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Studies of the net impact of immigrants on government finance are sketchy and often contradictory. The Urban Institute found that in 1980 California spent an average of $3,254 on each Mexican immigrant household, both legal and illegal, in Los Angeles, but received tax revenues of only $1,515 in return. On the other hand, a 1982-83 study by Weintraub and his associates at the University of Texas indicated that Texas reaps about three times as much revenue from illegal aliens as it spends on them...
Both women and men often work at unpleasant, unending and ill-paid jobs. But only women struggle under the burden of the "double day," the cultural imperative to perform the household tasks as well as the economic need to work. They are willing to endure grinding labor for the sake of their children's futures; sadly, finding help to care for those children may be the single greatest problem that some immigrant women face. In the women's home countries, kinfolk often help to care for young children. Without the support of a household of female relatives...
Sound pretty homey? Maybe at first, but the message comes across a few lines later when they describe the kids as "little playthings" for the parents. Even some subversion makes its way into the conservative household. These are no ordinary parents. After they've forced the child to stay up way beyond his bedtime they decide to coax him out of bed despite the late hours. After all, he is just a little plaything...
Queso Fresco and Cotija are household words in many Hispanic homes, particularly in Los Angeles. The two south-of-the-border-style cheeses are made by the Jalisco Mexican Products Inc. plant in Artesia, Calif., whose major markets are in nine Western states. But 22 deaths or stillbirths in Los Angeles County have been linked to the soft white cheeses, which federal health officials say were contaminated with the deadly and fast-acting bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. In virtually all of the 94 confirmed cases, Hispanics have been the victims...
When, later that year, the Stammers moved to a farm in Serra Negra, 100 miles north of Sao Paulo, their lodger went along, taking a room in their new home. One day, about two years after Pedro joined the household, a visitor left a newspaper in the house that featured a picture of Dr. Josef Mengele as he looked at Auschwitz. Despite the 20-year interval, said Stammer, she recognized in the picture the gap between Pedro's top front teeth, and the bent head with which he gave his one-sided smile. Later that day, she said, she showed...