The Hispanics slaughterhouse?

Mcclatchy-tribune.

More Hispanics die on job than other U.S. workers

WASHINGTON — More Hispanics die on the job than other U.S. workers, and the rate is highest among the foreign-born, according to a federal study released Thursday.
Construction industry work accounted for a third of the Hispanic deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported after reviewing more than 11,000 Hispanic work-related deaths between 1992 and 2006. About 95 percent were men.
According to Dr. Sherry Baron, who studies health disparities for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the figures aren't surprising.
"Hispanics are working in riskier jobs where they have inadequate training and supervision, and this is exacerbated by the language barrier and low literacy levels, especially for foreign-born Hispanics," Baron said.

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Recession May Be Driving Off Illegals

From TIME magazine.

What can we (hispanics; mexicas, hondureros, salvatruchos y varios etcs) do. What they (gabachos) are gonna do?


Wednesday, Jun. 04, 2008
Recession May Be Driving Off Illegals
By Nathan Thornburgh

In the newly minted general election, there's one topic both candidates will both try to avoid: immigration reform. Specifically, how to salve popular anger at illegal immigrants without damaging an economy that has become reliant on their labor. With too many deportations, crops will rot in the field. But with too few, Minutemen with desert-colored Ghillie suits and night-vision goggles start patrolling the border.
Politicians, however, may now have a tantalizing option for the dilemma of whether to deport or not to deport: do nothing at all. The U.S. economic downturn may already be encouraging undocumented workers to leave the country or not come over in the first place. A Pew Hispanic Center report released on Wednesday morning indicates for the first time that the sinking economy has caught up with the Hispanic workforce with a vengeance. The main culprit, says report author Rakesh Kochhar, is job loss in the Latino-heavy construction sector.

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A message from Switzerland,

I would really like to talk to the majority of Swiss voters. I would like to give them a full and detailed description of the situation that immigrants are facing in the US nowadays, to ask them afterwards if they would cast their vote in the same direction if they were ‘gabachos’.

Swiss voters reject anti-immigration initiative
By Eliane Engeler
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tucson, Arizona Published: 06.02.2008

GENEVA — Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected an anti-immigrant initiative that would have made it harder for foreigners to gain citizenship, according to referendum results released Sunday.
All but one of 26 Swiss cantons (states) rejected the initiative by the nationalistic Swiss People's Party, while in the overall population 63.8 percent voted against it, according to official results.

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