Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean harshly condemned Republicans on the immigration issue Wednesday and called on Hispanic voters to help put his party back in power this fall.
KRT Wire | 06/28/2006 | Republican, Democratic leaders court Latino voters at convention
Education is the key to breaking down our cultural barriers. As we learn who we are as people, it becomes easier to appreciate one another’s similarities. rather than focusing on our differences.
“Everybody said, ‘that must be the Latino community in California,’ ” says Valladolid. But it was the white community of 1950, many of whom had moved from the Midwest. “How did they change it to where 35 percent of white students get a B.A.?” asks Vallodolid. “His response was: through schools, churches, government … educational programs. It’s the same challenge today, but rather than a migratory population, we have an immigrant population.”
Of the 42 million Hispanics in the U.S., 27 million are Mexican Americans according to the U.S. Census. For almost all of them, soccer is the sport they grew up on. And MLS teams across the country — from hotbeds like California and Texas on down — do their best to cater to Hispanic fans. MLS’s senior vice president of marketing, Dan Courtemanche, said league title sponsors such as Honda, Budweiser and Adidas do bilingual advertising and cross-promote their products and the game.
Hispanic community key for Major League Soccer | EastValleyTribune.com
 Cindy Valentin, quien jugó 4 años estelares en el equipo de baloncesto de Indiana University, representa a Puerto Rico en las calificatorias para los Centroamericanos.
In Group B Puerto Rico defeated USVI 74-70 thanks to a 40 point performance by Cindy Valentin. |
It’s on days like this we wonder if it’s really the best idea in the world for a bunch of white guys from the midwest, who wouldn’t know mofongo from chicken-fried steak, to be promoting a campaign to attract hispanic buyers.
Que Sabor, Pontiac!: GM Goes After Sexed-Up Latin Market - Jalopnik
While Congress spars over the country’s immigration policies, newcomers in the Midwest are helping breathe new life into rural Main Streets that have been in decline. In southwestern Minnesota alone, immigrants are running more than two dozen stores in the old downtowns of Willmar, Marshall and Worthington. It’s a similar story in southern Minnesota and in parts of Iowa and other states.
AP Wire | 06/17/2006 | Midwest immigrants finding American Dream on old Main Street
Elgin Area Chamber of Commerce members on Thursday expressed concern about the possibility of Hispanics unionizing in the wake of the May 1 demonstrations across the nation against tougher immigration laws.
It ends a key phase of the case - involving 6,000 illegal immigrant workers slaving in Asian restaurants across the Midwest - but more cases against more restaurant owners might be built, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Nick Chase, who prosecuted the case.
Grand Forks Herald | 06/16/2006 | Feds put away final human smuggling ringleader
As the national debate over immigration continues, three Wabash College graduates with first-hand knowledge shake their heads at some of the suggestions but agree things must change.
Wabash Men Watch Immigration Debate With Great Interest
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Respondents indicating a propensity toward charitable giving tended to skew toward an older, female and Hispanic demographic. Overall, more than half of those surveyed would donate anywhere from 10 to 25 percent of their winnings to charity.
Payments News: Western Union Surveys Consumers - June 12, 2006
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From the massive influx of Irish people in the mid-1800s to the rush of people from Latin America and Asian nations in recent years, “It’s the same old, same old,” said Nancy Gabin, Purdue University associate professor of history. |
Fortune magazine points out that the battle over immigration reform is a very big deal in the home construction industry, because “up to 40 percent of new-home construction in the U.S. is being done wholly or partly by undocumented immigrants.”
… How did this illegal alien steal $50,000? Well, she got an education she didn’t pay for, right? If you steal a $50K car, you go to jail for a very, very long time. Why should an illegal alien who steals a $50K education be any different? Theft is theft, and all we are arguing is the semantics of the kind of theft. …
Right Truth: Immigration Ignorance
Pence’s answer, taken from a white paper of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation (which promotes “democratic capitalism” and the ideals of America’s founders), is that those agencies wouldn’t handle any of it except for the computerized criminal background check that it already is handling routinely anyway. Instead, the program would be outsourced, competitively, to private bidders.
Professor Eric Wright, director of health policy research at the Center, said that one important aspect of this research is to determine which groups are most affected. “Indiana has a number of troubling trends,” said Wright. “Obesity in the state’s black population has increased at more than double the national rate in recent years, and there has been a large increase among our Latino population.”
“I feel extremely passionate about illegal immigration,” said Manuel, a rising senior at Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis. “I mean, it just makes my blood boil.”
But when Manuel’s anti-illegal immigration editorial ran in the student newspaper on April 28, administrators confiscated the paper, and the discussion quickly turned to how the piece ever made it in the paper in the first place.
Medina plans on areawide special screenings of his first movie, Jack’s Law. A screening will take place in Dodge City on June 16 and in Garden City on June 17. On June 18, a special screening will be held at Mitchell Theaters in Guymon. Danny Trejo, star of the movie will be a special guest at the screening.
 There’s nothing new about scam artists preying on immigrants legal residency, work permits or citizenship. But today’s scammers are customizing new schemes that capitalize on the national immigration reform debate and the widespread news coverage it has engendered.
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Would Republicans regret the day they stood against amnesty for illegal immigrants?
Hoy cumple LatiNOhoosier un año y ha sido una experiencia verdaderamente terapéutica para mi.
Una cosa que me sorprende, –y no es queja- es que a los lectores no le gusta dejar comentarios. Se que hay muchos lectores y oyentes porque el servidor los contabiliza, pero ¿porque será que a nosotros los LatiNOhoosiers no nos gusta escribir comentarios? A ver si esto despierta el ánimo. Solo aprieten el link debajo de cada articulo que dice “Comments” y escriban cualquier cosa. Les prometo que se sentirán mejor por el resto del día!
Y si no, sigo con mi terapia intensiva…
Two million copies of “Bagels and Bongos” were sold in 1959 when it was released. The website of the record label, Reboot Stereophonic, features a videotaped interview of Irving Fields. It also has a picture of the album’s original cover art, which is fantastic.
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