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POPSTaco Trucks meet legal roadblocks this is just an effect of the recession. A lot of people are looking for ways to save-up and why spend more on pricey restaurant food when you can get tastier and cheaper meals from taco trucks?
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POPSPrice Of Superdelegate Ybarra Vote $20M US, por favor The Democratic National Committee member doesn't parse his words when it comes to what he wants from Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton - an ironclad promise to spend that heady amount to register Mexican-American voters and get them to the polls in November. In a telephone interview Wednesday, he said he plans to remain undecided in the tight contest until "someone shows me the money." When will he settle on a candidate?
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POPSStudy: Immigration linked to low crime rates Harvard sociologist Robert Sampson looks at the link between immigration and crime and finds that immigrants are less likely to commit violent crimes. He argues that the rising immigration in the US played a role in our declining homicide rates.
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POPSJoey "Speak English" Vento (Geno's Cheesesteaks) does not represent South Philly
A student of history, Jacovini can talk at length about Italian-Americans in the civil rights movement and how Italian-Americans were the second most likely group to be lynched in the South. He describes how in the 1870s—in the streets of Northern Liberties and South Philly—Philadelphia's native (aka English) Americans fought Gangs of New York-style battles with the Irish. And how the Irish in turn refused to let the newly arrived Italians use their Catholic churches. Today, “the cycle of the last person who came into the country stepping on the next person to come into the country has been broken. That's the real story.” He points to how the pastor of St. Paul's invited Mexican South Philadelphians to carry a statue of Our Lady of Guadeloupe—the patron saint of Mexico—in the traditional (and very Italian) procession of saints. “To me, this was the Italian community's way of welcoming their new Mexican neighbors. I'm proud because no one welcomed us when we first arrived.
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