In the ongoing confusion of whether or not we should like 'the illegals' or not, several themes keep popping up. One theme is how fat, lazy and unhealthy Mexicans are. The other theme centers on the perpetual debate of "Are the Illegals an Economically Sound Investment?" The debate sounds something ...
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· 5:00 pm
· China · Mexico
The XVII International AIDS Conference ended in Mexico City last week, leaving participants with much to focus on until the next conference, which takes place in Vienna in 2010. One of these areas of focus are the travel restrictions imposed on HIV-positive people entering a country for the short or long-term. Conference organizers and many [...]
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Last time we checked, shooting into another country's territory was against international law. But the United States Border Patrol isn't one to get all bogged down international law, especially in the face of rocks.
The incident began unfolding about 10 p.m. Tuesday, when an officer with the federa...
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From the newsobserver we get the story of Marxavi Angel Martinez, a North Carolinian woman who is now facing imprisonment and deportation because of her legal status. Martinez was born in Mexico, but brought to the U.S. at the age of three and has lived here ever since.
Unfortunately, Martinez h...
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I never understood how Christians can wish for bad things to happen and think that falls in line with Christ's values but yet Focus on the Family asked, half way joking, for people to pray that the skies open up and unleash torrential rain on Barack Obama's Democratic Convention speech on August 28t...
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Paula Góes
· 9:53 pm
· Canada · India · Mexico · United Kingdom
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I want America to know that I'm, like, totally ready to lead," says celebrity Paris Hilton in a tongue-in-cheek online video reply to the advertisment launched by John McCain. The viral caught the blogosphere by storm, triggering millions of hits and thousands of comments and blog posts around the world in less than a day. Paula Goes reflects on a few voices in this post.
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Who said Obama doesn't care about Latinos? He's got $20 million burning a hole in his pocket and guess where it's going? To try to get the Latino vote -- which some say he has in the bag -- to swing his way for sure.
Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign launched a massive $20 million effor...
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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...
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Lova Rakotomalala
· 12:50 pm
· Afghanistan · Colombia · Czech Republic · D.R. of Congo · France · Germany · Mexico · Moldova · Pakistan · Slovakia
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.
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Jillian York
· 6:09 pm
· Mexico · Puerto Rico (U.S.) · U.S.A.
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.
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