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July 27, 2008

ICE Swoops Down on Ohio Restaurants

Aggregated from: VivirLatino

We told you it was only a matter of time before we were announcing and denouncing the latest ICE raid. Yesterday ICE targeted 8 restaurants in Northern Ohio and arrested 58 people. All those arrested were citizens of Mexico and working at Casa Fiesta, a chain of Mexican restaurants in Ashland, Frem...

July 21, 2008

Campaigning Abroad: A welcome change or an exercise in futility?

With both candidates spending some time abroad to explain their foreign affairs strategies (Obama currently in Afghanistan and soon in Europe, McCain in Mexico and Colombia) the rest of the world wonders whether they should celebrate this new emphasis on international relations or expect a potential backlash for either candidates.

July 12, 2008

Rosa Clemente as Green Party running mate

Former Representative (D-Georgia) Cynthia McKinney is running for president on the Green Party ticket. On July 9, she announced Rosa Clemente, hip-hop activist and journalist, as her running mate. The blogosphere is abuzz with reactions to the announcement.

June 19, 2008

Global: “I'm Voting Republican”

"I'm Voting Republican", a short film created by Charlie Steak and SyntheticHuman Pictures, has quickly gone viral and created quite a stir on the internet. A sample quote from the parody:   I'm voting Republican because I think new drugs should be made available immediately, whether they've been tested properly or ...

June 13, 2008

Boy Scout Facing Deportation Learns New Meaning of “Be Prepared”

Aggregated from: VivirLatino

Boy Scouts are expected to be prepared, but no child should have to be prepared for what 13 year old scout Jose Andrade and his family faces. Jose Andrade faces being deported, alone. A good student who wants to be a policeman, defies the stereotypes portrayed of young Latino undocumented thugs. Jos...

May 29, 2008

Mexico, One of the Hardest Working Countries

Aggregated from: VivirLatino

While Lou Dobbs might not want to admit it, a recent article in Forbes magazine says that Mexicans are among the hardest working populations in the world. Mexico ranks number 7 in the top 10 most hardworking countries, but that obviously doesn't mean that it is getting rich from all that labor. In f...

May 20, 2008

Mexico: Attempts at a US Tourist Visa

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

Mexican Reporter documents the experience of a Mexican friend and his attempts to receieve a tourist visa to the United States, and where he was denied. ...

May 16, 2008

Global: Obama An Apostate?

On May 12, the New York Times published an op-ed by one Edward N. Luttwak from Chevy Chase, Maryland entitled “President Apostate?” Luttwak's op-ed piece details Obama's relationship with Islam (his father, born Muslim, renounced the religion, and Obama became a Christian early in life) and the effects that it could have on global politics and the United States' relations with predominantly Muslim countries.

May 13, 2008

Mother's Day at the Border

Aggregated from: VivirLatino

Flowers, chocolates, cards, perfume. These are the most common mother's day gifts. Along the U.S. Mexico border, all some mothers and daughters wanted was to hug each other.You can walk to the U.S. border, Francelia Menchaca's immigration lawyer advised her, but don't put your fingers through its fe...

May 9, 2008

This Just Makes No Kind of Sense : Catching the Undocumented Leaving the U.S.?

Aggregated from: VivirLatino

Is the anti-immigrant movement so desperate to up it's numbers of undocumented that they have resorted to catching undocumented immigrants when they are leaving the U.S. into Mexico? Seems so. SAN DIEGO -- U.S. border authorities no longer apprehend illegal immigrants only as they enter the country....