Indiana Daily StudentIn June, an Indiana think tank introduced a plan intended to encourage more Hispanics to pursue higher education. While this may seem like something that is good for the Hispanic community, it has raised no small amount of controversy. At issue is the Sagamore Institute researchers’ recommendation that Hispanics try for two-year degrees from colleges such as Ivy Tech rather than four-year, or ev
Cracking Down On Illegal Immigration Not So SimpleAMES, Iowa — In many parts of the country, the idea that all illegal immigrants should be arrested and deported is popular, but in the wake of the Postville and Marshalltown raids, perhaps the solution isn’t as simple as it may seem. If this plan were enacted, there would be serious social and economic impacts in many communities across the nation, according to Liesl Eathington, coordinator of Iowa State University’s Regional Capacity Analysis Program (ReCAP). “I think there is a misconception in many communities that these immigrants are taking American dollars and sending it all back home,” Eathington said. “This really isn’t the case, because these people still pay sales taxes, rent and buy food. In some towns, they make up a significant percent of revenue that goes back into the community.”
Kansas.comContributors to the new anthology “Primera Pagina: Poetry from the Latino Heartland” — including one with ties to Wichita — say they want to express and draw attention to the Hispanic experience in the middle of the country.”I don’t think Hispanics in the Midwest have really been able to have a voice,” said Marcelo Xavier Trillo, 30, who was raised in Wichita and participates in the Kansas City-based Latino Writers Collective.
Enforcement on Steroids: Homeland Security’s Emerging Immigration Police State | Immigration | AlterNetLast week, hundreds of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, flanked by helicopters, a trail of SUVs and a convoy of buses, descended on the tiny town of Postville, Iowa. They set up a perimeter around the 60-acre kosher meat-processing plant operated by the global giant Agriprocessors, Inc. and conducted the largest workplace raid in U.S. history. Around 400 people were arrested — most from Mexico, Eastern Europe and Guatemala — representing 40 percent of the plant’s workers and 17 percent of the town’s population. Warrants for another 300 were issued.Some would call it a victory for law and order. But a closer look at the showy example of “getting tough on illegals” offers some insight into what immigration restrictionists are really asking for when they call for more immigration enforcement.
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According to a radio report on NPR yesterday, Latinos make up about five percent of the total population in Indiana. According to the same radio report, most of these Latinos are Mexican and Puerto Ricans.
About Indiana: Twelve Mostly Beloved Oddities About Hoosiers4.) In the 19th and 20th century, also came Blacks from the South in at least two migrations; one via fleeing, and a second one when they came up as free people in droves for the jobs in factory and on farm. They and their offspring tend to be liberal in social justice issues, touchingly willing to go to war, and ultra conservative about gays and traditional marriage. They tend to be for the worker. And unions were built of the bones and blood of blacks and the eastern European. German, Italian and Irish immigrants.
America | The National Catholic WeeklyNews accounts and early analysis claim that Hillary Clinton is favored in Puerto Rico even though there has been no polling on the island so far. Clinton certainly does better in primary states than in caucus states, so the change to a primary will help her. More importantly, the press notes how strongly Clinton has run among Latinos in other contests and assumes the same will hold in Puerto Rico. This ignores one big fact: Puerto Ricans are not like other Latinos.
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JagBytesI knew then that I could not condense any of what I had into a 400 or 500 word story. How could I? Each person’s response was different and unique – a story itself. These responses were the voices of people, the voices of Latinos/Hispanics who have the right to be heard, as anyone else does. Read their stories.
Monroenews.com - Informing Monroe County, MichiganOne small decision in high school transformed James Whipper into the person he is today - a legend in the hip-hop world.agreeing to be a part of a hip-hop group in the 1970s with his friends, the Monroe resident began a 30-year career in the music industry. He was inducted as an honorarium into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999 as the first Latino hip-hop rap artist.
Martinsville: Still at a Crossroads | Reporter-Times.comIn 2001, shortly after Sept. 11, the second in command of Martinsville’s police force, assistant chief Dennis Nail, wrote a letter racially insensitive letter to the Reporter-Times. His words, in reality, were a clumsy and absurdly ignorant expression of hostility toward non-Christians and non-whites. That same public statement included another clumsy expression of hostility toward homosexuals - a group of people who, like any others, drive cars and could easily find themselves in Martinsville with flashing lights behind them. It was a warning: Get out of my country; stay out of my town.
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Larry Hartwig knows what it’s like to have constituents ruffled – or downright angry – over their Spanish-speaking neighbors. In Addison, Ill, a middle-class town just outside Chicago where Mr. Hartwig is mayor, roughly one-third of the population is Latino. “There’s a perception that if you have a lot of minorities, it’s a bad community,” he says. “We have our share of tension.” But instead of taking the route of nearby communities that have enacted laws hostile to immigrants, Addison has, among other projects, set up a resource center in a Latino neighborhood that offers everything from ESL and computer literacy classes to a food pantry.
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
IN THE PAST few weeks as I listened on radio and watched on TV the seemingly endless discussions of the Michael Vick dogfighting case, I have heard many popular stereotypes of “bloodsport” being a part of this country’s ethnic minority culture - dogfighting being designated as arising from the “black” or “African-American” culture and cockfighting coming from “Latino” or “Hispanic” culture. Throughout these discussions I was reminded of one of the favorite relatives of my childhood, a cousin of my father’s known to our family as “Uncle Jim.” Proud to claim him as my own “uncle,” I was entranced by this eloquent southern man - an honorary “Kentucky Colonel” and white Anglo-Saxon Protestant in good standing - when he came up from Louisville to take his own fighting cocks to do battle with their Hoosier counterparts in barns and back roads in rural Indiana.
Bloodsport and stereotypes - The Boston Globe
Taco Bell, Dora the Explorer and even Napoleon Dynamite have Spanish influence. How much has the Latin American culture influenced the United States of America? Gerardo T. Cummings, Assistant Professor of the ISU Department of Languages, Literature, and Linguistics, explored this very topic Wednesday evening in Root Hall. In a room crammed with both students and faculty, Cummings described the history of the term “latino,” which could be traced to mean speakers of Latin languages, or Romance languages.
HispanicTrending: Speech on Latino prevalence in American culture opens eyes
The Denver Post - In the Midwest, bring on the immigrantsAs many Great Plains and Midwest communities continue down the slippery slope of depopulation, they grasp for any kind of development. That’s why industrial livestock operations and corn ethanol plants are so popular these days.Yet some of these communities already have a resource that could help stop the out-migration hemorrhaging and even give them a much-needed transfusion: immigrants.
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La Bloga: Conversation with Francisco Aragón/Palabra Pura and the Love of the WordFor those who are unfamiliar, Palabra Pura features Chicano and Latino poets reading work in Spanish, English and a combination of the two languages. The series offers Chicago’s large Spanish-speaking population, the third largest in the United States, a venue to read their poetry as originally composed and helps audiences learn more about the strong tradition of poetry in Spanish.
I was probably the only kid in Ohio who knew anything at all about lowriders and their Latino roots, and when the style finally spread to the Midwest (and all my classmates fell down laughing at them), I appreciated the history and the culture behind the style, if not the aesthetics.
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Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his redevelopment It’s hard
team made that clear last week. In an interview with the Detroit News
editorial board, Kilpatrick indicated he hadn’t considered nor was even
aware of other cities’ and states’ highly effective use of welcoming
and recruiting immigrants from other parts of the U.S.
to believe that Kilpatrick has missed such a well-known strategy. From
the mainstream media to national urban planning journals, urban
leaders, experts and journalists have been discussing this trend for
more than a decade.
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Can learning to dance the salsa help students grasp the Spanish language? Spanish instructor and Columbia-native Lucy Campbell says, “Si!”
After pronunciation practice and a vocabulary lesson, to the tune of current Top 40 Latin music, Indiana State University students in Campbell’s 100- and 200-level Spanish classes learned traditional Hispanic dances, such as the salsa and merengue, as part of Foreign Language Music Day on Feb. 21.
Many other sailors ran for cover, but Swann’s station,
manned by black and Latino men, kept firing the
20-millimeter cannon. The plane veered from its attack.
Instead of crashing into the sea, one of its wings hit
Swann’s gun station. Nine crew mates were burned to
death and six — including Swann — were seriously injured.
According to The Washington Post, Correa’s adviser at the University of Illinois, Werner Baer, supports his former student. “He appreciates the market to a certain point, but he knows that the market left alone concentrates wealth,” he said. “He is not going to do anything foolish… because he is a fairly open-minded person…
State policy must be more welcoming to immigrants if Iowa and two other Midwest states are to thrive economically, a trio of experts said Tuesday.“We need people in Iowa, and we need them now,” said Mark Grey, director of the Iowa Center for Immigrant Leadership and Integration and a professor at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls.
QCTimes.com / News / Iowa is new port for many immigrants
No question, reading and speaking English are crucial skills when it comes to prospering in the United States. That is, in part, why we publish a Spanish edition. And it’s also why immigrant populations do assimilate. By the second or third generation, English is the primary, if not only, language spoken.
There with Estrada was the dwarf from the show Jackass, Wee Man, and nearby was a very thin woman wearing a fur shawl. I didn’t know who she was until somebody told me it was La Toya Jackson.
Mientras que a los Michiguanos no se les puede tocar la paloma, es importante mantener una población ignorante para mantener pisados a los latinos y otras minorías. Asi fueron los resultados de las recientes elecciones.
[Michigan voters spare state’s doves]
The Brookings Institution says the number of Latinos in the Circle City grew 44 percent from 2000 to 2004. But the preceding decade was truly staggering with growth of 263 percent from 1990 to 2000. Indy’s Hispanic population now ranks as the fifth fastest growing in the country.
WISH-TV - Indianapolis News and Weather - Hispanics Making Indianapolis Home in Large Numbers
If you draw a line across the US, splitting its population, with 150m
people to the north of the divide and the same number to the south, and
then draw a second, east-to-west, line, the cross formed falls close to
Owensville, a hamlet in southern Indiana.
The film, “Fuerza” or “force” subtitled in both English and Spanish, underscores the huge growth in Goshen’s Hispanic population in the last few years.
WNDU-TV: News Story: Documentary on immigration to debut in Goshen Theater - November 02, 2006
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