Archive for July 1st, 2008
Torture Classes in Mexico
6:01 pm By Maegan La Mala · Latin America|mexico|society · 2 Comments
1 Jul 2008If you are training to be a police officer in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, you might just get a couple of classes in torture. Many are up in arms in Mexico as videos have surfaced showing officers learning how to torture subjects, using their own colleagues as guinea pigs (videos after the jump):
One of the videos, first obtained by the newspaper El Heraldo de Leon, shows police appearing to squirt water up a man’s nose – a technique once notorious among Mexican police. Then they dunk his head in a hole said to be full of excrement and rats. The man gasps for air and moans repeatedly.In another video, an unidentified English-speaking trainer has an exhausted agent roll into his own vomit. Other officers then drag him through the mess.
Making Babies is The Cause of Latino Population Growth, Not Immigration (and no one else is concerned with this framing?)
9:51 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|Media|race · Comments Off
1 Jul 2008
We’ll say it once and I’ll say it again, all those new brown faces in your hood are not coming from across the border. They are being born here. A study done out of the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey Institute shows that the growth in the Latino population has to do with births increasing, not immigration.
This natural increase — more births than deaths — is accelerating among Hispanics in the USA because they are younger than the U.S. population as a whole. Their median age is 27.4, compared with 37.9 overall, 40.8 for whites, 35.4 for Asians and 31.1 for blacks.
And while the blogosphere and the media is using this study as an opportunity to say, “I told you so” to anti-immigration activists, My concern is another direction that this information could be used in.
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