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hat is worth $2 billion, or the equivalent of one-sixth the total budget of the Social Security Administration for 2010? One fingerprint match....
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...Back in the good-ol'-days when Americans of Mexican descent were kept out of eating establishments, swimming pools and certain neighborhoods, there existed “Mexican Schools.”
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...A story lost from history books prompted an evening coffee house mix of three dozen college students and curious capital professionals — nearly all females — to listen intently as author Philippa Strum revisited the events behind Méndez v. Westminster, a California Ninth Judicial Circuit Court decision that preceded Topeka’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education by eight years.
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... HOUSTON — In anticipation of the 2012 Olympics, VisitBritain,
the UK’s government-funded tourism agency, is providing tips on how to
greet people from abroad....
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...The constant pressing question in the immigrant community is: when will we have immigration reform? The answer, unfortunately remains the same: not this election year....
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...In the throes of electoral politics, conservatives are suggesting we change the U.S. Constitution to deny citizenship to babies born in this country to undocumented women. This cynical strategy explicitly targets the Latino community to get rid of these new voters rather than do the hard work of cultivating them. ...
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...The road to become an undocumented begins when facing the anguish of a country without possibilities of employment and the threat of violence. It continues with the sorrow of leaving the family and the uncertainty of what will come. Immediately, comes the sacrifice and abuses of many types, from “coyotes” (human smugglers), scammers, or death, like the 72 undocumented Latin-Americans who ran into it in México this week, and on their way to the United States. The massacre took place in a ranch in the border state of Tamaulipas, where authorities found 58 male bodies, and 14 female. All of them migrants from Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador and El Salvador. A survivor said it was the cartel of “Los Zetas”....
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...A story is circulating that Jerry Brown — California’s attorney general, former governor (1975 to ’83) and current gubernatorial candidate — plans to base his pitch to Latino voters on having marched in the 1970s with César Chávez....
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...President Felipe Calderón led a moving ceremony this month on (Aug. 15) in Mexico City to honor several of Mexico’s national heroes associated with the Mexican War of Independence (1810-1821). The event involved transferring the remains of 14 heroes by caravan from Chapultepec Castle to the National Palace.
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...Hispanic workers were among the first to join a union, starting with the Cigar Makers’ International Union (CMIU), which was founded in 1864. Cubans, Spaniards and Puerto Ricans labored at workbenches in New York, Philadelphia, and Key West, Florida.
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...Access to financing is the shout of entrepreneurs who want to start their own business, not only to abandon the rows of unemployment, but to create jobs for others. It’s the shout of those who have already established businesses and fight to keep them, pay their taxes and wages, and avoid laying off anybody while they survive the economic crisis....
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...All immigrant communities have those who prey upon them and Philadelphia certainly is no exception. However, our neighbor to the north, New York City, due to its size and volume of immigrants, has traditionally been well ahead of us in companies and individuals that defraud immigrants....
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...My friend Bernie wanted to meet for coffee and gab. Loopholes, he baited me, made accomplishing anything through politics almost impossible. ...
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...As Gustavo Andrade walked across the playing field of the Washington Nationals major league baseball park in defiance of Arizona Law SB1070 here today, many in the crowd of 21,695 hissed and booed.
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...Recent national statistics on obesity show the prevalence of childhood obesity leveling off. However, according to a report released today by the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health, public concern about childhood obesity remains high. For the third straight year, childhood obesity is rated the biggest health problem for kids by adults in the United States....
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 | ...Four activists from Casa de Maryland sprinted across the field as security guards scrambled to catch them.... |
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...President Barack Obama spoke for 20 minutes Aug. 9 at the University of Texas at Austin, where I have taught in the School of Journalism for the past 22 years. To a cheering crowd of largely debt-burdened students, he noted the accomplishments off his Administration in making college more affordable. ...
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...The tell tales of our faltering economy are there for everyone to see: no real growth of employment along with long term unemployment, no housing market recovery, no consumer spending growth....
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...It’s bad enough that Arizona is going crazy with xenophobia. Now that virus has spread to our own backyards—to our local unions. It’s all a bit perplexing, since so many immigrants, legal and illegal alike, belong to unions and are even courted by these very unions in their attempt to recruit more members. In fact, during the immigration marches several years ago unions marched in support of immigration reform and legalization. Even now, with the increasingly depressed economy, many still remain committed to a legalization program. However, there are bad apples everywhere and apparently some have dropped off of the trees in the greater Delaware Valley...
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Editorial cartoonists delight in exaggerating the size of Barack Obama’s ears, but families being torn apart by federal immigration policies are wondering if he’s ever going to listen to them.
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