“EL HAMBRE LOS PESCÓ EN LA FRONTERA NORTE” / FRANCISCO MEJÍA / MILENIO
Cuatro niños y más de 13 adultos atravesaron la línea divisoria con los cuerpos pegados, apilados o sentados unos arriba de otros. Pernoctaron en una covacha con olor a todo. “Mierda, pues”, dice Josefina. En taquito, todos juntos y pegados; apilados, encimados de plano; una sola respiración la de los 20 que iban en la camioneta de redilas, que brincaba y brincaba en un cerro de la frontera norte. “En taquito, como jugábamos en la casa de la abuela”, dice Mariana con sus ojos rojos muchos días después de ese viaje, de esa pesadilla; o no lo dice, lo describe con las manos, con su angustia del verano pasado y el sol que calcinaba los cuerpos pegados por el sudor. Nada ni nadie que los separara, pero ni querían moverse por temor a la migra.
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CRUCE MIGRATORIO / REFORMA
Mexicanos que residen en Estados Unidos cruzan a diario la frontera texana para comprar víveres en territorio nacional, a un precio más barato. Autoridades migratorias calculan que en esta zona, donde existen hasta siete cruces, se realiza hasta 40 por ciento del comercio terrestre entre ambas naciones.
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NIEGAN BENEFICIOS POR REMESAS / FRANCISCO RIVAS / REFORMA
Los ancianos que habitan la Mixteca poblana desmienten que sean los "beneficiarios" de las remesas. Un grupo de personas de la tercera edad, reunidos en la plaza pública para recibir recursos de programas federales, explican que es una mentira más del "sueño americano", considerar a las zonas expulsoras de mano de obras como receptoras de riquezas. Al menos, creen, las cifras millonarias y en dólares no llegan en la misma proporción, ni a todos.
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VACÍA LA MIGRACIÓN ESCUELAS POBLANAS / FRANCISCO RIVAS / REFORMA
Abandonan seis primarias en la Mixteca. Reportan en la región que adultos mayores representan 30% de la población. Ante la ausencia de niños, en un lapso de cinco años se cerraron seis escuelas en Tehuitzingo y Cuayuca de Andrade, dos municipios expulsores de mano de obra a Estados Unidos. Arturo García, secretario general del Ayuntamiento de Tehuitzingo, explica que debido a la migración no hay familias jóvenes con hijos pequeños, en muchas comunidades resultaba innecesario mantener abiertas las aulas.
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GOP LEADERS RENEW EFFORTS TO GET HISPANIC VOTES / ORLANDO SENTINEL
Hispanic voters will play a crucial role in determining the next president and will be a key to which party will be in power well beyond November, Republican leaders said Saturday at a state party conference. "We are going to be more important than ever. The Hispanic vote of this nation is going to be more energized, it's going to be more numerous and it's going to be more important than ever before," U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez said. While last year's debate over an immigration bill that eventually failed might have hurt Republicans with Hispanic voters, Martinez, R-Fla., pointed out that likely Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain supported the measure providing illegal immigrants a path to citizenship.
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INFORMATION THAT DOESN’T COME FREELY / CLARK HOYT / THE NEW YORK TIMES
NINA BERNSTEIN, a Times reporter, wrote a front-page article last June about the deaths of prisoners in the fastest-growing form of incarceration in America, immigration detention. Civil rights attorneys believed that, since the start of 2004, about 20 people had died while in custody facing possible deportation, but a spokeswoman for the federal immigration agency told Bernstein a surprising fact: the number was 62. Bernstein asked for details, like who they were and how they died. The spokeswoman refused, so Bernstein did what reporters often do — she filed a request under the federal Freedom of Information Act, known as FOIA, for what she believed should be public records. Although the law required the agency to answer such a simple request within 20 business days, Immigration and Customs Enforcement initially responded the way many agencies do
— with silence.
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IMMIGRATION A HOT ISSUE IN IRVING, CARROLLTON, FARMERS BRANCH RACES / RANDON FORMBY, IAN MCCANN / THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Jay Parsons contributed to this article.Tim O'Hare, who made a name leading Farmers Branch's efforts to drive out illegal immigrants, was elected mayor of the Dallas County suburb Saturday. Meanwhile, Irving's incumbent mayor and a city council member beat challengers who wanted more immigration enforcement in the city – where campaigns were highly heated and often personal.
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OUR POSITION: THE U.S. SHOULD QUICKLY CLEAR THE APPLICATIONS OF THOSE WHO FOLLOWED THE LAW / ORLANDO SENTINEL
There is understandable frustration in this country over the millions of immigrants who are here illegally. But what of those immigrants who did things the right way? Many of them have established legal residency with the hope of becoming an American citizen one day. But now that their time has come, instead of taking an oath of allegiance to this country, they're stuck in a bureaucratic twilight zone.Applicants have to wait as long as 14 months before their papers are approved in Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Lake, Brevard, Flagler, Volusia, Marion and Sumter counties. That makes this area the most backlogged in Florida.
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LIFE TERM IN CRASH THAT KILLED MIGRANTS / THE NEW YORK TIMES
A man who crashed an overloaded sport utility vehicle while fleeing Border Patrol agents, killing 10 illegal immigrants, has been sentenced to life in federal prison. The man, Adan Pineda Doval, 22, a citizen of Mexico, was convicted in October by a Phoenix jury of 10 counts of transporting illegal immigrants causing death and two lesser charges. A federal judge handed down the sentence on Thursday, according to the United States attorney’s office in Phoenix. Mr. Pineda was driving a Chevrolet Suburban packed with 20 illegal immigrants outside Yuma, Ariz., on Aug. 7, 2006, when he tried to flee from the border agents, ignoring pleas from the passengers to stop. He crashed after swerving to avoid a spike strip that the agents had placed in the road. Among those killed was a pregnant 17-year-old. The fetus did not survive.
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53 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS HELD AGAINST WILL IN PHOENIX / USA TODAY
Arizona authorities on Sunday found 53 illegal immigrants in a Phoenix home being held against their will by suspected smugglers demanding more money for their release.The group of rescued immigrants included two 13-year-old girls and a mentally disabled man. There were three women, and the rest were men, said Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Harold Sanders.
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IMMIGRATION RAIDS CATCH CITIZENS AND LEGAL RESIDENTS / DIANNE SOLÍS / THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Two U.S. citizens and one legal permanent resident were among those arrested last month in Mount Pleasant, Texas, during a federal immigration crackdown targeting identity fraud at poultry giant Pilgrim's Pride. One 19-year-old citizen was taken from her home while still in her pajamas, and an 18-year-old citizen was shackled at his ankles, handcuffed at his wrists and tied at his waist, said the arrested workers and a relative. All three speak mostly Spanish.
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REACHING HISPANIC BUYERS / VIRGINIA GROARK / CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Chicago-area Latinos are a growing segment of the housing market but reaching those buyers takes careful aim As many as 2.2 million homes could be purchased by Latinos by 2010, according to a 2004 study by the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute. Though that research was done before the subprime mortgage crisis, people in the real estate industry know Latinos are a prime buying group—if they can reach them. Unlike the vast majority of English speakers who use the Internet to search for a home, fewer Latinos are online compared with whites and blacks, according to a recent study by the Pew Hispanic Center.
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ICE'S RAIDS YIELD MIXED RESULTS / JAMES PINKERTON / HOUSTON CHRONICLE
4-day project to nab hundreds of fugitives ends with 89 arrests The arrest went exactly as the agents planned. A few minutes after dawn, the Mexican citizen backed his new Chevy pickup out of the driveway onto the street, on the way to his job as a construction supervisor. Within seconds, Reynaldo Campos, wanted for being in the country illegally, was boxed in by vehicles driven by immigration agents who, wearing flak jackets and guns drawn, ordered him out of the car and cuffed him.
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DESTACA MEXICANO CON SUS CREACIONES ROBÓTICAS / EL DIARIO (CHIHUAHUA)
El científico mexicano Raúl Rojas, director de Inteligencia Artificial de la Universidad Libre de Berlín, no deja de apuntarse éxitos con sus creaciones robóticas. Primero llevó a su equipo a las semifinales del Urban Challenge (Desafío Urbano), competición internacional en automoción el pasado verano. Ahora ganó el torneo futbolístico internacional de robots en Irán, el Irán Open, y el segundo lugar de la German Open de Alemania. En entrevista con Notimex, Rojas se mostró satisfecho con el resultado de un trabajo que realiza con su equipo de la universidad berlinesa y que lleva ya muchos años en marcha.
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MIGRANTS' DREAMS SHATTERED / NICHOLAS KEUNG, JIM RANKIN / TORONTO STAR
In a corner of the booming Punjabi city of Jalandhar is a cream-coloured building with an iron front door decorated like a Canadian flag. Until recently, people who worked behind the crudely painted maple leaf, in a business called UB Canadian Immigration Settlement Services, "sold" Canada to young men looking for a new life overseas. There were promises of jobs. Possibilities of permits. Contracts at the ready. But the business isn't offering anything these days. Not after dozens of clients paid thousands of dollars to go abroad and got nothing in return but shattered dreams, lost savings for some, and a tarnished view of Canada.
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FRAGMENTAN REDADAS A FAMILIAS / SILVIA GARDUÑO / REFORMA
El incremento de la migración por razones económicas y el reforzamiento de la vigilancia en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México son fenómenos que están contribuyendo a la fragmentación de las familias en diversas regiones del país, advirtió Elizabeth Maier, especialista en Estudios de la Mujer y de Género de El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Uno de los efectos de la migración, indicó, es que muchas familias se ven deshabilitadas y sus miembros se convierten en agentes aislados que sobreviven como pueden. "Con la militarización de la frontera, a raíz de las políticas de seguridad nacional en EU, no hay viabilidad para unión familiar, uno quedó al otro lado y la familia está aquí", apuntó en entrevista.
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HISPANOS TEMEN REDADAS EN IOWA / EL UNIVERSAL
La comunidad hispana de una zona rural de Iowa teme que la masiva presencia de agentes federales de inmigración en el lugar, como parte de un entrenamiento, se transforme en una redada similar a la de diciembre de 2006. “Los hispanos estamos preocupados porque no queremos que vuelva a suceder aquí, en Waterloo, lo que sucedió en Marshalltown hace un año y medio”, dijo Dulce Orozco, coordinadora del grupo Latino Moms (de enseñanza de inglés como segundo idioma).
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MÉXICO Y CUATRO PAÍSES CENTROAMERICANOS ACUERDAN AUXILIAR A LOS EMIGRANTES / DIARIO HOY
México, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y Nicaragua acordaron hoy un programa de auxilio a emigrantes centroamericanos en situación de vulnerabilidad, informó la Cancillería hondureña. El acuerdo lo alcanzaron las delegaciones técnicas de los cinco países, que participan en la XIII Conferencia Regional sobre Migración (CRM), que se celebra desde el martes en Tela, en el Caribe de Honduras, unos 300 kilómetros al norte de Tegucigalpa. La Cancillería indicó, en un comunicado, que se trata de un "memorándum de entendimiento entre los Gobiernos de México, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y Nicaragua, para asistir a los migrantes retornados en situaciones de alta vulnerabilidad". El acuerdo será elevado a los respectivos viceministros de Relaciones Exteriores y Gobernación (Interior), quienes se incorporarán a la conferencia mañana, cuando será inaugurada oficialmente, explicó una portavoz de la Cancillería.
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MOVE 'VIRTUAL FENCING' IS IN THE CARDS FOR ARIZ., MICH. / ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN / THE BALTIMORE SUN
A second section of the government's heavily criticized "virtual fence" is planned on the Arizona-Mexico border, and a third could be tested near Detroit by the end of the year, a Boeing Co. official said. A prototype consisting of nine movable towers across a 28-mile area southwest of Tucson is to be torn down and replaced this summer because it failed to perform as expected. But Jack Chenevey, program manager for Boeing's Secure Border Initiative project, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the company views results of its $20 million prototype as a steppingstone success.
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VIRTUAL BORDER FENCE MAY BECOME REALITY IN TEXAS / STEWART M. POWELL / HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Newer high-tech surveillance passes muster with state leaders, committeeSections of Texas' border with Mexico eventually could be secured by the same kind of high-tech "virtual fence" that's been deployed in Arizona, key legislators said Friday after touring the state-of-the-art surveillance network. The comments by two subcommittee chairmen with the House Homeland Security Committee — Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, and Christopher Carney, D-Pa.— followed an inspection tour Friday of the $20.6 million virtual fence near Sasabe, Ariz.
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ACUERDO PARA DIQUES Y MURO / RUMBO
El gobierno federal y el Condado de Hidalgo alcanzaron un acuerdo final de cara a la construcción de un sistema de diques en conjunto con una valla fronteriza como parte de un proyecto que busca reforzará las necesidades de preparación local en caso de inundaciones y al mismo atenderá los reclamos nacionales para reforzar la seguridad interna. El proyecto acordado tendrá un costo de $113.9 millones y se desplegará a lo largo de 22 millas sobre el Río Grande, de los cuales $65.7 millones serán financiados por el gobierno federal. El pacto, dado a conocer el pasado lunes 5 de mayo, agilizará finalmente las mejoras a los diques en el Condado de Hidalgo. El objetivo es que esté finalizado en menos de un año.
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ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION GROUP WANTS SAN DIEGO HIGHWAY SIGN / ALLISON HOFFMAN / ORLANDO SENTINEL
When members of an anti-illegal immigration group offered to sponsor litter cleanup on local roads, they never imagined California officials would offer them an Adopt-a-Highway stretch near a Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 5, the main artery carrying illegal migrants north from the U.S.-Mexico border. On Friday, lawyers for the San Diego Minutemen told a federal judge that the state had no right to rescind the offer after state legislators complained to the California Department of Transportation. The group asked that its blue Adopt-a-Highway sign be put back where it stood without incident for about six weeks until the agency removed it in January.
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ILLEGAL FARM WORKERS GET HEALTH CARE IN SHADOWS / KEVIN SACK / THE NEW YORK TIMES
The curandera is weary from work. Three, four, five times a day, the immigrant farm workers knock on her apartment door, begging her to cure their ailments. They complain of indigestion, of rashes, of post-traumatic panic attacks. Then there are the house calls that compel her to crate up her potions and herbs and drive across town, often after midnight, to escape the notice of immigration police.
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IRVING'S HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE LOOKS TO MEND RIFTS / DALLAS MORNING NEWS
The Irving Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has more than just business on its agenda these days. Officials with the newly revived organization recently joined hands with the Greater Irving Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce for greater outreach to ethnic- and women-owned businesses in the city. In particular, Hispanic chamber officials say they plan to work with city leaders to mend rifts that have developed between Hispanic business owners and the community.
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LEGALIZABAN SU ESTADÍA EN EU CON BODAS ARREGLADAS / EL INFORMADOR (JALISCO)
Tras una exhaustiva investigación, la Policía de Orlando, Florida, realizó un operativo donde detuvo a más de 80 personas en cuatro pequeñas empresas que arreglaban bodas fraudulentas para conseguir la ciudadanía a inmigrantes.Las cifras eran bastante altas. Los inmigrantes pagaban hasta 10 mil dólares para casarse con un nativo de Estados Unidos, mientras que a los ciudadanos de ese país que se prestaban a la maniobra cobraban dos mil o dos mil 500 dólares.
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