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...benevolent protector of the Lebanese people, has sponsored refugee relief centers throughout the city. There, Syria's new guests can pick up staples like bedsheets and bottled water, and sign up with the Ministry of Labor for help finding work. (Less lucky are the hundreds of thousands of Syrian migrant workers suddenly back home and jobless - the legion of cheap labor that built the recent wave of pricey new Beirut high-rises, and cleaned the apartments inside...
...fledgling democracy at best. And whoever does come out the winner this week will have nothing even remotely resembling a mandate. With the Congress looking more or less evenly divided between the PAN, PRD and PRI, turning any presidential agenda into law will be as precarious as a Mexican migrant's trek through the Arizona desert. Which means the political stalemate is likely to continue south of the border, even after the electoral deadlock is resolved...
...Soldiers on the border? That won't stop me. I'll swim the river and jump the wall. I'm going to arrive in the United States." ANTONIO AURIEL, Honduran migrant, on the Bush Administration's plan to send National Guard troops to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border...
...editors: Re: “Sophomore Takes on the Border,” magazine, May 3: Something is truly upsetting about Kyle De Beausset and his story. I’m not upset about the plight of migrant workers; I’m simply upset about the twisted truth of the entire story. I have relatives that hire migrant workers to work on their farms. Each worker legally entered the United States and has the required documentation to work here. If you ask any one of them how bad their trip to the U.S. was, you would get the same...
...wild impracticality of all this, they then decide to pair the ensemble with clogs. If I didn’t know these women were 27-year-old grad students with an abiding interest the lesser-known works of George Eliot, I would think they were 70-year-old migrant workers in a particularly harrowing Steinbeck novel. But they aren’t. They are really doing their dissertation on interior space in the plays of Aphra Behn.Type 3: The “You went to the University of Wisconsin, so you clearly hate me” TF.These...