<p>Commentary:<br>
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&nbsp;The double standard on ACORN exposes the real underside of American politics: Our democracy is skewed against the voices of the poor.</p>
<p>&nbsp;Some of my best friends have worked for ACORN. They are honest, dedicated and moral individuals who appreciated the mission of this group, which has done so much good for some of our poorest citizens.</p>

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America’s Voice</p>
<p>&nbsp;“Americans want a solution to our immigration dilemma, as do law enforcement officials across this nation. But the solution isn’t turning every local police department into an arm of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”</p>
<p>&nbsp;That isn’t a quote from a pro-immigration activist. It’s from an editorial that the former Chief of Police of Los Angeles, William J. Bratton, wrote in the .</p>

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<p>&nbsp;Less than six months from the 2010 census, there is a rising movement in the Latino community to boycott the survey. Not only is this a terribly irresponsible and narrow-minded idea for Latinos, but it would be a detrimental decision that would affect all people that live in their communities.</p>

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&nbsp;<strong>Dear Mexican: Whenever I see an ad for a Mexican ramera, they always describe themselves as “spicy.”&nbsp; Are Mexican women hiding habaneros in their panochas?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Concha Curious<br>
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&nbsp;He’s the current World Boxing Organization (WBO) Welterweight Champion, he boasts an outstanding record, (34-1-27 KOs) and yet Puerto Rican pugilist Miguel Cotto is a 3-1 underdog heading into tomorrow night’s superfight against the irresistible force known as Manny Pacquiao. Since the inception of the fight, many observers have written Cotto off.</p>

Frontera NorteSur

 A Catholic Church-run migrant shelter in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila is the target of escalating attacks. Every day, Casa del Migrante Posada Belen in the state capital of Saltillo serves between 80-100 mainly Central American migrants headed to the United States. But since last month, staff and property have been busy responding to aggression, harassment and death threats.

<p>New America Media</p>
<p>&nbsp;As the death rate of the H1N1 (“swine flu”) virus surpassed 1,000 people in the United States, Chinese medicine practitioners, Ayurvedic healers, and Latino yerberas (herbalists) faced a dilemma: whether to tell their clients to get the vaccine –- which is recommended by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) -– or to prescribe alternative treatments.</p>

<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Perspective:</span></p>
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&nbsp;Once upon a time, at the outset of World War II, Japanese American students at California State Universities were rounded up and shipped off to internment camps.</p>
<p>&nbsp;Now those Institutions of Higher Learning would like to grant honorary degrees to the students who suffered such indignities.</p>