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35 YEARS of Publication 1976-2011 1976 2010 Vol. XXXI XXXVII No. 25 La Prensa Muñoz, Inc., Publications JUNE 24, 2011 The Afghan U.S. Men’s National Team to Face Mexico in Third Straight Gold Cup Final U.S. Will Face Mexico in Final on Saturday, June 25 at a Sold-Out Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., Live at 9 p.m. ET on FOX Soccer and Univision The U.S. Men’s National Team ad- placed long ball to Donovan who was Drawdown Is vanced to an unprecedented fourth making a run down the right flank. straight CONCACAF Gold Cup fi- Donovan collected the ball near the nal in a 1-0 victory against Panama right corner of the penalty area, Long, Long at Reliant Stadium. The U.S. will face dribbled towards the goal and hitting Mexico for the third straight time in a low laser through four Panamanian the final after the USA’s archrival defenders to Dempsey who directed defeated Honduras in the second the ball into the net with his left foot Overdue semifinal. from two yards out. In a defensive match against The 2011 Gold Cup final will take Panama that didn’t see many chances place on Saturday, June 25 at a sold- PERSPECTIVE for either side, Clint Dempsey scored out Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. his third goal of the 2011 Gold Cup in Kickoff for the match is set for 6 p.m. By William O. Beeman the 76th minute after a great service and the match can be seen live on NEW AMERICA MEDIA from Landon Donovan set him up for FOX Soccer and Univision. FOX a sliding finish from close range at the Soccer will also have a 30-minute pre- President Obama is now doing left post. game show beginning at 5:30 p.m. something politically difficult — draw- Mexico’s grueling 2-0 win over The U.S. and Mexico shard the ing down our troops from Afghani- Honduras, played in Houston on the spoils during the past two Gold Cup stan. However difficult it will be for same day as the US team against finals, with the U.S. taking the 2007 the president to weather his Wash- Panama, extra time win didn’t go as final 2-1 while Mexico pulled away ington critics, it is the right decision smoothly as they would’ve liked, af- late in 2009 to defeat an inexperi- politically and militarily. ter cruising through the group stage. enced U.S. squad for a 5-0 victory. The United States has been fight- Los Catrachos survived an early The rematch from 2009’s Gold Cup ing in Afghanistan for nearly a de- onslaught then proceeded to match, final will have some added incentive cade. It is the longest military con- and at times outplay, El Tri over the on the line. Besides fighting for pride, flict in our history, and also the most course of 90 minutes before José Mexico and the US will seek a berth futile and ineffective. Once Al-Qaeda Manuel de la Torre’s men broke into the 2013 Confederations Cup. had been ousted from power and had through in the first half of overtime. “It’ll be a special game between retreated to Pakistan, there was no The game-winning goal for United what I think are the two best teams longer a reason for an American pres- States came after the second-half in this Gold Cup,” said defender Rafa ence there. When the United States substitute Freddy Adu hit a perfectly Márquez. finally killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the lack of need for a con- tinued American military presence be- came definitive. Our continued pres- I have a confession — I’ve helped undocumented immigrants ence is overkill; we have long since By Marisa Treviño didn’t know about his status until he Jose explains that these people who won our battles there. We know that LATINALISTA was applying for a driver’s license helped him, who later became his our erstwhile enemy consists of only and then the rest of his life, like so mentors and friends, did everything a few hundred weakened and lead- June 22, 2011 - Today, another many others, has been dedicated to and are still doing everything in their erless adherents in the region. young person with undocumented showing US he deserves to stay. power to help him stay here. The costs of maintaining the status revealed himself to the nation. His career accomplishments cer- As more states pass laws that pe- American military in Afghanistan are His name is Jose Antonio Vargas tainly testify to his commitment to nalize citizens who knowingly “trans- astronomical — two billion dollars a and unlike the other young contribute to this country but now with port” or help undocumented immi- week by some estimates. There people we have come to know as the publication of his very public con- grants, the admission that these would be some justification for this “DREAMers,” Jose is already living fession, he’s not sure when he will people existed in Jose’s life is not only expense if the military were actually his dream — in a sufferable kind of hear that proverbial knock on the door, inspirational and uplifting but is real- accomplishing something of value for way. with immigration agents on the other ity. the United States or even for the Af- Jose revealed his citizenship sta- side. Unlike those who rail against un- ghan people, but neither is the case. tus in the most public forum possible In reading Jose’s piece, much of it documented immigrants would have Let us be clear. The United States — in an article in the New York was like every other story I had heard everyone believe, not everybody is in a conflict of its own making. It Times Magazine. Titling it My Life from DREAMers sharing their pain, would turn their back on a person, un- set up this war more than 30 years as an Undocumented Immigrant, Jose fear, accomplishments, acts of over documented or not, who needs help. Jose Antonio Vargas ago in its support of “freedom fight- recounted his life story from the time achievement and hope that the only Even Ron Paul in the recent GOP ers” working to oust the Soviet Union his mother sent him from the Philip- country they consider home will have debate finally had to grudgingly ad- I say this from experience, be- from Afghan soil. There was nothing pines at the age of 12 to join her par- mercy on them and let them stay. mit that our society is built on such cause as Jose has revealed his status wrong with that support at the time; ents in California to being part of a But in Jose’s piece there was compassion that it’s unthinkable to not to the world, I have to reveal that I’ve however the United States lost inter- Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team something more he included in his give medical treatment to a sick child, helped people I’ve known to be un- est in the Afghans and their external at the Washington Post. story that most never talk about — regardless of citizenship status. documented. I, nor Jose’s friends are voluntary zealot-supporters from Yes, Jose is a journalist these days the citizens of this country who helped For most of us, the child doesn’t anomalies in this arena. Practically, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and and, evidently, a damn good one. him, knowing all along that he was have to be at death’s door for us to Morocco the minute the Soviets had Yet like so many DREAMers, Jose undocumented. lift a hand. (see A Confession, page 2) withdrawn. These external fighters, who could not return home since they frightened their own governments, were dumped into Pakistan with the SPOTLIGHT ON: RENE TAJIMA-PEÑA United States’ blessing, only to fes- ter in their extreme views, forming the core of Al-Qaeda. ¿Más Bebés? documentary on sterilization of Hispanic women The Taliban ex-Afghan fighters — equally reactionary to Al-Qaeda in Two -Time CCH Grant Awardee their religious philosophy — were first supported by the United States, since Wins Gugenheim Fellowship for they hoped that they would support Her Documentary Films building a pipeline for Caspian petro- leum across Afghan territory. When In the 1960s and 70s, claims of they were seen to protect Al-Qaeda, coercive sterilization of women were they became the U.S. target. being made all over the country. The The United States’ answer to most well-known allegations of wide- Taliban rule was to install a corrupt spread sterilization involved Puerto dictator, Hamid Karzai, as president Rican women. In the 1980s, reports of the nation. Karzai, who had long of poor African-American and white connections with Washington and women having been coerced into U.S. financial interests, stole billions medically unnecessary sterilization in of U.S. dollars and never did anything the South surfaced in mainstream to counter religious extremism in his media. country. He certainly never lifted a Council grant awardee Renee Maria Figueroa (left), Gloria Molina, and Dolores Madrigal finger to aid in the containment of Al- Tajima-Peña is currently filming (right)—subjects of the Council-supported documentary film ¿Más Qaeda. ¿Más Bebés?, a documentary which Bebés? American troops twiddled their explores allegations of coercive ster- the UCLA Center for Oral History thumbs in Afghanistan, half-building ilizations of Mexican American Research, aims to uncover the story the film.

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