Hey, what's one more omission when you are pushing an agenda, 'eh?
"With cash incentives, they save for college; Benefactor aids Hispanic families" by James Vaznis, Globe Staff | March 17, 2009
LYNN - Often a philanthropist's donation begins and ends with the writing of a check, for scholarships, college tuition, or endowed chairs.
But Bob Hildreth, a Boston investment banker and longtime immigrant rights activist, is asking for something in return as part of his effort to help Hispanic students from Lynn pay for some college expenses.
Now this is a front-page piece about education, and ONCE AGAIN the DIVISIVE, AGENDA-PUSHING GLOBE has to SEPARATE PEOPLE by ANY MEANS NECESSARY!!
How about FREE EDUCATION and HEALTH CARE for ALL, rather than PITTING US AGAINST EACH OTHER while TRILLIONS go for WARS and BANK BAILOUTS??
And in all fairness, I had not yet attached this to the issue of illegal immigration
He is offering to put aside $50 a month for each student enrolled in his La Vida Scholars program, if they or their parents do the same. It's a strategy designed to encourage a greater appreciation for higher education and an increased focus on saving money for college....
Which I'm not knocking; however, where are the programs for our own kids whose schools are being raked as tax money is shoveled out of this state with the illegal immigrants still getting outlays for services?
Remember these?
The State Budget Swindle
Governor Guts State Services
Pigs at the State Trough
A Slow Saturday Special: Statehouse Slush Fund
Hollywood S***s on Massachusetts
Start calling back and cutting there first!
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Setting aside the monthly savings can be financially difficult for some families, "but the program makes it easier," Rigoberto Tercero, whose son is in the program, said speaking through an interpreter.You know, I'm starting to get the illegals, agenda-pushing feeling....
La Vida Scholars, a year-old program designed to help Latino students prepare for and apply to colleges, is one of Hildreth's latest efforts to help the state's Latino community.
Now I admit, it could be legal Latinos at this point; however, the next sentence exploded that doubt.
Two years ago, he adopted a similar strategy of shared responsibility when he helped bail out undocumented immigrants taken into custody after a federal raid of a New Bedford leather goods factory. Although he put up more than $200,000 of his own money, in each case a family member covered a portion of the bail.
Related: Illegal Employers Avoid Prison Time
Now I understand the Globe's placement of the hero worshiping, agenda-pushing article.
Now, the college savings and bail programs could be expanded to other states through the creation of the Foundation for an Open America, which Hildreth is setting up on Boylston Street in Boston. Hildreth, a Roman Catholic who tried a career as a teacher twice, became interested in Hispanic causes while working for the International Monetary Fund in Bolivia in the 1970s. He later traded bonds in that region during the 1980s and 1990s.
Oh, look! And agenda-pushing hero featured on the front-page of the Boston Globe that made dough keeping the people of Central and South America down for corporate profit.
La Vida Scholars is an outgrowth of La Vida Inc., a nonprofit that Hildreth and St. Joseph Church in Lynn started about a decade ago to improve the academic success of the city's Hispanic students. Nearly half of the 13,300 students in the Lynn public schools are Hispanic. St. Joseph, a Catholic church with approximately 2,000 Latino members, sought out Hildreth because of his previous support of schools in Chelsea, another city with a large Latino population. Why must the
As in many other Bay State communities, Latinos in Lynn struggle to finish high school. Last year's four-year graduation rate for them was 66 percent - about 15 percentage points below the overall state average. Hildreth is hoping to help more Latinos complete high school and go on to colleges....
I'm all for that, although I wish our schools didn't teach brainwashing, inculcating, indoctrinating lies, but.... why must the Globe constantly break us up by race, gender, whatever?
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The savings plan, said 43-year-old Gerardo Almonte, who works the overnight shift at Logan Airport, will leave less money available to send to the Dominican Republic, where his father, a retired police officer, and other family members live. Whenever Almonte can, he tries to send $50 or $100....
Not that I want people there to be be poor; however, that is MORE MONEY REMOVED from OUR LOCAL ECONOMY -- just like what a Wal-Mart would do!
Because many immigrant parents never went college themselves, the process of choosing, applying to, and paying for higher education is largely foreign to them, immigrant advocates say....
Welcome to AmeriKa (second article down): Rich Kid, Poor Kid
The program also offers monthly workshops for parents to learn about a variety of topics pertaining to college preparation, while a parent advisory board is developing guidelines for proper usage of the saved money. The bank accounts, which are in the program's name, will not be used for tuition but for activities that can enrich the college experience, such as tutoring, computers, and study abroad programs.
Need I even type it?
"My parents didn't know how expensive college was," said Tracy Aguila, a Lynn Classical junior. "They thought it was like high school - free."
It SHOULD BE, what with the TRILLIONS we are WASTING on WARS and BANKS!!!!!
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Now did you see the word illegal in there? Globe danced all around, but that could just be a mistake, right? Wrong!
"Care for detained migrants criticized; Groups say health needs not met" by Jennifer Kay, Associated Press | March 18, 2009
MIAMI - US immigration authorities routinely delay, deny, or botch medical care for immigrants in detention, according to separate reports by two advocacy groups released yesterday.
NO ONE would be denied medical care in my world. So stuff the racist charge!
Also see U.S. Hospitals Dump Uninsured Immigrants
Human Rights Watch and the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center said immigrants detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement routinely receive inadequate medical care in poorly equipped facilities nationwide.
That's the same thing we have; how come the paper doesn't care about American citizens?
They attribute the problems to unskilled or indifferent staff, crowding, bureaucratic red tape, language barriers, and limited services available to detainees. The groups contend that many medical problems could be avoided if the agency did not lock up people who are elderly, have health issues, or lack criminal records.
How come that's good for immigrants and ILLEGALS, but not the American people?
Advocates argue that alternatives to detention, like requirements to check in by phone or in person, are more humane and cost taxpayers as little as $12 a day, compared with $95 a day to keep someone in immigration custody.
Yeah, except for the Illegal Immigrant Imprisonment Industry
And since when did the pro-illegals crowd care about the American taxpapayer or worker?
"ICE needlessly detains people with severe illnesses and those who pose no harm to US communities. Doing so drives up ICE costs even as the agency provides increasingly inadequate medical and mental health care to those in its custody," said Cheryl Little, FIAC's executive director.
Are they breaking the law?
ICE detained more than 300,000 people in fiscal year 2007, with a daily average of nearly 30,000. Most were held in state and county jails under contracts with ICE. Some detainees are held for months, even years, though ICE says the average time is 31 days.
The agency responded that its Division of Immigration Health Services gives detainees general and emergency healthcare, dental, chronic, and mental health care. "ICE is committed to providing all detainees in our care with humane and safe detention environments and ensuring that adequate medical services are provided to all in our care with timely and appropriate treatment, to the tune of nearly $100 million annually," ICE spokeswoman Nicole Navas said.
Translation: government is mistreating them.
Current and former detainees around the country complained that medical staff at ICE facilities routinely violated their standards in areas including continuity of care, quick response to medical complaints, informing inmates about the availability of services and providing medical screenings and follow-up care.
Sounds like any patient in the U.S health care system.
Female detainees particularly suffered because routine reproductive health issues failed to receive adequate attention in a system that emphasized emergency care and treating conditions that might affect a detainee's deportation status, according to Human Rights Watch.
What's that feeling on my heart strings? Oh, agenda-pushing plucking.
Women told the group's researchers that they had been shackled while pregnant, missed appointments for mammograms and Pap smears, or failed to receive prenatal care while in immigration custody.
Now THAT is going WAT TOO FAR, gummint!!!!
"This overall approach, as well as specific restrictions on Pap smears, hormonal contraception, and access to specialist care, undermined the health of a number of women," according to the Human Rights Watch report.
Now if only they cared so much about OUR OWN KIDS here, huh?
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And that word was still missing, wasn't it? What is it they say? One, two, three strikes you're out?
.... The program will have a student-teacher ratio that will not exceed 15-to-1, significantly better than most city schools and that the students will receive a more individually styled education....
Seriously, why are ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TREATED BETTER than OUR OWN KIDS?
"The biggest challenge for many of these students is helping them make the very big adjustment of living and learning in a new country," said Nydia Méndez, director of the Newcomers Academy, which is modeled after similar programs in New York City. "They all arrive with zero English and different academic levels."
Many of the students come from hardscrabble backgrounds and require help.
One student from El Salvador, who said he had several friends killed by gangs there, is now working nights at
Look, I don't want these kids suffering anymore than the next guy; however, what are the root causes of their suffering and why they are here? U.S. policies that serve globalists and greed, not people. And if you are going to fund them, why not fund our kids, too?
For Isamar Mejia, the hardest part may be adjusting to the cold. On her first day in the program, she got caught wearing sandals in a snowstorm and fainted from the frost. A teacher had to buy her socks, tights, and a hat. On a recent assignment to learn the names of produce items at a nearby supermarket, which included a long walk in the cold, Mejia shivered as she showed off the English she had learned in the previous two months....
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