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In any town hall meeting were a speaker to ask the audience those wanting illegal immigration to stop to raise their hand, in all likelihood raised hands would total the audience. Similarly, in a meeting with illegal immigrants was the same question to be asked, the results would likely be the same. In fact there is near universal agreement that illegal immigration should stop. So what’s the problem?
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Sometime towards the end of August, the Federal Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) will announce the results from a partial recount of the results from a partial recount of the vote of 2 July. If you remember, this extremely close race for the presidency of México has only about 1/2% of separation between the top two contenders. From the looser, Andres Manuel López Obrador (known as AMLO) came cries of wide fraud and conspiracy with demands for a vote by vote recount. From the Felipe Calderón camp came a stonewall stance that maintained that the vote was fair and should stand as is. |
Demonstrators here, demonstrators there, thousands camping in the heart of Mexico City, access to the New York Times, journalistic and Al Gore like silliness all while nine percent of the vote cast in the July 2nd Mexican Presidential election is recounted.
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The largest demonstrations in our history are daily proof that millions of Mexicans want a full accounting of last month’s presidential election. My opponent, Felipe Calderón, currently holds a razor-thin lead of 243,000 votes out of 41 million cast, but Mexicans are still waiting for a president to be declared. |
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By Roberto Miranda
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By Alexandra Starr We generally think of kindergarten as a time of possibilities and fresh starts. But kids don't begin their formal education on equal footing: When they arrive at the schoolhouse door, poor and minority students often lag behind their peers by as much as 18 months. The imperative of reducing this achievement gap has convinced state leaders to invest in toddlers' education.
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Social mobility and politics: Fear and hope in the lower middle class |
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By Fred Rosen “We are prepared to resist for whatever time is necessary, even for years,” announced Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico City’s Zócalo last Sunday. López Obrador (AMLO), the candidate of the center-left Coalition for the Good of All has maintained an unshakable position: we won; we were robbed; we demand a recount; we won’t go home until we get one.
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By Dan Lund
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By Kenneth Emmond How would you feel if, one morning, someone parked a big truck at the entrance to your store and left it there all day? Let's say the truck leaves enough room for determined customers to get in, but not without some inconvenience. Now, suppose the owner leaves it there for three weeks, and your calls to City Hall to have it towed away are ignored because the owner is a friend of the mayor. When you ask him to move it, he says he'll leave it there as long as he wants to. |
By George W. Grayson Mexico’s Federal Electoral Tribunal has begun a recount of votes cast in 9% of the polling places in the July 2 presidential election. Few analysts expect that this limited recount will reverse the apparent narrow victory that National Action Party candidate Felipe Calderón attained last month.
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By Randy Jurado Ertll In many major U.S. cities, a quiet urban civil war has been occurring for decades between two of the biggest gangs in the United States, Eighteen Street (18 St) and Mara Salvatrucha (MS)…. However, the Salvadoran American community is politically maturing in the United States. Congresswoman Hilda Solis, the first Congressional member of Central American descent, proposed a successful House Resolution 721.
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By Herman Sillas Cora and I are at that stage in life where we recognize we have fewer years remaining than those we’ve already lived. Consequently, we don’t throw away cemetery advertisements anymore. We save them. In the meantime, we have engaged in discussions regarding our inevitable departure from earth. Planning your own funeral is about as pleasant as writing your will except you are not distributing assets only ashes or a body. |
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By John P. Schmal The results of the 2005 Mexican Conteo (Count) have been published and a comparison with the 2000 Mexican Censo (Censo) indicates a decline in the overall number of Mexican citizens who speak indigenous languages. The overall number of indigenous speakers has dropped from 6,044,547 to 6,011,202 persons five years of age and older. This represented a drop in the national percentage of indigenous speakers from 7.2% to 6.7%.
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September 4 marks the 225th anniversary of the founding of Los Angeles in 1781. Today, Los Angeles stands out as one of the most important cultural and economic metropolitan areas in the entire world. But what do most Angelinos know about the founding of Los Angeles? Who were the founders? Where were they from? |
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What should you call the men and women who sneak across U.S. borders? The answer goes to the heart of an issue dividing the nation. |
Banishing factoids Facts are stubborn things, unfortunately not nearly as stubborn as factoids. And nowhere do factoids trump facts more frequently than in the immigration debate. The latest example comes from Pat Buchanan in his new book… |
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It's the Boss, Not the
Workers - The Minutemen: Mad at the Wrong Guys |
The Census Bureau released data on August 15th that includes new statistics on immigration to the U.S. The data indicate that as the population of the U.S. continues to grow, so does the number of immigrants. |
"How does the Bush Administration get away with it?" And: "How come, no matter what scandal or embarrassment or disaster Bush&Co. get enmeshed in, one third of the population still supports them?" |
Nightly Nativism On May 1 the nationwide boycott billed as "A Day Without Immigrants" was all over the evening news. ABC's World News Tonight reported that "more than a million people took to the streets in thirty cities," part of "a new wave of protests against legislation that would increase the penalties for being in the US illegally." |
The dramatic rise in Mexican migration to the United States since the early 1990s has made the question of immigration reform one of the most contentious policy issues in recent years. While there are now several proposals for immigration reform under consideration… |
For many immigrants, few things represent the American dream like a home of their own. So it was a proud day… |
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GAINESVILLE TIMES (Editorial): Closing our minds to facts won't fix immigration mess When it was announced that two Congressional hearings on the subject of immigration would be held in North Georgia, we heard from many people who thought the hearings would be little more than opportunities for politicians to pander to their political bases. They might have been right. |
Surprisingly, the anti-immigration scare-fest hosted in Houston this week by a U.S House subcommittee might have proved a useful point. The hearing — or roadshow, as Democratic Rep. Gene Green aptly put it — was predictable. A cavalcade of witnesses supported the enforcement-only immigration bill… |
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ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION (Editorial): Protect wages of all workers GOP should seek immigration solutions rather than
trolling for votes on the road |
IMMIGRATION WATCH
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More experienced patrol agents. Radiation detection at ports of entry. New rules that require entrants to produce identification, where they once might have been just waved through. |
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The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up two cases that could mark a historic shift in the role of race in education and spell the end of official efforts to integrate the nation's public schools. |
Hispanic high school students use drugs and attempt suicide at far higher rates than their white and black classmates, says a new federal survey that has the experts somewhat perplexed…. More than 11 percent of all Latino students — and 15 percent of Latino girls — said they had attempted suicide, according to the report issued Thursday by… |
Financial services for Latinos may mean money wires and store credit to many, but a group of wealthy Latinos says it is time to take banking for their fast-growing community to a more sophisticated level. |
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Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com
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Raoul Lowery Contreras/HispanicVista.com