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Department of Justice to Investigate Sheriﬀ Arpaio

MARIBEL HASTINGS NAM Writer The Department of Justice notified Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Tuesday that it had opened an investigation into him for “alleged” patterns of discrimination because of national origin, among other things. The letter was sent on the eve of an event organized Wednesday by a coalition of civil and immigrant rights groups, including America’s Voice, to deliver 35,000 petitions calling for the Department of Justice to investigate the sheriff. The tactics of the notorious sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., and his use of racial profiling affecting the general population, including citizens and legal residents, have generated more than 35,000 petitions across the country calling for a federal investigation. They are also asking the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to end its agreement with the sheriff through the 287(g) program. Several congressional committees and subcommittees, including the House Judiciary panel, already have asked the Justice Department to review Arpaio’s tactics. “In the short term, we

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Stimulus Includes Small Boost for Older Workers

PAUL KLEYMAN NAM Writer

Last year after her company eliminated her supervisory position, Wilma McGee was getting nowhere with online job applications. CoraPrepedigma “Cora” McDonnel is among the older workers who beneﬁted from the federal program. “They don’t say it’s because of your age,” said McGee, 59, of Memphis. “You just don’t hear back from them.” Today, thanks to a littleknown employment program that is about to get a small boost from the federal economic stimulus package, McGee is back to work as a research-project interviewer at the University of Memphis. The U.S. Department of Labor program that helped McGee is getting a shot in the arm -- $120 million. That translates into a 30 percent increase for the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), which helps low-income workers over 55 get job training and placement. Some 105,000 jobseekers could beneﬁt from this sorely needed boost from Congress. But labor experts say the raise is a small fraction of what’s really needed. In December alone, 1.4 million adults over 55 were unemployed, according to statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Prepedigma “Cora” McDonnel is among the older workers who beneﬁted from the federal program

Many more were underemployed or have ceased looking for work, said Richard Johnson of the nonpartisan Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. “A good start would be $1 billion,” Johnson said. As the population ages, it will be crucial for the U.S. economy to maximize employment among older workers in the coming years, according to a study released last fall by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. The center’s director, Andrew Sum, explained that the huge and aging boomer generation will account for most of the growth in the American civilian labor force --more than 90 percent--in the next decade. In fact, experts project U.S. labor shortages unless older adults continue working. The Northeastern Univer-

sity study shows that the projected growth in the older labor force will likely intensify job competition for less-educated older workers. In calling for an expansion of SCSEP, Sum and his colleagues emphasize that a growing share of older workers will be “blacks and Hispanics, who face a higher incidence of income inadequacy problems.” Increasing employment among low-income older workers is especially important; only one in eight SCSEP-eligible people is currently employed, either full or part time, according to the study. That’s only one-quarter of the employment rate for the rest of the U.S. population over 55, according to a report prepared for the nonproﬁt Senior Service America, which manages SCSEP in several parts of the nation. Still, SCSEP’s $120 million

stimulus was welcome news for Clayton Fong, executive director of the National Asian Pacific Center on Aging (NAPCA) in Seattle. “SCSEP has not seen a real increase in funding in the last decade,” Fong said. “As a result, we are serving fewer seniors because the funding levels stay the same, while the aging population increases.” He added that one SCSEP “success” at NAPCA has been Prepedigma “Cora” McDonnell, who emigrated from the Philippines in 1985. Seven years ago, she found herself widowed and laid off. The 60year-old mother of a teenage son had few job prospects. McDonnell enrolled in computer and office management classes at NAPCA’s Seattle office. NAPCA subsidized a half-time job for her as an administrative assistant at its Chinese community center. “It was a new environment for me,” she said. “The program was working with mostly new immigrants, who needed help in adjusting to this country.” NAPCA found McDonnell so effective it hired her full time as a receptionist and program assistant for one of its own programs, a job that allows her to help many older newcomers. “When immigrants first come to America, they are in culture shock,” McDonnell

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Jazz Peaking Too Soon ❑ The only thing that matters is not only getting to June, but also winning in it. BY BEN VILLA

UWN Sports Writer It goes without saying that one of if not the best story of this NBA season has been the recent play of our beloved Utah Jazz. After Tuesday night’s 112-100 win over the Indiana Pacers, the Jazz ran their current winning streak to 12 games and in the process, they are now in fourth place in the Western

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In War on Drugs, Mexico’s Success Is Our Misfortune LOUIS E.V. NEVAER NAM, Commentary MERIDA, Mexico –- Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s decision to move troops into drug trafficking hot spots is making it impossible for the cartels to continue to operate in Mexico on a “business as usual” basis -- and their only alternative is to move into the United States. There lies the paradox of Mexico’s war on drugs: If Calderon wins, he will create a problem for his neighbor to the north. Figures provided by the FBI documenting the spread of cartel activity to dozens of American cities substantiate Mexico’s success. The current spike in violence –- along with the relocation of cartel operations from Mexico to the United States -– is evidence of Mexico’s success. “It is reflecting how they are melting down,” Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina argues. Calderon is convinced that 2009 will be a crucial year, one in which there will be greater violence as the Mexican army continues to disrupt and destroy the drug cartels’ operations, forcing them to abandon Mexico for the United States. His decision to move forward with a military show of force last week by sending an additional 7,500 troops to secure Ciudad Juarez has Mexicans wondering if this “surge” against the drug cartels will work. Mexico has been rocked by an escalation of violence, with more than 1,000 slain in the first two months of this year. Not a day goes by without authorities announcing the gruesome discovery of dead, and often mutilated, bodies dumped along the road, or a shootout between the military or police and members of a drug cartel. This escalation of violence has stunned Mexicans, who are fearful that

it signals a broadening of Calderon’s “war” on the cartels. Last year more than 6,290 people were killed in Mexico, and 2009 is on track to be even bloodier. Calderon’s critics charge that declaring “war” on the cartels has unleashed a wave of violence from these drug syndicates, which are better-financed and better-armed than the Mexican police and army. Within weeks of taking office in December 2006, Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared the drug cartels the greatest single national security threat to the integrity of the Mexican State. Mexico moved forcefully throughout 2007, and the drug cartels retaliated, killing police, attacking the army, demanding that public officials resign or face “assassination.” As gun battles between drug cartels and the police made headlines, Calderon was forced to order the army to “secure” civil authority, occupying airports and setting up military checkpoints on the nation’s highways. The violence continued to escalate, with drug cartels taking a page from Iraqi insurgents, torturing their victims before mutilating their bodies. The sight of decapitated bodies thrown near schoolyards continues to unsettle the Mexican public. “Mexico right now has issues of violence that are a different degree and level than we’ve ever seen before,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently testified before Congress. Critics charge that Calderon runs the danger of unleashing a civil war, where violence becomes uncontrollable. Calderon disagrees. “It’s either the narcos, or the state,” Calderon said in an interview published in February in the Mexican newspaper El Universal. He has continued to move forward with his “surge” against the cartels, deploying the military to border cities. Looking beyond the horrific daily

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headlines of violence, there is compelling evidence that Calderon’s “surge” is working. Despite the gruesome and relentless news of killings, Calderon has done a remarkable job of containing the violence to the principal actors: drug cartels and law enforcement. In a country of 110 million people, 6,290 people killed in 2008. Of these, more than 90 percent were members of the drug syndicates. Nearly 800 of the dead were police officers or army soldiers, and fewer than 250 were innocent civilians. The majority of the violence stems from struggles among the various syndicates, particularly the Sinaloa and Tijuana cartels, to fill in the power vacuum created by Calderon’s success in disrupting their organizations. That Mexicans can go about their lives almost untouched by the violence swirling around them is a testament to how effectively Calderon has prevented violence from spilling into civilian society. Calderon bristles at the notion that Mexico is a “failed state,” with the implication that the drug cartels are asserting control over communities. “I have not lost any part –- any single part -– of Mexican territory,” he said in an interview last month. When the U.S. Joint Forces Command recently stated that Mexico could face a “rapid and sudden collapse,” it harkened back to the 1990s when alarmist books, such as “Bordering on Chaos” described the “imminent” collapse of the Mexican state. Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina points out that the army is fully in control of highways, airports and municipal buildings in the cities of greatest activity. “We want to raise the opportunity costs of our country as a route of choice,” he said. Unlike Colombia, where Pablo Escobar was beloved and protected by the public, no drug lord has won the loyalty of the Mexican people. Fed up with their nation being hijacked by criminal gangs, Mexicans staged a peace march in cities around the country, “Iluminemos Mexico,” or “Let’s Illuminate Mexico,” that drew millions of citizens to participate in candlelight vigils. When the Mexican army moves in to secure airports, police stations and highways, Mexicans stand in their doorways and applaud. As Calderon’s surge moves forward, the cartels have moved north into the United States and east to the Bahamas and Cuba. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder characterized Mexican drug trafficking organizations as “a national security threat.” The National Drug Intelligence Center warned last month that Mexican cartels are crossing into the United States where “they control most of the U.S. drug market and have established varied transportation routes, advanced communications capabilities and strong affiliations with gangs in the United States.” The FBI confirms this, noting that “gangs are trafficking illicit drugs at the regional and national levels; several are capable of competing with U.S.-based Mexican drug trafficking organizations.”

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DC Voting Rights Bill Slowed By NRA Meddling ❑ Bill

that would give Utah one more vote in Congress still on hold. TALIB I. KARIM Washington Informer New America Media As leaders in the House of Representatives moved to pass the D.C. voting rights bill, the legislation was placed on hold in a move of “legislative gamesmanship by the National Riﬂe Association. The NRA added an amendment to the bill that would repeal the law to ban guns in the District. With this amendment, the NRA has attempted to blocks the legislation that would give 600,000 District of Columbia residents a full vote in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Senate recently passed S. 160, its version of the D.C. House Voting Rights Act of 2009 by a vote of 61-37. Yet, to get the votes needed for the bill, supporters were forced to accept the NRA amendment. Some members of Congress say they expected the gun amendment would be stripped from

the bill after passage in the overwhelmingly Democratic House, including Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). “I supported the gun amendment because I really believe in the Second Amendment [the right to bear arms],” said Hatch, while acknowledging that in Utah, guns are generally used for a diﬀerent purpose than they are in the District. According to Daniel Vice of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, the NRA doesn’t carry the same inﬂuence that they have in years past. “In the last two elections, their money did not mean much. In head-to-head congressional elections we [antigun groups] beat them 80 percent of the time “Members should look at the results of the last election and should not be deterred from doing the right thing just because of a threat from a special interest group like the NRA.” Barron Hill, a member of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of conservative Democrats in Congress, has said that by adding this amendment, the NRA is attempting to use a procedural tactic to slow D.C.

STIMULUS, FROM PG. 1 in Canton. When Chen dissaid. “They ﬁnd out it’s about having more opportunity. They need local experience, which SCSEP can give them in terms of on-the-job training.” David Chen of the Chinese American Planning Council, who operates centers in Manhattan’s and Brooklyn’s Chinatowns, said he frequently ﬁnds a “diamond in the rough” among SCSEP applicants—a discovery only possible through one-on-one job counseling. Chen recounted the case of an older man whom the program originally placed as a receptionist in a Chinese senior center. A discussion about the man’s employment history soon revealed that he had been the editor of a daily newspaper

covered the now-elderly man’s capabilities, his program hired him for translation and other more sophisticated work. “A lot of the time when you interview them, you start out thinking you can’t do much. It’s very hard. The person speaks no English. Nobody knows he has such a rich background until you get into it and you ﬁnd out.” Anthony Sarmiento, executive director of Senior Service America, stressed that SCSEP placement in local agencies and services does not merely provide jobs but promotes the well being of elders. “The program enables them to be more engaged, to give back and build the social capital for the entire community,” Sarmiento said.

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voting rights and that the NRA is meddling in the aﬀairs of Congress. “The NRA is wrong on this,” Hill said in a recent National Public Radio interview. The House Majority Leader, Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-MD) is working with his colleagues to call a vote on legislation for District political rights as early as this week said his spokesperson Stephanie Lundberg. “Of course, that depends upon progress on opposition over the bill regarding the District’s gun laws,” Lundberg added.

The District’s Delegate to Congress Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton believes that pro-gun amendments on a bill for voting rights, is “impossible to accept.” Norton is working with advocates against gun violence as well as groups such as the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights to overcome NRA’s maneuvering. Concern over the voting rights bill with the NRA attachment has prompted District Council Chair Vincent Gray (D) to ask At-Large District Councilmember Michael Brown (I) to chair a special committee to advance D.C.

voting rights, statehood, and self determination. Brown, as chair of the District Council’s Special Committee on Statehood and Self-Determination, believes that D.C. voting rights are essential. “There may be options for dealing with those [pro-gun] amendments, if they remain in the ﬁnal version of the District’s voting rights legislation,” Brown said. However, Brown added that advocates for District rights must speak as one voice to encourage members of Congress, many who also reside in the nation’s capital, to do the right thing.

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Presentar a Todo Hombre Perfecto en Cristo Colosenses 1:27-28 ...Cristo en vosotros, la esperanza de gloria, a quien anunciamos, amonestando a todo hombre, y enseñando a todo hombre en toda sabiduría, a ﬁn de presentar perfecto en Cristo a todo hombre.

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n el original griego, la palabra “perfecto” (Col. 1:28) podría traducirse también plenamente crecido, completo o maduro. El ministerio de Pablo consistía en impartir a Cristo en otros para que fuesen hechos perfectos y completos al madurar en Cristo hasta obtener el crecimiento pleno. Sin embargo, en la actualidad muchos obreros cristianos ni siquiera tienen la noción de presentar perfecto en Cristo a todo hombre y laboran con metas diferentes. Nosotros, en cambio, debemos tener la misma meta que Pablo. Incluso al predicar el evangelio, nuestra meta debe ser impartir vida, a ﬁn de presentar a otros maduros, perfectos, en Cristo. Al predicar el evangelio a los no creyentes, al ministrarles a Cristo y al ayudarles a recibir al Señor, no debemos simplemente tener la meta de salvarlos del lago de fuego y de la condenación de Dios. Nuestra meta tampoco debe limitarse a que ellos experimenten el perdón de Dios; más bien, nuestra meta debe ser impartir a Cristo en ellos para que con el tiempo puedan ser presentados perfectos en Cristo. Si al predicar el evangelio no logramos impartir a Cristo en otros, nuestra predicación se encontrará por debajo de la norma de Dios. Debemos infundir a Cristo en todos aquellos con quienes hablemos. Debemos tener la misma meta al tener comunión con los santos. Cuando nos relacionamos con los santos, nuestra meta debe ser ministrarles a Cristo para que maduren en Él. Muchas bendiciones para usted amable lector, si toda vía no ha comenzado su vida cristiana le insto a recibir a Jesús como señor y salvador y a congregarse en una iglesia donde le enseñen la palabra de Dios y de esa manera pueda avanzar en su vida cristiana. Repita esta breve oración, señor Jesús reconozco que

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CHURCH DIRECTORY Iglesia Cristiana Emanuel-Zion 5757 S. 3100 W., Roy, UT 84067 (801) 773-1318 (801) 678-5432 Pastor Adalberto Montoya Domingo: 2:00 p.m. Viernes: 7:00 p.m. Roy Bible Church Kenny Montano, Pastor. 5757 S 3100 W Roy, UT84067. Church- 801- 776-1823 Cell- 801- 920- 5315 kennymontano@gmail.com www.roybiblechurch.org Tabernaculo Biblico Bautista 2519 Jefferson Ave. Ogden, UT 84401 Miercoles 7:00 PM: Estudio Bíblico Domingos 3:00 p.m. Servicio de Adoración Sábados 10:00 a.m. Ganando Almas por las Calles y Tiendas Domingos 7:00 a.m. Oracion por las Necesidades. Viernes 7:00 p.m.

soy pecador te entrego mi vida hoy inscribe mi nombre en el libro de la vida, te acepto como mi señor y salvador, gracias por salvarme este día. Pastor Adalberto Montoya es Pastor de la Iglesia Cristiana Emanuel-Zion en la ciudad de Roy, Utah. Para comunicarse con el ó hacer cualquier comentario por favor escribale directamente a: a_montoya_pastor@yahoo.com. Su Iglesia Cristiana EmanuelZion esta ubicada en el 5757 S. 3100 W., Roy, UT 84067 (801) 773-1318

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What is Faith? Trust means a willingness to put ourselves under him, to be willing to obey not out of fear but out of love. When we trust God, we love him. Trust is shown by what we do. But the action is not the trust, and it does not create the trust—it is only the result of trust. True faith is, at its core, trust in Jesus Christ. A gift of God

Where does this kind of trust come from? It is not something we can work up for ourselves. We cannot talk ourselves into it or use human logic to build an airtight case. We will never have the time to cover all the philosophical arguments about God. But we are forced to make a choice each day: Will we trust God, or not? Trying to delay the decision is a decision in itself: We do not yet trust him. Each Christian has at some point or another made a decision to trust in Christ. For some, it was a well-thought-out decision. For others, it was an illogical decision, made for wrong reasons—but the right decision anyway. We could trust no one else, not even ourselves. On our own, we would mess our lives up. Nor could we trust other human authorities. For some of us, faith was a choice of desperation—we had nowhere else to go but to Christ (John 6:68). It is normal that our ﬁrst faith is an immature faith— a good start, but not a good place to stay. We need to grow in our faith. As one man said to Jesus, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24). The disciples themselves, even after worshiping the resurrected Jesus, had some doubts (Matthew 28:17). So where does faith come from? It is a gift of God. Ephesians 2:8 tells us that salvation is a gift of God, which means that the faith that leads to salvation must also be his gift. In Acts 15:9 we are told that God puriﬁed the believers’ hearts by faith. God was working in their hearts. He is the one who “opened the door of faith” (Acts 14:27). God did it, because he is the one who enables whatever faith we have. CONTINUED ON NEXT ISSUE - SAME PAGE AND COLUMN

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Lanzazapatos condenado a 3 años de prisión ❑ Los abogados del periodista dijeron que apelarán el veredicto El periodista iraquí que en diciembre arrojó en expresión de protesta sus zapatos al entonces presidente estadounidense George W. Bush fue sentenciado hoy a tres años de cárcel por atacar a un gobernante extranjero, dijo su abogado. Mohammed al-Abboudi señaló que la condena contra Muntadhar al-Zeidi fue anunciada después de un juicio breve durante el cual el periodista se declaró inocente. El periodista dijo que su actitud fue una ``respuesta natural a la ocupación’’ de su país, y cuando el veredicto fue leído gritó ``viva Irak’’. Al-Zeidi ha estado detenido desde que le lanzó los zapatos a Bush durante una rueda conjunta de prensa con el primer ministro iraquí, Nuri al-Maliki, en diciembre. La singular protesta se ha convertido en una de las imágenes emblemáticas de la guerra de casi seis años. El periodista denunció haber sido torturado durante los primeros días en prisión. Algunos de los familiares de al-Zeidi se desmayaron al oír el veredicto y debieron ser sacados del tribunal. Otros fueron sacados a la fuerza por fuerzas de seguridad, cuando comenzaron a gritar ``Abajo Bush’’, y ``Viva Irak’’. Al-Zeidi podría haber recibido hasta 15 años de cárcel por lanzar los zapatos a Bush. Pero abogados de la defensa dijeron que el juez se mostró magnánimo debido a la edad de al-Zeidi y su falta de prontuario policial. Al-Zeidi es un héroe para muchos iraquíes por expresar su desafío ante un presidente al que considera responsable de la destrucción de su país tras la invasión de marzo de 2003. Cientos de miles de personas en el mundo islámico salieron a la calle a partir del 14 de diciembre, tras el incidente, para exigir su liberación.

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Sirviendo a las comunidades desde Ogden, Clinton, Roy, Layton hasta Logan y sus vecindades

Departamento de Justicia Investigará al Alguacil Arpaio MARIBEL HASTINGS Reportera de NAM WASHINGTON, D.C. - El Departamento de Justicia le notificó ayer al alguacil Joe Arpaio que abrió una investigación en su contra por “alegados” patrones de discriminación por origen nacional, entre otras cosas. La carta de Justicia se envió en la víspera del evento que conduce hoy miércoles una coalición de grupos de derechos civiles y pro inmigrantes, incluyendo America’s Voice, para entregar 35,000 peticiones precisamente solicitando que el Departamento de Justicia investigue al alguacil. Las tristemente célebres tácticas del alguacil del condado de Maricopa, Arizona, y su empleo de perfiles raciales afectando a la población en general, incluyendo ciudadanos y residentes legales, generaron más de 35,000 peticiones a través del país para que Justicia abriera una pesquisa. También piden que el Departamento de Seguridad Interna (DHS) ponga fin a su acuerdo de colabo-

ración con el alguacil a través del programa 287(g). Ya varios comités y subcomités del Congreso, incluyendo el panel Judicial de la Cámara Baja, le solicitaron al Departamento de Justicia una pesquisa sobre las tácticas de Arpaio. “A corto plazo esperamos que el Departamento de Justicia investigue los horrendos abusos del alguacil Arpaio en el condado de Maricopa, y que el DHS finalice su acuerdo 287(g) con el sheriff porque lo está empleando para violar los derechos de la gente”, afirmó Adam Luna, director político de America’s Voice. “A largo plazo queremos

lograr una reforma migra- sobre Arpaio y sus tácticas toria amplia que respete los que incluye una extensa enderechos humanos y civiles trevista al alguacil conducida básicos de todo mundo en por el presentador del noticieste país y que prevenga que ero, Pedro Sevcec. la situación migratoria de En la serie Sevcec presionó una persona se emplee para y arrinconó al alguacil para arrebatarle sus derechos ci- que respondiera por qué sus viles y humanos básicos”, tácticas no deben consideragregó Luna. El programa La semana pasada un 287(g) rige la colabreporte de la Oﬁcina de oración entre autoriContraloría del Congreso dades locales y fede(GAO) concluyó que la falta rales en la aplicación de controles internos en el de leyes migratorias. manejo del programa 287(g) Pero los grupos de ha hecho que algunos presión argumentan departamentos de policía se que el caso de Arpaconcentren en detener miio evidencia cómo el grantes por delitos menores programa se emplea en lugar de concentrarse en para cometer abusos extranjeros deportables que incluso contra ciucometen delitos graves. dadanos y residentes legales. Activistas han denunciado que el uso de arse racistas. Y un Arpaio deperfiles raciales en el con- safiante insistió en que sólo dado de Maricopa provoca cumple con su trabajo y que que ciudadanos y residentes los indocumentados vienen a legales sean detenidos por la robarle trabajos a ciudadanos mera sospecha de que sean y residentes legales. indocumentados. Sevcec entrevistó al alEn ese sentido, el Notici- calde de Phoenix, Phil Gorero Telemundo nacional ha ARPAIO, PAG. 7 estado presentando una serie

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Ministro de Seguridad Salvadoreño Figueroa Reacciona Ante Posible Eliminación de TPS ❑ Dos congresistas estadounidenses argumentaron que la llegada del FMLN al poder pondría en peligro los privilegios del TPS para los salvadoreños DAVID MARROQUÍN Permiso Diario de Hoy El ministro de Seguridad y Justicia René Figueroa aseguró hoy que la eliminación del programa migratorio TPS que ha beneﬁciado a más de 200 mil salvadoreños en Estados Unidos “vendría a darle un golpe terrible migratoriamente hablando a cientos de miles de salvadoreños que residen en la Unión Americana”. FOTO / edh El ministro de Seguridad y Justicia René Figueroa aseguró hoy que la eliminación del programa migratorio TPS que ha beneﬁciado a más de 200 mil

salvadoreños en Estados Unidos “vendría a darle un golpe terrible migratoriamente hablando a cientos de miles de salvadoreños que residen en la Unión Americana”. Dos congresistas estadounidenses argumentaron que la llegada del FMLN al poder pondría en peligro los privilegios del TPS para los salvadoreños y habría un estricto control de las remesas. Agregaron que “El Salvador se convertiría rápidamente en un satélite y en un procurador de Venezuela, Rusia y quizás Irán”. Figueroa sostuvo que la reducción de las remesas que envían los salvadoreños residentes en Estados Unidos golpearía la economía de sus familiares por cuanto “si alguien recibe una remesa de 300 dólares mensuales se le puede ver reducida a 50 o 30 mensuales”. Figueroa sostuvo que es natural la preocupación de los con-

gresistas estadounidenses ante la posibilidad de que el FMLN gane las elecciones del próximo domingo. “Comprendemos la preocupación de éstos congresistas estadounidenses, el FMLN es amigo, socio y aliado de Hugo Chávez en Venezuela, y sabemos que Hugo Chávez esta implementando una estrategia de expansionismo del socialismo del Siglo Veintiuno que no es más que un comunismo disfrazado”, dijo Figueroa. El funcionario agregó que también la preocupación es por “la cercanía del FMLN con Cuba un régimen dictatorial, enemigo de la democracia y la libertad, y lo más preocupante aún es la cercanía del FMLN con las FARC de Colombia que es una narcoguerrilla y ejecutores de muchos actos de terrorismo”. Pidió a los salvadoreños que residen en el exterior y en especial en Estados Unidos a que adviertan a sus familiares “de los

peligros que representa el FMLN para las buenas relaciones con Estados Unidos”. También llamó a los salvadoreños a “tomar las medidas en el marco democrático para mantener un sistema de libertades, de democracia y con el cuidado de no tener vínculos con estados que son refugios para terroristas”. El director de la Policía José Luis Tobar Prieto desmintió las acusaciones del candidato presidencial del partido de izquierda Mauricio Funes de que la corporación policial había entregado las fotograﬁas de la mansión donde reside actualmente. Tobar dijo que no iba a responder a acusaciones políticas, pero le pidió a Funes que presente las pruebas de sus aﬁrmaciones “con la salvedad que no solamente la Policía tiene medios aéreos, hay otras personas que tienen medios aéreos”, dijo.

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To address the controversy, Noticiero Telemundo’s national newscast has been broadcasting a series on Arpaio and his tactics, including an extensive interview with the sheriff conducted by news reporter Pedro Sevcec. In the series, Sevcec corners and pressures the sheriff to explain why his tactics shouldn’t be considered racist. A defiant Arpaio insists that he is only doing his job and that the undocumented come here to steal jobs from citizens and legal residents. Sevcec interviewed Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, who indicated that there is “definitely” discrimination and racial profiling in Maricopa Country. But Arpaio said that the mayor’s request for a federal investigation by the Department if Justice is based on “garbage.” “That’s why nothing came out of it, and Congress is basing their case on the same garbage when by asking Secretary of Justice and my friend Janet Napolitano to investigate me. I’m not worried, let them investigate me. I have noth-

(they eat two meals a day) and the sheriﬀ’s tactics of marching them in chains through the streets. In another highly publicized tactic, Arpaio forces the detainees to wear pink underwear. “He (Arpaio) says they are uniforms, Last week a report by but at the same time the U.S. Government Ache told me it was a really good idea that’s countability Ofﬁce (GAO) allowed him to raise concluded that the lack of money because it internal controls in managwas popular with the ing the 287(g) program has people who support led some police departments him. He has ordered to focus on arresting impink underwear to be made, because he migrants for minor crimes know it will sell well, rather than concentrating and at the interview on more serious offenses. he even brought me a pair of pink underwear that he signed There are times when he was and gave me,” Sevcec said. happy to generate controversy,” “That speaks to what this Sevcec indicated. man is like. On the one hand, The series features an inter- he truly believes that he is doview with Arpaio defending his ing his job, but there are times tactics, as well as responses by when he is happy to have so his critics, and a segment inter- much publicity, even though viewing his detainees. Sevcec he gets mad when you tell him gained access to Tent City, he is seeking publicity,” Sevcec where prisoners complained to added. “The man does things you him about the shortage of food

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can’t agree with because he discriminates against undocumented people and Hispanics in general. In Maricopa County, he arrests people for their appearance; if someone looks Hispanic, he assumes they are undocumented,” concluded Sevcec. More than 2,700 lawsuits have already been filed against Arpaio. It is estimated that while the sheriff focuses on pursuing the undocumented, more than 40,000 arrest warrants against criminals are going unserved. Ninety-five percent of U.S. police departments have opted not to participate in the 287(g) program because, among other reasons, they believe that allowing the local police to enforce immigration laws generates fear in the community and makes people afraid to report crimes to the police. Last week a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that the lack of internal controls in managing the 287(g) program has led some police departments to focus on arresting immigrants for minor crimes rather than concentrating on more serious offenses.

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hope the Department of Justice will investigate the horrendous abuses by Sheriff Arpaio in Maricopa County, and the DHS will end its 287(g) agreement with the sheriff because it is being used to violate people’s rights,” affirmed Adam Luna, political director of America’s Voice. “In the long term, we want to achieve comprehensive immigration reform that respects the human rights and basic civil rights of everyone in this country and that prevents someone’s immigration status from being used to take away their basic human and civil rights,” Luna added. The 287(g) program authorizes the collaboration between local and federal authorities in enforcing immigration laws. But advocacy groups argue that the Arpaio case shows that the program is being used to commit abuses, even against citizens and legal residents. Activists have complained that the use of racial profiling in Maricopa County has lead citizens and legal residents to be detained on the mere sus-

ing to hide,” Arpaio told the reporter. Sevcec told America’s Voice that at times the interview was “surreal.” “There are times when (Arpaio) was deﬁant and other moments were very tense.

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Preparacion: Coloca 3 tazas de agua y la masa de harina en una licuadora, cubre. Licua hasta que este suave. Cuela la masa y ponla dentro de una olla mediana. Hierve. Reduce la llama y cocina a fuego lento, revolviendo con frecuencia usando un batidor manual de alambre, durante 6 a 8 minutos, o hasta que la mezcla se vuelva espesa. Mezcla la leche evaporada, 1 1/4 tazas de agua, azucar, extracto de vainilla y ramas de canela. Hierve. Reduce la llama y cocina a fuego lento de 5 a 8 minutos, o hasta que la mezcla se vuelva espesa. Saca las ramas de canela. Empolvorea con canela en polvo y sirvelo caliente. Nota la foto no ilustra directo como debe quedar, al estremo derecho ilustra un poco.

narraron al presentador las

Maricopa se hacen detencio-

y se lamentaron de las tácticas como la de encadenarlos y pasearlos por las calles. Otra de las tácticas es obligarlos a usar ropa interior rosada. “El (Arpaio) dice que son uniformes, pero a la vez me dice que es una idea muy buena que le ha permitido recaudar fondos porque se hizo popular entre la gente que lo apoya. Ha mandado a hacer ropa interior rosada para vender, porque se sabe mercadear muy bien, e incluso en la entrevista (de anoche) me trae un calzoncillo rosa que me firma y me regala”, narró Sevcec. “Eso habla de cómo es este hombre. Por un lado realmente cree que está haciendo su trabajo, pero hay momentos en que está encantado está con toda la parte de publicidad que hay alrededor de ésto, aunque se enoja cuando uno le dice que está buscando publicidad”, agregó Sevcec. “El hombre hace cosas con la que uno no puede estar de acuerdo porque discrimina contra personas indocumentadas, y en genral contra hispanos. En el condado de

alguien parece hispano, se llega a la conclusiónde que es indocumentado”, concluyó Sevcec. Ya se han presentado más de 2,700 demandas contra Arpaio y se calcula que mientras el alguacil se concentra en usar a sus agentes para perseguir sospechosos de ser indocumentados, hay más de 40,000 órdenes de arresto sin atender contra criminales. Un 95% de los departamentos de policía de EEUU han optado por no participar del programa 287(g), entre otras cosas, porque creen que permitir que la policía local aplique leyes migratorias genera temor entre la comunidad que deja incluso de reportar crímenes por miedo a la policía. La semana pasada un reporte de la Oficina de Contraloría del Congreso (GAO) concluyó que la falta de controles internos en el manejo del programa 287(g) ha hecho que algunos departamentos de policía se concentren en detener migrantes por delitos menores en lugar de concentrarse en extranjeros deportables que cometen delitos graves.

Lechuga o berro ﬁnamente picaditos

Preparacion: Pele y pique el mamey y la piña, pongalos en una olla. Exprima 2 marañones y saque solo el jugo y pique el otro (marañon) y agregalo en la olla. Pique la manzana y agregue el jugo de las naranjas (Esto es para que resalte el sabor del fresco y evita que el agua se transforme negra). Agregue la fruta y la sal a toda la fruta que picastes y dejalo reposar una hora para que tome sabor. añadir la lechuga o el berro ﬁnamente picado. Luego agregale el agua. Metalo a la refrigeradora y despues gozalo en el almuerzo o cuando quera.

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12 DE MARZO, 2009

Sports

Jazz Peaking Too Soon It needs a villain. People, I am that villain. But before you jump down my throat thinking I am against the Jazz, hold it right there. I am not. I am merely a realist who 80 percent through the NBA season has come to one and simple fact. The Jazz are peaking too soon. Nobody cares about winning streaks in February or March and nobody cares about winning a division title. The only thing that matters is not only getting to June, but also winning in it. The Jazz peaking right now assures us all that they won’t. The way they’re playing right now reminds me of the Oakland Athletics who in 2002 won the American League Western Division title. In the process, they won an incredible, almost remarkable (when you consider the fact that baseball players play almost every day) 20 straight games in August and September. But lost in their winning streak was the fact they never could shake the then Anaheim

Angels who went 16-4 during that streak and eventually won the Wild Card. When the playoffs rolled around in October, it was the A’s who could never recapture that magic and wound up losing in the first round to the Minnesota Twins. As for the Angels? They got hot at the right time and as we all know now, they wound up beating the New York Yankees in the first round, the Twins in the second and eventually, they defeated Barry Bonds and San Francisco Giants in the World Series. Now that was a great story. But before you get all huffy and puffy implying that I think the Jazz season is going to wind up like the A’s and that I’m against them, I would say think again. In fact, I would argue that

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are peaking too soon and even though no professional team or player ever wants to lose a game, a loss in Atlanta tonight or one in Miami on Saturday wouldn’t be the worse thing in the world. It would give them a chance to refocus, there would be no more talk of the streak and perhaps, they can slip quietly into the playoﬀs, under the radar instead of being the ones with the big bull’s eye on their chest. Now, I can still hear you all now, saying what are they supposed to do? Lose these games? Of course not. By all accounts, the Jazz are doing the right thing. They’re playing the schedule that’s in front of them, they’re playing like a team and they’ve won 12 straight games, looking like gangbusters in the process. But if I could heed just one bit of advice to Jazz Coach Jerry Sloan and the rest of his players, it would be this. Winning games and looking like NBA champs is nice now, but could you guys save something for later? Like in June.

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the Jazz need me, the way the Lakers need the Celtics, the Yankees need the Red Sox or the way Batman needs the Joker. You get the point. One cannot be what they’re s supposed to without the existence of the other. Ever since I wrote on Feb. 5th that if the Jazz didn’t trade for Shaquille O’Neal there season would go nowhere fast, they haven’t lost. In fact, they have been playing their best basketball of the season. You see, the Jazz do need me. The more I say they’re not going anywhere fast, the faster they climb up the standings When I say they’re garbage, they end up smelling like roses. Now, I’m not doing this on purpose, I truly believe the Jazz

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Conference, a mere half game behind the Houston Rockets for third. And what’s even more incredible than their win streak or their 41-23 record or their half-game lead over the Portland Trailblazers in the Northwest Division, is the fact that when the streak began, they were in ninth place in the Western Conference, completely on the outside looking in at the playoﬀ race. Now, as many great ESPN prognosticators will tell you, nobody wants to play the Jazz in the playoﬀs and the Los Angeles Lakers and San Antonio Spurs had better watch their backs. However, for any story to truly be great, it cannot be all positive, full of nothing but wine and roses and harps playing in the background. For any story to be good, it needs somebody to root against, a vile, mean, almost evil person that’s out to destroy our heroes.

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Race Drives the War on Universal Health Care

resident Obama has heard almost all of the arguments against universal health care. One he won’t hear from opponents, the private insurers and hospitals, is that they fear having to cover and treat the millions of black and Hispanic uninsured. According to the Commonwealth Fund, blacks and Hispanics make up nearly half of the estimated 50 million Americans who have no health care insurance. They are far more likely than the one in four uninsured whites to experience problems getting treatment at a hospital or clinic. And they have fewer choices in getting health care coverage. The huge racial disparity in the number of uninsured has been a sticking point for every Democratic president since Harry Truman proposed the ﬁrst national health care plan in the late 1940s. President Obama will ﬁght the same battle against private insurers and health care providers when he dumps his proposals for universal health care on the congressional table. But the disparity in access to, and quality of, health care for minorities has fueled the crisis and the urgency for reform. A recent study by the Archives of Internal Medicine examined treatment and care for

more than 150,000 Medicare patients. It found that hospitals and insurers pay far more to care for African Americans and Hispanics near death than for whites. Researchers tossed out several theories such as cultural diﬀerences, spiritual beliefs, patients’ fears, and even family breakdown to explain

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die much younger. Studies have found that when blacks and Hispanics do receive treatment, the care they receive is more likely to be substandard than that of whites. Reports indicate that even when blacks and Hispanics are enrolled in high quality health plans, the gap in the care and quality of medical treatment still remains. Private insurers routinely cherry pick the healthiest and most financially secure patients in order to bloat profits and hold down costs. American medical providers spend twice as much per patient than providers in countries with universal health care, and they provide lower quality for the inflated bucks. Patients pay more in higher insurance premiums, co-payments, fees and other hidden health costs. At the same time, government medical insurance programs shell out more than public insurers in other countries with universal health care. The massive public attention and anger over the health crisis has caused insurers, their lobbyists and political flacks to scramble. America’s Health Insurance Plans, the major insurer industry group, recently announced that it will put its

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EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON NAM News analysis,

Private insurers routinely cherry pick the healthiest and most ﬁnancially secure patients in order to bloat proﬁts and hold down costs.

the gap in cost. Those explanations are an exercise in victim blaming. The end-of-life hospital and treatment costs for blacks and Hispanics are higher because of the decades of medical neglect and the proﬁt grabs by private medical providers. Countless studies have shown that blacks and Hispanics suﬀer higher rates of catastrophic illness and disease, and are much less likely to obtain basic drugs, tests, preventive screenings and surgeries. They are more likely to recover slower from illness, and they

considerable muscle behind health care reform. On the surface, the announcement seemed to be a major breakthrough: the industry has ﬁnally seen the light and will work with President Obama to make real health care reform a reality. But that’s not the case. The group has not softened its resistance to providing coverage to those that it labels “high risk” or, less charitably, “undesirables.” Those are the millions who suﬀer chronic and major diseases—cancer, diabetes, asthma and heart disease. Blacks and Latinos have higher incidences of these ailments than whites. Under the AHIP’s reform plan, insurers will still be free to exclude high-risk cases from coverage. The government, ostensibly, will provide coverage and pay the costs for them. But even that concession is suspect. The issue is cost and the ancient fear, or at least scare tactic, is government control of medical care. Private insurers and their lobbyists have blared that for decades to torpedo re-

form. Obama’s mere mention that he’ll impose higher taxes on the wealthy to pay for coverage of the uninsured stirred war hoops from them of deﬁcit busting and socialized medicine. They shouted that to derail Clinton’s reform plan in 1994. The battle for universal health care will again be a titanic struggle between a health care industry that has had its way for six decades and has gutted every proposal and plan for expanded health care. The arguments will be the same as always: cost, inefﬁciency, heavy-handed government control and interference. Race, of course, will never be mentioned as a reason to water down or shelve completely Obama’s plan. But, as always, it will lurk underneath. President Obama will have his hands full on this one. Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. His new book is “How Obama Won” (Middle Passage Press, January 2009).

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