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Volume 10
NEWS
2001 28
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— Understanding
and culture is a basic yet in reaching out to immigrants as people who wish to call the United States home, said members of a panel addressing a statewide conference on essential
Catholics share faith,
ordains nine
new bishops ...
Page
15
immigration.
statewide conference works with Hispanic family members
"The bad economic situation in most of the Latin American countries has forced
social security.
gathered experts in the
the people to leave the land there because
The panel members said a strong family connection exists in Hispanic
not able to support them anymore," Father Brant said. "A Mexican worker here can earn in one day what he earns in
expensive and often dangerous ways of bringing their families into the United
of govern-
fields
ment, law, religion, industry and education to ponder practical solutions for improving in
it's
experience with those they serve, they
Mexico. As long as you have going to be coming here." The panel discussed topics that included the basic needs, expectations and desires of immigrants who come here.
encounter a wide variety of people who hunger for a sense of home, job security
the Hispanic advocacy organization Vin-
and
culo Hispano, said documentation
During "Latinos
two weeks
their panel presentation
North Carolina," four
in
advocates for Hispanics said in their daily
social belonging.
And work
Those with
immigration influx at survival from financial ruin in their homeland.
an immigration system that has been
News
Experts ponder
Governor's Hispanic/Latino Advisory Council and the North Carolina Legal Immigration Coalition March 16 in Greensboro. The statewide conference
place for nearly a half-century.
Local
whom they
while the people with
are varied in their backgrounds and
experiences, the panelists said
immi-
all
grants to this country share in a
common
in
that, they're
liana Dubester, executive director of
is
part of
dream for a better life. 'They are making a leap of faith
Hispanics'
thread of hopes, expectations and needs.
little
"We are a very different many different countries,"
allowed to stay here," said Dubester,
honored at
...
Page 7
people from said
one-to-one on such issues as healthcare and
and many workers are finding
culture,
For many immidream will always
States to be with them.
grants, they said, the
include being in Latin America, though
conditions force "I
who
them
doesn't
new homes. an immigrant
to find
don't think there
is
dream of going home and
sharing what they accomplished in their life,"
said
Pomerans.
'(But) their plans are
whole family having a job, for giving their
for here, for establishing their
that
one day, perhaps, they will be doing everything that they are doing now, only with a
disabilities
Mass
the Diocese of Charlotte
faith
step
The state's first Legal Immigration Forum was hosted by the North Carolina
Pope
in
they are as a diverse people of family,
community,
Irish
Western North Carolina
in
JIMMY ROSTAR
Associate Editor
i
& H E R A L D
here, for
children the best possible education."
Dr. H. Nolo Martinez, director of
piece of paper that says that they are
who
See IMMIGRATION, page
4
Katie
Pomerans, a native of Uruguay and an advocate for Hispanics who now coordinates North Carolina State University's NC AgrAbility program in the Triangle. "Some of us have been here for
many years and have raised families And some of us are just arriving,
here.
Faith
trying to establish here, trying to learn to
accompanies
live in a
Northerner down South ...
Page
new
culture and a
dramatically since the current immigra-
visa
fvery Week
was
established in 1952, the
system has stayed
organizers
said.
static,
resulted, they said, including
work
legal
encounter
10-11
make
their
such issues as
authorization,
and
trust of the people that
Entertainment
conference
Long-term problems have
citizenship credentials,
Editorials
environ-
While the economy has changed
16
tion system
.Pages
new
ment, and trying to survive."
in the
fear
proper and mis-
immigrants
very land they hope to
home.
Discussions included those on immi-
& Columns
grants from a plethora of places across the
.Pages
12-13
who come
world
to this state, while the
conference focused particularly on the
"Jesus spoke to them again,
am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will saying,
'I
not walk
in
darkness, but will
tremendous influx of Latinos who are North Carolina home these days,
calling
either
permanently or for the time being.
Jesuit Father Paul Brant, chair of the
Immigration Committee of the Governor's ters to Hispanics in 16 counties within the
have the
light of life."
-John 8:12
Photo by Larry Chance
Council on Hispanic/Latino Affairs, minis-
Diocese of Raleigh. On the 'Latinos in North Carolina" panel, he said in his
experience with a mostly Mexican population, he meets people who fight for
Heath applies beeswax with a copper stylus to an intricate pattern on an egg during a Pysanka Egg Writers Retreat at Holy Family Church in Clemmons. Parishioner Ann Michel led the retreat, which weaves spirituality into the Ukrainian style of egg decorating. See story, page 9.
Jeff