A Break in the Remittance Campaign Comes from the Somalian Hawala Crisis!

ACORN International Remittances

New Orleans   ACORN International’s Remittance Justice Campaign has begun to pick up steam.  A private member’s bill to cap rates has now been introduced in Queen’s Park for the Ontario provincial government.  Similar efforts are being pushed in British Columbia and later this year legislators have committed to introducing measures in Honduras and perhaps …

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Ripping off Mexican & Caribbean Migrant Workers in Canada

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Buenos Aires One of the flash points in the USA immigration reform debate continues to be over the demand from farmers for help in their fields from migrant agricultural workers.  Recently  they left the Republican (and Obama Administration) consensus in droves as US-farmer organizations and Congresspeople bridled at the fact that employers, i.e. farmers, would …

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Vote “Mobs”

ACORN International Canada

New Orleans We read daily about another global democratic “spring,” and we actually have an election nearby in Canada.  Some of you are stifling a yawn!, but it’s an important election particularly if another country can be pulled back from the conservative abyss through a timely realignment.  One of the most interesting tidbits emerging out …

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