November 2, 1999
Clinton administration and GOP legislators continue to negotiate over the budget for next year's census.
Pentagon continues talks with Puerto Rican officials aimed at breaking a deadlock over Navy use of its bombing range on the island of Vieques.
Four hundred march from Washington to UN headquarters in New York, City, protesting poverty conditions in Latin America.
In New York City, only 10 percent of voters are expected to turnout for important city charter vote.
Mexican family sues Chicago factory for negligence in exposing man to carcinogenic chemicals.
Latinos make up 20 percent of new AIDS cases in the U.S.
California Assemblyman, Gil Cedillo, holds hearing in Fresno to discuss proposal that would allow undocumented immigrants obtain a driver's license.
Los Angeles school board interviews former San Jose school chief Ramon Cortinez, to replace Superintendent Ruben Zacarias.
Mexicans celebrate Dia de Los Muertos in various ways across the country.
Border human rights group holds "Dia de los Muertos" event in honor of 451 migrants who've died crossing the U.S./ Mexico border.
Mexican activists protest a government plan to individualize the claims of ex-Braceros on a missing retirement fund.
November 3, 1999
President Clinton wants to change policy that bars courts from considering appeals by immigrants.
Terminally ill Medicare patients could be denied hospice care due to difficulty in establishing life expectancy.
Backers of California's Prop. 187, the anti-immigrant initiative declared unconstitutional, formally move to place a similar measure on the Nov. 2000 ballot.
A New York judge grants a Mexican woman right to stay in the U.S. because her son needs medical care.
New York City voters reject changes to city charter pushed by Mayor Guiliani.
A group of Latino parents accuse Chicago public schools of discrimination for basing student progress on standardized exams.
Three Arizona health organizations get federal money to train youth educators on AIDS.
U.S. Latino legislators meet with Mexican officials to discuss a policy that requires a $200 to $800 deposit from visitors traveling by car into the country.
International human rights groups demand Mexico provide more protection for activists.
Mexican Archbishop, Samuel Ruiz, a key figure in the peace negotiations between Zapatista rebels and the government, retires from his post in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas.
November 4, 1999
President Clinton takes a tour of poor areas and calls on sports professionals to invest in impoverished communities.
House Democrats accuse Republicans of protecting the pharmaceutical industry.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP, backs out of a planed boycott of the four major TV networks to protest the lack of cultural diversity on television.
Latino politicians in New Jersey make strides in Tuesday's elections.
Thousands of Los Angeles teachers hold protest in demand of a six percent pay raise and to denounce recent school board actions.
Spanish judge orders the capture of 98 Argentinean military and civilians accused of torture, genocide and terrorism.
The four contenders for the presidential nomination of Mexico's ruling party, PRI, close their campaigns four days before the party's first ever primary elections.
November 5, 1999
House panel approves plan to abolish Immigration and Naturalization Services, replaced by separate bureaus.
President Clinton urges Congress to raise the minimum wage by one dollar.
Central Americans in New Jersey protest INS for delay of work permits granted to them under the Temporary Protection Status.
New York City registers highest level of crime this decade.
The League of Latin American Citizens, and a Texas lawyer criticize a Memphis, Tennessee public utilities company for releasing a racist questionnaire.
Chicago Cardinal Francis Jorge, says cuts in Medicare would hurt Catholic Hospitals, which treat the poor and elderly.
Los Angeles school board and Superintendent Ruben Zacarias reach agreement; Zacarias will leave Jan 15th, 2000 and be paid $750,000.
Detentions of undocumented immigrants has gone up 41 percent along the U.S./Mexico border since 1994, the inception of Operation Gatekeeper.
Mexican police detain a U.S. Border Patrol agent caught beating a man on Mexican soil.
A demonstration of Mexican small farmers is violently blocked by police in Guadalajara, Jalisco.
November 8, 1999
Former Interior Minister, Francisco Labastida, wins presidential primary election for Mexico's ruling party, PRI.
Mexican, Adriana Fernandez, wins New York City Marathon.
President Clinton launches program to prevent phone frauds that target the elderly.
Sacramento Mayor Joe Serna Jr., who served nearly 20 years as an elected official, dies at age 60.
Two Los Angeles high schools closed due to asbestos contamination, other schools also affected.
In Texas, the number of Latino and African American law students keeps declining.
Outbreak of "dengue fever" in South Texas has not affected the number of winter visitors.
In Illinois, the number of people without health insurance rises nearly 40 percent since last year.
New Jersey social services is unable to prevent child deaths due to overworked social workers, study shows.
Mexico and other Latin American countries should make better use of the millions of dollars sent by immigrants in the U.S., suggests a UN report.
November 9, 1999
White House and Democrats push for $1.00 minimum wage increase; debate continues over budget.
U.S. House of Representatives approves a bill to restore millions of dollars to hospitals that were cut from Medicare funds in 1997.
The nation's second largest HMO, United Health, says it will give doctors, not administrators, final say on what medical treatments are necessary.
New York City will have direct flights to Cuba, beginning in December, the first in nearly 40 years.
Latino political leaders in Illinois will support Vice President Gore for president.
Houston experiencing higher levels of smog; school officials will begin implementing measured to protect children during unhealthy air days.
A possible hate crime reported at a Catholic church in Stockton, California.
Mexican groups in the U.S. feel slighted by Mexico's ruling party, PRI, for being denied right to participate in last weekend's elections.
San Francisco's Wells Fargo bank will disclose details of deposits made to the Mexican government of money belonging to former Bracero workers, activists announce.
U.S. Senate looks into Citibank's handling of millions of dollars in alleged drug money for Raul Salinas, brother of Mexican ex-president Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
November 10, 1999
Senate approves a GOP minimum wage increase and $76 billion 10-year tax cut, President Clinton promises a veto.
New York city's Board of Education installs a filter on its computer system blocking student access to various Web sites, including those with categories like news and sex education.
In Chicago, English only laws are being used more frequently against Spanish speaking employees, according to the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission.
In Los Angeles, 40 percent of children under five years old live in poverty , according to UCLA study.
Texas judicial panel will decide whether the city of Houston needs to hold another vote on affirmative action.
Family, friends and colleagues honor former Texas State Senator, Gregory Luna, who passed away last Saturday. Luna was a founder of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Three U.S. congressmen ask for the release of a Navy Sargent being held in a Mexican jail for entering the country with a firearm.
Mexican legislators and human rights groups call for the release of Gen. Gallardo, a military dissident who's been imprisoned for six years.
About 500 former Bracero workers hold a sit-in in front of Mexico's Office of Foreign Relations demanding the government take action on the money owed them.
November 11, 1999
Republicans agree to White House plan to hire 100,000 new teachers, amid continued budget negotiations.
A University of Texas law professor stirs up controversy as he reaffirms statements he made two years ago, that Latino and black students cannot compete with whites and Asian Americans.
In New York city, federal and local authorities hold forum on the challenges the city faces in making sure everyone is counted in the 2000 Census.
The City of New York and the taxi commission will conduct a sting operation to catch cab drivers who discriminate against people of color and the disabled.
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush issues executive order ending affirmative action programs, and proposes a plan to diversify state's education, hiring, and contracting system.
Immigration and Naturalization Services has confiscated 39,000 false documents at California's U.S./Mexico border stops.
Mexico's Minister of the Interior will take over claims by former Bracero workers who say they are owed money from a retirement fund.
November 15, 1999
Heads of states from Latin America, Portugal and Spain gather in Havana today for the start of the Ninth Ibero-American summit; Cuba's human rights record expected to be discussed.
Medicare spending decreased in fiscal year 1999, the first time in the history of the program.
More than 176,000 immigrants have been deported in 1999, according to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
More than 1,700 New York taxi drivers stopped and fined during a sting operation to stop drivers who discriminate against people of color.
California college students would be required to conduct community service under Gov. Davis' new plan.
Hepatitis C will kill more people than AIDS within the next decade, according to health experts.
Southern California AIDS groups say more money and community programs needed to stem the alarming growth of AIDS among Latinos.
President of Mexico's National Autonomous University, Francisco Barnes, resigns amid seven-month-long student strike.
Former leader of Mexico's Party of the Democratic Revolution, Andres Lopez Obrador, will be the party's candidate to govern Mexico city.
November 16, 1999
21 countries participating in the Ninth Ibero-American summit in Havana, will sign a declaration condemning the U.S. blockade against Cuba.
The Supreme Court will decide whether schools can allow students to participate in student-led prayer at football games.
Federal judge in California grants injunction barring the implementation of a San Francisco and a Santa Monica law that prohibits banks from charging ATM surcharges to non-customers.
Despite court orders, more than three million non-custodial fathers do not put their children on their health insurance, according to report.
California State Assembly Speaker, Antonio Villaraigosa, forms committee to monitor the unionization of Catholic Hospitals in the state.
California's Alameda County will be the first to benefit from tobacco taxes, receiving $20 million for infant and pre-natal programs.
A Mexican migrant is wounded and hospitalized in Tijuana, Mexico after a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot at a group of migrants allegedly throwing rocks at him.
Sixty Mexican civic groups accuse Mexico, before the United Nations, of violating international economic, cultural and social treaties.
November 17, 1999
GOP efforts to overturn milk pricing plan threatens White House-Congress budget deal.
Four Immigrant rights groups will sue the Immigration and Naturalization Service for delays in processing Temporary Protection Status applications for Central Americans.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson is arrested in Illinois during a protest over the expulsion of six students for a football game brawl.
The city of New York will place video cameras inside taxi cabs to deter crime.
California sues after the federal government extends lease for offshore drilling off the central coast.
The mayors of nine Texas border cities join Fannie Mae in launching $1.5 billion home loan program for low income residents.
Latinos will be 20 percent of the U.S. population in 20 years, according to a recent poll.
A binational committee is working to combat the high number of tuberculosis cases in the California/Mexico border area.
At the end of the Ninth Ibero-American summit in Havana, Mexican President Zedillo says "no country can be sovereign unless its citizens are free."
November 18, 1999
White House and Congressional Republicans reach $390 billion budget deal, with small across the board cut in federal programs.
For the first time, parents may be able to use federal funds to transfer their children to other public schools.
3,500 New York city transportation employees demand improved labor contract and threaten boycott.
On the 10 year anniversary of the slaying of six clerics, their housekeeper and her daughter in El Salvador, protestors in Los Angeles call for the closure of the U.S. Army's School of the Americas at Ft.Benning, Georgia.
Anti-immigrant group in Southern California posts 21 billboards blaming undocumented immigrants for most of the state's woes.
California may have a $2.6 billion surplus by next summer, according to legislative analysts.
In 1998, Texas coal-burning power plants released 10 tons of mercury into the environment, the most in the nation; but has the most potential to reduce the toxic emissions with federal and state legislation, according to environmental groups.
Latinos have highest rate of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, according to recent study.
Former Mexican Health Secretary, Juan Ramón de la Fuente named as new president of Mexico's National Autonomous University, amid a seven month student strike.
Mexican opposition party legislators claim President Zedillo's statements regarding Cuba's human rights record violate Mexico's tradition of non-intervention.
November 19, 1999
The number of families turning to food banks this year has risen due to Welfare Reform, according to various charitable organizations.
House of Representatives approves benefits for youth over 18 who have been in foster homes.
Program against juvenile relationship abuse is launched in five New York city high schools.
California state and local government offices are not providing sufficient bilingual assistance, study shows.
In California, the number of registered voters choosing a political party continues to decline; but, immigrants tend to register Democrat more often than Republican.
Texas A&M students crushed to death when 40 foot bonfire stack collapses.
U.S. Catholic groups are pushing an anti-abortion proposition in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, according to research institute in New York city.
Representatives of 19 countries, within the United Nations, initiate the creation of a $195 million fund to help refugees.
November 22, 1999
U.S. Customs will fire agent who exposed agency abuses and discrimination of people of color that lead to investigation.
Thousands protest and call for the closure of the School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, Georgia; some activists arrested, including actor Martin Sheen.
Colombian drug smuggling suspect, Jaime Orlando Lara, extradited to the U.S., first in nearly 10 years.
New York city homeless man challenges a city ordinance that makes it illegal for the homeless to sleep on the streets, calling it unconstitutional.
California blood banks report $33 million losses during last three years, affecting blood supply and services.
Civil rights defenders in Los Angeles claim various police stations are violating Miranda laws.
The final trial in the dragging death of James Byrd Jr., in Jasper Texas, ends with a life sentence conviction; Byrd family hold vigil.
More than 1000 San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico high school students gather to discuss methods of preventing AIDS among border area youth.
Opposition party legislators in Nuevo Leon, Mexico condemn intervention by U.S. groups on anti-abortion bill.
November 23, 1999
Latinos and African Americans in the military continue to show pessimism about possibilities of advancement in the armed forces, according to Dept. of Defense study.
Small Business Administration opens its first totally bilingual information center in Lawrence, Mass.
U.S. Representatives, Silvestre Reyes and Lamar Smith, from Texas accuse President Clinton of going back on efforts to reform Immigration and Naturalization Service.
New York State Regents approve plan to exclude students who are not proficient in math and English from the City University of New York's four-year colleges; an estimated 1,400 freshmen who typically enter CUNY will be kept out.
In Los Angeles, about 40 criminal sentences could be reversed due to claims of police corruption.
United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, Mary Robinson, will meet with border activists regarding Operation Gatekeeper and the 451 migrant deaths along the U.S./Mexico border.
Mexican small farmers mobilize to demand federal protection of the sugar crop endangered by U.S. imports.
November 24, 1999
U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen says he will make a recommendation to Pres. Clinton about the Navy's presence in Vieques soon.
New York teaching hospitals report they will lose tens of millions of dollars in Medicare money under the new federal budget bill.
In New York city, one Mexican immigrant is dead and others injured after the building they were working on collapsed; accident blamed on shoddy construction.
California State Assembly Speaker, Antonio Villaraigosa, says he will step down in April and has backed Bob Hertzberg, from Sherman Oaks as his successor. Villaraigosa plans to run for mayor of Los Angles.
Texas District Judge John M. Marshall signed administrative order to protect undocumented immigrants from being apprehended by immigration officials when they appear as parties or witnesses in his courtroom.
During this Christmas season, the wife of Texas governor and presidential hopeful, George W. Bush, will decorate her home using Tejano/Mexicano art, according her office.
As Mexico prepares to launch a controversial plan to levy a deposit of up to $800 for U.S. cars traveling into Mexico, Texas legislators make last ditch attempts to halt the proposal.
In Southern California, a civic group launches boycott on Mexican products to protest the car deposit plan.
In Miami, one in three AIDS sufferers is Latino; Latinos make up 20 percent of AIDS cases in the United States, according to report.
November 29, 1999
Authorities in Seattle, Washington delay for several hours the start of the World Trade Organization meeting after an apparent attempted break in at the Convention Center.
Thousands of human rights, labor, and environmental activists expected to protest the WTO meeting.
Crime, poverty, environmental dangers, teen pregnancy, child abuse, and a lack of health care are among the biggest threats to America's children, according to a child advocacy report.
In New York City, The Rev. Al Sharpton denounces Mayor Giuliani's recent crackdown on homeless people in the city, including the implementation of regulations that could force some of 15,000 homeless living in shelters onto the streets.
In Los Angeles, many hate crimes go unreported by police departments and school districts, according to Los Angeles County agency.
Cuba demands the repatriation of a five year old survivor of a boating accident that killed his mother, stepfather and eight other refugees headed to Florida on a raft; the boy's father remains in Cuba.
UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, Mary Robinson, says Mexico has serious human rights violations, and urges the government to diminish its military presence in the state of Chiapas.
200 Mexican small farmers rode into Mexico City on horses to protest farm policies, agriculture imports and the North American Free Trade Agreement.
November 30, 1999
Dubbed the "Battle of Seattle", police fire tear gas at thousands of activists protesting labor and environmental policies of the 135 nations attending the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle.
President Clinton signs the $400 billion year 2000 budget, leaving out important programs for immigrants, such as previously restored Medicaid and prenatal care benefits.
White House proposes state subsidies for parents who stay home and care for newborn children.
New York State makes $21 million in collect phone call fees from state prisons, the most of any other state in the U.S., charging up to three times more than regular collect calls, according to report.
The number of minorities enrolled at UCLA rises by 16 percent during the winter semester, according to school reports.
The majority of Texas voter favor thorough background checks for people buying guns at gunshows, according to recent poll.
Mexico's National Human Rights Commission will send officials to investigate the situation migrants face at the U.S./Mexico border.
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