Patricia Guadalupe Columnist

“The administration Obama emphasizes that the information obtained in the Census will be confidential, but there is still a lot of suspicion, especially when the White House has not said anything on the raids”

An interesting announced study this week concludes with several facts that many people will say they do not surprise anybody but that simultaneously it indicates the need for a migratory reform. Less than half of Hispanics in the country believes that the police and the courts treat them with impartiality, according to a study of the Hispanic Center Pew (Pew Hispanic Center). The study concludes that only 10 % of Hispanics says to have “great or enough” confidence in the police, compared with 75 % of the Anglo-Saxons and 37 % of African Americans. The report also says that the contact of the Hispanics with the judicial system has increased more quickly than his proportion in the population.

The report indicates that partly this owes to the increasing number of raids that have been carried out in the country. Groups who advocate the immigrants have lobbied so that the raids are suspended because they are right that badly, and a fear climate believe in the community. The groups want that they are suspended, at least during the period of the Census the next year.

The administration Obama emphasizes that the information obtained in the Census will be confidential, but there is still a lot of suspicion, especially when the White House has not said anything on the raids. In the last count in the year 2000, at least a million Hispanics stayed out. This means that less Hispanic they received help and attention of the government, because the Census determines the whole facts variety, including how many legislative representation every district will have and how many funds the local governments will receive for his residents.

And the topic of the immigration touched enough in a forum with Latin businessmen realized recently in Washington. In the event co-protected by the new magazine Latin American, the ex-Secretary of Commerce, Carlos Gutíérrez, mentioned that an age of prosperity and economic recovery in this country they have never happened without the immigration. The approach in the lobbying for a migratory reform, it pointed out, must focus in the economic impact that means the absence of a coherent politics on immigration. This is particularly important, he said, with the increasing global approach in economic questions. “Then, if we want to be a prosperity country, if we want to grow, if we want to keep on being the best economy of the world, we cannot do it without the immigration”, supported Gutiérrez.