“The fact that I’m quitting the regents demonstrates my view that we need to stand up,” Salas said. “What we need is for all public officials to bring some reason to the table, to bring a discussion that is other than just demonizing the undocumented.”
JS Online: Regent resigns over lack of tuition benefit in budget
The Mexican immigrant worker in New York is a perfect example of the hero who has gone unnoticed. It is common for a Mexican worker in New York to work extraordinary hours in extreme conditions for very low wages which are saved at great cost and sacrifice and sent to families and communities in Mexico who rely on them to survive.Dulce Pinzón / Superheroes
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Sex, Nazi, burrito and Viagra: Who Googles what? | U.S. | ReutersGermany, Mexico and Austria were world’s top three searchers of the word “Hitler” while “Nazi” scored the most hits in Chile, Australia and the United Kingdom, data from 2004 to the present retrievable on the “Google Trends” Web site showed.
Louisiana Weekly - Your Community. Your Newspaper.It is a nouveau term cultivated from the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Prior to that, Mexican-Americans demanded to be listed as Caucasian on government applications, etc. When affirmative action started to kick in and “protected classes” began to formulate, their leadership abandoned the claim as Caucasian and demanded distinction as a protected class also. Thus, the broad term “minority” started to include Mexican-Americans and others who no longer saw the advantage in being separated from Blacks and Asians. Eventually, the term Hispanic began to be included among minority ethnicities.
That would be “race” in Spanish, and while Robert Montalvo began Raza Clothing as a way to make money, it was also as a way to say, “This is me. This is my heritage. And I’m proud of it.”Montalvo, 35, of East Lansing has taken one of the most universal items, the T-shirt, and given it his own meaning.LATINO BY DESIGN: Lansing man’s Raza label makes a cultural statement — and a fashion statement
Denison, Iowa - Locally GrownAlthough a smaller project, Der Denison Herold is at the center of the discrimination story. The Latino contractor was the low bidder for the construction work. However, a contractor with close ties to the group pushing the conference center golf club offered to do the work on the Herold building for material costs only, thus undercutting the Latino contractor. In another fascinating twist to this tale, the contractor also proposed donating the value of this free labor to the golf club project.
South Bend Tribune: A link between immigration, gang crime?“A lot of the gang members we’ve dealt with were born and raised in this country,” said Patrolman Rich Matteson, a certified gang specialist with the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Department.Detective Stephen Priem of the Goshen Police Department agreed.”It’s a criminal behavior issue,” he said. “It’s not an immigration issue.”
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Station launches first public ethanol pump in S. FloridaWhen commercial ethanol production begins in Florida, which some experts estimate will occur in the next five years, E85 will be less costly than it is now.In Minnesota, for example, E85 is $1 less per gallon than gasoline, Stanek said.The first rail car with 30,000 gallons of corn-based ethanol arrived in Miami on Friday from Indiana, said Garner, whose company buys ethanol from 60 plants and distributes it in 10 states.
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