U.S.: there will be a massive mobilization of immigrants

On 1 May, Labour Day, although the United States has its own celebration in September this year will capitalize on the fury of immigrants and their fight for immigration reform that would legalize the over 10 million illegal immigrants in the country. Cities like Los Angeles ( California), and Dallas (Texas), the two states with the largest part of the Latino community in the U.S., expect demonstrations of over 100,000 people, police said. In Los Angeles The Police Department reported that not question their immigration status on the demonstrators and to prepare a great safety device to prevent incidents of May Day 2007, when clashes between officers and demonstrators.

Other large cities like Chicago and Washington, DC prepared rallies and marches with political leaders in the second one against the White House. But frustration growing Hispanic and immigrant community will epicenter Phoenix, capital of Arizona, where in three months to enter into force a law that makes illegal immigration a felony.

In this southern border state, local police may ask the immigration status of anyone who looks “suspicious”, a function assigned only to agents of the federal government, and penalized those who carry or give work to an illegal immigrant.

The harshness of the law of Arizona, criticized even outside U.S. borders is, in fact, the great stimulant for a debate on immigration reform seemed dead until a couple of weeks. Arizona served to aggregate back to the immigrant community and their advocates with a barrage of condemnation communicated from pro-immigrant organizations, human rights defenders, governments in Latin America the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Colombian artists like Shakira, Ricky Martin or Linda Ronstan Mexican-American. Law wrong. The U.S. President, Barack Obama, called the Arizona law as “wrong,” examines whether the measure is1000unconstitutional and whether it should be challenged in court. The lawsuits by civil and religious organizations have joined campaigns and solidarity in the state and stop collecting signatures for a referendum law. The wave of protests, even got Congressional lawmakers approved changes to Arizona law to specify the prohibition of race as a factor in identifying illegal immigrants by police. polemic But neither this law nor the urgency and insistence of pro-immigrant groups, get immigration reform into the political agenda of Republicans and Democrats, who avoid this thorny issue at the approach of November”s congressional elections. Read more »

Free dental implants to patients from suburban hospital

It will be the first time this pilot called “Social Implants” takes place in a provincial hospital where dental service professionals selected eight patients to start treatment. The program Provincial Health Division Oral Health Ministry aims to lower total edentulous persons who lack social work and are not likely to use conventional dentures. These patients have atrophied lower jaw by bone resorption, caused as a result of the time they were without teeth and that afford this kind of treatment in the private sector demands an investment of between 3 and 4000 pesos. “With this kind of initiatives aimed at erasing the old stigma of dental services in hospitals are only “tooth-puller #39 and turn them into repair of teeth, which are in good oral health care the beginning of a proper diet,” said Onativia Hospital Director, Francisco Grosso. Over the past year, a total of 15 000 persons were treated in serving the dental hospital, and 30 percent of those consultations accounted for edentulous patients (who have infections and sickness in your gums).e14 The team of the Service, in charge of the dentist Adriana Marzano, is in the selection stage the eight patients who received the implant, who in the first part will undergo a preoperative clinical screening. Read more »