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Selling nostalgia on a stick: Dallas home to a hot market for a frozen treat of Mexico 08/18/2001 By SUDEEP REDDY and DIANNE SOLÍS / The Dallas Morning News In a nation of high-speed Internet access and cell phones that flash instant Wall Street quotes on inch-square screens, 74-year-old Antonio Gonzalez makes his living pushing a cart. Jim Mahoney / DMN Paletero Antonio Gonzalez (foreground) loads his cart with paletasand dry ice before heading out onto the streets of Oak Cliff. Mr. Gonzalez, 74, spends about 11 hours a day behind his cart. Little children break into grins when they ...

Legalization, amnesty or what? U.S., Mexico officials choose words carefully in debate over immigration 08/09/2001 By Michelle Mittelstadt / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON – Amnesty: It's the politically charged word that won't cross the lips of U.S. and Mexican government officials who are debating an initiative that could place many of the 3 million to 4 million Mexicans living illegally in the United States on a path to legal residency. Instead, they talk of "regularization" and "legalization" – or, in Spanish, regularizar and legalización. Those words were chosen with care. In fact, the National Council of La Raza recommended ...

Immigration Foes Declare Success 'I'm delighted, ' an organizer says By Bart Jones STAFF WRITER August 6, 2001 Organizations clamoring for a crackdown on illegal immigration wrapped up a two-day conference yesterday and declared it a success despite a somewhat lower-than-expected turnout. "I'm delighted," Barbara Coe, of California Citizens for Immigration Reform, said. "Now we're working East Coast, West Coast, and we're going to meet in the middle." The event, sponsored by the Farmingville-based Sachem Quality of Life Organization, was aimed at denouncing illegal immigration and coming up with strategies to combat it. Sachem Quality of Life has led the ...

Amnesty talk may spur a dash to U.S. border Mexicans see possibility of 'lucky break' 08/06/2001 By Michelle Mittelstadt and Alfredo Corchado / The Dallas Morning News Amnesty rules • Who may apply to become a lawful permanent resident while in the United States? (INS) • Extra content index WASHINGTON – Legalization for millions of undocumented immigrants living in the United States remains, at this point, just a gleam in the eye of U.S. and Mexican policy-makers hoping to forge unprecedented bilateral cooperation on migration issues. It's a long way from the drawing board to President Bush's desk, where any ...

Bush: Worker program to consider all Immigrant amnesty opposition reiterated 07/27/2001 By G. Robert Hillman / The Dallas Morning News Related content • Perry wary of amnesty • Visa deadline extension gets OK WASHINGTON – President Bush said on Thursday he would consider including immigrants from other countries in a guest-worker program that his administration is developing with Mexico. "We'll consider all folks here," Mr. Bush said during a brief exchange with reporters in the Oval Office. But the Republican president, facing increasing calls from Democrats and immigrant advocates for a broad legalization program, emphasized again that he opposes granting ...

INS plans to free long-term detainees Home countries don't want immigrants back 07/20/2001 By Michelle Mittelstadt / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON – As early as next week, the government will begin freeing some of the 3,400 deportable immigrants who have been held behind bars for months, and sometimes years, because their home countries will not take them back. Under pressure from a Supreme Court ruling, the Justice Department on Thursday outlined new regulations for the orderly release of long-term detainees from facilities all over the United States. INS detainee policy changing • Current detention guidelines • Extra content index ...

Jenna Bush: Following in Dad's Footsteps????

Liberal Groups Restudy Tactics Bush win may force activists to take defensive posture 12/16/2000 By Michelle Mittelstadt / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON – Faced with a Bush administration they fought to prevent, leaders in the abortion-rights, environmental and gun-control movements recognize they may have to reshape their policy agendas and advocate less-dramatic proposals. As they prepare for less influence on the White House, they fear social conservatives and corporate interests will call in markers earned during the bruising campaign, demanding that President-elect George W. Bush press conservative policies and stock the bureaucracy and the courts with like-minded appointees. "The ...

Underage Veterans Honored Reporter: Bill Brown Updated: Oct 28 at 09:11PM DALLAS — They were too young to shave, but they willingly went off to war, American boys as young as 12. Now, in North Texas, special honor is being paid to our underage veterans. "I went in the service 28 days after Pearl Harbor. I was 16 years old," said veteran John Bohannon. For them, childhood was cut short. While other American kids were hanging out at the malt shop, or playing Little League baseball, they were manning machine guns and dodging bombs dropped on their ships. "I ...

Family says man didn't understand police orders Language barrier cited; police say he pointed gun 09/30/2000 By Connie Piloto / The Dallas Morning News A 60-year-old man shot and killed by Irving police serving narcotics search and arrest warrants at his West Dallas home thought officers were burglars trying to force their way inside, members of his family said. But Irving police said they think Juan Mendoza Fernandez understood that the officers wanted to come inside. They said Mr. Fernandez pointed a gun at the officers who were trying to serve the warrants. Mr. Fernandez, who had retired a year ...

Catalina Camia: Party loyalty runs deep, except ... Crossing lines can create backlash resulting in lost opportunities 09/17/2000 By Catalina Camia / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON – With the race for the House so close, every vote counts for Democrats as they try to reclaim the majority and elect Dick Gephardt the next House speaker. Democrats need only six seats to regain the control they lost to Newt Gingrich in 1994. But Republicans have been playing up a promise from Rep. Jim Traficant, D-Ohio, that he'll cast his vote next year for Dennis Hastert, the GOP lawmaker currently ...

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