Commentary

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; As an election nears, we always hear increasingly extreme rhetoric from the Republican Party on immigration. But this time around, their fire has turned on the most vulnerable among us; the children. This shameful tactic, which is designed to fire up their most angry anti-immigrant supporters, is not even focused on immigrant children, but rather the American citizen children of immigrants. It is wrong, and it must end.</p>

<p><strong>The Progressive Media Project</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; During the presidential campaign, Obama criticized No Child Left Behind. “Don’t tell us that the only way to teach a child is to spend too much of the year preparing him to fill out a few bubbles in a standardized test,” he said. He pledged to lead the nation in a different direction.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; We are still waiting.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; On March 28, 2008, my “Death by Media” article was published. The article dealt with how the US press had literally scared the pants off of people, and visiting Baja with emphasis on Tijuana, all but stopped. The reports that visitors to Baja were in danger were tremendously exaggerated and overly dramatized was the basis of the “Death by Media.”</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Can’t some people read or comprehend the United States Constitution?&nbsp; Don’t they understand the “supremacy” clause of the Constitution?&nbsp; In a phrase— federal law trumps local and state law, federal law is supreme in our land.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Arizona is finding that out the hard way.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Chicago White Sox Manager Ozzie Guillen called out Major League Baseball (MLB) on August 1st&nbsp;for providing translators for players arriving from Asia but not for Spanish-speaking Latinos. Asking, “Why do we have a Japanese interpreter but not a Spanish one?” Guillen criticized the racial double standard whereby Major League Baseball provides special services to the handful of Asian-born players but does nothing to ease the transition for the many Spanish-speakers from the Dominican Republic and elsewhere.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Forty years ago, workers in the United States won a great victory.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; On July 29, 1970, the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) ended its successful grape boycott when the growers agreed to sign the first contract with the union.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; It seemed like an improbable outcome, as the battle pitted a mostly Mexican as well as Filipino immigrant work force against powerful agricultural growers in California.</p>