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<p> One of the most heated issues in current public debate has been the jail system, mainly because far from being a place of rehabilitation it has been a place of overcrowding, violence and steep public spending both in California and Baja California.</p>
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<p> Uno de los temas acalorados de debate público tiene que ver con las cárceles, que lejos de ser lugares de rehabilitación o tratamiento de adicciones se han vuelto un lugar de hacinamiento, violencia y gasto público tanto en California como a Baja California.</p>
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<p> By the time President Barack Obama announced the end of the Cash for Clunkers program last Thursday, Americans had turned in more than 457,000 polluting cars and trucks for nearly $3 billion in government cash.</p>
<p> The program was “successful beyond anybody’s imagination,” Obama said. “And we’re now slightly victims of success because the thing happened so quick, there was so much more demand than anybody expected, that dealers were overwhelmed with applications.”</p>
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<p> By now, CNN’s Lou Dobbs, with his single-minded obsession over all things anti-immigrant and his bizarre embrace of the loony birther movement, is well known for trafficking in disturbing, misleading, and often inaccurate garbage. Escaping under the radar of many, however, are his close associations with an organization that has been described by experts as a “hate group.”</p>
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Sen. Ted Kennedy did right by immigrants — and by Barack Obama.</p>
<p> I met Kennedy in 2005, when a group of activists in the immigration reform movement went to Washington to huddle with the staff of our staunchest ally.</p>
<p> As new citizens working to pass comprehensive reform, we felt his commitment and passion for the cause at our Washington meetings.</p>
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Committee on Chicano Rights</p>