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The 287(g) Program in the South
By: Daniel Nardini When the 287(g) program between the federal and state governments was started, the original purpose of the program was to inform U.S. immigration of those undocumented who… Read more
The Incredible Edible Avocado
By: Daniel Nardini Fact: Mexico grows over 40 percent of all the world’s avocados. Fact: the avocado is very nutritious and helps to clean out the blood stream. Fact: the… Read more
The Great New York Tragedy Before 9/11
By: Daniel Nardini This year marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most tragic events that have altered not only New York City but the United States. I am… Read more
A Nation of Immigrant Junk Food Junkies
By: Daniel Nardini According to a study published in the Journal of Nutrition, many Mexican immigrants and their U.S.-born children eventually adopt American-style junk food eating habits. The study surveyed… Read more
When the Dollars was as Good as Gold
By: Daniel Nardini Forty years ago in 1971, then U.S. President Richard Nixon took the United States out of the Bretton Woods Agreements. Under these agreements all countries that traded… Read more
September 11th Ten Years Later: A Personal View
By: Daniel Nardini There have been documentaries about where people were on September 11, 2001, during the Al Qaeda attacks. In my case I was at a train station waiting… Read more
The Throw Away Workers
By: Daniel Nardini Having been on the unemployment rolls myself, I know how the U.S. Labor Bureau can and does manipulate the unemployment statistics. They report the unemployment by those… Read more
Make Everyday A Labor Day
By: Daniel Nardini As we pass this year’s Labor Day, the employment numbers do not make it look like much of a holiday to celebrate. Job growth in August was… Read more
The Lost American Economic Decade
By: Daniel Nardini One has to wonder how the United States, which had almost completely eliminated its national debt in 2000, and was registering monetary surpluses, could suddenly become the… Read more
America’s Berlin Wall
By: Daniel Nardini One of the consequences of September 11th has been the building by the United States of a super border wall between America and Mexico. Probably few things… Read more »