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The logic of Arizona’s apartheid champion	The US-Mexico Immigration Exchange
By Patrick Osio, Jr. Editor/HispanicVista.com July 20, 2010 Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s most recent comments in attempting to justify her state’s near apartheid law has exposed her, her party and much of her state’s citizens to the true light of their deeply rooted racism. Recollect first that the stated reason for the passage of SB 1070 was based on misleading and false information...	By Sal Osio, JD *Mi Punto de Vista* From the Publisher’s Corner July 20 2010 Depending on your source, there are as many as 10 million undocumented immigrants from Mexico living in the United States. Of these some 3.5 million are undocumented workers, almost exclusively employed in the agricultural and labor intensive service industries. Their wages are typically below the ‘living wage’...
"Kris Kobach, Konstitution Killer” KKK plus	Thrown Under the Bus
By Raoul Lowery Contreras July 20, 2010 Congresswoman Linda Sanchez (D-CA) caused apoplexy among Fox News acolytes when she told a group of 20 Democrats in her Los Angeles district that “white supremacists” were behind Arizona’s SB1070 law that allows “unofficial” massive illegal racial profiling by police, librarians, meter maids and building inspectors. Critics-- shut up! I’ve read the law plus I know what Arizona has done to Hispanics for a century. I am aware of the tax dollars paid out in settling racial profiling cases in Chandler, Arizona.	By Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com July 20, 2010 *From Mexico City* I had intended to address the hot button issue of "Comprehensive" Immigration for my next column. But instead, something much bigger has come up. The Obama administration was starting to push the immigration issue in order to salvage his majority of the Hispanic vote. Instead of this, fate has given him a much bigger possible prize:
A Century of Turmoil: Mexico’s Social and Political Evolution (A Historical Account)	Puerto Rico university students strike to keep university from privatizing.
By John P. Schmal A Complex Social Evolution From the beginning of the nineteenth century until well into the twentieth century, the people of Mexico experienced a wide range of political and social changes. At the beginning of this process, Mexico was a colony of Spain, a European nation located approximately 5,500 miles (8,850 kilometers) from its Gulf Coast shoreline.	By Dr. Victor M. Rodriguez For more than fifty-six days, students at the University of Puerto Rico system, have peacefully occupied ten of the 11 universities in support of a series of measures that could challenge efforts to privatize this public university.
Tax Incentives & Issues on 50+ to Retiring in Mexico	Myths Hamper the Housing Recovery
*By Mauricio Monroy* As the North American 50+ population looks to retire after the pain of a severe global economic crisis, retiring in Mexico will offer the benefits of a hospitable low-cost environment in the charm of pristine beaches with either lush tropical or desert surroundings and the of Mexico’s interior colonial towns. The good news is that under provisions of the US-Mexico and Canada-Mexico tax treaties to prevent double taxation,	By Alejandro Becerra Over a year ago, the nation's housing sector and economy nearly collapsed. Since then, the Administration and Congress have taken significant steps to avert a deeper recession, stabilize home prices, and ignite the nation's economic recovery. Record-low interest rates, rock-bottom home prices and a large housing inventory put homeownership well within the reach of thousands of home buyers. A new wave of foreclosures, boarded-up homes and blighted communities, however, threatens to reverse recent economic gains and increased home sales.
Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo Deal	The GOP's Latino connection
From Bloomberg: By Michael Smith Just before sunset on April 10, 2006, a DC-9 jet landed at the international airport in the port city of Ciudad del Carmen, 500 miles east of Mexico City. As soldiers on the ground approached the plane, the crew tried to shoo them away, saying there was a dangerous oil leak. So the troops grew suspicious and searched the jet.	By David Alire Garcia In the long-running contest to win Latino voters' hearts and minds, the Republican Party jumped out to a stunning lead this month (June 2010) And for a party saddled with leaders displaying more than a few retrograde impulses these days — on immigration and even the landmark Civil Rights Act — that's no small accomplishment.
The Non-Profit Industrial Complex Eats Reform and Spits Out DREAMs	Mexican Migration and World Trends
By Maegan la Mamita Mala VivirLatino The Non-Profit Industrial Complex is like the Prison Industrial Complex in that despite the name, it is a capitalist model based in struggling for money. While private prisons fight amongst themselves for contracts with the Federal government and cut corners that usually equal abuses against those housed behind concrete and barbed wire, non-profits fight amongst themselves for money given out by corporate tax shelters and cut corners by watering down what should be revolution for reform and the end result is abuse ...	Immigration News Frontera NorteSur Studies by Mexico’s BBVA Bancomer Foundation lay out the general trends of Mexican migration in an international context. A periodic, bilingual publication sponsored by the Foundation’s economic services unit, Migration Watch Mexico, details demographic, geographic, economic, environmental and even technological characteristics of contemporary migration in Mexico and other countries.
Arizona's next illegal immigration target: Babies	Ending Birthright Citizenship Would Not Stop Illegal Immigration
By Lindsay Goldwert The New York Daily News They might not be old enough to walk or talk but newborns are the next likely center of the Arizona immigration firestorm. State Sen. Russell Pearce says that he is intent on introducing legislation that would deny birth certificates to "anchor babies," the children of illegal immigrants born in the U.S.	From Immigration Policy Institute Anti-immigrant groups and legislators have persisted in their attempts to restrict or repeal birthright citizenship in State Houses and the U.S. Congress. Several bills have been introduced that would deny U.S. citizenship to children whose parents are in the U.S. illegally or on temporary visas.
Mexico’s “Permanent” Crises	Do Republican Hardliners on Immigration Have a Shoe Fetish?
Special Report Frontera NorteSur Although the Arizona immigration law and two recent US Border Patrol detentions that resulted in the deaths of two Mexican nationals have upset US-Mexico relations, close economic and political ties between Washington and Mexico City are unlikely to change in the near future. Under the policies of the Obama and Calderon administrations, the strategic thrusts of the bilateral partnership- the North American Free Trade Agreement and anti-drug Merida Initiative-are likely to deepen.	Steve King and Brian Bilbray Offer Guidance to Arizona Law Enforcement: Check their Shoes Washington, DC – Evidently, House hardliners have compared notes when it comes to backing the “papers please” Arizona anti-immigrant law. Representatives Steve King (R-IA) and Brian Bilbray (R-CA) are defending the Arizona anti-immigrant law against charges of racial profiling by arguing that footwear is the key to identifying who is in the country illegally. Really? Yeah, really.
Manufacturing a Border Crisis	Stirring the Pot: Republican Senators Preempt Imaginary Action on Immigration
By Kent Paterson Unlike Mexican border states where drug-fueled violence has been on the upswing, violent crime rates in U.S. states bordering Mexico have been decreasing for the last several years. El Paso and San Diego are rated among the safest cities in the United States. Since 9-11, no terrorist has been detected crossing from Mexico. Even detentions of border-crossers are way down, up to 90 percent in the New Mexico corridor alone, according to media reports.	By Mary Giovagnoli Political hype and hypocrisy was on display this week in Washington as eight senators sent an oddly worded letter to President Obama... filled with moral outrage, alleging some kind of secret conspiracy... The letter has also been linked to warnings from the restrictionist group Numbers USA, who claim that the president intends to grant “amnesty” to 12 to 18 million illegal aliens, even though by DHS’s own estimate there are no more than 10.8 million people here illegally in the U.S. These two items feed off one another, helping to perpetuate an urban legend of massive proportions—that somehow, with the stroke of a pen, the president can grant “amnesty.” How do rumors like this get started?
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