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December 20, 2006
Pro-Illegal Immigration Prof. Reprimanded for Insulting Students Who Support Border Wall "The [Washington State University] College Republicans organized an "It seems to me that Prof. Streamas's statement indeed shouldn't be a fireable offense . . . Nonetheless, it is pretty sad that this incident happened, and it says some pretty bad things about Prof. Streamas and others like him. First, the report tells us that Prof. Streamas 'insists that he did not utter the phrase as an expression of racism, in part, because he argues that a person of color cannot be racist, by definition, because racism also defines a power differential that is not usually present when a person or color is speaking.' Yeah, right." "A university can't function effectively if people are deterred from raising substantive arguments because some people (even 'many people of color and immigrants') are offended," Volokh notes. Exit Tracking At the Bottom of DHS Priority List "Homeland Security Department officials said they have not abandoned Swift Co. Hiring Legal Workers, At Higher Wages, After Raids "Fewer Hispanic immigrants are being hired to replace meatpacking workers Illegal Aliens Have "Food Insecurity" Says La Raza "Nearly one in five Hispanics lacks sufficient access to nutritious food and |
anti-illegal-immigration event, featuring a '24-foot, chain-link, cyclone fence, later established as a representation of a 'Wall of Immigration.'" Professor John Streamas showed up, got into an argument with Dan Ryder, a College Republicans member, and in the process called him a 'white s--tbag," says Eugene Volokh, summarizing a report issued by WSU in response to the incident. 
the idea of biometrically verifying the identities of foreigners leaving the United States by land, but acknowledge that it is at the bottom of a long to-do list of border security measures," the Washington Times reports. "The exit capability for U.S.-VISIT, the system that uses fingerprints to confirm the identities of foreign visitors, is a congressional mandate, although the law provides no deadline. A report on its implementation is overdue and is expected to be presented to Congress next month. Officials say their priority for U.S.-VISIT is to prevent potential terrorists from entering the country, rather than to confirm that legitimate visitors have left on time or to track down illegal aliens and others who overstay deliberately."
arrested at Swift & Co. plants in Grand Island, Neb., and Greeley, Colo., during last week's immigration raid, union officials said Tuesday . . . Several union officials said Swift, which has denied knowingly hiring illegal workers and has not been charged, improved its wages, benefits and bonuses before the raids. ''They're trying to staff up their plants and they've been raising their wages the past few weeks,'' said United Food and Commercial Workers spokeswoman Jill Cashen. ''To me, it's an example that when you make the job more attractive you get a different kind of applicant.'''
one in 20 regularly goes hungry, posing serious health and economic risks to the nation's largest and fastest-growing minority group, according to a new study. The National Council of La Raza, a Latino advocacy group, noted in its study that the 'food insecurity' rate of Hispanics is nearly as high as that of non-Hispanic blacks and substantially greater than that of non-Hispanic whites, of whom only about 5 percent suffer from limited access to nutritious food, according to U.S. government statistics," the Washington Post writes. "'For a lot of our immigrant families, there's either a lack of understanding of the system or fear, due to their immigration status,' of approaching authorities, said Beatriz Otero, director of Centrona, a nonprofit child-care center in the District that has helped many Latino parents apply for federal assistance."