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American
Medical News
States
might get help with illegal alien health care
Treatment of illegal immigrants cost
hospitals in 24 counties bordering Mexico more than $190 million
in 2000, according to a recent study. Now congressional lawmakers
from those states want the federal government to foot the bill.
-- The study, conducted by the United States-Mexico Border Counties
Coalition, found that about 25% of the $832 million in uncompensated
costs incurred by the 77 hospitals in Southwest border counties
in 2000 resulted from emergency care provided to undocumented
immigrants. Emergency medical services providers incurred another
$13 million in uncompensated care costs in 2000. |
Lansing
State Journal
Driver's
license bill stirs debate
Michigan lawmakers are moving to prevent illegal
aliens from getting driver's licenses, despite critics who say
a new law will cause problems for refugees, migrant workers and
Secretary of State employees. -- The House Transportation Committee
passed legislation that would require driver's license applicants
to prove they have a legal presence in the state. -- Margo Torrence,
associate organizer of the Michigan Organizing Project, said
Michigan farmers rely on migrant workers from Mexico to do work
that state residents don't want to do [a blatant lie, and irrelevant
to boot]. |
Boston Herald
Lowell
asks feds for help
Officials in Lowell exasperated by that
city's deadly youth gang wars are appealing to the federal government
for help. -- The City Council has voted to ask the Immigration
and Naturalization Service and U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency to
take to its streets, enforcing the ousting of illegal aliens
if necessary. -- Precise battle plans have not yet been drawn
up. -- "It's a problem I'm going to use every ounce of energy
I have to combat,'' said Councilor Edward "Bud'' Caulfield,
a former mayor of Lowell. |
Santa
Rosa Press Democrat
County
split on license bill
Advocates of changing state law so undocumented
immigrants can obtain driver's licenses aren't giving up despite
the governor's latest veto, and The Press Democrat Poll found
Sonoma County voters leaning toward the proposal. -- While supporters
sympathize with wage-earning immigrants' seeking to become legal
residents, saying a driver's license is another step toward a
better life here, opponents say the proposal would invite fraud
and make it more difficult to deter illegal immigration. |
Daniel
Weintraub |
Sacramento
Bee
Why
Latino lawmakers are dumping Gray Davis
Gilbert Cedillo was with Gray Davis,
he says, "when the private plane had empty seats."
-- The Los Angeles assemblyman [and
reconquista/Mechista], in other words, was one of the governor's
earliest supporters, back in the dark days of 1998, when Davis
was behind in the polls and fighting for his political life against
millionaire airline executive Al Checchi. -- That's why it was
especially painful for Cedillo, a former labor organizer, when
Davis last month vetoed legislation that would have allowed about
1 million undocumented
immigrants to get a California drivers license. |
Omaha World-Herald
Backlash
against Hispanics feared
The Nebraska
Mexican-American Commission is preparing a letter for state
officials objecting to November's special legislative session
on the death penalty. -- During its quarterly business meeting,
the executive director and some commissioners said the special
session could be perceived as anti-Hispanic. -- Cecilia Olivarez
Huerta, the agency's director, said the calling of a special
session could appear biased against Hispanics and will cost taxpayers
money that could be used to fund programs slashed because of
the state budget crunch. -- Huerta and commissioners discussed
the session and other activities related to the Sept. 26 bank
holdup in Norfolk that left five people dead. Four
Hispanic men have been charged in the slayings. [Message board] |
Associated Press
Group
will target O.C. Hispanics
A national advocacy group has decided
to dedicate its resources to increasing the number of Hispanics
in Orange County who vote this Election Day. -- The National
Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials has chosen
three new locations nationwide to target its efforts. Last year,
the group spent money in Los Angeles, New York and Houston. In
addition to Orange County, the organization has added Denver
and New Mexico... |
Associated
Press
Dig
reveals new picture of past
A new discovery at the pyramids of Teotihuacan
in Mexico is revealing a pre-Hispanic past that was probably
less egalitarian and less peace-loving than some scholars believed.
-- Recent archaeological digs have turned up the first evidence
of a ruling elite and provided more evidence of mass human sacrifices
at Teotihuacan, a vast complex of pyramids outside Mexico City
that was a thriving metropolis of 150,000 at the time of Christ. |
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Santa Rosa
Press Democrat
Driver's
license key to keeping car
The running joke at the Joyeria Angelica
is that if you buy a car, buy a junker, because you'd better
be ready to part with it. -- For many of the Mexican
immigrants who frequent the popular Sebastopol Road storefront
containing check-cashing, barbershop and jewelry businesses,
driving is a necessary evil. -- At 5:30 p.m. on a recent weeknight,
Jaime Gonzales Jimenez's latest purchase, a dilapidated Oldsmobile,
chugged into the crowded parking lot. -- "I didn't buy a
car to be a big shot," said Jimenez... "I bought it
to go to work." [Illegals
are prohibited from working in the United States] |
Sun Journal
'Tolerance'
pushed in Lewiston, Maine
Lewiston is a city of immigrants. People
who have come here over the years to carve a better life. --
Along the way tensions have risen and subsided as each new group
assimilated into neighborhoods, blending the culture. The Irish
and the French-Canadians and, now, the Somalis. -- This week,
tensions have been unusually high as the world turned to look
at this city and examine its people after Mayor
Larry Raymond distributed an open letter to the Somali community
asking them to slow their migration north. -- Although Raymond
has received wide support for his position within the community,
the view from the outside has been intensely critical. |
Sacramento Bee
More
on reconquista Camejo
Peter
Camejo has outlasted early-evening shadows and the fizz of
microbrewed beer at a recent evening fund-raiser in the Sierra
foothills. -- Besides appealing to the left wing of the Democratic
Party, Camejo hopes to gain votes from minorities, particularly
Latinos who are fed up with Davis for vetoing a bill that would
have allowed undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses.
Camejo, fluent in Spanish, has become a fixture on Spanish-language
radio and television shows... |
Brownsville
Herald
Protest
focuses on immigration
As part of an international demonstration
focusing primarily on immigrants' rights, advocates from the
Rio Grande Valley and Matamoros gathered at both ends of Brownsville's
Gateway International Bridge Saturday morning to voice their
concerns. -- "Whether we are residents of Mexico or the
U.S. side of the border, we suffer similar injustices: poverty,
violence, unemployment, low salaries and poor public services
such as education, health care, electricity and water,"
said Helga Garcia-Garza... |
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Brownsville
Herald
Meddlesome
Mexican: U.S. immigration policies should mirror free trade opportunities
U.S. immigration policy should take a
cue from the European Union in creating more open borders, Mexican
and American officials said Saturday. -- "As we have been
doing with money and trade, we must sit down and do the same
with immigration," said Juan Carlos Foncerrada, Mexican
consul in Brownsville. -- Foncerrada participated in a panel
discussion of United State-Mexico relations in front of about
25 South Texas journalists visiting Brownsville for a National
Association of Hispanic Journalists regional conference. -- The
panel included David L. Stone, U.S. consul in Matamoros, Arturo
Moreno of the INS... |
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La Jornada
(Roughly translated by Google.com)
American
Border Patrol goes after illegal aliens
An army of "self-appointed estadunidenses
watchmen" American
Border Patrol began permanent operations with equipment of
high technology and aerial to monitor the crossing of undocumented
people in several points of [the U.S. - Mexico] border, and as
of this weekend it will transmit to public "the live"
reports for "showing the truth on his borders". ---
With the sprouting of the American Border Patrol "an enormous
potential for a great tragedy in the border is created",
notices Isabel Garcia,
defender of human rights [reconquista, fifth-columnist] in Arizona.
[View
article in Spanish] |
Tri-City
Herald
Washington
may reward scofflaw foreign intruders
...It's Tri-City students like Alfonso
and Laura [both illegal
aliens] who are inspiring the Latino/a Educational Achievement
Project, or LEAP, to push for a state law allowing undocumented
high school graduates to pay in-state tuition at Washington colleges
and universities. -- Last year, Rep.
Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney, D-Seattle, introduced
a similar bill but it died. She intends to try again in January.
-- For Kenney, re-introducing the bill boils down to one simple
reason: "I think it's the right thing to do." -- Not
only have students lived here most of their lives, she said,
but many have also graduated with honors. |
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