LOS ALCALDES FRONTERIZOS PRIORIZAN LA SEGURIDAD / JUAN REYES / NUEVO EXCELSIOR
La Tercera Reunión Plenaria de Alcaldes Fronterizos, que contará con la presencia de 30 alcaldes de la franja fronteriza del norte y otros tantos de Estados Unidos, tendrá como sede esta ciudad, a partir de hoy 22 y hasta el 24 de septiembre y se contará con la presencia del gobernador Eugenio Hernández Flores.
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IMPORTARÁN SALSAS A EU / ALICIA VALVERDE / NUEVO EXCELSIOR
María Guadalupe Fernández del Valle, originaria de Zapopan, Jalisco, empezó en su casa a elaborar salsas tipo gourmet para venderlas entre sus conocidos, tres años después ha logrado exporta a Canadá y tiene en la mira enviar su producto 100 por ciento mexicano a Estados Unidos. A partir de 2005 comercializa las salsas en Guadalajara, donde surgió el negocio, bajo la marca Pita Valle. Sus principales distribuidores son cadenas minoristas y tiendas gourmet de la región, así como en otros puntos de venta ubicados en Puerto Vallarta, Nayarit, Colima, Ciudad de México y Toluca.
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CANDIDATES WAGE FIGHT IN SPANISH / DANIEL GONZÁLEZ / THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC
Immigration reform a key topic of ads aimed at Latino voters. The immigration debate has flared up again in the presidential campaign, but you wouldn't know it unless you pay attention to Spanish media. Both candidates have said little lately in English about immigration reform and border security. The issues, which dominated headlines in 2006 and 2007, have been overshadowed by the economy, gas prices, health care and the war in Iraq. But in Spanish ads that began airing this month, Republican nominee John McCain touted himself as the candidate who stood up for comprehensive immigration reform and accused Democratic rival Barack Obama of helping kill a bipartisan compromise that would have combined tougher border security and work-site enforcement with a path to legal status for millions of undocumented immigrants.
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AFTER HIATUS, MCCAIN VOWS IMMIGRATION PLAN AGAIN / FOON RHEE / BOSTON GLOBE
Speaking to an Irish-American audience this morning, John McCain used his strongest language of the general election campaign to grab again the mantle of comprehensive immigration reform. In Scranton, Pa., he vowed to push through a plan that offers a path to citizenship to illegal immigrants who pay fines and fulfill other requirements. "This nation is stronger for the infusion of fresh blood and vitality," McCain said. McCain soft-pedaled that backing for comprehensive immigration reform during the Republican primaries, when he was savaged for coddling illegal immigrants. He said that voters would not support such a plan until the borders were made secure.
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WHILE IN U.S., LEADERS TO REACH OUT TO IMMIGRANTS / CHICAGO TRIBUNE
World leaders used to fly to New York for the annual UN General Assembly session, address the world body, conduct some official business and head home. These days, however, many heads of state are making a stop in immigrant communities in the U.S. a high diplomatic priority. With emigrants wielding more financial and political power in their native countries than ever before, several leaders attending the 63rd session of the General Assembly this week will visit these shadow constituencies whose contributions and influence both in the U.S. and abroad continue to grow.
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TUITION AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS / LOS ANGELES TIMES
A court ruling that illegal immigrants can't get in-state tuition rates will harm many students. For the last seven years, illegal immigrants attending California's public university and community college systems have been eligible for in-state tuition rates. The thinking behind this practice was that, regardless of their parents' actions, children had no choice in crossing the border illegally; academically gifted immigrant students shouldn't be condemned to a permanent underclass. Last week, however, a state appellate court ruled that California was violating Congress' intention of barring illegal immigrants from a benefit reserved for legal residents. The decision sends a class-action lawsuit -- brought by out-of-state students who contend that they have been required to pay higher, nonresident fees while illegal immigrants pay in-state tuition -- back to Yolo County Superior Court. It also presages the end of higher-education opportunities for thousands of motivated students. Congress' intent does seem clear. The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 reads, "An alien who is not lawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible on the basis of residence within a state (or a political subdivision) for any postsecondary education benefit unless a citizen or national of the United States is eligible for such a benefit."
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MIGRACIÓN AQUÍ, MIGRACIÓN ALLÁ / DIARIO HOY
Una radiografía de los inmigrantes mexicanos retrata como son golpeados por la economía de ese país. En semanas recientes, HOY publicó la escandalosa noticia del número récord de mexicanos que está inmigrando a los Estados Unidos. Esto, en contraposición a las noticias recientes del gobierno mexicano en el sentido de que se ofrecería oportunidades laborales a sus connacionales. Hoy publicamos un reportaje que revela las terribles condiciones de los jornaleros mexicanos en el Valle de San Quintín. Hombres, mujeres y niños de los estados sureños de ese país (Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco), emprenden su viaje al norte, no con la esperanza de llegar a Estados Unidos, ya sea por motivos económicos o por eludir los peligros de la frontera, pero con la intención de encontrar trabajo en los campos de Sonora, Chihuahua o Baja California Norte. En el Valle de San Quintín la situación es lamentable. Estos 'otros' jornaleros trabajan jornadas de sol a sol y reciben un salario por demás injusto: entre 8 y 10 dólares al día, sin seguro médico o alguna otra prestación. Esta es la manera en que el gobierno mexicano trata a sus connacionaes. ¿Qué se puede esperar del trato que reciben los inmigrantes centroamericanos que a su vez emigran a trabajar a la franja fronteriza sur de México?
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IMMIGRATION DEBATE TAKES BACK SEAT AS SOUTHEAST TEXAS LOOKS TO LATINOS IN REBUILDING FROM IKE / MONICA RHOR, PETER PRENGAMAN / ORLANDO SENTINEL
All along the Texas coast, Latino immigrants are hauling away fallen trees, slashing through storm-tangled brush, patching punctured roofs. On working-class corners, on ladders in front of Victorian houses, in the yards of ornate mansions, crews of men in dusty jeans, sturdy workboots and baseball caps are nearly as omnipresent in the post-Hurricane Ike landscape as blue tarps on rooftops. These workers, who get picked up off the street by homeowners looking for quick, cheap labor, are helping to rebuild the devastated cities of southeast Texas.
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LEGAL AND ILLEGAL, LATINOS LABOR TO REBUILD TEXAS AFTER HURRICANE IKE / THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
All along the Texas coast, Latino immigrants are hauling away fallen trees, slashing through storm-tangled brush, patching punctured roofs. On working-class corners, on ladders in front of Victorian houses, in the yards of ornate mansions, crews of men in dusty jeans, sturdy workboots and baseball caps are nearly as omnipresent in the post-Hurricane Ike landscape as blue tarps on rooftops. These workers, who get picked up off the street by homeowners looking for quick, cheap labor, are helping to rebuild the devastated cities of southeast Texas.
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JUDGE APPROVES FAST-TRACKING RENTAL-BAN CASE / THE DENVER POST
A federal judge has agreed to fast-track the case of a Dallas suburb's effort to drive out illegal immigrants with a rental ban. The city of Farmers Branch had agreed to the expedited schedule proposed by landlords challenging the ban. U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle approved the timetable Monday. Another plaintiff had sought more time, but Boyle denied that request. A Farmers Branch ordinance requires home and apartment tenants to seek a rental license. City officials had wanted to check the names of license applicants who aren't U.S. citizens against a federal database. Then, they'd revoke the rental licenses of those who can't prove legal U.S. residency and penalize landlords who rent to tenants lacking current licenses.
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FARMERS BRANCH PERSISTS WITH ILL-ADVISED STRATEGY / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
Persistence, usually a virtue, is getting a bad name in Farmers Branch, a suburb north of Dallas. The City Council, faced with repeated legal obstacles to its mean-spirited and ill-advised effort to keep out undocumented workers, keeps trying and trying. A federal judge granted a temporary injunction against the attempt, an ordinance that would have allowed the city to check the names of renters through a federal immigration database.
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VIOLENCIA Y MIGRACIÓN / DIARO HOY
La explicación más socorrida del porqué de la migración es la económica y es así como generalmente se ha tratado de entender la inmigración mexicana a este país. Pero aunque las diferencias económicas entre México y Estados Unidos sean en efecto un factor primordial, no han sido el único. En muchas ocasiones, las migraciones son resultado de la violencia, ya sea política o relacionada con el crimen, la inseguridad y la corrupción. Un caso obvio y muy presente en nuestro entorno es el de la migración Centroamericana. Si bien ha habido migración de los países del istmo desde mediados del siglo pasado, el flujo se volvió verdaderamente masivo a fines de los años 70 y a lo largo de los 80 como consecuencia de la violencia generalizada que las guerras civiles generaron en esa región. Para la mayoría de los inmigrantes salvadoreños, guatemaltecos y nicaragüenses, venirse a los Estados Unidos no era asunto de ganarse unos dólares o de ahorrar para comprar una casa, sino literalmente cuestión de vida o muerte.
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DESCUBREN UNA RED DE ‘POLLEROS’/ JORGE MORALES ALMADA / LA OPINIÓN
Una investigación de ICE da a conocer que operaba en los aeropuertos de León y LAX. Una red de polleros ha estado operando vía aérea desde la ciudad de León, Guanajuato, hasta el Aeropuerto Internacional de Los Ángeles (LAX) utilizando vuelos comerciales de la aerolínea Mexicana de Aviación, revela una investigación de la Oficina de Control de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE) en conjunto con el Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de Estados Unidos (CBP). El pasado 23 de agosto agentes de ICE detuvieron a Roberto Amaya Canchola, empleado de LAX, por supuestamente ayudar a evadir la inspección migratoria a pasajeros indocumentados que llegaban procedentes de Guanajuato. La investigación de este caso apunta a la existencia de una banda bien organizada de traficantes de indocumentados con base en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Guanajuato. Información obtenida por La Opinión indica que esa central aérea era controlada por una banda de polleros encabezada, hasta hace un año, por Óscar Manuel Navarrete Orozco y su esposa, María América Maldonado Alfaro, agentes de inspección del Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM), quienes se encuentran bajo proceso judicial en México acusados de tráfico de indocumentados, enriquecimiento ilícito y extorsión.
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DEBUNKING THE CRIME MYTH ABOUT MIGRANTS / ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Plethora of data, studies show illegal immigrants are vastly law-abiding. While many Americans took time on Sept. 11 to remember those who were lost in the terrorist attacks seven years ago, a few gathered in Washington, D.C., for the latest event in their favorite sport: illegal-immigrant bashing. The Federation for American Immigration Reform and its allies on Capitol Hill gathered for a forum titled "The Toll of Illegal Alien Criminals on American Families," which perpetuated the myth of immigrant criminality. Meanwhile, the federation itself has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that tracks hate crimes nationwide.
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ILLEGAL MIGRANTS' FAMILIES TARGETS OF 'VIRTUAL KIDNAPPING' / THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
The families of some illegal immigrants passing through Arizona are getting ransom demands from criminals claiming to have kidnapped their loved ones as they were sneaking into the country. But the families often don't know they are targets of "virtual kidnapping," an extortion scam from Latin America. People are tricked into thinking relatives have been abducted when they haven't.
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ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS HELD AS WITNESSES FOR TRIAL / TOM JACKMAN / WASHINGTON POST
Five men have been sitting in the Fairfax County jail for nearly a month now, although none is charged with a crime. Rather, they might have witnessed a killing. Some of them. The men are being held as witnesses after the fatal stabbing of Adulio Morales-Bonilla, 36, in Fairfax City last month. Everyone in the case -- the victim, the suspect, the witnesses -- was in this country illegally. Fairfax City police enlisted the help of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and had the witnesses detained.
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CITIZEN PAIN / BOSTON GLOBE
The ideal of the American melting pot is that immigrants from other countries eventually become citizens, learning English, paying taxes, and sending the next generations to college and high-value careers. Unfortunately, financial and administrative roadblocks to citizenship have become prohibitive. A backlog of almost a million cases is being whittled down by US Citizenship and Immigration Services, but the average processing time is still 10 to 12 months. Among other things, the delays mean many tens of thousands of would-be citizens with applications pending won't be able to vote in the November presidential election.
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MEDIA ALERT: STATE OF LATINOS BRIEFING WITH RESPONSE FROM OBAMA AND MCCAIN SURROGATES / THE DENVER POST

What: State of Latinos Briefing With Response From Obama and McCain Surrogates Who: Fundacion Azteca America, the non-profit arm of Grupo Salinas, and the University of Denver's Latino Center When: Tuesday, Sept. 23 at 6 pm, Longworth Building 1309, Capitol Hill -- Details: State of Latinos 2008: Defining an Agenda for the Future is a white paper written at the behest of Fundacion Azteca America, the non-profit arm of Grupo Salinas. The topics covered include: education, the economy, healthcare, immigration and the Latino vote.
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EU, LA TIERRA PROMETIDA / LA VOZ DE MICHOACAN
En mayor intensidad en los últimos 15 años es la migración de mexicanos hacia Estados Unidos en busca de mejores oportunidades de desarrollo, que en sus regiones no pueden encontrar. Sin embargo todavía existe entre los diferentes sectores la interrogante si vale la pena arriesgarse a cruzar el territorio estadounidense sin documentos oficiales, cruzando por el desierto o por el Río Bravo, en donde muchos mexicanos son víctimas de abusos de los llamados “polleros”. Algunos estudiosos han considerado al fenómeno social como una “cultura de la migración” que se refleja desde los adolescentes de escolaridad secundaria que ya están a la espera de que algún familiar los traslade hacia el país del norte.
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LATINOS, PESIMISTAS POR SU SITUACIÓN EN EU / IMAGEN (ZACATECAS)
Pesimistas por el deterioro de su situación en Estados Unidos, reveló un sondeo del Centro Hispano Pew. El 63% de los migrantes latinos dice que su situación ha empeorado este año en comparación con 2007, cuando el 42% de ellos tenía esa opinión.Entre todos los hispanos, incluyendo a los migrantes y los nacidos en Estados Unidos, el 50% se siente pesimista en contraste con el 33% que afirmaba lo mismo el año pasado. El creciente pesimismo ocurre en un año electoral en el que los hispanos, que suman 46 millones (15.4%) de la población total, han sido afectados por el elevado desempleo y las redadas contra los indocumentados. Casi uno de cada 10 hispanos adultos reporta que el año pasado la policía u otras autoridades lo ha detenido y preguntado sobre su situación migratoria. Ese porcentaje incluye al 8% de hispanos nacidos en Estados Unidos y al 10% de los migrantes latinos.Según el sondeo, los latinos experimentan dificultades por su origen étnico. El 15% afirma que ha tenido problemas para encontrar o mantener un trabajo porque es latino y uno de cada 10 afirma lo mismo para buscar o mantenerse en una vivienda.
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DETIENEN A 110 MIGRANTES FUGITIVOS / IMAGEN (ZACATECAS)
El Servicio de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE por sus siglas en inglés) en Chicago, confirmó que de 144 indocumentados que la institución atrapó en días pasados en 13 ciudades aledañas y en el norte de Indiana, 110 eran fugitivos.En el operativo de 4 días se buscaba a personas que no acudieron a su cita en la corte o desobedecieron la orden de deportación, pero también se detuvo a quienes tenían otros delitos, confirmó Gail Montenegro, vocera de la oficina del ICE en Chicago. Entre estos delitos, dijo, están violaciones administrativas, robo y violencia doméstica. Destacó que los 110 detenidos forman parte de un total de 570 mil fugitivos que Inmigración persigue desde octubre del 2003 por todo el país.
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MANAGING DIVERSITY MEANS BUILDING TRUST / JUDITH MAXWELL / GLOBE AND MAIL
If elections are won by attacking and discrediting opponents, how will voters know whether the candidates have the capacity to govern this diverse and complex country? Once in power, the governing party has a duty to govern in the best interests of all citizens and to foster among them a sense of citizenship and belonging. But in Canada, governing for all the people requires dialogue, learning, negotiation and accommodation of interests. Quite a contrast to attack ads. In the past 10 years, more than two million immigrants have come to Canada in search of a better life. As they make their commitment to Canada, they are changed and so are we. But political discourse pays little attention to ties that bind us together, and political leaders seem to be hard-pressed to define the character of our shared citizenship. We do pay a lot of attention to immigrant selection. It takes years for most applicants to gain access to Canada. Once they arrive here, however, little attention is paid to the way in which these newcomers acquire a sense of belonging as citizens.
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WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT IMMIGRATION? / LAWRENCE MARTIN / GLOBE AND MAIL
Here we go again. Another Canadian election where, for fear of the bigot label, there'll be no honest debate on immigration. Talking about the downsides of immigration is something the people - but not the politicians - do. In this campaign, all parties favour higher immigration numbers. It's not only politically correct but also seen to be politically beneficial. That's a powerful combination. But it results in public concerns being ignored - hot-button issues such as whether immigration results in increased crime and increased unemployment and whether it's leading to declining social standards.
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IMMIGRANT CRACKDOWN DERAILS STUDIES / LESLEY CIARULA TAYLOR / TORONTO STAR
Scholarship winner to be deported as Ottawa gets tough with illegals. A crackdown by the Canada Border Services Agency after a report uncovered 41,000 unaccounted for illegal immigrants is derailing a young Bangladeshi man's last years at the University of Toronto.(….) Auditor General Sheila Fraser reported on May 6 that Canada Border Services had lost track of 41,000 illegal immigrants who had been ordered deported. Most are said to be failed refugee claimants. (….)
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