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...politician and pundit Pat Buchanan asked, "Is it simply citizenship? Or is it blood, soil, history and heroes?" [Aug. 28]. Perhaps he should ask the families of fallen soldiers with names like Ram?rez, Fern?ndez and Garc?a. Many of those heroes came from cities with names like Los Angeles, El Paso and Santa Fe. Buchanan seems to think he is waging a culture war when in fact he is fighting history?American history. Alvaro Gonzalez Miami...
...early 1960s, he worked with the CIA in an attempt to overthrow Castro during the Bay of Pigs invasion and in 2000 was arrested in Panama in an alleged plot to assassinate the Cuban president, according to court documents filed in the Fifth District Court in El Paso, where he is being held in detention. The charges in the assassination attempt were later dropped, but Posada was charged with national security and counterfeiting crimes and received a sentence of eight years in prison. The Panamanian president later pardoned...
...continue detention because of a 2001 Supreme Court ruling that ICE cannot detain people with immigration violations for more than six months unless the government deems the individual to be a danger or proves there are special circumstances. Garney, who works in the U.S. District Court in El Paso, where Posada now sits in detention, placed Posada's fate firmly in the hands of U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez. According to Garney, Posada can remain in detention if the Attorney General certifies he has "reasonable grounds to believe" Posada "has engaged in certain terrorist or other dangerous activity specified...
...Government officials, who had not received the ruling by Tuesday, deferred comment. "We'll study the decision when we receive it," says ICE spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez. Until then, Posada will sit in a holding facility in El Paso, Texas, a man without a country that the U.S. apparently doesn't want to charge as a terrorist - but also doesn't want to set free...
...bilingual teacher in El Paso, Texas, for 20 years, I found that the drive to learn English is strong, and that by the second or third generation, most immigrant Hispanics are English speaking and, better, bilingual. Patricia R. Campbell Albuquerque, New Mexico...