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Sunday, November 10, 2002 |
Mark
Andrew
Dwyer |
Some
cultures are doomed to fail
...For instance, on November 6, 2002, Bloomberg
reported that Mexico's Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda, siding
with Iraq during recent controversy about approval of U.S. draft
of resolution by the U.N. Security Council, said "smaller
countries on the United Nation's Security Council should tie
up the U.S. to bring it in line with their views." Castaneda
was quoted saying: "I like very much the metaphor of Gulliver,
of ensnarling the giant. Tying it up, with nails, with thread,
with 20,000 nets that bog it down: these nets being norms, principles,
resolutions, agreements, and bilateral, regional and international
covenants.'' The above clarification by Mexican top official
doesn't leave much doubt about Mexico's real intentions towards
the U.S. |
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Op-Ed |
Denver Post
Immigration
lawyer sees nothing wrong with taking sham IDs
Mayor Webb is encouraging Denver businesses,
police and other government agencies to recognize Mexican identification
cards as valid ID documentation. Why? Better yet, why
not? -- Mexican ID cards are good business for Denver and
for America. More than 40 other cities across the country already
have recognized that Mexican ID cards help our local governments,
our businesses, our citizenry and the Mexican
immigrants who serve our basic needs. [This is one of the
most ridiculous pieces published by the Denver 'Pravda' in recent
memory.] |
San Diego
Union-Tribune
Radio
drama takes story line from lives of Mexican illegals in U.S.
Enrique Romero still remembers the night
his story began. -- Alone in his office, he kept thinking about
the tragedies and the abuses of undocumented workers he'd witnessed
in his job at the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles. Finally,
he picked up a pen and began pouring his feelings onto blank
sheets of paper. -- Two years later, Romero had written a book
and it has so captured the imagination of his readers that it
has been scripted into a serialized drama for Spanish-speaking
radio audiences in Mexican and U.S. communities where migration
is common. -- His message to Mexicans isn't that they should
stay home... |
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Chicago
Tribune (Free Registration)
GOP
warned to take it easy with agenda
Now that Republicans will control the
House, Senate and White House, everyone from religious conservatives
to anti-tax activists to business leaders has begun urging the
GOP to push ahead on their pet causes, demanding results as a
reward for their loyalty. ---- "We are going to continue
to push our agenda, and the leadership can either take it up
or not," said Lori Waters, executive director of the Eagle Forum, a conservative
group advocating a ban on a type of late-term abortion and human
cloning as well as an end to amnesty for illegal immigrants. |
San Francisco
Chronicle
California
jobless rate up
Bay Area retail-store managers in the
swing of holiday hiring are getting bombarded by job applicants
who have no experience asking "Cash or charge?" but
who need work badly and are eager to try. -- Facing a 6 percent
jobless rate in the Bay Area and dismal job options, job seekers
from a wide variety of backgrounds have a newfound interest in
ringing up gift purchases and stocking storerooms. -- The rub,
for some: The deep labor pool means more competition for even
seasonal positions. Many jobs require weekend and evening hours,
and stores -- which can be choosy -- could demand still more
flexibility from holiday employees. [Also
see: Silicon
Valley's Jobless Rate 7.9 Percent] |
Mercury News
State's
GOP seeks answers
...One of the biggest challenges Republicans
face is their inability to shake
their image as anti-immigrant and anti-Latino. Ever since
former GOP Gov. Pete Wilson used illegal immigration as the cornerstone
of his 1994 re-election campaign, new Latino voters have moved
in droves into the Democratic camp. -- While Democratic politicians
are a mirror of California's diverse present, the GOP field looks
more like the state's more homogeneous past. [The answer to this
problem is in "Courage
and Capitulation in California."] |
Agence
France-Presse
Iran
gripes about U.S. rules
Iran denounced Sunday the US decision
to fingerprint and photograph Iranians and others entering the
country as an "insult" and said it went against "civil
norms". -- Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said
the new practice reveals Washington's "insulting attitude
in international relations, based in an unacceptable manner on
the law of the strongest, discrimination, and the classification
of persons." Asefi added that the practice, part of measures
to increase security following the 9/11 attacks, "goes against
ethical and civil norms...." |
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Omaha World
Herald
Illegal
alien working for cash seriously injured
...Raul suffered severe brain damage
Oct. 5 when he fell about 20 feet while working on a roof at
the Fontenelle Hills Apartments in Bellevue. -- Many workers
in the dangerous field of roofing are like Raul and Martin: undocumented
immigrants working for cash, with no health insurance or
workers' compensation if they are injured. -- The Occupational
Safety and Health Administration is investigating Raul Freyre-Marquez's
case. One subcontractor already has been cited. [Message board] |
Associated
Press
Blacks,
Hispanics critical to election's wins, losses
America's two largest minority groups
-- blacks and Hispanics -- each showed they can't be taken for
granted on Election Day. -- Hispanics now rival blacks as the
nation's largest minority group. -- Hispanics were critical in
helping Democrat Bill
Richardson, whose mother was Mexican, capture the governorship
in New Mexico. -- Hispanics also overwhelmingly opposed a Colorado
proposal to dismantle bilingual education, leading to the initiative's
defeat, said Raul
Yzaguirre, president of the National
Council of La Raza [The Race]. |
Monty L.
Rainey |
Mexican
Insult
Now that the elections are over and the
President has the backing he needs to get things done in the
War on Terrorism, our leaders need to begin focusing attention
on some other domestic issues. For one, immigration. The United
States received a blatant slap in the face from our southern
neighbors last week. -- On Thursday, November 7, the Mexican
Senate filed
a formal complaint with the United Nations against the United
States for systematically violating the rights of (illegal)
Mexican migrants. And... This all comes just one day after
the U.S. Agency for International Development graciously gave
$350,000 to the Hospital General de Nogales in an effort to improve
Mexican border hospitals. |
The Capital-Journal -- (Sob Story Alert)
Mexican
criminal awaits release
One year later, Mexican
immigrant Maria del Rosario Flores still is waiting. -- A
Capital-Journal story in July first told of 23-year-old Flores'
plight. She has been languishing in jails since January, after
she was arrested by the INS in November 2001 for misrepresenting
herself as a U.S. citizen [aka lying, committing fraud]. -- Flores, who now is being held in Shawnee County Jail,
had sued the INS. -- U.S. Magistrate
Judge Catherine A. Walter ruled this summer to send the case
to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Kansas City, Mo.,
said Alicia Phillips, law student and legal aide... |
Post-Independent
Catholic
Charities is at it again
When the advocacy organization Asistencia
para Latinos shut down last year, it left a big gap in service.
-- Catholic Charities has stepped in to offer immigration and
advocacy services to Hispanics, said the Catholic Charities Director.
-- "We knew we couldn't do all that Asistencia did. We decided
to focus on immigration and to hire someone to function as an
advocate," he said. -- But the shift was not simply a matter
of opening its doors and welcoming Hispanics in. Ziemann began
a lengthy negotiation with the Asistencia board to take over
its funding from foundations. |
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