REPUBLICANOS CONTRA LA INMIGRACIÓN ILEGAL / MILENIO
Como es habitual, la voz discordante fue la del senador de Arizona, John McCain quien pidió abordar el tema “con compasión y amor porque se trata de seres humanos”. Los precandidatos republicanos a la presidencia de Estados Unidos defendieron ayer sus posiciones contra la inmigración ilegal, a la vez que arremetieron contra el presidente venezolano Hugo Chávez, en un debate difundido en español por el canal latino Univision. “Lo que hay que hacer es terminar con la inmigración ilegal”, dijo el ex alcalde
de Nueva York, Rudolph Giuliani, en un debate en el que participaron los candidatos republicanos a las primarias, salvo Tom Tancredo, la voz cantante en el Congreso de EU contra los indocumentados.
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PROTESTAN INMIGRANTES / REFORMA
Grupos proinmigrantes demandaron ayer la legalización de indocumentados a las afueras del Bank United Center de la Universidad de Miami, donde participaron siete precandidatos republicanos a la Presidencia en un debate. "Estamos muy preocupados por las redadas de inmigrantes y por la separación de familias, además de que es necesaria una reforma migratoria", señaló José Portillo, líder de la organización Francisco Morazán. La protesta pacífica, que reunió a cerca de 40 organizaciones comunitarias hispanas busca sensibilizar a los aspirantes republicanos sobre la necesidad de legalizar a unos 12 millones de indocumentados.
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MÁS DE 46 MIL PAISANOS HAN INGRESADO AL PAÍS / DIARIO DE MÉXICO
El secretario de Desarrollo Turístico en esta frontera, Demetrio Sotomayor, informó que, hasta el 30 de noviembre, ingresaron a territorio nacional 11 mil 705 vehículos con permiso temporal, los cuales han trasladado un total de 46 mil 820 connacionales. Estos datos han sido proporcionados por la oficina de Migración y Aduanas. Agregó que “el flujo es normal y el trámite para los permisos de internación es rápido. Se está cumpliendo con las expectativas, ha habido mucho apoyo del Gobierno federal y municipal en el sentido de que se deben respetar a los paisanos y que se les deben dar las facilidades para su estancia en el país”.
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EN DIEZ MESES REPATRIARON A MÁS DE 29 MIL MENORES, DE EU: INM / DIARIO DE MÉXICO
De los 426 mil 620 eventos de repatriación de mexicanos de Estados Unidos de enero a septiembre de este año, 169 mil 803 ocurrieron por la delegación Baja California, que representaron 39.8 por ciento del total nacional. De acuerdo con datos del Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM), la delegación Sonora se ubicó en el segundo lugar, con 153 mil 856 eventos de repatriación, que significaron 36 por ciento del total, seguido de la delegación Chihuahua con 73 mil 514 eventos, que representaron 17.2 por ciento.
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'YO YA NO REGRESO ALLÁ' / REFORMA
Ante la proximidad de las fiestas decembrinas, decenas de mexicanos que viven en Estados Unidos comenzaron a arribar al Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México. Para Manuel González, regresar a su tierra, tras cuatro años radicar en Washington, es toda una satisfacción. Cuando vio a su esposa, a sus hijos y al resto de sus familiares, Manuel corrió a abrazarlos y no pudo evitar llorar de la emoción.
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BAJARÁ EL ENVÍO DE REMESAS: CEESP / DIARIO DE MÉXICO
Las remesas han dejado de crecer como hace un año y, posiblemente, en el largo plazo puede llegar el momento en que omiencen a reducirse, alertó el Centro de Estudios Económicos del Sector Privado (CEESP). “Las autoridades deberán hacer mayores esfuerzos para estimular el empleo en nuestro país, sobre todo ahora que existe la posibilidad de que la válvula de escape llamada migración comience a cerrarse”, estableció en su publicación Análisis Económico Ejecutivo.
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FBI: AUMENTAN CRÍMENES CONTRA MEXICANOS EN EU / DIARIO DE MÉXICO
Un informe difundido ayer por el Buró Federal de Investigaciones de Estados Unidos (FBI) reveló que en los últimos cinco años aumentaron los crímenes de odio o raciales en ese país y que 70 por ciento de las víctimas son de origen hispano, principalmente mexicanos. En el documento que analiza el Grupo de Trabajo en Materia Migratoria del PRI en la Cámara de Diputados se estaca que los homicidios, golpizas, hostigamiento social y laboral están basados “exclusivamente por su pertenencia étnica u origen Nacional”.
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JUDGE TOSSES SUIT SEEKING TO BLOCK IMMIGRATION LAW / JACQUES BILLEAUD / SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
Legislation bars people from hiring illegal workers. A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that sought to block a new Arizona law that would prohibit people from hiring illegal immigrants and require businesses to verify whether applicants are eligible for employment. The law takes effect Jan. 1. In his ruling on Friday, U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake wrote that the lawsuit was premature because there was no evidence that anybody had been harmed and that the plaintiffs – a coalition of business and immigrant-rights groups – were suing the wrong people. The ruling said the law gives only investigatory authority to the governor and state attorney general, who were named as defendants. Wake said county prosecutors, who weren't defendants, actually have the power to enforce the law.
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INCLUYEN A MÁS HISPANOS DENTRO DE LAS CAMPAÑAS / PILAR MARRERO / LA OPINIÓN
Las campañas presidenciales son mucho más que el candidato: detrás de ellos, y dependiendo de los recursos económicos que tengan, hay un ejército de asesores políticos, diseñadores de imagen, comunicadores, encuestadores y otros expertos. En ese mundo, cada vez más profesionales latinos —inmigrantes o nacidos aquí— logran abrirse paso en política y llegar a manejar puestos claves en las campañas para elegir al presidente "más poderoso" de la Tierra: son las grandes ligas de la política. Varios latinos ocupan puestos de alta gerencia en varias de las campañas presidenciales: un mundo que por décadas ha sido exclusivamente anglo está dando paso cada vez más a la diversidad que refleja el país.
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INMIGRACIÓN, EL EJE DEL DEBATE / PILAR MARRERO / LA OPINIÓN
Republicanos no ceden ni un ápice en su línea dura sobre el tópico en evento transmitido en español por Univision. Siete precandidatos republicanos buscaron ayer una conexión con la comunidad latina de Estados Unidos sin ceder ni cambiar su línea dura en inmigración, pero elogiando las contribuciones de los inmigrantes legales y, en política exterior, enfocando sus cañones hacia Fidel Castro y Hugo Chávez. Esta es la primera vez que los precandidatos republicanos participan en grupo en un evento destinado a la comunidad latina y de habla hispana del país. El debate fue doblado y transmitido en español y ofrecido en inglés en audio paralelo.
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TWO GOP HOPEFULS SEE SOME ILLEGALS AS CITIZENS / STEPHEN DINAN / WASHINGTON TIMES
Sen. John McCain and former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani stood alone among the Republican presidential candidates in last night's Spanish-language debate in calling for some illegal aliens to be granted a path to citizenship. "None of us have been perfect — all of us have been struggling with this for a long time," Mr. Giuliani said, summing up the flip-flops most of the top-tier Republican candidates have made on the issue during the presidential campaign. He and Mr. McCain said that after the border is secure, the illegal alien population can be addressed, with some being allowed to stay. "The people who want to come forward should be allowed to come forward," Mr. Giuliani said. But the other candidates said that doing so would be a disservice to those waiting in line at home and called for illegal aliens to go home and re-enter the U.S. legally.
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REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FIRM ON IMMIGRATION / MICHAEL COOPER, MARC SANTORA / THE NEW YORK TIMES
In front of what will probably be their most pro-immigration audience, Republican candidates toned down their rhetoric but told Spanish-language television viewers in a debate on Sunday that they would take strong measures to close off the country’s borders to illegal immigration. The candidates were forced into a difficult balancing act by the debate, broadcast on Univision, as they tried to offend neither the Hispanic audience nor the Republican base many of them have tried to appeal to by taking a hard line on illegal immigration. The topic has led to some of the fiercest rhetoric in past debates. Most of the seven candidates took a softer tone on Sunday, even as many spoke of working to eradicate illegal immigration. Some spoke of trying to send some of the 12 million people who are estimated to be in the United States illegally back to their native countries.
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CANDIDATOS REPUBLICANOS SE MUESTRAN CONTRARIOS A AMNISTÍA PARA INDOCUMENTADOS / EMILIO J. LÓPEZ / DIARIO HOY
Siete aspirantes republicanos a la Casa Blanca protagonizaron hoy en Miami (Florida) su primer cara a cara en español en el que reconocieron la pérdida de confianza del electorado latino y coincidieron en que no otorgarán una amnistía a los indocumentados. Y es que los republicanos decidieron prescindir en esta ocasión del ya habitual intercambio de ataques verbales para centrase en una cuestión medular: recuperar a cualquier precio la confianza de los votantes hispanos. El debate en español llegó en horas bajas para los republicanos, cuando buena parte del electorado hispano se ha echado en brazos de los demócratas y sólo un 23 por ciento de éste, según el reciente estudio del Pew Hispanic Center, respalda sus candidaturas.
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GOP HOPEFULS COOL RHETORIC / JIM KUHNHENN / THE WASHINGTON POST
Republican presidential candidates are adding a twist to one of the principal tenets of medicine: First, do no harm _ to yourself. That was evident Sunday night during their debate on the Spanish language network Univision. No more unbridled attack lines or bitter rejoinders. If there was a model to follow, it was Mike Huckabee, who during a previous free-for-all debate kept his elbows to himself and now sits atop some public opinion polls. From the start, the candidates faced a challenge that was best addressed with a low key performance. This was not the usual debate aimed at the Republican base. It was a Spanish broadcast to a Hispanic audience that does not tilt Republican. In fact, a poll last week by the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center found Hispanic registered voters favor Democrats over Republicans by a margin of 57 percent to 23 percent, a wider gap than in July 2006. Moreover, on the hot subject of immigration, Hispanic voters tend to have more sympathy for immigrants, legal or not, than many core Republican voters.
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AMID CAMPAIGN RHETORIC, MCCAIN TAKES A SOBER TONE / SASHA ISSENBERG / BOSTON GLOBE
Strident in 2000, candidate tries to avoid conflict When word reached the McCain campaign on Wednesday afternoon that illegal immigrants had continued to work on Mitt Romney's lawn, staff members broke out into gleeful grins and the candidate himself proved unable to restrain a giggle as he exuberantly mimed the act of mowing grass. Yet when McCain sat down minutes later in a campaign vehicle to discuss the subject further with reporters, his smile disappeared and his tone turned solemn as he talked about how the rough conversation over immigration
"saddened" him.
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FREDERICK SEEKS AUTHORITY TO DEAL WITH ILLEGALS / TOM LOBIANCO / WASHINGTON TIMES
Frederick County officials have taken an unusual step to draw attention to their efforts to deal with a growing problem with illegal aliens in their community: They have asked state lawmakers to pass a measure calling for a constitutional convention."The convening of a constitutional convention would allow appropriate amendments to be made to the United States Constitution to enable local governments to address citizenship/immigration issues," the county's commissioners wrote in the legislative package they have submitted for state approval. While unusual, the action by the county commissioners is not unprecedented. In October, a state senator in South Carolina issued a similar call for a constitutional convention to address illegal-alien issues.
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EX CANCILLER HABLA SOBRE LOS INMIGRANTES Y CRÍTICA A CALDERÓN / LETICIA ESPINOSA / DIARIO HOY
El ex secretario de Relaciones Exteriores de México, Jorge Castañeda, presenta hoy en Chicago su libro “Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants”, en el que sostiene que el gobierno estadounidense sí se había comprometido a negociar un acuerdo migratorio y luego no cumplió; y en el que explica por qué hay tantos mexicanos en Estados Unidos. En entrevista con diario HOY, Castañeda critica al presidente mexicano Felipe Calderón por su falta de atención a los migrantes y pronostica que habrá un intento más de reforma migratoria en el primer término del nuevo presidente.
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SHOWDOWN IN ARIZONA, WHERE MARIACHIS AND MINUTEMEN COLLIDE / LAWRENCE DOWNES / THE NEW YORK TIMES
Want to see America unraveling? Come here, to Thomas Road and 35th Street, to M. D. Pruitt’s furniture store. Come on Saturday morning and stand near the eight delivery trucks barricading the parking lot, like the wall of an urban Alamo. For the last seven weeks, a sidewalk protest here by Latino immigrants has blossomed into a feverish reality show, attracting Minutemen, mariachis, children dancing in Mexican folk costume, white racists, United Nations observers, Phoenix police officers and Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies. The weekly confrontation — strident and stalemated — perfectly mimics the national debate. But it’s a sideshow to something uglier: what happens when immigration’s complexities are handed to local law enforcers sympathetic to the fury of one side.Thomas Road has lots of Latino day laborers, or jornaleros, who hustle for work near Home Depot. A few months ago, the Phoenix police shooed them away. They dispersed to streets nearby, angering local businesses. One of the biggest, Pruitt’s, hired off-duty city police officers to keep jornaleros at bay. The city put a stop to that, so Pruitt’s turned to the county sheriff, Joe Arpaio.
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BORDER POLICY IS NAIVE / ROBERT HOOKER / ARIZONA DAILY STAR
The attempt by the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson Sector to institute a zero-tolerance initiative for undocumented entrants — dubbed Operation Streamline — is ill-conceived, naive and harmful. First, "zero tolerance" is deceptive. Robert Boatright, deputy Border Patrol chief for the Tucson Sector, said in a Nov. 23 Star article that approximately 1,000 entrants are arrested every day in the Tucson Sector. This probably constitutes a fraction of those who actually enter the United States from Mexico. Operation Streamline, he said, is designed to prosecute 10 percent of the 1,000 arrested each day. Thus, 90 percent of the few who are caught will be returned to the border and released as in the past — making the program one of 90 percent tolerance. These immigrants are risking their lives to come here. This proposed very low risk of short-term incarceration will
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HOLES IN THE FENCE / SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
Barbed wire, brick, motar won't fix immigration. The U.S.-Mexico border is a curious place. The farther one gets from it, the less one seems to understand it. That becomes abundantly clear whenever the conversation turns to fencing. For Washington policy-makers, it must seem entirely logical that fences, walls and other physical boundaries are just the ticket to keep drugs and illegal immigrants out of the United States, while creating more peace and harmony along the border. That is a popular view on the other side of the Potomac, and judging from what is happening on the campaign trail it's popular in early primary states such as Iowa and New Hampshire, where voters see barbed wire, bricks and mortar as the solution to the immigration problem.
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'DEADLIEST MIGRANT TRAIL IN U.S.' IS RIGHT ON TUCSON'S DOORSTEP / BRADY MCCOMBS, ENRIC VOLANTE / ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Elena Toribio Lazaro and 10 others slipped across the border into Arizona at about 3 a.m. on a warm night in June. Twelve hours later, as the sun beat down on the Baboquivari Valley and the temperature climbed to 105 degrees or more, the 24-year-old mother became sick and struggled to walk. A 28-year-old man she knew from their hometown of Acambay in central Mexico carried her for a while. Then he set her down under a tree and placed a shirt over her for shade. Their guide and the rest of the group left the pair behind. When she stopped breathing, her companion went looking for help. By the time U.S. Border Patrol agents made it to that tree that afternoon, she was dead.
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POLICÍA E INMIGRANTES EN LA MIRA DE CONCEJALES / SELENE RIVERA / DIARIO HOY
La municipalidad de Maywood le dio la bienvenida a dos concejales latinas cuya meta principal - dijeron- es borrar el historial de corrupción y brutalidad policial que ha existido en la ciudad; así como apoyar a los inmigrantes indocumentados. Ana Rosa Rizo y Verónica Guardado fueron juramentadas la semana. Ambas fueron electas durante las elecciones del pasado 6 de noviembre. Sin esconder sus emociones por su nuevo cargo, Rizo dijo que ambiciona un Concejo y un Departamento de Policía que respete y escuche a la comunidad, y que demuestren.
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AZ BILL WOULD HALT STATES' LICENSES AS ENTRANTS' ID / HOWARD FISCHER / ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Two Republican lawmakers are pushing to prohibit driver's licenses from states that issue them to illegal immigrants from being used as identification in Arizona. The restriction, which would apply to any state or local government, would affect licenses from New Mexico, Texas, Oregon and five other states, along with the District of Columbia. But the move, pushed as another method of cracking down on those who enter the country illegally, could have serious repercussions for Arizonans driving elsewhere. If Arizona stops recognizing licenses from other states, those states could do the same to Arizona drivers.
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GREENNESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS / LOS ANGELES TIMES
These days, being anything less than an environmental evangelist means always having to say you're sorry. Is your marriage on the rocks? Are you and the spouse always fighting? Is the passion gone? A new study published by the National Academy of Sciences suggests that you should think twice before considering divorce. No, not because of the negative effects it may have on the children or even on your pocketbook, but of what it'd do to your poor mother. Mother Earth, that is. All kidding aside, the study's findings make sense. Because they share resources, people in married households use energy and water more efficiently than divorced ones. But the study also indicates how much global climate change, which -- along with terrorism -- has replaced the Soviet Union as the Monster Under the Bed in our national consciousness. It has reached the level of a full-blown zeitgeist social issue, with far-reaching moral and religious undertones. (….)There are many more examples. In July, an obscure environmental impact report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management was quickly embraced by anti-immigration activists because it found that undocumented migrants were an ecological threat to public lands in southern Arizona -- when they crossed the desert in numbers, a fragile ecosystem got, literally, trampled. Opposing advocates argued that the increasing militarization of the border was an even greater ecological threat than the migrants themselves.(….)
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PROPOSAL TO LET NONCITIZENS JOIN MD. POLICE UNDER REVIEW / ERNESTO LONDOÑO / WASHINGTON POST
It never made sense to Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger: Immigrants who have green cards can join the U.S. military and fight America's wars but, like other noncitizens, are ineligible to work as police officers in Maryland and most other states. Since 2004, Manger has championed the concept of lifting the citizenship requirement under certain circumstances. At his urging, the Maryland Police Training Commission, which oversees training and hiring standards for law enforcement agencies across the state, began studying the issue this year. A vote could come next month.
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IMMIGRANTS LESS LIKELY TO REPORT FAMILY HISTORY OF CANCER / THE WASHINGTON POST
Immigrants in the United States may be less likely to report a family history of cancer, which may result in inadequate cancer screening and prevention strategies for that group of patients, a new study says. Reporting in the Jan. 15 issue ofCancer, Dr. Heather Orom, of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, and her colleagues noted that cancer prevention guidelines recommend earlier and more frequent screening for people with a family history of certain cancers.
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HISPANIC INFLUENCE SETS STATE APART IN BABY-NAMING TRENDS / LISA NICITA / THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC
Chris and Melissa Reginato wanted a name for their newborn daughter that would be unique. They thought they found one in Addison. That is, until Chris went to submit paperwork for a birth certificate at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa shortly after his wife gave birth last week. Addison already shared her name with another baby girl, born the same day at the same hospital. "What are the odds?" Reginato, 43, said. In Arizona, the odds are good if you're a Mia, an Emily, Isabella, Ashley or Emma. Those were the top names for baby girls born in 2006, according to data compiled by The Arizona Republic. The most popular name for baby boys was Angel, followed by Daniel, Jacob, Anthony and Jose. -Addison didn't break the top 50 in Arizona but ranked 27th nationally. The Reginatos' first choice, Madison, is more common. But it was too tricky for their toddler, Finley, to pronounce.
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HASTA 300 MIL VISITANTES ESPERA EL ESTADO PARA LAS FIESTAS DE FIN DE AÑO / RODRIGO ALONSO CRUZ / CAMBIO DE MICHOACÁN
Genovevo Figueroa Zamudio, secretario de Turismo estatal, dijo que la secretaría que dirige está preparada para recibir a los turistas, que visitarán el estado a partir del 15 de diciembre al 6 de enero. Explicó que se espera que arriben a la entidad aproximadamente 250 o 300 mil turistas para esta temporada vacacional, por lo que manifestó que la ocupación hotelera estará por arriba del 70 por ciento, toda vez que existen quince mil habitaciones que están en condiciones de recibir a los visitantes.
Menor afluencia
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EN DOS AÑOS, DESAPARECEN AQUÍ 14 INDOCUMENTADOS / LORENA FIGUEROA / EL DIARIO DE JUÁREZ (CHIHUAHUA)
Catorce inmigrantes de origen mexicano, quienes pretendían cruzar a Estados Unidos de manera ilegal por la frontera de El Paso-Ciudad Juárez, han estado desaparecidos desde hace dos años, de acuerdo con datos oficiales. En tanto que sólo en este año, otros cinco fueron depositados en la morgue de esta ciudad en espera de ser identificados por algún familiar, o yacen en tumbas anónimas, agregan. Pero una nueva base de datos del Gobierno mexicano, que opera desde el 2005, le ha dado una esperanza a los familiares de los inmigrantes desaparecidos ya que podría ayudar a identificar algunos de los muertos.
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TRAVESÍA EN DOS RUEDAS / EL INFORMADOR (JALISCO)
Aunque es originario de Guadalajara, Isaí Madriz emigró hace 10 años a Estados Unidos y ahora busca apoyar a los migrantes en ese país, realizando una travesía en bicicleta desde Chicago hasta Argentina. El recorrido total consta de 3 mil 600 kilómetros y el tiempo será de entre 15 y 20 meses, en una hazaña que pocos se atreverían siquiera a intentar, pero que este joven de 26 años ha tomado con determinación para apoyar a una fundación de nombre "Jesús Guadalupe", que brinda ayuda a los migrantes para que puedan estudiar en los estados Unidos. "La Fundación ‘Jesús Guadalupe’ ayuda a los migrantes de descendencia hispana con apoyo para que puedan cursar sus estudios superiores", dijo Isaí, quien hoy parte para continuar con su viaje después de su paso por nuestra ciudad.
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PREFIEREN MIGRANTES 2 RUTAS / EL IMPARCIAL (SONORA)
Las rutas preferidas por los migrantes que cruzan por Nogales se dividen por partes iguales tanto por el sector de la garita Mariposa como por el predio Las Cuevitas. afirmó el coordinador del Grupo Beta. Enrique Enríquez Palafox calificó como peligrosa la travesía del migrante cuando intenta cruzar hacia Estados Unidos. “Es igual de peligroso cruzar por las Mariposas o por el sector de Las Cuevitas, los migrantes son asaltados, sufren quebraduras, lesiones por la topografía del terreno, sufren con el clima extremoso, “Pero además corren mucho peligro con las bandas de delincuentes hablo de narcotraficantes, de maleantes que abusan de las mujeres y asaltan a las personas”.
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RECUERDOS DEL PORVENIR UN DÍA SIN SONORENSES / ALEJANDRO COVARRUBIAS / EL IMPARCIAL (SONORA)
Desde el 2006 oficialmente Arizona es el Estado y Phoenix es la ciudad en donde la población crece más aprisa en toda la Unión Americana. Entre el 2000 y el 2006 Maricopa (que incluye a Phoenix) agregó cerca de 700 mil nuevos habitantes a sus fronteras para convertirse en el Condado que más crece a lo largo de los Estados Unidos. El factor inmigración, principalmente en su componente migración ilegal proviniendo del Sur, es uno de los elementos decisivos de tal fenómeno. Digamos para situar el problema que cada año alrededor de 30 mil ilegales de origen mexicano se asientan en Arizona. De ahí que desde el 2003 las clínicas maternas de Arizona ven nacer más hispanos en sus salas y pabellones que cualquier otra raza. Hoy día cerca de 30% de sus poco más de 6 millones de habitantes son latinos o hispanos, con un predominio abrumador de la población de origen tenochca. (Datos del Buró Censal y de Office of Inmigration Statistics).
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LLEGAN ‘PAISANOS’LLENOS DE REGALOS / CLAUDIA ROJO / EL IMPARCIAL (SONORA)
Los connacionales que viven en EU regresan a pasar los festejos decembrinos con amigos y famliares Se les empieza a ver por los principales bulevares de la ciudad cargados de maletas, regalos, con autos de lujo y en su camino muestran un gran orgullo mexicano, son los “paisanos”, que regresan al País a las fiestas de Navidad y fin de año para visitar a sus familias. Sergio Encinas Meléndrez, delegado del Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM), anunció que el programa inició el pasado 20 de octubre y culmina el próximo 8 de enero. En Sonora se espera recibir 75 mil “paisanos” de los cuales el 90% cruzará por Nogales, es decir, 66 mil connacionales.
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PROVINCIAL LIBERALS WANT ALL ASPIRING NEWCOMERS TO MAKE QUEBEC-VALUES PLEDGE / JONATHAN MONTPETIT / THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Aspiring newcomers to Quebec should be made to sign a "moral commitment" to the province's core values as part of the immigration process, the provincial Liberal Party said yesterday. The party will make the recommendation today to the contentious government commission looking at the accommodation of minorities. Liberals say their proposal will provide a frame of reference for those immigrants thinking about coming to Quebec.
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FIX ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AT THE SOURCE / ANIA MEDREK / TORONTO STAR
In Mexico there are more than 25 million people living in extreme poverty due to the lack of jobs. This is predominately the result of a reduced demand for Mexican goods. In 1994, Mexico signed on to NAFTA, a free trade agreement that defines the way Canada, the United States and Mexico do business. "NAFTA made things worse," says Rick Chang, a high school politics teacher in Toronto. "At first it provided Mexicans with more jobs, but these opportunities dried up quickly, leading people to figure that immigrating to the U.S. was their only alternative." Today, China, the United States' largest trading partner, offers a much cheaper labour rate than Mexico can compete with, which is forcing Mexican factories to reduce their production and cut back on staff. As a result, many Mexicans have become desperate and illegally immigrate across the border in hopes of finding jobs and better schools for their children. The American government has responded to the situation by promising more security guards, fencing, cameras, radar towers, vehicle barriers etc. But what about resolving the problem at its source? (…)Canada should also recognize the importance of trading with Mexico.
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CANADA'S IMMIGRATION POLICIES FALL SHORT / ASHLEY CHEN / TORONTO STAR
Canada has a long-standing reputation as a multicultural country, but how is that actually being reflected in our country? "Canada praises the fact that it is a multicultural country," says Jenny Zhang, a student at York University majoring in geography. "It has benefited from the impact of diversity with new cultures and ideas. The sharing of it all has brought people together, and (multiculturalism) helps us learn from each other to build a stronger and more prosperous society." However the idea of multiculturalism in Canada is too vague and not everyone in Canada has readily accepted this ideology.
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IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURALISM: PARTNERS IN CHANGE / NAYANI THIYAGARAJAH / TORONTO STAR
Treating everybody the same doesn't always work. Sometimes, achieving equality requires giving special attention. Before 1981, the majority of Canadian immigrants came from Britain, Italy and the United States. In 2004, that majority included China, Hong Kong, India and the Philippines. "Demographically, (immigrants are) changing," says Dr. June Yee, a professor of social work and immigration settlement researcher at Ryerson University.
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SHARE OF IMMIGRANTS HAS DECLINED IN B.C. / STEVEN MURRAY / VICTORIA TIMES
In his column, Les Leyne cites recently released census figures and notes that there has not been much difference in the number of immigrants coming to B.C. in the past five years, compared with the 1990s. However, using those same census figures, the number of immigrants who arrived in Canada as a whole during 2001-06 is up 30 per cent compared with the previous five-year period. As a result, B.C.'s share of immigrants has declined significantly. For immigrants arriving during the 1990s, B.C.'s share was over 20 per cent, while it has dropped to 16 per cent over the past five years -- the biggest drop in share of immigrants among all the provinces. There was a similar story with total population growth. For the first time since it joined Confederation, B.C.'s population growth rate was below the national average during 2001-06. Metro Vancouver recorded its lowest population growth rate ever during that same period.
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IMMIGRANTS SHOULD EMBRACE OUR CULTURE / JENNIE M. BERKELEY / WINDSOR STAR
It is simplistic and insulting for Helen Tala to suggest there is no mainstream Canadian culture and no reason for immigrants to observe our nation's standards and traditions. Canada has its own history and a British heritage which established the democracy and open society people appreciate today. While Canada encourages diversity, there is no such thing as total freedom, even under the guise of the charter rights. Some cultural practices and religious followings threaten Canadian ideals concerning human rights and women's equality. Accordingly, it isn't too much to ask that new immigrants understand our institutions and respect our values.
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