With immigrant labor in the news,Liz Thach MWtalks to some laborers who became owners. Wine-Searcher staff·Last updated 06-Sep-2017 © Mari Martinez Serrano/Hecho Acqui | Lupe Maldonado (L) bought land in 1998, which he now works with son Hugo. ...
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is translated here: The Senate of the Republic (of the Mexican government) approved sending a message to President Felipe Calderon so that he may ask the Government of the United States to reconsider the anti-immigrant measures intended to be taken in the neighboring country’s budget for 2011...
--but she doesn’t like this too much, because it lifts images out of the luxurious context of her story-poems. Still, who else is publishing Chicano writers, especially those outside academic cliques? (And even academics share her lament. When L.A. film makers Jesus Salvador Trevino and ...
"Double Digits: The Story of a Neighborhood Movie Star" Deep in the recesses of YouTube there is an ingenious artist who cannot be stopped. He consistently churns out 3-4 original feature-length films a year. He’s made action movies, horror movies, westerns and more. He’s not rich,...
Meanwhile, not only has Mexican food continued to be popular in the United States, but also Mexicans have become the backbone of the US restaurant industry. Fans of Anthony Bourdain will know that even in New York the kitchen staffs of fancy French restaurants are heavily immigrant Mexican (see...
With origins going all the way back to nearly 500 BC, yo-yos became ubiquitous in America after a Filipino immigrant named Pedro Flores partnered with the toy manufacturer D.F. Duncan Sr. to start mass-producing them to the tune of 300,000 units a day. Fueled by publicity from the likes...
Wage Determinants of Mexican Immigrant Women along the U.S.-Mexican Border. In Labor Market Issues along the U.S.-México Border: Demographic and Economic Analyses; Mora, M.T., Dávila, A., Eds.; University of Arizona Press: Tucson, AZ, USA, 2009. 38. Morales, M.C.; Bejarano, C....
For example, fears about a mythical illegal immigrant crime wave helped to propel passage of a law in Arizona that made it a crime to be present in the state without legal documents. While the number of illegal immigrants increased in Arizona previous to the passage of this law, the rate ...
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