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LULAC National Policy Newsletter 11/01/07

LULAC uses the term "undocumented" to refer to US residents who are out of status and we may have altered the articles below to incorporate this term.
IMMIGRATION

Fires Highlight Safety Needs of Migrant Workers

NPR

San Diego County is home to tens of thousands of immigrant workers, both legal and undocumented. Their homes and workplaces may be at risk, but poor access to services and fear of immigration authorities at evacuation centers may keep some from seeking shelter.

Workers in California's lucrative agriculture industry are among those in limbo.

Jesus Gomez from Oaxaca was at his job at a nursery in San Diego's North County when the Witch fire roared in from the east. His crew kept working while wind whipped smoke and ash in their eyes. (Read More)

Latinos React to Immigration Law Ruling

AP

A new state immigration law that targets undocumented immigrants has created fear and panic in Latino communities across Oklahoma and will force many immigrants -- both documented and undocumented to leave their jobs and homes, Latino groups said Wednesday.

Latinos and their supporters reacted to the law on the eve of its Thursday effective date after a federal judge in Tulsa took under advisement a request to block its enforcement.

Madrid, LULAC's representative in Oklahoma, said he plans to visit schools in Latino areas and speak to Latino youth groups in an effort to prevent them from reacting violently when the law goes into effect.

"They figure they're punishing us and they're targeting us," Madrid said. "I see a lot of young people with no hope of going to college, no hope of getting a good job. They get angry." (Read More)

Complexity of Immigrants' National Ties Explored

Washington Post

The majority of Hispanic immigrants maintain ties to their native countries by sending money, calling or traveling to their homelands, but most see their future in the United States despite these long-distance links, a new study has found.

Just 9 percent of Latino immigrants are "highly attached" to their birth countries -- defined by researchers as doing all three "transnational activities": dispatching funds, phoning weekly or going home in the past two years. Most sustain moderate bonds by doing one or two. But those attachments fade with time, according to a Pew Hispanic Center report based on a nationwide survey of Latinos. (Read More)

Robbers Stalk Hispanic Immigrants, Seeing Ideal Prey

Washington Post

The attacks are occurring with such frequency that police in Prince William County have created a task force, and Montgomery police have assigned a specialized unit to tackle the problem. The crimes are having profound effects in the neighborhoods where they occur, causing some residents to alter their routines.

"Everyone leaves with someone else, in groups of two or three," said Woodbridge resident Joaquin Rodriquez, describing the change that has occurred since the fatal shooting of a Mexican immigrant during a robbery in September 2006. (Read More)

Spitzer's license plan runs into anti-immigration fervor

New York Daily News

Ruben Diaz, the Democratic state senator and Pentecostal minister from the Bronx, calls it the "worst display of racism" he's seen since his days as a young soldier in South Carolina in 1960.

Sen. Bill Perkins (D-Harlem) claimed the "anti-immigrant hatemongering" gave him flashbacks to the furor over school busing decades ago.

Both men were referring to Monday's emotional debates in the Senate and Assembly over Gov. Spitzer's plan to allow undocumented immigrants to apply for driver's licenses. (Read More)

HEALTH

Child Health Care Bill Advances in Senate

New York Times

The Senate moved on Wednesday to take up a bill providing health insurance for 10 million children, just hours after President Bush said he would veto the legislation because it called for “a massive tax increase.â€

OMG that was funny...I am sorry but I find it hestarical how twisted and desperate these people are...they will say anything...no matter how retarded the angle...they are soooo desperate for attention, control and power....

This is what I find really disturbing.

Originally Posted by CitizenJustice

LULAC uses the term "undocumented" to refer to US residents who are out of status and we may have altered the articles below to incorporate this term.

In other words, they totally think Latin Americans should have the right to decide on their own if they want to come live and work in the US, American Citizens like you and me have no voice in the matter. This is treason.

Madrid, LULAC's representative in Oklahoma, said he plans to visit schools in Latino areas and speak to Latino youth groups in an effort to prevent them from reacting violently when the law goes into effect.

Like I read before in another thread, is this a threat? Sounds like it to me!

both legal and undocumented.

undocumented now equals illegal? that just does not work.

It is undocumented to run a red light.

robbing a bank is undocumented.

It is undocumented to do drugs.


see folks, the words are not interchangeable. when you put "undocumented"into a sentence where "illegal" should be the word, the sentence just does not make sense.

This is one of my personal favorites. First, I think the actual quote from what I read was blacks. Second if it was blacks it is true. Hispanics have a longer life expectency then whites, blacks have the shortest.

The head of the Justice Department's voting section apologized today for saying that racial minorities are more likely to die before becoming elderly and therefore are not hurt as much as whites by voter identification laws.

So if the argument is that voter identification laws hurt elderly, it is easy to see that they would harm at least blacks less. Especially black males who hardly have a chance to get elderly.

Heres a snippet from http://www.boston.com/news/education/hi ... n_shorter/

-- Racial disparities. Black Americans have an average life expectancy of 73.3 years, five years shorter than white Americans.

Black American males have a life expectancy of 69.8 years, slightly longer than the averages for Iran and Syria and slightly shorter than in Nicaragua and Morocco.

Originally Posted by cayla99

both legal and undocumented.

undocumented now equals illegal? that just does not work.

It is undocumented to run a red light.

robbing a bank is undocumented.

It is undocumented to do drugs.


see folks, the words are not interchangeable. when you put "undocumented"into a sentence where "illegal" should be the word, the sentence just does not make sense.

So, does this mean it's undocumented to be undocumented?

Originally Posted by Rockfish

Originally Posted by cayla99

both legal and undocumented.

undocumented now equals illegal? that just does not work.

It is undocumented to run a red light.

robbing a bank is undocumented.

It is undocumented to do drugs.


see folks, the words are not interchangeable. when you put "undocumented"into a sentence where "illegal" should be the word, the sentence just does not make sense.

So, does this mean it's undocumented to be undocumented?

either that or it is illegal to be illegal