IS LA BURNING? If not I think it soon will be.
A knife. what pikers. They just shot a drunk with a hamburger flipper in Modesto. In his own home.
If 100 Tea Party people were throwing eggs, rocks and bottles - would they be called “protesters”?
The dearly deceased that these ‘immigrants’ are so upset about is an illegal alien Guatemalan, who was not an ‘innocent’.
Guatemala is trouble!
A Guatemala government report said that last year 27,222 of its citizens were deported from the United States and 28,800 from Mexico; Honduras estimates more than 500 of its people leave for the north every day.
Prensa Libre (Guatemala City, Guatemala) 8/29/10
Guatemalan Migrants called “heroes”
Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom, in Los Angeles, California, to inaugurate the sixth annual Guatemalan festival (Feria Chapina), called his country’s migrants “heroes” for having the courage to migrate to the US, an unknown country. Plans were revealed to construct a monument to migrants near La Aurora, Guatemala City’s international airport.
http://www.prensalibre.com/noticias/Colom-Feria-Chapina-EE-UU_0_325767433.html
La Hora (Guatemala, Guatemala) 9/3/10
Temporary Protected Status urged for undocumented Guatemalans in US
An opinion column in La Hora concerns an appeal by a number of Guatemalan organizations requesting President Alvaro Colom to convey to the US government the necessity for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for undocumented Guatemalan migrants living in the US. The column points out, “the support of US personalities who have considered TPS to be a minimum measure of solidarity with Guatemala.”
http://www.lahora.com.gt/notas.php?key=72724&fch=2010-09-03
[Excerpt from USCIS publication: The Secretary of Homeland Security may designate a foreign country for TPS due to conditions in the country that temporarily prevent the country’s nationals from returning safely, or in certain circumstances, where the country is unable to handle the return of its nationals adequately. USCIS may grant TPS to eligible nationals of certain countries (or parts of countries), who are already in the United States.
Prensa Libre (Guatemala, Guatemala) 9/4/10
Deported Guatemalans without work
A study by a Guatemalan human rights organization of those deported from the meat packing plant in Potsville, Iowa in May of 2008, 64% remain without work and 36% have only temporary employment. This is a reflection of the status of most Guatemalans deported back to their own country because of Guatemala’s lack of development opportunities, the study found. “They emigrate and are exploited for their labor. On returning they are victims of the incapability of the State to reestablish them.” The study also showed that 98% of those deported from Iowa were in debt [assumption: smuggling fees], but only 12% have already paid them.
http://www.prensalibre.com/noticias/Deportados-trabajo_0_329367102.html
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Guatemalan youth migration a worry
A Guatemalan youth study indicates that 50% of Guatemalan youths have either tried to travel illegally to the US or have thought of trying. Those that try go into debt to pay between the equivalent of $5,000 to $7,000 to “coyotes” to smuggle them north, but often are abandoned in Mexico and left to their own luck. Those who make it back home are left with huge debts and no way to pay them off. Those experiences do not seem to dissuade others from trying.
http://www.prensalibre.com/noticias/comunitario/Preocupa-migracion-jovenes_0_329367116.html
El Sol de Mexico (Mexico City) 8/21/10
Mexico detains 61 illegal immigrants from Guatemala and Ecuador
Chiapas, Mexico – A total of 61 undocumented immigrants from Guatemala and Ecuador were detained while being guided by smugglers in a wooded zone of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, according to Mexican immigration officials (INM). The office received a call reporting the smuggling operation Friday night and dispatched agents to the area where they made the arrests. The two guides escaped, but the 61 aliens were taken into custody for processing. There were 53 Guatemalans and 8 Ecuadorians. More than 500,000 foreigners enter Mexico illegally each year en route to the US, according to the National Commission for Human Rights.
http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldemexico/notas/n1753700.htm
All articles courtesy of NAFBPO.
