Jorge Castañeda, foreign minister of Mexico from 2000 until 2003 writes in the Los Angeles Times Online Newspaper: Mexican immigration does have distinctive traits that do make difficult, if not impossible, the automatic assimilation that characterized previous waves of immigration. This is not a question of lack of will; it is a matter of history. That is why the United States must make a major effort to construct a new type of assimilation that is both voluntary and effective. The legalization of Mexican workers and their families, a constant and energetic battle to fight discrimination against Mexicans and a concerted effort to ease the road to citizenship are some of the essential features of such an effort. Samuel Huntington, a Harvard political science professor, has made the claim that the United States is threatened because of the masses of Mexican immigrants are not assimilating into mainstream American society. Orange County Latinos, predominantly of Mexican stock are at ground zero fof this debate. There are of course, also some workers trends and employment issues. For more employment news and worker related headlines this is en excellent resource overall.
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