Posted on July 8, 2009 by mexicoinstitute
CFR, 7/8/2009
The Council On Foreign Relations(CFR) recently published a study which reflects the consensus of leaders in fields of immigration policy, homeland security, education, labor, business, academia and human rights. The group urges Congress and the Obama administration to move ahead with immigration reform legislation.
Link To Full Text Report…
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Posted on July 8, 2009 by mexicoinstitute
Washington Post, 7/8/2009
As Congress wrangles with overhauling the healthcare system, there is one population not being discussed. No proposal for a national health plan would cover the nation’s estimated 11 million illegal immigrants.
This would seem like a big problem, one that could seriously undermine the cost-savings benefit of a program that aims to be [...]
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Posted on July 8, 2009 by mexicoinstitute
Washington Post, 7/8/2009
A bipartisan task force will recommend today that the United States overhaul its immigration system in response to national security concerns, saying that the country should end strict quotas on work-based immigrant visas to maintain its scientific, technological and military edge.
“The continued failure to devise and implement a sound and sustainable immigration [...]
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LA Times, 7/8/2009
It’s the economy, estupidoestupido. And the drug violence, lack of security and failure to end impunity for well-connected lawbreakers. It’s a legacy of corruption.
For all those reasons, Mexico’s ruling National Action Party took a hammering in this week’s midterm elections from frustrated voters, many of whom turned back to the Institutional Revolutionary [...]
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Posted on July 8, 2009 by mexicoinstitute
Elisabeth Malkin, The New York Times, 7/6/2009
“The PRI comes back” shouted the front page headline of the daily newspaper El Universal on Monday, the day after the political party known as the PRI swept midterm elections.
But the story was all in the photograph, a shot of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari as he left [...]
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