Word: mexicans
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Hope counselor Zoila Rendon-Ochoa recently received a call from a St. Louis woman who spoke only Spanish and identified herself as an illegal Mexican immigrant working as a dishwasher in a restaurant kitchen. In her ninth week of pregnancy, she had left Mexico with no birth certificate; she had no driver's license or other identification. "I can't have this baby," she pleaded. Recalls Rendon-Ochoa: "Before the law, we could have given her an abortion. She kept saying to me, 'You can trust me. I'm 24,' but we couldn't prove it. She asked me, 'Where...
Meanwhile, dozens of border guards, National Guard soldiers and other law-enforcement officials in Arizona have been charged with accepting bribes from FBI agents posing as Mexican drug smugglers. Towns in Florida and Connecticut--where Republican John Rowland quit the Governor's mansion in 2004 and went to jail last year for his part in a gifts-for-contracts scheme--are also charging their local officials. The FBI even had a local West Virginia politician facing corruption charges pose as a candidate in a state-legislature election in order to help uncover vote buying and other instances of election fraud...
...Covarrubias, true to his Mexican roots, was always ambivalent about the glittering world of caf? society. For their honeymoon, he and his wife Rose sailed to Bali, in search of a more contemplative life. When they arrived, the Covarrubiases were befriended by Walter Spies, who lived at the royal court of Ubud, in the interior of the island. "The months flew past while we roamed around the island with Spies," wrote Covarrubias. "We watched strange ceremonies, enjoyed the music, listened to fantastic tales, camped in the wild parts of western Bali or at the Sanur coral reef...
...Wrap” was an iconic Harvard Square restaurant, and its new incarnation as BoLoCo facilitated by pricey consultants will force me never to enter its doors again. “The Wrap” screamed fresh, healthy food. “BoLoCo” sounds like a Mexican bathroom cleaning product.4. Arrogant sports fans. It’s uncool to talk about SATs. We’re embarrassed to even say where we go to school when asked, instead trying for “oh, a school in Boston.” Yet at sporting events we have...
...film grew from Jones' friendship with screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams). For the Texan and the Mexican, a film about the border patrol struck sparks. "I want to make movies about my country from my point of view," Jones says, "and Arriaga feels that way about his country. You can't spend a lot of time in the Rio Grande Valley without realizing that those countries are the same." The two men's collaboration worked out handsomely: they won the actor and screenplay prizes at Cannes...