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With Documentary, Eva Longoria Advocates for Child Laborers
By not in system - AOL NewsGUADALAJARA, Mexico -- Eva Longoria says she wants to be the voice of thousands of silent children working in deplorable conditions around the world. The "Desperate Housewives" star is the executive producer for "Harvest," a documentary that follows three migrant boys as they work 14-hour days in U.S. fields along the border with Mexico. Longoria says she wants "to be the voice of these children no one listens to." The 36-year-old actress attended the documentary's premiere at Mexico's Guadalajara International Film Festival on Saturday. She says she has been an activist since long ...
Chinese Census Trouble: Up to 200M Might Have Gone Uncounted
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Nov. 1) -- There are a whole lot of people in China. Maybe not quite as many as Stephen Colbert said attended his rally on Saturday, but still nothing to sneeze at. Exactly how many, however, is a sticking point: The world's largest autocracy historically has had a notoriously difficult time documenting its gigantic, shifting population across the vast swathes of land. Now, for the first time in a decade, they're going to try again. The 2000 Chinese census put the official population at just under 1.3 billion, but authorities were especially challenged by the country's migrant worker ...
Colbert's Congressional Appearance Is Over, But Don't Forget the Migrant Workers
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 1) -- Many have expressed umbrage at comedian Stephen Colbert appearing -- largely in character -- before a congressional panel to discuss migrant farmworkers. But of course his celebrity status brought attention, however briefly, to the plight of these farmworkers, many of whom are illegal immigrants. And his most salient point was made out of character, when he said: I like talking about people who don't have any power, and it seems like one of the least powerful people in the United States are migrant workers who come and do our work but don't have any rights as a result. But yet we ...
Was Plane Baby's Migrant Mother a Victim, Too?
By Jonathan Adams - AOL News
TAIPEI, Taiwan (Sept. 19) -- The sensational case of a Filipina migrant worker who gave birth on a flight from the Middle East and dumped her newborn in the trash highlights broader problems facing migrant workers, activists say. The case gripped the Philippines and global media in recent days, after plane-cleaning staff found a baby in the trashcan of a Gulf Air flight from Bahrain to Manila. On the Internet, outrage over the mother's behavior was mixed with Facebook cooing over the baby -- dubbed George Francis for the airline's flight code, GF -- and offers to adopt if the mother didn't ...
Investigation Begins Into Bodies Thought to Be Mexican Investigators
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Sept. 8) -- Two bodies found in Mexico's Tamaulipas state may be the state and local officials who were investigating the August massacre of 72 migrants. Jaime Suarez Roberto Vazquez, the deputy public investigator, and Juan Carlos Suarez Sanchez, secretary of public safety, have been missing since Aug. 24, according to UPI. Identifying documents were found with the bodies near the town of San Fernando on Tuesday, but authorities were running DNA tests to confirm the suspicions. Vazquez was one of the first people to find the 72 bodies at an abandoned ranch in the northeastern Mexican state ...
Israel Criticized for Ruling on Illegal Immigrant Kids
By Matthew Kalman - AOL NewsJERUSALEM (Aug. 2) -- After more than a year of heated debate, the Israeli government has reached a compromise on whether to expel some 1,200 children of illegal foreign workers and their families, or allow them to remain in the only country most of them have known. But the government's decision to allow 800 of the children to stay and subject 400 to possible deportation was widely described as a fudge that fails to resolve a touchy issue. The controversy has highlighted growing illegal immigration into Israel, a tiny country of just 7.6 million people. Last year about 10,000 people entered ...
Bush Quietly Rewriting Immigration Rules
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Bush Administration has begun reviewing the rules for admission of migrant farm workers in anticipation of the 2008 growing season, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. The effort has been undertaken quietly, in a conscious effort by the administration to keep tempers in its conservative base from flaring, much as they did during the comprehensive immigration reform battles from earlier this year. ...
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