from Philly.com:

By Matt Katz
Inquirer Staff Writer

One player even brought back a jersey stained from a bloody nose he suffered from an errant throw to first base.

But those most affected by the game between the kids from Camden's Cramer Hill neighborhood and a team from Puerto Rico were the Camden parents, all of whom are Latino. For them, the symbolism far outweighed the novelty.

from New America Media:

Editor’s Note: Latino voters heavily supported Hilary Clinton during the primary in California. Now it’s up to grassroots effort of mostly bilingual volunteers to get Latino voters to support Barack Obama, reports New America Media’s Amanda Martinez.

SAN FRANCISCO—“The campaign is us,” said Obama’s Latino vote coordinator for California, Juan Contreras, while addressing a group of Latino democrats here at an organizing event held at the home of a fellow Latino Obama supporter. Contreras explained that California won’t see an official Obama campaign presence. “Our efforts here will be very grassroots, just like the primaries,” he said.

Volunteers will be crucial to winning over Latinos, who strongly favored Clinton through the primary process. She held a two-to-one advantage over Latino voters compared to Obama and won California’s largely Latino communities in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego County, and the Central Valley. Latinos make up 14 percent of California voters and 61 percent are Democrats.

The recruitment of Clinton supporters will rely heavily on bilingual volunteers who can take the lead in introducing Latino communities to Obama. While campaigning during the primaries, Contreras found out that it wasn’t that Latinos didn’t like Obama, but that they didn’t know him and most were surprised that the policy differences between Clinton and Obama are not that different. “What we need to do is reach out to our friends and family and introduce Barack.”

By Kenneth Kim, New America Media
Posted on June 29, 2008, Printed on June 30, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/89754/

A Los Angeles judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to overturn a 30-year-old policy that prohibits Los Angeles Police Department officers from asking people about their immigration status.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf M. Treu threw out the lawsuit filed by an L.A. resident by granting a motion from the city of Los Angeles and the American Civil Liberty Union. He ruled that the Los Angeles Police Department's current policy is constitutional and doesn't hinder the local police's ability to exchange information with federal immigration officials.

"Every police chief since Chief (Daryl) Gates has supported Special Order 40," Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said in response to the judge's ruling. "They do because it makes sense. We want people to come forward, to be able when they're witnesses or victims of crimes to cooperate with the police department."

Neat little video produced by the NCLR site We Can Stop The Hate :

Founder of Minuteman Project said he worries about people instigating violence in connection with his group's name.
By AMY TAXIN
The Orange County Register
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_2076833.php

When Jim Gilchrist headed to the U.S.-Mexico border three years ago to press for tougher immigration enforcement, he carried binoculars.

Today, Gilchrist is worried that a few self-proclaimed patriots might be carrying a gun.

After seeing online videos that encouraged border violence amid calls to crack down on illegal immigration, the 59-year-old Aliso Viejo resident said he feels responsible for what started out as a publicity campaign and has since fallen prey to internal divisions and to influence by people he believed had "Saddam Hussein mentalities."

"In retrospect, had I seen this, had I had a crystal ball to see what is going to happen… Am I happy? No," Gilchrist said in a phone conversation late last week. "Am I happy at the outcome of this whole movement? I am very, very sad, very disappointed."