'Rails-To-Trails' Policy Faces Setback After Supreme Court Ruling. By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) - In a setback to the U.S. government's long-running policy of converting abandoned railroads into public trails, the U.S.
Supreme Court on Monday ruled for a Wyoming property owner who objected to a plan to extend a pathway across his land.
Immigration groups slam Trust Act veto. SANTA CRUZ -- Immigrant groups on Monday lashed out at Gov.
Jerry Brown over a veto of a bill that would have relaxed local compliance with a controversial federal immigration program. Known as Secure Communities, the program places holds on undocumented jail bookings, with detainees possibly transferred to custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and deported. D.C. Sets Limits on Fingerprint Program - Stephanie Czekalinski. The FBI on Tuesday began sharing the fingerprints of people held in District of Columbia jails with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The change did not sit well with the D.C. government. On Tuesday, the D.C. Council moved to limit the District's participation in the federal Secure Communities program that uses fingerprints to help ICE identify illegal immigrants booked into local jails and to deport them. 50 States in 50 Days: Texas – The Lone Star State « U.S. Embassy Kyiv Blog.
Posted by Alyona Gorbatko, Information Assistant When I found out that I would spend a year in Texas as an exchange student, I was a bit disappointed.
I thought Texas was far less interesting than the rest of the United States. Inaugural Address of James Knox Polk. The U.S.-Mexican War . For Educators . Manifest Destiny. Grade Level(s): Subject Area(s) Language Arts - Reading and Writing, Civics, Geography, U.S.
History. [News] Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - 164 years of occupation! COMMUNITY INDICTMENT AGAINST MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFF J. ARPAIO (Et Al) Section 241: Conspiracy against rights If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured - They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
Article 5. Absolut Vodka Sells Out US To Reconquista Mexico For A Buck : Diggers Realm. Absolut Vodka Sells Out US To Reconquista Mexico For A Buck Absolut Vodka is the latest company to sell out the United States and pander to the reconquistas who are fighting for Aztlan (the retaking of the Southwest of the United States).
This latest attack on the sovereignty of the United States can be seen on billboards in Mexico and in print ads in magazines where it is declared "In an Absolut world" and shows a picture of Mexico owning the Southwest of the United States. 166 Years Ago Today the U.S. Declared War on Mexico. For those of you done celebrating Cinco de Mayo and Mexico’s brief but glorious defeat of the French you might want to crack open another Corona celebrating U.S. declaring war on Mexico back in 1846 that gave the U.S. close to 10 new states.
I can guarantee you there are no celebrations in Mexico being held today or fond memories of the Mexican-American War of 1846 that started today May 13th. Mexico has always viewed this as an invasion by its not-so-friendly neighbor. Much is written about the ineptitude of Mexican President Valentin Farias, the weakness of Santa Ana but what is most remembered is that Mexico lost over fifty percent of the country in nearly 700 days. Then President James K. KEYSTONE EMINENT DOMAIN TARGETS COULD LEARN FROM INDIGNEOUS PEOPLES AND THE TEXAS-MEXICO BORDER WALL. The most recent and yet hyper-censored dispossession in South Texas is related to the yellow-cake uranium exploration in Lipan Apache Traditional Territory.
Building wealth for the elite 1%, on the backs of Texas property owners--in fact, was designed and architected by Texas Senators Hutchinson and Cornyn, who have consistently produced legislation and the means for not only whittling away, but hacking away at Texas property rights for the "security" of the "nation. " In fact, the 35 federal laws that were voided to construct the Border Wall in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, were never re-instated by President Obama, and Hutchinson and Cornyn have been instrumental in ensuring that it stays that way in perpetuity.
I think most folks, who do not have access to anything beyond the narrow confines of corporate-controlled television, radio, and mainstream 'news', should be offered more diverse tools to wrap their heads around these questions: whose nation? Plymouth Politicians Support Secure Communities Program - Plymouth, MA Patch. Massachusetts joined the nationwide system that allows law enforcement officials to check fingerprints of individuals in custody against Immigration database.
Plymouth County is online and ready to begin immediate participation when the federal Secure Communities program is implemented in Massachusetts next Tuesday, Sheriff Joseph D. McDonald Jr. said today. Officials from U.S. NM LULAC to honor controversial Chicano leader : Hispanic Ohio. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.
(AP) — Reies Lopez Tijerina, a controversial figure from the Chicano Movement who once led a violent armed raid of a New Mexico courthouse, will be honored by a Latino civil rights group that once scorned him. New Mexico’s League of United Latin American Citizens will honor the 85-year-old Tijerina today at a special ceremony during the group’s statewide convention in Roswell. The move is baffling some historians but also highlighting the evolution of the nation’s oldest Hispanic civil rights organization. Whose land is it? Has the federal government become so arrogant as to claim ownership of the land over which it has jurisdiction?
Put differently, does the United States of America exist to protect and defend the property of each individual living within its borders, or to own and control that property itself? This is not a theoretical question reserved for intellectual banter. It is a real question pondered often, especially by those in western states, where the majority of land is owned and regulated by the federal government. Westward Expansion timeline. IF GEORGE WASHINGTON’S MY FATHER, WHY WASN’T HE CHICANO? by Felipe de Ortego y Gasca. Presented at the Forum on the Elimination of Mexican American Studies and Banning of Chicano Books in the Tucson Unified School District, Western New Mexico University, February 21, 2012. By Felipe de Ortego y Gasca Scholar in Residence, Department of Chicana/Chicano and Hemispheric Studies, Western New Mexico University. Evolution of Arizona's borders. By David Madrid - Feb. 13, 2012 06:31 PM The Republic | azcentral.com.
Online » NM Hispanic Ranchers, Once Ignored, Showing Clout. Data Also Disproves Food v. Fuel Claims. The Wall Street Journal’s Scott Kilman reported earlier this week on a letter sent by General Mills, the Grocery Manufacturers Association and Kraft Foods to Ag. Mexico reconquers California? Absolut drinks to that! Wave of Consciousness - Illegal Immigration as a Social Problem, Part I. Immigration reform is in the news again, second in importance only to the Iraq War. It would be wise to review the major, although often distorted, activist arguments in favor of amnesty and/or citizenship for illegal immigrants.