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Hi Ragnar
Love your handle. Just finished Atlas Shrugged this week, the night before the Kittanning protest, actually.
I think we need to mimic these protestors when
acorn aka the census worker comes to the door: "Don't Come Back!"
OMG -- I forgot about that
OMG -- I forgot about that -- the ACORNs are going to be part of the census machine.
I have already decided to provide only my name, address and number of person in the household. I will not answer anything else.
BTW, does everybody know that they will be sending people out to get a GPS reading on every home? Will probably be ACORNs doing that. The local police have been instructed to support the GPS crew if any home owner takes action to remove them from private property.
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I was shooting my own video
I was shooting my own video at the time the video linked above was shot. You'll notice that I'm waving a peace sign at the buses as they depart. By referencing my own copy I was able to figure out what I was shouting at the bus while the crowd was chanting "Don't come back." I said, "Tell Obama to stop the wars! No more war! No more war! No more war!"
Guess I'm just a softie at heart.
More videos
Thanks for the links. There
Thanks for the links. There are more available if you go to youtube and search on: specter kittanning
Wouldn't it be terrible...
Wouldn't it be terrible if someone let out all the air in their tires so that they had to stay in the area.
Wouldn't it be terrible if someone glued signs on their bus stating exactly who they are, what they are doing there, and how they got there. I could see it now, "I was bussed in from x-town to attend y-towns town hall meeting and support the health care bill because no one who supports the bill would come on their own" or "I am an astro-turfing health care supporter."
Wouldn't it be terrible to somehow force media attention on these bussed in people. That would just be devastating for the president.
Regarding Media Attention
In the video linked in the other Kittanning thread an SEIU member admits that he was paid to be there.
Think that will ever get on the TV?
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Wouldn't it be terrible...
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I Was There -- I'm in the Video
That's me wearing a black RP shirt on the far left in the preview frame of the video and also in the still pic.
For more info and another video see my thread, "Eyewitness Report from Kittanning, PA Specter Town Hall, 8/13/2009" here:
Well, their plan seems
to be working divide and conquer. They are greasing the wheels united we stand or divide the gangster banksters win.
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PROGRESS... now there's a funny thing. Though it's fair to say not many are laughing.
Might it be an idea to make a case to regress for a change. You know, regression in recession. Not a bad slogan for a T-shirt, that.
So far as I can work out, progress has made it cheaper for nasty, fake meat to travel half way round the world – or Europe anyway – and back again, through the dirty hands and mincing machines of any number of processors on the way, than for real meat to travel from farm to butcher to dinner table in a radius of 30 miles.
My pea-sized brain is befuddled – so I couldn't swear to the science, maths or geography. But nevertheless, two convenient ready meals of cottage pie and another of lasagne have made the journey from my fridge to my bin without sparing any horses.
They didn't come from a named and shamed supermarket, they hadn't been frozen and there was no reason to doubt their assertion of 27 per cent beef content. But that's progress for you – you can't trust anything any more.
The rush for cheap, easy, stick in the oven and ignore the consequences food is a progression we've all bought into at some time. It has been irresistible, for reasons we're all well aware of.
And now? Well, the consequences are all beginning to unravel to leave a nasty taste in the mouth.
Conspiracy theorists are already talking of secrets and lies. I'm inclined to join them.
Nothing wrong with horse meat – so long as it's clean, healthy, not laced with drugs or disease; not crammed into my cottage pie after dying of cancer, so saving on disposal costs.
And now I'm never going to be convinced that has been the case. Once duped, forever suspicious. I've been conned by the false advantages of progress and I'm working on regression as an alternative.
Bound to wonder about possible links between unsafe meat, with no traceable provenance and increasingly common occurrences of cancers and life-threatening illnesses, regression in recession seems like a plan.
They say there's no health risk. They say it's all fine. But they also said old nag was beef, so who's going to believe them?
Not me. I'm off to the local butcher. I'm sticking to what grandma did so well. I'm regressing. Anyone feel like joining me?
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Nancy Baraza, sworn into office in June, has a track record of pushing for legal reform. She and Chief Justice Willy Mutunga have promised to transform a judiciary widely seen as inefficient and corrupt.
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Security guard Rebecca Morara told local media Baraza refused to be screened at the entrance to the Village Market shopping mall in Nairobi. When asked to have her bag checked, Morara said Baraza resisted and threatened her with a pistol.
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The rebels have threatened attacks in Kenya after the east African country sent troops into Somalia, blaming the rebels for cross-border kidnappings and attacks.
Baraza said she had requested increased security measures after a number of incidents in and outside her office, and that threats of violence had been directed at her.
"The unfortunate incident at the Village Market should be viewed in light of the genuine security apprehension on my part. I certainly had no intention of high handedness, arrogance or ill will," Baraza said in her statement.
Political commentator Kwamchetsi Makokha said: "This incident has considerably punctured the momentum of reform and the moral standing. Unless transparent measures are taken to get to the bottom of this matter, public confidence in the judiciary will be heavily dented."
Mutunga said: "This matter has rightly generated considerable public interest and should be dealt with conclusively and satisfactorily. I am in the process of getting full facts surrounding the incident.
"Nobody or institution is above the law ... The judiciary is instituting its own internal investigation," said Mutunga, who said at his swearing-in that he expected to end oppression and exploitation and promote transparency and freedom.
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The BlackBerry Curve has a QWERTY keyboard. Almost all the keys you would find on a regular computer keyboard are found on the bottom portion of the BlackBerry. On the Nokia 2720, on the other hand, you must use the phone's key pad to text.
What Is Texting on a Qwerty Keyboard?
The QWERTY keyboard takes its name from the far left letters on the top of a computer keyboard. From the left, the first 6 letters are: Q, W, E, R, T, and Y. QWERTY is also a term that distinguishes one type of cell phone from another.
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Those who are good typists will have no trouble using the QWERTY keyboard because it is laid out exactly like a computer keyboard. Those who aren't good typists will have to hunt and peck. Each key on the phone represents two letters or symbols. The upper letters on each key can be accessed by pressing a "special" key located somewhere on the keyboard.
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If you are new to texting, it's a good idea to practice before sending a text. Go to the menu on your phone and find the "Messaging" or "Texting" icon. Click to open it and a blank screen will appear. You can now begin typing your message. Try typing: "Hi Mary, Let's go out to lunch later."
If you are unfamiliar with texting or typing, it make take a few minutes to type a message, but with practice you will get faster. If this were a real text message, you would next press "Send" and the address book would open, allowing you to choose one or more people to send the text to.
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Fences, they say, make good neighbors. But locked gates just mean you're looking for a privacy you will probably not find. Author Mark Jamison suggests sharing the land, and the road, in the mountains of North Carolina.
The federal government owns huge swaths of land in some rural counties but pays no property tax to support local government. "Payment in lieu of taxes" is supposed to help make up the difference. With funding in jeopardy and a lot of big things on the congressional agenda, counties are getting organized to keep the issue on the front burner.
Daniel Acker willfully gave up a coveted staff photographer position in New York City to relocate to rural Illinois. Life is anything but simple in his town of 800, he says. But he doesn't regret the decision to train his camera on Main Street instead of Wall Street.
The rural veteran population is declining in number and is growing older as a group, but the nation's veterans are still disproportionately rural, according to federal data. The Yonder celebrates Veterans Day with county-level information on veterans populations in rural and metro counties.
Many Native communities increased voter turnout in the midterm election, affecting state and local races, defeating Montana's voter-restriction referendum and literally changing the political map. Exhibit A: Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota (formerly Shannon County). Mark Trahant reports on voting among Native Americans, the ethnic group with the largest proportion of its members living in rural America.
Rural counties with a large proportion of "creative-class" workers have tended to recover more quickly from the recession. But "amenity-rich" areas near national parks and other natural areas aren't doing nearly as well, even though they boomed in the 1990s.
Colleges have figured out how to extract resources from grateful alumni who long ago left campus. Small towns should adopt a similar strategy for harvesting investments from young people who have moved on but remain connected and appreciative.
With few exceptions, Republican candidates gained across the board in key races in this week's election, among city, small town and rural voters. But the bigger story may be how little changed from 2008 and 2012 to 2014, as familiar voting patterns repeated themselves in key races.
Oil prices are coming down. While that's good news for consumers, the rural communities that depend on oil revenue to pay for local government services and infrastructure may have a different experience.
Source: Mark Haggerty/Headwaters Economics The chart shows the loss in tax revenue over a five-year period for a typical new shale-oil well in North Dakota, based on a drop in the price from $98 to $78 a barrel of crude. Local governments's share (green bars) of a typical well would drop about $80,000 over the period. Losses to state revenue (yellow) and permanent investments (blue) for future development needs would be even greater.
Falling oil prices could mean millions of dollars less in tax revenue for local governments in oil-producing regions, even as counties and municipalities have to continue paying for the impact of oil boom.
To get a handle on the possible impact of falling oil prices on local government revenues, I looked at the difference in tax income that occurs when oil prices drop from $98 to $78 a barrel for in North Dakota's Bakken shale oil fields. That's comparable to the change we've seen in the recent decline of oil prices.
The change in price could result in about $200 million less for local governments over five years, and $350 million less for state government. Losses for that state's permanent investment fund would be even higher.
Those figures include only an estimated 2,500 new wells and don't include lost revenues on the state's existing wells, which number in the tens of thousands.
States are already stingy with sharing revenues with local communities to fund infrastructure and services required during the oil boom. And local governments need oil revenue to pay for annual, recurring expenses even as some states have invested in permanent funds to meet long-term needs. High oil prices can mask these problems in fiscal policy, but today's lower prices—if they persist and if drilling continues apace—may expose these weaknesses. Communities will have less money to deal with the same intensity of industrial and population-growth related impacts.
Rural Americans should be pleased with President Obama's recent call to preserve network neutrality. And the method he wants the FCC to use to protect open access to the Internet means additional safeguards for all consumers.
President Barack Obama, a former Chicago community organizer and perhaps our most urban president, just did something that could make a real difference for rural America. Last week he came to the defense of the principle of net neutrality, and he urged the Federal Communications Commission to reclassify broadband service under Title II of the Telecommunications Act.
This could be a big win for rural communities and small towns. Let me tell you how.
Net NeutralityNet neutrality is the principle that all information is treated equally and that no website or streaming service can pay for a faster lane.
President Obama explained it: "We cannot allow Internet service providers to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas… I believe the FCC should reclassify consumer broadband service under Title II of the Telecommunications Act."
The president's calling for Title II reclassification is an unequivocal commitment to ensure that rural Americans don't get stuck in the slow lane. Thank you, Mr. President.
The Internet helps rural communities revitalize our local economies, share our culture with global audiences and amplify our voices in debates that shape society.
For example, Becky McCray owns a liquor store and cattle ranching business in Hopeton, Oklahoma, a town of 30 people. She also writes about how to run a small business and connects with other rural business owners across the country via her blog, Small Biz Survival.
You can't buy Becky's products online, but she uses the Internet for every aspect of her businesses: to bid on merchandise, to run her iPad as a cash register, to market her products. The Internet allows her to compete with large liquor businesses in metropolitan areas and to stay in her rural community. Without network neutrality, Becky will be at a competitive disadvantage. She simply does not have the same capital that a big Internet-based company like BevMo! has to speed up their connection.
President Obama stood up for Becky and small, rural business owners like her.
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Photo by Gary Cameron/Reuters Anti-Keystone XL Pipeline activists demonstrate outside Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu's house.
The Senate's vote over the Keystone XL pipeline on Tuesday was mostly sound and fury. But it did signify something: Mary Landrieu's hopes of winning her run-off election in Louisiana's U.S. Senate race in early December.
Landrieu, the Louisiana Democrat, introduced the measure to approve the pipeline in the Senate. Observers say she hopes her very visible support for the pipeline will help her in her re-election bid against U.S. Representative Bill Cassidy, a Republican.
That the Senate approval of the pipeline fell just short of the magic number to move forward is a secondary concern, according to this theory. Because pipeline supporters will most likely have an easy time passing a similar measure in the Senate in January, when the new Congress is seated.
But January is too late to affect the December runoff race for Landrieu.
The controversial pipeline would carry tar-sands oil from Canada to points south, including Louisiana, where it could be refined, thus creating jobs for Louisianans.
National Geographic has a good "thumbsucker" on the Keystone XL issue, including how the pipeline has become snagged in foreign relations, climate-change negotiations and national and state politics. There's even a little information on the critical role Nebraska landowners and advocates have played in this international issue.
Even if Congress voted for the Keystone proposal, which officially depends on a decision from President Obama because the line crosses the border with Canada, there's still a long row to hoe – or trench to dig – before final approval.
The case is in the Nebraska Supreme Court because of how state government handled the routing process. President Obama could veto congressional approval, which would create a much higher bar for supporters to get over. The pipeline may need another round of approvals from South Dakota because it's been delayed so long. And meanwhile, the drop in the price of oil changes the economics of the project.
Residents who live along the route of a proposed gas pipeline in central Pennsylvania worry that the natural gas "boom" could become more than a figure of speech. The pipeline's route would go through an area plagued by underground coal mine fires and subsidence.
Photo by www.daladophotography.com Smoke rises from the Luke Fiddler (Coal Run) underground mine fire. A proposed pipeline that wouldcarry natural gas from the Marcellus shale region would go through the area, which is susceptible to combustion in old underground mines.
When Pete Tipka first learned a company wanted to run a natural gas pipeline through his property in Bear Gap, Pennsylvania, he considered it.
"When the pipeline letter came in the mail, I knew nothing about it. I thought— oh, I'll make some money… Then I did some research."
It wasn't easy. He couldn't get much out of the government.
"People were apprehensive about giving information," Tipka said. "They clam up and don't say nothing."
The company sent a landman to negotiate with property owners, but, according to Tipka, "he was a typical land person. An employee of a huge corporation, there to make landowners happy," not to provide unbiased information.
The "Atlantic Sunrise" pipeline would run through 10 Pennsylvania counties, connecting other pipelines and moving natural gas for export. It's a proposal from Williams Partners, a Tulsa-based Fortune 200 company.
Photo courtesy of Nixnootz Pete Tipka points to the route the proposed pipeline would take through his land in Pennsylvania.As of November 2014, the pipeline is in a "public input" stage, before the federal government approves or denies the project. The project will also apply for eminent domain, which would give pipeline owners the power to take land if landowners won't sell rights voluntarily.
Tipka started to worry about the proposed pipeline splitting his land in half – land that his family has owned for over 175 years. He went to public meetings held by the company, but company representatives quickly dismissed his concerns.
His bigger concern, though, lies in the mountain to the south of his land, where his great grandpappy milled timbers for the mines.
Chemical weed killers have become a big part of mainstream, commercial agriculture, saving farmers time and back-breaking labor. But they also come with a cost, as loss of effectiveness forces greater use just to keep up. Now there's a move afoot to add new patents to some of the old chemicals.
Via the U.S. Geological SurveyUse of the herbicide glyphosate, known by the brand name Roundup, has expanded since 1992, according to U.S. Geological Survey records. Genetically modified "Roundup Ready" soybeans, which allow farmers to kill weeds without killing the crop, became available in 1994.
When I was a kid, I worked next to my folks pulling weeds from around fences and buildings on the farmstead every Saturday afternoon. Those were the days.
Starting when it was first released in 1974, the herbicide Roundup became a great labor saver for us. Dad loved to spray it around the farm, killing all those weeds and grasses without ever once shaking out a root ball.
He thought Roundup was the best thing ever.
I also remember the time Dad sprayed too close to the corn east of the house on a windy day, killing off about half an acre. That's when he said if we could ever develop crops immune to Roundup, the farmer would have it made.
He died a year before Roundup Ready soybeans were released in 1994.
Dad always read the label, even if he didn't take it to heart. He used to say Roundup was so benign, you could eat it on your breakfast cereal. He also pointed out it made a great hand cleaner. That's true, it did. Grease comes right off with Roundup. That may have been at least in part due to soapy chemicals that help the product coat plants evenly. But it's also a characteristic of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup.
Besides being a farmer, for awhile during the '60s and '70s Dad ran a farm-supply business that sold feed, fertilizer and farm chemicals of the day. An old farmer once told me he owed everything to my dad, who convinced him to apply another herbicide different from Roundup, atrazine, to his weedy corn crop.
We used that one on our farm too.
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Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg/Getty Don Blankenship, former head of Massey Energy, sits before a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in 2010.
The hands-on management style of coal operator Don Blankenship will be part of the legal argument prosecutors use against the man who was head of Massey Energy during the Upper Big Branch mine explosion that killed 29 coal miners in West Virginia.
"The fact that Blankenship was such a micromanager in the running of his mines may turn out to be the knife in his back," Tony Oppegard, a Kentucky lawyer and mine safety advocate, told Ken Ward Jr. at the West Virginia Gazette.
Blankenship heads to federal court Thursday in Beckley, West Virginia, to face charges related to the 2010 Upper Big Branch explosion. He was indicted last week in 43-page grand-jury document that charges him with conspiring to violate mine safety rules, interfering with the enforcement of federal safety rules and lying to investigators.
If convicted, Blankenship could face up to 31 years, NPR reports.
The Gazette's Ward says federal prosecutors charged Blankenship under a section of mine-safety law that applies to mine operators, not corporate officers. That means they will have to show that Blankenship was actively involved in the mine's management, not just an executive who let others call the shots in the mine.
Proving Blankenship's hands-on management of the mine is critical to conviction, Ward reports, because the corporation can no longer be held criminally liable for the explosion. Massey Energy was purchased in 2011 by Alpha Natural Resources, which was relieved of any criminal liabilities as part of the purchase.
The indictment includes examples of Blankenship's direct management of the mine, including half-hourly production reports and daily reports on safety violations and fines at individual mines, writes Ward.
Blankenship left Massey in December 2010, receiving a departure package estimated at $86 million.
West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller said in a statement that Blankenship's indictment was "another step toward justice."
But let me be clear: in my view, Don Blankenship, and the mines he once operated, treated miners and their safety with callousness and open disregard. As he goes to trial, he will be treated far fairer and with more dignity than he ever treated the miners he employed. And, frankly, it's more than he deserves."
Blankenship's attorney says he is innocent and is being prosecuted for his criticism of mine-safety regulators.
If walking were a medicine that came in pill form, you'd beg your doctor for a prescription. Small-town and rural residents need to use their can-do attitude to figure out how to increase the supply of this miracle "drug" for themselves and their communities.
Rural areas aren't always pedestrian friendly. But communities can solve these problems creatively with "park-and-walk" lots, walking trails and using facilities like shopping centers. There's only one way to do it, and that's to do it.
With more open space and natural amenities, you might think rural people would walk more than folks who live in suburban or urban areas. But, in fact, the opposite is true. Rural people walk and bicycle, on average, less than their city counterparts.
That's a shame, because nothing beats walking for curing what ails the health of many rural residents.
If walking were considered medicine, you can bet it would be the most popular product in the physician's black bag. I'll bet your doc can't name a medicine – even two or three medicines taken together – that will do as much good for as many different ailments as walking several times a week.
Walking and other exercise cut down on a person's risk of heart attack, stroke, type 2 diabetes (the kind related to obesity), breast and colon cancer, depression, falls and weak bones. It helps arthritic knees and lowers blood pressure. It improves sleep, increases endurance and may even revitalize a person's sex life, according to the Harvard Health Letter.
But for all its benefits – including the fact that it's free and requires no co-pay – walking can be much harder to promote than the latest new drug. "My patients don't want me to help them stay healthy," a doctor friend told me. "They want me to give them a pill so they can do what they want and not die."
Rural areas and small towns are more likely to lack the kinds of infrastructure that make walking safe and convenient. Distances between home and businesses are farther, and there are fewer sidewalks and crosswalks. Many country roads simply aren't safe for walking.


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I believe that's the look she was going for. A coke bottle shape is never a bad thing. I think it looks amazing.
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Little Readers: Dancing Home by Alma Flor Ada and Gabriel M. Zubizarreta
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Dancing Home by Alma Flor Ada and Gabriel M. Zubizarreta is a book targeted to children ages 8-12.
It tells the tale of two young cousins: Margie, born in the United States, and Lupe, born in Mexico.
When Lupe comes to live with Margie in California, it's a challenge. Margie's American identity is jeopardized by having her Spanish-speaking-only cousin at school, and Margie resents the closeness she sees between her Mexican-born parents and Lupe. Lupe, meanwhile, has her own struggles with school, her cousin, and her family.
The book does a tremendous job capturing the pain of separation, alienation, and loss associated with otherness. Its portrayal of the inner life of young girls is incredibly realistic.
All in all, two thumbs up. A great read for all immprof families. And, if you're so inclined, here's a link to reading questions in both English and Spanish.
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From the Bookshelves: Patriots Debate: Contemporary Issues in National Security Law
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The book provides foundational knowledge, introducing current issues in national security law. Written by a "who's who" in the field of national security law, including: John Yoo, Louis Fisher, and Stewart Baker, the book present a series of debates, organized by chapter, in which an author presents ideas in a short essay, and another offers a response.
Patriots Debate is an accessible book offering informed, educated legal reasoning enabling the reader to understand the foundational legal opinions, laws, policies and mores that form both US government policies, and the surrounding debates based on competing views of the Constitution, statutes, presidential directives, judicial decisions and history itself.
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From the Bookshelves: The Lotus and the Storm: A Novel by Lan Cao
The Lotus and the Storm: A Novel by Lan Cao
Half a century after it began, the Vietnam War still has a hold on our national psyche. Lan Cao's now-classic debut, Monkey Bridge, won her wide renown for "connecting . . . the opposite realities of Vietnam and America" (Isabel Allende). In her triumphant new novel, Cao transports readers back to the war, illuminating events central to twentieth-century history through the lives of one Vietnamese American family. Minh is a former South Vietnamese commander of the airborne brigade who left his homeland with his daughter, Mai. During the war, their lives became entwined with those of two Americans: James, a soldier, and Cliff, a military adviser. Forty years later, Minh and his daughter Mai live in a close-knit Vietnamese immigrant community in suburban Virginia. As Mai discovers a series of devastating truths about what really happened to her family during those years, Minh reflects upon his life and the story of love and betrayal that has remained locked in his heart since the fall of Saigon.
September 8, 2014 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, September 4, 2014
From the Bookshelves: What Every Lawyer Needs to Know About Immigration Law by Anna Williams Shavers, Jennifer Hermansky, Jill E Family, Lillian Katherine Kalmykov, William S Jordan III
What Every Lawyer Needs to Know About Immigration Law by Anna Williams Shavers, Jennifer Hermansky, Jill E Family, Lillian Katherine Kalmykov, William S Jordan III
Sponsor: Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice
Publisher: ABA Book Publishing
This practical guide provides legal practitioners with tips on issues that they may encounter when representing clients that may necessitate an examination of immigration-related issues.
Given the many ways in which immigration law can affect a single individual as well as as large corporation, most lawyers will encounter a client needing immigration law advice. Yet for the nonspecialist, immigration law can be daunting, particularly because it is governed by a complex mix of statutes, regulations, and federal and administrative court guidance - as well as by adjudicatory policies from multiple administrative agencies. Thus, it is important for lawyers to understand how best to spot immigration issues for clients, and when to involve an immigration attorney for assistance with a client. This book was written by immigration law specialists who insights, guidance, and practice tips can offer help in understanding these issues.
The book is meant to provide attorneys working in various areas of law with enough information to identify problematic immigration issues, counsel their clients accordingly and if the matter is advanced to know when to advise the client to consult with immigration counsel. It will also introduce attorneys to the myriad of agencies involved in the immigration process.
September 4, 2014 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
From the Bookshelves: Migrants for Export How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World by Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
Migrants for Export How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World by Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
Robyn Magalit Rodriguez investigates how and why the Philippine government transformed itself into what she calls a labor brokerage state, which actively prepares, mobilizes, and regulates its citizens for migrant work abroad. Drawing on ethnographic research of the Philippine government's migration bureaucracy, interviews, and archival work, Rodriguez presents a new analysis of neoliberal globalization and its consequences for nation-state formation.
Migrant workers from the Philippines are ubiquitous to global capitalism, with nearly 10 percent of the population employed in almost two hundred countries. In a visit to the United States in 2003, Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo even referred to herself as not only the head of state but also "the CEO of a global Philippine enterprise of eight million Filipinos who live and work abroad." Robyn Magalit Rodriguez investigates how and why the Philippine government transformed itself into what she calls a labor brokerage state, which actively prepares, mobilizes, and regulates its citizens for migrant work abroad. Filipino men and women fill a range of jobs around the globe, including domestic work, construction, and engineering, and they have even worked in the Middle East to support U.S. military operations. At the same time, the state redefines nationalism to normalize its citizens to migration while fostering their ties to the Philippines. Those who leave the country to work and send their wages to their families at home are treated as new national heroes. Drawing on ethnographic research of the Philippine government's migration bureaucracy, interviews, and archival work, Rodriguez presents a new analysis of neoliberal globalization and its consequences for nation-state formation.
September 3, 2014 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
From the Bookshelves: Still Waiting for Tomorrow The Law and Politics of Unresolved Refugee Crises. Editors: Susan M. Akram, Tom Syring
Still Waiting for Tomorrow The Law and Politics of Unresolved Refugee Crises. Editors: Susan M. Akram, Tom Syring
This book focuses on the common features of protracted refugee situations. It is a critical examination of the reasons underlying the extended nature of those crises, as well as potential solutions to them. The book addresses war and armed conflict, environmental change and natural disasters, statelessness and protection gaps, among other elements, as common origins of refugee crises. It analyzes the root causes of some of the longest-standing unresolved refugee situations in the world today (including, but not limited to, the cases of Palestinians, Sahrawis, and Tibetans), addressing the particular political and legal tensions undermining solutions to them. The book comprises contributions from some of the leading scholars and practitioners in the field of international refugee, human rights and humanitarian law, and international relations.
September 2, 2014 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, September 1, 2014
Little Readers: Migrant by Maxine Trottier
Migrant by Maxine Trottier is a picture book for young children. It tells the story of a migrant family from the perspective of its youngest member. She feels like a bird, flying north for the spring and south every fall. She feels like a jackrabbit living in an abandoned burrow (the housing of previous migrants).
Interestingly, the end notes indicate that the story concerns German Mennonites, traveling between Mexico and Canada for work.
September 1, 2014 in Books | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, August 29, 2014
Fom the Bookshelves: Living "Illegal": The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration by Marie Friedmann Marquardt, Timothy J. Steigenga, Philip J. Williams, Manuel A. Vásquez
Living "Illegal": The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration by Marie Friedmann Marquardt, Timothy J. Steigenga, Philip J. Williams, Manuel A. Vásquez
A myth-busting account of the tragedies, tales of success, and ambiguities of undocumented immigration—the stories behind the overheated rhetoric in the news
"What Part of 'Illegal' Don't You Understand?" —anti-immigrant protest sign
Today's polarized debates over immigration revolve around a set of one-dimensional characters and unchallenged stereotypes. Yet the resulting policy prescriptions, not least of them Arizona's draconian new law SB 1070, are dangerously real and profoundly counterproductive.
A major new antidote to this trend, Living "Illegal" is an ambitious new account of the least understood and most relevant aspects of the American immigrant experience today. Based on years of research into the lives of ordinary migrants, Living "Illegal" offers richly textured stories of real people—working, building families, and enriching their communities even as the political climate grows more hostile.
Moving far beyond stock images and conventional explanations, Living "Illegal" challenges our assumptions about why immigrants come to the United States, where they settle, and how they have adapted to the often confusing patchwork of local immigration ordinances. This revealing narrative takes us into Southern churches (which have quietly emerged as the only organizations open to migrants), into the fields of Florida, onto the streets of major American cities during the historic immigrant rights marches of 2006, and back and forth across different national boundaries—from Brazil to Mexico and Guatemala.
A deeply humane book, Living "Illegal" will stand as an authoritative new guide to one of the most pressing issues of our time.
August 29, 2014 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, August 28, 2014
From the Bookshelves: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is a Pulitzer-Prize winning collection of short stories by Robert Olen Butler, all of which concern Vietnamese immigrants in Louisiana.
In my Immigration Law class, I use the following excerpts to illustrate the point that even quota-exempt family members are not entitled to automatic presence in the United States. The process for their entry can, in fact, be quite lengthy.
August 28, 2014 in Books, Teaching Resources | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
From the Bookshelves: Binational Human Rights: The U.S.-Mexico Experience, William Paul Simmons and Carol Mueller, Editors
Binational Human Rights: The U.S.-Mexico Experience, William Paul Simmons and Carol Mueller, Editors
Mexico ranks highly on many of the measures that have proven significant for creating a positive human rights record, including democratization, good health and life expectancy, and engagement in the global economy. Yet the nation's most vulnerable populations suffer human rights abuses on a large scale, such as gruesome killings in the Mexican drug war, decades of violent feminicide, migrant deaths in the U.S. desert, and the ongoing effects of the failed detention and deportation system in the States. Some atrocities have received extensive and sensational coverage, while others have become routine or simply ignored by national and international media. Binational Human Rights examines both well-known and understudied instances of human rights crises in Mexico, arguing that these abuses must be understood not just within the context of Mexican policies but in relation to the actions or inactions of other nations—particularly the United States.
The United States and Mexico share the longest border in the world between a developed and a developing nation; the relationship between the two nations is complex, varied, and constantly changing, but the policies of each directly affect the human rights situation across the border. Binational Human Rights brings together explain the mechanisms by which a perfect storm of structural and policy factors on both sides has led to such widespread human rights abuses.
Contributors: Alejandro Anaya Muñoz, Luis Alfredo Arriola Vega, Timothy J. Dunn, Miguel Escobar-Valdez, Clara Jusidman, Maureen Meyer, Carol Mueller, Julie A. Murphy Erfani, William Paul Simmons, Kathleen Staudt, Michelle Téllez.
William Paul Simmons is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona and author of Human Rights Law and the Marginalized Other and An-Archy and Justice: An Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas's Political Thought.
Carol Mueller is Professor of Sociology and former Director of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. She is coeditor of Repression and Mobilization and Frontiers of Social Movement Theory, among other titles.
August 27, 2014 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Immigrant of the Day: Jhumpa Lahiri From England | Author
Jhumpa Lahiri From England | Author
Lahiri-Jhumpa Photo courtesy of Random House Acclaimed author Jhumpa Lahiri was raised in the U.S. while also spending time with her extended family in India. Her fiction draws from these experiences, depicting the lives and conflicts of immigrant families in America. Her first book, Interpreter of Maladies, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the PEN/Heminway Award. Her second book, The Namesake, was a novel that was adapted into a film by Mira Nair in 2007. Her recent novel The Lowland was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Man Booker Prize.
August 24, 2014 in Books, Current Affairs, Film & Television | Permalink | Comments (0)
Saturday, August 23, 2014
From the Bookshelves: Human Rights and Adolescence by Jacqueline Bhabha
Human Rights and Adolescence by Jacqueline Bhabha, Editor
A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series . While young children's rights have received considerable attention and have accordingly advanced over the last two decades, adolescent rights have been neglected, resulting in a serious rights lacuna. This manifests itself in pervasive gender-based violence, widespread youth disaffection and unemployment, concerning levels of self-abuse, violence and antisocial engagement, and serious mental and physical health deficits. The cost of inaction on these issues is likely to be dramatic in terms of human suffering, lost social and economic opportunities, and threats to global peace and security. Across the range of disciplines that make up contemporary human rights, from law and social advocacy, to global health, to history, economics, sociology, politics, and psychology, it is time for adolescent rights to occupy a coherent place of their own.
Human Rights and Adolescence presents a multifaceted inquiry into the global circumstances of adolescents, focused on the human rights challenges and socioeconomic obstacles young adults face. Contributors use new research to advance feasible solutions and timely recommendations for a wide range of issues spanning all continents, from relevant international legal norms to neuropsychological adolescent brain development, gender discrimination in Indian education to Colombian child soldier recruitment, stigmatization of Roma youth in Europe to economic disempowerment of Middle Eastern and South African adolescents. Taken together, the research emphasizes the importance of dedicated attention to adolescence as a distinctive and critical phase of development between childhood and adulthood, and outlines the task of building on the potential of adolescents while providing support for the challenges they experience.
Contributors: Theresa S. Betancourt, Jacqueline Bhabha, Krishna Bose, Neera Burra, Malcolm Bush, Jocelyn DeJong, Elizabeth Gibbons, Katrina Hann, Mary Kawar, Orla Kelly, David Mark, Margareta Matache, Clea McNeely, Glaudine Mtshali, Katie Naeve, Elizabeth A. Newnham, Victor Pineda, Irene Rizzini, Elena Rozzi, Christian Salazar Volkmann, Shantha Sinha, Laurence Steinberg, Kerry Thompson, Jean Zermatten, Moses Zombo.
Jacqueline Bhabha is Director of Research at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health.
August 23, 2014 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, August 22, 2014
From the Bookshelves: Hidden Lives and Human Rights in the United States Understanding the Controversies and Tragedies of Undocumented Immigration by Lois Ann Lorentzen, Editor
Hidden Lives and Human Rights in the United States Understanding the Controversies and Tragedies of Undocumented Immigration by Lois Ann Lorentzen, Editor
The most comprehensive collection of essays on undocumented immigration to date, covering issues not generally found anywhere else on the subject. Three fascinating volumes feature the latest research from the country's top immigration scholars. In the United States, the crisis of undocumented immigrants draws strong opinions from both sides of the debate. For those who immigrate, concerns over safety, incorporation, and fair treatment arise upon arrival. For others, the perceived economic, political, and cultural impact of newcomers can feel threatening. In this informative three-volume set, top immigration scholars explain perspectives from every angle, examining facts and seeking solutions to counter the controversies often brought on by the current state of undocumented immigrant affairs. Immigration expert and set editor Lois Lorentzen leads a stellar team of contributors, laying out history, theories, and legislation in the first book; human rights, sexuality, and health in the second; and economics, politics, and morality in the final volume. From family separation, to human trafficking, to notions of citizenship, this provocative study captures the human costs associated with this type of immigration in the United States, questions policies intended to protect the "American way of life," and offers strategies for easing tensions between immigrants and natural-born citizens in everyday life.
Discusses topics rarely covered, including sexual migration, religion, values, and mental health
Features essays across disciplines in the fields of psychology, law, politics, social work, public policy, history, education, and health
Includes tables, maps, photos, and a bibliography for each volume to provide visual interest and additional learning opportunities
Probes the latest controversies centered on recent immigration legislation in Arizona, Georgia, and Alabama
Familiarizes readers with history, theories, and legislation related to undocumented migration in the United States.
Lois Ann Lorentzen, PhD, is professor in the theology and religious studies department and codirector of the Center for Latino/a Studies at the University of San Francisco. Her published works include Etica Ambiental; Raising the Bar: Integrity and Passion in Life and Business: The Story of Clif Bar Inc.; and Religion at the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana: Politics, Identity, and Faith in New Migrant Communities. She received her doctorate in social ethics at the University of Southern California.
August 22, 2014 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, August 21, 2014
From the Bookshelves: Three Books on Immigrants and Religion
Immigrant Faith: Patterns of Immigrant Religion in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe by Phillip Connor
Immigrant Faith examines trends and patterns relating to religion in the lives of immigrants. The volume moves beyond specific studies of particular faiths in particular immigrant destinations to present the religious lives of immigrants in the United States, Canada, and Europe on a broad scale.
The Shared Parish Latinos, Anglos, and the Future of U.S. Catholicism by Brett C. Hoover
As faith communities in the United States grow increasingly more diverse, many churches are turning to the shared parish, a single church facility shared by distinct cultural groups who retain their own worship and ministries. The fastest growing and most common of these are Catholic parishes shared by Latinos and white Catholics. Shared parishes remain one of the few institutions in American society that allows cultural groups to maintain their own language and customs while still engaging in regular intercultural negotiations over the shared space. This book explores the shared parish through an in-depth ethnographic study of a Roman Catholic parish in a small Midwestern city demographically transformed by Mexican immigration in recent decades. Through its depiction of shared parish life, the book argues for new ways of imagining the U.S. Catholic parish as an organization. The parish, argues Brett C. Hoover, must be conceived as both a congregation and part of a centralized system, and as one piece in a complex social ecology. The Shared Parish also posits that the search for identity and adequate intercultural practice in such parishes might call for new approaches to cultural diversity in U.S. society, beyond assimilation or multiculturalism. We must imagine a religious organization that accommodates both the need for safe space within distinct groups and for social networks that connect these groups as they struggle to respectfully co-exist.
Changing Faith The Dynamics and Consequences of Americans' Shifting Religious Identities by Darren Sherkat
More than anywhere else in the Western world, religious attachments in America are quite flexible, with over 40 percent of U.S. citizens shifting their religious identification at least once in their lives. In Changing Faith, Darren E. Sherkat draws on empirical data from large-scale national studies to provide a comprehensive portrait of religious change and its consequences in the United States.
August 21, 2014 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
From the Bookshelves: Unsettled / Desasosiego Children in a World of Gangs/Los niños en un mundo de las pandillas By Donna De Cesare
Unsettled / Desasosiego Children in a World of Gangs/Los niños en un mundo de las pandillas By Donna De Cesare Foreword by Fred Ritchin Translation by Javier Auyero
Culminating thirty years of photographing gang members and their families and collecting images that have been featured in Aperture, Mother Jones, and other publications, award-winning photojournalist Donna De Cesare uncovers the effects of decades of war and gang violence on the lives of youths in Central America and in refugee communities in the United States in this bilingual book.
Central American nations have recently had the highest per capita homicide rates in the world—surpassing the per capita death toll even in war-torn countries like Iraq and Afghanistan—and gang violence has been the dominant explanation for this tragic state of affairs. But why has gang activity become endemic in the region? Photojournalist Donna De Cesare began covering Central America during the civil wars of the 1980s, focusing especially on the disrupted lives of children and youths, and continued her photography project in Central American refugee communities in the United States in the 1990s and postwar Central America in the 2000s. She documents a history of repression, violence, and trauma, in which gangs are as much a symptom as a cause of trauma, trapped as they are by social neglect.
With profound empathy for a reality that is too easily defined and dismissed as repugnant, Unsettled/Desasosiego takes us on a visual journey into the lives of children deeply affected by civil war and gang violence. De Cesare's photographs and bilingual personal narrative trace the evolution and expansion of the notorious 18th Street and Mara Salvatrucha gangs from the barrios of Los Angeles to the shanties of Central America. They show how decades of war and violence—as well as the illegal drug trade—have created a culture that allows gangs to flourish. At the same time, her photographs portray the humanity of gang members and their families, encouraging us to understand the lives of youths at the margins and to take responsibility for the consequences of political and social actions that have ruptured Central American society for generations.
Click here for a review by David Bacon.
August 20, 2014 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
From the Bookshelves: Immigration Relief: Legal Assistance for Noncitizen Crime Victims by Elizabeth Anne Campbell, Rachel DeLia Settlage, Veronica Thronson
Immigration Relief: Legal Assistance for Noncitizen Crime Victims by Elizabeth Anne Campbell, Rachel DeLia Settlage, Veronica Thronson
This essential resource synthesizes, explains, and guides the reader through all of the crucial components of this area of the law. Its careful organization, thorough explanations, and clear presentation demystify the daunting array of immigration statutes, cases, regulations, practice manuals, and policy memoranda that govern the adjudication of applications for immigration relief for immigrant victims of crime.
August 19, 2014 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, August 18, 2014
From the Bookshelves: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF IMMIGRATION: CONTEXTS AND CONSEQUENCES by Alissa R. Ackerman and Rich Furman (eds.).
THE CRIMINALIZATION OF IMMIGRATION: CONTEXTS AND CONSEQUENCES by Alissa R. Ackerman and Rich Furman (eds.). Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2014.
Immigration has become an increasingly popular topic often leading to passionate and powerful debate. The visceral emotions that stem from such debates transcends fact and paves the way for value conflicts over what it means to be an American. For most of our history, one of our most important narratives has been that we are a country that was built by and for immigrants. Indeed, the inscription on the Statue of Liberty reads, in part, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." For many generations we welcomed new generations of immigrants who added new levels of richness and possibility to our nation. This certainly influenced U.S. policy on the handling of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. Yet, at the same time, a coexisting argument threatened this discourse. In this story, America is a country for Americans, and is threatened by "others". While this part of the story is certainly not new, it has resurfaced in the wake of September 11th and, even more recently, has become a political tool utilized to serve the interests of those in power.
The Criminalization of Immigration: Contexts and Consequences explores these competing narratives and the consequences of criminalizing immigration in the United States and abroad. It examines the impact of national, state, and local legislation on the psychosocial well being of immigrants. The book explores key ways in which immigration is criminalized, and examines how the problematization of immigration becomes a political tool. The first chapters of the book explore the criminalization of immigration through the lens of pacification and the theater of cruelty. In both chapters, the authors seek to understand the process of "othering" members of the immigrant population to exact social control and to mollify the public. These front chapters set the tone for remainder of the book. They provide the impetus for why states have enacted, or have attempted to enact state level immigration laws that make it nearly impossible for the undocumented to live within the boundaries of these states. In section two, three U.S. states are highlighted: Arizona, Alabama, and Indiana. While the chapters on Arizona and Alabama summarize key aspects of state laws, author Sujey Vega highlights the life of one undocumented immigrant as she navigates life in the Heartland.
The book then turns its focus to the criminalization of immigration in a socio-political context. Here, four chapters provide explorations of the criminalization of immigration on labor standards enforcement, immigrant detention, the right wing perspective in the United States and in Europe, and white supremacy. Labor standards impact the rate by which undocumented immigrants are paid, which in turn impacts their health and safety within and outside the workplace, protections from workplace discrimination, and collective activity protections. The criminalization of immigration erodes many of the workplace and labor protections that we have come to view as essential. Similarly, the privatization of corrections has influenced the incarceration and detention of many undocumented immigrants and has even influenced the very laws described in section two of this book. If not for the possibility of profiting off of the detention of the undocumented, many of immigration related laws would not have come to fruition.
The next section of the book provides a transnational and international context to the criminalization of immigration. With chapters focusing on human rights violations, the transnational dimensions of Mexican migration, the making of the Maras, and the criminalization of immigration in the United Kingdom, these chapters ask the reader to examine the criminalization of immigration from a broader perspective. The reader learns how national issues become international and, likewise how international immigration issues influence national policy.
The final chapters of the book put the human face on the criminalization of immigration. Each chapter represents a case study of a specific aspect of the criminalization of immigration. They approach the issue from the viewpoint of a day laborer, an undocumented woman who has become a victim of domestic violence, a child whose parents are undocumented, and a detention officer who wrestles with his decisions to continue his job. Regardless of which chapters one reads, the raw emotion felt by placing oneself in each context is overwhelming.
Overall, The Criminalization of Immigration: Contexts and Consequences provides a complete examination of an issue that cuts through emotional value conflicts. It provides the facts and knowledge essential for a fair and balanced debate.
The book was reviewed in Law and Politics Book Review by Bianca Easterly, Department of Political Science, Lamar University and concludes that
"THE CRIMINALIZATION OF IMMIGRATION: CONTEXTS AND CONSEQUENCES makes innovative use of real life stories of immigrants to acquaint readers with the multi-governmental complexities of the criminalization of undocumented immigrants. Although varied in style and tone, each well written essay commits to exposing the politics of immigration policymaking and, most importantly, to advocating for a humanitarian perspective on immigration which is likely to appeal to both academic and non-academic audiences."
August 18, 2014 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Saturday, August 16, 2014
Immigrant of the Day: Porochista Khakpour From Iran | Author
Porochista Khakpour From Iran | Author
Porochista Khakpour's 2007 debut novel, Sons and Other Flammable Objects, which portrays a family that flees Iran during the Iran Revolution to start a new life in Southern California, was a New York Times "Editor's Choice" and won the California Book Award. Her personal essays appear regularly in The New York Times, and she currently teaches at Columbia University, Fordham University, and Wesleyan University. Khakpour's second novel, The Last Illusion, was released in 2014.
August 16, 2014 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
From the Bookshelves: Immigrant America: A Portrait (Updated, and Expanded) by Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut
Immigrant America: A Portrait (Updated, and Expanded) by Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut
This revised, updated, and expanded fourth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides readers with a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States in a single volume. Updated with the latest available data, Immigrant America explores the economic, political, spatial, and linguistic aspects of immigration; the role of religion in the acculturation and social integration of foreign minorities; and the adaptation process for the second generation. This revised edition includes new chapters on theories of migration and on the history of U.S.-bound migration from the late nineteenth century to the present, offering an updated and expanded concluding chapter on immigration and public policy.
August 13, 2014 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
From the Bookshelves: Mexicans in the Making of America by Neil Foley
Mexicans in the Making of America by Neil Foley
According to census projections, by 2050 nearly one in three U.S. residents will be Latino, and the overwhelming majority of these will be of Mexican descent. This dramatic demographic shift is reshaping politics, culture, and fundamental ideas about American identity. Neil Foley, a leading Mexican American historian, offers a sweeping view of the evolution of Mexican America, from a colonial outpost on Mexico's northern frontier to a twenty-first-century people integral to the nation they have helped build.
Mexicans have lived in and migrated to the American West and Southwest for centuries. When the United States annexed those territories following the Mexican–American War in 1848, the unequal destinies of the two nations were sealed. Despite their well-established presence in farm fields, workshops, and military service, Mexicans in America have long been regarded as aliens and outsiders. Xenophobic fantasies of a tidal wave of Mexicans overrunning the borders and transforming "real America" beyond recognition have inspired measures ranging from Operation Wetback in the 1950s to Arizona's draconian SB 1070 anti-immigration law and the 700-mile security fence under construction along the U.S.–Mexican border today. Yet the cultural, linguistic, and economic ties that bind Mexico to the United States continue to grow. Mexicans in the Making of America demonstrates that America has always been a composite of racially blended peoples, never a purely white Anglo-Protestant nation. The struggle of Latinos to gain full citizenship bears witness to the continual remaking of American culture into something more democratic, egalitarian, and truer to its multiracial and multiethnic origins.
August 12, 2014 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)