BAITING IMMIGRANTS HEART BREAK FOR LATINOS

...Department of Education...

...a certified copy of baptismal certificate...

...Cardenas and thousands of other Latinos are caught in the maelstrom of anti-immigrant sentiment, which has cycled through our history for more than a century...

...Both worked hard to give their four children opportunities they never had...

...She was an American citizen...

...Regardless of high grades or outstanding accomplishments, regardless of their potential in a country increasingly dependent on global commerce, these students will find it far more difficult to get federally subsidized loans and grants...

...The decision is left to the immigration officer on duty, without court hearing or judicial review...

...Suddenly, within weeks of graduation, students were notified that unless they paid out-of-state tuition, they must leave school...

...Latinos should be wary of pledging allegiance to either party...

...businesses have always depended on cheap foreign labor...

...This is just the kind of policy that generates more desperation," attorney Peter Schey, executive director and president of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law in Los Angeles, says of Dole's proposal...

...Schey says that the current anti-immigration movement is the most repressive in the past fifty years...

...Norma badgered the passport people for months trying to get the matter straightened out...

...Bodinger-de Uriarte says she does not understand the reasoning behind this push-out policy...

...California, and Texas...

...This is legislated marginal-ization...

...The maelstrom swirls around U.S...

...Among other provisions, it established a complicated procedure for admitting Asians, and set up a long list of conditions allowing for deportation...

...Most of those in prison today fall into this category, as do a significant percentage of the unemployed...

...The railroads were largely built by Chinese immigrants brought in by U.S...

...Then she was accepted to an exchange program at one of Mexico's best-known universities, where, among other things, she would study Spanish...

...The United States could not have become the wealthy industrialized leader of the early nineteenth century without both slave labor and European immigrant workers...

...economy in consumer spending, the study found...

...Nor does it ensure the legal treatment of refugees protected under the U.N...

...he told San Die-gans recently, citing increases in border-patrol agents in Arizona...

...If a new effort to bar the children of immigrants were to succeed, the results for society at large would be disastrous...

...Gina, the oldest, is the first in her family to go to college, the first to travel to the nation's capital, the first to receive scholarships...

...Supreme Court...

...residency...

...Consider our track record with Iran, Haiti, the Philippines, and El Salvador, to mention just a few...

...They have never targeted outflow nations...

...convention relating to the status of refugees...

...That's why the borders have remained porous...

...We are in effect saying we'd rather see young people in gangs than in schools...

...Students who had worked full-time jobs for four or five years in order to finance their education and escape poverty were penalized...

...Anti-immigrant movements throughout our history have ridden the crest of prejudice...

...Another student who almost lost her chance to study abroad was of Indian descent, says Wilkins, "but her name could have been mistaken for a Hispanic name...

...State Department...

...What's more, the information in the ads is out of context and slippery...

...Cardenas said her first reaction to the notice from the U.S...

...This year, several other students who were U.S...

...As the Democrats' commercial indicates, Clinton often links immigration to crime...

...They were already stretched to the financial limit...

...In Los Angeles, merchants along Broadway, a main shopping thoroughfare for Latinos, reported a drop in sales of 30 to 80 percent...

...On the other hand, the government agency had all her paperwork and should have been able to realize that she was not Latina...

...Republican politicians from Bob Dole to Pete Wilson have built political careers around promises to get tough on immigrants...

...It also granted wide powers of search, seizure, and interrogation to INS agents...

...Last November, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles released an eighteen-page report, "Hate Unleashed: Los Angeles in the Aftermath of 187," which documented 229 cases of "discrimination, denial of services, civil-rights violations, hate speech, and hate crimes" since the passage of Proposition 187...

...For two weeks, beginning on April 26, 1982, dramatic TV visuals showed INS sweeps of workplaces in Fort Worth, Houston, San Francisco, Detroit, Newark, New York, Chicago, and Denver...

...Within five days, the INS seized 6,000 individuals...

...government had ever undertaken...

...prenatal and postnatal notes created by the midwife of your mother regarding her pregnancy and delivery...

...I'm an American...

...She writes frequently, both as a journalist and an academic, on cross-cultural issues...

...Another brown-skinned man is shown climbing down a wall with a rope, the Times reported, and then the ad shows "two gloved hands clutching a large chisel and trying to pry open a window...

...Jeremiah Jenks and W. Jett Lauck, former members of the United States Immigration Commission, observed this pattern in 1912: "Many persons, who have spoken and written in favor of restriction of immigration, have laid great stress upon the evils of society arising from immigration...

...Two weeks after the raids, the press reported the deportees were once again at work...

...Cracking down on migrant workers and their children does not address the root causes of immigration to the United States...

...One provision of the new law pushes due process aside, and allows for the hasty removal of foreign-born individuals who arrive at ports of entry without proper documentation...

...The 1952 McCarran-Walter Act was another effort to control ethnic distribution...

...As we have worked hard to bring the crime rate down all over America, we've made special efforts in our border communities, because we know we have special responsibilities there...

...The burden of proof of legal entry falls on immigrants...

...Already, one in five adults—twenty-seven million—is functionally illiterate, according to the U.S...

...But next came the notice from the U.S...

...Clinton's decision to sign the welfare bill is a huge assault on legal immigrants, who will immediately lose food stamps and supplemental-security insurance...

...Norma Madrid, who captured a prestigious business internship in Spain, also struggled to get proper documents...

...He described communities in the Southwest as "under siege" and pointed to the tough line taken by the Administration's Operation Gatekeeper...

...Its Houston Passport Agency questioned her right to a passport...

...Finally, the passport came through...

...But in this era of downsizing and falling wages, border rhetoric plays well in Washington, and it's not the businesses that are being blamed, it's their workers...

...But her efforts to convince government bureaucrats of this fact dragged on for months...

...And there was no reason for it...

...In 1994, the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission reported a 23.5 percent rise in hate crimes against Latinos...

...They have never effectively addressed oppressive regimes—indeed, we often support them, even when their citizens are immigrating in huge numbers...

...In addition, as a result of Governor Pete Wilson's tirades against illegal aliens and the subsequent passage of Proposition 187, hundreds of California students brought here as babies by parents without government papers—youngsters who have lived here all their lives—found themselves ejected from universities...

...As The New York Times reported, the ad opens with a shot of the border, and in case there is any misunderstanding, it has a sign saying Mexico...

...elementary-school records showing your name, date, and place of birth and indicating your parents' address or any other document established in your infancy or early childhood that indicates your place of birth...

...Subsequent newspaper reports revealed that the few Americans who took those vacated jobs quit within days because of brutal labor conditions...

...In response to the Republican ad, the Democratic National Committee released its own anti-immigrant ad...

...Some of my best students were in tears for days—then they simply disappeared from the student body," she says...

...You spend $5.5 billion to support illegals," the ad screams, adding that "spending for illegals" is "up 12.7 percent under Clinton...

...Long hours of work, study, and persistence had paid off...

...illiteracy is already $200 billion annually if one takes into account its role in incarceration, unemployment, health, and welfare...

...canon in 1980...

...press has exhibited a consistent negative bias against Latinos...

...Central American, or indigenous Latin American...

...These changes require discussion of public policies, including immigration...

...I cannot remember any other period of time when there was so much trouble with official papers," says Helena Wilkins, who has worked in the University of Texas's study-abroad program for seven years...

...Thus an entire population is criminalized through visual images meant to incite anger and fear...

...In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act provided the most obvious example...

...In April the President signed anti-terrorism legislation that gives the INS sweeping new powers...

...What these three students have in common, besides Hispanic-sounding names, are naturalized parents, all of whom had become citizens many years earlier...

...According to student advisers who work in foreign-study programs, Spanish-surnamed students are having more and more trouble obtaining government documents...

...It's the same sort of thinking that leads us into policies that deny immigrants a $20 inoculation, but pave the way toward health care that will later require spending $80,000 to remove a tubercular lung...

...Gina Cardenas is in many ways a prototypical immigrant success story...

...Actually, Dole's idea was tried and failed in the 1980s, when the state of Texas attempted to bar undocumented migrant children from classrooms...

...But backlash against immigrants seems to be ingrained in our culture...

...Large-scale agricultural production still depends on Mexican workers today...

...Immigrants are not the drain on the social budget they are made out to be...

...Cardenas is the daughter of naturalized immigrant parents...

...Supreme Court ruling that undocumented youngsters could not be denied a public education...

...The current cost of U.S...

...development barons for this purpose...

...The Clinton Administration recently proposed a $46 million increase for San Diego/Tijuana border control...

...The ad proceeds to show immigrants fleeing up the road under the glare of spotlights...

...Like many other American children of immigrant parents, Cardenas is a profile of initiative and independence...

...The ad ends by urging voters to "tell President Clinton: Stop giving illegal benefits to illegals...

...Local businesses felt the pinch immediately...

...But instead of looking for solutions, our leaders are carting out the old scape-goats.S...

...Now she is poised to contribute to her nation, pursuing her interest in international relations, and developing her foreign-language skills—valuable assets in the current, global economy...

...came through, allowing her to participate in the program...

...The main reasons for the migration phenomenon we see around the world are flights for safety, job searches, and travel to reunite families, says attorney Schey...

...Most of the individuals who cross the southern border do not take jobs that Americans seek...

...But her government has shown little interest in her contribution, and has treated her with suspicion because of her Mexican name...

...The crackdown on immigrants is based on political propaganda, not reality...

...I mean, this is my own government," she says...

...Many were forced out just weeks before graduating...

...economic needs, as the government responds to both urban and agricultural demands...

...Both seem equally prepared to generate hatred against those who look Mexican...

...These efforts have portrayed immigrants as criminals, economic parasites, or health risks...

...Harassment of Latino students is but one component of an increasingly harsh national trend that includes Republican Presidential candidate Bob Dole's proposal to bar the children of undocumented immigrants from attending school...

...That effort led to a 1982 U.S...

...in American Studies...

...This provision fails to uphold international human-rights laws that were incorporated into the U.S...

...Most of them speak no other language, have lived nowhere else, and identify with this country...

...Most undocumented individuals arrive on commercial carriers and overstay their visas or cross from Canada, according to the INS...

...It was one of the most extensive deportation efforts that the U.S...

...It is both shortsighted and heartbreaking," says Cristina Bodinger-de Uriarte, a sociology professor at California State University, Los Angeles, an urban campus with one of the most diverse populations in the nation...

...Immigrants pay much more in taxes than they receive in education and social services...

...your parents' tax, rent, or employment records created at the time of your birth which indicated their U.S...

...Nevertheless, the United States disproportionately reinforces its southern border...

...These proposals and enactments would strip away many of the already threadbare protections these people have," says Schey, who has successfully argued immigrant class-action suits before the U.S...

...Immigrants add billions more to the U.S...

...Bill Clinton has grown increasingly punitive in his policies and opportunistic in his portrayal of undocumented immigrants...

...She was born in the United States with the assistance of a midwife at home in Brownsville, a Texas border town...

...Clinton has boosted the number of border-patrol officers, brags the ad, while showing a picture of a brown-skinned man being handcuffed by a border-patrol agent...

...The Urban Institute found that legal and illegal immigrants contribute $70.3 billion in tax payments into the system—but draw out only $42.9 billion in total services...

...Passport Agency was one of disbelief...

...But not before she had endured significant harassment...

...She teaches journalism and Latin-American and Mexican-American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin...

...In recent years, those targeted most frequently have been Latinos...

...At the last minute, her papers Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte, who was born in the United States and raised in Mexico, has a Ph.D...

...Perhaps no other phase of the question has aroused so keen feeling, and yet perhaps on no other phase of the question has there been so little accurate information...

...A 1982 Reagan Administration initiative called Operation Jobs proved this point rather conclusively...

...U.S...

...It extends to legal immigrants, as well...

...First she won a prestigious fellowship including a paid internship as a metro reporter at a mid-sized Midwestern newspaper...

...Most of these students worked full time to pay for their educations in an effort to leave behind economic hardship and gang pressures...

...A rise in hate crimes since 1991 shadows the current anti-immigrant rhetoric...

...They are mistaken if they believe that these youngsters will return to other countries...

...Its forerunner, an 1879 California statewide ballot that passed by a margin of 154,638 to 833, may have set a precedent for the exclusion act, which restricted Chinese immigration for more than fifty years, and for its contemporary counterpart, Proposition 187...

...Cardenas was not alone...

...The blame for immigrant-bashing can't all be placed on Republican politics, however...

...She received the same inquiry as Gina did," says Wilkins...

...citizens born to immigrant parents found their government reluctant to certify their citizenship with a passport...

...Today the nation faces major changes as technology retools the workplace, as demographics reconfigure the population, and as trade becomes globalized...

...End wasteful Washington spending...

...Over the course of their working lifetime, immigrants pay an average of $89,437 in state income and sales taxes, far more than the $62,600 it costs to educate a person from kindergarten through twelfth grade, according to a study released June 10 by the Tomas Rivera Center in Claremont, California...

...They have claimed that disease, pauperism, crime, and vice have been greatly increased through the incoming of immigrants...

...The push-out policy is aimed not just at students without documents...

...U.S...

...My own research indicates that over the last century, the U.S...

...In both the Republican and Democratic ads, Mexicans are portrayed as the only illegal-immigrant group...

...Yet never have our lawmakers sat down to develop a broad-based plan that would address these motivations," he says...

...She is a former editor and writer at the Los Angeles Times, where she worked during the immigrant-bashing campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s...

...In a pre-convention television commercial, the Republican National Committee launched a blatant attack on immigrants...

...These included an "attending midwife's report...

...Her mother and father met and married in the United States...

...The agency asked her to supply a "combination of early public documents created at the time of your birth...