Politics and religion sometimes make strange bedfellows. In this case, self-interest makes for more rational thought.
Utah Paper’s Stance on Immigrants Causes Clash - NYTimes.com: "The News’s push for a more liberal embrace of undocumented immigrants has led to a collision between its editorial mission and its conservative, mostly Mormon, readers. But if this issue seems to stray from the reliably conservative politics of The News, that may be in part because it is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Hispanics are the most populous minority group in the country — and they represent a vast potential constituency for the Mormon church"Sept. 19, 2010
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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