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Politics : ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION THE FIGHT TO KEEP OUR DEMOCRACY -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KLP who wrote (1471)	3/6/2007 4:52:47 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 3197

Border Film Project: Migrant and Minutemen Photos from the U.S.-Mexico Border (Hardcover) by Rudy Adler (Author), Victoria Criado (Author) amazon.com Editorial Reviews Book Description Every year, thousands of undocumented migrants attempt to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, and every year, the Minutemen, a volunteer group of citizens who patrol the border, try to stop them. As the debate over immigration became increasingly fierce and polarized, three friends came up with an ingenious idea to both clarify and humanize the complexities of the issue. For three months, Rudy Adler, Victoria Criado, and Brett Huneycutt distributed hundreds of disposable cameras, along with the means of returning them, to migrants and Minutemen so they could document their own journeys. The friends received over two thousand photographs that present both sides of the issue—and reveal the harsh realities on the ground. Capturing images from both sides of the border, Border Film Project tells the stories that no news piece, policy debate, or academic study could possibly convey. *About the Author* Rudy Adler graduated from the University of Arizona with degrees in Finance and Entrepreneurship. He lives in New York.

To: KLP who wrote (1471)	3/8/2007 9:37:57 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3197

Latinos land 2 in 3 U.S. construction jobs WASHINGTON, March 7 (UPI) -- Latinos make up 13.6 percent of the U.S. employment population, but accounted for 36.7 percent of the 2006 U.S. employment growth, a study showed Wednesday. Most of the jobs Hispanic workers landed were in the construction industry, the Pew Hispanic Center said. In fact, two out of every three new U.S. constriction jobs went to Hispanic workers, the center said. Hispanic employment increased by almost 1 million from 2005 to 2006, with foreign-born Latinos who arrived since 2000 responsible for about 24 percent of the total U.S. employment increase. Undocumented immigrants accounted for about two-thirds of the increase in recently arrived Hispanic workers, the center estimated. The center derived its estimates from Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census Bureau data, it said.