Immigration
Mexican farmworkers sent home from B.C. after organizing union vote
Posted by Shemuses from CBC
Union officials are outraged after a group of migrant farmworkers who were harvesting vegetables in Abbotsford were sent back to Mexico after filing papers to unionize. United Food and Commercial Workers Canada alleges Floralia Plant Growers in Abbotsford put 14 migrant workers on a plane back home the day after the owners found out about their plans to join the union. Problems started when 29 workers at Floralia Plant Growers filed an application to unionize, according to UFCWC organizer Lucy Luna. The men were scheduled to vote to certify the union on Monday, and their contract with the farm was supposed to run until October, but Luna was shocked when the men called her from Mexico instead, she told CBC News.
Liberals promise fairer, faster immigration system
Posted by Shemuses from CBC
Canada's immigration system would get a massive overhaul worth $800 million if a Liberal government is elected on Oct. 14, Stéphane Dion said Saturday. The Liberal leader promised to clear the current backlog of 900,000 immigrants waiting to come to this country, bring in a new business and visitors' visa system and introduce a series of programs to help new Canadians learn one of the country's official languages and have their professional credentials recognized here.
Labor Day: Little to Celebrate for U.S. Latinos
Posted by Shemuses
A vast majority of Latino workers in the United States are forced to work for long hours and low wages with no health care or any other benefits, says a new study published this week.
Another Storm Brewing in Jena, LA | The Jena 600
Posted by Shemuses
Just as news about the shameful saga of the Jena 6 has been waning, there's a new reason to keep the spotlight on Jena, Louisiana. When the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently rounded up 600 people at Howard Industries in Laurel Mississippi-in the largest single workplace raid in U.S. history-they sent most of the arrested workers two hours away to a federal detention center in, none other than, Jena. Now we have the Jena 600.
Immigrants cause global warming, says Australian university study
Posted by Shemuses from The Advertiser
Researchers at Monash University have released "Labor's Greenhouse Aspirations," a report that cites population growth as a major factor in carbon emissions. From there, the authors called for renewed restrictions on immigration, to "stabilize" the population by 2050. The report assumes that all migrants will live at "twice the standard of living, like all Australians." Named after an Australian general, Monash has also opened campuses in South Africa and Malaysia.
The Herald-Sun, AU
Undocumented Farm Worker Becomes Brain Surgeon
Posted by Shemuses
Good things don't necessarily come to those who wait, but rather to those who persist and work hard. That's the credence of Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, a Johns Hopkins University neurosurgeon who started his education at San Joaquin Delta College and whose work is followed on the ABC hospital documentary series 'Hopkins.' doctorThe once undocumented farm laborer now also directs Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center's brain tumor surgery program and leads research on the role of stem cells in brain tumors and brain cancer. "I feel I am paying back to this society and this country for all the opportunities I was given," Quiñones-Hinojosa, 40, said.
McCain's
Posted by Shemuses
A big part of politics, aside from the candidates stumping from city to city, are the campaign's television advertisements. In some cases, these advertisements outlast the candidates and the race itself. Usually, the advertisements spotlight the candidates' interaction with the public and the issues of the day. That's why, the latest advertisement by the McCain campaign entitled "God's Children" is a puzzlement and a sad commentary on the state of the Republican Party, not to mention, an offensive piece of footage to all Latinos, whether Republican, Democrat or Independent...
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