| It eliminates restriction that was excluding legal immigrants |
Obama signs law that it grants more
medical coverage for the children |
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| Legal immigrant children recover the right to receive medical coverage. Photo Washington Hispanic. |
Mitzi Mace
Washington Hispanic
The president Barack Obama reached another political victory on having achieved that there was approved both in the House of Representatives and in the Senate the reauthorization of the Infantile Program of Medical Insurance (SCHIP, for his initials in English). With the promulgation of the law realized on Wednesday, the 4th of February also there is eliminated a restriction that was prohibiting the access to this medical coverage to children and immigrant pregnant women who had less than five years of being live in the country. This way it restores the eligibility of more than 400.000 immigrant children and thousands of pregnant women what has represented a crucial step inside the administration of Obama in the way for achieving a better access to health services and the establishment of the universal medical insurance.
" We expire with one of the biggest responsibilities that we have, that of guaranteeing the health and the well-being of the children of the nation", said the president Barack Obama. "Providing coverage to 11 million children is an advance in my commitment to offer it for every American", he added during the ceremony in the White House.
With the new measurement that contemplates the reauthorization of the law one hopes to come to four million children more and to achieve it one has arranged a fund for 32.800 million dollars.
To guarantee the awkward money the legislators approved to increase the federal tax to the tobacco of 0.39 cents to a dollar for bundle. This decision has not been well seen by the republicans that this new extension of the SCHIP 2,4 million children who could have access to a private insurance will take part now in the public program.
For his part the organizations proinmigrantes have applauded the widespread reauthorization of the SCHIP, since they had fighting for a decade to annul the restriction in mention.
The SCHIP was created more than one decade ago to help the family children whose income is very high to benefit from the program Medicaid but very low to pay the private coverage.
“, On having assured the SCHIP expansion, the leadership of the administration Obama is not leaving immigrants with documents out of the coverage and this is a test that the government is doing the correct thing and the most intelligent thing. This is the change that we were waiting for many organizacions per years”, pointed out Gabe Gonzalez, the director of the campaign for the community values.
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| Salvadoran denounces discrimination and racism in Manassas |
| Police officer strikes mother for an absence of transit |
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| Agueda "Marinates" Domínguez Flores, it pointed out that it was ill-treated in a cruel way. |
Víctor Caycho
Washington Hispanic
With serious bruises in the face, with the right eye so inflamed that it hinders the vision and injuries in arms, legs and different parts of the body … this way a woman remained a widow, a mother of four daughters and of Salvadoran origin, after being taken control by a police officer of the area of Manassas Park, in the county of Prince William (Virginia).
38-year-old Agueda Domínguez Flores, accused to the cash for discrimination and racism, what it has forced to take control the diplomatic authorities of El Salvador in Washington and Virginia.
The informer pointed out that he never thought that it was going to be ill-treated in a so cruel way, then that a police officer intercepted it on Monday, the 2nd about 6:30 p.m., for a front focus of his vehicle that had been burned.
The fact took place in the precincts of Mathis Avenue and Manassas Drive, close to Centerville Road, in Manassas Park, when the victim was going to the Woodbridge area.
In a dramatic testimony that offered Washington Hispanic, he said that in this moment it was not taking his driver's license, that it had left it in his house, but that it delivered his green card (TPS) and his card of the Social Insurance. Later he refused to sign the sheet that the police officer delivered to him, because she does not dominate English therefore she requested the mailing of an interpreter who speaks Spanish.
Then, the official returned three times from his patrol, until in the last opportunity, according to Domínguez he reports, “he sprayed pepper spray in my face, while he was saying that it should go down, and pulled me of the hairs. It struck me against my car and then against that of the patrol, then it gave me a punch in my right shoulder and a kick. Then I fell down to the apartment, where it followed me sticking, as he wanted. When I got up I noticed that my shirt was soaked of blood”.
“ The same police officer had to call 911 and they sent me handcuffed to the hospital of Prince William. It even called for reinforcements saying that I had resisted and that is not true, it is a lie. How am I going to do it if it neither could see, it could not even open the eyes”.
To missis Agueda Domínguez the tears eyes are filled to him when he remembers all that, and even more, when, according to his testimony, the police officer shouted him in English: "stupid Hispanic woman!”.
“ I knew what I was saying, because I understand English but I do not speak it. And I said to him to the police officer, ‘why you beat me’, several times, and he the only thing that he was answering age: keep silent about you!, repeatedly”.
According to the informer, only made of asking a police officer him to speak Spanish it caused that he was ill-treating it in this form. “It is not just that there is this discrimination and racism against us the Hispanics, and that for a burned light they have treated me like a dog. That's why I ask the police to check the video of the police patrol who took control of me”.
The court has fixed him for February 10 and March 12 for his hearings. “There I will go with my witnesses”, it passed.
His brother José also was a witness of the facts: "he wanted to defend me, but he knows the law and although it was hurting him his heart could not do anything. And I thank God that my brother did not intervene because but they had said that he was a criminal and had had another argument against us”.
She supported that cases like of that he had him to live they happen every day in Prince William, but many persons keep silent about it for fear, therefore it is going to happen to them”.
“ It is very hard what I am suffering, it is not easy”, he affirmed between sobs.
“, On having gone out of the hospital, they took me to the jail and delivered to me a role so that I present before myself to the court, and the judge said to me that I will pay a deposit for 5.000 dollars if I do not present before myself. I answered to the judge that anyhow I will present before myself. The judge then authorized that I move back to my house”.
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| They approve fiscal clippings for buy of houses and motorcars |
| Stimulus plan spends $ 900.000 millions |
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| The president Barack Obama and the first lady Michelle Obama did a high place to his overloaded occupations to read a book to the pupils of a public school of DC.Foto: Pablo Martínez Monsivais / AP |
Andrew Taylor
AP
The cost of the plan of economic recovery of the president Barack Obama already overcomes 900.000 million dollars, later that the Senate added money for medical research and fiscal mitigation for the acquisition of housings and new motorcars.
Obama indicated the will of his government to withdraw those titles that "really could not stimulate the economy immediately".
In a victory for the car industry, the Senate decided on Tuesday night, for a voting of 71-26, to grant a fiscal deduction to the buyers of new cars, as well as a reduction in the tax to the payments of interests in financing.
The announcement might cost him to the American treasury approximately 11.000 million dollars during the next decade thanks to savings of approximately 1.500 dollars in a motorcar that costs 25.000 dollars.
The Wednesday meeting in the night brought even more generous savings for the housing buyers. The Senate approved a fiscal clipping even for 15.000 dollars to which they acquire houses, a measurement that he thinks about how to revitalize to the sector of the housing.
The office of the republican senator Johnny Isakson, promoter of the proposal, indicated that this one will cost to the government approximately 19.000 million dollars.
The approval was seen like a victory for the republicans, anxious for leaving his mark in the enormous bundle of stimulus that is fundamental part of the plan of economic recovery of the president Barack Obama.
Hours earlier, the president Obama warned that the recession in the United States will turn into a "catastrophe" if the Congress does not approve quickly his economic recovery plan.
" An omission of acting, and of acting now, will turn the crisis into a catastrophe and will cause a longer recession, a less robust recovery and a more uncertain future", it supported.
The counter-offensive
After days of supporting rhetorical attacks, Obama and the democrats in the Senate organized a counter-offensive opposite to the republicans, who affirm that only with taxes clippings one can sanear to the economy.
Obama said that the criticism to that he has listened "does echo of the same unsuccessful economic theories that sank us in this crisis from a beginning, like the notion from which only the fiscal mitigation will solve all our problems".
" I push these theories back, as it made it the American people when he was present at the voting positions in November, when they voted flatly in favor of a change", added the president, who was chosen by a majority of votes and he enjoys a high approval level to the beginning of his order.
In a school
On Tuesday, the 3rd, as to relax in something of the hard daily work, Obama and his wife Michelle came to the Cardinal charter public school City, where they met the pupils of the second grade to read them the book “The Moon Over Star”, of the authoress Dianna Hutts Aston, related to the life of the astronauts.
Later the children rose several questions to them and the president confirmed that his favorite fiction heroes are “Superman“ and “The Man Scratches” (Spiderman).
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| Tom Daschle y Nancy Killefer they owed taxes |
| Two nominated ones by Obama move back |
Washington Hispanic
AP
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| Ex-leader of the democratic majority in the Senate, Tom Daschle announces that it withdraws his nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services. Photo: Charles Dharapak / AP |
Flaming EEl government of the president Barack Obama suffered a pair of hard political blows on Tuesday, the 3rd when two nominated ones they withdrew the office under a cloud of fiscal problems.
The ex-leader of the majority in the Senate, Tom Daschle, had fought in the last days to rescue his nomination as secretary (the minister) of Health and Human Services after it revealed that he had not paid any more than 120.000 dollars in taxes. But on Tuesday he announced that it was passing to the side to avoid to turn into a distraction factor.
His decision came almost three hours after Nancy Killefer withdrew his candidacy to turn into the first general overseer of the federal government.
Killefer told across a letter directed to Obama that he did not want that the fact of not having paid labor taxes for his domestic personnel during year and a half was obstructing his work, and argued that their own problems of taxes "might be used to create... distractions and delays".
" Now we have to go forward", expressed Obama in a written declaration in which he accepted the surprising Daschle request of stopping being taken in consideration for the position. Only one day earlier, the president had said that he was supporting "absolutely" Daschle.
" Tom (Daschle) committed an error that he has recognized openly", he declared Obama. "The ha given excuses, not I, but this error and this decision cannot diminish many contributions that Tom has done to this country not also", he added.
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| For health in DC |
| They will qualify to restaurants |
Writing
Washington Hispanic
The councilman Mary M. Cheh, who leads the committee of public services of D.C. presented a project of law that would demand to DC restaurants to exhibit publicly the grade of nutritive safety and other sanitary permissions. To every restaurant a qualification one will meet to him on the base of the examination realized by the Department of Health on the intention of establishing sure practices of preparation and food storage.
" DC must get up and join fast and join to the principal cities of the whole country that are provided with the grade of nutritive safety", said Cheh. "To do that the restaurants have his exposed health grade will give to the residents the hardware that they need to take a decision informed about the safety of the food that they consume. Also, this law project will create an environment in which it encourages the restaurants proprietors to support his clean kitchen".
In a definitive study, the application of this type of classification system "was associated by 13,1 per cent of decrease in the number of persons' cases that were hospitalized for consuming food badly prepared in the county of Los Angeles to the following year of the application of the program."
If it is approved, in DC, it will join Los Angeles, St. Louis, North Carolina and San Francisco.
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| In Philadelphia |
| Marmots predict another six weeks of winter |
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
AP
The most famous marmot of the world saw his shade the morning of Monday, the 2nd, with what according to an old tradition in the United States and Canada, it predicted that the winter time in both countries will extend for six more weeks.
The marmot, called Phil de Punxsutawney, went out of his den just after the dawn opposite to approximately 13.000 witnesses.
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