tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107730462012-01-13T08:12:09.188-06:00Positive voices for immigrants, Hispanics, and the American soulJohn Lambnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1701100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10773046.post-62223356341649709492010-05-22T06:51:00.000-05:002010-05-22T06:51:35.324-05:00

From Roger Ebert:I invite you to perform four easy thought experiments: 1. You and four friends are in Boston and attend the St. Patrick's Day parade wearing matching Union Jack t-shirts, which of course you have every right to do. 2. You and your pals are in Chicago on Pulaski Day, and wear a t-shirt with a photograph of Joseph Stalin, which is your right. 3. In San Francisco's Chinatown for

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Valerie Elverton Dixon in Sojo.net:The issue of illegal immigration in the United States requires an anti-logic of radical love. ... We ought to welcome them as brother and sister citizens. ... The question for me is: what would have happened had European-Americans welcomed African-Americans into the labor unions? What would have happened had they extended hospitality rather than violence?

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According to this Tennessean article by Chas Sisk, Tennessee State Rep. Brenda Gilmore has embraces the concept of earned legalization - for drivers - proposing to "forgiv[e] violators of up to half of their fines and penalties" and allow them "to work off a portion of their remaining fine through public service."She is paraphrased as saying, "Many of these people are still driving despite having

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by John LambGod grant usthe serenity to legalize the ordinary immigrants,the courage to deport only the criminals, andthe wisdom to know the difference.

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"The influx of illegal immigrants is harming my community. What is a Christian response?"

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By Patricia K. TullFriday, October 27, 2006 First reading: Mark 4:21-32Second reading: Exodus 2:1-10The second scripture reading is from the second chapter of Exodus. Previous to this story, in chapter 1, trouble has been brewing. A small clan of seventy Israelites who emigrated to Egypt at the end of Genesis because they were hungry has begun to multiply. A population explosion is going on:

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June 3, 2008The New York TimesThe Great Immigration PanicSomeday, the country will recognize the true cost of its war on illegal immigration. We don’t mean dollars, though those are being squandered by the billions. The true cost is to the national identity: the sense of who we are and what we value. It will hit us once the enforcement fever breaks, when we look at what has been done and no

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New York Times Letter to the EditorRe “The Great Immigration Panic” (editorial, June 3):Not much more than 30 years ago, I, along with millions of other grade school students, committed to memory these words by Emma Lazarus:Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,I lift my

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From The Jewish Daily Forward:What’s most shameful about the Postville immigration raid is not the behavior of the immigrants or the company that hired them, but the priorities and values of the government that mounted the operation. After years of neglecting its legal duties to protect workers and consumers, it finally found the resources for a massive show of commitment to our unenforceable

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Leviticus 19:33–34 Richard Groves Wake Forest Baptist ChurchApril 27, 2008 I was seven years old when the nineteen-fifties began. It was an interesting time to grow up. Science had made great strides in the first half of the twentieth century, and there was a tremendous optimism about what the human mind could create and accomplish. Newsreels, plugged into the gap that separated the cartoons

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May 15, 2008Editorial, New York TimesNo Rebates for YouImmigrant restrictionism is stiffing hundreds of thousands of American citizens and legal residents out of their tax-rebate checks.Hard-liners were so intent on keeping the cash out of the hands of undocumented workers that they restricted the rebate to people with Social Security numbers. An Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, issued

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The first letter to the editor here illustrates two points related to immigration: our laws should impose a punishment proportionate to the offense, and not every infraction of the law is or should be criminal:As a conscientious driver with an impeccable driving record, I wanted to offer my experience regarding moving over for stopped emergency vehicles ("Move over, or get a ticket," April 22

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MAYOR BLOOMBERG TESTIFIES BEFORE THE U.S. SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE FIELD HEARING ON FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LEGISLATIONJuly 5, 2006The following is the text of Mayor Bloomberg's Testimony – Please Check Against Delivery"Good morning, Chairman Specter and Senator Kennedy. Thank you for calling this hearing and inviting me to testify. "Immigration reform is one of the most important issues this

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Alien NationOne pastor's perspective on the immigration debate—and immigration opportunity.by Isaac CanalesI am a Harvard graduate and the son of immigrants. My story is not unique. In California, where I live, immigration has been an issue for decades. We've lived with it every day of our lives, long before it became a divisive political issue. In our state, even our governor is an immigrant.

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The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions, whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.-George Washington, in his Address to the Members of the Volunteer Association and the Other

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From theNewspaper.com: "In other words change the emphasis from 'threaten, enforce, punish, and penalize' to 'accommodate, assist, guide, and educate,' Baxter said. "Then we'll see the ... numbers move in the right direction -- downward."Do you agree? Beware; this advocate is not talking about immigrants. Read the original story here, and see if your opinion changes.

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Positive excerpts from last night's presidential debateMR. GUILIANI:New York City allowed the children of illegal immigrants to go to school. If we didn't allow the children of illegal immigrants to go to school, we would have had 70,000 children on the streets at a time in which New York City was going through a massive crime wave, averaging 2,000 murders a year, 10,000 felonies a week.The only

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By Nick SchulzPosted: Monday, September 17, 2007Few issues in American political life have generated so intense a debate as immigration. The US Congress this year failed--twice--to pass an immigration reform bill. With no consensus on a political path forward, the issue remains very much alive.The British author and economist Philippe Legrain has published a timely new book: Immigrants: Your

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Nashville Scene - Love-Hate Mail:The race continuesI’m glad to see that Jim Boyd, in his response to a letter that states he is a racist, sees a problem with making assumptions and accusations about a broad swath of people—in this case the anti-illegal immigration community—based on the words of a few extremists (“Love/Hate Mail,” July 26).I only wish that Jim would require the same level of

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Economy needs undocumented immigrants, and the numbers back it up

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Immigration Raids Echo History of African Americans

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Immigrating!The word meant failure, loss and defeat in the lives of people who sought refuge in other countries. It meant loss, too, to the families who had depended on the physical proximity of the immigrant. It branded the immigrant with the stigma of a loser in the game of life.In my 25 years as a immigration attorney, I have seen thousands of families confront the pain of admitting financial

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"Given the likely prevalence of such commonplace behavior ..., criminally charging [illegals] with [this commonplace crime] represents a major waste of prosecution dollars, writes Fred Grimm in the Miami Herald."Agree or disagree?It's not about migration, though. It's a more impolite subject, so be forewarned: original post here.

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By Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.)July 26, 2007In recent weeks, we have heard a lot of tough talk from those who worked to stop immigration reform in the Senate. What we haven’t heard are any solutions. What do they propose we do now?As most people who are familiar with the legislative process understand, being against something is easy. Embracing heated political rhetoric is easy.Pandering to

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Leaders fail to lead, and we're left with a growing immigration mess - Nashville, Tennessee - Monday, 07/23/07 - Tennessean.comBy JOHN TRUJILLOTennessee VoicesTwo weeks have passed since the failed attempt of the U.S. Senate to address immigration reform. After reading The Tennessean's recent coverage of the upsetting immigration raids in Columbia, I realize the Senate's irresolution has dealt an

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A foreign flag that was flown in Nashville will be removed from Tennessee altogether.A good thing?Read more

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From the Nashville City Paper:Local police, prosecutors and clergy are hoping that as many as hundreds of fugitives will take advantage of a rare opportunity to turn themselves in during the first week of August. The reason: That’s when law enforcement officials will be willing to give those persons the most favorable treatment possible and even “a second chance.”Under a program called “Fugitive

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"It's not just unfair but also immoral to make it much more burdensome for seekers of something worthy - not abusers - to do this."This is a paraphrase of a quote on what topic? It's not the immigration bureaucracy.Should that sentiment apply to expatriate policy?read the original story here

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Immigration WildfiresBY MICHAEL VENTURAThe Austin ChronicleThe people who know our border best scoff at talk of making it "secure," especially by building a wall. In Arizona, "Cochise County's 83 deputies patrol an area of rangeland, high desert and mountains larger than Connecticut." Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever calls a wall "a waste of resources and money." (USA Today, May 1, p.1) Those

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The law has been criticized because the cost to the lawbreaker is "stunning," punishment is non-negotiable and cannot be modified by a judge, and application of the law is unequal and "infuriating."The stated reason for the law is to address a group of lawbreakers who have become an economic burden to the government.Civil rights organizations invoke the U.S. Constitution when they decry the "

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From McNickGirl:We care more about ideas than people. We care more about the idea then how it will actually function is our complex world of relationships and interdependence. Ideas have such power with us. We lock our minds on with without checking on what it's making us become. Ideas, good ideas become twisted all too easily. Our longing for peace over rides the need for for justice. Our search

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Here We Go AgainBy Aunt B.It’s not a perfect analogy, but let’s say you live in a little village on one side of the interstate, next door to the most awesome bar imaginable.Say that your buddy John lives on the other side of the interstate, directly across from you and the bar. But it’s rural nowhere, so, if he’s going to actually drive to the bar, he’s got to go ten miles down to the nearest

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By MaliaHome is where……they have to let you in.…you hang your hat.…your heart is.Sometime in the next week or so (I don’t remember the exact date), David and I will have lived in Nashville for ten years. We moved here in June 1997 from Virginia. When we packed up our belongings, put them in a moving truck and headed west, I didn’t feel like I was moving to a new home. Instead I was leaving my

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Maybe I haven't made myself clearBy pitcherladyThis is a response to those of you who (unbelieveably) continue to feel confident about bombarding me with propaganda on immigration issues. From this point forward I will send these words to everyone on your e-mail list as soon as this thoughtless junk mail arrives. I'd reprint the original mail here but frankly, I don't want that sort of unfounded

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Undocumented workers need to be respected, paid and given a way forwardFarmers admit we need immigrant laborers; now we have to step up to be accountable for their role.By David Mas Masumoto"Agriculture has openly acknowledged the need for labor: We also must accept responsibility for these workers." "As these new Americans are recognized, wages, working conditions and health benefits must be

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Cox and Forkum points here to a column saying that kids and not immigrants are the assimilation priority (keep in mind the writer says we want them to learn American individualism, which some Americans are fighting as a cancer on our culture):But the argument about political correctness and multiculturalism is not really an argument against immigration. In fact, it only connects to immigration

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Cox and Forkum points here to "a must-read article on immigration from Jewish World Review: The real cause of the immigration crisis by Jeff Jacoby. (via TIA Daily)":To countless Americans, the difference between legal and illegal immigration is self-evident and meaningful. But is that really what distinguishes the immigrants we want from those we don't — that the former enter the country

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From Cox and Forkum (read entire entry here):Notice that we don't commonly talk about, say, "illegal homeowners" or "illegal students." Why? It's not because homeowners and students are fanatics for rule of law. It's because there are no government quotas limiting the number of home buyers and education seekers. If there were, if only a small number of houses were permitted to be built every year

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By Harry BinswangerThis is a defense of phasing-in open immigration into the United States. Entry into the U.S. should ultimately be free for any foreigner, with the exception of criminals, would-be terrorists, and those carrying infectious diseases. (And note: I am defending freedom of entry and residency, not the automatic granting of U.S. citizenship).An end to immigration quotas is demanded

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New York TimesPublished: May 27, 2007By accident or design, Suffolk County has come up with a law-enforcement net good at catching just the fish that County Executive Steve Levy wants: Latino immigrants without papers, some of his least-favorite people.The net is the police department’s new policy of arresting drivers caught without licenses or identification. There are lots of unlicensed drivers

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By LAWRENCE DOWNESNew York TimesPublished: May 27, 2007When people bicker over immigration, it’s often not long before the topic turns to My Family Came Here Legally. People whose roots go to Ellis Island or deeper like to say that. It fills their family trees with hard-working people who were poor but played by the rules, who got with the American program. It draws a bright line between

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Immigration is what made this country great.BY ROBERT L. BARTLEYWall Street JournalMonday, July 2, 2001 12:01 a.m. EDTReformist Mexican President Vincente Fox raises eyebrows with his suggestion that over a decade or two Nafta should evolve into something like the European Union, with open borders for not only goods and investment but also people. He can rest assured that there is one voice north

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By Tamar JacobyWashington PostWednesday, May 23, 2007; Page A21The immigration deal the Senate produced last week is far from perfect, and its critics, left and right, make many valid points. But much of the criticism misses the forest for the trees. Left out of the debate: the historic scope and significance of the deal -- its ambition to deliver an immigration system that grapples with

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Immigration's FutureThe Senate Compromise Asks the Right QuestionsBy Tamar JacobyWashington PostWednesday, May 23, 2007; Page A21The immigration deal the Senate produced last week is far from perfect, and its critics, left and right, make many valid points. But much of the criticism misses the forest for the trees. Left out of the debate: the historic scope and significance of the deal -- its

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Adam Sonfield is a senior public policy associate at the Guttmacher Institute, the leading policy research organization in the field of sexual and reproductive health.Immigrants—regardless of legal status—are often accused of abusing the nation’s system of government assistance. Rarely do the critics acknowledge, or even consider, that the use of public benefits may actually benefit the public,

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Nativist Nonsense Distorts a Critical IssueBy Sebastian MallabyMonday, April 30, 2007; Page A15Washington PostPresident Bush is doing his pragmatic best to secure immigration reform. He is honorably laboring to revive some version of the bipartisan bill that got 62 votes in the Senate last year. But watching this torturous process is enough to make a sane person scream. The livelihoods of

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Published in the New York Times: May 4, 2007When George W. Bush was running for president in 2000 as a new kind of Republican — the caring kind — he had a ready answer for those skeptical of his moderate views on immigration. “Family values do not stop at the Rio Grande,” he said, again and again. He was standing up for immigrants who come here seeking better lives for their children, and he

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Published in the New York Times: April 30, 2007We have all seen how presidential candidates shift positions to impress primary voters. It’s usually as measured and boring as dance instruction: O.K. everyone, now dip to the right — or left — then back to center. But on the volatile topic of immigration, Republicans are lurching, falling over themselves to convince voters that where they stand is

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By Mae NgaiPublished by Border Battles on: Jul 28, 2006Mae M. Ngai is associate professor of U.S. history at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton University Press, 2004). This article is reprinted from the May 16, 2006 edition of the Los Angeles Times.“Made in America—by immigrants" and "We too have a dream

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A statute of limitations on unlawful entry would humanely address illegal immigration.By Mae M. NgaiWashington Post, Tuesday, June 14, 2005; Page A21A bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate by Ted Kennedy and John McCain offers a plan for dealing with the nation's illegal immigration problem. Undocumented immigrants would be able to pay a fine, receive a three-year work visa, renewable once,

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From the Ornery American:A fifteen-year-old boy -- let's call him David -- has been yearning for his driver's license for a long time.But today all thoughts of waiting for his license are out the window, because his little sister cut herself and he can't stop the bleeding. His family's phone service was cut off long ago. His parents aren't home. They live far from any neighbors. But they do have

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"[A] majority of illegal immigrants live in the same communities as legal permanent residents – and in many cases the same houses – they often act in solidarity when either group feels threatened."from Legal immigrants seek American citizenship in surging numbersChristian Science Monitor, March 26, 2007

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Mack at Coyote Chronicles visited a Middle Tennessee tamale kitchen and found treasure in the time spent with his neighbors:Through the goodness of the Gods, I met an angel in the grocery store. Her and her mother were buying groceries, and from their selections I just knew momma was a first rate cook. I engaged them, and soon we agreed on a price for home-made tamales. (my current tamale connect

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Letter to the EditorUniversity of Chicago MagazineMarch/April 2007, Volume 99, Issue 4Who’s an american?My family came to America at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1609 and at Plimoth Plantation, Massachusetts, in 1620. As old immigrants (“Fenced Out,” Jan–Feb/07), we offer the following credo to the new immigrants from then, to the present, and into the future:No matter where people come from, if they

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According to various studies, immigrant families promote English internally, believing that it will create more opportunities for future generations. However, the 1st generation does not merely drag the 2nd and 3rd generations kicking and screaming to learn English. According to a 1998 study of 8th and 9th grade students in San Diego and Miami-Fort Lauderdale (cited by Lucy Tse in Why Don't They

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Purcell's backbone on 'English First' is rare in these timesBy WALTER T. SEARCY IIIRead full article hereThis storm, like others before it, shall ultimately subside as we again, albeit grudgingly, welcome the enriching qualities of difference. We will embrace them and incorporate them into the ever- changing canvas we call America the beautiful, as we have ultimately done with every immigrant

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By MICHELLE BRAEUNERFull article here"As I spoke, I noticed tears in her eyes. I sat down with Maria and asked how everything was going. Apparently, her grandfather had been ill, and their regular doctor had recommended a specialist. Unfortunately, the specialist didn't speak their language. Additionally, even though the family had lived in Nashville for more than four years, neither Maria's

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By Dwight LewisFull article hereI had an interesting phone conversation Wednesday with Guadalupe (Wally) Rendon, a 2003 graduate of the Diversity Institute at Vanderbilt University, which trains mostly people of color seeking a newsroom career.He said there is a deeper motivation for people who push a law such as the one to make English the "official'' language here."For all these years, white

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There may be those among you who support including Spanish in our national language. I for one am 110% against this! We must preserve the exclusivity and, above all, the purity of the English language. To all the schlemiels, schlimazels, nebbishes, nudniks, klutzes, putzes, shlubs, shmoes, shmucks, nogoodniks, and momzers that are out there pushing Spanish, I just want to say that I, for one,

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Lou Dobbs and some Republicans pull an Al Sharpton. Friday, January 26, 2007 12:01 a.m. EST Most people would consider corrupt border patrol agents to be part of the illegal immigration problem, not the solution. So it's passing strange that anti-immigration Republicans in Congress are calling for the federal government to release Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, two former border guards

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"Meanwhile, illegal pioneers began moving across the Alleghenies and into the upper Ohio Valley, violating the king’s 1763 proclamation and a few more besides. (George would today be accused of softness on immigration; he kept shifting the line westward.) Immigrants from such déclassé spots as Germany and Ireland violated the laws and settled where they pleased. The upper Ohio was rife with

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The Winter 2006 TCU alumni magazine contains a round-up of opinions about immigration from different people connected to the university. Here are short excerpts and links to a few of the pieces:"Those who are here and who are coming here are, after all, family and neighbors. Be careful how you treat them. Be careful how you counsel your congressional delegation."http://www.magazine.tcu.edu/

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Mr. Bush’s Immigration RealismPublished: December 21, 2006Every now and then the public gets a glimpse of the George W. Bush who is a calm realist on immigration, a former governor of a border state who knows, likes and understands Latino immigrants. It’s an identity sharply at odds with that of many other members of his Republican Party, especially the snarlers clustered on its right wing.At his

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Korean congregation serves Hispanic/Latino 'street angels'Dec. 13, 2006 NOTE: A UMTV report and photographs are available at http://umns.umc.org.By James Melchiorre* ENGLEWOOD, N.J. (UMNS) - Steve Chung would drive past the day laborers lined up on the streets of Palisades Park, N.J., each day, a Bible verse from the Gospel of Matthew constantly on his mind."Whatever you did for the least of

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To the Editor:Re “How Green Was My Rally,” by Lawrence Downes (The City Life, Dec. 10):I’m sorry that Mr. Downes didn’t stay for the full meeting of the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform. If he had, he might have heard Mary, an undocumented immigrant from County Kerry, describe how after her brother’s death in a car accident in Ireland, she held a wake without a body in the Bronx because she

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West Wing, Season 1, Episode 1: "Naval Intelligence reports approximately 1200 Cubans left Havana this morning. Approximately 700 turned back due to severe weather, some 350 are missing and presumed dead, 137 have been taken into custody in Miami and are seeking asylum. [pause] With the clothes on their backs, they came through a storm. And the ones that didn't die want a better life. And they

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By David MoranThere are an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Responding to this influx represents a challenge to our nation—but it's also a challenge to the Church of Jesus Christ. And it’s important that we consider the implications of this challenge in the context of God’s history with His people, perceptions about immigration, the reasons for it, and the appropriate

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Day Laborers’ Rights - New York TimesYou cannot abuse people through selective enforcement of the law. You cannot single people out for special punishment without cause. You cannot instruct the police to harass people for being Latino and poor. Cities and towns across the country have overlooked these basics in their eagerness to punish those they presume to have violated federal immigration laws

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Jaime CastilloSan Antonio Express-NewsThe caller didn't open my eyes to the fact we are in a culture war as much as he reminded me of it."Why don't you people want to learn English?" a voice that couldn't sound any angrier growled into my voice mail on Monday.Despite "my people's" apparent difficulty with the language, I got the message loud and clear.And that message is that the border security/

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"Cox's grasp of rights theory is all the shakier in the following quotation:"The fact that your grandmother, or great-grandmother, or you yourself, originated in some foreign clime … what exactly is this supposed to establish — that there should be unlimited immigration for all time to come? When I moved into my present neighborhood, the population was scant and prices were low; that's why I

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When Congress Checks Out"Foreign policy has dominated the attention of Americans since 9/11, and especially since the Iraq war began. Major issues have included the formulation and execution of terrorism policy, the invasion of Afghanistan, prewar intelligence, the invasion of Iraq, the conduct of the Iraq war and its aftermath, the NSA's surveillance program, reform of the intelligence apparatus

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Immigration, a Love Story - New York Times: "“Illegals are pouring over the border,” said Mr. Harrell, who has visited his family five times. “We meet them, we fall in love with them, we marry them. And then the government tears your family apart, and they take no responsibility for letting them in, in the first place.”"The Harrells said they had no idea how difficult it could be and were shocked

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A Crackdown on Newborns - New York Times"[I]f building new barriers to basic care ends up filling emergency rooms with ever-sicker immigrants — and their citizen children — then the effort will have been a sorry example of self-defeating spite."

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Latino Backlash Could Doom GOP - NAM: "The Republican party must rapidly reverse the dehumanization of millions in our midst"

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Immigration Reform Surprise: Hard-Liners Lost, Pragmatists Won

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'No' to immigration hard-linersA referendum on immigration policy Tuesday. The winner was John McCain.McCain, the state's senior senator, wasn't actually on the ballot. Rather, candidates across the state campaigned for or against an idea that McCain and a few other Arizonans in Congress have championed: a comprehensive approach to immigration reform that provides more visas for guest workers,

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Q: Depending on what happens on Nov. 7, what do you think is going to happen with the immigration debate, the whole spring mobilization?A: At the very least, what we saw in the spring was a unification of the Mexican migrant family. My worry has been that children born in the United States of parents who are illegally here end up with a confusion of identities. Their parents are not settled in

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The Not-So-Great Wall (2 Letters) - New York Times"So now we will have the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor and a fence along the border with Mexico.""Which best represents the United States?"..."Mr. Bush, tear down this fence."

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Election Note to Wall-Builders: Don't Bet On It

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/20/AR2006102001660.html?referrer=emailarticle"So at the end of the day what do we have? A growing number of immigrant poor? Well, yes. A growing number of depressed and downtrodden? No. Hispanic immigrants, like their immigrant predecessors, are optimists."More...

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http://elderj.wordpress.com/2006/10/22/ahn-nyung-ha-se-yo/"To greet Koreans in Korean as a non-Korean is always a sure fire way to elicit surprise and a bit of cultural cool points. It doesn't matter how much I mangle the pronunciation or use the improper honorific or fail to conjugate the verb, it never fails to please at some level. Trying to speak someone's language is a sign of respect,

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http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-outreach24oct24,1,5976766.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage&ctrack=1&cset=true"Bush won an estimated 44% of the Latino vote in 2004. While polling numbers vary, many analysts said that represented about a 9-percentage-point improvement from 2000, suggesting that Latinos might become a substantial pillar upholding a durable Republican majority."

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Guy Kawasaki has this early review of Robert Sutton's book, The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t. U.S. immigration policy is sorely in need of some of Sutton's anti-a**hole principles:Do not make people feel oppressed, humiliated, de-energized, or belittled.Do not mistreat people who are less powerful than you.Focus on win-win.Focus on ways you are no

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http://www.oregonlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/portland_news/116113475053120.xml?oregonian?pn&coll=7

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By Mark BrownThe Senate's immigration plan, the one favored by Duckworth and McCain (and yes, Kennedy), also calls for tougher border measures, but would allow those 12 million illegal immigrants to stay in the country. It would require them to register with the government and earn their legalized status by paying a fine, paying their taxes and learning English, among other requirements. It would

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ILW.COM - immigration news: Our Congress Debated Immigration Reform For Two Years, And All We Got Was This Lousy Fence Bill?

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Multiple Fronts of Immigrant Rights Movementby Mark SchurmannEDITOR’S NOTE: NAM convened a summit of ethnic media practitioners and immigrant rights activists on Sept. 21 at the Japanese American Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Over 125 participants spent a day discussing where they see immigrant rights in their regions and how to build more powerful communications within the movement. The summit

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Cruising on Military Drive 'Good' Latinos and 'Bad' Latinos in the Age of Homeland Security and Global Warby Roberto LovatoNot far from the white walls of the Alamo, Mexican and other Latino immigrants are again being cast as the anonymous "bad guys" as they run up against the political, physical, and psychic borders of the U.S. immigration debate. As the Bush Administration and the Republican

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http://www.civilrights.org/issues/immigration/details.cfm?id=47776

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Unjust Enforcement Escapes ScrutinyNew America Media, Commentary, Will Coley, Oct 12, 2006Editor's Note: Over the last nine months, Congress has debated immigration reform and the "enforcement-first" or "enforcement-only" strategy. Advocates argue that the debate has made too many assumptions. Will Coley, a member of the Detention Watch Network, worked in Los Angeles for Homies Unidos, a gang

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http://www.civilrights.org/issues/immigration/details.cfm?id=47718

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By EUNICE MOSCOSOCox News ServiceWednesday, September 27, 2006 WASHINGTON — With hopes fading for a broad immigration bill, lawmakers on Tuesday turned to religious leaders for help.Quoting from scripture, representatives of Catholic, Jewish and Baptist faiths urged Congress to adopt legislation passed in the Senate that gives many of the nation's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants a path to

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By Simone Baribeau on September 11, 2006 - 12:54am.According to a 2002 report of the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), a nonprofit research institution, the INS budget for border enforcement saw a three fold increased from 1995 to 2001, after a seven fold increase in the previous fifteen years. The result, according to the report, was "an increase in the probability of apprehension,"

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A USA Today article about Hispanics in Utah contained this closing truth:Midvale Mayor JoAnn Seghini created the Community Building Community program that brings volunteers and local agencies together to help immigrants. "Immigration is always going to be part of America," Seghini says. "Once they're here, they're us. And once they're us, we're in it together."

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By JUNE KRONHOLZWall Street JournalSeptember 6, 2006; Page A6Riverside, N.J., passed an ordinance this summer that would bar illegal immigrants from holding a job or renting an apartment there. When Riverside's Latino community held a prayer vigil to protest the measure a few weeks later, counterdemonstrators showed up to chant "go home" and "scram."One demonstrator waved a Confederate flag, and

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27 March 2006President welcomes new U.S. citizens, promotes guest-worker proposalAs a nation built by immigrants, the United States regularly welcomes "new [U.S.] citizens from every corner of the globe" who renew the nation's vitality and enrich its character, says President Bush.Appearing in Washington at a March 27 naturalization ceremony where people of different ages, backgrounds and

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by Glenn Scott and Norma Escandon MichaelsDear Editor: Much is being about the fact that illegal immigrants have broken laws, putatively creating an atmosphere of disrespect for the “rule of law.”To this we respond: Laws exist to serve and protect the community; not to terrorize it. They are tools, not inviolable strictures.We know from experience that laws are broken all the time, and not

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Read the Springfield Missouri editorial

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The questions surrounding immigration reform reflect a tension at the heart of Christianity.Melody PughThis spring, the reality of illegal immigration took top billing on political and media agendas with such force that the debate continues to reverberate throughout the country. Why this issue has taken on such a life at this particular time is difficult to say. The problem has existed for years.

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