When asked what should be done with the roughly 11 million illegal immigrants in the country, just 25 percent of those polled said that they should all be deported “no matter how long they have been in the U.S.”
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Beardstown, Small Midwestern Meatpacking Town, Wrestles With Immigration Issue
“It used to be that something happened in Beardstown, and people would blame it on a Mexican,” Walters said. “But, if you look at the numbers, there’s really no difference in the rate of crimes between Hispanics and whites in our city. It’s just not the case.”
Researchers Mark Mather and Kevin Pollard of the Population Reference Bureau, a nonpartisan research organization, say that Latino immigration has helped revive the populations of small townssuch as Beardstown all across the Midwest and Great Plains. Between 2000 and 2006, the researchers found that total population in small towns and rural areas increased only by 3 percent, while Hispanic population grew by 22 percent. Since 1990, the Hispanic population in small towns and rural areas has more than doubled.
Asthma rates increasing in Hoosiers
MUNCIE, Ind. (WANE) – A Ball State University study shows Indiana adults – especially women, Hispanics, African-Americans and the poor – are suffering from asthma in record numbers…[more]
Obama administration asks courts to block parts of tough Alabama immigration law
Please go to cnn.com to read the whole story about the Obama adminstration’s attempts to prevent a “tough new immigration law” from being enacted in Alabama.
According to CNN, these are the story highlighlights:
-The Justice Department asks for an injunction from an appeals court
-The state of Alabama will have to respond in the coming days
-Some parts of the law were already blocked by a federal judge
Immigrants can save your community
The New York Times published an article yesterday dealing with this subject. I’ll post a long excerpt here but I highly recommend that you click through and read the whole thing (then go and read Caught in the Middle). How the Midwest and the Plains states accommodate or resist this immigration will be the defining feature of the next 50 years for these communities. The data is clear though; successful communities are ones that embrace immigrants.
Beyond 2012 Field, Nuanced G.O.P. Views on Immigrants
This New York Times article discusses the role many Republican freshmen are taking in advocating for the redefinition of “their party’s increasingly anti-immigration image, even as they maintain a strong push for better federal border security.” Many of these Republicans are pushing for limited immigration measures to be taken (e.g., shortening the green card process). Overall, this article is a highly relevant, interesting read!
Immigration issues reach Ball State
Issues of immigration aren’t just found in legislatures of the Southwest. They’ve found their way into Indiana politics, and students from Ball State have said they’re disappointed with laws that restrict undocumented students from paying in-state tuition.
Voices for Justice from the Latino press
Did you know the first printed news in the Americas was published in Mexico, in Spanish, more than a hundred years before Ben Franklin and English-language newspapers? And that the first printing press on the continent was brought to Mexico City in 1535? I didn’t know, until I listened to Felix Gutierrez, a professor of journalism and communication at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School, when he visited the University of Minnesota in September as a guest of the journalism school. He’s an impressive scholar, and the pre-eminent historian of Latino media in the United States.
The beginnings of the Latino press in this country go back more than 200 years to a New Orleans newspaper called El Misisipi…[more]
¡HOLA Bloomington! Radio Show Reaches out to Spanish Speakers
Bloomington, IN — The ¡HOLA Bloomington! Spanish Language News and Public Affairs radio show aims to provide a communication medium for Spanish speakers. For almost one decade, the bilingual show has brought a mixture of news, entertainment and public opinion to Hispanics and non-Hispanics alike. Continue reading
Census: More Latinos List Themselves as White
The latest census figures also show the number of Americans who identified themselves as partly black and partly white more than doubled to 1.8 million. For the first time, the black-white combination is the most prevalent group among multiracial Americans, making up 1 in 5 members of that subgroup. They exceed the number of multi-racials who identified as being white and “some other race,” composed of mostly Hispanics, as well as white-Asians and white-American Indians.
