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HispanicVista Columnists & Guest Columns

Week of December 19, 2005

 

HispanicVista Columnists & Guest Columns

Week of December 19, 2005

Summer Soldiers and Sunshine Patriots

By Patrick Osio, Jr./HispanicVista.com

   December 19, 2005

(This article published on July 30, 2001 today continues to reflect how little since then the US has traveled in finding a workable and realistic solution to illegal immigration rather Congress continues to implement non working would be solutions that in fact do nothing to stop one illegal immigrant from gaining entrance into the US.) http://www.hispanicvista.com/html/010730osio.htm

By Raoul Lowery Contreras/HispanicVista.com

   December 19, 2005

 “Casualties many…Percentage dead unknown…Combat efficiency: We are winning!”

A bleeding Colonel David M. Shoup sent this message from the beach at Tarawa, a sand spit in the Pacific Ocean that was defended by 5000 fanatical Japanese, of which 4,987 were killed by Marines over four days (November 20-23, 1943). 837 Marines were killed, over 2200 wounded.

By Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com

   December 19, 2005

 

FROM MEXICO

Interesting statements by the head of the Mexican Population Control Council have seen publicity in both México and the United States. The Council Secretary General is Elena Zuniga, a member of the Fox administration who spoke at a U. N. Population Fund conference.

By Manuel Hernandez/HispanicVista.com

When you look at United States Latino’s leading magazines, you cannot help to see how much we Latinos have ignored significant and in-depth content changes to our traditional mindsets. Sections like business, “cultura” and technology are all over the Table of Contents. What about education?

T’was The Week Before Christmas

What’s In A Name?

By Bill Dahl/HispanicVista.com

T’was the weeks before Christmas

And all through this nation

Not a finger’s been lifted,

To address the injustice of illegal immigration.

 By Robert Miranda

What’s all the hoopla surrounding the word “Christmas?"
The public debate focusing on local governments not using the word “Christmas” exemplifies once again the lack of concern for the real issues that matter to most of the public i.e. poverty, war etc.

Far From Fringe - Minutemen Mobilizes Whites Left Behind by Globalization

By Roberto Lovato

The Public Eye Magazine - Vol. 19, No. 3

Cross the white picket fence of the Minutemen offices in Tombstone, Ariz., and you're immediately made aware that the Federal Government denied the local media mogul his constitutional right to bear arms. And, the sign on the front door adds, 

Minutemen founder Chris Simcox trains his infrared scope on the border.

By Andres Oppenheimer/Miami Herald

If Republicans come across as the party that wants to turn Spanish-speaking people into criminal suspects who can be stopped at any corner by police demanding proof of citizenship, they can say adios to a significant portion of the Hispanic vote.

Bush's immigration offensive.
By Fred Barnes

When President Bush signed the Homeland Security Appropriations Act six weeks ago, he did it in the East Room of the White House in a glossy ceremony befitting an occasion of Republican unity. Which is what it was, right up to the moment when Bush started talking about illegal immigrants.

By Kelly Arthur Garrett/The Herald Mexico

What a sad commentary on the state of the migration policy debated when asimple call for bilateral cooperation loosens an avalanche of anti-Mexico vitriol from misguided Americans who confuse sword rattling with patriotism.

Immigration: Awaiting Real Reform

From the National Immigration Forum

On Friday, the House passed H.R. 4437, the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act, sponsored by James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and Peter King (R-NY).  This legislation is arguably the harshest piece of anti-immigration legislation passed this generation. 

By Fr.Paul Kasun

Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador have seen nearly a 300% rise in the increase of the value of their goods and services since 1990.  During the 1980s each of these countries waged war over who would control the value of their goods and services...

By Senator Robert C. Byrd

I believe in America.  I believe in the dream of the Founders and Framers of our inspiring Constitution.  I believe in the spirit that drove President Lincoln to risk all to preserve the Union.  I believe in what President Kennedy challenged America to be.

Drafted By: Catherine Zara Raymond
 

 At dawn on November 5, 2005, a cruise liner named the Seabourn Spirit was attacked by machine-gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades about 160 kilometers (99 miles) off the coast of Somalia.

  By Kenneth Emmond/The Miami Herald/Mexico

At last we're being treated to a five-week respite from the political posturing that assails us day by day in the news media during the seemingly endless presidential election campaign.

Or so we're told.

By Rakesh Kochhar, Associate Director for Research, Pew Hispanic Center

Hispanics and whites perform different types of work in the labor market. Moreover, the occupational divide between the two largest segments of the labor force appears to be widening. The occupations in which Hispanics are concentrated rank low in wages…

By Magdi Khalil

 The previous article offered a brief review of the mission and activities of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood during the last couple of decades, without delving into their past history. The Islamic movements in the Arab countries are variations of the Muslim Brotherhood, and would probably follow its example.

By Magdi Khalil

The recent disturbing articles and news in the Arabic media may very well lead people to believe that the Muslims living in the United States are being subjected to collective persecution or even eradication ─a false accusation easily refuted by the fact that…

Patrick Osio, Jr. has written 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.

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COMMENTARY

THE BEST FROM THE NET

December 19, 2005

McCain's Defining Moment

By Ray McGovern

Sen. John McCain and his Senate colleagues have given Congress a chance to redeem itself in a small but significant way for its craven abdication of responsibility three years ago, when it handed the president what Sen. Robert Byrd warned would be a "blank check" for war on Iraq.

Shocking the Conscience Of America: Bush and Cheney Call for the Right to Torture and Are Decisively and Correctly Rebuffed by the House
By John W. Dean
If the events I am about to describe were taking place in a movie, or novel, I would lose my ability to suspend disbelief: Who could conceive of an American President and Vice President demanding that Congress give them authority to torture anyone, under any circumstances?

Ban Torture. Period

New York Times Editorial

It should have been unmitigated good news when President Bush finally announced yesterday that he would back Senator John McCain's proposal to ban torture and "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment at United States prison camps. Nothing should be more obvious for an American president than to support a ban on torture.

Fact Checking the Feds in Airport Shooting
 By James Bovard
Editor & Publisher

Two air marshals gunned down Rigoberto Alpizar, an American citizen, last week in Miami, and the press swallowed the government's now-flawed explanation of a "bomb threat" hook, line, and sinker.

Intelligence Brief: Chile
Drafted By: Dr. Michael A. Weinstein
 On December 11, Chile held presidential and parliamentary elections. As expected by analysts and predicted by pre-election opinion polls, Michelle Bachelet, the Socialist candidate of the Concertacion coalition that has governed the country since the fall of the military dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1990, received a large plurality of the votes,

.Hong Kong Phooey

By Mark Engler

Although much is at stake at the World Trade Organization Ministerial in Hong Kong this week, the success of the talks will largely hinge upon one issue: the willingness of the U.S., Japan and the European Union to live up to their own "free trade" rhetoric and to substantially cut their agricultural subsidies.

NEWS  

Of Interest Around the Net

US House votes in favor of Mexico border fence proposal

WASHINGTON (AFX) - 12.16.2005 - The House of Representatives voted in favor of a proposed security fence in selected areas along the border with Mexico to deter illegal immigration, officials said.

Fear of Patriot Act abuse increases

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, The New York Times 

When Congress passed the USA Patriot Act in the fall of 2001, greatly expanding the government's investigative powers, a single senator, Russell D. Feingold, D-Wis., voted against it.

Nielsen Bows to Latino Viewers

By Meg James

 

Nielsen Media Research will include in its national ratings shows aired by Univision Communications Inc. starting next week, a move that is expected to better measure the nation's growing Latino audience.

Minorities paying more

By Michael Liedtke

Associated Press 

Motorists living in mostly black or Hispanic neighborhoods are charged substantially more for the same amount of auto insurance provided to drivers from white communities, according to an analysis released Monday by Consumers Union.

In Fresno, Tackling Poverty Moves to the Top of the Agenda
By Evelyn Nieves
 FRESNO, Calif. -- The old man with the bowed back begging for change from his wheelchair found few customers at the Fulton Street Mall in downtown Fresno.

Anyone could see he needed help.

Migrant Traveler Program Results Announced
From Frontera NorteSur
Mexican officials have informed the public of the preliminary results from this year's Paisano Program. First established 16 years ago, the federal program aids Mexican nationals who reside abroad and travel home for the winter holiday season.

Immigrants focus of panel

By Elizabeth Aguilera

State legislators from several Southwestern states gathered Monday in Denver to learn more about immigration and to strategize on how to deal with undocumented immigrants.

Illegal Immigration Could Be a Felony

By Nicole Gaouette
  WASHINGTON — Under immigration legislation being considered in the House, living illegally in the United States would no longer be a violation of civil immigration law. It would be a federal crime.

House Votes for 698 Miles of Fences on Mexico Border

By Rachel L. Swarns/

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 - House Republicans voted on Thursday night to toughen a border security bill by requiring the Department of Homeland Security to build five fences along 698 miles of the United States border with Mexico to block the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs into this country.

House Set To Approve Immigration Measure
By Jonathan Weisman
 The House last night moved toward passage of tough immigration legislation to build vast border fences, force employers to verify the legality of their workers and tighten security on the nation's frontier, but it rebuffed President Bush's entreaties to include avenues for foreign workers to gain legal employment.

House Bill Slammed in Mexico
Frontera NorteSur
 The United States House of Representatives' passage December 17 of the Sensenbrenner border security bill prompted swift and hard-hitting criticism across the Mexican political spectrum. In Ciudad Juarez, politicians, business leaders, church representatives…

Mexico's Fox Raps U.S. on Plan for Fence

By Ioan Grillo

 Mexican President Vicente Fox stepped up his attacks on the United States plan to build a fence along its southern border on Sunday, saying it was a "shameful" initiative for a democracy.

Patriot Act, drilling in Arctic roil Senate

By Gail Russell Chaddock | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

WASHINGTON – December 20, 2005 - In a dramatic endgame strategy, Senate Republicans are using the calendar and a must-pass Defense spending bill to move some of the most controversial issues of the 109th Congress.

Can the government spy on citizens without a warrant?

By Warren Richey | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

President Bush's decision to allow the super-secret National Security Agency to spy on Americans without court warrants has touched off stormy debate about his aggressive approach to the war on terror.

Book Review

Italians Then, Mexicans Now: Immigrant Origins And Second-generation Progress, 1890 to 2000

by Joel Perlmann
Russell Sage Foundation Publications
Hardcover, 189 pp., ISBN: 0871546620, $27.50

Bikini boot camp: Mexican eco-spa lures celebrity guests

By Neneh Diallo,

Whether you're a paparazzi-hounded star or world-weary professional suffering from sensory overload, Mexico's exotic Amansala resort offers an enticing escape hatch.

Patrick Osio, Jr. has written 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.