What’s fueling increase in violence against Latinos?
The poisonous residue of immigrant scapegoating has accumulated in the margins, fueling the rise of hate groups setting their sights on Latinos, regardless of citizenship status. [venturacountystar.com]
Hate Crimes Linked to Immigration Debate [Brown Pride]
Emilio Navaira Update: Doctor “Optimistic He Will Not Die”
Emilio Navaira’s Car Crash
Emilio Navaira’s doctor Alex Valadkain announced yesterday that Navaira is doing about as well as can be expected after undergoing two surgeries for a massive head injury since his bus accident Sunday morning.Tejano star Navaira’s survival chances improving ,Tejano Singer Navaira Hurt in Bus Crash.
The emos of Mexico are Not Gay , so they say
(Here’s coverage from the gay angle at Sergay.com, in Spanish.)
In Queretaro on March 15, a week after the first anti-emo incident nationally, emos and others staged a silent march for peace and tolerance
“Vamos a encontrarnos en las calles para que aprendan a no estar donde no merecen”. [laopinion.com]
Violencia Contra emos En Mexico - [mexico/violencia-contra-emos-en-mexico/14]
and the idiots at MTV asks Are They Trying to Kill Emo Kids in Mexico?
They Dont Like “EMOS” IN Mexico - [EMOS]
A Mexican immigrant Is Suing IHOP Restaurant For Discrimination
A Mexican immigrant, of 62 years, Suing the company International House of Pancakes (IHOP) and one of his tax exemptions, against which she accused it to have discriminated by his age when she was dismissed to October. Ricardo Hernandez, original of Tonaya, Jalisco,Mexico said that it worked like cook by 35 years for a restaurant IHOP in the city of Orange. Nevertheless, it asserted that, to complain that the extra hours did not pay to him appropriately that worked, was harassed by the proprietor of the restaurant that said to him that already he was very old to work.
“I feel very badly because they dismissed to me of that form”, Hernandez said. “
Remittances to Mexico
Remittances from the U.S. to Mexico ($24 billion) remained steady, increasing by only one percent in 2007. Two years ago, remittances grew by 17 percent.
Immigrants in California
Immigrants in California are less likely to commit crime than U.S. natives, according to a report by the Public Policy Institute of California. (via Foreign Policy)
The upper-class Mexican American life in Southern California
Its always nice reading about Mexicans Americans in this great country doing so good for themselves and inspiring other Mexican Americans.
Mexican American life in Southern California
The fourth-generation Mexican Americans from East Los Angeles, part of a wave of doctors and lawyers, small-business owners and school administrators who are remaking Whittier into a center of upper-middle- class and upper-class Latino life in Southern California. [latimes.com]
Cover for Mario Lopez’s Workout Book
Mario Lopez will so get your couch potato ass in shape.. im talking about the guys.
I want sex: Immigration Agent Exchanged Green Cards For Sexual Favors
Isaac R. Baichu, an adjudicator for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services in Garden City [Immigration Agent], has been charged with coercing oral sex from a 22-year-old Colombian immigrant in exchange for a green card. The woman recorded their entire exchange on her cell phone:
“I want sex,” he said on the recording. “One or two times. That’s all. You get your green card. You won’t have to see me anymore.”
The agent arrested last week, Isaac Baichu, 46, himself an immigrant from Guyana, handled some 8,000 green card applications during his three years as an adjudicator in the Garden City, New York, office of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
He pleaded not guilty to felony and misdemeanor charges of coercing the young woman to perform oral sex, and of promising to help her secure immigration papers in exchange for further sexual favors. If convicted, he will face up to seven years in prison.
J-Lo Angry Insistence Of Having Conceived Her Twins Naturally, Jennifer Lopez Will Compete In Triathlon
“Probably in October, September/October…I want my babies to be proud of me,” Lopez told People magazine.
The new mom said she already lost much of the weight that she gained during her pregnancy, but insists she is in no hurry to loose it all. Lopez said she is enjoying her babies right now.
Celebrities are loco.