07.07.06
Posted in General at 11:55 pm by Paloma Cruz
Amongst the dozen or so listings on the Librarian’s Internet Index immigration resources I found The American Family Immigration History Center:
This database provides information on 22 million immigrants and ship’s crews who arrived at Ellis Island and the Port of New York between 1898 and 1924. Searchable by name, including alternate spelling, results provide date of arrival, age, marital status, ethnicity, residence, gender, ship, and port of departure. Information on each ship and ship manifests are also available. Immigrant Experience includes The Peopling of America , which covers pre-1790 to 2000 with a “timeline showing forces behind immigration and their impact on the immigrant experience.” Free registration allows searches to be saved and records to be annotated.
Very nice. Of course, there are lots others listed on the LII page. Visit it, bookmark it, use it.
(Found via LibrarianInBlack.)
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Posted in News at 5:20 am by Paloma Cruz
Found at Latina Lista: Federal Work Force Report Says Not Enough Latinos Employed in Government Positions.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Annual Report on the Federal Work Force Fiscal Year 2005 found that for our population numbers, Latinos are underrepresented in federal government positions, along with, women.
No wonder they can’t make others have equal representation in the workplace, they can’t even do it themselves.
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07.06.06
Posted in News at 11:49 pm by Paloma Cruz
Reform may cost farmers
Flower growers worry about losing laborers to future immigration laws
– reported by the Houston Chronicle
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Without them, Mellano’s cut-flower business, founded 80 years ago by his immigrant father, probably wouldn’t survive.
It’s already part of a vanishing breed in the United States. Foreign competition, spurred by relaxed trade barriers and improved shipping methods, has driven many U.S. flower growers out of business.
But the latest threat is coming from Mellano’s own country. Congress is considering the most sweeping overhaul to immigration laws in decades. A public hearing by the U.S. House International Relations Committee is scheduled for today in San Diego, about 60 miles south of his fields.
Mellano knows anything that makes it harder for him to find or keep workers could shut him down for good.
Mellano, an affable man who moves easily between English and Spanish, follows the law: He requires job applicants show proof they are allowed to work in the United States and says he rejects obvious forgeries. But a 1986 law doesn’t require that he verify the authenticity of work documents.
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07.05.06
Posted in General at 11:32 pm by Paloma Cruz
San Antonio woman elected LULAC national president
– reported by the Houston Chronicle
Rosa Rosales has been elected the national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, making her the second woman to lead the group in its 77-year history.
Rosales, 62, won over 70 percent of delegate votes at a weekend convention in Milwaukee, the group said. Rosales, of San Antonio, succeeds outgoing President Hector Flores, of Dallas.
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With about 115,000 members nationally, LULAC is the nation’s largest and oldest Hispanic civil rights organization, according to the group’s Web site. The group operates more than 700 LULAC councils across the country.
Rosales served as the group’s national vice president for the Southwest from 2002 to 2005, and served four one-year terms as its Texas director in the early 1990s.
Rosales said her priorities include creating a new commission on immigration and finding ways to improve education among Latinos. She also plans to meet with members of Congress on issues related to civil rights and equality for Hispanics.
Regarding education, she said she wants to study successful dropout prevention models and implement pilot programs throughout the country.
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