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Weekly Immigration Wire: Climate of Anti-Immigrant Hate Yields Violence

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

WHEN A GOVERNMENT build walls to stave off fears, it is, ironically, reinforcing that same emotion of fear. When hostile and punitive legislation is enacted, fear of the Other is mixed with aggression. When a fearful and aggressively rigid mindset is applied to social fluctuations that require flexibility and change, the result is a drastic increase of that negative energy.

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ICE to Receive Expanded Powers in Drug Offenses

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

IT’S TRUE THAT IMMIGRATION ACTIVISTS have been feeling that changes in immigration law were imminent; certainly it’s been a hope. I’ve gotta say, though…I don’t think this is the change people have been anticipating!

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Brown Eyed Children of the Sun

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

THIS ARTE is a painting I made from a foto my father took in the Chiapas region of México right about the time period that Corky Gonzales wrote the poem from which he named me. Your Xicano Heritage Riddle for the day!

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Happy Mother’s Day! Feliz dia de la Madre!

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

LIKE THE EARTH, like the waters, like the sky…like Mama Nature herself who loves us down to our bones, and even when we’re bad, or wrong, or all alone. Where would we be in this world without our mothers?

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Oregon Swine Flu Media Briefing

Monday, April 27th, 2009

OREGON: Public Health officials from the state of Oregon, Portland held a news briefing yesterday to discuss the latest information on the swine flu outbreak, local readiness to respond should the situation elevate and what people can do to keep themselves and others safe.

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Mexico to Style Legal System After US

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

MEXICO WILL BREAK with much of its long-standing legal traditions, instead to institute a process that emulates US law in many positive ways.

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Mysterious Viruses, Pt. 4. Swine Flu

Friday, April 24th, 2009

A ‘STARTLING,’ ‘RARE’, ‘MYSTERIOUS’ flu with components from bird flu and human flu and swine flu is turning up in the South West US and México. No one is sure yet why or how this is happening.

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Global Reservations

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

JUST AS A WALL that keeps the poor in place in our own cities and towns and marks the divide where law enforcement begins caring a whole lot more about property and people, so do the borders operate in our world. This entrenched and justified divide is a crime in and of itself. All the rest that follows is fallout.

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Debonair Mujer Found With Huge, Big, Very Large, Massive Gun

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

THE WIRES ARE ABLAZE with a coincidence of timing in President Obama’s appointing a “border czar” and the discovery of massive weaponry in the hands of a Mexicana who was photographed by AP cameras looking extremely well-stocked and defiant.

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La Santisima Muerte

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

LA SANTA MUERTE is threatening Jesus Christ. Those who champion Mister Christ are lashing back. Or perhaps we might say the Mexican Oligarchy is acting like terrorists and destroying symbols that are dear to groups of people who frustrate them. However you word it, the People are under seige on more than one front.

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Weekly Immigration Wire: Resurrecting a Failed War on Drugs

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

THE WAR ON DRUGS HAS RETURNED even though under increased militarization, drug production actually goes up, as does the body count, while the seizure of drugs decreases. All the facts in hand show, inarguably, that the Drug War model is a failed method of dealing with immigration—even though President Obama seems intent to resurrect it.

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Weekly Immigration Wire: Obama’s Hard Line on Immigration

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

In the modern world, borders do not separate families, nor commerce, nor soldiers, nor bank accounts and their owners. And NAFTA has allowed Mexico’s corn crop to be so devalued that Mexico—the land where the plant was born roughly 5,000 years ago—now imports corn, forcing streams of campesinos to migrate north…where we lock them up.

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President Obama Reaffirms Commitment to Immigration Reform

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

PRESIDENT OBAMA declares at a town hall meeting that it is in all our interests that the heads of Lou Dobbs’, Tom Tancredo, Bill O’Reilly explode in a salsa-fantastic burst of incoherence. Which will happen as soon as they watch this video.

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Happy St. Patricks Day! ¡Que Vivan Los San Patricios!

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

THIS IS NOT the first time in history that those with power looking only toward their own profit margin have unwittingly led their hand to disastrous effects on larger populations’ basic ability to live.

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