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...vigorously they try is what concerns immigrants and their supporters. Tisha Tallman, a regional counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund who has been monitoring the Herndon situation, concedes that U.S. immigration law is "broken and does not correspond with our current reality." The bills that have been circulating in Congress take different, sometimes overlapping approaches to the problem. The most divisive issue among them is whether undocumented immigrants should be required to return to their home country before applying for a work visa or whether they could get guest-worker status without leaving...
...their employer vouches for them. The plan incensed conservatives. Talk-radio hosts and bloggers fanned resentment over "Press 1 for English" phone menus and borders porous to drugs and terrorists. In June, two months after a citizens' group called the Minuteman Project began vigilante patrols of the Mexican border, Bush told lawmakers he had not understood how important border security was to his base...
...Maybe paradise is an exaggeration, but I love Hamden for how it defies New York. Unlike Manhattan, Hamden can not offer Ethiopian-Mexican restaurants, inexpensive public transportation, and a Starbucks on every corner—all available 24/7. But where New Yorkers might find it limiting, I find it liberating. My neighborhood may not be as diverse as a New York subway car, but at least I’m friends with the 20 families on my block. I might not be able to find public transportation at 3 a.m., but I never hit traffic driving up my street...
...burrito, king of the quesadilla, and redeemer of the ravenous undergraduate. Yes, the one and only Felipe’s. Unfortunately, it seems that the Cambridge Licensing Commission (CLC), nor Felipe’s landlord, does not share the typical undergraduate’s view of the wildly popular Mexican eatery. Felipe’s recent application to the CLC for later closing hours (2 a.m. on weekdays and 4 a.m. on weekends) has stalled before ever really getting off the ground. According to CLC’s executive officer Elizabeth Y. Lint, the Commission is “highly...
Some dreamers chase butterflies. FRANCISCO GUTIERREZ pursues them through international airspace. This fall the Mexican hang glider flew more than 4,000 miles, following the annual migration of the monarch butterfly from Montreal to Mexico's Michoacán state in his ultralight plane. Gutierrez, 44, spent six years planning his 10-week trip and securing funding for a documentary about it in order to draw attention to the logging and pesticide use that threaten the monarch. Gutierrez overcame hardships insects don't face--like understanding foreign air-traffic controllers and fixing an overheated engine. But, now back on the ground...