of the Onion News…. Before being let go, McBride
thought it a good idea to do comic relief from the death of 4 year-old
Jasmine Owens. Her poor judgment and bad taste was rightly ridiculed by
the media and bloggers around the state.
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When Fair Becomes
Unfair. |
Latino
Education: Beyond the Millennium |
By: Rigo GalvezAn open letter to T.
Willard Fair, a paid activist
- Willard,
- Today’s America is not all about Blacks or Latinos but about everyone
in general, regardless of creed and nationality, which is called:
Democracy. As the chairman of the Board of Education you should not focus
only on the black, for you are doing a disservice to the office you
represent and the community you are being paid to serve, by favoring a
specific group.
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 By Manuel Hernandez-Carmona
June 1, 2007
(sic)…. After numerically proving in the past two major
elections that they should not be taken for granted; the education of
Latinos must be a top priority for the President's administration and the
newly appointed Congress. While the War on Terror continues to be
the number one priority today in America, more and more Latino children find
themselves out of school and without the academic support needed to walk
within the American educational school system. |
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The Immigration Debate:
What has Been Missing |
Latinos must support
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson for U.S. President |
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Chismes de Mi Gallinero:
- By Julio C. Calderon
Some people in these United States are intent on
repeating history. I have been refraining from writing about the “I” issue,
meaning immigration, however, after listening to radio talk from Limbaugh to
Hannity, and to reading about the national debate, I have to jump in. There
is panic in the land over the possibility of approximately 12-million
immigrants becoming citizens, and must, therefore, do something ‘about them’
now. We tried that once. Remember the Japanese Americans during World War
II? Hitler also tried getting rid ‘of them.” Remember the 1930’s when even
Mexican Americans were rounded up and deported as an answer to the great
depression? |
By Joe OlveraI love the fact that Bill
Richardson, Governor of New Mexico, is running for President of the United
States. I love the fact that he supported U.S. Attorney General Alberto
Gonzalez and gave him the benefit of his doubt. The best thing about his
support is that he admitted to the nation that the reason he hadn’t called
for Gonzalez’ resignation is because Gonzalez is Hispanic – as is
Richardson. |
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Latino Fear and
Loathing |
College Education for
Illegals Is in Our Best Interest |
- By Linda Chavez
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CREATORS SYNDICATE
Some people just don't like Mexicans — or anyone else
from south of the border. They think Latinos are freeloaders and welfare
cheats who are too lazy to learn English. They think Latinos have too many
babies, and that Latino kids will dumb down our schools. They think Latinos
are dirty, diseased, indolent and more prone to criminal behavior. They
think Latinos are just too different from us ever to become real Americans. |
- By Cynthia Tucker
- Atlanta Journal Constitution
For a few years now, Georgia's public colleges and
universities have done the right thing by a handful of deserving students
who, although in this country illegally, finished a Georgia high school with
good grades and fierce ambition. The Board of Regents has allowed those
students to pay the in-state tuition rate to attend public colleges -- a
privilege generally reserved for legal state residents. |
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Bilingual Preschools
for Black and Latino Kids Few and Far Between |
Anti-Immigrant in Black
Face? |
- By Leisel Bogan
- New America Media
On a street riddled with potholes, "Auntie Di's
Preschool," as Diana Smith calls it, does not look like much more than a
house with a banner dangling from a tree. But stepping past the front gate
and into the bright, colorful interior of the school, it is immediately
evident that much work and care has gone into developing the preschool Smith
runs in a low-income neighborhood of Pacoima. |
- By Bill Fletcher, Jr.
The Black Commentator
The picture in the ad immediately caught my attention. The photo was of a
very dignified older African American man looking into the camera, very
determined and equally pensive. Underneath his photo was a caption giving
his name. T. Willard Fair and the fact that he was the veteran of 40 years
of struggle in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Bipartisan Senate
Immigration Deal:
Quotes from Across the Political Spectrum |
No Amnesty for Illegals |
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Compiled by the National Immigration Forum
The Senate is poised to act on a far-reaching but
flawed immigration bill, drafted by the unlikeliest of allies. Much energy
and excitement surround news of this breakthrough, because the prospects for
actually enacting a comprehensive reform bill have never been better. We
have a bipartisan Senate poised to act, a reform-friendly House waiting in
the wings, and a willing President with his bill-signing pen in hand. |
- By Rep. Brian Bilbray
- USA Today/Opinion
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- As the Senate considers illegal immigration reform legislation, my
office has been inundated with phone calls from constituents asking, "What
part of 'illegal' don't senators understand?"
- You would think that Congress would learn from the failures of the
past.
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Public Support Solid
for Comprehensive Immigration Reform |
Truth, Fiction and Lou
Dobbs |
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Prepared by the National Immigration Forum
The New York Times today published the results
of the latest in a series of polls that have tested public preferences on
immigration as Congress grapples with immigration reform. Consistent with
many public opinion surveys conducted in the last year, approximately
two-thirds of those questioned favor giving undocumented immigrants “a
chance to keep their jobs and eventually apply for legal status.” |
By David Leonhardt
The New York Times
The whole controversy involving Lou Dobbs and leprosy
started with a '60 Minutes' segment a few weeks ago.
The segment was a profile of Mr. Dobbs, and while doing background research
for it, a '60 Minutes' producer came across a 2005 news report |
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The next Americans |
Immigration and Welfare
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- Immigrants don't destroy our national identity, they renew it.
- By Tomás R. Jiménez,
- Los Angeles Times/Opinion
BEHIND THE OUTCRY over the controversial immigration
reform legislation making its way through the Senate lies an unsettling
question for many Americans. Should the bill become a reality, an estimated
12 million unauthorized immigrants, the vast majority of whom are Latino,
would become eligible for citizenship immediately, and opportunities for
millions of others to follow them would be created. What effect will these
permanently settled immigrants have on American identity? |
REVIEW & OUTLOOK
Most of them will pay at least as much as they collect.
Wall Street Journal
The immigration debate is roaring again, and we're happy to join the
fun. One place to start is a myth that has become a key talking point among
restrictionists on the right--to wit, that immigrants come to the U.S. for a
life of ease on the public dole. … The Social Security actuaries recently
calculated that over the next 75 years immigrant workers will pay some $5
trillion more in payroll taxes than they will receive in Social Security
benefits... |
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Purge at the
Minutemen corral |
IMMIGRATION WATCH |
- By Andrew Leonard
Salon
For a virulently anti-illegal immigrant quasi-vigilante organization like
the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, getting labeled as a hate group by the
Southern Poverty Legal Center is most likely a badge of honor, the kind of
endorsement you can use on fundraising drives. But when the Moonie-owned
Washington Times, itself a relentless crusader against immigration that
has covered the movement with much adulation over the years, starts coming
after you, it might be time to watch your back.
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- An
e-newsletter monitoring extremism and the anti-immigration movement
For the week of May 29, 2007
[NY] Men Randomly Target Mexicans, Kill Peruvian by Mistake
Westchester Journal-News / May 22, 2007
Five men in Yonkers admitted beating to death a Peruvian man they mistook
for Mexican after setting out to beat and rob Mexican immigrants.
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Patrick
Osio, Jr. has written,
The Mexican Perspective: Establishing Personal &
Business Relations by Understanding Their Culture & Protocol,
a short but intensive E-book on the Mexican perspective on numerous
issues between our two countries. The E-book is also an in depth
primer on Mexican culture and protocol for better understanding that
allows establishing personal and business relationships, and how to
avoid the most common faux pas that can ruin relationships and
business deals. Literally this book has been of immense help to
thousands, you too can gain from Mr. Osio's lifetime experience.
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About the author
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Table of Contents
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Excerpts from the manual
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What Readers Say
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