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Texas: almost 60% of public school children are poor; half Hispanic; more non-English fluent - 1/03/2010

... offers this: Almost six out of 10 Texas public schoolchildren hail from low-income families, marking a troubling spike in poverty over the last decade, a new state report finds. The increase coincides with a significant jump in the number of Hispanic students, while fewer Anglo students were enrolled last year than 10 years ago, according to the study by the Texas Education Agency. Schools also a...

Ohio, Illinois, NY, NJ, Penn to lose political power due to massive immigration (House seats; also: IA, LA, MA, MI, MN, MO) - 11/19/2009

... here): States gaining House seats: Texas (+4), Arizona (+2), Florida (+1), Georgia (+1), Nevada (+1), Oregon (+1), South Carolina (+1), and Utah (+1). States losing House seats: Ohio (-2), Illinois (-1), Iowa (-1), Louisiana (-1), Massachusetts (-1), Michigan (-1), Minnesota (-1), Missouri (-1), New Jersey (-1), New York (-1), and Pennsylvania (-1). If you're located in one of the states in ...

Jordanian accused in Dallas skyscraper bomb plant is illegal alien; student visa or border? - 9/25/2009

From this: [Hosam Maher Husein Smadi], a Jordanian national, was arrested Thursday after federal officials said he placed what he believed to be an explosives-laden truck in a parking garage beneath the 60-story Fountain Place tower in Dallas. He was charges with trying to detonate a weapon of mass destruction and faces up to life in prison if convicted. ...In Jordan, Smadi's father insisted ...

El Paso: visitors waved through border, little or no screening, just like normal day - 4/28/2009

... offers this report from El Paso, Texas: U.S. airport officials and border agents waved people through Monday with little or no additional screening for Mexico’s deadly swine flu - a far more muted reaction than the extreme caution elsewhere around the world. At the main pedestrian border crossing between El Paso and Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez, a handful of people wore protective masks and officia...

Johanna Neuman /LAT "speechless" about Asian name normalization to avoid confusion - 4/09/2009

... "As Obama tackles immigration, Texas legislator suggests immigrants Americanize names" (link). The first part of it discusses the New York Times article about Obama pushing immigration "reform". I'll tell you something she didn't tell you about that. The second part concerns a suggestion that Asian-Americans normalize their names in order to avoid confusion when the ...

Dallas School District laid off Americans while seeking H-1B workers (DISD) - 3/30/2009

From this: About 50 [Texas] companies, along with [the Dallas Independent School District], applied for H-1B visas for jobs in Texas last year and then announced layoffs of thousands of workers in the state, a Dallas Morning News review of government databases shows... DISD had the most filings of any North Texas entity, with 380 requests for H-1B visas and five for permanent visas... "We�...

Most literate cities of 2008: NYC at #24, L.A. at #56 - 12/26/2008

... Jersey; Riverside; and Plano, Texas. Important note: We did beat out Fresno, Stockton, and Bakersfield. Hold your heads high, Angelenos!

Hundreds arrested at Pilgrim's Pride plants (immigration raids, identity theft) - 4/16/2008

... chicken processing plants in Texas, Tennessee, Arkansas, Florida, and West Virginia (link). The company participated in the E-Verify program and cooperated with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The arrests were for identity theft and document fraud in addition to being illegal aliens and/or criminal aliens. There were also smaller, unconnected raids at Shipley Donuts in Houston (a loca...

WTF: ADL's "No Place for Hate" campaign - 5/12/2007

... trademarked by the way). Sugar Land, Texas was the latest to be converted, including asking his residents to sign an oversized "Resolution of Respect." [5] Earlier, a "Rally for Respect" was held; choose 'view image' on the center picture to see schoolkids holding up "Respect" signs. [6] [1] mma.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sect...

LULAC, MALDEF, ACLU, business groups fight Texas immigration bills - 2/16/2007

... coalition has been formed in Texas to fight state bills designed to reduce illegal immigration. The coalition is using the standard pretext that immigration is a federal responsibility. Of course, they realize that the feds have abrogated their responsibilities; were the feds to enforce the laws, they would push for more local control. Passing the buck to the federal government is the slimmest of...

Enrique Morones, Nativo Lopez on "Migrant March II" - 2/02/2007

... leaders will drive to Brownsville, Texas, and back, meeting along the way with community leaders and residents in cities along the border, organizers said. Exactly one year ago, advocates led a similar caravan to push their agenda for comprehensive immigration reform that includes a path to legalization for the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants. This time the goals are t...

Texas gov Rick Perry: no full fence, yes to anchor babies, guest workers - 12/09/2006

... the crowd [at a meeting of the Texas Border Coalition] when he said strategic fencing along the border makes sense but the idea of a complete wall or fence is "preposterous." Instead, he wants the federal government to establish a guest-worker program that will allow the government to track workers, he said. ...Perry was asked after his speech whether it was a good or bad idea to ...

Democratic Texas/Mexico/Aztlan flyer confirmed? - 10/21/2006

... classic: That flyer - showing Texas and Mexico rejoined - was supposedly passed out at the April 9, 2006 illegal immigration march in Dallas. At the time, I wondered whether it was a real poster or a fake. Now, someone has sent an email to one Sarah from dallasdemocrats.org and says they've received the following reply: "Yes it is likely one that we produced. I can't seem to get t...

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