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BADGER, Associated Press Writer Bush has chosen White drew fire from human rights SAN ANTONIO (AP): The propensity to join into combat casualty rate for Latino Tex- occupational specialties such House counsel Alberto groups, which said it helped ans in Iraq has been out of as the infantry, and to join the Gonzáles, the most promi- led to the type of abuses un- proportion for their popula- Marine Corps, which has been nent Latino in his adminis- covered in the Abu Ghraib tion or their enlistment rate. used extensively during the tration, to succeed Attorney prison scandal. That is also the case for most intense periods of com- General John Ashcroft. Gonzáles would be the Latinos nationally, though bat,” he said. Ashcroft announced his first Latino U.S. attorney it’s not exactly clear why. Ten of the 40 Latinos from resignation on Tuesday, general. He has been en- Forty of the first 100 Tex- Texas killed in Iraq were in along with Commerce Sec- dorsed for the nomination ans killed in the war were Marines. Nine died since April, Alberto González Latino, a death rate that is when a large force of Marines retary Don Evans; U.S. Sec. by the National Council of about 18 percent higher than first tried to subdue the rebel Spc. Isela Rubalcava of Education Rod Paige, Sec. La Raza (NCLR) and the While they’re not taking their population. Latinos stronghold of Fallujah. of State Colin Powell, En- League of United Latin an official position on comprise just over one-third Marine Staff Sgt. Pauline eran who teaches literature at ergy Secretary Spencer American Citizens (LULAC). Gonzáles, “the track record of the state’s 22.1 million resi- Franklin, the Corps’ recruiter the University of California Abraham, and Agriculture is not promising,” Elliot said. dents, according to the latest for southern Texas, says most at San Diego. census figures. of her work is with young He is also part of a Califor- Secretary Ann Veneman sub- • Gonzáles will face Iraq, During his time in Wash- When measured by enlist- Latinos. nia-based group called sequently indicated that they death penalty questions ington, Gonzáles has worked ment, the disproportion is “That’s the majority of the Project Yano, which tries to would be leaving. from U.S. Senate closely with several senators even greater. Latinos account kids that come in,” said counter the growing influ- Gonzáles, 49, has long By JESSE J. HOLLAND, on judicial nominations and for about 30 percent of Tex- Franklin, who is based in San ence of recruiters in public been rumored as a leading Associated Press Writer other issues and is well liked ans in the military, making Antonio. “They’re not targeted schools. candidate for a Supreme The road to White House by both sides of the aisle on the death rate 33 percent or anything, but if you look In 1983, Latinos made up Court vacancy if one devel- counsel Gonzáles’ confirma- the Judiciary Committee. above their numbers in uni- around and see what popula- only 4 percent of the nation’s form. tion makes up South Texas, active-duty force of soldiers, ops. Speculation increased tion as the first Latino U.S. Democrats are not ex- “It’s both substantively it’s going to be Hispanic Ameri- sailors, airmen, and Marines, after Chief Justice William attorney general may run pected to try and block and significantly higher than cans.” according to the Army Office Rehnquist announced he has through two controversial Gonzáles’s nomination, but we would expect,” said Brian Gifford says military rank of Demographics. Two de- thyroid cancer. places: the notorious Abu are expected to grill him Gifford, a research fellow at may also be a major factor in cades later, Latinos com- Gonzáles’ career has been Ghraib prison in Iraq and strongly about the account- the University of California the high casualties. prised 10 percent of those linked with Bush for at least Texas’ death row. ability of the White House in Berkeley who is studying “Hispanics are overrepre- services. Iraq deaths by ethnicity. sented in the lower enlisted Mariscal, who grew up a decade, serving as general Although most senators during the war on terrorism. The Latino toll was even ranks of the Army and Ma- poor in East Los Angeles, says counsel when Bush was gov- expect Gonzáles to be con- Gonzáles drew criticism higher during the earliest rines, and (these) enlisted mem- young Latinos in general ernor of Texas, and then as firmed as the 80th U.S. attor- after the terrorist attacks in weeks of the war. Before May bers are disproportionate have limited economic op- secretary of state and as a ney general, some Senators 2001 when he wrote a memo 1, 2003—the day Bush de- among deaths,” he said. tions, so they’re relatively justice on the Texas Supreme plan to use a hearing on his in which Bush claimed the clared “Mission accom- For the Latino Texans, 25 easy to recruit. But in Texas, Court. nomination to press for an- right to waive anti-torture law plished” and an end to major of those 40 killed, or 62.5 per- he acknowledges, there is also Gonzáles has been at the swers on White House deci- and international treaties combat operations—14 Tex- cent, were in the lowest en- a tradition of service that goes ans died in Iraq, and half of listed ranks—privates, corpo- back generations. center of developing Bush’s sions they think led to the providing protections to pris- them were Latino. rals and specialists. Nationally, “It’’s really a rite of pas- positions on balancing civil Iraqi prisoners scandal. oners of war. That position The same held true for 64 percent of those killed were sage for a lot of folks, espe- liberties with waging the war Gonzáles’ confirmation drew fire from human rights Latino soldiers and Marines at those ranks. cially young men,” he said. on terrorism—opening the “may be the only remaining groups, who said it helped overall—they comprise Military recruiters nation- “But that’s even changing White House counsel to the forum in which to examine lead to the type of abuses about 11 percent of those ally have targeted Latinos in and now young women are same line of criticism that more fully the steps that were uncovered in the Abu Ghraib forces but accounted for 16.5 recent years because of their going in.” percent of the deaths during rapidly growing numbers in Last year one-fifth of all has dogged Ashcroft.