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July 1, 2007

 

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My new guru: Lou Dobbs

This War Is Lost

By Patrick Osio, Jr./HispanicVista.com

   July 1, 2007

          OK, I give up. I am now joining Lou Dobbs cadre of followers yelling for border enforcement, no amnesty for illegal immigrants, round them up and build the fence that will keep them out and enforce the laws prohibiting hiring undocumented workers.

The problem that I have is that the objectives as above described are well defined, but not the how to.  Yes there is a law calling for the building of 700 miles of fence, and to add another 6,000 Border Patrol agents to man the border. And yes, there is a call for enforcing employer hiring practices – but all these fall short of explaining to us how to accomplish this and how these actions will guarantee success. Just saying it doesn’t make it happen.

By Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com

   July 1, 2007

   FROM MEXICO

     No, this isn't about the war in Iraq that a certain senator in the US was talking about recently. It's about another war that has been going on far longer, a war that has cost much more in both money and lives in the US and now, in México. It is the drug war, a war that transcends many US administrations and has no end in sight.

I remember attending a lecture back in the mid 1940s by an agent of what is now the Drug Enforcement Administration describing how violent the drug business was and the cost to society.  Nothing has changed in sixty years except that it is much worse.

Throw a Shrimp on the Barbie Republicans

Latino Immigrants to Blame for Shrinking Middle-Class?

By Raoul Lowery Contreras/HispanicVista.com

   July 1, 2007

    It only took 24-hours for the California Republican Party to respond to my CalNews.com criticism of hiring foreigners for top jobs in the State Republican Party.

Official Party spokesman Hector Barajas wrote me that "The State Deputy Political Director has yet to be hired." I stand corrected. Also, the Canadian Chris Mathews my previous article revolved around has, according to Baraja, "worked in Great Britain for the Conservative Party and in Canada."

By Robert Miranda

There are many conservative political pundits and radio commentators attacking immigrants at all levels for the social ills of America to its economic woes. From crime on the streets to work related concerns, most conservative talking-heads view immigration as the driving force behind America?s domestic problems.
Indeed, one of the problems that right-wingers are trying to place on the necks of immigrants is the problem of the shrinking middle class.

A Pyrrhic Victory

VIEW FROM THE PIER

By Linda Chavez
     Immigration reform is dead. But before conservatives who killed this bill start popping champagne corks, they ought to consider the following.

Our borders will be less secure, not more. Employers who want to do the right thing and only hire legal workers won't have the tools to do so. The 12 million illegal aliens who are here now will continue to live in the shadows, making them less likely to cooperate with law enforcement to report crimes and less likely to pay their full share of taxes. In other words, the mess we created by an outdated and ill-conceived immigration policy 20 years ago will just get worse.

By Herman Sillas

            Our oldest daughter, Debbie, is getting ready to move into her new house in Pennsylvania.  Moving into a new residence is not that important except to the seller and buyer.  In this case there is neither a buyer nor a seller only a builder.  See, Debbie, husband, Craig, and their daughter, Sophie built it.  It took them five years to do it, but let me go back about twenty-five. 

Long waits, onerous rules invite immigrants to break law

Employers angry as talks fail

Depending on their origin, spouses and minor children of legal U.S. residents, eligible this month for visas to become legal residents, have waited:

* Mexico — six years.

* Other — five years.

Siblings of U.S. citizens, eligible this month, have waited:

* Philippines — 22 years.

* Mexico — 13 years.

* Other — 11 years.

Source: State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs

By Susan Ferriss –

No one needs to convince registered Republican and conservative businesswoman Cathy Gurney that the U.S. immigration system is broken.

But Gurney, who owns Sierra Landscape & Maintenance in Chico, doesn't consider illegal immigrants a grave threat to the American middle class or lawbreakers beyond redemption.

Without the ability to make sure all her workers are legal now and in the future, she said, the business she's built for 27 years would collapse.

Immigration Reform Failure Uncovers New Status Quo

Roman Empire: gold standard of immigration

By Elena Shore

“Today the Senate voted for the status quo,”
SAN FRANCISCO -- Immigrant rights groups, who came down on different sides of the immigration reform bill that failed Thursday in the Senate, agree on one thing: things are going to get worse before they get better.
The Senate’s failure to move the immigration bill forward Thursday effectively put off the possibility of immigration reform until 2009.

By Cullen Murphy

YOU'VE SEEN the phrase a hundred times: "the world's longest boundary between a First World and Third World country." But hearing those words the other day, as the immigration bill seemed to be falling apart in the Senate, my thoughts turned not to the 2,000-mile border of the United States and Mexico but to ancient Rome's 6,000-mile border with … well, its border with everywhere.

When Repression Masquerades as Social Justice:

Confessions of a Cuban Boy

New mood from new citizens

By Carlos Eire
Foreign Policy Research Institute

As Elie Wiesel reminds us, there is no more eloquent witness against  injustice   and  evil  than  eyewitness  memory.  A colleague of mine at Yale, the theologian Miroslav Volf, who spent time  in prison  in Croatia  simply because his father was a  Protestant minister, has argued that evil can triumph multiple times:  first when  an injustice  is committed, and over and  over if  the record of that injustice is wiped out and the memory of it denied.

Latino immigrants in South Florida who have traditionally registered with the GOP have felt alienated by the party, critics say.

MIAMI BEACH — As a Cuban who fled Fidel Castro's communist rule for a new life in the U.S., Julio Izquierdo would seem a natural Republican voter — a sure bet to adopt the same political lineage that has long guided most of his countrymen who resettled in South Florida…. But moments after taking his oath this week to become a U.S. citizen and registering to vote, the grocery store employee said he felt no such allegiances.

Living without Freedom in China

Admirar lo admirable y aplicarlo a la vida diaria sería lo deseable para mí

By Edward Friedman

It's not easy for American students to know what it means to live without  freedom. They  know all  the bad  things about their own country-Virginia Tech, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, the Enron and  Halliburton scandals,  the  LA  riots,  elections stolen,  federal  attorneys  fired  for  pursuing  criminals rather than  a political  agenda,  etc.  How  democratic  is America?, they  cynically wonder.  When you  tell  them  how awful these  other places  are, they  ask, aren't  you  just whitewashing your own society?

Por Tere Quezada

Después del pasado artículo y uno que otro enojado, mi amigo José Luis me pregunta que cual es mi sentimiento hacia los Estados Unidos, seguramente se extraña por la vehemencia con la que defiendo el derecho de los Estados Unidos a aceptar o rechazar migrantes, o por mi continua insistencia al señalar que la migración es un problema de México, o quizás por detallar con severa crítica que los migrantes y la comunidad mexicana se han buscado mucho de lo que hoy les pasa, -termina diciéndome que el amor hace que uno no vea los defectos de su amado, ja,ja,já, ¿será?

Mayra La Paz entre fuegos cruzados en NY

Minorities to Experience Disproportionate Impact from Impending Legislation

Por Miriam Ventura

El Colegio Dominicano de Periodistas, Inc, New York está en campaña. En agosto de este año una nueva directiva disfrutará del favor de los periodistas votantes. Estas elecciones del CDP, me toman de sorpresa después de mi regreso de Pennsylvania, donde intenté permanencia y desde donde abrí campamento rumbo a Westchester County, donde hoy resido, estudio y trabajo lejos del bullicio y no tan cerca de la comunidad dominicana.

 

Los Angeles, CA.—A coalition, concerned with the safety of Californians, has united to oppose a bill requiring the removal of a widely used fire retardant found in furniture, appliances, cribs, and other commonplace items. Hospitals, environmental groups, fire chiefs, and insurance companies alike have come together to form a coalition called “Safety First” to ensure that Californians are protected by the highest standards of fire safety.

Schwarzenegger: Turn Off Spanish TV

By Kevin Yamamura

SAN JOSE -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told hundreds of Latino journalists Wednesday that immigrants who want to learn English more quickly should shun various forms of Spanish-language media.
"You've got to turn off the Spanish television set," Schwarzenegger said at the 25th annual National Association of Hispanic Journalists convention, which included many who produce Spanish-language material.

WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reminds its customers that the agency’s new fee schedule is effective on July 30, 2007.  Applications or petitions postmarked or otherwise filed on or after that date must include the new fee.

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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