John McCain and Immigration

With John McCain running for re-election as senator, he has started to abandon what he once believed. McCain has always insisted on realistic solutions regarding immigration, on giving undocumented immigrants a chance to become legal. Now that he is running against someone with tough policies on immigration, he has abandoned what he once said by supporing Arizona's new bill that obligates police to stop anyone they suspect of being undocumented. http://http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/opinion/23fri2.html?scp=12&sq=latino%20news&st=cse
Enedina Garcia

Congresistas contra reforma migratoria

http://www.impre.com/laraza/noticias/2010/4/7/congresistas-contra-reforma-mi-181980-1.html

[Julia Martinez]

Connecticut Town Grapples With Claims of Police Bias

The Justice Department opened an investigation after allegations of discriminatory policing in East Haven, Connecticut. Yale law students analyzed traffic tickets given by police and found that almost 60% of tickets were given to people with Hispanic surnames. Connecticut law requires police to report the race or ethnicity of those they ticket or arrest. However, officers mischaracterize the race or ethnicity of the vast majority of people. One example is an officer who issued 80% of tickets to people with Hispanic surnames but reported that 97% of his tickets went to white people.
http://http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/nyregion/23haven.html?scp=1&sq=census%20+%20latinos%20&st=cse

Enedina Garcia

Monterey County leaders urge residents to be counted; census returns lower than average

Dozens of leaders from the county's Latino, Asian and indigenous communities held a press conference outside the county administration building to urge residents to fill out their census forms. The leaders also wanted to remind them that mailing those forms would bring Salinas Valley communities about $1,300 for each resident yearly in federal funding, said Monterey County Supervisor Simon Salinas. Community leaders spoke in Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog, Triqui and Mixteco to showcase the county's ethnic and language diversity. "We have the most recent immigrant group in the county," said Leoncio Vazques, a Triqui leader who works for the Greenfield's Binational Center for the Development of Oaxacan Indigenous Communities. "This is an opportunity for us to be counted for who we are."

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[posted by Andrew Brown]