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A call to arms to all super patriotic, flag waving Americans, whose quest is to rid our white American landscape from those sweaty brown illegals: Take their jobs, put them out of work and force them economically to go back home ... without as much as firing one shot. This is the rallying call that will be remembered forever in history from generation to generation as thousands of red blooded Americans take to the fields of the San Joaquin valley, straight to the farms and take back the low wage jobs from the Mexican laborers. The Patriotic Minutemen of America will fight the battle in the trenches, mano a mano, with the enemy, with a pitchfork and a hoe, and will win. |
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I went to my high school reunion. Forty years is a long time in anybody’s book. Out of the 870 graduates about 200 showed up for the dinner and the dancing. It was fun to see all the trophy wives who were snarled at by the “girls” of my class who used to be the trophies. [On a sad note, I did also sit and listen to the stories of some of the guys who talked about work with blank eyes. The eyes that used to shine with the expectation of life.] There was a real avoidance of talking about anything that was going on in the world, as if during the reunion weekend all that troubled the world did not exist. It was a surreal time which I really enjoyed. |
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By Venus Ginés Many of you know how our organization, Dia de la
Mujer Latina, Inc is dedicated to fighting cancer in our medically
underserved Latino Community. Now we have another enemy. It is called
Racism. |
When Daniel Schertz sold five pipe bombs that he thought were going to be used to murder Mexican workers headed for Florida, the former Tennessee Klansman had one special request of his customers: Schertz wanted to help the two men "take care of" another group of Hispanic immigrants. |
| The Latinization of the New New Orleans | Solid Support for Comprehensive Immigration Reform Revealed In Two Polls |
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By Roberto Lovato While New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin trumpets the return
of lights, power and tourists to the French Quarter, Ruben Lopez of Fresno,
Calif., and his roommate Myron Moran, a Guatemalan immigrant, rest in the
pitch-black room of an abandoned hotel on Canal Street. They've just
finished another sultry 14-hour day rebuilding the Big Easy.
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The winds of Hurricane Katrina blew away the flimsy veil that long has shielded most Americans from the ugly reality of our nation's continuing problems with race, class and poverty. But the massive Gulf of Mexico storm even more decisively blasted away the claims of most on the racist right to be merely proud white people, hating no one and pursuing a peaceful struggle for dignity. Across the radical right, the hurricane and its aftermath were used to depict blacks as savages, people who immediately turned to looting and worse the moment that the power of the state collapsed. Ignoring the fact that the violence came from a tiny minority of New Orleans residents, white supremacists and their fellow travelers reveled in the misery of black victims in ways that were sometimes astounding… |
Although Chris Simcox and Jim Gilchrist are seen as the fathers of the Minuteman movement, citizen vigilante border patrols are not a new concept. Simcox and Gilchrist are following in the footsteps of other anti-immigrant activists before them, and it is well-trodden ground. Klansmen were on the Mexican border 28 years before the Minutemen co-opted the concept. And they were talking about the Hispanic immigration threat more than five decades before that. In 1926, Klan Imperial Wizard H.W. Evans warned that "to the South of us thousands of Mexicans, many of them Communist, are waiting a chance to cross the Rio Grande and glut the labor marts of the Southwest." |
| Goldwater spawned the modern day self-righteous cadre of sickos | Republican Party Move to Middle Leaves Conservatives Looking for New Home |
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By Bert Acosta Back during the Barry Goldwater campaign people came to me saying they were for Mr. Goldwater, even though they were Democrats, because he was for "Law and Order". In further conversations, it was evident that they felt that "Blacks" were the cause of high crime statistics (because they were on welfare). That efforts to help "these people" were communistic in ideology. It was brought to my attention that the then Governor of California (Pat Brown) reelection bumper stickers were--RED in color.
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| Immigration Reform Must Be Comprehensive | Creating Tomorrows: Latino Education |
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National Immigration Forum “Leave a couple of pieces off and you will not have solved anything at all.” That is the warning the Chicago Tribune editorial page offers to those engaged in the immigration reform debate. The editorial, which appeared on Sunday, October 9th, praises President Bush for continuing efforts to find a solution to fix our broken immigration system. It notes that true reform must address the following key components: The first is the scope of the problem: What does the U.S. do with the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants already here, assuming we are not going to put them in freight trains and run them out of the country?...
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There has been a lot of talk within the two major political parties in America on how to win over, sustain and/or attract the ever-growing Latino vote for the up and coming Congressional and Presidential elections. Now that one of America’s most important cities has a Latino mayor, both political parties have realized that the projections are part of the past and a reality of today. The public relations campaign has already begun and will intensify as we get closer to the electoral race. Latino mega stars from sports, entertainment and the media are and will be lured to serve political interests by campaign directors from both ends of the track. |
| Gratitude Means So Very Much to Me | China’s Economic Invasion of Mexico: A Threat to the U.S. or an Opportunity for Mexico? |
Thanksgiving, gratitude, and being grateful. Such powerful words, simple to say, simple to read, simple to write. However, many in our society today are too busy or are too much in a rush to put these words into action. To me these words are so precious because I am so grateful for the freedoms that I have in this country the United States of America. I was born in Cuba where freedom no longer exists. |
A new phase of Sino-Mexican relations was born on September 11, 2005, as the result of the state visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao to Mexico. The aim of the visit was to promote the Sino-Mexican “strategic partnership,” a series of new ties between the two countries that would vigorously boost bilateral cooperation and communication in a variety of fields. In November 2003, Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to Mexico City had initiated the establishment of a “new” phase in the Sino-Mexican bilateral relationship. |
| Los nuevos senderos del CDP, y los avasalladores de periodistas | Chupacabras Dark Seas: An addition to our Disappointment Archives. |
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Driver License Act Cannot
Work States will have to verify all documents presented to support license applications, such as birth certificates, Social Security cards and utility bills, with the issuing agency, and will be required to link their license databases so they can all be accessed as a single network. |
Around 1900, at age 11 or so, Tom Tancredo's grandfather, an orphan, sailed, unaccompanied, from Italy to New York with a note pinned to his shirt, asking that he be directed to Iowa. In Manhattan he was told that, the ocean being in one direction, Iowa must be in the other direction, so he began to work his way west. More than two years later, having rather overshot Iowa, he arrived in Denver. Eight decades later he recalled seeing the Rocky Mountains and thinking, "If Iowa is past that , the hell with it." |
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Suddenly, congressional leaders have rediscovered fiscal restraint. After squandering a $2 trillion surplus and creating a tsunami of red ink, Republicans have come to see the benefits of simple arithmetic. Oddly, their budget epiphany occurred only after they were asked to help the desperate victims of Hurricane Katrina. With Gulf Coast residents who have lost houses, jobs and even loved ones requesting assistance, the GOP wants to halt federal spending. They are threatening a bait-and-switch: They will provide assistance to Katrina's victims (much of it through handouts to business), but they will make up for it by cutting Medicare, food stamps and other programs designed to boost the most vulnerable Americans. |
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Massive traffic jams are a fact of daily life for those who live in Mexico City and other major cities in this country. Last week, the Social Security Workers Union, without prior notice, completely blocked the main freeway in the southern part of the city during the morning traffic jam. Also, in the northern part of the city, a group of street vendors protested in front of the Human Rights Commission, blocking one of the main streets downtown. That same day a group of indigenous people marched from the southern part of the city to the central plaza (zócalo.) |
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1. Dia de los Muertos – A family celebration 2. First Annual Dauphin County Disability Forum 3. LATIN AMERICAN CULTURES DEPARTMENT
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It’s only 4 a.m. but the border crossing in this southwest Arizona town is already jammed with cars and people inching northward to enter the United States. The crowds are coming to work in the vast farm fields that stretch for miles around San Luis and nearby Yuma. But despite the numbers, farmers in the area say there just are not enough workers pouring across the border each morning. |
Bush will push for immigration reform as part of border control. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Oct 22, 2005 - U.S. President George W. Bush said on Saturday that his proposed guest worker program was an essential component of a plan to stem the flow of illegal immigration into the United States. Bush this week signed a Homeland Security Department spending bill that included funds to toughen border security and increase enforcement of immigration laws. |
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team crushes border vigilantes Ranch Rescue, a vigilante "border-patrol" that terrorized Latinos trying to enter the U.S., was shattered and one of its leaders sent to prison after a prolonged legal battle by Center attorneys and law enforcement officials in Texas and Arizona. The case sent a chill through an increasingly violent paramilitary movement on the Mexico-U.S. border. Center attorneys said decisive rulings from state courts demonstrated that American law protects even non-citizens from lawless homegrown gunmen claiming to be "defending" the United States. |
Targeting Businesses -- Effective in Controlling Illegal Immigration, Voters Say
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Tong sits cross-legged on the floor of the residence he shares with several other men from Thailand who have come to pick apples in the Yakima Valley this season. Their temporary U.S. home is clean; the |
WASHINGTON — October 19, 2005 - Faced with deep divisions in its political base over immigration reform, the Bush administration said Tuesday that it would press ahead with the president's plan to adopt tougher measures to control the borders and crack down on illegal residents, while also pushing to enact a guest worker program that would make it easier for foreigners to enter the United States legally. |
SAN ANTONIO – October 13, 2005 - Law enforcement from the United States and Mexico have formed a partnership aimed at quelling drug-related violence on the border. U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Mexican counterpart Daniel Cabeza de Vaca stood side by side Thursday to announce the security plan. The Violent Crime Impact Team will target the most violent members of warring drug cartels. Armed with high-powered weapons, the warring cartels have been blamed for more than 140 murders this year alone in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. |
US citizen wanted in Dallas murder arrested in Mexico. DALLAS – Associated Press - Oct 15, 2005 — The nine-month search for a man wanted in the abduction and slaying of a Dallas restaurateur ended with an arrest in a Mexican resort town Friday. Mexican federal authorities captured Edgar "Richie" Acevedo in Cabo San Lucas and were preparing to take the 25-year-old former waiter at an Oscar Sanchez family restaurant to Mexico City, Dallas police said. FBI Special Agent Lori Bailey confirmed the arrest, but would not discuss details. |
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California Campaign and Election News: 2 Drug Discount Measures in a Duel
Prop. 76 could block surplus spending by state $80 million spent by foes of 'hammer' in drug plan Candidate tries to talk the talk (MORE) |
MEXICO CITY — October 19, 2005 - In a ruling that could
have far-reaching implications for future elections here, an international
tribunal has ruled that Mexico's government cannot prevent Jorge Castañeda,
a controversial writer and former foreign minister, from mounting an
independent campaign for president. |
PANABAJ, GUATEMALA – October 19, 2005. Two graveyards are nearly all that is left of this Maya Indian village in the highlands - and they frame locals' views of the Guatemalan military. Authorities declared an entire hillside a graveyard last week when they gave up the search for dozens of poor villagers buried in a mudslide triggered by hurricane Stan's rains. The other cemetary, whose gravestones stick out of the mud, contains the bodies of 13 locals killed in a 1990 massacre perpetrated by the Guatemalan army. |
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Mexico’s PRI will appeal to Mexicans in US through families still at home. The nation's most-organized political party will try to win absentee votes from migrants in the United States by appealing to their relatives at home in Mexico, officials said Monday. "Mexicans who are in the United States are intimately linked to their relatives here in Mexico," said Roberta Lajous, international affairs coordinator for the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which governed Mexico from 1929 until 2000. |
Mexico will use cleaner diesel and gasoline fuel along border to improve air quality. Associated Press - October 20, 2005 - Mexico agreed to use cleaner diesel fuel and gasoline starting next year, a move aimed at improving air quality for the 12 million residents along the U.S.-Mexico border, environmental regulators said. José Luis Luege Tamargo, head of the Environmental Secretariat, announced at a meeting with U.S. officials in Tijuana... |
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Phony Boston nuclear threat man arrested in Mexico SAN DIEGO - Associated Press - October 17, 2005 - A man accused of making a phony threat of a nuclear attack on Boston earlier this year has been arrested in Mexico, authorities said Monday. The scare in January prompted authorities to alert the public and to increase security at the airport and on the subway. Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney skipped President Bush's inauguration to return to Boston. Within days, the FBI called it a false alarm. |
Mexico's leading presidential contender Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the former mayor of Mexico City, tells voters the government will protect them "from the cradle to the grave." His chief economic adviser, Rogelio Ramírez de la O, is delivering a different message aimed at investors and business leaders: López Obrador isn't a populist and will limit spending to keep the country's deficit from ballooning. |
Scholarships for Hispanic and Other Minority Students Below is a listing of 75 scholarship grantors available
to Hispanic and other minority students in high school, college, and
graduate school, or for persons planning to attend college or graduate
school. Amounts vary from several hundred to thousands of dollars. |
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