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Open letter to readers: Today and tomorrow

By Lynda Waddington | 11.17.11

Wednesday was a difficult day for The American Independent News Network, which is the larger entity that operates The Iowa Independent. Our chief executive and founder announced two of our sister sites would close and their content would be moved to The American Independent.

ACS lockout continues; plan emerges to repeal sugar protections

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By Virginia Chamlee | 11.15.11

A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.

Cain campaign: Farmers know more about regulations than EPA

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By Andrew Duffelmeyer | 11.15.11

The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.

Mathis wins, Democrats maintain Senate control

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By Lynda Waddington | 11.08.11

The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.

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PR: Nation should work to address veterans’ challenges

By Press Release Reprints | 11.11.11

BRUCE BRALEY RELEASE — As US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan ends, it’s more important than ever that our nation works to address the challenges faced by the men and women who fought there.

PR: Honoring veterans, help in hiring

By Press Release Reprints | 11.11.11

CHUCK GRASSLEY RELEASE — A difficult job market is challenging the soldiers, sailors and airmen who have protected America’s interests by serving in the Armed Forces.

PR: In honor of America’s veterans

By Press Release Reprints | 11.11.11

TOM LATHAM RELEASE — No one has done more to secure the freedom enjoyed by every single American than our veterans and those currently serving in the armed services.

PR: Honoring and supporting our nation’s veterans

By Press Release Reprints | 11.11.11

DAVE LOEBSACK RELEASE — Veterans Day is an opportunity to reflect on the service of generations of veterans and to honor the sacrifices they and their families have made so that we may live in peace and freedom here at home.

Richardson: “My Blood Boils” Over “Ugly” Immigration Questions

By Garance Franke-Ruta | 08.15.07 | 11:34 am

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson opened up about his personal dislike of the present immigration debate in front of an audience of Iowa Hispanics yesterday.

“I don’t like the immigration debate,” Richardson told a meeting of the Heritage of Latino Americans (HOLA) Wells Fargo affinity group at the Wells Fargo campus in West Des Moines, adding that he gets questions about what he would do about immigration “everywhere I go in this country.”

“Deep down, I sense they’re asking, that’s a Hispanic governor on the border. I hope he’s not going to open up the border,” he said. “Today at the Iowa State Fair, someone said to me, ‘You’re pretty tall to be a Mexican.’” 

Richardson, who was born in California but raised in Mexico and the U.S., interspersed his English-language remarks with the occasional sentence in Spanish.

“My blood boils when I get these questions,” said. “Deport them. Get them out of here….What we have seen is some ugly threads.”

Richardson urged tolerance — “Nobody should be demonized” — and again praised Sen. John McCain for his “courageous” leadership in putting together the spring’s failed immigration bill with Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts. “He did the right thing,” said Richardson.

Comments

  • Naughten

    AMNESTY CONSIDERATIONS AMNESTY CONSIDERATIONS
    It is very economically advantageous to use cheap Mexican seasonal agricultural guest workers; it is very socially and economically disadvantageous to let them stay after the crop is harvested. When seasonal guest workers do return to Mexico at end of the growing season, they return with money and experience, to contribute to the development of Mexico; and each year, when a new group of seasonal guest workers comes, they are eager to work for the same low non-citizen wages.
    When the seasonal guest workers come from all of the countries of Latin America, on a strict quota system, then every country benefits, not Mexico exclusively; and when they are well treated guest workers, the experience is mutually positive.
    When season guest workers return to Mexico at end of the growing season, they do not drive down the wages of American workers, by competing for low paying jobs in landscaping, construction, sanitation, and housekeeping; and they do not use American governmental social services. Mexico is land very rich in natural resources; what makes it so socially and economically retarded are its Mexican People; and wherever they immigrate they bring their deplorable civilization with them – it is so deplorable than none of them want to return to it. The Mexican dream of regaining political control over Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California is America’s worst nightmare. Starting at all of the border towns, and spreading northward throughout America, like cancers, are thousands of deplorable Mexican neighborhoods. With each deportation America looks, smells, and sounds less like socially and economically deplorable Mexico. America is presently occupied by over 12 million aliens, mostly Mexicans.
    With the deportation of all the illegal immigrants, students will again be able to get good paying summer jobs, to learn responsibility and earn their way through college; blue-collar wages will rise; border towns will not be slums; Spanish will not be a second language;crime will go down; hospitals and prisons will not be overcrowded.
    When all of the illegal aliens are deported, the Leftist Democrats and Neo-Conservative Republicans will lose millions of political supporters and the large sums of money that they receive from the Mexican Lobby. American businesses that exploit cheap Mexican labor will their lose their illegal competitive advantages.
    No advanced civilization in the World can coexist side by side with a retarded civilization, without a great wall or fence, strict guest labor laws, and armed border guards.

  • adabell

    My blood boils too It is sad but clear that Richardson is more concerned about his own ethnic group then he is about the welfare of our country.  Maybe that makes my blood boil.  He  was raised in California where the Mexican flag is being raised in many neighborhood with the US flag hung upside down.  The Mexican government allows Mexicans with US citizenship dual citizenship so they can also vote in Mexico.  The Mexican president says that anywhere there is a person with Mexican ancestry there is Mexico. 
    Clearly illegal immigration has changed the US quality of life where areas of our country look ore like a third world country then the US.  We have been importing Mexico’s poverty and paying for it dearly, in our schools, in our hospitals, with our tax dollars,  with criminal gangs, and with depressed wages. 
    By the way, does Richardson have dual citizenship?

  • adabell

    My blood boils too It is sad but clear that Richardson is more concerned about his own ethnic group then he is about the welfare of our country.  Maybe that makes my blood boil.  He  was raised in California where the Mexican flag is being raised in many neighborhood with the US flag hung upside down.  The Mexican government allows Mexicans with US citizenship dual citizenship so they can also vote in Mexico.  The Mexican president says that anywhere there is a person with Mexican ancestry there is Mexico. 
    Clearly illegal immigration has changed the US quality of life where areas of our country look ore like a third world country then the US.  We have been importing Mexico’s poverty and paying for it dearly, in our schools, in our hospitals, with our tax dollars,  with criminal gangs, and with depressed wages. 
    By the way, does Richardson have dual citizenship?

  • Naughten

    AMNESTY CONSIDERATIONS AMNESTY CONSIDERATIONS

    It is very economically advantageous to use cheap Mexican seasonal agricultural guest workers; it is very socially and economically disadvantageous to let them stay after the crop is harvested. When seasonal guest workers do return to Mexico at end of the growing season, they return with money and experience, to contribute to the development of Mexico; and each year, when a new group of seasonal guest workers comes, they are eager to work for the same low non-citizen wages.

    When the seasonal guest workers come from all of the countries of Latin America, on a strict quota system, then every country benefits, not Mexico exclusively; and when they are well treated guest workers, the experience is mutually positive.

    When season guest workers return to Mexico at end of the growing season, they do not drive down the wages of American workers, by competing for low paying jobs in landscaping, construction, sanitation, and housekeeping; and they do not use American governmental social services. Mexico is land very rich in natural resources; what makes it so socially and economically retarded are its Mexican People; and wherever they immigrate they bring their deplorable civilization with them – it is so deplorable than none of them want to return to it. The Mexican dream of regaining political control over Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California is America's worst nightmare. Starting at all of the border towns, and spreading northward throughout America, like cancers, are thousands of deplorable Mexican neighborhoods. With each deportation America looks, smells, and sounds less like socially and economically deplorable Mexico. America is presently occupied by over 12 million aliens, mostly Mexicans.

    With the deportation of all the illegal immigrants, students will again be able to get good paying summer jobs, to learn responsibility and earn their way through college; blue-collar wages will rise; border towns will not be slums; Spanish will not be a second language;crime will go down; hospitals and prisons will not be overcrowded.

    When all of the illegal aliens are deported, the Leftist Democrats and Neo-Conservative Republicans will lose millions of political supporters and the large sums of money that they receive from the Mexican Lobby. American businesses that exploit cheap Mexican labor will their lose their illegal competitive advantages.

    No advanced civilization in the World can coexist side by side with a retarded civilization, without a great wall or fence, strict guest labor laws, and armed border guards.

  • adabell

    My blood boils too It is sad but clear that Richardson is more concerned about his own ethnic group then he is about the welfare of our country.  Maybe that makes my blood boil.  He  was raised in California where the Mexican flag is being raised in many neighborhood with the US flag hung upside down.  The Mexican government allows Mexicans with US citizenship dual citizenship so they can also vote in Mexico.  The Mexican president says that anywhere there is a person with Mexican ancestry there is Mexico. 

    Clearly illegal immigration has changed the US quality of life where areas of our country look ore like a third world country then the US.  We have been importing Mexico's poverty and paying for it dearly, in our schools, in our hospitals, with our tax dollars,  with criminal gangs, and with depressed wages. 

    By the way, does Richardson have dual citizenship?

  • adabell

    My blood boils too It is sad but clear that Richardson is more concerned about his own ethnic group then he is about the welfare of our country.  Maybe that makes my blood boil.  He  was raised in California where the Mexican flag is being raised in many neighborhood with the US flag hung upside down.  The Mexican government allows Mexicans with US citizenship dual citizenship so they can also vote in Mexico.  The Mexican president says that anywhere there is a person with Mexican ancestry there is Mexico. 

    Clearly illegal immigration has changed the US quality of life where areas of our country look ore like a third world country then the US.  We have been importing Mexico's poverty and paying for it dearly, in our schools, in our hospitals, with our tax dollars,  with criminal gangs, and with depressed wages. 

    By the way, does Richardson have dual citizenship?

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