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Here you are unknown outside your Congressional district, you’ve sat in the House for 20 some years; have done nothing to distinguish yourself; your call to fame is involvement in the Congressional banking scandal writing over 400 insufficient-funds checks that the government had to make good; and legislatively getting the government to build a fence from the Pacific Ocean extending 14 miles east along the US-Mexico border; then boast it has stopped 80 percent of illegal immigrants though illegal immigration in the same sector increases every year; then campaigned for adding another 700 miles because that will do it – so now - elect me, Duncan Hunter, President.
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During the Prohibition era in the '30's, our country experienced the highest incidence of violence, lawlessness, criminality and political corruption in its history - a tenfold more than Colombia and Mexico combined currently experience. The insatiable consumption for alcohol among our citizenry gave birth to the 'speak easy' and nurtured a criminal underground of Al Capone styled gangsters who ran a mock of in a society which boasted of being the epitome of law and order. Has anything changed? |
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For the sake of brevity, I will refer to Andrés Manuel López Obrador by his familiar name, AMLO. He is the man who ran for president of México and came in second in the 2 July election in México by 0.56%. Publicly AMLO refused to accept his loss even after México's federal election court declared his rival, Felipe Calderón the winner even after recounting the votes that AMLO initially proposed. |
This is the time of year at the gallinero when the ladies are molting and egg production is at a stand-still or a trickle. This gives them time to gossip incessantly while growing new feathers. The big question is the debate over Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. It’s an argument that I got into while editing the California Youth Authority Newsletter a couple of years ago. I have yet to understand the removal of manger scenes from public places and keeping the menorah for Hanukkah. I am among those who protest the removal of Christ from Christmas or any other public display, just to not offend people from other religions or atheists. |
 By Manuel Hernandez-CarmonaDecember 18, 2006 According to the United States Census Bureau, there are 42.7 million Latinos in the United States. If we were to count the residents of Puerto Rico, the Latino population is approximately 46 plus million. That makes them roughly 14 % of the population in the United States of America. The U.S. Census projections place them at a strong 24 % by the year 2050. That is one out of every four Americans will be Latino. The numbers are overwhelming and without a doubt present a series of challenges to the Latino nation. |
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By Roberto Lovato After watching Mel Gibson’s controversial film
Apocalypto, I left the theater pondering the history of racism, pillage and
apocalyptic war through my own blood and family history. Gibson, I
concluded, would have been more accurate, his film more resonant, had he
used another group of people, another culture – certainly not the Maya -- to
depict his vision of the Apocalyse. |
By Robert Miranda It was only a few years ago that Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez survived an attempted coup, which was supported by the United States government of George W. Bush. The coup failed after the people of Venezuela took to the streets demanding his return to power. This week, the people?s leader was re-elected as President of Venezuela; a landslide reelection has given Chávez a mandate to broaden his socialist revolution, which has clearly influenced Latin American politics. |
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By Bill Dahl
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By Kenneth Emmond One of the nagging worries to greet President Felipe Calderon’s economic team is the fate of Mexico’s economy if the ever-more-apparent slowdown in the United States economy becomes a reality. An expected decline in petroleum prices — last week’s budget decreased projected oil prices by about $14 dollars a barrel, or about 25 percent — adds to the pressure. |
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Calderon accepts Mexico’s responsibility for protecting immigrants from Central America |
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Becoming a legal resident of the United States or a citizen is not cheap. Because of fees to file forms, fees to have fingerprints taken, fees for medical exams and other costs, the tab can quickly run into the hundreds or thousands of dollars. For Maria Angelica Madrigal, a 38-year-old U.S. citizen trying to get green cards for her Mexican husband and their four children, the bill will be just under $5,000. |
President Felipe Calderón on Wednesday said his government will protect the basic rights of its citizens and those accorded to immigrants from Central and South America who pass through the country trying to reach the United States. Calderón made his remarks at the ceremony to award the 2006 National Human Rights Prize to three people who help immigrants, an event coming two days after activists in California demanded that he halt abuses against undocumented Central and South Americans who travel through Mexico. |
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Arrests along the border in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California have dropped about 27 percent, or by nearly 43,000 illegal immigrants, since Oct. 1, compared to the same time last year, Border Patrol officials in Washington said.
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[AZ] Minuteman
fence called 'harmless boondoggle' |
State and local law enforcement officials feeling the heat from constituents frustrated over illegal immigration and crime are taking a new look at a little-used option that's been around for years. Called 287(g) after the section of federal immigration law that created it, the program allows state and local officers to directly tap into Homeland Security databases to determine whether a person is legally in the country, instead of relying on backlogged Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. |
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President Calderón reassigns 10,000 troops to federal police force AGUILILLA, Mich. – December 14, 2006 – (AP) - Soldiers killed several drug traffickers in a gun battle in the rugged mountains of western Mexico on Wednesday, the first major clash since President Felipe Calderón sent troops to restore order in a region terrorized by drug gangs, the military said. The soldiers battled the traffickers near Aguililla, a remote farming community overrun by a drug cartel, said Gen. Héctor Sánchez, one of several officers in charge of the offensive. |
Political strife and drug violence have overshadowed perhaps the most stunning news out of Mexico this year: The nation is creating jobs. Lots of them. Thanks to a healthy service sector, a strong housing market, rebounding manufacturing -- and some election-year pork -- Mexico has added nearly 950,000 jobs through the first 10 months of the year, recent government figures show. It's the first time in at least a decade that the country has come even close to adding the 1 million positions needed annually just to keep pace with the growth of its working-age population. |
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Although Congress has been debating immigration legislation, all customers should be advised that currently no temporary worker program exists for aliens unlawfully present in the United States. Congress has not passed any legislation that would create a temporary worker program. Therefore, there are no benefits currently available because this program does not exist. Customers should not pay any fees or fines to any person or organization claiming they can help apply for or receive benefits for a temporary worker program. Be wary of persons or organizations that claim they can assist in applying for benefits that do not exist. |
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Raoul Lowery Contreras/HispanicVista.com
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Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com