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By Patrick Osio, Jr. |
According to the Republican Party leadership, Republican elected officials and their boisterous members, are not against immigration – just illegal immigration. On the surface there is nothing wrong with that. But, it is not the policy that is objectionable – it is the slandering, insulting, demeaning, degrading, debasing, disparaging and vilification of illegal immigrants that has and continues to turn off the Hispanic community against the Republican Party. |
Readers of this column know that I freely criticize in an evenhanded basis in commentary on Mexican affairs and those matters that affect México and Mexicans in the US. In this case, I will recount the process in which I recently became and "almost" Mexican. I recently gained "Immigranto" status, the equivalent of "green card" or permanent legal residence status in México. For the record, I remain a US citizen. |
Why is it if Democrats, Liberals, want to correct what they define as electoral, governmental and public policy deficiencies they are called reformers and visionaries? Why is it when Republicans tell the truth, they are reviled, smeared, called "crack addicts," racists, deceptive and manipulators? Issue: A Democratic proposal in North Carolina to change the state’s implementation of… |
I am certainly critical of the Mexican government when I feel it is in order. But when you see something going right, it is fair to point out things that are good. This comes to mind after the area that we live in suffered a true flash flood in a rainstorm the evening of 30 July. One does not expect to see flash floods in one of the biggest metropolitan areas in the world. |
In
the last five years, we have watched silently as our constitutional rights
have been taken away bit by bit in the name of patriotism. Samuel Johnson
said that patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels. He pretty much
nailed it. |
To understand this remarkable erosion of Latino support for Republicans, look no further than the most recent Presidential debates. While GOP candidates debated the urgency of erecting a fence from California to Texas along the Mexican border, Democrats debated in Spanish on Univision. |
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By Jocelyn Y. Stewart, After serving in the Army during World War II, Albert
Armendariz Sr. returned to civilian life with a new view of himself and his
Mexican American community. |
By Fr. Paul Kasun, OSB The Priest. The Levite. The Samaritan. Jesus tells this parable in answer to a simple question. The scholar of the law hopes to inherit eternal life, but has a nagging question about who really is his neighbor. The question is probably more important for us today, than it ever was for that scholar of the law. |
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By Roberto Lovato Eighty-seven year-old Carlos Alvarez remembers his first experience of war, when he dodged the bullets of Japanese gunners and airplanes in the Philippine jungles during World War II. Now, 60-plus years later, he’s on the front lines of a media war pitting grassroots Latino groups against the multimillion-dollar guns of PBS, its corporate sponsors and legendary filmmaker, Ken Burns. |
By Joe Olvera It was a cold, freezing night – January 21, 1944. The treacherous Rapido River in southern Italy awaited them. They were the Boys of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 36th Infantry Division, U.S. 5th Army. They were boys mostly from Bowie High School, but their Commander Gabriel L. Navarrete, had graduated from Cathedral High School. Company E was known as an experienced intelligence gatherer and knowledgeable about evaluating the enemy’s strength. |
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Memo From Mexico, By Allan Wall
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By Alfredo M. Cepero. Throughout its over 231 year history, since its birth in 1776 until today, the United States of America has been a champion in the struggle for freedom, democracy and human rights both at home and abroad. From the Boston Tea Party to the present war in Iraq, the U.S. has not hesitated to use force and even armed confrontation in the defense of those values. |
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Mexico’s Electoral Reform Sacrificed at the Altar of Politics |
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By Jorge G. Castañeda - At long last Mexico has cobbled together tax and electoral reforms—but not the ones the country needed. Indeed the reforms passed by Congress last week might have been worse than none at all, and will likely make it more difficult to improve matters in the future. In part, this is because the legislation is the result of a peculiarly Mexican version of good old-fashioned horse trading.
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By Michael Gerson Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney-- who once commented on illegal immigrants, "I don't believe in rounding up 11 million people and forcing them at gunpoint from our country" -- attacks Rudy Giuliani for not rounding up enough illegal immigrants when he was mayor of New York. Giuliani -- who once said, "If you come here and you work hard and you happen to be in an undocumented status, you're one of the people who we want in this city" -- criticizes Romney for tolerating "sanctuary cities" in Massachusetts. |
Huffington Post After convention speeches by the two Pats - Robertson and Buchanan - in 1992 helped elect Bill Clinton, organizers of the GOP's quadrennial gatherings effortlessly replaced Holy Roller hellfire with Happy Days hip hop. … In theory, political parties, whose function is to win first and govern later, are constantly evolving and adapting to changing demographics, issues and culture shifts…. But in practice in 2007, the Republican Party is diving for bottom. George Bush, the party's presidential candidates, and Republicans in Congress have set about destroying virtually everything they built. |
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By Nick Schulz (sic)…. Schulz: Lots of folks in the US say something to the effect of "I have no problem with legal immigrants, it's illegal immigrants that are the problem." What do you make of that argument? Legrain: I think the argument is back to front. Illegal immigrants are not the problem, they are the symptom of the real problem: immigration restrictions that are economically stupid, politically unsustainable and morally wrong. Far from protecting society, immigration controls undermine law and order, just as Prohibition did more damage to America than drinking ever has. |
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[IL] Minuteman Project Re-Schedules Forum With Ohio
Sheriff [MO] Lawyer Decries Hate-Mongering And Vigilantism |
By Kristin Collins
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By Kenneth Burt, Hispanic Link (sic)… In 1968, at the behest of Congress, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the commemorative event, which was extended to a full month — from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 — 20 years later…. Co-sponsors of the Congressional Joint Resolution were predictably liberal for the most part. They included Edward R. Roybal of California and Henry B. González of Texas. … Also among them was George H. W. Bush, the current president’s father. The elder Bush was in the forefront of the Republican Party’s outreach efforts to Mexican Americans.
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By Ronald Bailey A Mexican migrant to the U.S. is five times more
productive than one who stays home. Why is that?... The answer is not the
obvious one: This country has more machinery or tools or natural resources.
Instead, according to some remarkable but largely ignored research—by the
World Bank, of all places—it is because the average American has access to
over $418,000 in intangible wealth, while the stay-at-home Mexican's
intangible wealth is just $34,000. |
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Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com
By
Raoul Lowery Contreras/HispanicVista.com
Sometimes
no reform is better than the wrong type of reform. That seems to be the case
in Mexico, which recently passed new tax and electoral laws -- but not the
ones the country needs.