Bowing to anti-immigation pressure yesterday, the Bush Admin announced that US employers now have 90 days to clear up worker social security numbers that don’t match with the government’s database. After that, employers who don’t fire out-of-status workers will face criminal sanctions. So will employees. According a guy I know in the Mexico state San [...]
Read MoreI’m doing some work in Mexico and just got back from buying a comb at the Wal-Mart in San Luis Potosi. A report in the US press recently noted that Mexico Wal-mart, which I think is that country’s largest employer, uses merchandise baggers who work for no salary, no wages, no benefits: nothing except tips. [...]
Read MoreIt looks like I’ll not be eating my cachucha (meaning hat, for those without the time to email “Ask a Mexican”). According to today’s Las Cruces Sun News, that Joint Terrorism Task Force report about Iraqis smuggled across the border, which I wrote about yesterday, is most likely utter mierda. It turns out the “intelligence” [...]
Read MoreShare var addthis_pub = \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’abcnews\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’; Oh my goodness — Iraqis smuggled through our southern border! The FBI says so. ABC does, too. It sounds real! But so does the story of that poor woman in the 1980s who shampooed her little dog then put it in the microwave to dry off, and you know the [...]
Read MoreKooler than Kahlo? “Whorehouse: Pseudo-journalists at a good price” Zócalo, July 2007 Did Frida Kahlo have spinal bifida? Does correctly guessing the Mexican left’s future lie in parsing its gusto for Canal-Street-style trinkets? Tune in, folks — below. First, Frida’s medical problems. A New York Times story today about the artist’s current exhibit at Mexico [...]
Read MoreMcAllen Chamber president calls for wall around nation’s capital James Osborne June 19, 2007 – 4:56PM McALLEN — What do you do when the federal government announces it’s going to build a large, metal fence through your community and there’s nothing you can do to stop it? Write your members of Congress, complain on talk [...]
Read MoreLast week I was lucky to be doing some business in Chicago during the city’s annual blues festival. At a Jazz Record Mart party on Sunday morning – where bands played inside the store – I spotted what appears to be a new trend: old blues musicians dressed as Texans. Or, more precisely, Texicans. “What’s [...]
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