Word: mexicanization
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...were an X chromosome, of course, there'd be only X-women.) In yet another anti-Bush metaphor, the government wants to round up and purify, neuter and basically get rid of our eccentric super-heroes, thus creating a more stable, homogeneous society. Get it? For mutant, read Mexican...
About 10,000 guest workers, mostly Mexican and Guatemalan, have temporary visas to plant trees and clear brush on private land or tracts owned by the U.S. Forest Service. Called pineros because many work in remote pine forests, the workers are recruited by private contractors with promises of high wages. But many pineros arrive in the U.S. as much as $2,000 in debt for travel and visa expenses--costs the courts have ruled must be borne by employers. "Often recruiters make them leave the deed to their home with a company representative as collateral to ensure they stay...
...second-generation Asian-Americans in your story discussed the difficulties they have experienced being accepted in U.S. society. But how many of them whole-heartedly accept African-Americans or Mexican-Americans as their equals? Would those Asian-Americans care to live in black or Latino neighborhoods? Bigotry is not practiced exclusively by whites. When it comes to discrimination, it suits people when they are on the giving end and hurts them when they are at the receiving end. Sriram Srinivasan Bangalore, India...
...people don't have to be in Steinard's--or Miller's--straits before they cross borders for care. Retirees, especially the snowbirds who winter in South Texas and Arizona, have turned Mexican towns like Nuevo Progreso (pop. 9,125; dentists, 70), in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, and Los Algodones (pop. 15,000; doctors and dentists, 250), near Yuma, Ariz., into dusty dental centers. Los Algodones might rake in as much as $150 million during the winter season. People from Minnesota and California arrive in chartered planes to get their teeth fixed in these dental oases. Two California insurers...
...renewed consumer interest in premium brands of the spirit. According to the Distilled Spirits Council in the U.S., sales by volume of premium tequila jumped by a total of over 50% in 2003 and 2004?a trend some attribute to increased acceptance of, and appreciation for, Hispanic and Mexican cultures among Stateside consumers...