By Sal Osio, JD

Mi Punto de Vista

From the Publisher’s Corner

March 7, 2010

By any standard Gil Fuentes epitomized the ‘American Dream.’ As a 16 year old he immigrated from his native village in Northern Mexico to the fields of the San Joaquin Valley as a farm hand and subsequently as a laborer in the railroad yards in North/East California laying track and clearing the snow at Donner Pass. Then he worked as a dishwasher and bus boy in San Francisco until his early 20’s.

By Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com

   March 7, 2010

From Mexico City

       I offer the following in the spirit of a better understanding between the peoples United States and México. In understanding the reasons of some of our differences, a look at history is essential. However, this is not meant to be a history lesson but to give background.

By Raoul Lowery Contrera

March 7, 2010

          Mexican and Mexican American farm workers in the California Central and San Joaquin Valley agricultural counties made per capita (individual) annual wages of $14,006 in California’s Tulare County, $15,495 in Fresno County, $15,760 in Kern County and a whopping $17,365 in San Joaquin County according to the last official Census.

By Esmeralda Bermudez

Jaime Escalante, 79, the math teacher who was the basis for the 1988 film 'Stand and Deliver,' is battling cancer. But he still has some lessons to impart.

By Peter Nicholas

WASHINGTON - Attempting to rouse a party shaken by electoral setbacks, President Barack Obama told fellow Democrats Saturday that he would press ahead with his healthcare proposal and other pieces of his ambitious agenda, rejecting suggestions that a more cautious approach might minimize losses in the upcoming midterm elections.

By Linda Chavez

Immigration reform legislation is probably dead this year -- which, no doubt, pleases some conservatives. But the issue isn't going away. And if conservatives hope to become the dominant force in American politics, we need to figure out a way to resolve the problem without alienating the country's fastest growing demographic, Hispanics.

By Peter Wallsten

 Some high-profile Republicans are adopting a softer vocabulary on immigration and trying to recruit more Hispanic candidates, a response to the party's soul-searching about tactics that many strategists believe have alienated the country's fastest-growing voter bloc. 

By Douglas Rivlin

Immigration doesn’t break cleanly along left/right, liberal/conservative, or Democratic/Republican lines.  There are lots of pro-immigration and pro-immigrant conservatives and they come in different varieties.  Likewise, there are lots of progressives with deep reservations about immigration reform and immigration in general.

This week the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), the “think tank” of the anti-immigrant lobby, announced the results of a “new” poll purporting to show that people of color, including Latinos, support their anti-immigrant agenda.  Coming from the same group whose leader recently argued that Judge Sotomayor should change her name to sound more “Anglo,” and who has previously blamed immigrants for global warming, their work should be viewed with deep suspicion.  However, this latest effort to muddy the waters about true public opinion on immigration reform issues ventures into the realm of the outlandish – even for CIS.

Hispanic Scholars Honored for Dissertations

 Princeton, N.J. (March 3, 2010) — Three Hispanic scholars will receive cash awards from Educational Testing Service (ETS) at the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) annual conference in Costa Mesa, California on March 6. The awards recognize dissertations chosen from more than 50 entries, as part of the third annual competition sponsored by ETS.

By Janet Napolitano

U.S. secretary of Homeland Security

Just over a year ago, I left a job that I loved here in Arizona to continue my work on issues that are critical to the future of our country as secretary of Homeland Security. As any Arizonan will tell you, many of our nation's most pressing security issues can be found in the challenges along our southwestern border.

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Presidents are usually blamed for deficits run while they are in office. But, in fact, presidents do not write budgets. Congress does. Presidents sign them. And the mammoth deficits of 2008 and 2009 came from budgets approved by a Congress run by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Did Sen. Barack Obama vote against those budgets?

By Wendy Sefsaf

A new report by America’s Voice (AV) “The Power of the Latino Vote in the 2010 Elections ” highlights several things even the most amateur political bystander knows by now: Latino voters are growing in number,

But GOP Movement Leaders Warn of Long-Term Political Fallout

 Washington, DC – Recent developments indicate that the schism in the Republican Party over Latino outreach and immigration reform is beginning to widen.

By Tracy Wilkinson

The fund set up to help Mexican agriculture compete with subsidized U.S. farmers under the free trade accord was meant to aid the poorest. Instead, drug kingpins' kin and a Cabinet minister benefit.

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