Minorities Often a Majority of the Population Under 20
Foreshadowing the nation’s changing makeup, one in four American counties have passed or are approaching the tipping point where black, Hispanic and Asian children constitute a majority of the under-20 population, according to analyses of census figures released Thursday.
Hispanic Growth Not Reflected On US Olympic Squad
Hispanics have rapidly emerged as the largest minority group in the United States, comprising 15 percent of the population. But on the U.S. Olympic team assembling in China they are - for a range of reasons - strikingly underrepresented.
Bill Clinton Sees Immigration Reform Under Obama Or McCain
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Monday he expects either Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., or Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to pass an immigration reform law quickly, whoever wins the presidential election. "I believe that whichever one of the American candidates is elected for president, they will succeed in passing soon - sometime early next year - an immigration reform," Clinton said at a press conference in Mexico City, adding that such legislation would lead to a "substantial improvement in the management of that problem, for both countries."
Mr. President, Stop Your Raids On Our Communities
06 August 2008
By Luis Gutierrez and Joe Baca: As members of Congress, we have traveled to remote corners of the world and had our eyes opened to some of the worst human suffering imaginable—abject poverty, meager wages, poor working conditions, paltry access to legal counsel and a jarring lack of fairness in the courts. We never imagined that we would witness the same injustices in a small American town just a five-hour drive from Chicago.
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Push needed for immigration reform
06 August 2008
After meeting with the immigrants, Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-Ill.) had a question for presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain, the Arizona senator who once worked on Gutierrez’s comprehensive immigration reform plan. “Is this his ‘enforcement only’ plan?” Gutierrez asked chidingly. “How many more years of this do we have to have before we have comprehensive [reform]? How many more Postvilles do we have to have?”
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Private Equity Says ‘Hola’ To Latino Firms
06 August 2008
As a boy on the rough streets of Washington Heights, N.Y., 46-year-old Marcos Rodriguez saw his father toil as a hotel waiter to raise his kids. His dad, once a successful Havana businessman, had lost his land to the Cuban regime. Vowing to honor his parents' hard work, Rodriguez earned an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, worked for GE in Mexico, then became a successful financier. "One great lesson I learned from my parents," Rodriguez says, "is that no one can take away what's in your heart and in your head."
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US Races To Erect Controversial Steel Fence On Mexican Border
05 August 2008
Just west of El Paso, near where Spanish conquistador Juan de Onate crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico in 1598, construction crews have completed a steel fence authorities say is a new model for border security. The five-meter (18-foot) tall fence has a mesh woven so tightly that feet and fingers cannot grab hold, but it [...]
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Immigrants Kids Even Less Active Than U.S.-Born
05 August 2008
Many immigrant children get even less vigorous exercise than their U.S.-born counterparts, the largest study of its kind suggests. Plenty of earlier evidence shows that U.S. children are pretty inactive. The new study of nearly 70,000 children simply found even lower levels of activity among immigrants. Almost 18 percent of foreign-born children with immigrant parents got no vigorous exercise on any days of the week, and 56 percent didn't participate in organized sports. By contrast, 11 percent of U.S.-born children with American parents got no vigorous exercise, and 41 percent didn't participate in sports.
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George Lopez Seeks Latino Vote for Obama in Nevada
05 August 2008
Comedian George Lopez is joining the effort to get out the Latino vote for Barack Obama. Lopez, star of ABC's "The George Lopez Show," addressed a rally Saturday in Las Vegas intended to get Hispanic supporters to canvass their neighborhoods and register new voters. "The country is fascinated with black and white, but what about brown?" Lopez asked. "It's underestimated, undervalued and it has the power to decide the election ... Our vote counts the same as their vote." Lopez's appearance came the same week the Obama campaign announced it and the Democratic National Committee are setting aside $20 million to target and mobilize Hispanic voters in the presidential election this fall.
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