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HispanicVista Columnists & Guest Columns September 25, 2006	HispanicVista Columnists & Guest Columns September 25 2006
Congress depends on suckers born every day
Congress depends on suckers born every day	The Rule Of Law And The Law Of Unintended Consequences
By Patrick Osio, Jr./HispanicVista.com September 25, 2006 We are told that a number of measures proposed or on the books will go along way in stopping illegal immigration and securing our borders from terrorist penetration. But historical facts prove that measures already on the books neither stop illegal immigration nor make our borders safer. And most of the new proposals are either more of the same with new costs running into the billions, or simply anger and frustration venting, many crossing the line with predictable civil rights abuses.	By Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com September 25, 2006 FROM MEXICO First, let me be crystal clear on an important point: It is the obligation of government to preserve the rule of law and order. And that includes preventing the trampling of the rights of the many by some. With this in mind, let's take a look at what has been happening in México after our contentious presidential election of July 2^nd. With less that a 0.6% difference between the two leading candidates, we should expect a lot of tension in a country that has such a wide split in political and economic philosophies.
Who Needs Badges?	Pope’s Comments about Islam, Ignorant or Politically Calculated
By Raoul Lowery Contreras/HispanicVista.com September 25, 2006 Following the lead of two thirds of Mexican voters in the July 2nd Mexican Presidential election, the seven independent members of the Mexican Electoral Tribunal voted unanimously to reject calls of election fraud, election tampering and the exercise of free speech by Mexican business people.	By Robert Miranda The leader of the Roman Catholic world cited from 14th-century Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Paleologos when he used these words explaining his thoughts regarding violence in religion. The pope cited from the Old Testament text, “Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."
What's Your Name?	TechBA Program grows
By Manuel Hernandez-Carmona When I attended grade school, my name was mispronounced often. Instead of the Spanish Manuel, teachers made an extreme effort when saying it and always ended up pronouncing it incorrectly. For them, I was Man-You-El. That wasn't my name, but I didn't dare correct my teachers. At home and to my childhood buddies, I was Junior.	EDUCATION By Lilia Arechavala, FUMEC The Technology Business Accelerators Program (TechBA) is attractive for Mexican Technological Based Enterprises at the time they can increase their opportunities among the international market with the support, help and confidence it provides them.
Keep the Immigration Debate Civil	Rights and Responsibilities of Immigrants and Their New Homelands
By Arnold Schwarzenegger BY NOT FINISHING comprehensive immigration reform this year, Congress left behind a poisoned debate that will continue to fuel a growing anger in our country. Latino leaders, meeting in Los Angeles last week, were already debating whether they should continue marching in the streets, disrupt the economy or register voters.	EDUCATION By Amitai Etzioni Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies I. Immigration is a Privilege not a Right The starting point for a new way of thinking about immigration is the recognition that no one has a right to be in another person’s country any more than one has a right to move into their home.
Cruising on Military Drive	Sorry Charlie, the Clear Act is still bad legislation
By Roberto Lovato If you want to understand how Homeland Security influences us, go to south Texas and take a walk around neighborhoods whose streets were paved by the "clash of civilizations" in cities and towns at or near the border. One such street is San Antonio's Military Drive where, on any Friday, Saturday, or Sunday night, you can, if you pay close attention, watch some of the directions Latino identity is taking in times of war.	Statement from NCLR In response to an ad hominen attack today by Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-GA), the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) reiterated its opposition to the CLEAR Act, legislation that will compel overworked, untrained law enforcement personnel into enforcing complex federal immigration laws, in addition to fulfilling their other duties.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has simply gone mad	Critics Exaggerate Cost of Comprehensive Immigration Reform
By Denise Dresser Many in Mexico and abroad have begun to think that defeated presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has simply gone mad. His fiery speeches, his increasingly anti-institutional stance, his decision to create a "parallel government" and name himself the president of it, all seem to suggest a man who has gone off the deep end, dragging the country behind him. Yet there is method to the apparent madness.	Impact on Deficit of Senate Legislation May Well be Positive *National Immigration Forum* A new look at a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis of the cost of the Senate’s comprehensive immigration reform bill (S. 2611) reveals that critics of the Senate bill picked only the data they wanted to see, and ignored the rest.
Looking ahead at Calderon’s term	Defusing AMLO
By Dan Lund The Herald Mexico/El Universal Following the Federal Electoral Tribunal´s declaration of Felipe Calderón as president-elect, the nation is faced with many questions about the upcoming term. Dan Lund gives his insight on the Calderón presidency and the challenges he may encounter. What kind of judicial decision made Calderón the president-elect?	By Kenneth Emmond We all know what Felipe Calderon's first challenge is - the one that hit him in the face even before he was formally declared president-elect last week. He has to figure out how to deal with Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a man who so desperately covets the prize that Calderon won that he refuses to concede defeat, even after the highest court in the land told him he's lost.
Immigration and Security	IMMIGRATION WATCH
By Tom Ridge At a young age, I learned all work has dignity. My father taught me that invaluable lesson, and I understood it clearly after working several different labor-intensive jobs as a young man. Like most fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, we are blessed with the birthright of citizenship because our ancestors saw America as we still want to see America now -- a welcoming society that thrives on the diversity of ideas and hard work of a nation comprised of many peoples.	An e-newsletter monitoring extremism and the anti-immigration movement For the week of September 12, 2006 [NJ] Demonstrators give Nazi salutes, chant "Go Home!" The Wall Street Journal / September 6, 2006 Framing illegal immigration as a national security issue has given new life to fringe movements in Riverside and elsewhere. (MORE ARTICLES)
Is The Tide Turning For Sea Turtle Protections In California?	Efecto tarot en la Cultura del gobierno de Leonel Fernández
By Karen Steele Endangered sea turtles. These graceful creatures have long fascinated people and for years the United States has played a lead role globally in their protection. But the tide could be turning. The government is now seemingly more interested in rolling back conservation measures than protecting the last of the sea turtles, particularly along the California coast.	Por Miriam Ventura Philadelphia.--Cuando en el pasado (90') me opuse al término diáspora para definir el caracter de la comunidad dominicana en la urbe nuyorquina, lo hice mas bien por la forma tajante con que un sector intentó cerrar filas al rededor del ser, comportarse y sentir dominicano en USA, sin tomar en cuenta una diversidad que andaba y aun sigue andando lejos de definiciones interesadas desde perspectivas academicistas y victimizantes.
Growth in the Foreign-Born Workforce and Employment of the Native Born	What Price Reconciliation
Pew Hispanic Center Rapid increases in the foreign-born population at the state level are not associated with negative effects on the employment of native-born workers. An analysis of the relationship between growth in the foreign-born population and the employment outcomes of native-born workers revealed wide variations but no consistent pattern…	By Fred Rosen In his first speech after being ratified as Mexico's president-elect, Felipe Calderón, called for "a common agenda and project" and a political reconciliation. "Mexico," he said, " does not deserve to be divided by causes that can be overcome by means of reason, of understanding, of institutions, of the law and of democracy."
Speaker Hastert's Opening Statement from the House Republican Border Security Forum	The green line: Migration problem tied to conservation issues
Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert On June 20th of this year - in the midst of a national and congressional debate about immigration enforcement and border security - I asked the chairmen of the several committees with jurisdiction over these issues to organize and conduct a series of field hearings during the House's district work period. In particular, I asked the Committee chairmen to examine the Democrats' so-called "Reid-Kennedy bill" passed by the Senate and to report back on its value as a basis for House action.	By Talli Nauman On the airplane from Chicago to Mexico City, I asked the flight attendant for a “Mexico newspaper.” He brought me the Chicago Tribune. Okay. Come to think of it, the two top stories on the front page and one of the main bars on the business page were about Mexicans. I wouldn’t be surprised if The Miami Herald and any number of other leading dailies in the United States have a similar balance on a given day.
US Census continues to shine the way	Message from US Ambassador to Mexico Garza
By Jose Cancela. Hispanics USA New census numbers came out last month, with some bad news for the Si Tv crowd. One out of five people in America speak a language other than English at home. For two-thirds of them, that language is Spanish. In total, that adds up to some 33 million Spanish speakers, up from 28 million in 2000.	Dear Friends and Colleagues, The Electoral Tribunal of Mexico announced that Felipe Calderón will be the next President of Mexico. In so doing, the Tribunal reaffirmed the credibility of Mexico's electoral institutions by reviewing the July 2 Presidential Election and determining that the people had spoken in a free and fair way. I congratulate President-elect Calderón and look forward to working with his administration in the years to come.
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. About the author Table of Contents Excerpts from the manual What Readers Say _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ COMMENTARY THE BEST FROM THE NET September 25, 2006
ANNOUNCEMENT Trans-Border Migration and Development: Promoting Economic Opportunities in Mexico and the Border Region Date: Thursday, October 5 (6:30 ? 8:30 pm) - Friday, October 6, 2006 (8:00 am ? 5:00 pm) University of San Diego Free and open to the public	The waiting game of legal immigration The road to American citizenship can be bumpy, depending on who you are and who you know BY TARA MALONE Zenaida Valero measures her life in dates: her children's birthdays, her wedding, her arrival in this country and the day she applied to bring her Filipino daughter here.
Immigration Countdown: House is wasting time; Senate seeks solution EDITORIAL – Dallas Morning News After spending August yelling "fire," House Republicans are in a bind. They must do something to justify all their summer immigration hearings, the ones that mostly echoed the House's penchant for adding more agents, weapons and detention beds along the border.	The Death of Immigration Reform By Jorge Mursuli It’s one of the oldest tricks in the political playbook: When you’re in trouble, conjure up a boogey man to distract from your failures and play on voters’ fears. This year’s targets: undocumented immigrants. It’s not that there aren’t real reasons to fix our broken immigration system. And, earlier this year, it seemed that the debate over immigration would actually result in action…
Editorial: Leaving America’s front door wide open The Washington DC Examiner Newspaper, The Examiner Americans rightly fear that terrorists, foreign intelligence agents and violent criminals could enter the United States through its porous “back door” border with Mexico, but that very real threat is eclipsed by the 1 million foreigners who legally walk right through our “front door” every day. Less than one-tenth of 1 percent of those seeking it are refused entry at the nation’s 317 ports of entry, even though federal officials have little or no idea who most of them really are.	The Verdict is In: Faux Immigration “Field Hearings” Not Serious Effort to Find Solutions National Immigration Forum House Republican leaders have spent the past month conducting 20-plus “field hearings” in 13 states, ostensibly to “listen” to the American people’s concerns about illegal immigration. Turns out the only listening they did was to carefully selected panelists who already agreed with them on most of the issues. Still, judging from the press coverage across the country, the hearings failed to pull the wool over many eyes
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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 topics such as immigration, American perceptions about Mexicans, and Mexican perceptions about Americans. 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. About the author Table of Contents Excerpts from the manual

The Mexican Perspective: Understanding Their Culture American Perceptions of Mexicans
	The Mexican Perspective: Understanding Their Culture Relationships with Americans
By Patrick Osio, Jr./HispanicVista.com At one time or another, most of us have been shown one of those “what do you see” pictures. You know the type, do you see an old hag or a young maiden, or another one with the do you see the silhouette of two faces or a chalice? When not told there is more than one object within the picture, our brain zeros in on the first image it recognizes. Thereafter, it becomes difficult, sometimes impossible, to get the brain to accept another image is also present. Conversely, when told before looking there are two images, the brain accepts the challenge and is able to look for the second image, once the first image is identified.	By Patrick Osio, Jr./HispanicVista.com Much has been said and written about Mexicans’ love and hate relationship with Americans. Some describe it as Mexicans loving to hate Gringos. As is most often the case, the truth is somewhere in the middle. By and large, Mexicans have a great deal of respect and admiration for the United States and its people as a whole. The problems between Mexico and the U.S. have been more at the level of governments than at the level of people to people. The negatives between the two people, is more the making of Americans than of Mexicans. It is more the negative perceptions harbored by Americans about Mexicans, which in turn causes negative feelings towards Americans.
The Mexican Perspective: Understanding Their Culture Cultural Considerations – An Overview	The Mexican Perspective: Understanding Their Culture The Immigration Issue
Patrick Osio, Jr. All Mexicans have one bond in common - their love for Mexico, which includes their flag. It is passionate, proud and limitless. They sing, yell, talk and write about it at the drop of a hat. While the vast majority of Americans are disdainful of other Americans burning our U.S. flag, since the U.S. Supreme Court held that burning of the flag is protected by freedom of speech, we are far more disciplined than Mexicans would be at such a sight – it would lead to riots...	Patrick Osio, Jr. Every time there is a downward economic period in the U.S. the issue of immigration, more precisely, illegal immigration, or as Mexican would rather it be called – undocumented immigration – rises to the surface as an issue, sometimes as a major issue, as it did during the first half of the 1990’s and again at the turn of the century, both periods coinciding with a U.S. economic recession.
The Mexican Perspective: Understanding Their Culture The Question of Corruption	The Mexican Perspective: Understanding Their Culture Historical Vignettes
Patrick Osio, Jr. An American businessman said to me, “1 can appreciate and even sympathize with Mexico on the error of some of the negative perceptions that I have long held, but can the corruption be excused, or is this also a figment of our misconception in the U.S.? “ Sadly, no, it’s not a figment. Mexico has a long history of political and personal corruption. The word mordida meaning “bite” in use for...	Patrick Osio, Jr. After the Spanish Conquest of the “New Spain” or “New World,” families from Spanish nobility given land exploitation grants by the King of Spain, settled in Mexico. With this group came professionals (engineers/architects/doctors), merchants, tradesmen, servants and other service providers, but without land grants. Social standing remained the same as it existed back in Spain. Nobility first, followed by professionals, then merchants and tradesmen, then the servants and others. These immigrants were known as “Peninsulars.”
The Mexican Perspective: Understanding Their Culture Mexico a Small Size Melting Pot	The Mexican Perspective: Understanding Their Culture The Faces of Mexican Society
Patrick Osio, Jr. Mexicans come in all sizes and colors of the greater human race. And all races are represented within the Mexican nationality. Many Americans mistakenly think that Mexican is in fact a race – it is simply a nationality. A great faux pas is committed when meeting a blond, blue eyed Mexican and uttering – “you don’t look Mexican.” This is terribly insulting to all Mexicans, but particularly to the one on the receiving end of the remark. Such a remark brings contempt and brands the person as ignorant. Such a statement can completely ruin any chance of friendship and/or business.	Patrick Osio, Jr. Until Vicente Fox toppled the PRI’s hold on the Mexican version of the White House, Los Pinos, by being elected as the first opposition party president of Mexico, the true ruling class was made up of a pyramid of government officials, headed by the sitting president – he was the virtual emperor of Mexico during his six years in office. Then came the cabinet secretaries with the Secretario de Gobernacion leading the pack. Then came the under-secretaries of each ministry. Their power and influence on the sitting president, determined the ministry’s importance. After them came the state governors...
The Mexican Perspective: Understanding Their Culture The U.S.-Mexican War	The Mexican Perspective: Understanding Their Culture US interventions in Mexico
Patrick Osio, Jr. The argument that Mexico was not using much of their territory and thus it was not a big loss sounds hollow to the fact that it was nonetheless their territory. While taking a course in Mexico as a young man, a teacher on finding out that I was a U.S. born citizen asked – if you own a four-bedroom home in which you live by yourself, and I breakdown your door and come in with my friends who are moving from another state, and I beat you until you agree that I can take over two of your bedrooms because you are not using them, does it make it right? He then concluded by saying – what may be Manifest Destiny to those seeking to take from others, is imperialism to those from whom it is taken.	Patrick Osio, Jr. Soon after the U.S.-Mexican war the U.S. attempted to force Mexico under threat of military intervention to sign a treaty giving the U.S. rights to use the isthmus in Southern Mexico and the right in perpetuity to land and sea access from the U.S. border to Mazatlan in the state of Sinaloa. Fortunately, wiser head in the U.S. senate killed the issue, as the demand was headed for another war. Skipping over some of the lesser episodes, but there were episodes, to 1913 when the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Henry Lane Wilson, entered into a plot with former General Victoriano Huerta who had served under Porfirio Diaz, and Diaz’s nephew, Felix Diaz, to overthrow Francisco Madero, who had successfully conducted the revolution to oust Diaz.