The Latino population is not only the fastest growing group in the Chicago metro region, but also the major driver behind jobs and housing, according to the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies.
She and other classmates are fluent in Spanish after 12 years in classes taught not in their native English but in Spanish. They’ve formed a tight-knit family over the years but will soon spread out to colleges throughout the country, mostly to study Spanish.
¿Cómo si todavía no se le ha exprimido suficiente a los “trabajadores ilegales” en impuestos? Como el seguro social que nunca verán, impuestos federales que nunca han utilizado, ahora van a tener que pagar una multa!? Porque no ponen a las compañías que no podrían operar sin esta ola migratoria a pagar las multas y exigirles aplicar por la ciudadanía de cada uno de sus empleados?
“Under the measure, illegal immigrants would pay fines of up to several thousand dollars before applying for citizenship.”
Beni Clevenger, maker of Gnaw Bone’s famous tenderloin sandwiches, talks with Indiana State Police Trooper Travis Coryea Friday in the Brown County restaurant. Clevenger and Dennis Sharp (rear) are taking their tenderloins to Washington, D.C., next week to serve the U.S. senators in their private dining room.
David Snodgress | Herald-Times
Bush left the evidence underneath his own Oval Office desk. He could have used his own 2005 Economic Report of the President. That report found that 58 percent of America’s total employment growth of 11 million workers between 1996 and 2003 came from the ranks of the foreign born. Immigrants accounted for 84 percent of employment growth from 1996 to 2003 in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
At a time when some Ohio cities are struggling to deal with growing numbers of illegal immigrants, Painesville, a city of 17,000 people about 30 miles northeast of Cleveland, is trying to make it work.
Our cabbie earnestly warned us off the Bellagio watershow. He said, “Mexican families come here from California and do all the free stuff. They don’t gamble. They bring coolers full of baloney, bread and beer and party it up w/ the kids. You won’t get near the fountain.”
Prominent Northwest Indiana Latinos said Sunday they support efforts to strengthen the U.S.-Mexican border, but one local business owner described President Bush’s anticipated plan to deploy thousands of National Guard troops there as “drastic.”
 Chicago is a city of evolving neighborhoods, tiny enclaves separated by the size of paychecks and the color of skin.
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Primera lección: Dame mi lana!
Immigration News Briefs
Vol. 9, No. 17 – May 7, 2006
Special May Day Issue
1. May 1: “Day Without an Immigrant”
2. Boycott’s Economic Impact
3. Northeast: New Hampshire to Virginia
4. Southeast: Florida to Louisiana
5. Midwest: Ohio to Oklahoma
6. Southwest: Texas to California
7. Northwest: Montana to Alaska
Conseguí el himno perfecto para Latinohoosier. Se llama Good Ol’ Sally Goodin’:
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“Last month, while listening to a radio talk show on my local NPR station, I finally came to grip with my conflictive thoughts on the issue. Yes, Immigration. Thorny issue, especially if you live any place close to my home the South. Charlotte, NC has the highest Hispanic population growth rate of the country. We are part of this immigration, but people see us a little differently. My family and I have heard so many times, after learning we are from Mexico. -Wow, you do not look like Mexicans.”
What are Mexicans supposed to look like anyway?
Bienvenidos to ¡Ask a Mexican!, the world’s foremost authority on America’s favorite beaners! The Mexican can answer any and every question on his race, from why Mexicans stick the Virgin of Guadalupe everywhere to our obsession with dwarves and transvestites. In the course of his answers, The Mexican will use certain terms and phrases for better-rounded answers.
Indiana’s Mexican immigrants earned about $2 billion in 1999. The buying power of that community and the rest of the state’s Hispanic population in 2005 was $4.8 billion. Hispanics in Indiana sent $190 million to relatives in their home countries in 2004.
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 Terry Vaughn le regalo a México una victoria para celebrar el Cinco de Mayo
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Para no aislarnos tanto de la realidad y reconocer que siempre habrá algunos que irán contra nuestras opiniones, hoy empezaremos este nuevo segmento que llamare “Irán Contra”.
No se asusten! Simplemente reflexionen, pongan los pies en la tierra, y tomen un café con leche.
ILLEGALS & CONTAGIOUS DISEASES
No solo en Miami, NYC, LA, y Tejas. Si no en Indiana! Pobre señor! Si esta perdiendo tanto por solo un día, porque no dar un aumentito cuando regresen los trabajadores?
In Carmel, Ind., Jeff Salsbery said about 25 Hispanic workers skipped work at Monday at his landscaping company. “I’m not very happy this morning,” Salsbery said. “We’re basically shut down in our busiest month of the year. It’s going to cost me thousands of dollars today.”
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