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A kinder, gentler Jeb Bush?

6:27 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Politics · 1 Comment

20 Mar 2006

Jeb Bush is calling for a “more liberal” immigration policy?

Bush told Notimex “we have plenty of people who have been here for many years and they do not have a way to legalize their status. A process should exist to create it”.

“It is not an amnesty, but I think it is important that if there are researchers and capable people all over the world who want to come here to pursue their dreams and they offer a quite important brain capacity for the new economy, we should capture it”, he said.

This regularization must come “along with a more liberal immigration process“, American President George W. Bush’s younger brother explained.

Brain capacity?

Anyone else think this is the world turned upside down? This is too liberal even for a “moderate” Republican. I mean he sounds like Hillary Clinton. Apparently he’s also too liberal for right wing crazies.

This reeks of presidential election bid.

More of Jeb Bush’s position on immigration.

Via / Que Pasa

Reality TV kills

3:54 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · TV| Uruguay · Comments Off

20 Mar 2006

Reality TV — America’s collective crack pipe — can sometimes be unbearable to watch, but who knew that it could also be deadly?

When I occasionally have watched shows like Fear Factor, I always thought “What if someone got seriously injured or killed? How do they protect against this?”

It seems that sometimes these shows are less than vigilant and the unthinkable happens. That’s what happened during the taping of a reality show in Uruguay last week:

A runaway train killed seven people and injured at least 11, severing some of their limbs, during the filming of a TV show in Uruguay, police said.

The accident occurred during a “test of strength” challenge to raise money for a hospital in Young, 380km (235 miles) west of the capital, Montevideo.

Contestants were pushing and pulling a train and two carriages when the vehicle gained speed and ran them over.

Good God. This begs the much asked question “Has reality TV gone too far?” I personally think that the business model of low-production costs for high profits should at the very least take into consideration the safety of the participants.

Via / BBC News

Is Sending Money Back Home Bad ?

9:18 am By Maegan La Mala · El Salvador| Money| mexico · Comments Off

20 Mar 2006

Every day immigrants send millions of dollars back home, to where they came from and families they left behind. In the words of Martha Stewart, it’s a good thing. Or is it? An article posted today at AlterNet calls takes a really interesting look at some of the negative consequences of remesas. For example is the dinero that is being sent back home and being pooled to provide infrastructure development letting foreign governments off the hook from providing services they are responsible for providing like clean water? On a more global scale, do so called First World governments like the U.S. take into account the amount of money being sent back home when developing foreign aid packages? This article takes the issue to a different level I know I personally never have reached when passing the countless money transfer locations here in New York City.

Via/ AlterNet

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