...MAJOR ACTOR The main actor in this case is Hai Gan. He is 56 years old, of the Colony, Texas. He is a legal permanent resident who lives outside Dallas, used three homes he owned in Albuquerque and Moriarty to establish residency in New Mexico for 51 undocumented immigrants living in other states. Gan is one of several people who have been prosecuted in recent years for running such rings in New Mexico, which is one of just a few states that let residents get driver's license regardless of their immigration status. Castellano said Gan disguised his New Mexico properties to look like apartments, he advised people against talking to authorities, and he rarely accompanied his clients to the Department of Motor Vehicles to avoid being recognized. But Gan's attorney, Francisco Mario Ortiz, said his client believed he was acting lawfully when he advertised his services to immigrants around the country. And he said he never asked if the customers were in the country legally or not. He also pointed out that many spoke good English, were well-dressed and well-educated. The complaint alleges he charged clients upward of $2,000 each to secure driver’s licenses between 2009 and 2011. He found guilty on 51 counts of fraud in connection with identification documents, eight count of transporting undocumented immigrants, three counts of money laundering and two counts of witness tampering. In May 2011, Border Patrol agents stopped Gan and two clients in a black Chevrolet Blazer at an Interstates...
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...mission program. Ornate colony was well equip even if they needed to launch a military attack. They had brought many resources they had horses, weapons, shields, harquebuses, leather jackets, corsets, lances, gunpowder and cannons. Juan de Ornate recruited colonist from different regions of Mexico and peninsular, criollos, mestizos, Indians and five blacks. There aren’t much records describing the settlers. The reason is because the royal government order that detailed information be collected only on the white soldiers. That why we have little information about the color colonists. Color colonists only had to appear for roll call and to register their belongings. Nevertheless on January 8th 1598 one of Salazar’s roll calls contain valuable...
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...Museum of Latin American Art Extra Credit Paper: Gabriel De La Mora Gabriel de la Mora was born in Colima, Mexico in 1968. The forty three year old artist has dominated the contemporary art production in Mexico. De la Mora completed his BA in Architecture from Universidad Anahuac del Norte, Mexico City. He also has a MFA with honours in Photography and Video from Pratt Institute in New York. A couple years after he finished his MFA, he started his work residency at Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts Saint-Etienne, France. Since the start of his career as an artist, he has created numerous dynamic and intellectual pieces. His work thrived and caught a lot of media attention in both Mexico and the United States. Within these pieces, he has recently sought a recognizable formal vocabulary and an artistic voice of his own. After close to a decade of defining himself as an artist, many believes that he has found his identity in the Art world. The digital video, “39-G.M.C.-23.sept.2007”, the conceptual artist breaks a piñata made of cardboard that is an exact duplication of his body. He strikes at this alter ego like a child at a Mexican birthday party, but as the colourful object falls apart, instead of releasing a cascade of candy treats, it spills painted-cardboard guts and torrents of red-confetti blood. The battle of breaking the piñata of his replication could be interpreted as an act of self-destruction. The artist explained that the destruction of the piñata is an exploration...
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...Illegal Immigration and California COM 220 Illegal Immigration and California Everyone has an opinion on the immigration crisis gripping the nation. From border security restructuring to a complete overhaul of the system, anyone in this country has an idea to handle the ordeal. In preparing for this paper, this author spoke to family and friends for their opinions. One relative suggested the United States ratify Mexico as the 51st State, leaving the seated president in power as governor, turning each state into a county with the respective governors retitled as mayors. The working theory holds that the United States could then intervene and lend aid to the more impoverished areas of the newly formed state. Resulting from this, illegal Mexican immigration becomes a nonissue, Mexican citizens see improved living conditions within a few short years, and the United States gains a large tax-paying citizenship. Admittedly, without benefit of research or a visit to the country, this family member’s theory consists of stereotype and over-generalization. Even so, it illustrates the point. With unemployment rates soaring, and the economy in a tailspin, many blame illegal immigration for current turmoil, and many theories abound. California If considered as an independent nation, California would rank among the world’s 10 largest economies (Hutchinson Encyclopedia, California, 2009). From rural to metropolis; from dry desert to lush forest to sand beaches; from unemployed...
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...those studying the situation has left workers powerless to correct inhuman work place conditions. Although newspapers are publishing the results of the changes, and other groups offering suggestions of what needs to be done to help the worker, the whole dilemma has stagnated without being corrected. Without the support of banding together and forming unions the immigrant workers remain at the mercy of their employers. The efforts, if they can be called that, amount to for the most part, empty suggestions when actions are long overdue. The early sixties found the meat packing industry cutting wages in half and dropping many benefits. Unions no longer had the hold needed to protect the worker. Workers were for the most part immigrants from Mexico who accepted the meatpackers’ low wages and tried to successfully keep pace with the high speed operation of which the industry demanded. More and faster production left workers extremely vulnerable to an industry already fraught with accidents. Kutalik called it a “meaner industry.” Crisis was inevitable as the meatpacking industry restructured, closing old, union controlled, urban plants while setting up newer non-union plants and recruiting cheap immigrant labor. With the rise of the fast food business and the population explosion following World War II, there were demands for more and more meat products. Opportunists in the meat packing business took...
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...BORDER SECURITY OF TEXAS AND MEXICO FirstName LastName Class Name DD Month, YYYY bORDER sECURITY OF texas and mexico Border security is a subject that is at the forefront of the mind of most people today. When considering border security, the subject of illegal immigration is often the first consideration. When considering the impact and cost of illegal immigration, many people consider only the jobs illegal immigrants may take away from legal citizens. While the impact to the job market is certainly of concern, that is an issue which can be controlled by the employer. Employers do not have to hire illegal immigrants. However, there are other factors to consider regarding border security and illegal immigration beyond that of the job market which are not voluntary, and the taxpayer has no control over. This paper will focus on the specific Texas and Mexico border security topics as they relate to illegal immigration: 1. Texas-Mexico Border and Illegal Immigration 2. Illegal Immigrant Education 3. Illegal Immigrant Social Welfare and Health Care Programs 4. Illegal Immigrant Criminal Justice Texas-Mexico Border and Illegal Immigration The subject of illegal immigration has become a hot topic in the current political environment. It is not surprise, as the population of illegal immigrants in the United States grows with every passing day. In 1996, the estimated population of illegal immigrants in the United States was 5 million people. As of 2011...
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...them up. All of these incredible ideas came from politicians who thought immigration would kill our country. Since this country was founded we have attacked all of the immigrant groups at one point of another with the same rhetoric. The Chinese, French, German, Irish, Italians and even the Native Americans. (Native Americans were not considered “Americans” until 1924 under the Indian Citizenship Act, (how generous of us). If I left a race or religious group off this list it’s only because I don’t want to type that much. In the entire history of the United States we have found a race to vilify and blame our bad fortune on, in the 1930’s it was the Dust Bowl migrants known as “Okies” who fled Oklahoma and nearby states like Texas, Kansas, New Mexico and Colorado to find food and jobs for their families. Over 1 Million fled and what did they find? Chamber of Commerce signs that said “Okies keep going” The Bum Blockade of 1936 in Los Angeles was designed to keep them from entering or staying in California. Unlike the Mexican farmworkers, the “Okies” stayed and wanted to settle in California. This is how we treated our fellow Americans and its only one example of many. Now it’s the Mexicans turn – how far we have come as a Nation. Now as I have said many times during my candidacy we need to create a path to citizenship that is reasonable and conservative at the same time. Here is my Immigration Reform Plan: 1. Get the immigration situation under control by simply enforcing the laws...
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...Dealing with infertility can be a stressful, emotional experience, particularly if your friends or relatives have no trouble getting pregnant. Celia Dominguez, M.D., co-director of Pacific In Vitro Fertilization Institute understands the pain infertile couples experience. She and her colleagues at the Honolulu, HI, fertility treatment center use the latest techniques and innovations to improve fertility. During the past 31, years, the Hawaiian fertility doctors assisted in 4,600 successful pregnancies. Finding a doctor with significant experience in the field of infertility is a priority. Dr. Dominguez has an impressive background in reproductive medicine. After receiving her medical degree from George Washington University in Washington,...
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...Immigrants of the U.S. As defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the definition of an immigrant is “a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence”. Therefore, immigration in Unites States’ history dates all the way back to 1565 and the first European settlement in America or what they deemed as the ‘New World’ at the time. People choose to immigrate to other countries for various reasons, whether it is for safety, a chance at a new life, to experience another culture, or even just for the desire to explore the world. This essay focuses on the broad history of immigration in the United States, the various stakeholders’ in the issue and their stances and arguments, as well as organizing these arguments into different categories. The first wave of migration to hit America was The Great Migration that lasted between 1630 and 1640, a decade in which over twenty thousand Puritans escaped from Britain to America due to the disputes between the Puritans and King Charles I and Parliament. Between the 17th and 18th centuries, hundreds of thousands of immigrants arrived in America in order to colonize, with over half of the immigrants coming as indentured servants to the wealthier colonizers. These immigrants came from all across Europe and were all focused on establishing themselves as early as possible in America and to hopefully become rich and famous. The first stakeholder in the issue of immigration in the United States was the government and in particular,...
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...The United States and Mexico have shared cultures throughout history. Soccer and cuisine are the two that stand out to me. I grew up in Lubbock, Texas where generally there isn’t much soccer played and there are not many Mexicans in general. We had one Tex-Mex restaurant, and it wasn’t even good. It wasn’t until my college writing class took a field trip to a local Mexican food trailer, that I truly experienced the fusion between Mexico and the United States through food. On the other hand, I do not have a lot of experience with Mexican food, so this topic is kind of new to me. I play baseball, so I am immediately attracted to the soccer aspect of both cultures because of the competition and how a sport can bring two nations together. Its interesting how cultural fusion can blend two different countries together as one. Mexican cuisine and soccer fuse the cultures of the United States and Mexico in ways that have made both countries into what they are today because of the increase of cultural fusion. One way cultural fusion is expressed and elaborated on through cuisine is shown in Patricia Sharpe’s article “Let’s Have Mex-Tex.” She communicates the change over the years from Tex-Mex to “Mex-Tex.” This article focuses on how the “Mex-Tex” food is increasing in Texas and allows the reader to be informed of good restaurants with such origins. On the official Texas Monthly website she states that Mexican food from the heart of Mexico is the start of “the new culinary era.” Sharpe...
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...Living Story of being an American My story is about growing up in Mexico as a young child and immigrating to the United States. Overcoming great odd and living the true American dream, despite many obstacles to become a productive citizen in the United States. Other immigrants share the same story that I have experience. I grew up in a small town called Ensenada, Baja California, is proximally eighty miles south of the San Diego California border. We were nine children, four boys and six girls. My father worked two jobs. He worked one job as a maintenance men for our local grocery store. He also worked as a security guard for a new car lot. My mother is an Indigenes. She is a full-blooded Indian from South America. She provided traditional...
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... ENGL100 Nov. 22, 2010 Immigration Reform Roughly 12 million illegal immigrants are in the United States, about 4 percent of the nation's population. Many undocumented children were brought into the U.S. by their illegal immigrant parents as babies or toddlers. Nearly 4 million children who have at least one parent who entered the U.S. illegally were born in the United States and are U.S. citizens as a result. According to the study conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center, the majority of illegal immigrants, about 7 million, come from Mexico. The U.S. government should change the requirements for obtaining legal status for illegal immigrants. The DREAM (Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors) Act is proposed federal legislation that would allow the children of undocumented immigrants who graduate from high school to earn conditional permanent residency if they complete two years in the military or at college. Eligible students must have entered the US before the age of 16, been living in the US for at least five consecutive years, be between the ages of 12 and 35 at the time of applying, and have good moral character. The legislation was first introduced in the Senate in August 2001, but was stalled in Congress for 9 years and most recently re-introduced in the Senate and House in March 2009. The DREAM Riddick 2 ACT would help immigrant students become legal residents of the United States and not face...
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...birth, permanent residents, naturalized citizens, and some, like her brother-in-law Raymundo, undocumented immigrants. Raymundo, among others, are burdened with the stress of living a life unseen. He cannot achieve his full potential because he is stuck doing the work that citizens of the United States do not want to do, such a working in the fields and hard labored factory working. With the status of being undocumented, if he was to lose his job he does not get unemployment, and when he has a job his wages a lower than they should be. Raymundo stresses about is immigration status to a point where he will get a rash on his body. He has a wife and a child who are citizens of the United States, and if he gets caught, he will be sent back to Mexico away from his family. “Field of Tears,” is another article that discusses the Journey to El Norte, or the promise land up North. Teresa Vega had to watch her first son die, due to her and her husband, Marco, not having any money to take him to the doctor. When Teresa discovered she was pregnant again she decided that once the child was born she was going to migrate to the...
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...2007) Tim Hortons "is a company that a lot of Canadians identify with and it is very proudly a Canadian brand," says Howard Ramos, an associate professor of sociology at Dalhousie University in Halifax. "But it's also a company that is a pioneer in hiring temporary foreign workers and so for this reason I think it's important to highlight Tim Hortons as an exemplar of how the temporary foreign worker program has changed and expanded. (Davison, 2012) The temporary foreign worker program has man is a resort companies use to hiring as they will have exhausted all other avenues for finding employees locally. It is a great program mainly for foreign workers who come and work in Canada and if they like it here they can apply for permanent residency. Unlike immigrants, temporary foreign workers come to Canada on restrictive visas and do not have the rights of permanent residents. Their admission to the country and employment are contingent on not taking opportunities and jobs away from Canadians. Statistics on temporary foreign workers vary widely, depending on how they are compiled. According to Citizenship and Immigration Canada, in 2000 there were...
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...Retiring Outside of the United States The service that I have chosen to discuss is the process of assisting people who are preparing for retirement to do so outside of the United States. What I will essentially be marketing is the countries themselves as a retirement destination for Americans that wish to retire outside of the United States. This service would have a primary location in the United States with satellite offices located in the capital cities of each country. This idea was inspired when I when I came across an article on Costa Rica and how it used to be a destination for retirees. Costa Rica was the first country to make a concerted effort to attract foreign retirees with a program of special benefits. Its pensionado program was responsible for bringing tens of thousands of foreign retirees, mostly Americans, to the country in the 1980s and 1990s. While the pensionado visa is still available in Costa Rica, many of the tax breaks and other special perks it once offerened have been discontinued. Costa Rica has also become expensive, both as a place to live and a place to own a home. For these reasons, while Costa Rica is perhaps the world’s best-known overseas retirement haven, it no longer qualifies as one of the best. This led me to search for countries that would fit the needs of those looking to retire outside of the United States. I am happy to report that I found the three countries of Belize, Panama, and Malaysia which more than fit the requirements...
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