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Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, February 22, 2007

UA brings back speaker from Mexico

Human rights talk last year disrupted by protesters
CLAUDINE LoMONACO
Published: 02.22.2007

An official with Mexico's National Human Rights Commission will return to the University of Arizona a year after members of an anti-illegal immigration group forced him to cancel a talk because he was speaking Spanish.

Members of Border Guardians disrupted a talk by Mexican Human Rights Inspector Mauricio Farah Gebara at the University Services Annex last spring when they demanded that the university provide an interpreter or that Farah speak English. When university officials explained that the talk was planned and advertised in Spanish, the protesters prevented Farah from speaking by telling him to "go back to Mexico," according to several witnesses.

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