rssPosts by Luis Rumbaut
Boston Financier’s Newest Fund
<p>Last week, a California <a id="mg0x" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,340272,00.html" target="_blank" title="wrestling promoter">wrestling promoter</a> put on a match to raise funds for immigrants arrested in a raid. He brought in $4,000.<font color="#0000ff"> </font>Two days earlier, a <a id="tmz-" href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120589144850147397.html?mod=blog" target="_blank" title="Boston millionaire">Boston millionaire</a> had put up $200,000 to bail out 40 factory workers More…
Super Mojado Beats INS
If you guessed that this took place in Los Angeles, you’re right: more precisely, in Van Nuys, a district north of Hollywood. And if you guessed that it involved a masked wrestler, Mexican style, you know about Lucha Libre. <br><br>Last Saturday, Super Mojado, the masked hero of <a title="undocumented workers" More…
McCain Tells GOP Candidates to Cool It on Immigration
<p>NPR <a id="bplk" title="interviewed" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88382489">interviewed</a> Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Monday, after a town hall meeting in a suburban Philadelphia country club.</p>
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He was introduced by Craig Williams, a local GOP congressional candidate and former federal prosecutor of illegal immigrants:</p>
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<p>"I’m going to tell the truth about More…
Inhospitable Immigration History, Irish Edition
<p>Though a nation built by immigrants, the United States has traditionally been inhospitable to new arrivals. The sequential waves of immigrants who came to America’s shores were regularly greeted by the equivalent of "Go Home!" signs. Latinos are the latest group to experience it, but the unwelcome mat is as More…
Wave of Immigration Bills Hits Congress
Republicans and conservative Democrats in Congress have introduced a package of immigration bills, 15 of them in the Senate. In the House, Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) is pressing for action on the centerpiece of the package, the SAVE, or Secure America More…
The Nation as Castle: Drawbridges at the Border?
<p>Here’s an environmentally-friendly way to keep out the aliens, harking back to the days of medieval castles: build a moat.<br />
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That’s the proposal for a stretch of the border along Yuma, Arizona. It calls for <a id="pup:" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN12638533" target="_blank" title="digging a channel">digging a channel</a> up to 10 More…
McCain Downplays Immigration
<p>Sen. John McCain stood apart from the GOP presidential field when it came to immigration. As a senator from a Southwest boarder state, Arizona, he took a markedly realistic view, and it was one reason his campaign almost collapsed last year.</p>
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For the GOP base is strongly anti-immigration. More…
Bill Gates: We Need Immigrants
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<p>The U.S. needs immigrants, lots of them. So says Bill Gates, a man whose company has the cash to buy the best workers that money can buy. His focus is on H-1B visas–temporary permits for highly-skilled workers who, not infrequently, More…
McCain Honored for Immigration Reform and Peace Efforts
<p>Irish America Magazine is honoring the "<a title="Top 100" target="_blank" href="http://www.irishabroad.com/news/irish-voice/entertainment/Articles/Top-100-Irish-Americans150308.aspx" id="eouu">Top 100</a>" Irish-Americans, including Barack Obama, Hillary and Bill Clinton, and John McCain. <br /><br />
McCain gets props for his work on behalf of immigration reform and the Irish peace process. It’s odd to think of "Bomb, Bomb, More…
They Deport Russians, Don’t They?
<p>Well, yes. Russians, Poles…whatever. Even when they were born in Minnesota.<br /><br />
The lead paragraph in this McClatchy report sets up the <a id="zyw2" href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/25392.html" target="_blank" title="story">story</a>: "Thomas Warziniack was born in Minnesota and grew up in Georgia, but immigration authorities pronounced him an illegal immigrant from Russia."<br /><br More…
