Alive in the Old World
Marisella Veiga [Photo]
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We’d heard about the Bangladesh family that had moved to St. Augustine, Florida, less than a year ago and opened a restaurant. One night when neither my husband nor I felt like cooking, we went to the family’s Muniria Mandarin Chinese and Indian restaurant.
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Advocates Press Congress
For Immigration Bill this Session
Alex Meneses Miyashita [Photo]
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Congressional members and pro-immigrant groups are stepping up their efforts to pass legislation that could legalize millions of undocumented immigrants, at least temporarily, before the end of the first session of the 109th Congress this fall.
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Immigrants Isolated by Katrina
Need Temporary Protective Status
Randy Jurado Ertll
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In the 1990s, thousands of immigrants flocked from Central America and Mexico to work in New Orleans and other U.S. destinations that are now ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. With or without our permission, they came.
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Violent Crimes Against Latinos Reach Record Low
Alex Meneses Miyashita [Photo]
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The rate that violent crimes are committed against Hispanics has reached its lowest point yet since the federal government began documenting ethnicity in its annual crime victimization survey a dozen years ago.
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Bill Bennett’s Hypocrisy Brings Memories to Hispanics
Charlie Ericksen
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Bill Bennett, author of the 1993 best seller "The Book of Virtues," and long-time nemesis of the Hispanic community, is back in the news. Now he is broadening the targets of his prejudices and sharing them out loud.
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A Toast to our Hispanic Heritage
Raymond Rodríguez
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Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept. 15 – Oct. 15 |
What’s all the fuss about? There has been much exultation during this year’s ritual observation of Hispanic Heritage Month. I’ve heard the proclamations, shared in the rhetoric and toasted our virtues with Mexican margaritas, Puerto Rican coquitos and South American pisco sours.
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The Debate on Immigration Has Begun in Earnest
Janet Murguia [Photo]
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If there is a consensus on anything in our nation’s fractious immigration debate, it is that our system is broken and badly in need of reform.
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Aunt Lucy’s Trip to Mexico
Ricardo Chavira [Photo]
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My 79-year-old aunt, Lucy Parra was a 12-year-old who had just lived every child’s nightmare. It was 1938, and within a few months both her parents had tragically died. She had no relatives in her native Los Angeles and only sketchy information about aunts and uncles in El Paso, some 800 miles away.
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Ozzie Guillen Breaks a Baseball Barrier
Robert Heuer [Photo]
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Before the first game of the 101st World Series, Hall of Famer Luis Aparicio emerged from the dugout and embraced Venezuelan countryman Ozzie Guillén. The White Sox manager vanished into the media crowd as a swarm of reporters converged on Aparicio.
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