ACUERDA IME MODELO PARA ELEGIR A NUEVOS CONSEJEROS / LUIS ÁNGEL GALVÁN / DIARIO LA ESTRELLA
En una reunión realizada esta semana, los consejeros del Concejo Consultivo del Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior (CCIME), finalmente conformaron el Comité Electoral Local (CEL) y definieron el modelo a seguir para elegir la nueva generación de consejeros 2009-2011.(…) Germán Trejo (Consejero del IME 2006-2008), miembro del CEE, explicó que ahora que se definió el modelo de selección, se hará una convocatoria pública a través del Consulado de México para que se inicie la recepción de documentos de los candidatos.
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INAUGURAL MEXICAN AND LATIN AMERICAN SUMMIT TO FOCUS ON COMMUNITY / JIMMY GALLOWAY / THE EAST CAROLINIAN
Groups will share their history. The Association of Mexicans in North Carolina (AMEXCAN) will hold the inaugural Latino Leadership Summit starting at 9 a.m. on June 27 at the Murphy Center in Greenville. The event, which is free and open to the public, aims to focus on and clarify the effects of Latino migration on communities and current social policy in the state. The summit will feature nationally recognized Latino leaders, as well as young and experienced leaders from the state's immigrant Latino community, who will present strategies for engaging in the communities' civic and democratic processes. "The purpose of the summit is to highlight the work of Latino leaders in NC and support them with knowledge and skills so that they can work through this period of change and growth," said Juvencio Rocha Peralta (Consejero del IME 2003 – 2005), president of AMEXCAN.
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DA INICIO OPERATIVO PARA MIGRANTES / FABIOLA MARTÍNEZ / LA JORNADA
La Secretaría de Gobernación, por medio del Instituto Nacional de Migración, puso en marcha desde ayer y hasta el 23 de septiembre el operativo de verano de los Grupos Beta, debido al incremento de las temperaturas en las fronteras mexicanas y con el objetivo de evitar muertes y proteger a los migrantes indocumentados. Se trata de reforzar el patrullaje, la asistencia social humanitaria, el rescate y la orientación en dichas zonas, así como en rutas tradicionales de migrantes. Los agentes de los 16 Grupos Beta –distribuidos en Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Chiapas y Tabasco– serán auxiliados por elementos de diversas corporaciones de seguridad pública.
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VUELVE TOMATE A EU; FALTA SINALOA / IMELDA GARCÍA / REFORMA
Las puertas de Estados Unidos se reabren para el tomate mexicano.Esto, luego de que la Administración Federal de Alimentos y Medicinas de EU (FDA) incluyera ayer a 29 entidades mexicanas en su lista de zonas libres de salmonela en la producción del fruto.Sin embargo, en la relación no figura Sinaloa, donde se produce el 40
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LLEVAN CINE MEXICANO A FESTIVAL DE NY / REFORMA
El primer festival de cine mexicano que se realice en Nueva York, el Hola México Film Festival, se llevará a cabo del 23 al 29 de julio en el Quad Cinema, impulsado por el mexicano Samuel Dourek. El ciclo incluye 13 filmes nacionales, entre ellos Luz silenciosa, de Carlos Reygadas, Malos hábitos y Niñas mal, de Fernando Sariñana, y Quemar las naves, de Francisco Franco.
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GROUP WIELDS RACKETEERING LAW AGAINST LANDLORDS TO COMBAT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION / THE NEW YORK TIMES
A federal lawsuit challenging the right of landlords to rent to illegal immigrants has stoked tensions over immigration that have been rising for years here.A group opposed to illegal immigration filed suit against a Plainfield property management company this month, seeking to set a legal precedent by using a federal law normally employed against racketeers to punish landlords who rent to illegal immigrants. The lawsuit accuses the company, Connolly Properties, of allowing so many undocumented tenants to live in its buildings that it amounted to unlawful harboring and should be considered a criminal enterprise that encouraged illegal immigration.
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WILL THE FENCE WORK IF TROOPS HEAD HOME? / MICHAEL MARTINEZ / CHICAGO TRIBUNE
The National Guard's mission on the U.S.-Mexican frontier is to end in July, but governors of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas want the troops to stay. The Bush administration says no. ON THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER -- Tech. Sgt. Wayne Combs of the California Air National Guard is riding aboard "Mad Max," a military truck whose homemade platform evokes the apocalyptic film. Ten feet above the ground, he and other Guard members are cutting and straightening posts to make the last line of U.S. fencing taller -- to 16 feet -- and harder for illegal migrants and smugglers to breach. For most of two years, he has been working on this domestic front near San Diego, where the double fence resembles a demilitarized zone. Into this void, however, flows the illegal traffic.
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NATIONAL GUARD IS ALREADY MISSED AT U.S.-MEXICO BORDER / THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
The National Guard troops sent to the U.S.-Mexican border two years ago have mostly been withdrawn, despite pleas from governors who were once skeptical of using soldiers to catch illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. When the Guard was posted along the frontier in 2006 to help the strapped Border Patrol, critics warned that sending soldiers would be an insult to Mexico and that innocents could get shot by troops trained for combat, not law enforcement.
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FEDS PLAN 57 TOWERS IN AZ TO WATCH FOR MIGRANTS / BRADY MCCOMBS / ARIZONA DAILY STAR
The Department of Homeland Security is planning to put up 45 surveillance towers and upgrade 12 existing ones to create a virtual fence targeting 81 miles of Arizona's U.S.-Mexican border. Plans revealed in a draft environmental assessment for the "Tucson West" project — the next phase of the Boeing Co.-led SBInet — shows 57 proposed tower sites throughout Southern Arizona with most, 47, in the border region between Sasabe and Sierra Vista. The 10 other proposed locations are scattered farther north near Ajo, Phoenix, Casa Grande and Tucson. The map shows one existing tower in Tucson and another in the Catalina Mountains that would be upgraded. The towers will stand 80 to 200 feet high. The largest cluster of towers totals 27 proposed sites along 40 miles of border from Sasabe to Nogales within about 12 miles north of the border.
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AS GUARD WRAPS UP, DEBATE REVS UP ON BORDER / MICHAEL MARTINEZ / CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Tech. Sgt. Wayne Combs of the California Air National Guard is riding aboard "Mad Max," a military truck whose homemade platform evokes the apocalyptic film.Ten feet above the ground, he and other guardsmen are cutting and straightening posts to make the last line of U.S. fencing taller—to 16 feet—and harder for illegal migrants and smugglers to breach. For most of two years, he has been working on this domestic front near San Diego whose double fence resembles a demilitarized zone. Into this void, however, flows the illegal traffic. Combs has seen it firsthand, and there hasn't been much he could do: The migrants walked right by him.
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O'ODHAM CHAIR CALLS FOR BORDER MEETING / BRADY MCCOMBS / ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Tohono O'odham Chairman Ned Norris Jr. has grown incensed with Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff — who has rebuffed requests to meet and invoked a waiver to build border barriers on current and ancestral O'odham land. With the Tohono O'odham Nation spanning 75 miles of U.S.-Mexican border in the busiest stretch for illegal immigration, drug smuggling and border deaths, Norris says Chertoff owes him a meeting. Chertoff has declined to meet him in person despite five formal requests, Norris said. And, on a recent trip to Southwestern Arizona, Chertoff visited Sasabe and Lukeville, but skipped the reservation, which sits in the middle of the two border towns, Norris said. "It's a total disrespect for the sovereign authority that this Nation has and enjoys with the United States government," said Norris, who completed his first year in office on June 11. Homeland Security spokeswoman Laura Keehner said it's true the two haven't met, but that the notion that Chertoff has ignored the tribe is false. Chertoff personally met with Norris' predecessor, Vivian Juan-Saunders, she said.(…) The estimated number of illegal immigrants coming across the reservation has decreased to about 700 a day from a peak of 1,500 a day, but not without consequence to him and other tribal members, he said. "We are a militarized zone now with the increased presence of the Border Patrol on the Nation's lands," he said.
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NEVA TO THE RESCUE / WASHINGTON TIMES
There is no lack of opinion among members of Congress on how to address illegal immigration. The debate is as heated and divisive as any in recent years. Public reaction to the president's latest executive order - requiring federal contractors to use the voluntary E-Verify system - only highlights the intensity of this debate. We represent districts in Arizona and Texas - two states on the front line of illegal immigration. Increased worksite enforcement has led to plant raids in Texas where hundreds of illegal workers were arrested and businesses temporarily shuttered. In addition, Arizona has established the toughest sanctions in the nation - revoking business licenses - against companies hiring unauthorized workers. We strongly believe employers should be held responsible if they knowingly hire illegal immigrants, and recognize that the federal government has failed to provide a reliable system for identifying undocumented workers. The current federal employment verification system - E-Verify - is plagued by inaccuracies and is easily manipulated by false documents and stolen identities. In requiring employers to help reduce the flow of illegal immigrants into America, the federal government must provide them the proper tools to effectively and efficiently do just that. Most would agree that stopping U.S. employers from hiring undocumented workers must be part of the solution.
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FAMILIAS MIGRANTES EN EL LIMBO / MARCELO BALLVÉ / | LA OPINIÓN
En Iowa muchos viven con el miedo de que se reanuden las redadas. Matan el tiempo detrás de persianas cerradas viendo novelas en español por televisión. Aunque saben que es algo irracional, muchos de ellos todavía viven con el miedo de que regresen los agentes de Inmigración, entrando a sus casas con armas en la mano, gritándoles obscenidades, llamándoles perros y sacándolos a rastras en medio de gritos y lágrimas. Eso fue lo que pasó el 12 de mayo, cuando la mayor redada de inmigración en un solo lugar de trabajo en la historia de los EU se tragó a este pequeño pueblo de Iowa. El ataque iba dirigido a cientos de trabajadores indocumentados en la planta empacadora de carnes tipo kosher Agriprocessors Inc., que domina la economía local. Más de un tercio de la mano de obra de la planta fue detenida ese mismo día: 389 inmigrantes, casi todos ellos hombres y mujeres de México y Guatemala.
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L.A. COUNTY JAILS TO EXPAND IMMIGRATION SCREENING / ANNA GORMAN / LOS ANGELES TIMES
The inmates sit on a metal bench in a converted cell at a Los Angeles County jail. Many have served their time and are ready for release. But not before a quick interview. Where were you born? Have you ever been deported? Did you know that a judge had ordered you to leave the country? Sheriff's officials, who have been trained by federal authorities to screen for illegal immigrants at the jail, have interviewed nearly 20,000 inmates since the controversial program began more than two years ago. They have referred 10,840 people to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for possible deportation. Last week, the Sheriff's Department received $500,000 in county funding to expand the jail screening and to increase the number of interviewers from eight to 13. Sheriff's officials said the screenings free up jail beds and ensure that illegal immigrants who commit crimes are deported, not released back into the community. Immigration authorities said the program allows them to focus limited resources on other enforcement efforts.
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MARRIAGE LICENSE DOESN'T EQUAL FAST U.S. CITIZENSHIP / MARIA SACCHETTI / HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Tougher laws on immigration are keeping more spouses apart. On a proud December day, Nancy Hanna raised her right hand in the John F. Kennedy Library in Dorchester and took the oath of U.S. citizenship. Then she rushed home to call her congressman: She told him she wanted her husband back. Hanna believed that becoming a U.S. citizen would open the door for her husband, Ekram, a native of Egypt like her, to join her in this country. But that was more than two years ago. Now, instead of living with her husband, she is a single mother learning a hard lesson increasingly confronting U.S. citizens and their immigrant spouses: Marriage is no guarantee of legal residency.
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MINUTEMEN, OTHERS MARCH IN L.A. TO PROTEST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION / ANNA GORMAN / LOS ANGELES TIMES
About 50 protesters marched in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday to decry violence by illegal immigrants and to demand that the Los Angeles Police Department change its controversial policy limiting when someone can be questioned about their immigration status. The marchers, including anti-illegal-immigration Minutemen and local community activists, also called for justice for Jamiel Shaw II, 17, a black athlete who was shot and killed in March by an alleged gang member who was in the country illegally.
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PELEA VS. COLUMBIA / RUMBO
Notable profesora hispana reabre juicio por discriminación en contra de prestigiada universidad neoyorquina La profesora Graciela Chichilnisky, reconocida como una de las personas de origen hispano más influyentes en EE.UU., reabrió un juicio por discriminación en contra de la Universidad de Columbia. En 1995, la profesora Chichilnisky ganó a dicha universidad un acuerdo por $500,000 y la nivelación de su salario, pero desde entonces la institución ha incumplido las disposiciones del acuerdo y ha tomado represalias en su contra.
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POLICÍA MEXICANA TRABAJA AHORA EN EU / ALICIA A. CALDWELL / LA OPINIÓN
Blanca Angélica Parra se vio obligada a dejar Ciudad Juárez por las amenazas de muerte que recibía; ahora es agente de la Patrulla Fronteriza Las amenazas de muerte eran algo rutinario para Blanca Angélica Parra cuando trabajaba como agente de la policía de Ciudad Juárez, en México. "En Juárez, si tú arrestas a alguien, te amenazan; te dicen que van a matarte a ti y a tu familia", declaró Parra al recordar su vida del otro lado del Río Bravo. Parra pensaba que la violencia entre los carteles de la droga y la policía aumentaría y eso la impulsó a abandonar su trabajo y cruzar la frontera en 1995, con su hija de 3 años, para radicarse en Estados Unidos. Tenía razón. En los 13 años que han pasado, ha habido una escalada de violencia y la policía es blanco frecuente de ataques de los traficantes. Parra sigue aportando su granito de arena en esa batalla, ahora como agente de la Patrulla Fronteriza estadounidense. "Siempre quise trabajar con las fuerzas del orden público", declaró. "Cuando vine aquí, me dije: ‘Algún día serás agente de la Patrulla Fronteriza’". La violencia ha cobrado la vida de numerosos policías en Ciudad Juárez, donde hace poco mataron al subjefe de esa fuerza, acribillándolo frente a su casa.
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EDÉN PARA INDOCUMENTADOS AL NORTE DE MANHATTAN / JORGE MORALES ALMADA / LA OPINIÓN
En White Plains reciben a latinos con los brazos abiertos. A unas 25 millas al norte de la isla de Manhattan ofrecen la luna y las estrellas a los inmigrantes. Las autoridades de esta ciudad, que no supera los 60 mil habitantes, están dispuestas a tenderles la mano. "Porque todos son seres humanos", dijo su alcalde, Joseph Delfino, un republicano bonachón que se aparece por todas partes. Suburbio de la urbe neoyorquina, White Plains parece ser un pueblo tranquilo donde los hispanos cada vez ganan más terreno. Por la calle Post Road se observan algunos negocios que lo confirman: México Lindo, Los Amigos, Roberto’s. Son restaurantes de comida mexicana que le dan el sabor latino a esta comunidad localizada a cuatro millas al este del río Hudson, en el condado Westchester.
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FLUSHING LIBRARY IS A PORTAL FOR IMMIGRANTS / LOUISE ROUG / LOS ANGELES TIMES
The Queens Library branch here sits at the intersection of five avenues, amid an array of Afghan, Indian, Korean and Vietnamese businesses in this busy borough downtown. It's an appropriate spot for a library whose clientele is overwhelmingly made up of immigrants from Asia and whose purpose is the intersection of conventional book and information services and help for the newly arrived. (….) On a recent afternoon, a dozen people, including women in saris and burkas, stood in line in front of the checkout counter, many with their arms full of books. Next to the windows, posters advertised events such as a workshop for immigrants on access to healthcare, an afternoon of Cuban folk music, a discussion of the international implications of Taiwan's presidential election, and a lecture on Yiddish sayings and imagery. In every chair was a reader.(…)
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‘SEGUIRÁ FUGA DE CEREBROS DEBIDO A NULAS OPORTUNIDADES AQUÍ’ / EL DIARIO DE JUARÉZ (CHIHUAHUA)
Por falta de oportunidades de empleo bien remuneradas en el estado de Chihuahua y el país en general, la fuga de cerebros se seguirá dando pese a la gran cantidad de recursos económicos que se invierten en los egresados de los centros de educación superior, informaron dirigentes empresariales. A México le cuesta 690 mil dólares formar a un profesionista con grado de doctor en el extranjero, pero debido a la fuga de cerebros a países como Estados unidos, esta inversión se pierde y son otras nacionales las que se benefician de los conocimientos y valor agregado que ofrecen.
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PIDEN QUE SEA ILEGAL RENTAR PROPIEDADES A INDOCUMENTADOS / EL DIARIO DE JUÁREZ (CHIHUAHUA)
Una demanda federal que emplea una estrategia novedosa para combatir el derecho de un propietario a rentarle a indocumentados está azuzando las tensiones que llevan años incrementándose en esta ciudad al sur de Newark. Un grupo que se opone a la inmigración sin papeles demandó este mes a una compañía que administra propiedades en Plainfield, para evitar que los propietarios de viviendas se las renten a inmigrantes sin documentos de residencia legal.
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RESPALDA MCCAIN A MÉXICO / REFORMA
Como parte de su estrategia para acercarse a la comunidad hispana en Estados Unidos el virtual candidato republicano, John McCain, aseguró ayer que está de acuerdo con la Iniciativa Mérida como una herramienta para reforzar la relación con México. "Favorezco la colaboración cercana con el Gobierno de México y apoyo el paquete de asistencia para el combate a los cárteles de la droga que están envenenando a Estados Unidos y México", declaró el aspirante republicano en entrevista con el diario angelino La Opinión. (…)Asimismo, McCain aseguró que la reforma migratoria será prioritaria en su eventual administración porque es una responsabilidad federal convincente. "Abordaremos la reforma migratoria y al día siguiente de mi inauguración le urgiré al Congreso que la considere", aseguró al rotativo.
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INVITAN LATINOS A MCCAIN A DIALOGAR SOBRE MIGRACIÓN / FINANCIERO
La Asociación Política México Americana (Mapa) y la Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana invitaron hoy al candidato presidencial republicano, John McCain, a dialogar con latinos sobre migración y el uso de la tortura. El presidente de ambos grupos, Nativo López, informó que el aspirante presidencial demócrata, Barack Obama, accedió ya a participar en su convención anual, que reunirá a otros 10 grupos latinos nacionales, el próximo 18 de julio en el sur de California.
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DEBATEN CON LATINOS / REFORMA
Los virtuales candidatos presidenciales de Estados Unidos, el republicano, John McCain, y el demócrata, Barack Obama, participarán en el Congreso Nacional Latino, que se realizará el 18 y 19 de julio en California, confirmaron ayer los promotores del evento, al que se espera asistan más de 300 organizaciones hispanas de 20 entidades del país.Los dos aspirantes a la Casa Blanca abordarán asuntos de interés para la comunidad hispana en Estados Unidos, como la reforma educativa, migración, salud pública, desarrollo urbano y política exterior.
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AVANZA EL MURO / REFORMA
Elementos de un escuadrón de ingenieros de la Guardia Nacional de Estados Unidos, procedentes de Ohio, concluyeron un tramo más del muro que se levanta en la frontera entre ese país y México. Las autoridades estadounidenses han intensificado las labores del muro, en vísperas del retiro de los elementos de la Guardia Nacional que colaboran desde hace dos años en el reforzamiento de la vigilancia fronteriza.
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COPIAN EN FRONTERA A BLACKWATER / REFORMA
Al menos dos empresas de seguridad privada estadounidenses propusieron abrir centros de entrenamiento militar en California, uno de ellos en la frontera con México, después que una Corte Federal permitió a la firma Blackwater abrir uno de esos sitios. Tom Hembree, miembro del cabildo del condado Imperial, dijo que otra empresa de seguridad quiere instalar un campo de entrenamiento de manejo y tiro con armas de fuego cerca de Ocotillo, una zona semidesértica a unos 200 kilómetros al este de San Diego.
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CON FOX, EL MAYOR ÉXODO DE MEXICANOS HACIA EU / DAVID CARRIZALES / LA JORNADA
Durante el sexenio de Vicente Fox se fueron a Estados Unidos aproximadamente 3 millones de mexicanos, lo que significó el mayor éxodo en la historia del país, y continuará en proporciones similares, pues en el primer año de gobierno de Felipe Calderón cruzaron la frontera norte 470 mil connacionales, aseveró Héctor Rodríguez, director del doctorado en políticas públicas del Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM).
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REPORTA EU QUE 28 ESTADOS MEXICANOS ESTÁN LIBRES DE SALMONERA / FINANCIERO
La Administración de Alimentos y Medicinas (FDA) de Estados Unidos divulgó hoy una lista de 28 estados mexicanos cuya producción de jitomate está libre de sospecha por contaminación con salmonela. Los estados mexicanos incluidos en la lista son Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Colima, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Distrito Federal, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo León y Oaxaca.
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ERAN MIGRANTES LOS TRES ASESINADOS EN BC / ANTONIO HERAS / LA JORNADA
Las tres personas asesinadas en un paraje de la zona montañosa de Baja California, limítrofe con Estados Unidos, eran migrantes, informó la procuraduría del estado. Las víctimas, que fueron localizadas el miércoles, son Alejandro Vargas Patiño y Francisco Ortiz Duarte, de 17 y 18 años de edad, oriundos de Tecomán, Colima, así como Jesús Panduro Rodríguez, de 23 años, originario de Michoacán. La investigación señala que estas muertes están relacionadas con la agresión que sufrieron el 14 de junio 15 migrantes que buscaban cruzar a Estados Unidos.
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TROOPS TO LEAVE BORDER PATROL / THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The thousands of National Guardsmen sent to reinforce the U.S.-Mexican border two years ago have almost completely withdrawn, despite pleas from border-state governors once skeptical of using soldiers to catch illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. When the Guard was posted along the southern frontier in 2006 to help the strapped Border Patrol, critics warned that sending soldiers would be an insult to Mexico and that innocents could get shot by troops trained for combat, not law enforcement. But none of that happened, and now those worries have given way to fears that a bloody drug-cartel war on the Mexican side will spill into the U.S. and overwhelm the Border Patrol.
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MEXICO POLICE GUARD SMUGGLING SUSPECT / THE NEW YORK TIMES
Hundreds of police and military sharpshooters guarded an immigration detention center in southern Mexico on Friday amid threats that gunmen would try to rescue a Cuban man being held there, a state official said. Immigration officials received several anonymous phone calls from someone saying that assailants planned to free the man from an immigration detention center in Chetumal, the state capital, said Gumersindo Jimenez, a Quintana Roo state officer. Jimenez initially identified the man as Cuban-American Hanoy Cardentey. He was detained Wednesday after authorities found his boat drifting off Quintana Roo's Caribbean coast and accused him of trafficking Cubans to the United States via Mexico. But Jimenez said Friday that Cardentey was released after questioning, and his companion on the boat, a Cuban man, was the one being held. Authorities declined to say whether either man is linked to an attack last week in which masked gunmen forced immigration agents off a bus and then fled with 33 Cubans and four Central Americans on board. The vehicle was later found abandoned in Chiapas state. This week 18 of the Cubans walked across an international bridge in Texas and handed themselves over to U.S. authorities, according to Mexico's Attorney General's office. Officials are investigating who kidnapped the immigrants and who helped them reach Texas.
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NJ IMMIGRATION LAWSUIT EMPLOYS RACKETEERING LAWS / SAMANTHA HENRY / HOUSTON CHRONICLE
A federal lawsuit using a novel method to challenge a landlord's right to rent to illegal immigrants is stoking tensions that have been rising for years in this diverse city of 50,000 south of Newark. A prominent group that opposes illegal immigration sued a Plainfield property management company this month, seeking to set a legal precedent by using anti-racketeering legislation to crack down on landlords who rent to illegal immigrants. The suit alleges the company has so many undocumented tenants in their buildings that it constitutes unlawful harboring and should be considered by the courts as a criminal enterprise that encourages illegal immigration.
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DEMANDAN AL CONSULADO MEXICANO / ALEJANDRO MARTÍNEZ / AL DÍA
Una compañía de servicios de bienes raíces comerciales interpuso una demanda contra el consulado mexicano en Dallas, alegando que la dependencia mexicana falló en pagarle por servicios de asesoría que le ofreció en el 2007. La demanda interpuesta ante la corte distrital de Estados Unidos en esta ciudad indica que Blake Box, presidente de una compañía de bienes raíces, trabajó como consultor para el Consulado General de México en Dallas durante el 2007, mientras estaba en el proceso de localizar un nuevo y más amplio edificio al cual mudarse.
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BORDER GOVERNORS WORRIED ABOUT NATIONAL GUARD PULLOUT / CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN / ORLANDO SENTINEL
The thousands of National Guardsmen sent to reinforce the U.S.-Mexican border two years ago have almost completely withdrawn, despite pleas from border-state governors once skeptical of using soldiers to catch illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. When the Guard was posted along the southern frontier in 2006 to help the strapped Border Patrol, critics warned that sending soldiers would be an insult to Mexico and that innocents could get shot by troops trained for combat, not law enforcement. But none of that happened, and now those worries have given way to fears that a bloody drug-cartel war on the Mexican side will spill into the U.S. and overwhelm the Border Patrol.
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FUSILAN A TRES MIGRANTES / JORGE MORALES ALMADA / LA OPINIÓN
Se cree que el triple crimen fue parte de un tiroteo entre ‘polleros’. Los recostaron boca abajo, alineados, junto a gigantescas rocas en las produndidades de un desfiladero, y los fusilaron. Ráfagas de metralleta AK-47 retumbaron en esta zona montañosa por donde suelen cruzar los indocumentados hacia Estados Unidos. Así lo indican las evidencias de la escena del crimen donde fueron encontrados los cadáveres de tres migrantes. Eran tres jóvenes cuyos cuerpos estaban en estado de descomposición cuando la tarde del miércoles fueron hallados. Ayer sus familiares los identificaron como Alejandro Vargas Patiño, de 17 años de edad, Francisco Ortiz Duarte, de 18, ambos de Tecomán, Colima, y Jesús Panduro Rodríguez, de 23, originario de Michoacán. La Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado de Baja California (PGJE) informó que en base a las primeras pesquisas, los tres jóvenes pudieron ser asesinados luego de un tiroteo ocurrido el pasado 14 de junio al parecer entre bandas de "polleros" o traficantes de personas.
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2 MIGRANTS FOUND DEAD AT SEPARATE SITES / ARIZONA DAILY STAR
U.S. Border Patrol agents discovered the bodies of two illegal immigrants Wednesday and Thursday. On Thursday at about 11:45 a.m., a Border Patrol agent came upon a deceased man, believed to be in his 20s, in a wash about seven miles east of Sasabe and about two miles north of the border, said Rob Daniels, Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman. On Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., a crew aboard a National Guard helicopter spotted a man on the northern part of the Tohono O'odham Nation, he said. An agent went to the area and found a 27-year-man from Chiapas, Mexico, dead.
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CALIF. ENTRANT-SMUGGLER GETS 5-YEAR TERM / ARIZONA DAILY STAR
A California man will spend five years in federal prison for trying to smuggle eight illegal immigrants into the United States last year, a U.S. district judge decided Thursday in Tucson. Kenneth George Claunch Jr., was found guilty in February of multiple illegal entrant smuggling charges, including conspiracy to transport illegal aliens for profit with endangerment, a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office said. In April 2007, Claunch had tried to smuggle illegal immigrants by driving a carpet-cleaning van through the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials found five men hidden in one large metal container and one man and two women hidden in another one. All eight said they were not U.S. citizens and did not have legal permission to be in the United States, the release said.
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IMMIGRANTS SENT HOME BY HOSPITALS IN SOME CASES / MICHAEL KIEFER, ANGEL LARREAL AND SAMUEL MURILLO / ARIZONA REPUBLIC
Even in a coma, anyone could see clearly that Antonio de Jesus Torres Aguayo was a robust young man. His friends affectionately call him el Negro because he is so dark from working in the sun. Torres, 19, is a native of Sonora, Mexico, and has been a permanent legal resident in the United States since last November. But he suffered head injury and landed in St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center on June 7 after rolling his car on his way to work in Gila Bend. Because he does not qualify for long-term medical care in Arizona, on Friday, against the wishes of his family, he was loaded into an ambulance and driven four hours to a hospital in Mexicali, Mexico.
Unlike neighboring states, Arizona law has no provisions for patients such as Torres. In May; St. Joseph's Hospital was at the center of an international spectacle when a local attorney went to court to keep the hospital from shipping a comatose woman to a hospital in Honduras. The woman had legally lived in Arizona for 17 years. And the Honduran hospital told The Republic that it did not have the proper facilities to care for her. St. Joseph's relented and let her stay.
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FROM OUR READERS: WOULD WE NEED NEW SCHOOLS IF ILLEGALS WEREN'T HERE? / LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL
If the Clark County School District Superintendent Walt Rulffes is correct in his assessment that we will need to construct 73 new schools in the next 10 years, then the following questions must be answered. Where will they get qualified teachers, and what is the student makeup? If the student bodies are made up of a significant number of illegal immigrants, or the children of illegal immigrants, then maybe the federal government — read Harry Reid — should pay for it? Our history is filled with cases where Congress passes high-sounding laws with devastating consequences on the citizens. This is one of them, and it is ongoing.(…) Well, the time for political correctness is over. The governor is calling a special session to try and sort out the mess the idiots started a few years back with the record tax increase that is now choking all the tax and spenders to death. I have a very simple solution: Ignore what the courts have said and stop educating illegal immigrants, stop treating illegal immigrants at the hospitals, have the police arrest illegal immigrants that are using our roads. Fine and revoke the business licenses of those who knowingly employ illegal immigrants. That would fix all the problems that are getting the nanny staters' underpants in a wad.
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LIMPIABA BAÑOS Y AHORA IRÁ A UNT / IGNACIO LAGUARDA / AL DÍA
Rafael Pérez recuerda cuando trabajaba como empleado del hospital Richardson Regional –en ese entonces llamado Baylor–, limpiando baños y tirando la basura, al mismo tiempo que estudiaba en la preparatoria Richardson. "Cuando estaba en la preparatoria, no pensaba en la universidad. Pensaba ir directo a trabajar", dijo Pérez, que este año se graduó de Richland College y fue el primero de su familia en conseguir ese logro. "Decidí que no quería limpiar baños por el resto de mi vida". Originario de Michoacán, México, Pérez llegó a Estados Unidos a los 9 años. Su padre no pasó del cuarto grado de la escuela y trabajó gran parte de su vida en la construcción mientras que su madre no puede leer en español ni en inglés. Vivió en Florida por 5 años antes de venir a Dallas. Tiene 7 hermanos y hermanas.
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SEÑALAN DESVENTAJA DE ALUMNOS / VANESA D. SALINAS / AL DÍA
Estudiantes del distrito escolar de Dallas que no dominan el inglés así como los alumnos con necesidades especiales no están bien representados en las escuelas especializadas conocidas como escuelas magnet. De acuerdo con un reporte entregado al superintendente Michael Hinojosa y a los miembros de la mesa directiva, el proceso de selección para dichas escuelas debería depender menos de las habilidades lingüísticas y más de otras habilidades y actitudes de superación.
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ASTHMA SUFFERERS HIGHER AMONG FLORIDA'S HISPANIC POPULATION / ARELIS HERNANDEZ / ORLANDO SENTINEL
Taking a breath of air can be as easy as drinking from a cup, but imagine if you were reduced to drinking through a straw. That constriction is a reality for a growing number of Americans with breathing problems -- especially for Hispanics.More than 10 percent of Florida's Hispanics suffer from asthma, about the same rate as all Floridians, according to the state's Department of Health. For Puerto Ricans, the respiratory damage is more pronounced than for other Hispanics."Puerto Ricans suffer from asthma at a much higher rate than any other ethnic group in the country," said Eric Gray, executive director of the Central Florida chapter of the American Lung Association.Nationally, about 11.2 percent of Americans have asthma. That number doubles for those of Puerto Rican descent.
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EDMUND TIJERINA: WORKS FROM BIG NAMES OF MEXICAN ART COMING TO MUSEUM / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
Coming up — a glimpse into the holdings of the world's second-richest man. It's happening with a new art exhibit that's opening Wednesday at the Museo Alameda. The exhibit, “Myth, Mortals and Immortality: Works from the Museo Soumaya de Mexico,” features works from some of Mexico's biggest and most influential artists: Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, to name a few.
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NEW IMMIGRATION REFORMS PUT APPLICATIONS ON HOLD / NICHOLAS KEUNG / TORONTO STAR
Ottawa officials are awaiting instructions from ministry about which candidates will be processed. Newly passed immigration reforms, which the federal government said were aimed at reducing a staggering backlog of applications by would-be immigrants, are creating a new logjam. The backlog, which stood at 925,000 before the legislation was brought in, could grow by an additional 90,000 because officials have stopped processing new applications. Prospective immigrants who submitted applications after Feb. 26, when the legislation was introduced, have been told by Citizenship and Immigration Canada that their applications are being put on hold until further notice. "It is expected that Canada's Minister of Citizenship and Immigration will, within the next several months, be providing instructions to visa offices as to which applications are to be accepted for processing and which are to be returned unprocessed," Canadian visa officers explained in letters to applicants.
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