EXIGEN REPRESENTACIÓN EN CONGRESO MEXICANO / LILIA CERVANTES SOTO / LA ESTRELLA
Durante dos días los diputados mexicanos cedieron sus curules a los participantes en el llamado “Primer Parlamento de Líderes Migrantes que viven en Estados Unidos”, quienes exigieron reformar la ley electoral para que se les destinen 10 diputaciones plurinominales y 2 senadurías, así como crear una secretaría del migrante que atienda sus necesidades y las de sus familias. Los migrantes que por primera vez hicieron uso de la tribuna de la Cámara Baja el 16 y 17 de noviembre, decidieron que la asamblea constitutiva del Parlamex se realizará en marzo de 2008 y para evitar la transgresión de leyes norteamericanas, acordaron que el jurista Roberto Rosas (Consejero del IME 2003 – 2005), de Illinois, Chicago, analice la viabilidad del Parlamex. (..)En entrevista con La Estrella, la activista Nancy Guerrero (Consejera del IME 2003 – 2005), representante de la Casa del Inmigrante, con sede en Dallas, Texas, denunció la “politización” de Parlamento y acusó al PRD de incluir en la agenda diversas propuestas. En el mismo sentido se pronunció Mario Ramírez, Consejero del Instituto de Mexicano en el Exterior (IME), en Dallas, Texas, quien manifestó a La Estrella que “la buena fe no alcanza en este tipo de parlamentos”, en los cuales se votó sin control y se incluyeron propuestas como la de solicitar la desaparición del IME, la cual no prosperó. A la voz de estos activistas se sumaron las de Martha Olvera Cerda y Jorge Navarrete (Consejero del IME 2003 – 2005), activista de la fundación “Serafín Olvera” con sede en Houston, Texas, y el vicepresidente de la Casa del Inmigrante, respectivamente, quienes manifestaron su molestia con la conformación de los delegados del parlamento y adelantaron que estarán pendientes de la actuación de éstos el próximo año.
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CONAPO: LA MIGRACIÓN HACIA ESTADOS UNIDOS CONTINUARÁ AL MENOS 15 AÑOS / LA JORNADA
El nivel de migración de mexicanos hacia Estados Unidos continuará, cuando menos, en los próximos tres lustros, aun cuando nuestro país experimente un elevado crecimiento económico, advirtió la secretaria general del Consejo Nacional de Población (Conapo), Elena Zúñiga Herrera. En 2005 el número de mexicanos residentes en el vecino país del norte fue de poco más de 11 millones, cifra que representó casi 10 por ciento de la población total nacional y 3.7 por ciento de la de Estados Unidos.
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MIGRACIÓN, JUEGO DE EQUILIBRISMO / VERÓNICA ROSAS / EL UNIVERSAL
La reforma migratoria impulsada por el presidente George W. Bush fracasó en julio pasado, pero el tema sigue vigente en Estados Unidos y espera con paciencia a que alguien le dé solución. Los precandidatos a la Presidencia lo saben; quien sea que llegue a la Casa Blanca en las elecciones de noviembre de 2008, tendrá en su mesa, a manera de “regalo de bienvenida”, el espinoso asunto de cómo resolver la situación de los 12 millones
de inmigrantes indocumentados que viven en el país (de los cuales más de la mitad son mexicanos). Los aspirantes presidenciales se enfrentan a un dilema. Por un lado, tienen que atender a las demandas de muchos estadounidenses que desean se combata el flujo de migrantes que cruzan ilegalmente las fronteras y les “roban” los trabajos. Pero, por el otro, conocen la importancia del voto hispano, que es la minoría de más rápido crecimiento en EU y que en los comicios intermedios de 2006 representó 9% de la base electoral, cifra nada despreciable para unos comicios que se presume serán muy reñidos.
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PARA UBICAR A MIGRANTES / REFORMA
Si hace tiempo que no sabes de algún familiar que está en EU, en http://migrantes.michoacan.gob.mx te ayudan a localizarlo.
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ESTUDIO DE HISPANOS ROMPE ESTEREOTIPOS / LA OPINIÓN
Mayoría de estudiantes de este grupo no son indocumentados y dominan el inglés. La mayoría de los estudiantes hispanos de EU no son inmigrantes indocumentados y tienen un buen nivel de inglés, según un estudio presentado esta semana y que trata de luchar contra los prejuicios sobre jóvenes latinos. El informe, que se llama Voces, tiene como objetivo dar protagonismo a los testimonios de los propios estudiantes que tratan de dar una visión más humana de su experiencia, que normalmente se resume en datos y prejuicios.
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A WEDGE ISSUE FOR OUR TIMES / BOSTON GLOBE
IS IMMIGRATION a radioactive issue for presidential candidates in 2008, as controversial as gun control or gay marriage were in 2000 and 2004? Democrat Chris Dodd thinks so. "People do demagogue on it, and it's ugly," he said at a meeting earlier this month with the Globe editorial board. If his party isn't careful, he said, "I think we end up getting smacked around."Candidate Hillary Clinton also apparently thinks so. The question of whether she supports drivers' licenses for illegal immigrants tied her in knots for weeks, until she was rescued by New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who dropped his push for a licensing plan in Clinton's home state. This freed her to give a resounding one word answer - no - when asked in the next debate to clarify her view.
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JUSTICE SEEKS DELAY IN COURT CHALLENGE TO IMMIGRATION PLAN /SPENCER S. HSU / WASHINGTON POST
Bush Administration Says It Will Modify Crackdown on Employers Who Hire Illegal Workers. The Bush administration said Friday that it will modify its planned crackdown on U.S. companies that employ illegal immigrants, asking a federal judge to delay hearing a lawsuit brought by major American labor, business and farm organizations until the new strategy is completed. In papers filed in San Francisco late Friday afternoon, Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey S. Bucholtz told U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer that the Homeland Security Department is making unspecified changes to its plan to pressure employers to fire as many as 8.7 million workers with suspect Social Security numbers.
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U.S. SEEKS TO DELAY SUIT OVER WORKER CRACKDOWN / LOS ANGELES TIMES
Homeland Security says it's revising a plan to force the firings of employees with invalid IDs. The Bush administration said it would modify its planned crackdown on U.S. companies that employ illegal immigrants, asking a federal judge to delay hearing a lawsuit brought by major American labor, business and farm organizations until the new strategy was completed. In papers filed late Friday in San Francisco, Acting Assistant Atty. Gen. Jeffrey Bucholtz told U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer that the Homeland Security Department was making unspecified changes to its plan to pressure employers to fire as many as 8.7 million workers with suspect Social Security numbers.
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REVISED RULE FOR EMPLOYERS THAT HIRE IMMIGRANTS / JULIA PRESTON / THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Bush administration will suspend its legal defense of a new rule issued in August to punish employers who hire illegal immigrants, conceding a hard-fought opening round in a court battle over a central measure in its strategy to curb illegal immigration, according to government papers filed late Friday in federal court. Instead, the administration plans to revise the rule to try to meet concerns raised by a federal judge and issue it again by late March, hoping to pass court scrutiny on the second try. The rule would have forced employers to fire workers within 90 days if their Social Security information could not be verified.
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PROGRAM THAT CHECKS STATUS OF WORKERS IS SEEN AS FLAWED / SUSAN CARROLL / HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Database may lead to discrimination against naturalized citizens, study finds. The federal government program that lets employers electronically verify worker eligibility contains outdated immigration information that could result in discrimination against foreign-born workers, a new report warns. The report on the "E-Verify" program released this week comes amid mounting controversy over a Bush administration proposal to make participation mandatory for federal contractors, a move opposed by big business groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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IMMIGRANT CRACKDOWN STILL HOT IN ARIZONA / GREG JEFFERSON / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
A year ago, voters in this state — the one that sees more undocumented border crossings than any other — sent two outspoken border security hawks packing. One was U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth, a 12-year veteran of the House. The other was Randy Graf, a former state lawmaker and member of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, which got its start in southern Arizona. Immigrant rights supporters cheered their defeats. "I spiked my Bible. Yeah, touchdown," said the Rev. Robin Hoover, co-founder of Tucson-based Humane Borders, which has placed 87 water stations for undocumented crossers on or near the border. That was his reaction to Hayworth's defeat. But political candidates are far off the mark if they take those losses to mean that denouncing illegal immigration has lost its fire in Arizona. There's plenty of evidence to the contrary.
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US ADOPTS RULES FOR SOFTENING TREATMENT OF SOME ILLEGALS / TERESA WATANABE / BOSTON GLOBE
Guidelines aimed at mothers and sole caregivers. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has formally adopted federal guidelines aimed at softening treatment of illegal immigrants who are arrested in worksite raids and are pregnant, nursing infants, or serving as sole caregivers to minor children or seriously ill relatives. The federal guidelines, publicly released earlier this month, say that agents should develop a comprehensive plan to identify such people in raids targeting more than 150 people and work with social service agencies to assess their humanitarian needs in deciding whether to detain them while processing their deportation cases.
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IMMIGRANT WORKERS CAUGHT IN NET CAST FOR GANGS / NINA BERNSTEIN / THE NEW YORK TIMES
It was still dark the morning of Sept. 27 when armed federal immigration agents, guided by local police officers, swept into this village on the East End of Long Island. Within hours, as the team rousted sleeping families, 11 men were added to a running government tally of arrests made in Operation Community Shield, a two-year-old national program singling out violent gang members for deportation. “Violent foreign-born gang members and their associates have more than worn out their welcome,” Julie L. Myers, assistant secretary of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said at an October news conference announcing the arrests of 1,313 people in the operation over the summer and fall nationwide. “And to them I have one message: Good riddance.” But, to the dismay of many of Greenport’s 2,500 residents, the raid here did not match her words.
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THE BLACK-LATINO BLAME GAME / EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON / LOS ANGELES TIMES
Finger-pointing between the two minorities is not going to help either group. One Friday earlier this month, a small but vocal group of black activists turned up at City Hall to blast Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and members of the City Council for failing to work hard enough to prevent violence by Latino gang members against blacks in South Los Angeles. "You have one race of people exterminating another race of people," said one African American woman. On the same day, elsewhere in the city, Latino parents stormed out of a meeting of a Los Angeles Unified School District advisory council. The council had been fighting for months about whether to hold its meetings in Spanish or English -- a dispute that got so abusive that district officials felt the need to bring in dispute-resolution experts and mental health counselors. On this particular Friday, the Latino parents walked out after a group of black parents voted to censure the panel's Latino chairman.
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BAJA 40 POR CIENTO PLAN DE MIGRAR A EU / GUSTAVO DE LA ROSA / REFORMA
En los últimos dos años disminuyó 40 por ciento el número de paisanos que pretendían salir del País para buscar trabajo, principalmente en Estados Unidos, de acuerdo a las cifras de la Encuesta Nacional de Ocupación y Empleo (ENOE). Mientras que en el tercer trimestre de 2005 un total 79 mil mexicanos ocupados manifestaron su intención de buscar trabajo en el exterior, para el mismo periodo de este año sólo 47 mil trabajadores mexicanos argumentaron estar preparados para cruzar la frontera, casi 40 por ciento menos.
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CARAVANAS APOYARÁN REGRESO DE PAISANOS / EDUARDO ALONSO / EL UNIVERSAL
Alrededor de 30 caravanas de migrantes mexiquenses que partirán de diferentes puntos de la frontera norte del país, serán escoltadas por policías de la Agencia de Seguridad Estatal (ASE) para evitar que los aproximadamente 40 mil migrantes provenientes de Estados Unidos, sean extorsionados por policías y ciudadanos en general. Las caravanas que iniciaran sus recorridos desde las ciudades fronterizas de Nogales, Juárez, Piedras Negras, Laredo y Reynosa, tendrán como destino final municipios como Polotitlán, Atlacomulco y el valle de Toluca.
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DECENCY ON IMMIGRATION / THE WASHINGTON POST
Apart from John McCain, it's hard to find that quality in the Republican presidential contest. The speaker was discussing the human face of illegal immigration. "People are continuing dying in the Sonoran desert, and it's just a very sad thing to see," he said. "One 3-year-old baby died, a 16-year-old girl with a rosary in her hand. There's a side of this that grieves me terribly. These are God's children. They're not from another planet, and the whole thing . . . frankly, this whole issue saddens me a great deal." These statements were moving, but they would not have been especially remarkable except for the fact that the person speaking is a presidential candidate -- a Republican
presidential candidate, in fact -- at a time when the campaign has taken a particularly toxic tone when it comes to the issue of immigration. In a meeting with Post editors and reporters the other day, Arizona Sen. John McCain described the toll that he believes his championing of comprehensive immigration reform took on his campaign. "It was the issue of immigration that hurt my campaign," he said. "I have not encountered a domestic issue that has provoked the emotional response that this issue does with a lot of Americans."
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IOWA CONCERN OVER ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AHEAD OF VOTE / ANDREW WARD / THE FINANCIAL TIMES
Sioux City, Iowa, does not at first glance appear to have a big stake in the intensifying US debate over illegal immigration. Located nearly 1,000 miles north of the Mexican border on a stretch of the Missouri River where Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota meet, it looks much like any other medium-sized town in the rural, white-dominated US heartland. Across the river from downtown, however, neighbouring South Sioux City has a different feel. Dotted along its main street are several Mexican supermarkets and restaurants, with Spanish-language signage on the storefronts. Nearly a quarter of South Sioux City's 12,000-strong population is Hispanic, after an influx of immigrants to work in local meat-packing plants.
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GIULIANI PROMETE MURO VIRTUAL / ELIZABETH WHITE / DIARIO HOY
El precandidato presidencial republicano Rudy Giuliani dijo esta semana que la inmigración ilegal podría ser frenada en un lapso de tres años, usando tecnología moderna para vigilar la frontera con México. Giuliani hizo una gira por parte de la frontera en el valle del río Bravo, que los estadounidenses llaman río Grande, acompañado por funcionarios estatales y locales, muchos de los cuales se oponen a una valla de acero de 120 kilómetros (70 millas) que el Congreso de Estados Unidos autorizó para el área.
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GUIDELINES TO HUMANIZE IMMIGRATION RAIDS / TERESA WATANABE / LOS ANGELES TIMES
The federal policies have been formalized to consider humanitarian needs when deciding who to detain. A softer approach is to be taken with those such as nursing mothers. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has formally adopted federal guidelines aimed at softening treatment of illegal immigrants arrested in work-site raids who are pregnant, nursing infants or serving as sole caregivers to children or seriously ill relatives. The federal guidelines, publicly released last week, say that agents should develop a comprehensive plan to identify such people in raids targeting more than 150 people and work with social service agencies to assess humanitarian needs when deciding whether to detain them while processing their deportation cases.
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BORDER AGENTS' CASE GETS HOLIDAY PUSH / JOHANNA NEUMAN / LOS ANGELES TIMES
Conservatives are seeking pardons for two officers in the shooting a fleeing man who now faces smuggling charges. Conservatives expressed bitter disappointment Friday that President Bush did not use the Thanksgiving holiday to pardon two U.S. border agents who have been imprisoned for a year for shooting and injuring a man now accused of drug smuggling. "We had hoped that President Bush, who was compassionate enough to pardon two turkeys in the Rose Garden, might also have had enough compassion to pardon two law enforcement officers who spent their lives defending us at the border," said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach). A group of Christian and evangelical leaders -- including Paul M. Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation, the Rev. Louis P. Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition and David A. Keene of the American Conservative Union -- excoriated Bush, saying his inaction ran counter to compassionate conservatism and Christian values. "It's unfortunate that the president missed the opportunity to demonstrate his compassion," the group said Friday. "Such an act would
have exemplified the fellowship and spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday and put to rest heartfelt concerns over the inhumane treatment of these two agents." The furor over the conviction and imprisonment of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean has provoked considerable debate: CNN's Lou Dobbs has made it a staple of his immigration coverage and conservative bloggers regularly assail Bush on the issue.
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PIDE A EU DETENER TRÁFICO / JORGE MORALES ALMADA / LA OPINIÓN
El gobierno de Estados Unidos debe asumir su propia responsabilidad en el combate al narcotráfico y empezar por detener el contrabando de armas a México, señaló la gobernadora de Zacatecas, Amalia García. Durante una visita a esta ciudad, donde firmó un convenio de colaboración con El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Amalia García
criticó que en muchos estados de EU haya leyes tan tímidas para la compra de armas.
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INMIGRANTES TEMEN DEPORTACIONES EN ILLINOIS / TARA BURGHART / DIARIO HOY
Varios veleros flotan en el Lago Michigan, a unas cuantas calles del centro de ventas de un nuevo conjunto de condominios en el centro de la ciudad, un negocio altamente apreciado en una población que ha experimentado la pérdida de miles de empleos industriales. El conjunto habitacional se ajusta también a una estrategia de los funcionarios locales, quienes buscan transformar este suburbio de trabajadores, ubicado 30 millas (casi 50 kilómetros) al norte de Chicago, al promover los atractivos de su centro histórico y su localización junto al lago, como un destino para empleos, vivienda, comercios y entretenimientos.
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BOY WHOSE MOM DIED IN WRECK SAVED BY ENTRANT / BRADY MCCOMBS / ARIZONA DAILY STAR
9-year-old boy whose mother died Thursday night after their van fell off a cliff northwest of Nogales was rescued by an illegal border crosser who stayed with him through the night. The boy and his mother were riding in a green Chevy Astrovan along a narrow Forest Service road about 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving when she lost control, hit an embankment and fell over a cliff, said Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada.
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LEY DE ARIZONA PROVOCA DESPIDOS / DIARIO HOY
Cientos de inmigrantes indocumentados han sido despedidos de su trabajo debido a una nueva ley de Arizona que sanciona a los empleadores, dijeron abogados de los inmigrantes. La ley, que entra en vigencia el 1 de enero, ha obligado a muchas empresas a revisar los formularios de sus empleados. Los que no pueden brindar la información que se les pide o los que reconocen que no tienen documentos han sido despedidos. No se sabe cuántos suman los despedidos, pero las cifras alcanzan las centenas, tal vez los millares, dijo Julie Pace, una abogada de Phoenix que audita los formularios de los trabajadores y representa a empresas que se oponen a la ley.
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QUE TODOS LOS CAMINOS LLEVEN A ZACATECAS / JORGE MORALES ALMADA / LA OPINIÓN
Firman convenio con El Colef para estudiar un plan de integración. Aprovechar la ubicación geográfica de Zacatecas es una prioridad para la gobernadora de esa entidad, Amalia García, quien ayer firmó en esta ciudad un convenio con El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (El Colef) para realizar un estudio que apunte hacia la integración de ese estado con el noreste de México y sur de Texas. Amalia Garcia ofreció ayer mismo una conferencia ante académicos de El Colef en la que expuso sus planes de integración de Zacatecas, aprovechando los proyectos de infraestructura vial que conectan al estado con el resto del país.
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POLICY DEFINES TROOPER ROLE ON IMMIGRATION / MARIA SACCHETTI / BOSTON GLOBE
A new Massachusetts policy makes it clear that State Troopers should not enforce federal immigration laws, but troopers may ask a person's immigration status during traffic stops and other matters if it is relevant to a criminal investigation. The policy places written restrictions on troopers' dealings with federal immigration authorities - a source of contention for Governor Deval Patrick's administration in recent months. Just after taking office In January, Patrick rescinded predecessor Mitt Romney's decision to let State Police officers arrest illegal immigrants, only to face complaints that individual troopers continued to target them in Western Massachusetts.
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ALTO A MUERTES EN LA FRONTERA / JORGE MORALES ALMADA / LA OPINIÓN
Las muertes en la frontera, que desde hace 13 años promedian una diaria, son responsabilidad de los gobiernos de México y Estados Unidos, denunciaron ayer defensores de derechos humanos. Reunidos en la mojonera de Playas de Tijuana, ahí en el punto reconstruido en 1894 por la Comisión Internacional de Límites, en ambos lados del cerco fronterizo, los activistas exigieron un alto a las muertes que han propiciado las políticas de ambos países. "Llamamos con urgencia al gobierno de México a no desfallecer en la construcción del desarrollo y del crecimiento económico sostenido, para que los mexicanos no se vean obligados a buscar en otras tierras las oportunidades que su país debería ofrecerles", dijo José Luis Soberanes, presidente de la Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDH).
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POLICÍAS HISPANOS CUESTIONAN INFORME / LA OPINIÓN
Un grupo nacional de policías hispanos criticó el jueves un informe que asegura que la policía neoyorquina no discrimina en sus procedimientos de revisión de personas, aunque la gran mayoría son negros e hispanos, e indicó que los hallazgos del estudio son apenas "excusas interminables". El informe de la Corporación Rand, de 59 páginas, dijo que el departamento de policía de Nueva York no mostraba prejuicios raciales en sus normas para detener transeúntes y cachearlos, que derivó en el cacheo de 500 mil peatones el año pasado, la mayoría de los cuales eran negros e hispanos.
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