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By Patrick Osio, Jr. |
A few years back, a real estate consultant friend sent me a master plan for a Baja north coast development for which he was considering doing some work. Accompanying the plan was a note asking to please review and share my observations. The master plan looked first class, but there was one significant omission – so I sent back the plan with a note simply asking one question – “Where is the water?” I never heard back. |
As a prelude to this piece, I refer to an editorial from the Dallas Morning News…The first sentence is, "From abroad, a foreigner watching Washington's immigration debate this week could easily conclude that only fools choose the legal migration route." It closes with; "Congress needs to show the world that we reward those who immigrate legally. At the minimum, we need to stop penalizing those whose only fault is obeying the law." |
The endless presidential debates continue 14 months before Election Day. Besides being boring and uninformative, they are generally useless; they really aren’t debates in the Lincoln-Douglas tradition…. At Dartmouth College we saw every Democrat running for President stick big feet into their mouths and display, for all to see, people who really aren’t qualified to be Chief Executive and Commander in Chief of the United States. |
I like the way the left wing has run for cover on the
issue of torture. Only former US President Jimmy Carter seems to have the
wherewithal to call it as he sees it. |
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By Al Cardenas In 1980 and 1984, Ronald Reagan did something no Republican has since done in a presidential election – he won in Massachusetts. He won in a state that had not voted for a Republican candidate since President Eisenhower ran for re-election in 1956. That Reagan won there twice proves that this was no accident of history but the result of a concerted strategy. |
By: Samuel Loewenberg Emerging from the offices of a Midwestern senator last Friday, Sharon Hughes and Bruce Goldstein made for an unlikely couple. Hughes is the chief lobbyist for a coalition of agribusiness interests. Goldstein is a longtime advocate for farm worker rights. For much of the past two decades, the two were on opposite sides of the negotiating table.... Now they are allies in a heated, and hurried, campaign to pass legislation offering legal… |
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Deal made to create super secure driver’s licenses and a version for illegal immigrants |
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By Maggie Gallagher New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is the Democrats' Rudy Giuliani. Ideologically, he's a liberal. But he's one tough SOB of a liberal, which means he has considerable crossover appeal, especially to blue-collar white men -- a demographic the Dems normally hemorrhage. |
By Devlin Barrett The Bush administration and New York cut a deal Saturday to create a new generation of super-secure driver's licenses for U.S. citizens, but also allow illegal immigrants to get a version. … New York is the fourth state to reach an agreement on federally approved secure licenses, after Arizona, Vermont and Washington. The issue is pressing for border states, where new and tighter rules are soon to go into effect for crossings. |
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An e-newsletter monitoring extremism in the
anti-immigration movement [OR] Skinheads Exploit Anger Over Immigration |
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| Durbin blasts Tancredo on immigration | AgJobs a remarkable compromise |
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By Klaus Marre Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) lashed out at Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) on the Senate floor Wednesday, a day after the GOP lawmaker had asked federal authorities to arrest some participants in a staff briefing on immigration.
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By Bruce Goldstein The majority of America's farm and ranch workers are undocumented immigrants and are treated without the dignity they deserve. Some people would like to get rid of these laborers, but their plans are both unrealistic and inhumane.
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Mexico violence spilling unto US due to corruption and drug use |
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By Kelley Shannon Deteriorating security in Mexico and clashes between cartels will make this the deadliest year yet for that nation's drug-related crime, and the violence is spilling into the United States… |
By Ernesto Londoño and Theresa Vargas By the time they set upon Victor Hernandez, knocking him to the pavement and kicking him furiously, the teenagers were deep into a weeks-long spree of robbing Hispanic immigrants. |
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New Mexican Consul says immigration only part of relationship with Colorado |
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By Ken Alltucker Illegal immigrants are not the only, or even the most costly, source of unpaid hospital bills. … Arizona hospitals and doctors have collected more than $92 million from the federal government over the past two years to offset unpaid bills for emergency care provided to undocumented immigrants. |
By Fernando Quintero In 2006 exports to Mexico from Colorado totaled more than $272 million — proof that the state's relationship with Mexico is much more than immigration, said Denver's new Consul General of Mexico Eduardo Arnal. |
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Anti-emigration strategy: Small Mexican towns try to create jobs at home |
Tighter Border Policies Keep Americans Waiting at Entry Points |
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By Sara Miller Llana The Christian Science Monitor In rural Mexico, locals try to make a brighter prospect out of staying home. Tamaula, Mexico – This town in the central state of Guanajuato is so isolated that its 50-some families just got electricity a year ago. |
By Julia Preston New York Times United States border agents have stepped up scrutiny of Americans returning home from Mexico, slowing commerce and creating delays at border crossings not seen since the months after the Sept. 11 attacks. |
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Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com
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Raoul Lowery Contreras/HispanicVista.com