The Republican party has no choice but to embrace diversity. The rich white, gun-owner, Christian party is in trouble. Continuing with the ‘Sarah Palin - Southern Strategy,‘ in which the obsession with immigrants here illegally is ramped up — blinds them to the opportunity to craft a credible outreach strategy. McCain had a moderate approach [...]

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Mahmood Elahi of Ottawa, Canada, wrote recently:
President Bush’s exit from the political scene is replete with irony. In 2000, many thought he won an election by disenfranchising thousands of African-American voters in Florida through the intervention of the partisan U.S. Supreme Court. Now, the outgoing president is handing over power to the nation’s first African-American [...]

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Report: Illegal immigrant minors mistreated by US — Research group criticizes US treatment of unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors. Some children flown to non-bordering countries were shackled during the flight and those taken by vehicle across the border to Mexico were transported in kennel-like compartments, the report says. Mexican officials reported that some children were returned [...]

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The crisis in the United States has little to do with its real economy. Last quarter, GDP there grew by an impressive 3.3%. IBM’s profits are up 22% year on year. American commercial banks, though in need of re-capitalization, are sound. Its investment banks - the sources of the current crisis - are gone. The [...]

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GILA BEND, Ariz. — Soon after Antonio Torres, a husky 19-year-old farmworker, suffered catastrophic injuries in a car accident last June, a Phoenix hospital began making plans for his repatriation to Mexico.
Mr. Torres was comatose and connected to a ventilator. He was also a legal immigrant whose family lives and works in the purple alfalfa [...]

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