El Salvador will be especially hard-hit by the economic crisis in the United States. (Miami Herald video)
A series of stories in the Miami Herald has been following the effect the economic crisis is having on immigrants. Immigrants, especially those working in construction or service jobs, have been hard hit, and the impact is apparent on [...]
Tag Archives: Mexico
Economic Crisis Puts a Strain on Immigrants
November 30, 2008 – 3:12 pm
New Fence Will Cut Through Border Park
October 23, 2008 – 5:52 pm
Back in June, News 21’s Channtal Fleischfresser visited California’s Border Field State Park, on the Mexican border near the Pacific Ocean. There, family and friends in the U.S. and Mexico meet to talk, kiss and exchange food across the border—there’s even a cross-border church. Though the U.S. Border Patrol tries to prevent crossings, the current [...]
“Ask a Mexican” Takes on Immigration Debate
September 29, 2008 – 3:57 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjU5DsxI-js
Sure, it’s a serious subject, but O.C. Weekly columnist Gustavo Arellano takes a humorous look at the controversies surrounding the immigration issue in his column “Ask a Mexican.” Purporting to offer the Mexican perspective to confused “gabachos” (white people), Arellano tackles issues from citizenship to “anchor babies,” taking on the “Know-Nothings” and “Loud Dobbs.”
Some [...]
Legal Woes for Border Wall
April 18, 2008 – 5:34 pm
In a front page column in the New York Times last week, Adam Liptak outlined a brewing legal battle against Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff’s use of sweeping new powers to expedite the construction of barriers along America’s southwestern borders.
But a legal challenge to the use of those powers is being heard at the [...]
