The bulletin , issued Oct. 25 by the Intelligence Analysis Branch at U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service headquarters in Washington, D.C., is also being criticized by the top Border Patrol official in Tucson. In July, the Colorado Supreme Court tossed an anti-bilingual education initiative off the November ballot because it contained unclear and misleading wording. The initiative was similar to the one embraced by 63 percent of Arizona voters on Nov. 7. They seldom report crimes to police for fear of being turned in to immigration authorities, said Alonso Camara, an Austin insurance broker who is working with police and the immigrant community to help stem the tide of robberies. Camara immigrated from Mexico in 1986 and is concerned about the safety of other immigrants.
Some immigrant muggings end in death.
Although only 26 percent of Austin's population is Hispanic, one out of two robbery victims is, Austin Police Chief Stan Knee said. The district hopes to hire five Mexican teachers each year, for a total of 15 at any given time, assuming they all stay for three years, said Joe Holeman, director of human resources. The aim of bringing in more bilingual teachers is to be able to spread the Spanish-speaking kids more evenly throughout a school, speeding their acclimation to English, rather than clump them into a single classroom. Honeycutt and Double H were cited for improper warnings of chemical hazards as well as field sanitation issues, such as not having portable toilets and individual drinking cups for workers. Juarez, who left for Mexico last week as his work visa expired, complained that he and other workers were forced to cut tobacco beneath a cloud of chemicals.