AUMENTAN MUERTES DE INMIGRANTES / NUEVO EXCELSIOR
Muchas de las víctimas han fallecido a consecuencia del calor, que suele superar los 38 grados en el desierto. El número de indocumentados que fallecen al intentar cruzar el desierto de Arizona desde México se ha incrementado a pesar del aumento en la seguridad fronteriza, dijo un médico forense del área. Las muertes en la frontera entre Arizona y México, el mayor sector de tráfico ilegal en la línea divisoria de 3 mil 138 kilómetros entre Estados Unidos y la nación latinoamericana, ha superado la marca histórica de hace dos años, dijo el doctor Bruce Parks, forense cuya oficina realiza la mayor parte de las necropsias de los indocumentados que fallecen en el estado.
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PREVÉ VIRGINIA MEDIDA ANTIINMIGRANTE / REFORMA
Autoridades policiales del condado de Prince William, en Virginia, planean la revisión de la situación migratoria de inmigrantes detenidos por delitos menores, como pasarse la luz roja del semáforo. El diario The Washington Post reseñó ayer que la propuesta, que el martes próximo presentará el Departamento de Policía a las autoridades del condado, representa una expansión de esa autoridad aplicada sólo a sospechosos de violencia pandillera y otros delitos graves. La situación migratoria de víctimas y testigos de delitos no se revisará, según la nueva propuesta, que tiene un costo de 14.2 millones de dólares para los próximos cinco años y, si es aprobada, entraría en vigor en enero del siguiente año, según el diario.
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DENUNCIAN RECORTE EN EL PRESUPUESTO PARA MIGRANTES/ EL FINANCIERO
Edmundo Ramírez expuso que con el proyecto presupuestal de 2008 se provocará una baja de 7%. En global se les asignaron 71.4 millones de pesos en 2007, mientras que en 2008 se plantean sólo 69.7 millones. Un análisis del Grupo de Trabajo en Materia de Migración del PRI en la Cámara de Diputados, advierte una disminución en los programas y recursos a favor de los migrantes mexicanos que viven en Estados Unidos, en el proyecto de Presupuesto de Egresos de 2008.
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MILES UNEN SUS VOCES POR MÉXICO EN CALIFORNIA/ JAZMÍN ORTEGA/ LA OPINIÓN
En varias ciudades salen a celebrar el tradicional Grito de Independencia. Miles de mexicanos festejaron anoche el tradicional Grito de Independencia en todo el Sur de California, en ceremonias en las que dejaron sentir el orgullo y la añoranza por la patria, tan cerca y a la vez tan lejana. En Santa Ana, Huntington Park y Los Ángeles se escuchó el repicar de campanas y los vivas a Miguel Hidalgo, José María Morelos, la corregidora Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez y otros "héroes que nos dieron patria", como es costumbre decir en ceremonias en todo el territorio mexicano y en las comunidades mexicanas en Estados Unidos.
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'PROUD AMERICANS' MARCH TO HONOR MEXICO'S FREEDOM / KEN FLYNN / THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Parade marks 197th anniversary of autonomy from Spain American and Mexican flags fluttered in the breeze Saturday as thousands lined the streets of Dallas to celebrate El Diez y Seis, Mexican Independence Day. "I'm an American," parade spectator Joe Morales said. "But I'm never going to forget my roots. My family came to the Dallas area from Tamaulipas, Mexico, to find a better life here, and I'm glad they did." The supervisor for an electric utility said he and his wife are living the American dream.
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LATINOS SHOW PRIDE IN HERITAGE/ PAIGE HEWITT /HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Fiestas Patrias honors Mexican Independence Day and other nationsLarry Jones couldn't hide his pride as he waved a Mexican flag with all his might at the Fiestas Patrias parade downtown on Saturday. "I'm proud of my heritage,"said Jones, a 47-year-old third-generation Mexican-American. Then, further emphasizing his conviction, Jones lowered his flag, rolled up his sleeve and displayed a tattoo on his upper arm — an eagle on a cactus, as appears on the Mexican flag, featuring script reading Chicano Para Siempre, or Chicano Forever.
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AS WORKERS GATHER, TOWN WATCHES EAGLE-EYED / SANDHYA SOMASHEKHAR/ WASHINGTON POST
As the sun rose yesterday, dozens of men gathered at Herndon's new, unofficial hiring site for day laborers -- a dirt path next to a public park -- a day after town officials shut a controversial permanent hiring center a mile and a half away. Only two of about 50 workers had found jobs as the morning ended, a sign that it may be difficult to mirror the success of the official day-laborer center. On an average Saturday, the center would have helped connect about 45 workers with employers, said Angel Morales, coordinator for the center.
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A LESSON IN COURAGE/ THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC
Want an example of old-fashioned courage? Take a look at Arizona State University President Michael Crow. Despite the molten atmosphere around the issue of illegal immigration, he stood up for what's right even though it may not be popular. Too few people do that these days. After all, bashing illegal immigrants is an easy applause line. Crow did what leaders and educators are supposed to do. He looked through the present into the future. He saw the state's needs. He found a way for undocumented kids to attend Arizona State University.
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BUREAUCRATIC BACKLOG CREATES NIGHTMARE FOR IMMIGRANTS/ ANNA GORMAN/ BOSTON GLOBE
Seeking to become a US citizen, Biljana Petrovic filed her application, completed her interview, and passed her civics test. More than three years later, she is still waiting to be naturalized - held up by an FBI name-check process that has been criticized as slow, inefficient, and a danger to national security. Nearly 320,000 people were waiting for their name checks to be completed as of early August, including more than 152,000 who had been waiting for more than six months, according to the US Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. More than 61,000 had been waiting for more than two years.
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U.S.-BORN? SO WHAT?/ SACRAMENTO BEE
From its beginnings as a nation, the United States differed from Europe in its citizenship policies, welcoming all those born on U.S. territory as U.S. citizens. Now Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Gold River, and 89 other Republican members of Congress want to end the tradition of birthright citizenship. Eleven of 19 Republicans in the California congressional delegation have signed on to sponsor this terrible bill (HR 1940) that would move the United States toward becoming a restrictionist nation of descent based on parentage.
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OUR POSITION: CONGRESS SHOULDN'T END A PROGRAM TO LET IN MORE TRUCKS FROM MEXICO/ ORLANDO SENTINEL
Using unfounded safety worries as a cover for protectionism and Mexico bashing, the Senate voted this past week to shut down a pilot program allowing trucks from south of the border on U.S. highways. The program was launched to begin meeting a long-delayed commitment under the North American Free Trade Agreement by allowing 500 Mexican trucks to travel freely on U.S. roads. Canadian trucks already enjoy free access. But Mexican trucks have been limited to a few miles inside U.S. borders, where they must transfer their cargo to U.S. trucks.
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FOR RICH MEXICANS, PARALLEL LIVES IN U.S./ EUGENE L. MEYER / THE NEW YORK TIMES
ANA LUISA SANCHEZ MACCISE, a Mexican citizen, is neither seeking a path to American citizenship nor living a fitful undocumented existence. Yet she lives and works in Houston, where she sends her son to a local private school. She has another home in Mexico City, where her husband still works. He visits his family in Houston regularly. Mrs. Maccise is among a small but growing group of Mexican citizens who are creating parallel lives in this sprawling city north of the border; Dallas and San Antonio are other cities of choice. Their motives are more than economic. They are also seeking a safe haven for themselves and their families, away from the threats of kidnapping, ransom and even murder that are routinely directed at wealthy Mexicans.
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TOWER OF SCRABBLE/ TOM MILLAR/ THE WASHINGTON POST
One of the vexing questions in the immigration debate is about language. Should everyone speak English? What's wrong with Spanish? Why can't we rise up to be a bilingual nation? The debate can get nasty at times. A few months ago, former House speaker Newt Gingrich equated Spanish with "the language of living in a ghetto." California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested that Latinos simply turn off Spanish-language television.
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BUSCAN PROMOVER LAS CIENCIAS ENTRE LOS HISPANOS/ MARY BALLESTEROS-CORONEL / LA OPINIÓN
Fundación nacional patrocina proyecto informativo en estaciones de radio en español. ‘Despertar la curiosidad y motivar el interés’, en esta frase se define la meta de Cielo y Tierra, la nueva serie radial que la Fundación Nacional de la Ciencias (NSF) está patrocinando para promover la participación de los hispanos en Estados Unidos en carreras relacionadas con la ciencia, ingeniería y tecnología. Cielo y Tierra, la versión en español del popular programa en inglés Earth & Sky —uno de los más establecidos y de mayor cobertura a nivel mundial— ha recibido una subvención de 1.5 millones de dólares para producir 600 cápsulas radiales de un minuto cada una
en los próximos tres años.
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RECLUTA EJÉRCITO DE EU CADA VEZ A MÁS HISPANOS/ IMAGEN (Zacatecas)
El Ejército de Estados Unidos, que entra en el sexto año de guerra, capta cada vez más hispanos y menos negros, y cumple con sus metas de reclutamiento gracias a bonos cuantiosos que atraen voluntarios.Las cuatro ramas de las Fuerzas Armadas de Estados Unidos lograron en agosto sus metas de reclutamiento de voluntarios,
y el Ejército (de Tierra) la superó por segundo mes consecutivo, según informó el Pentágono.Al paso que van, las cuatro armas cumplirán sus metas de reclutamiento para el periodo fiscal 2007 que concluye el 30 de septiembre.
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IS DROPPING WATER BOTTLES TO MIGRANTS HUMANITARIANISM OR AN INHERENTLY POLITICAL ACT?/ AUGUSTA DWYER/ TORONTO STAR
It is a warm Saturday morning in late August as Armando Alarcon brings his single-engine Cessna up into a hazy blue Texas sky, heading through the mountain gap that gave El Paso its name, along a border whose paradoxes have always framed his life. The vast urban sprawl comprising the neighbouring cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, falls away as Alarcon, 39, and his co-pilot, Armando Garcia, fly toward the New Mexico desert, where thousands of Mexican migrants cross into the U.S. every year in search of work.
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SE ATRASAN CON HIPOTECAS 300 MIL MEXICANOS EN EU/ RUTH MATA / NUEVO EXCELSIOR
Altas tasas de interés elevan sus pagos, otros pierden sus empleos ante el vaivén bursátil. Según datos de la National Association Relators y The Pew Hispanic Center, por lo menos 300 mil mexicanos tienen problemas con el pago de su hipoteca en Houston, San Antonio, Chicago y Miami, explicó en entrevista para Excélsior, Gerardo Aparicio, especialista de la Escuela de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales de la Universidad Panamericana (UP).
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TRÁFICO DE ILEGALES, MÁS RENTABLE QUE LA DROGA / JOSÉ JUAN REYES / EL ECONOMISTA
De acuerdo con el Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Penales, actualmente es más redituable para las bandas organizadas el tráfico de ilegales que el de estupefacientes, gracias a que las sanciones por este delito son menores y el interés por cruzar a los EU se mantiene en aumento.
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EL GRITO EN LA, HUNTINGTON PARK Y SANTA ANA TAMBIÉN/ JORGE LUIS MACÍAS/ LA OPINIÓN
Por primera vez en la historia, no sólo la ceremonia de El Grito de Independencia de México que se efectuará esta noche en el Parque Salt Lake, sino el tradicional desfile del domingo en la ciudad de Huntington Park, serán transmitidos vía red electrónica.
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FRED THOMPSON SPEAKS OUT ON IMMIGRATION ISSUES/ JIM STRATTON/ ORLANDO SENTINEL
On his campaign swing through Florida, Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson has hammered away illegal immigration, saying that America must secure its borders to ensure national security. Friday, he went a step further. Thompson, a former senator from Tennessee, said it might be time to reconsider the country's long-standing practice -- one prescribed by the Constitution -- of granting citizenship to any child born on U.S. soil.
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NOTHING TO FEAR FROM CONSENSUS ON IMMIGRATION/ LOU AGNESE/ SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." Nobel laureate Marie Curie The immigration debate has been defined by one word: fear. It has driven the incendiary remarks uttered by well-known TV and radio personalities, which oft times border on bigotry, and the sincere, if misinformed, comments from both sides of the political aisle. Fear that terrorists will be allowed into our country, fear that Americans will lose jobs to immigrants, fear that immigration will cripple our economy and infrastructure.
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NAFTA AND OUR BORDERS / THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Senate's decision this week to reject funding for a pilot program that would give Mexican trucks freer access to U.S. roadways is a shameful reneging of America's responsibilities under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). It's no surprise that Democrats acted this way, cowing to the interests of anti-trade labor unions afraid of competition. There is, however, a measure of disappointment that 25 Republicans crossed over to support Sen. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, whose amendment to the Transportation Department funding bill killed the program and flew through the Senate with a veto-proof 75-23 margin. Ostensibly citing safety concerns, these Republicans rejected an alternative amendment offered by Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, that would have imposed stiff inspection standards, similar to the ones applied to U.S. and Canadian trucks, and required the Transportation Department's Inspector General to certify the safety of every Mexican truck and driver entering our borders. A one-year pilot program supported by the White House would allow some 100 Mexican trucking lines access to U.S. highways. Freer trade is now stymied.
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FIRST U.S. TRUCK HAULS A LOAD INTO MEXICO / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
Nearly a week after the first Mexican-owned commercial truck was allowed to cross the border to drive into the interior of the United States, the first U.S.-owned commercial truck crossed the border headed deep into Mexico. A truck from El Paso-based Stagecoach Cartage and Distribution crossed the border in Arizona at about noon Friday on its way to Obregon, near Hermosillo, with a load of plastic resin. Each truck is part of a pilot program to allow up to 100 companies from Mexico and the United States to venture farther into their neighboring country than they've been allowed in the past.
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AT THE U.S. BORDER, THE DESERT TAKES A RISING TOLL / RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD/ THE NEW YORK TIMES
“I can’t breathe,” Felicitas Martínez Barradas gasped to her cousin as they stumbled across the border in 100-degree heat. “The sun is killing me.”They had been walking for a day and a half through the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona, the purgatory that countless illegal immigrants pass through on their way from Mexico to the United States. Ms. Martínez was 29 and not fit. A smuggler handed her a can of carbonated energy drink and caffeine pills. But she only got sicker and passed out, said her cousin, Julio Díaz.
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AN ICONIC IMAGE HAS BECOME FAMOUS IMMIGRANT'S CROSS TO BEAR/ ROBERT SELTZER/ SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS
The Lord is a terrible bodyguard. A great inspiration? Yes. A beacon for those lost in despair? Yes. The source of all that is good in the world? For believers, yes. And yet... for all that... the Lord is a terrible bodyguard. If that sounds blasphemous, one need look no further than the case of Elvira Arellano. You may not remember the name, but you probably remember the woman — the most famous undocumented immigrant in the United States. Arellano, afraid of the authorities on Earth, resorted to a higher authority, seeking sanctuary in Adalberto United Methodist Church in Chicago.
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JUDGE REFUSES TO EXTEND DEADLINE FOR TIJUANA SEWAGE PROJECT / MIKE LEE/ THE SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
A judge refused Friday to give the U.S. government more time to complete a long-delayed project for treating Tijuana sewage that contaminates South Bay beaches. U.S. District Judge Barry Ted Moskowitz issued his decision during a hearing in San Diego. He left in place a September 2008 deadline for the International Boundary and Water Commission to fix the pollution problem. “You are offering me nothing but pipe dreams,” Moskowitz told the commission. “To give you an extension, all that would do is say to everybody there is not a problem. You give me the full faith and credit of the U.S. government . . . and I will give you an extension.”
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HOSPITAL WEIGHS CHARITY CARE FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS/ JEFF MOSIER / THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Nonemergency services for illegal immigrants debated. A poor illegal immigrant who goes to the John Peter Smith Hospital emergency room in Fort Worth gets the same care at the same price as any other indigent resident. The Rev. Sergio Diaz is working to expand health care services available for illegal immigrants in Tarrant County. But the same person who goes to a JPS clinic for nonemergency treatment is often faced with a hefty bill. Unlike other large urban public hospital systems in Texas, JPS excludes illegal immigrants from its charity program that provides preventive healthcare.
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ADVIERTEN SOBRE “MIGRACIÓN” DE LATINOS DEL PARTIDO REPUBLICANO / IMAGEN (ZACATECAS)
El Partido Republicano estaría sufriendo una “migración” de los hispanos de sus filas debido a las posiciones contrarias de esa organización política contra la migración ilegal, informó la revista Newsweek. En las elecciones de 2004, el presidente republicano George W. Bush logró el 40 por ciento del voto hispano, pero en los comicios legislativos de 2006 los candidatos republicanos lograron apenas el 30 por ciento, señaló la revista en su edición que sale este lunes. Indicó que los 11.4 millones de votantes hispanos que se espera que emitan su sufragio en las elecciones presidenciales de 2008 -en contraste con los 7.5 millones en 2000- pueden inclinar la balanza en Estados con competencia más reñida como Nevada, Nuevo México y Florida.
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OUR HOMES ... AND NATIVE LANAS /HEATHER GREENWOOD DAVIS / TORONTO STAR
Though often in subtle ways, the building industry increasingly reflects the GTA's cosmopolitan reality. Even on a sweltering Toronto day, the home designer Rohan Walters created for himself at the corner of College St. and Lansdowne Ave. remains strangely cool inside, despite no air conditioning. (….)Their stories aren't unique. In a place as cosmopolitan as Toronto has become, cultural immigrant experiences can't help but factor into the city's architectural fabric. Sometimes the translation is as direct or practical as the introduction of feng shui design in the Asian community or the inclusion of a Sabbath elevator in a Jewish community; but sometimes it is a much more subtle result of the immigrant experience itself. Walters sees expressions of his heritage in everything from his inclusion of gardens in his home designs to his yen for natural heating technologies to his ability to workwith whatever location and budget he's given. The result has been some of the most unique and colourful homes in the city, including one on Coxwell Ave. that has turned a piece of swampland into a local icon. "These are things I've taken from that (immigrant) experience," Walters says. "I value people. I use things. These are the things that are directly translatable from my culture."
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