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Continuing Burden. As he prepares his amnesty along with his crackdown, Carter made another gesture of good will toward the immigrant community by nominating a Mexican-American, Leonel J. Castillo, 37, to be INS commissioner. Born and raised in Texas, Castillo served in the Peace Corps, then returned to Texas to lead a desegregation fight in Houston. He was elected Houston controller in 1971 and was twice reelected. Although he has yet to be confirmed by the Senate, Castillo has already worked with Attorney General Griffin Bell on the new program...
...Starr County drug trade has long been controlled by a few tightly-knit Mexican-American families who own land along the Rio Grande; in some cases, their relatives hold property on the Mexican side. For years they were virtually a law unto themselves. One of the indicted traffickers had even ordered auto license plates spelling out MAFIA. "They don't deal with anyone they don't trust," says Texas Antidrug Official Neal Duvall, "and they only trust family." According to a grand jury report, 10% to 35% of the population of Starr County have been involved...
When Henry D. Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax one year in protest of the Mexican-American War, he was thrown in jail for the night. Built around the hard fact of the great woodsman's musings to the vagrant who shares his cell, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail expands into a full picture of the man more accurate, perhaps, than the picture he gives of himself in Walden. Though the other characters in Thoreau's life, included in flashbacks, help integrate the pieces of his philosophy into the play, the strength of the Kirkland House production should...
...Mexican-American relationship is one of the best examples of a rich-poor relationship. On the one side is a nation whose world power and concerns allow it to overlook the domestic problems of the developing countries unless they directly affect American interests. On the other hand is a nation on the road to development, whose problems are not entirely a domestic product and whose dependence on a rich neighbor make it impossible to solve its problems without help. Mexico's dependence on the United States is easily seen in the analysis of a Joint Economic Commission released last month...
...history of the Mexican-American relationship, and America's historic dominance, creates an obligation for the United States to help avert the crisis of which Lopez Portillo spoke. Lopez Portillo asked for additional financial support, investment subject to Mexico's laws and special trade concessions; but behind all this was a request for a more sensitive and responsible approach to the relationship. The United States should not dismiss Mexico's problems as a matter of domestic concern. There is an interdependence, even if it is more like a dependent interdependence...