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Immigration Rally at State Capitol
If conservative, Republican state legislators think it will be easy to pass what they loosely refer to as immigration reform laws; and that people from around the state will just sit idly by and do nothing; Tuesday should dispel them of that notion....
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STATE RACES PRODUCE SAME RESULTS
In case you missed it; Texans will get another 4 years of Rick Perry’s “crony politics”. He won an unprecedented third term by besting former Houston Mayor Democrat Bill White.
In the race for Lt. Governor, Democrat Linda Chavez-Thompson put up a....
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When Being Poor Is a Crime
Gregory White could not pay a $339 fine. So, the City of New Orleans imprisoned him for 198 days, costing over $3,500.
A man in Washington State was jailed for two weeks for his legal debts. How much did he owe? $60.
In a time when states a....
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FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS SOME PROVISIONS IN ARIZONA IMMIGRATION LAW
Just one day before Arizona’s new immigration enforcement law, SB1070, was to take effect, a federal Judge in Phoenix has blocked the most controversial provisions in the law from taking effect.
Judge Susan Bolton’s ruling prohibits local police f....
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“SIX FLAGS OVER TEXAS”? WRONG! THERE WERE SEVEN
On April 6th 1813, after a year of bloody warfare Jose Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara Uribe, declared that Texas was free and independent of Spanish rule. The First Texas Republic…the forgotten history of our Tejanos, these first sons and daughters of ....
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2010 CENSUS FORMS ARRIVE IN 120 MILLION MAILBOXES ACROSS NATION
WASHINGTON, March 15 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- Asking just 10 questions and taking about 10 minutes to complete, 2010 Census forms began arriving in 120 million mailboxes across the nation today -- just the 23rd time the country has undertak....
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BIDAL AGUERO
23 JULIO del 1949 –
4 NOVIEMBRE de 2009
Alrededor de las 6:30 horas de esta noche, Martes, 3 de noviembre 2009, Bidal Agüero, de 60 años, originario de Lubbock, y un local líder de derechos civiles, falleció.
Nació el 23 de julio 1949.
Estaba casado con Olga Agüero.
"Él era un Pad....
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The End of the Beginning
Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation to the United State Supreme Court is an uber-historic landmark that goes to the core of our nationhood.
The United States of America is intentionally a nation-state designed for inclusion of its cit....
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OBAMA TALKS ABOUT LATINO
PRIORITIES
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama outlined national and international priorities and their effect on the domestic Hispanic and hemisphere populations in an Aug. 7 round-table press meeting with Hispanic Link News Service and nine....
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Tweeting From Iran
As I write this, the theocrats, with their police and Besij goons, are breaking up street demonstrators in Tehran and in other Iranian cities. The government there has stopped international journalists reporting from the street and sending dispa....
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THOUGHTS THAT GREET THE APPROACHING SUMMER
Hispanic Link News Service
EL PASO, Texas — Nothing tears me up as thoroughly as Rodolfo’s cry of anguish in La Boheme when he realizes that Mimi has died. So much pain. So many regrets. A fitting finale to a full life.
Most of u....
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THE LONE WOLF THEORY OF MURDER
Hispanic Link News Service
HOUSTON, Texas —James W. Von Brunn, 88 years old, is the alleged lone wolf who went into the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 10. Steven T. Jones, the 39-year-old security guard, in an act of kindness, o....
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HOT WATER OVER A VIRUS
HOUSTON, Texas — You know the old refrain: When the United States catches a cold Mexico gets pneumonia. Now it seems, with the H1N1 flu outbreak, Mexico has pneumonia and the U.S. (so far) only has a cold.
In my family, the threat of a flu epidemi....
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U.S. Immigrants, México Blamed for Swine Flu
Hispanic Link News Service
U.S. health and civil rights experts have been quick to counter allegations that undocumented Mexicans are spreading swine flu throughout this country. The virus is identified as the H1N1 (swine flu) by the C....
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