By Sal Osio, JD

Mi Punto de Vista

From the Publisher’s Corner

July 25, 2009

                    Two days ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the venue of Harvard University, Harvard Professor Henry Gates, Jr. was arrested in his home by a veteran local police officer, Sgt. James Crowley. A national scandal developed by virtue of the fact that the professor is Black and the policeman is White. Racial profiling is an epidemic which undermines the constitutional guarantee of due process in that police enforcement personnel target minorities based on the pigmentation of their skin.

 

By Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com

July 25, 2009

From Mexico City

 

         With all of the talk in the U.S. about government-sponsored health care and comparisons to other country's health plans going on, what is forgotten is what the country to the South (México) has for a national health plan.

     We keep hearing about the UK plan, which is a single payer (government only) plan that is now starting to ration health care as a cost control.  And, in reality, the waiting time to see a doctor has gotten excessively long with patients sometimes dead by the time their appointments come up. In addition, there is simple rationing. Cases are analyzed for "cost effectiveness". In other words, say you are at a certain age and you need a hip replacement so that you can walk.

          President Barack Obama is a fool. I so declare while we celebrate freedom and independence, the 4th of July.
He has driven our economy into a ditch unprecedented in modern history.  His unemployment record is disastrous. His policy pronouncements on Iran grovel to the mullahs and Europeans bent on destroying the United States as the premier political and economic force in the current world.
That being said, we now have the man who had never even visited Tijuana, Mexico or any place in Latin America before he became President making announcements on events in Honduras driven by people seeking to protect a constitutional government under siege from leftist dictators in Venezuela and Nicaragua.  President Barack Obama has joined these leftist dictators in attempting to further an illegal move by a leftist politician to entrench one more leftist dictatorship into the Central American social and political fabric.

 By Felipe de Ortego y Gasca

There was a time when the national joke about California was that everything loose in the United States rolled into California because of the way the country was tilted. That tilt seems to have swung toward Arizona. Since 1980, Arizona has transmogrified itself from a state identified with rugged individualism, self determination, and tolerance to a xenophobic state of dysphoric panic about Hispanics spilling over its border with Mexico. In the 1980’s, Arizona wrestled with this xenophobia by advocating for English Only legislation; now it’s also wrestling with anything that’s “foreign” in its public school curricula, seeking to end Ethnic Studies courses, especially Chicano Studies courses.

By Manuel Hernandez-Carmona
 July 25, 2009

Latino Education

There has been a lot of debate over the qualifications and character of the nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor.  To be or not to be Supreme Court judge that is the national question. The up and coming confirmation of the Puerto Rican judge from the Bronx has refueled the issue of who is and who is not qualified to be United States Supreme Court Judge. Her critics have questioned her integrity and vision, yet they admire her tenacity at the Senate Hearings.

 

By Carlos Luken

 Political pundits believe that Mexico's turbulent transition to democracy began in the 2000 elections when the country's first democratically elected president, abruptly ousted the  autocratic PRI party that had dominated Mexican politics  for almost a century. This notion was reinforced in 2006 when the PAN party again narrowly won a bitterly challenged democratically held election that thrust Felipe Calderon as Mexico 's current president.

 By George Grayson
Foreign Policy Research Institute

By Tim Rutten

Los Angeles Times

The idea of stripping Latino children of their rights as Americans is the first of probably many reprehensible measures to crawl out of the vacuum of Sacramento politics.

 Under the country's Constitution, the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya was legal.

By Miguel A. Estrada

Honduras, the tiny Central American nation, had a change of leaders on June 28. The country's military arrested President Manuel Zelaya -- in his pajamas, he says -- and put him on a plane bound for Costa Rica. A new president, Roberto Micheletti, was appointed. Led by Cuba and Venezuela (Sudan and North Korea were not immediately available), the international community swiftly condemned this "coup."

Something clearly has gone awry with the rule of law in Honduras -- but it is not necessarily what you think. Begin with Zelaya's arrest. The Supreme Court of Honduras, as it turns out, had ordered the military to arrest Zelaya two days earlier.

 By Jeffrey Passel and D'Vera Cohn

Pew Hispanic Center

The flow of immigrants from Mexico to the United States has declined sharply since mid-decade, but there is no evidence of an increase during this period in the number of Mexican-born migrants returning home from the U.S., according to a new analysis by the Pew Hispanic Center of government data from both countries.

 Federal agency targets hiring practices in a nationwide inquiry.

By Anna Gorman

Federal officials Wednesday notified more than 650 businesses around the country, including nearly 50 in Los Angeles, that their records will be audited as part of a widening effort to find companies that hire illegal immigrants.

The number of notices issued is the largest ever in a single day and exceeds the total sent out in all of fiscal 2008, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.

Frank Ricci has used the court to gain special treatment

 The coast of Maine is a long way from Mexico, but to drug cartels it's an emerging market for heroin and cocaine. Just ask the band of detectives on the front lines.

By Scott Kraft

Reporting from York, Maine -- The obituary in the York Weekly was heartbreaking.

Just 17, Bethany Fritz was a high school senior hoping to study art at the University of Maine. She lived in an affluent coastal community of tidal pools, winding roads and thick stands of maple and oak. She loved her family and friends, her two cats and her dog, Farleigh.

At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a 7,000-pound truck bomb, constructed of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and nitromethane racing fuel and packed into 13 plastic barrels, ripped through the heart of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The explosion wrecked much of downtown Oklahoma City and killed 168 people, including 19 children in a day-care center. Another 500 were injured

Blacks and Latinos accumulate less in their 401(k) plans than whites of similar income levels, a study finds. Besides saving too little, they tend to invest too conservatively.
By Gail MarksJarvis
Los Angeles Times

 for State and Local Immigration Enforcement Partnerships & Adds 11 New Agreements

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
Contact: 202-282-8010

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced today that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has standardized the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) used to enter into “287(g)” partnerships—improving public safety by removing criminal aliens who are a threat to local communities and providing uniform policies for partner state and local immigration enforcement efforts throughout the United States. Additionally, today ICE announced eleven new 287(g) agreements with law enforcement agencies from around the country.

 Homeland Security tells local police agencies to focus on serious crimes, not minor ones, in its 287(g) program .

By Anna Gorman

Local police agencies empowered by the federal government to enforce immigration law must focus their efforts on criminals who pose a threat to public safety, with less emphasis on those who commit minor crimes, Department of Homeland Security officials announced Friday.

The announcement aims to clarify a controversial program that deputizes police to turn over suspects or criminals to immigration authorities for possible deportation. Normally police do not enforce federal law.

The law, known as 287(g), took effect in 1996.

 By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ

CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — As swine flu runs rampant in the Southern Hemisphere winter, world health experts are concerned that some hard-hit countries have been reluctant to take forceful measures to protect public health.

Only Friday did Argentina's new health minister, Juan Manzur, raise the country's official death toll to 44. He now estimates that as many as 320,000 people have been stricken with influenza, including about 100,000 with swine flu — a huge jump in what the government acknowledged previously, and an indication that Argentina's hospitals will remain overwhelmed for months.

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