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Immigrant Families Wait and See

12:46 pm By Maegan La Mala · children|Controversia|Family|Immigration|Women · 2 Comments

26 May 2006

AlterNet has been doing a really good job at showing the real stories behind the immigration debate. The latest follows a mother from Guatemala who left her six children behind to earn money for her family. According to Gloria:

My husband worked, but he drank all his earnings. I had to work full-time and take on extra jobs so that I could feed our six children.” Though her two older children, 15 and 20, worked alongside her at a fireworks factory, the younger ones ranged from 2 to 9. “We lived humbly,” she adds, “in a rickety shack made of shabby wooden boards.”

Italian pop star: Mexican women have moustaches

11:03 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Chismes|Controversia|mexico · 2 Comments

26 May 2006

An Italian pop star named Tizziano Ferro (sorry…who?) is at the center of a media firestorm in Mexico after saying Mexican women have moustaches. According to Spain’s 20 Minutos, the singer, who lived in Mexico for two years is not into Mexican girls (video, with Spanish subtitles, after the jump):

In an interview given to Italian media he stated that in Mexico it is completely impossible to find beautiful women because “they have moustaches”.

It seems the only one not guilty is Salma Hayek: “It’s impossible to say that the most beautiful women in the world are in Mexico. No offense but…they have moustaches…I’m sorry, but they know it. Maybe not Salma…”, he said on the Che Tempo fai show on Italian network RAI.

After his mention of Mexican women’s moustaches on Italian TV, the program’s host warned Ferro that his insulting comment could offend all Mexican women, to which the singer replied “They know it”.

Immigration Reform Makes it Through Round One

8:28 am By Maegan La Mala · Controversia|Immigration · Comments Off

26 May 2006

Late yesterday, the Senate gave the green light to immigration legislation with a 62-36 vote. The legislation gives funds to beef up security at the U.S. southern border, a revamped guest worker program, and a please don’t call it amnesty path to citizenship which would include fines and an English language requirements. Arizona Republican John McCain said:

Why not say to those undocumented workers who are working the jobs that the rest of us refuse, come out from the shadows.

Most conservative Republicans just want to get rid of the shadows all together, favoring a House bill which focuses on border security and criminalizing undocumented immigrants. Put on your fighting gloves ladies and gentlemen as we move into round two.

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