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...blindness. Liberals like me have ignored the way the steady trickle of new Americans has become a massive repopulation program, primarily from Mexico. During the 1970s, 120,000 Mexicans came to the U.S. every year. During the 1980s, it was about 200,000 a year. During the 1990s, it was 350,000 a year. Today, it's estimated at 485,000-every year. One out of every eight Mexican-born adults is now living...
...Juan Soto, who works at Durango Western Wear, said his boss has given everyone the day off - with pay - to march, but he personally will not protest. "I think there have already been too many marches. We?ve made our point," said the Mexican-born Soto, who says he is a legal resident. He plans to stay home and honor the spirit of the boycott. "I?ll watch it on TV, but I plan to spend zero dollars." He said the true economic impact of work stoppages by immigrants - legal and illegal - will be felt not from a boycott lasting...
According to Mexican-born, Texas-raised Maria Teresa Herrera ’07, there are a lot of misconceptions about her culture, even within the Ivy League. “I feel that people think that everyone who is Latino is Mexican, even at a place like Harvard where there are Latinos representing all the Latin American countries,” she writes in an e-mail. Herrera is not alone in her desire to straighten out such views. Four years ago, members of Fuerza Latina, a pan-Latino student organization at Harvard, decided to produce an artistic exhibition with...
...first trip to Harvard, Salma Hayek collected some unique souvenirs. As the host of The Harvard Foundation’s 21st Annual Cultural Rhythms show last Saturday, the half-Lebanese, Mexican-born “Frida” actress received marriage proposals from Harvard students (shouted from smitten audience members) and even saw other performing students “naked...
...Median hourly wage of Mexican-born workers...