Kay McGarrity Desmond
July 23, 2010
Barrack Obama’s anticipated trip to Texas August 9 has drawn distinct responses from the two men vying to be governor of the state.
Republican Governor Rick Perry said he would like an audience with the President to discuss securing the Texas Mexico border.
Perry, who has been a strong advocate of states’ rights, has been peculiarly resistant to asserting his own state’s right to enact or enforce immigration laws. His response to Arizona’s passage of SB1070 has been a balancing act. While he has defended Arizona’s right to enact state immigration legislation, going as far as backing an amicus brief filed by the Texas Attorney General in support of Arizona in the U.S. v. State of Arizona, he has also repeatedly stated that similar legislation would not be appropriate for Texas.
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(posted by Hanna Szymowska)
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Texas Still Waiting for Latinos to Show Power at Polls
El Paso Times
by Matt Stiles and Zahira Torres,
July 26, 2010
Latinos are the "sleeping giant" of Texas politics — a phrase repeated so often that it has become a cliché.
Nearly 37 percent of the state's population of about 24.8 million people is Latino, but almost any political expert will tell you that the group does not fully exercise its strength in elections. Pinpointing if and when Latinos will begin wielding their voting power is a challenge.
“It's the $64,000 question,” says Bob Stein, a political science professor at Rice University. “If you're biblical, it's like the [coming of the] messiah.”
Politicians often speak of the Latino population as a mystical group that must be captured before it awakens. The prize is a massive number of votes for the person who can figure out how to move the group to the polls. Scores of candidates, political parties and interest groups spend millions of dollars each year trying to determine what would happen if the group decided to exercise its strength in the next election.
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(posted by Hanna Szymowska)
by Matt Stiles and Zahira Torres,
July 26, 2010
Latinos are the "sleeping giant" of Texas politics — a phrase repeated so often that it has become a cliché.
Nearly 37 percent of the state's population of about 24.8 million people is Latino, but almost any political expert will tell you that the group does not fully exercise its strength in elections. Pinpointing if and when Latinos will begin wielding their voting power is a challenge.
“It's the $64,000 question,” says Bob Stein, a political science professor at Rice University. “If you're biblical, it's like the [coming of the] messiah.”
Politicians often speak of the Latino population as a mystical group that must be captured before it awakens. The prize is a massive number of votes for the person who can figure out how to move the group to the polls. Scores of candidates, political parties and interest groups spend millions of dollars each year trying to determine what would happen if the group decided to exercise its strength in the next election.
Click here to read the aricle
(posted by Hanna Szymowska)
Monday, July 19, 2010
Americas/Texas's view on Immigration
Goes into details, statistical detail, on what the Americans' view is on SB1070. Mainly based on numerous Gallup polls, the one piece of information that struck me was that 59% of Texan's would support a bill like SB1070 if enacted within Texas. *Sigh*.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7113989.html
~Holly Bartow
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7113989.html
~Holly Bartow
Immigration Fine
This is an article on the fines that companies who hire undocumented workers are privy too.
Pretty fascinating.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7112254.html
~Holly Bartow
Pretty fascinating.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7112254.html
~Holly Bartow
Friday, July 16, 2010
Crime and Immigration
by Ramiro Martinez, Jr
"The Criminologis" July/August 2010
Immigrants typically commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans and immigration at the community level has a negative or no effect on violence, says criminologist Ramiro Martinez of Florida International University, writing in The Criminologist. It should be surprising that authors of the controversial new Arizona immigration law apparently believe the opposite, he says.
Some immigration opponents imply that the southwestern border is a dangerous place due to its location and proximity to Mexico, but the empirical evidence raises doubt about that. A recent examination of Texas county-level homicide data demonstrates that Texas border counties have lower levels of homicide than non-border counties and counties with higher levels of immigration concentration had lower homicide levels. Another study in San Diego shows that increases in the size of the foreign-born population are associated with reductions in lethal violence over time, among both Latinos and non-Latino whites.
See the article here (p.16)
http://www.asc41.com/Criminologist/2010/2010_July-Aug_Criminologist.pdf
(posted by Hanna Szymowska)
"The Criminologis" July/August 2010
Immigrants typically commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans and immigration at the community level has a negative or no effect on violence, says criminologist Ramiro Martinez of Florida International University, writing in The Criminologist. It should be surprising that authors of the controversial new Arizona immigration law apparently believe the opposite, he says.
Some immigration opponents imply that the southwestern border is a dangerous place due to its location and proximity to Mexico, but the empirical evidence raises doubt about that. A recent examination of Texas county-level homicide data demonstrates that Texas border counties have lower levels of homicide than non-border counties and counties with higher levels of immigration concentration had lower homicide levels. Another study in San Diego shows that increases in the size of the foreign-born population are associated with reductions in lethal violence over time, among both Latinos and non-Latino whites.
See the article here (p.16)
http://www.asc41.com/Criminologist/2010/2010_July-Aug_Criminologist.pdf
(posted by Hanna Szymowska)
Photographs from Guereca's Funeral (corrido & video)
This set of photographs is accompanied by a corrido narrating the death of a 15-year old teenager killed along the El Paso-Juarez border by a Border Patrol agent. The teenager was throwing rocks at the Border Patrol.
See the video here
[posted by Prof. Montejano]
See the video here
[posted by Prof. Montejano]
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Texas Governor Rick Perry won't attend Governer's Meeting unless held in Arizona.
Due to the recent passage of SB1070, all six Mexican governors set to appear at the Border City governors conference cancelled, saying they wouldn't enter a state that has laws that promote 'ethnic and racial prejudices'.
In light of this cancellatation, the Governor of Arizona, Jan Brown, cancelled the meeting.
To this, the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, said he would not attend the conference if it was moved anywhere besides Arizona.
Long story short, Perry supports SB1070, he has said that such an immigration law is not right for Texas.
Here's a link to the actual conversation found on Fox.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,596623,00.html
And a more analytical piece critiquing Perry's statement.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/071310dntswperryborder.222c0d2.html
~Holly Bartow
In light of this cancellatation, the Governor of Arizona, Jan Brown, cancelled the meeting.
To this, the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, said he would not attend the conference if it was moved anywhere besides Arizona.
Long story short, Perry supports SB1070, he has said that such an immigration law is not right for Texas.
Here's a link to the actual conversation found on Fox.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,596623,00.html
And a more analytical piece critiquing Perry's statement.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/071310dntswperryborder.222c0d2.html
~Holly Bartow
More Humane Approach to Deportation
This is an editorial piece by a well-received news person with DallasNews. The article cites the Swift Meatpacking ICE raid, in which those deported were treated as less then citizens, and were treated inhumanely. This piece cites the idea that family members of undocumented workers come home to house's lacking possessions, those being taken by ICE.
The piece ends with the author calling for a more humane way to deal with undocumented workers during the deportation process. While this piece is slightly fluff, I thought it was interesting because DallasNews is a generally more conservative news source, and yet this piece is more progressive on the idea of equality.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/editorials/stories/DN-deport_14edi.State.Edition1.82337f.html
~Holly Bartow
The piece ends with the author calling for a more humane way to deal with undocumented workers during the deportation process. While this piece is slightly fluff, I thought it was interesting because DallasNews is a generally more conservative news source, and yet this piece is more progressive on the idea of equality.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/editorials/stories/DN-deport_14edi.State.Edition1.82337f.html
~Holly Bartow
Monday, July 12, 2010
Arizona immigration law not right for Texas
By APRIL CASTRO
ASSOCIATED PRESS
April 30, 2010,
AUSTIN — Arizona's tough new illegal immigration enforcement law would not be right for Texas, Gov. Rick Perry said on Thursday, upholding the state's long-held tradition of rejecting harsh anti-immigrant policies.
The Arizona law will require local and state law enforcement officers to question people about their immigration status if there's reason to suspect they're in the country illegally, making it a crime for them to lack registration documents. The law also makes it a state crime to be in the U.S. illegally.
“I fully recognize and support a state's right and obligation to protect its citizens, but I have concerns with portions of the law passed in Arizona and believe it would not be the right direction for Texas,” Perry said in a written statement.
Click here to read more
(published by Hanna Szymowska)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
April 30, 2010,
AUSTIN — Arizona's tough new illegal immigration enforcement law would not be right for Texas, Gov. Rick Perry said on Thursday, upholding the state's long-held tradition of rejecting harsh anti-immigrant policies.
The Arizona law will require local and state law enforcement officers to question people about their immigration status if there's reason to suspect they're in the country illegally, making it a crime for them to lack registration documents. The law also makes it a state crime to be in the U.S. illegally.
“I fully recognize and support a state's right and obligation to protect its citizens, but I have concerns with portions of the law passed in Arizona and believe it would not be the right direction for Texas,” Perry said in a written statement.
Click here to read more
(published by Hanna Szymowska)
Texas GOP gets tougher on immigration
By GARY SCHARRER
SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
June 13, 2010
DALLAS — Texas Republicans adopted another get-tough policy on immigration and bilingual education Saturday that some say will make it hard for the party to attract Hispanic voters at a time when the Texas population is turning increasingly Latino.
The platform encourages state lawmakers to create a Class A misdemeanor criminal offense “for an illegal alien to intentionally or knowingly be within the State of Texas,” and to “oppose amnesty in any form leading to citizenship for illegal immigrants.”
Texas Republicans also want to limit citizenship by birth to those born to a U.S. citizen “with no exceptions.” The platform calls for the end of day-labor work centers and emphasizes border security, encouraging “all means … (to) immediately prevent illegal aliens.”
The party's education platform calls for the end of federally sponsored pre-kindergarten, and opposes any mandatory pre-kindergarten or kindergarten.
To read more, click here
(published by Hanna Szymowska)
SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
June 13, 2010
DALLAS — Texas Republicans adopted another get-tough policy on immigration and bilingual education Saturday that some say will make it hard for the party to attract Hispanic voters at a time when the Texas population is turning increasingly Latino.
The platform encourages state lawmakers to create a Class A misdemeanor criminal offense “for an illegal alien to intentionally or knowingly be within the State of Texas,” and to “oppose amnesty in any form leading to citizenship for illegal immigrants.”
Texas Republicans also want to limit citizenship by birth to those born to a U.S. citizen “with no exceptions.” The platform calls for the end of day-labor work centers and emphasizes border security, encouraging “all means … (to) immediately prevent illegal aliens.”
The party's education platform calls for the end of federally sponsored pre-kindergarten, and opposes any mandatory pre-kindergarten or kindergarten.
To read more, click here
(published by Hanna Szymowska)
Texas Rep Wants to Import AZ Immigration Law
A Republican Texas lawmaker plans to introduce a tough immigration measure similar to the new law in Arizona, a move state Democrats say would be a mistake.
Rep. Debbie Riddle of Tomball said she will push for the law in the January legislative session, according to Wednesday's editions of the San Antonio Express-News and Houston Chronicle.
"The first priority for any elected official is to make sure that the safety and security of Texans is well-established," said Riddle, who introduced a similar measure in 2009 that didn't get out of committee. "If our federal government did their job, then Arizona wouldn't have to take this action, and neither would Texas."
click here to read more
by NBC Dallas-Fort Worth
(published by Hanna Szymowska)
Rep. Debbie Riddle of Tomball said she will push for the law in the January legislative session, according to Wednesday's editions of the San Antonio Express-News and Houston Chronicle.
"The first priority for any elected official is to make sure that the safety and security of Texans is well-established," said Riddle, who introduced a similar measure in 2009 that didn't get out of committee. "If our federal government did their job, then Arizona wouldn't have to take this action, and neither would Texas."
click here to read more
by NBC Dallas-Fort Worth
(published by Hanna Szymowska)
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