Word: mexicans
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...urgent odor that this year attached itself to The Orphanage, a Spanish thriller written by Sergio G. Sanchez, directed by first-timer Juan Antonio Bayona and shown in the little-attended Critics' Week section. The movie does have a pedigree: it was executive-produced by Guillermo Del Toro, the Mexican filmmaker whose Pan's Labyrinth had its world premiere at last year's festival before becoming a surprise hit and an Oscar-winner in the States. The Orphanage has the same vital vibe: the sense that all crafts of filmmaking are bent to leading us into another, darker, magical world...
President Bush famously said that "Family values don't stop at the Rio Grande." For him, a love of family was an important common bond between Mexican and American culture. But the fate of his immigration reform now rests on whether he can partner with Republican Senator John Kyl to persuade Congress to replace the U.S.'s decades-old system of family-based immigration in favor of a skill-based program. At least two-thirds of the more than 30 million legal immigrants to the U.S. since 1965 have been allowed in because they were related to legal residents...
...some of the Senate's key guest-worker provisions are impractical at best. That includes the requirement that after two years working in the U.S., migrants must return to their home countries for a year before they can renew their status and come back to the States. No Mexican campesino I've ever met follows that kind of truncated migrant schedule. If he's not allowed to renew his two-year guest-worker stint immediately, he'll simply make another illegal crossing - and return to the same undocumented shadows we were trying to lure...
...that immigration reform is domestic policy. It's foreign policy. We can blanket the border with barbed wire, but little will change on the illegal immigration front until we convince Mexico and Latin America to break open their monopolistic economies and close their shameless gaps between rich and poor. Mexican migrants alone send home as much as $25 billion a year in remittances. Those are now Mexico's largest revenue source - and a cynical social safety valve for its government. Some in the U.S. Congress have suggested slapping a tax on those wire transfers as a way to make Mexico...
...Standing before an Alitalia cabin full of reporters, two hours into the 12-hour flight to Sao Paulo, the Pope expressed his support for the Mexican bishops in the face of that country's first-ever law legalizing first term abortions. "Yes, that they are excommunicated isn't something arbitrary. It's envisioned in the law of the Church that ? the killing of a human child is incompatible with being in communion with the body of Christ...