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8 days ago by simon

Dear Mexican, Looking back recently on my distant youth in northwest Ohio, I came to the realization that the sweetest, most beautiful girl this gabacho ever went out with (indeed, in my entire senior class) was the pureblooded daughter of Mexican immigrants. Am I under the sway of 1) simple nostalg ...

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15 days ago by Hispanic New York Project

According to the World Bank, remittances--money sent back home by immigrants--will decline by 5 to 8 percent in 2009, but Mexicans and other immigrant groups in New York City say that as long as they have jobs they will keep sending money to their families. Read more in this report by Columbia Unive ...

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32 days ago by Cargo News

The parking lot of the driver's license bureau in Delray Beach was constantly jammed with van loads of people arriving daily. While harried employees didn't think much about the onslaught, some couldn't help but notice that a few of their co-workers had begun sporting wildly expensive designer purse ...

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43 days ago by admin

Nearly a million Californians, perhaps hundreds of thousands more, cross the border to Mexico every year because they cannot afford the rising cost of health care in the United States, according to UCLA researchers. The study by the school's Center for Health Policy Research, published Tuesday in th ...

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59 days ago by mexicoinstitute

San Francisco Chronicle, Edward Schumacher-Matos, 5/11/2009 Demonization of Mexican and other Latino immigrants is fueling hate crimes and violence against them, and it’s time for America’s leaders and media to put a stop to it all. The swine-flu scapegoating of Mexicans over the past two weeks by s ...

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61 days ago by Etienne Nestor

Most Americans associate marijuana use with the hippie movement of the 1970s. Little do most know, marijuana was very important to this country when it was founded. In 1610 the Jamestown colony mandated that every household cultivate the native Indian hemp. They used it to make clothes, fiber, cloth ...

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67 days ago by ianheath653

Part of my family hails from Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania — specifically Pottsville, the county seat. For the first time in my life, I’m ashamed of that. You see, a trial just finished there. Luis Ramirez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was kicked to death while unconscious following a street ...

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68 days ago by makingchicagohome

A shot of downtown in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. As a welcome change from our monotonous routine of Friday lecture, our class was taken on a pseudo-field trip to the Back of the Yards– a community on the southwestern side of the city. The dreary weather and quiet streets did little to hide ...

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72 days ago by Constance

Members of the Bilderberg Group have been amassing stockpiles of the Tamiflu vaccine in preparation for the deliberate release of this new strain of swine flu. Known Bilderbergers like George Shultz, Lodewijk J.R. de Vink and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld stand to make hundreds of mill ...

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77 days ago by ZP Heller

What happened today in Washington was, as Senator Russ Feingold called it, "historic." Thirty-eight years nearly to the day when a young John Kerry shocked the nation with his fiery anti-Vietnam war testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rick Reyes, a former US Marine Corporal, del ...

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