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Maps in Tijuana

The opening of the Changing Boundaries map exhibit has been posted on the CECUT web site.  You can help me a bit by going to the link and liking it on Facebook.  Do it now. If you are in the San Diego area this Friday night come across the border for a pretty cool bi-cultural event. http://www.cecut.gob.mx/article/2312 To see this announcement on the CECUT website is pretty exciting.  I have taken a collection of maps that I made 20 years ago and over the last… Read More »Maps in Tijuana

Goepolitical Thinking III

“The American example is our most powerful export.” Marco Rubio, US Senator Senator Rubio was speaking to the Federalist Society when he made the above remark.  We as a nation are going to have to refocus on making this an opportunity society.  Not by having more programs and tzars, as some on the left propose, but by having a well regulated and transparent marketplace and keeping the governments small. One measure of if our example is working is whether people are trying to move here. … Read More »Goepolitical Thinking III

Capirotada

Capirotada is a book about Nogales written by Alberto Rios.  Capirotada is also a Mexican bread pudding.  Read the book and you will learn about food and the border and immigrants. Here is my review on Amazon: Capirotada is a special book.  Its simplicity moved me and the small stories that it told helped me feel how Nogales was in the 1950’s and 60’s.  I usually find memoirs to be too orderly for literature and to self-serving for nonfiction. This one is different.  Rios’s memoir… Read More »Capirotada

Map Exhibit to Close

The border map exhibit at the University of San Diego  is closing this week.  It has been one of the most successful project I’ve been involved in about immigration so I’m working hard to get a new venue in LA or Arizona. Thanks to Charles Pope and the entire staff at the Trans-Border Institute at USD for helping make it such a success.

I Love Migrants

A new organization in the UK has put together an excellent fact sheet about immigration.  You can go directly to the I Love Migrants site . Or cut and paste this link: http://ilovemigrants.wordpress.com/i%E2%99%A5home/ An exerpt:   “Migrants will look after the old: Only through migration will there be enough young people to look after the elderly.” read more In reality the presentation of facts will only work to convince those with open minds.  Most minds are made up already and dismiss facts that don’t confirm… Read More »I Love Migrants