souih- : ocj.iijnoN Texas Tr^h Univcri^^i^y lUPBCcrv, Tc: ’ Oldest Hispanic Owned Newspaper Celebrating 30 Casualties of Years of War in Iraq Publishing 3,401 as of M ay 17, “El Respeto al Derecho 2007 Ajeno es la Paz” Lie Benito Juarez VOL. XXX No. 32 Week of May 17 to 23, 2007 www.eleditor.com Lubbock, Texas 79401 neanng immigrati A bipartisan group moves to^vard a plan to give immediate legal status to 12 million illegal immigrants. By Nicole Gaouette probationary legal status. If the triggers hopeful. “I remain optimistic that we’ll WASHINGTON — Senators are met — a process that Sen. Lindsey be able to put together a bill that can Graham (R-S.C.) estimated would take clear the Senate on a bipartisan basis, negotiating a bipartisan immi 18 months — then illegal immigrants hopefully an overwhelmingly biparti gration reform bill have settled who qualify could get Z visas. Those san basis,” said Senate Minority Leader on the details of a plan that who have committed felonies would Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Q- would immediately grant legal not be eligible, Graham said, and all Democrats were more measured. participants would have to pass security Reid cited “some areas of accomplish status to all illegal immigrants checks, pay a fine and a processing fee ment,” but added that the two sides currently in the United States. and pass an English proficiency test. were “a long ways from where we need The deal on “Z visas” for il Z visa holders would be able to apply to be.” for legal permanent resident status, a Unresolved issues include the terms legal immigrants is one of sev step toward citizenship. But at some of a guest worker program for future eral issues where Democrats point, the heads of households with immigrants. Republicans are adamant and Republicans have reached Z visas would have to return to his or that any program that imports labor her home country and then reenter the should be temporary and not allow broad agreement United States. They would have to take participants to become citizens. But as senators emerged from what their Z visa to the U.S. Embassy or “There is grudging acquiescence they had hoped would be a final round consulate and would be guaranteed re that that’s the way it’s going to work,” of negotiations Tuesday, they indicated entry. The Z visa would include a photo Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) said of his that painstakingly slow progress would and fingerprints, Graham said. Democratic colleagues. keep them firom meeting the deadline Tuesday’s talks followed two months Democrats, immigrant advocates and set by Senate Majority Leader Harry of negotiations between key senators some unions argue that if temporary Reid (D-Nev.) to begin debate on a bill and administration officials, including woikers do not have the option of citi today. Homeland Security Secretary Michael zenship, the United States will create a Late Tuesday, Reid agreed to push Chertoff and Commerce Secretary permanent underclass. that deadline to Monday. Carlos M. Gutierrez. The senators also have to settle on the “They tell me they’re 80% of the “We’ve made a lot of progress,” said number of green cards to make avail way,” Reid said in announcing the Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.). “There are able for legal immigrants who want to delay. “That’s fine, the other 20% is a few issues outstanding. The staffs become permanent residents. hard.” have worked around the clock.” And they also will tackle a larger The plan to award legal status to all Reid had said that if the negotiators issue. From its formal beginnings, illegal immigrants who meet certain could not reach a compromise, he the U.S. immigration system has who have family already in the United also agreed on a jobs program for the qualifications would occur only after would start debate on a new version been based on family reunification. States. “It’s not going to be all family, agriculture industry'. other “triggers” are m et These triggers of the immigration bill that the Senate Republicans want to change that to a but there will be a family component,” As the Senate struggled to move would require that certain border secu passed last year. Republicans say last point-based system designed to serve Martinez said. forward. House Majority Leader Steny rity and work-site enforcement mea year’s bill is no longer acceptable and the nation’s economic needs. Potential The two sides have come to agree H, Hoyer (D-Md.) announced that the sures be in place before other aspects of had signaled that they may block it immigrants would be ranked on educa ment on the Dream Act, a provision House would take up immigration the overhaul go forward. With the new deadline, chances are tion and skills. that would allow young illegal im legislation in July, even if the Senate The Z visa plan would start with the better that the senators will be able to Senators said they were compromis migrants to attend college at in-state talks collapsed. estimated 12 million illegal immi reach a deal. ing by combining the family and point tuition rates and eventually gain citi House leaders had previously insisted grants in the United States going on a Republicans sounded cautiously system, allocating points for those zenship. Democrats and Republicans that the Senate move first on the issue. Impacta en Texas medida contra indocumentados Expertos coinciden en que la ordenanza A Chance to Share in the Dream By Ricardo Sanchez a 3.7 high school grade-point average industries that rely on a steady stream of provocara un exodo masivo de hispanos y cheap labor. And we, as consumers, have bllowing massive wrote to me recently of being “without hope of a future.” all benefited-by paying the lowest prices perdidas economicas en Farmers Branch demonstrations across Despite the obstacles, some go on to for our agricultural products of any other the country in 2006 for earn degrees, are prepared to teach in our industrialized nation in the world F Approval by Congress of the American 15 de mayo de 2007 FARMERS vias legales para detener la ordenariza a comprehensive immigration schools or to become lawyers, engineers BRANCH,. Texas (EFE).- La aprobacidn travds de la via judicial. reform, the most visible result has and doctors. But unless immigration DREAM Act would be an important first step toward rectifying a broken, easily de la ordenanza que prohibe a los “En primer lugar, nunca debimos ir a been militarization of the border, policies change, they need not apply to indocumentados alquilar vivienda traei4 un plebiscite, porque no contamos con work, at least not as professionals. manipulated immigration systenL The un 6xodo masivo de hispanos a otras el vote necesario. En estos momentos, Congressional approval of a 700- Most of us are unaware of the vast majority of U.S. citizens would ciudades, asi como perdidas para los un amparo judicial es lo unico que nos mile fence between the United permissive and manipulative immigration applaud the Congress for demonstrating negocios del irea, segun coinciden varios queda”, asegurd Quintanilla. States and Mexico, that it has the wisdom, courage and analistas. Para el activista, otro punto en contra and a more compassion to do what El sabado pasado, la ciudad de Farmers es que la comunidad hispana no haya is right for thousands Branch se convirtid en la primera en el logrado ni siquiera uno de los cinco tentative, nervous of young scholars who pais en adoptar una U.S. Congress. did not willfully break medida que exige Opponents of the our laws. a los propietarios reform fear a blanket de inmuebles pedir By approving the a los inquilinos amnesty for people DREAM Act, the (s61o a los adultos) they consider to Congress could prove demostrar su be “lawbreakers.” to itself that progress estatus migratorio This sole point of is possible on the antes de firmar contention is likely seemingly intractable un contrato de to cause Congress immigration issue. alquiler o durante to do nothing on It could provide the la renovacidn del immigration reform needed momentum mismo. again this year, to set aside the Para Otto Reyes, no matter how partisan maneuvering economista de la loud or large the Universidad de that threatens to Dallas (Texas), la demonstrations. deny progress on nueva ley municipal Unfortunately, the comprehensive (2903) que entrai4 lives and futures of immigration reform. en vigor el prdximo innocent children To move the 22 de mayo afectard and young adults are lost in the debate. practices that have made it relatively Congress to this level, demonstrations la captacidn de Should the immigration stalemate easy for agriculture and other low-wage in the streets won’t make the difference. nuevos negocios y continue, what I dread most is looking industries, spanning decades, to employ a But a call or an e-mail message to Capitol por ende mermard into the eyes of educated and talented HiU fix)m individuals who comprehend escanos del Cabildo, porque de esa steady stream of undocumented workers. el crecimiento economico de Farmers young people whose only “crime” was the marrow of the matter just might Branch. manera “los latinos no tendrdn ni voz ni For example, when INS agents obeying their parents when they crossed To everyone’s benefit, no young scholar “El impacto macroecondmico que se vote”. conducted raids in Georgia’s the border. Many came as infants. educated in the United States should be experimentard a corto plazo traerd como “Fue el momente decisivo, pero los internationally acclaimed onion fields in consecuencia que los comercios dirigidos hispanos registrados para sufi^gar There is, however, a solution with June 1998, the Washington Post Weekly left “without hope of a future,” a ese segmento tengan que desplazarse no lo hicieron. Por eso es que hoy la strong bipartisan support pending in (July 13,1998) reported that “a couple of a otras ciudades vecinas en busqueda comunidad pierde”, critied Quintanilla, Congress in the form of the American growers at one farm stood their ground, de esa clientela que en estos momentos quien informd ademds que de los mds DREAM Act (HR 1275). A similar telling the federal agents to get off their TVabajaores de dos mil latinos inscritos en el padrdn estd abandonando Farmers Branch”, dijo measure in the Senate has drawn wide land. Reyes al ser entrevistado. electoral sdlo el 20% votd. support ranging from Republican Orrin “The well-publicized confnjntation Indocumentados “Pero el efecto mds devastador, en “Hemos mandado un mensaje negativo Hatch (Utah) to Democrat Ted Kennedy and calls for help from onion farmers tdrminos microecondmicos, se dard en al pais entero al decirles que una ciudad (Mass.). sent two Republican lawmakers Arrestados en algunos meses, cuando disminuya la puede arreglar los problemas que le If approved, the American DREAM fuerza laboral y los negocios empiecen a competen al gobiemo federal”, agregd from Georgia... hurrying home from Act would grant temporary legal status cerrar”, agregd el economista. Quintanilla. Washington to rein in the Immigration Amherst to college-bound undocumented students indied que el otro inconveniente Otro que cree que este es “el principio and Naturalization Service ...Within days, Diez-y-siete trabajadores indocumenta serd si Farmers Branch sienta un del fin” de la ordenanza 2903 y que who have lived in the United States for at the INS agreed not to interfere with this dos fueron arrestados el miercoles en la precedente para otras ciudades de EU “nunca verd la luz del di'a” es la activista least five years. Upon completing at least year’s harvest,” the Post reported. ciudad de Amherst aqui cercas de Lub con las mismas consecuencias para los Elizabeth Villafranca. two years of college or military service, When similar raids were conducted bock. Los trabajadores trabajaban por las indocumentados y los comercios. Villafranca, quien ademds tiene negocios the students would be eligible to apply during the cherry harvest in Washington lecherias Five Star y Milk Harvest Doce “Entonces veremos un efecto domind en en esta ciudad, dijo que Farmers Branch for permanent legal status. State, The Tacoma News Tribune (June 8, hombres y cinco muujeres fueron deteni- se convierte hoy en “el patito feo del pais gran escala en todas las ciudades donde While more and more such students 1997) reported that three members of its dos y se espera que sera deportados para hay gran concentracidn de hispanos que al perseguir a los indocumentados como are graduating from our high schools congressional delegation joined farmers atras a Mexico ya que agentes piensa que quieran adoptar medidas similares”, se hizo con los afroamericanos en la - some with honors, others as senior-class in complaining about “overzealous son de dicha naci6n. No se sabe que tipo acotd Reyes. ddcada de los 60”. valedictorians - they’re conflicted. Even de accion se tomara encontra las acciones Carlos (iiintanilla, activista y principal Para Josd Gdlvez, el unico hispano que tactics” and “too much INS activity.” if they graduate from college, they won’t opositor de la medida, estd de acuerdo postuld sin suerte a un puesto en el This is how the nation’s “top ilegales de los duenos que ocuparon a los be allowed to work. One student with con Reyes, pero admite que aim existen cabildo de Farmers Branch, la falta de un lawmakers” intervene to protect trabajadores. El Editor, Week of May 17-23, 2007 On the Internet -www. eleditor.com Page 2 Letters TO THE Editor Send Mail to: uring the more than 30 years of pub would have published them just as we have pub [email protected] lishing El Editor, very few political lished those written by those who oppose her. issues have captured as much public Last week, we published the results of a Linda Good Representative attention or produced as much public non-scientific survey we conducted in which Dear Editor: emotion as the ongoing effort to recall City Coun- As a resident of City Council District One, I am proud to say Linda DeLeon is my we pointed out that the majority of survey representative. cilwoman Linda DeLeon. respondents felt that Mrs. DeLeon should not Linda is active with the neighborhood associations of her district and is a strong When we first learned of the recall effort, we be recalled. Those were the views expressed advocate in building strong neighborhoods. Her recent support of an ordinance made it a point to wait until the initial smoke had by the folks who had responded to our survey requiring owner occupied dwellings if a secondary use apartment (garage or small cleared before making our position known. We questions. It is extremely important to us that units in the rear of a house) is being rented was a tremendous show of support for the neighborhoods and will help encourage and promote home ownership. would have preferred it, if both sides could have reader’s opinions and views also be expressed worked out any differences between them and Mrs. Prior to Linda’s service on the council, we saw the decline of North Overton, with and that’s exactly what we did. We also pub large number of homes in that area falling into disrepair and being bought up by DeLeon to both side’s satisfaction; much like they lished respondent’s comments; exactly as they absentee landlords who were not committed to the residents of our district or the did with Mr. Price; and move forward. were submitted to us. They were not edited or protection of our historic neighborhoods. Linda’s support of our neighborhoods, But since then, we’ve received comments and changed in any way. They were not ours, but our including South Overton, Arnett Benson, Guadalupe, the Downtown area and Heart of complaints that we have taken a position, both for Lubbock, will assure Lubbock never has a neighborhood decline as North Overton did reader’s views. in the 80’s and 90’s. and against. It’s obvious that some cleirification is Our primary role is to provide a public forum Just a year ago, we saw Linda elected, in a landslide, to District One. She is an in order here. for readers to express their opinions and to pro effective representative for ALL the people of our district. Linda DeLeon is right To be clear, we have not taken an official editorial mote a public discussion of the issues; no matter representative, at the right time for the residents of District One and the City of position yet; but we reserve our right to do so in how unpopular they may be. That is what we SOUTH BEACH FIASCO the future if we choose to do so. have tried to do for the past 30 years and that is The City Council voted to pay $960,000 to purchase a building in the heart of the Depo As we go to press this week, we have been sur what we’ll continue to try and do in the future. District that is listed on the tax roles at $630,000. According to Dale Gannaway, President prised by the comments we have heard concerning More importantly, it is our role to present both of an organization called the Depo Entertairunent District Association, the city paid a “fair this newspaper’s role in the recall effort. Some sides of the issue and we try to do so without re price” for the property and the purchase was “right in line”. If Mr. Gannaway is right, people have faulted us for only presenting one side then the purchase of the night club raises serious tax fairness questions that should be writing the message. unmediately addressed by the elected representatives of our city. For years home owners of the issue, by publishing op-ed pieces written by To be sure, this issue has been a divisive one. It have complained that they shoulder a disproportionate share of the property tax burden Roger Settler, one of the principles associated with has gotten personal and at times just plain mean; that funds our local government and public schools. State law requires that all real estate, the recall effort. Still others have blamed us for not it should not have. including businesses, be appraised at full market value. Most homeowners in Lubbock coming out publicly in support of Mrs. DeLeon Our hope is that whichever side of this issue County would agree that their homes are appraised at or near the fair market value, and and taking a stronger stand against the recall effort. in many instances, above that which a willing buyer would pay. Many believe that while one comes down on, that both sides will take their homes are valued at full market value, many businesses pay property taxes at a rate What we have tried to do is provide a forum for the high road and respect each other’s position. far less than market value on their commercial property thereby shifting the tax burden to the organizers to make their case for a recall. We We hope that the debate will focus on the politi the homeowner. If businesses are paying market value on commercial property, why was have published op-ed pieces written by Mr. Settler cal issues; both sides can continue to make their this building on the tax roles at only 65% of its selling price? The answer is that the real and letters to the editor by Armando Gonzales; also case, and eventually we’ll see who wins the market value for the building is closer to the appraisal price than it is to the price paid by one of the organizers. The organizers who have the taxpayers to purchase it. debate. That’s the democratic process. The City Council and the president of the depo district’s trade organization assure us that undertaken this effort have every right to do so. In the course of the next couple of weeks, our the city paid a fair price for the South Beach building. However, the building was on the When we publish their views, we do so to provide hope is that everyone can take a step back, take a tax roles for only 65% of the amount the city agreed to pay for the building even though it a public forum for them to air their views. By pub deep breath and realize that political issues such had been for sale for years with no private buyer interested at the listed price. Either the tax lishing them, readers should not infer that we take as these are part of being involved in the demo appraisal is wrong, or the City overpaid for the building by paying a price no private person the same position they express or that we agree would pay. I think it is clear that the City overpaid for the building, and once again, the tax cratic political process. We hope that this debate payer loses. with them. has not created the kinds of political wounds and Because the city now owns the South Beach building, the building will be off of the tax The reason we have not published any letters or community divisions which cannot be healed. roles, reducing the amount of property tax income to the city. In addition, the nightclub articles by Councilwoman DeLeon, or any of her It is said that politics can be a nasty ; our view paid significant alcoholic beverage gross receipts taxes and city and state sales taxes which supporters, is because we have not received any. is that they can be, but that doesn’t necessarily will no longer be collected. And for what purpose was this building purchased? According Had we received any type of communication, we to the City Council, it was purchased to provide a visitors center for the city. In addition to mean that they have to be. the amount of money paid for the building and the loss of tax revenue from the purchase, the question must be asked as to how the city leaders envision the future of the depo The Positive and Giant district. Now more than ten years old, the depo district has been a failure in revitalizing downtown and has been a failure from an economic development standpoint Although it calls itself an entertainment district, the only entertainment venue is the Cactus Theatre Side of a Recall Election which puts on Branson, Missouri type variety shows for the over 65 crowd who are home in bed by 10pm on most show nights. The remainder of the businesses consists of bars and by Carlos Quirino restaurant/bar combinations that cater to the 21-25 year old Texas Tech crowd. There is The recent controversy of the upon Ms. DeLeon’s performance economically, and not merely nothing to attract the average Lubbock family. There are no amusement parks, water parks, need for a Recall Election to on council. That is to say that discourage us from working hard cinemas, performing arts centers, baseball parks, retail shopping or anything approaching replace Linda DeLeon on Lub this recall is not solely about a to establish our own businesses? a tme entertainment destination. Instead of growing and meeting the promise of downtown bock’s City Council District 1 one time vote to purchase a build What do the tax paying residents revival, the area appears to be dying. A building in the heart of the district housing the Red seat compels me to try to analyze ing to attract more people to Lub in “El Barrio” need to do in order Door bar burned to the ground more than four years ago and nothing has been rebuilt to the dynamics of this effort. To bock. Secondly, the issue is not to remove the blight at the very take its place. Instead, a chain link fence surrounds an empty lot and a chaired concrete begin with we need to understand whether Ms. DeLeon represented entrance of their neighborhood? foundation. that in a free and democratic Lubbock’s minority community Where do we stand on the prom Most readers will remember that the city paid a similar premium for the purchase of the society such as the one in which on Lubbock ISD’s School Board. ised undertaking of the so-called old Depo Restaurant building to turn it into the little visited, poorly promoted Buddy Holly we live in, there are some basic Quite the contrary, the issue is “Mercado”, where many Lubbock- and fundamental safeguards that whether she has truly represent ites came together to develop a museum which loses money every year. Now the City has purchased the building across have been put in place to allow ed not only the people who voted plan for future generations? the street which it will turn into a visitor’s center. Rather than an entertainment district to for free discussion, debate, and for her, but also those people Therefore, the chance we now enhance the lifestyle of the citizens of the community, the city apparently wants the depo compromise. That is, free and that didn’t, but who continue to have to engage in meaning district to be a tourist area for non-residents of the city. Is there really a demand for such fair elections are paramount to support the growth of Lubbock by ful-constructive discussion and a huge visitor’s center? The last time I checked, Lubbock wasn’t exactly a top tourist the system of checks and balance paying taxes locally, in our state, criticism is something we need to destination in our State. which are inherent in the United and nationally. applaud. It is an opportunity for The real tragedy in this situation is that businessman Chris Gonzales lost his business States Constitution. Therefore, The beauty of this opportunity the Latino community to rise to because of the purchase. Although Mr. Gonzales states that he will reopen in a smaller if a person feels that they have lies in the ability that we have in another lever of political aware venue, his bottom line will suffer when he reopens in a building with lower capacity. While been unfairly represented by this country to question and hold ness, to educate ourselves politi the City Council stated that it didn’t use the imminent domain powers of the city to take an elected official; under the accountable those public officials cally, and to exercise our right the building for public use, by paying far more than market value, and far more than any Amendment of our Bill of Rights who would represent us. We need to be a central part of Lubbock’s they have every privilege to to take a hard look at al those political arena. private party could or would pay, the city in effect condemned the building and took it for manifest their disagreement, things in our communities which Quirino attended the National Au its own use. To state otherwise is not being honest with the public. The bottom line is that displeasure, or feelings of misrep truly affect our daily lives. What tonomous University of Mexico, the Latin our elected officials are out of touch with the average citizen. resentation. is Ms. DeLeon’s position on clean American Faculty of the Social Sciences, The South Beach story is just another sad example in a long line of poor management Evidently, and as precarious ing-up “El Arroyo” and making it Texas Southern University, and Texas decisions by the City Council. Its time for a change. The first step is to cancel LP&L and as the situation might be, the an integral part of the parks and Tech University. A native of Lubbock he tell them you are not going to support the city until it begins supporting you. The second petition drive to gather enough attended Lubbock High School, Carroll recreation system which would Thompson Junior High School, K. Carter and more important step is to register to vote and be informed. Vote for change. Vote for all signatures to call for a new elec service everyone in Lubbock? Elementary, and A.C. Jackson Elemen of us. Si se puede. tion has stirred enough interest How will the new Visitor’s Center tary. Charles Dunn for people to look more diligently benefit the Latino community Commentary: Latinos give PBS a history lesson By Ruben Navairette Jr. “another layer of storytelling.” But he A special source of pride are the World SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) - didn’t say how he would do so, only that War n veterans, who came home to - There is an ongoing battle between nothing in the film would be changed. segregated schools, restricted restaurants, filmmaker Ken Bums and a coalition How would that woik, exactly? and bans on speaking Spanish. So they of Hispanic veterans, organizations and One person who is still skeptical is the waged a new battle - for civil rights. It lawmakers over plans by Bums and the individual who started this affair: Maggie is a great story. Too bad PBS and Bums Public Broadcasting System to release a Rivas-Rodriguez, journalism professor missed it the first time around. documentary on World War II that ignores and head of the U.S. Latino & Latina Oral Now, Bums seems ready to correct the 500,000 Hispanics who served in the Histoiy Project at the University of Texas the oversight. Let’s hope that he does - U.S. military during the war. at Austin. - before the corporations weigh in, and Now there could be a tmce. After When Rivas-Rodriguez learned that the war starts up again. As for PBS, it’s a initially insisting that he wouldn’t make PBS was planning a documentary on goal of the network to provide educational any changes. Bums said last week that he World War D absent Hispanics, she and programming. And on this issue, there is would re-edit the film to add stories about her associates wrote letters, launched much educating to be done. Hispanic soldiers — not as an addendum an online campaign, and demanded Consider the white male reader who, as was suggested earlier in a lame meetings with the PBS brass ( http://www. after reading a column on the subject, compromise, but as part of the film itself defendthehonor.org/). wrote to inform me that “no ‘Latinos’ The word came after Bums met with Like the Hispanic veterans of World War n, fought in the war. They were Americans.” the Hispanic Association of Corporate they were ignored That was a mistake. It also That’s a lovely thought, and I can’t wait v»Vi,StKiS- Responsibility, which had asked Anheuser- made clear that the activists were dealing with to share it with those in my grandparents’ Busch and General Motors Corp. to folks whose knowledge of Hispanics didn’t go generation who suffered through decades S e o -S O H .^ end their sponsorship of “The War” - beyond salsa lessons and whatever is on the of second-class citizenship. They weren’t - a 14-hour documentary slated to air in No. 3 combination plate. “Mexicans.” They were Americans all September. HACR Chairman Manuel If either PBS or Bums knew more about along. How about that? They’ll be so t\ (fbttor is a weekly bilingual newspaper published by Amigo Publications in Lubbock and Mirabal warned the companies to cut ties the ethnic group, they might have known Midland/Odessa Texas. El Editor has been published on a weekly basis since 1977. Our physical address for relieved. overnight delivery is 1502 Ave. M in Lubbock, TX 79401. El E^tor is available on the interact at htQ>:www. or they would “not be held harmless.” Was that they were playing with dynamite. Ruben Navairette Jr. is a member of the eleditor.com and is distributed throughout West Texas in retail outlets. Opinions expressed in El Editor are those that a threat? You bet. 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All opinions and letters to the editor must contain Bums said that he would include recipients relative to population than any expressed in this commentary are solely those the writer’s name, address and phone number but name can be withheld at the writer’s request Address and interviews with Hispanic veterans in other ethnic group. of the writer. tcleghonenumberwill^otbe^ublishcd^^^^^Publi^^ I El Editor, Week of Mav* 17-23, ^ 2007 On the Internet eleditor.com Page 3 Richardson Should Air Perspective on Inunigration At the moment, it’s a longshot, rains is not a fearsome felon *’l remember thinking. I’m just Maria-Luisa Lopcz-Collada American birthright” for his For as long as Richardsi>n is in but Bill Richardson could be merely because he lacks papers. a kid. It’s ixM fair that I’m a Mexi Richardson returned to Mexico children and pursued a course the 2007-08 presidential race he elected our nation's next presi Documentation: Secunng it can can and an Amencan trapped in with each of her children soon that was unmistakably his to take will be asked about his stand on dent. That possibility alone should be almost as cumbersome as it OIK body.” Richardson wrote. after their births. w hen it came time for his children immigration reform. Details arc inject renewed attention on the IS critical. Having it determines The Richardson home was in U.S. law gives citizenship to to enter this world. still lacking from his proposal, but issue of immigration within the w hether one needs to hide ui fear Mexico. But Richardson’s father, children bom abroad to a married Just as easily, though, much of he favors a path to citizenship for Americas. w hile going about daily routines, a successful American banker, couple if at least one parent is a Bill Richardscm’s life, including undocumented working migrants The immigration issue got which are rooted in this country's didn't want his two children to be citizen and has lived in the United his undisputed right to vie for already here. renewed attention last week dur need for cheap labor amid hard- bom in Mexico. They would be States for no less than 10 years. the presidency, can be seen as a His own circumstances in mind, ing May Day demonstrations in emng attitudes about immigration bom “safely" in the United Stales, The U.S. Constitution requires product of privilege. Richardson Richardson might be expected which Mexicans working and liv as well as in the workers' needs as Richardson tells it natural-bom citizenship of our describes his mother as elegant, to sound even more like Barack ing throughout the United States to support themselves and their “By 1947. my father, a loyal pa presidents. U.S. courts have not graceful and vivacious. I’ve Obama, who nninths ago told a were engaged. An estimated families here or across the b«der. triotic Amencan. had been living decided whether a person bom dined with her. She’s that and Chicago crowd that our nation’s 12 million Mexicans are in this These are trxily people living in in Mexico nearly twenty years. abroad to a U.S. citizen parent can more. Her eyes on the future, she treatment of foreign migrants country without the paperwork two worlds. When the time came for my serve as president. wa.'» safely “dispatched" twice whose work we rely on is marked that would allow them to be here And that gets us back to Rich mother, who is Mexican bom and Richardson’s citizenship, al to California to give birth so by hypocrisy. Our country needs legally. ardson. Preparing for his presi bred, to be delivered of her first though secured under something her children would be ensured their labor but, as the Wtxxly I phrase it that w ay because we dential run. Richardson wrote a born child, my father dispatched other than ordinary circum access to everything the United Guthrie song says, too often we tend to lose sight of the fact that book 2^}propnately titled “Be her to Pasadena, California.... My stances, was never in doubt. But States offers. Childbirth done, treat them like rustlers, like out the issue of illegal immigration, tween Worlds." In it, Richardson father insi.sted there would be no he might have had to settle for she and her children were safely laws. like thieves. indeed, revolves around docu tells of his Mexican mother and doubt of his children’s citizenship. watching others run for the White returned home to what Richard It’s an issue that almost begs for mentation. The young man who American father, of his youth that When my si.ster Vesta followed House if he had been bom in son describes as a “comfortable" leadership from Richardson, who might be on your home’s roof unfolded in streets of Mexico City eight years later, she too was Mexico City. life complete with a chauffeur and has brushed up agairtst immigra at this moment helping to patch and around an exclusive New provided a cast-iron American Banker William Blaine cook in Mexico, where mother tion concerns sirKe birth and has leaks discxivered during recent England prep school. birthright." Richardson wanted a “cast-iron and daughter still live. landed on the winning side. Bum s Agrees To Include Latino Buscan bloquear en Texas ordenanza Veterans In ‘ The War ’ que prohibe rentar a ilegales Activistas hispanos y partidari- optado por implementar una ley declaraciones. os de la defensa de las libertades que no s61o civiles pidieron el martes a un es mala, sino juez federal que bloquee una or posiblemente denanza que prohibe a los caseros inconstitu- alquilar apartamentos a inmigran- cional", dijo ACLU tes ilegales en Farmers Branch, Lisa Graybill, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION i un suburbio de Dallas. directora legal La Defensa Legal Mexi- de ACLU en cano-Estadounidense y el Fondo Texas. “Ahora el asunto debei4 Desde 1970, Farmers Branch Educative, as! como la Unidn ser resuelto en una corte federal” se transformd de una pequefia co- s > de Libertades Civiles de Estados Miembros de la municipalidad munidad de mayon'a blanca, con Unidos (ACLU, por las siglas en de Farmers Branch aprobaron una declinante poblaci6n, en una t ingl6s de American Civil Liber la prohibicidn en noviembre sin ciudad de 28.000 habitantes, de ties Union), que ya han entablado someterla a discusidn alguna. los cuales, un 37% son hispanos, una demanda contra la ciudad, Luego la revisaron en enero para de acuerdo a la Oficina de Censos reclamaron ante una corte de incluir exenciones a menores, de Estados Unidos. 3 distrito una orden temporal de ancianos, y algunas familias Farmers Branch ya encara prohibicidn de la norma. donde uno de los miembros es cuatro demandas de gmpos de La ordenanza, que debe entrar ciudadano estadounidense. El defensa de los derechos civi en vigencia el prtiximo martes, sdbado, los residentes aprobaron les, de residentes, propietarios exige a gerentes de edificios veri- la ordenanza con un abmmador de edificios y empresarios. En ficar si los potenciales inquilinos respaldo del 68%, segiin resulta- las demandas se senala que la ordenanza es discriminatoria y Filmmaker Ken Bums reached with Bums this week said they Congressional Hispanic Caucus son ciudadanos estadounidenses dos extraoficiales. coloca a los caseros en la precaria an agreement yesterday with two were pleased that their concerns voted 20 to 0 last week to support o inmigrantes legales antes El concejal Tim O’Hare, posicidn de convertirse en agentes advocacy oi^:anizations that have were finally being addressed. HACR, an umbrella organiza- de alquilarles una habitacidn. principal defensor de la ley, dice del servicio de inmigracidn y pressured him to amend his World In an interview, Antonio Gil lion of 14 Latino groups, in its Quienes violen la ordenanza que la economfa de la ciudad y naturalizacidn. Los abogados War 11 documentary to include Morales, national commander of campaign to amend the film. In deberdn pagar una multa de hasta la calidad de la vida mejorar^ senalan que la ordenanza intenta more material about Latinos’ the American GI Forum, a Latino turn, HACR had recently notified 500 ddlares. si los ilegales no pueden alquilar regular la inmigracidn, un deber contribution to the American war veterans group formed just after Bums’s underwriters - including “Es lamentable que los resi- apartamentos en el 4rea. O’Hare exclusive del gobiemo federal. effort. World War D, called it “a win-win General Motors, Anheuser-Busch dentes de Farmers Branch hayan se neg6 el martes a formular The agreement between Bums’s situation for Ken Bums and our and several nonprofit founda production company, Floren members.” tions - that it would hold them tine Films, and the two Latino Bums repeatedly insisted that accountable if “The War’’ wasn’t groups appears crafted to enable “The War^’ was finished and that amended. both sides to declare victory in he would not reedit his work, It’s unclear whether any of these the long-running war over “The characterizing it as an issue of sponsors pressured Bums, The War.” which is scheduled to air on practicality and artistic integrity. filmmaker, who yesterday was en PBS in September. After meet But he acknowledged last month route to the Cannes Film Festival, ing in New York on Wednesday, that his film had overlooked the could not be reached for com activists firom the two groups, the estimated half-million people of ment. Dayton Duncan, a longtime American GI Forum and the His Latino descent who served in the Bums associate who spoke on panic Association of Corporate U.S. military during the war. To behalf of Florentine Films, said Responsibility (HACR), said they address that, he agreed last month he didn’t know whether any were satisfied that Bums would to shoot new footage and hired underwriters had been in contact include interviews and other a Latino filmmaker to help him with Bums. content about Latino American produce interviews and other ma Bums had heard from former A veterans, and that this materi^ terial fipom the Latino perspective. .NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw, would appear “between the cred PBS and Bums, however, gave author of the best-selling World its" - that is, during the 14-hour, vague and sometimes conflicting War n book “'Fhe Greatest Gen seven-part documentary. statements about how that content eration,” who was sympathetic The Latino groups had feared would be used in “The War,” fuel to the Latino groups’ viewpoint, that these stories would be broad ing even more insistent protests according to one activist who cast as a supplement, peiiiaps fixim Latinos. asked not to be named because during breaks in the film or at the Members of the groups were the negotiations with Bums were end of its multiple parts, in effect vague yesterday in describing private. reducing the Latino role to an the terms of the agreement They Not everyone involved in the afterthought. acknowledged that the agreement controversy was satisfied. Maggie Bums had faced mounting doesn’t specify how many ad Rivas-Rodriguez, a University of pressure from activist groups, ditional minutes of material Bums Texas professor who initiated the elected officials and several will add. Nor does it give the protests against Bums last year coiporate underwriters over the Latino groups a role in deciding and who leads a grass-roots group lack of Latino representation in what to include, they said. caUed Defend the Honor, was the film, which focu.ses on the In a statement yesterday. Bums skeptical. wartime experiences of people in said, “I am confident that [addi “I’m not sure how [Burns’s] four U.S. towns. tional stories] can be incorporated position has moved from what Bums yesterday called the new in a way consistent with the film’s he said last month,” she said. “In content “an additional layer of focus on individual experiences the end, if it really means that storytelling" that does not tamper and in a way that means nothing Ken Bums is going to include the with “my vision" for telling the in the film that already exists will Latino perspective in a meaning story of the war. But he offered no be changed.” ful way, then, yes, it’s a wonder new details about how it would The 12-hour meeting this week ful thing. But until we get some be used. came amid a rising chorus of clarification, we’ll withhold Several advocates who met complaints about “The War.” The judgment." 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Los mds fanaticos echaron enloquece a los ter five seasons. He Con m ^ de 52 millones de de menos titulos como “O tu mds fans. says the network discos vendidos en todo el mundo o ninguna” o “Si te vas”, y “(^d barbari- told him it would y dos Premios Grammy y cu- por supuesto la inevitable “La dad Madrid, qud lose money if the atro Grammy Latino entre otros incondicional”, un hito en su car belleza de publico. show was renewed. muchos galardones, el artista se rera alld por 1988, que a pe.sar de Han pasado tres But Lopez tells the despidid en Madrid el domingo en que el publico la pidid en varias anos desde la Los Angeles Times ^ A su segundo y ultimo concierto de ocasiones, el cantante no llegd a ultima vez y no that his show did una gira por Espana que comenzd interpretarla. puede ser que pase better than some of el 30 de abril en Barcelona y le ha Vestido. como siempre, elegan- tanto tiempo”, dijo the series that were Uevado a Bilbao y Las Palmas. temente de negro, con corbata desde el escenario. renewed. Todo estaba vendido para el de lunares y camisa de bianco Luego, ya mds He’s especially sdbado y tambidn para el domingo, nuclear a juego con su lustrosa tranquilo y dis- peeved that a con precios que iban de los 40 a los dentadura, Luis Miguel aparecid, puesto a explotar mariachis, de bianco inmaculado, sitcom starring the 65 euros (54 y 88 ddlares), y es que cual estrella que es, en mitad del su vena mds rom^tica, recuperd para cantar “Mdxico” “ifichame cavemen finom the el mexicano gusta a todo tipo de escenario y con el publico en pie su repertorio boleristico, con a mi la culpa” y, por supuesto, Geico commercials publicos, aunque entre sus fans la brinddndole una gran ovacidn. cldsicos del gdnero como “No “La bikina”, inevitable en sus was picked up. He gran mayoria son fdminas de todas Eso SI, veinte minutos tarde. me platiques mds”, “Contigo en conciertos. asks why a “Chi- las edades. Para abrir el recital, acompana- la distancia”, “La distancia”, “No Para terminar, volvid al pop de cano can’t be on Luis Miguel celebra con esta do por ocho musicos y dos coris- se tu”, “Inolvidable”, “El dia que cl^icos del gdnero en espanol, TV, but a caveman gira los 25 anos de la publicacidn tas, eligid “Qud nivel de mujer”, me quieras”, “Es la historia de un como “Cuando calienta el sol” can?” Qbc de su primer dxito, “Me gustas tal a la que siguid “Con tus besos” y amor”, “Por debajo de la mesa”, o “Ahora te puedes marchar”, y Lopez says to como eres”, grabado con tan s61o un grito de “vamos Madrid” que “Nosotros”, “Perfidia”, “Bdsame dxitos de sus primeros anos, como have his sitcom quince anos y a duo con Sheena puso al publico en pie. mucho” o “Amor, amori’. “Decfdete” o “Somos muchachos canceled “uncer Easton. Los primeros veinte minutos Tras retirarse unos minutos, de hoy”, y para los bises regresd emoniously like this’ Por eso el cantante quiso ofirecer fueron un popurri frendtico de regresd al escenario con chaleco, al tono festivo de piezas como hurts.” cuatro conciertos en uno, con una canciones bailables como “Dame camisa negra y cinturdn charro, “Vuelve”, “Ser4 que no me amas primera parte muy bailable con tu amor”, “Sol, arena y mar” o However, his 1^- y acompanado por un cuerpo de o “Cdmo es posible que a tu lado show will live on in The Other Lopez syndication. 'Ugly Betty’ star a grateful role model America Ferrera hesitates at the Although Ferrera can still gush, her delicately pretty features and ness”), a film about Colombian Hispanics have their own door of the studio commissary, charmingly, like a teenager, she’s petite but curvy figure. Whether kidnappings that showed at the peering inside. The cafe is invit already learned to face choices behind faux eyeglasses or free Tribeca Film Festival. ‘Desperate Housewives” ingly cool, but dark. She retreats that would test a less determined, of them, her eyes are a dominant Ferrera also was an executive instead to a patio table in the less secure actor of any age. feature, her gaze expressive and producer for the drama, directed bright afternoon sunshine. “I am incredibly, incredibly direct. and written by Antonio Negret. Of course. Why should a young fortunate about the opportunities The only time she appears It’s based on a short film Negret actress basking in the glow of I’ve had. But at the same time. guarded is when asked about made with Ferrera while at the freshman TV hit “Ugly Betty” I’ve had plenty of opportunities mmors that she’s engaged to beau University of Southern California, Ryan Piers Williams (“I’m not. where Ferrera studied internation I settle for the shadows? This is her to screw it up, too,” she said. moment and Ferrera, who turned “Sometimes the most powerful Totally made up,” she says.) al relations (she’s one semester a mere 23 last month, is making thing you can say is 'N o’... and Whatever her personal future shy of the bachelor’s degree she the most of it. not feel the need to do everything. holds, her professional one seems intends to get) “What’s happened with the It’s about doing what rings true boundless after winning a Golden She credits timing, in part, 5., show is everything that we hoped to me. Globe and Screen Actors Guild for the career options opening up for her and other minori- for,” she said. “It’s insane. I can’t “Real Women Have Curves,” award for “Ugly Betty.” I __ explain it.,I don’t know what ; . in which she played a Mexican- Feiprpr^ij.s, keeping her hwd in . ^ ties in Hollywood. Ferrera . kind of special stars or elements American teenager balancing movies as well as TV, returning was bom in Los Angeles to have to align for something to get family tradition with her dreams in the sequel to “Sisterhood of the Honduran parents and raiseicf, everything it deserves.” of education, helped set the Traveling Pants,” due out next along with five siblings, by The same could be said for standard. year, and starring in “Hacia la her mother after her parents the talented Ferrera. Since her “Early in my career 1 was Oscuridad” (‘Towards Dark divorced. I eye-catching film debut in “Real really spoiled with a beautiful Women Have Curves” in 2002, project. 1 got such a good start she’s moved swiftly to award that 1 thought, 'Why would 1 ever winning TV star, novice movie take a step back?’ 'Why would producer and, as fans tells her, a I take on something that wasn’t role model for girls and Hispan meaningful — to me, if nobody Get ready for Wisteria Lane, en time shows at its three U.S. net ics. else — and powerful and ground espanol. works is provided by Grupo Tele Add in her spot on Time maga breaking?” U.S. broadcaster Univision visa, the world’s biggest producer zine’s list of the world’s 100 most She found such a project in Communications Inc. said on of Spanish-language content. influential people (she was one of ABC’s “Ugly Betty.” Based on Monday it will produce a Span- Both companies share a pro fewer than two-dozen artists and a Colombian telenovela that has ish-language version of ABC’s hit gramming deal that expires in entertainers to make the cut) and been successfully adapted world show “Desperate Housewives,” 2017, but their relationship has her rise is more impressive. wide, the comedy-drama centers maiking a departure fiom its been marred in recent years by It’s also reassuring in this era on a dowdy young Latina with heavy dependence on prime-time fights over rights, royalties and of instant and empty fame, as is a blazing spirit who intends to shows provided by its Mexican management Ferrera’s reaction to it. make her mark on the world. partner Televisa. Wisteria Lane Under the agreement, Univi In a recent interview, she The season finale, airing 8 p.m. is the fictional suburban street sion has exclusivity rights to air thoughtfully discussed where she EDT Thursday, includes a twist where the action takes place. Televisa’s hit shows, including its is, how she got there and where in the relationship between Betty “Amas de Casa Desesperadas” worldwide famous soap operas. she wants to go from here. Her and Henry and takes a musical will become the first production A few months ago, local destination: far — and reached turn. venture between Los Angeles- media said Televisa was in talks by following her own path. Not For Ferrera’s transformation based Univision and Disney- to produce “Desperate House so different, it turns out, than to Betty, extensive makeup and ABC International Television wives,” but the broadcaster never fictional Betty Suarez. costuming are required to obscure Latin America, a unit of The Walt confirmed such reports. Disney Co.. Televisa is launching “Sexo y The show will be produced Otros Secretos” (Sex and Other ■ ^Vedding & Quinceanera (gOwns • Tuxedos by Buenos Aires-based Pol-ka Secrets), which brings to mind the • BaptismaC Aj)j)areC'Specia[ Producciones, which previously ABC series. It is one of four new Occasion Accesartes' Invitations Tarty Bentafs made versions of the show for the shows the Mexican broadcaster • Trom&Bridesmaid Dresses Argentine, Colombian and Ecua launches this week to revamp its Limousine Service Lkvadabk dorean markets. Another version prime time and lure young audi T 4120 22nd Place for Brazil is underway. ences. Lubbock, Tx 79410 The actresses for the leading fe The four shows will be offered male roles have yet to be chosen. to Univision, Televisa’s manage HEALTH CARE CESTER (806)793-3252 The bulk of Univision’s prime ment has said. 1 Donde todo es su decision! in e PadrinoSf Lo Sabemos que la familia es numero uno en el cuidado del salud, pero tienes opciones..... 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She could be your Not only are women not Women who can recognize a pos una persona duerme mal se de- eron sus pautas de mother, your sister or your daugh thinking about heart disease, sible early heart attack may also bilita su capacidad para lidiar con actividad “diuma” ter. She could be one of thousands their symptoms are often atypi be candidates for varying medical la enfermedad, segiin un estudio y “noctuma”, que of young women in this country cal, confusing both patients and and surgical interventions that help de la Universidad de Stanford que son parte de los unaware of their risk for heart physicians. While men may prevent the larger, more dangerous publica la revista Current Biology. cambios regulares disease, and unable to recognize have the classic central chest heart attack. La vinculacidn entre la falta que ocurren en el an early heart attack. pain, women will confuse their ~ Prevention of heart disease de sueno y la enfermedad es bien curso de 24 horas, “Most women think they are chest pain with indigestion or While recognizing early heart- conocida, pero hasta ahora, segun llamados ritmo immune to heart disease,” ex heartburn. Women also experi attack warning signs is important, los investigadores de la Facultad circadiano. plains Dr. Judith Lichtman, Yale ence jaw pain, shoulder pain, the best strategy for most young de Medicina de Stanford, no se Las moscas que School of Medicine epidemiolo sweating, nausea and fatigue. women is preventing heart disease. habia hallado una explicacidn. no estin enfermas gist and author of a pilot study The study also found that In a larger study conducted over Elios la buscaron en las moscas alteman unas doce examining recognition of heart- more than half of women five years, Lichtinan and col de la fruta. horas de actividad attack warning signs in young experiencing symptoms leagues hope to more aggressively “Cuando las moscas se enfer- intensa con doce women. “Most women are not delayed seeking medical help examine the risk factors that make man dejan de dormir”, explicd horas de menos I thinking of it because they have a for more than an hour. “Many some young women more prone to David Schneider, profesor de actividad. Los 10-year hormonal advantage over women seem embarrassed to heart attacks than others. Currently, microbiologia e inmunologia. “La investigadores men. Even when they are having have symptoms and will not young women can still benefit from perturbacidn del sueno a su vez encontraron que lag symptoms, they may call a family volunteer that information to what we already know about heart- trastoma el sistema inmunoldgico, moscas enfermas member, who is also unaware their physician,” says Lichtman. disease prevention. lo cual las hace m^s vulnerables tenian menos sesiones de reposo y perturbaciones en los genes que that their loved one is at risk for a “Physicians need to be more “ Identifying risk factors a la infeccion y, de ahi, es todo menos periodos de sueno continuo controlan el ritmo circadiano. heart attack.” aware of heart disease in young There are many risk factors that cuesta abajo en una ‘espiral de la que las moscas sanas. El estudio tambien abre la Heart disease is currently the women and empower women influence the development of heart muerte’”. A pesar de este estudio los cuestidn de por que las moscas No. 1 killer of women. Although to present symptoms and feel disease. The American Heart As Schneider es el autor prin investigadores advierten de que tienen un cambio en sus pautas less than 5 percent of these deaths comfortable recognizing symp sociation divides these risks into cipal del estudio sobre pautas todavia no pueden establecer con de sueno cuando estin infecta are in young women (32-54 toms of an early heart attack.” controllable versus uncontrollable del sueno en las moscas, que se seguridad si el trastomo de un das. years), 16,000 young women Given the results of this study, risks.'I like to divide the risks into I pubhca esta semana en esa revista ‘reloj’ central en el cerebro, el drea Los investigadores conjeturan die annually from heart disease. it is important for physicians risks you were handed at birth and y quien junto con Mimi Shirasu que exhibe la actividad del gen que desde un punto de vista de Approximately 40,000 young and young women to be better ri.sks that you can change. Hiza examind la conexidn entre circadiano, fue responsable de los evolucidn, puede que haya algu- women are hospitalized due to able to recognize early heart at For young women, the biggest enfermedad y las pautas de sueno, cambios apreciados en las moscas nos microbios que se combatan heart disease. “These numbers tacks and prevent heart disease. risk factor for heart disease is a fam infectando a las moscas de la fruta enfermas. mejor cuando se altera el sueno, rival those of breast cancer,” Recognizing early heart attacks ily history of heart disease. In fact, con una de dos bacterias, Strep Sin embaigo, la conducta de las aunque eso no se aplica clara- explains Lichtman, “but the helps prevent the larger heart the study found that almost 88 per tococcus pneumoniae o Listeria moscas enfermas fue muy seme- mente a los microbios probados awareness of heart disease and attack, where more heart func cent of women with heart disease monocytogenes. jante a la de las moscas que tienen en este estudio. recognition of early heart attacks tion is lost, recovery is longer had a relative with heart disease. ATTENTION U.S. Health Care Deemed ‘Dysfunctional’ The U.S. health care care, an amount that is more ernment. 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