Mexican military holds border agent at gunpoint
By Linda Bentley | August 6, 2008
TUCSON – Local 2544 posted an i
nitial report on its website stating a Tucson Sector Border Patrol agent was held at gunpoint by the Mexican military on Sunday night south of Ajo.
Representing all non-supervisory agents, Local 2544 of the National Border Patrol Council is the largest union local and represents the busiest sector of the Border Patrol.
The post states, “While we're certain that some managers within the DHS and the President of Mexico will find a way to blame the Border Patrol agent, we would like to point out that the agent was in the United States, doing his job. Mexican military personnel crossed over the border and pointed rifles at him. Backup units arrived from the Ajo Border Patrol station, and the Mexican military personnel eventually returned to Mexico.”
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Independence Day Mayor Phil Gordon style
By Linda Bentley | August 6, 2008
Employees permitted to support but not oppose
PHOENIX – An article ran in a Phoenix newspaper on Independence Day titled, “Recall effort proceeds without employees’ signatures,” stating, “City Attorney Gary Verburg has instructed employees that they are not allowed to sign the recall petitions being circulated by American Citizens United,” the political action committee running the recall effort to oust Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon.
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Cultivating second-class citizens
By Linda Bentley | August 6, 2008
‘Hispanics aren’t a monolithic group as many seem to believe …’
SPRINGFIELD, VA – English First (www.englishfirst.org), a national nonprofit, grassroots, lobbying organization, was founded in 1986 to make English America’s official language, give every child the chance to learn English and eliminate costly and ineffective multilingual policies.
The English First Foundation was established in 1991 to study the significance of the use of English in the United States, and to educate the public about the importance of preserving English as the nation’s common language.
A recent English First Foundation Issue Brief, by Executive Director Jim Boulet, Jr. titled, “Multiculturalism, Ethnocentrism and Afrocentric Religion (http://www.englishfirstfoundation.org/Afrocentrism2008_brief.pdf), begins, “While the 1960s are remembered by some as a rare quest for racial unity and inclusion, the facts are otherwise, at least in the context of education, where division seized the American classroom in the name of student self-esteem.”
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