Some Hispanic advocacy groups are calling for illegal immigrants to boycott the 2010 Census unless immigration laws are changed. The move puts them at odds with leading immigrant rights advocates and creates another hurdle in the Census Bureau’s quest to count everyone in the USA. The National Coalition of Latino Clergy & Christian Leaders, a group that says it represents 20,000 evangelical churches in 34 states, issued a statement this week urging undocumented immigrants not to fill out Census forms unless Congress passes “genuine immigration reform.”
President Barack Obama pledged to Mexican President Felipe Calderon that the U.S. will ramp up enforcement of gun and drug laws to help Mexico battle drug cartels that are “sowing chaos in our communities.” Obama said he’ll press the U.S. Senate to ratify a long- stalled treaty aimed at stopping arms trafficking and add more law enforcement resources to stem the flow of drugs out of Mexico and cash moving south from the U.S. He indicated he won’t push for a renewal of a U.S. assault weapons ban favored by Mexican authorities.
(the vast majority or weapons entering Mexico do NOT come from the U.S….ed)
One out of ten Mexicans born in Mexico now lives in the U.S.
On the eve of President Barack Obama’s visit to Mexico, recast statistics on Mexican immigrants by the Pew Hispanic Center show that nearly 11 percent of the people born in Mexico live in the United States. The Pew Hispanic Center, a part of the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Research Center, today released a statistical profile showing that Mexicans now account for 32 percent of all immigrants in America and more than one out of 10 of all persons born in Mexico live in the U.S.
A senior Saudi Arabian al Qaeda operative has called on Somali jihadists to step up their attacks on “crusader” forces at sea in the pirate-infested Gulf of Aden, and on land in neighboring Djibouti, which hosts France’s largest military base in Africa. “To our steadfast brethren in Somalia, take caution and prepare yourselves,” Sa’id Ali Jabir Al Khathim Al Shihri (aka Abu Sufian al-Azdi) says in a new audiotape acquired by CBS News. “Increase your strikes against the crusaders at sea and in Djibouti.”
U.S. taxpayers need to know the risks behind the Federal Reserve’s $2 trillion in lending to financial institutions because the public is now an “involuntary investor” in the nation’s banks, according to a court filing by Bloomberg LP. The Fed refuses to name the borrowers, the amounts of loans or assets banks put up as collateral under 11 programs, arguing that doing so might set off a run by depositors and unsettle shareholders. Bloomberg, the New York-based company majority- owned by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, sued Nov. 7 under the Freedom of Information Act on behalf of its Bloomberg News unit. It made the new filing yesterday.
[I would like to know just how many students and parents…ed] Students and parents are demanding Metro Nashville’s public schools stop blocking access to Web sites about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. They complained to the American Civil Liberties Union, which on Wednesday gave Metro and Knox County schools an April 29 deadline to announce plans to open access to the non-sexual sites. A letter to the districts threatened lawsuits if they don’t comply. Metro parents previously complained to the school district about the lack of support for gay and lesbian students, the teasing and the fatal results. Clare Sullivan, a parent of a lesbian daughter who attended Metro schools, cited recent news reports of students who committed suicide after constant harassment for being gay.
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Google feeling impact of economic slowdown but stock still trading at nearly $390.00.
Google Inc. eked out a higher profit in the first quarter as the Internet search leader trimmed its work force and winnowed other expenses to overcome the slowest revenue growth since the company went public nearly five years ago. The results released Thursday illustrated how the recession is squeezing even prosperous companies like Google. “No company is recession-proof,” Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt told analysts in a conference call. “Google is absolutely feeling the impact.” Schmidt and other Google executives repeatedly emphasized that the global economy remains in “uncharted territory.”
It says that “in 2002, Frank nixed reforms” of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and that I and other Democrats thwarted reform in 2003. However, Republicans tightly controlled the House from 1995 through 2006, so it’s a glaring error to imply that, as a member of the Democratic minority, I prevented Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay from achieving their goals, and that I blocked Republicans from implementing President Bush’s agenda. Had I known I could so easily stop GOP initiatives, I would have used my supposed powers to block the impeachment of Bill Clinton, the intervention into the Terri Schiavo case, the war in Iraq and other policies I opposed.
(judge for yourself what kind of responsibility Frank and the Democrats had in this mess…ed)
LA Times columnist Rosa Brooks once wrote that al Qaeda was “little more than an obscure group of extremist thugs, well financed and intermittently lethal but relatively limited in their global and regional political pull. On 9/11, they got lucky. . . . Thanks to U.S. policies, al Qaeda has become the vast global threat the administration imagined it to be in 2001.” She’s now headed to Obama’s Defense Department.
Comparing his crusade to legalize gay marriage to the country’s epic civil-rights struggles, Gov. Paterson yesterday hitched his falling star to a controversial, and likely doomed, bill to allow same-sex unions in New York. “We have all felt the pain and the insult of hatred. That is why we are all standing here today . . . We stand to tell the world we want marriage equality in New York state,” he said.
In March, Steven Rattner, the leader of the Obama administration’s auto task force, was the man who sat face to face with General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner at a Treasury Department meeting and fired him. Now it’s Rattner’s turn in the hot seat.
Four men connected to The Pirate Bay, the world’s most notorious file sharing site, were convicted by a Swedish court Friday of contributory copyright infringement, and each sentenced to a year in prison. Pirate Bay administrators Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde were found guilty in the case, along with Carl Lundström, who was accused of funding the five-year-old operation.