CHICAGO — Tania Unzueta says she’s tired of keeping her secret. The 26-year-old graduate of the University of Illinois is an illegal immigrant who decided to "come out" publicly about her status Wednesday in downtown Chicago. She’s among dozens nationwide who hope sharing their stories and risking deportation will help get immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants. Unzueta’s tourist visa from Mexico expired in 1996 and other attempts to get permanent legal status failed. Similar coming out events are planned in Michigan, New York and Massachusetts.
Report: One-fourth of welfare payments go to illegalsFrom wire service reports Posted: 03/10/2010 07:08:55 AM PST Nearly one-quarter of state welfare payments and food stamps issued in Los Angeles County go to children whose parents are in the U.S. illegally, according to January figures released today. Supervisor Mike Antonovich offered the statistics, generated by the county's Department of Public Social Services, to help make the case for enforcing the nation's borders, establishing health care clinics on the border with Mexico and reimbursing local governments for unfunded state and federal mandates, according to his press deputy, Tony Bell. The numbers show...
REYNOSA — At dusk the city’s center drains of life. Classrooms remain half full during the day and businesses surrounding the main plaza shutter with the first twinge of twilight. The shooting has largely quieted but Reynosa’s residents stand one mass e-mail, one Internet posting or one YouTube video away from descending into panic again. Three weeks after a series of daily shootouts left dozens dead in the Mexican cities that border the Rio Grande Valley, the details behind the violence remain hazy — obfuscated by an almost complete Mexican media and government blackout on information. What is clear, however,...
Mexico’s Carlos Slim beat Bill Gates and Warren Buffett for the top spot on Forbes magazine’s annual list of billionaires, becoming the first person from outside the U.S. to lead the rankings in 16 years. The net worth of Slim, 70, who built a telecommunications empire after buying Mexico’s state-run phone monopoly two decades ago, rose $18.5 billion to $53.5 billion. Gates, 54, chairman of Microsoft Corp., fell to second as his net worth increased $13 billion to $53 billion. Buffett, 79, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., was third with $47 billion, a rise of $10 billion. Slim is the...
Back in 2003 a Congressional bill was offered to give credit to Mexicans who work here that would have enabled them to collect Social Security. Again, in 2004, Pres George W. Bush wanted to give SS to illegal temps after they returned to Mexico. It never passed b/c there was poor data WRT the large numbers of Mexican workers who violate our borders, and work under several false identities. There was no way to control this so the SS giveaway bill was filed away. Now this bill is being revived because Mexican Pres. Felipe Calderon wants the United States to...
A suspect has been arrested in the 2001 rape and murder of Gladys Conrad, 84, Carlsbad police said Wednesday. Mexican national Alejandro Avalos Fernandez, 33, was extradited to the United States from Mexico on Tuesday and booked into the Vista jail on suspicion of murder, rape, sodomy, torture, and assault. He is being held without bail ... San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, along with Carlsbad Police Department Chief Tom Zoll and Investigations Lt. Kelly Cain, are expected to release details about the case at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Police Department's Conference Center, 2560 Orion Way. Fernandez, a...
Even the Red Cross isn't safe from the vicious fighting across the border. Clinics in Mexico are now refusing to accept victims with gun shot wounds out of fear of violence. This after gunmen shot up an ambulance in Tampico, Tamaulipas only two blocks away from a Red Cross clinic. In a separate incident on Sunday, a Red Cross volunteer was shot and killed during a gunfight in Sinaloa. Twenty-year-old Maria Rogers was killed Sunday by a stray bullet when gunmen went into a red cross hospital trying to finish off a man who had been shot minutes earlier in...
The vehicle, which rear-ended a pickup truck south of Phoenix, was operating illegally from Mexico, authorities say. Sixteen people are injured. Reporting from Denver - A bus operating illegally from Mexico and traveling through Texas and Arizona to Los Angeles slammed into the back of a pickup truck and rolled over early Friday morning in the Arizona desert, killing six passengers and injuring 16, authorities said. "No one walked away unscathed," Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Robert Bailey said from the crash scene, about 30 miles south of Phoenix. The bus company, Tierra Santa Inc. -- which has offices...
The bill spearheaded by Rep. Gene Taylor, a Mississippi Democrat, would require President Barack Obama to give Mexico and Canada six months notice that the United States will no longer be part of the 16-year-old trade pact. "At a time when 10 to 12 percent of the American people are unemployed, I think Congress has an obligation to put people back to work," Taylor said. He argued NAFTA has cost the United States millions of manufacturing jobs and hurt national security by encouraging companies to move production to Mexico. The high unemployment rate makes it the "perfect" time to push...
– A senior Obama administration official said on Monday that Mexican drug cartels are being targeted inside the United States more than along the border with Mexico, echoing remarks last week by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano that cartels are operating throughout the country. Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs David Johnson made the remarks at a State Department press briefing when CNSNews.com asked if the plan to combat drug trafficking and money laundering around the world included dealing with Mexican drug cartels in the United States. Johnson said that U.S. law enforcement agencies are...
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