Opinion: Where’s the outrage over immigrant slayings in Mexico?
Six dozen defenseless men, women and teenagers were pushed up against a wall. A squad of professional killers opened fire on them with automatic weapons and then finished each victim off with a point-blank shot to the head
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Opinion: Where’s the outrage over immigrant slayings in Mexico?
Marie Myung-Ok Lee: I was an ‘anchor baby’
I was an “anchor baby.” According to family lore, the day I was born at Hibbing Memorial Hospital in Minnesota in the early 1960s was also the day my parents received their deportation papers. They had come to America from war-torn Korea on student visas that had run out. Laws at the time prohibited most Asians from immigrating, so they were told to leave, even with three American children
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Opinion: I doubt Reynolds really wants that many children out of school and on the streets
I will give Kim Reynolds of Iowa one bit of recognition – she has nerve. Who else would show up at a Latino Heritage Festival during the weekend and even think of bringing up the issue of non-U.S. citizen children in public schools, let alone start talking about kicking them out?
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Economist draws the wrong conclusion between Latino students and failure in online courses
Over the last few years, whenever there has been talk about immigration or undocumented immigrants, there has been a blurring between Hispanic immigrants and Latino citizens. People talk as if it is all one group. Some will argue that this “blurring” between the two groups is deliberate by conservative extremists who want to use a broad brush to paint the picture of who deserves to be in this country and who doesn’t
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Economist draws the wrong conclusion between Latino students and failure in online courses
DHS to develop single, searchable database of immigration records
The Homeland Security Department plans to establish a database of immigration data that will identify fraud in applications for benefits, and provide information to intelligence and law enforcement agencies. DHS will create a mirror copy of multiple databases the Citizenship and Immigration Services uses to award federal benefits to immigrants and nonimmigrants and develop a single user interface employees use to access the stored information, according to a notice the department published in the Federal Register on Wednesday.
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Police in LA Kill Guatemalan Day Laborer, Community Demands Answers
Last Sunday, Manuel Jamines was shot and killed by police in Los Angeles.
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Immigration Crackdown Steps Into the Kitchen
FOR a man facing the possibility of up to 30 years in prison, almost $4 million in fines and the government seizure of his small French restaurant here, Michel Malecot has an unusually jovial and serene air.
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No Hate Crime Charges for Seattle PD’s Beating Caught On Camera
On Wednesday, Seattle’s King County decided not to file felony charges against Shandy Cobane, the Seattle Police Department vet caught on camera earlier this year shouting racial profanities and beating up a Latino man.
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Right Seizes on “Machete” as Race War Film, Misses the Point of Movies
When I first wrote about the new Robert Rodriguez film Machete, I remarked about how the film’s subtext of Mexican vengeance against white racism was sure to infuriate the right wing. Don’t say I didn’t tell you so.
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