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Kenyan immigrants … doing the job Mexicans can’t?
The Mex Files | October 20th 2008
The area around Toluca has attracted jocks for centuries. The first Mexican budget crisis was caused when missionary monks found that carrying heavy statues around in processions at high altitudes — and eating a healthier diet rich in chiles read more
Better late than never?
The Mex Files | October 18th 2008
Yes, I know the wheels of justice turn slowly, but this is one of those legal cases where the plaintiffs and defendants have basically died of old age waiting for the settlement. People only have from now until 23 December to present documentation th read more
Mississippi spurning…
The Mex Files | August 26th 2008
How much I can write from Mexico on an huge immigration raid (with some extremely troubling features) is an open question. I realize most of the immigration and immigrant rights people are partial to the Democratic Party, but I’d hoped a few read more
Migra raid in Mississippi — interesting Republican connection?
The Mex Files | August 25th 2008
(21:00 — The New York Times has their story posted, saying “at least 350 workers” said to be in the country illegally were detained. Barbara Gonzalez, the ICE spokeswoman, said dozens of workers had been “identified, fingerprint read more
Unintended consequences
The Mex Files | August 18th 2008
According to Antonio Payan, a political science professor at the University of Texas in El Paso, 3000 mostly middle-class families have moved from Juarez to El Paso over the last year. Payan is indirectly quoted by AFP (or the editors at AFP assume read more
What we had here, was a failure to communicate…
The Mex Files | August 4th 2008
I’m sure the English-only crowd will have a heyday with this, but it goes to show that managers have been NOT learning to communicate with their employees for a very long time. (National Post, Canada): The Mary Rose, pride of Henry VIII’s read more
Deportation and AIDS
The Mex Files | August 1st 2008
With the International AIDS conference in Mexico City, scientistsand health-care workers have a rare chance to be heard by the public at large. Whether policy makers listen is another story. This was published in U.S. News and World Report: The read more
What’s really wrong with “Plan Mexico”
The Mex Files | July 31st 2008
Inside USA’s Avi Lewis recently sat down with Jorge Chabat, Laura Carlsen and John Gibler (on the radio broadcast) to discuss “Plan Mexico”… the transcript is available from Democracy Now! Mexican support is falling for the mi read more
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