undocumented

Fired undocumented gardener sorry he ‘peed on Romney’s petunias’

by JERRY RIVERS May 11, 2012 El Now
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(PNS reporting from BEVERLY HILLS) Inspired by Mitt Romney’s apology for assaulting a long-haired commie prep school classmate, one of the undocumented gardeners Romney hired and then fired in 1996 has issued his own apology. Berto Lopez, now working as a freelance arborist in Beverly Hills, regrets he once peed on the then-governor’s prized petunias. “I [...]

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El Machete Illustrated: Undocumented and alien — the cartoon

by ERIC J. GARCIA April 17, 2012 Cartoons
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It’s Income Tax day — do you know where your undocumented alien superhero is?

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Mississippi bill would require ‘green cards’ from Pocho Ricans

by S.J. Rivera March 22, 2012 El Now
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(PNS reporting from OLE MISS) Inspired by the members of the University of Southern Mississippi marching band, state legislators passed a harsh new anti-immigration measure Wednesday and expect the bill to pass the Senate and be signed into law soon by Gov. Phil Bryant. HB 488 requires law enforcement to investigate the immigration status of any [...]

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ICE unveils first-ever resort-style hotel for immigrant detainees

by S.J. Rivera March 16, 2012 El Now
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(PNS reporting from DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEJAS) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is opening what they call the first-ever “resort-style hotel” for immigrant detainees. Critics are calling the new Karnes County (TX) Civil Detention Center a “prison for profit” but ICE is marketing it as a migrant “destination” with “vast amenities” that [...]

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Operation Wet Parachute: U.S. to drop Mexican deportees from planes

by S.J. Rivera February 29, 2012 El Now
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(PNS reporting from MEXICO CITY) In an effort to “adapt to current budget realities,” the Federales of Los United Estates will begin flying deported immigrants back to Mexico and dropping them from airplanes over their home states. This plan, dubbed Operation Wet Parachute, is the brainchild of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano who said yesterday she [...]

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Alabama legislators to ‘import’ Canadian workers to fill jobs

by S.J. Rivera February 2, 2012 El Now
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(PNS reporting from DIXIE) In a move to avoid further financial ruin and humiliation, Alabama legislators are considering an unusual measure called the “Canuck Program” that would “import” laborers from Canadia to fill empty Alabama jobs. Immigrant Mexican labor has all but disappeared from the Alabama landscape and the state has lost $10.8 billion in [...]

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Hispanics For Wilson’s first press release touted ‘Self-Deportation’

by Lalo Alcaraz January 31, 2012 El Now
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This is the first-ever recorded instance of “Self-Deportation,” an original Hispanics For Wilson press release dating from Mexican Independence Day, 1994. Daniel D. Portado was then known as “Dr. D. Portado.”

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Meet Daniel D. Portado, the original ‘self-deportationist’

by Sara Inés Calderón January 31, 2012 El Now
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(PNS reporting from CYBERESPACE) Although Mitt Romney has lately been in the news for promoting self-deportation, there is someone who beat him to the concept back in the 1990s — Daniel D. Portado. The self-proclaimed “original self-deportationist” encouraged others to follow his example and self-deport during California’s brush with anti-immigration legislation in the 1990s. In [...]

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Listen: Daniel D. Portado’s NPR debut, 1996

by Andalé Mono January 31, 2012 Audio
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Daniel D. Portado is no newbie. Check out this interview with NPR’s Ira Glass on This American Life.

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Coyote says new crop of ‘Cuban’ migrants are Mexicans

by S.J. Rivera January 26, 2012 El Now
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(PNS reporting from LA FLORIDA) The new wave of so-called “Cuban” immigrants washing up on the shores of the Sunshine State are really Mexicanos in disguise, at least according to one coyote. In an exclusive interview with PNS, people smuggler Chivo Rodriguez says the scheme is already an open secret in Mexico and it’s only [...]

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