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 El Cenizo, Texas -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
El Cenizo is a city located in (Click link for more info and facts about Webb County, Texas) Webb County, Texas, (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) United States.
El Cenizo is located at 27°19'42" North, 99°29'48" West (27.328442, -99.496658).
Out of the total population, 74.3% of those under the age of 18 and 60.0% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.
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 Capacity Building and Governance in El Cenizo, Texas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
El Cenizo is adjacent to the Rio Grande River in a rural setting surrounded by cacti, mesquite trees, and the Cenizo shrubs, from which the town received its name.
El Cenizo claims to have a right to the service, at least to the vehicle, since both the TDH grant for the vehicle and the AMR contract state that the service is to be provided for both cities.
The size of El Cenizo should, in principle, facilitate communications, but the complexity of the intergovernmental context and lack of an accessible, easily understood plan of action (as would generally be expected in a city's budget document) meant that most residents did not understand the city's initiatives.
www.utexas.edu /academic/uip/inside/cyprojects/copcyrs/cscape.html   (11074 words)

  
 Migration News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Commissioners in El Cenizo, Texas passed an ordinance declaring that all city meetings and functions are to be held in Spanish and that employees of the city are forbidden to turn in illegal immigrants.
El Cenizo perhaps the only city in the US with an all-Spanish policy.
El Cenizo, with a population of about 8,000, is 10 miles outside Laredo.
migration.ucdavis.edu /mn/comments.php?id=1907_0_2_0_C   (393 words)

  
 Border City Goes All-Spanish
El Cenizo is believed to be the only U.S. city with an all-Spanish policy.
El Cenizo is a largely blue-collar town of 7,800 about 10 miles outside Laredo.
In addition to the language measure, El Cenizo passed a Safe Haven Ordinance, forbidding city employees and officials to ask residents whether they are legal immigrants or citizens or to help an agency like the Border Patrol and the Immigration and Naturalization Service find illegals.
www.englishfirst.org /elcenezo/elcenizoap81999.htm   (611 words)

  
 Don Feder
That the residents of El Cenizo don't is painfully apparent.
In El Cenizo, one glimpses a frightening future where pockets of Russians, Cambodians, Arabs, Koreans and others demand language separatism, where driving cross-country will be like traversing the European continent.
Texas Gov. George W. Bush, on whose watch this happened, has yet to be heard from on El Cenizo.
www.jewishworldreview.com /cols/feder090199.asp   (727 words)

  
 Stuesse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In this way, residents of El Cenizo were able to share their experiences with each other and with a broader audience as well as contribute to social and political change in the borderlands.
El Cenizo, located on the U.S.-Mexico border just south of Laredo, Texas, was formed in the early 1980s as a “colonia”, a low-income, peri-urban settlement devoid of nearly all basic services.
Today El Cenizo is one of the most well known colonias in Texas, with a population of over 5,000.
www.woodrow.org /phd/Practicum/stuesse.html   (1215 words)

  
 Texas Town Adopts Spanish As Official Language
EL CENIZO, Texas (Reuters) - The border town of El Cenizo, whose population is heavily Hispanic, has adopted Spanish as its official language and declared the community a safe haven for illegal immigrants, officials said Friday.
But Linda Evans, a spokeswoman for Texas Gov. George W. Bush, said his office has contacted ``relevant state and federal authorities to ensure that the laws, including illegal immigration laws, are being enforced.''
The group's executive director, Jim Boulet, said El Cenizo may be the first U.S. town to have adopted Spanish as its official language -- a step that policy makers should take as a ''warning sign'' of things to come.
www.englishfirst.org /elcenezo/elcenezoreuters81699.htm   (482 words)

  
 The Christian Science Monitor | csmonitor.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Barton, most children in El Cenizo have adopted English as their first language in public schools, and many adults take English lessons at the community center.
Indeed, El Cenizo is not the first city to take on US immigration policy.
In El Cenizo, Barton says this sort of resolution was the only way to regain public trust in government.
www.csmonitor.com /cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/1999/08/25/f-p1s4.shtml   (1170 words)

  
 Insight on the News: Texas Town Offers Safe Haven to Illegals - El Cenizo, Texas, passes law deemed favorable to ...
Critics point out that 64 percent of the households in El Cenizo receive food stamps, 29 percent are on Social Security and 17 percent participate in unemployment and underprivileged children's benefits.
More than half the homeowners in El Cenizo built at least part of their homes, and an average of five persons per household far exceeds the state average of 2.7 persons.
Since then, El Cenizo has bought a used garbage truck and plans to restore trash pickup in a month or two, signed contracts to have ambulance and fire service reestablished and even caught up with a long overdue power bill.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_36_15/ai_56063238   (819 words)

  
 WAIS - World Affairs Report - Texas: Tex-Mex and El Cenizo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Clippings from October include one calling for October 12 to be an anti-Spanish day, based on the mock trial of Christopher Columbus in Honduras convened by human rights organizations; he was convicted and executed.
Its city council passed an ordinance that meetings be conducted exclusively in Spanish and that the inhabitants would not cooperate with the Border Patrol.
No wonder many Americans view El Cenizo as a Trojan colt which may grow into a horse.
www.stanford.edu /group/wais/USA/us_texas.html   (196 words)

  
 A Little Town In Texas Roars In Spanish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In a million years, the United States of America would have never heard of El Cenizo, Texas, if it hadn't been for the town's city council passing a municipal ordinance that has shaken the consciousness of the country's least desirable observers.
What El Cenizo has become has come at the hands and hard work of the people who live there, almost all who have come from Mexico.
Is El Cenizo the first case of a foreign language being official in lieu of English in the USA?
www.lasculturas.com /lib/sd/blsd091099a.php   (892 words)

  
 Augusta Georgia: opinion@ugusta: Slams candidacy of George W. Bush 01/04/00
After seeing ``The Anarchists'' destruction in Seattle, Wash., and their interview on 60 Minutes,, I began to wonder if the El Cenizo city council is part of their membership.
In her letter, Gertrude McKie stated President Clinton should solve the problem of El Cenizo.
George W. Bush was governor of Texas (first term) and he has equal power with the president as commander of the National Guard.
chronicle.augusta.com /stories/010400/opi_124-5117.shtml   (466 words)

  
 bordercoalition.org - Home
The BLIHC is devoted to the belief that through a unified coalition of border residents, change is possible.
The BLIHC has a history of successfully challenging the State of Texas and its elected officials to improve living conditions in border colonias.
Gloria Romo, the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service’s (TxLIHIS) community organizer, is striving to reorganize the BLIHC through her organizing efforts in Laredo-area colonias.
www.bordercoalition.org   (240 words)

  
 El Cenizo Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
El Cenizo Survey: A Study on the People of El Cenizo, Texas.
Texas Department of Housing And Community Affairs, Office of Colonia Initiatives.
Water for the Colonias of El Paso County: A Case Study of Latino Empowerment
www.utexas.edu /academic/uip/inside/cyprojects/copcyrs/ecbib.html   (388 words)

  
 Afterword, 4/15/2005 - The Texas Observer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
As we sit in the kitchen of their home in El Cenizo, Rodrigo and Juanita Rodriguez, their dark eyes moist pools of love and longing, speak of their son with trembling tenderness.
I hadn’t traversed the streets of El Cenizo since the mid-1990s when I covered environmental stories, water stories, and lack of infrastructure stories in the little colonia that was once filled with plywood shacks, dilapidated trailers, and the occasional cement block home recently completed or under construction.
Born of the raw deals of wily contract-for-deed developer Cecil Macdonald, El Cenizo had its beginnings in the late 1970s as a colonia that sprouted on the American banks of the Río Grande without the amenities of potable water, a sewage collection system, or a garbage collection system.
www.texasobserver.org /showArticle.asp?ArticleID=1934   (1404 words)

  
 Fulton, Texas - links to government resources and information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Dave Fulton, Texas Department of Transportation to solicit continued support for Airport activities and grant funding.
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 World History :: Encyclopedia Index -- El   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
INDEX OF ARTICLES: El Articles are indexed by the first word of the title, including "A," "The," etc.
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 TeacherSource . TV for Teachers . Individual Porgram Listing | PBS
Then, it's on to the bayou for a night of traditional dancing at Fred's Lounge in Mamou, Louisiana, where owner Tante (Aunt) Sue speaks English smothered in Cajun overtones.
At a barbecue on the Bar J Ranch outside of Beesville, Texas, cowboys recite their poetry and point out the Spanish roots of words like bronco, stampede, corral and rodeo.
Finally, MacNeil investigates the controversy created by the town of El Cenizo, Texas, which has adopted Spanish as its 'official' language.
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 Satellite TV El Cenizo TX Deals Cheaper Than Cable TV El Cenizo Texas!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Texas TX - Cheaper Than Cable TV El Cenizo -
First company to offer a satellite receiver for less than $200 in El Cenizo.
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 Make A Difference Day
National Award to students in Laredo, Texas, who cared enough to help children in a poor neighborhood get a necessity: warm clothes.
Gerardo and his classmates knew that Abigail's classmates at Kennedy-Zapata Elementary in El Cenizo (a neighborhood with average household income of $5,000) had no sweaters and only worn-out shoes.
With an assist from the Laredo Rotary, the Finley students collected 2,000 items of clothing and sorted it by size (even learning a little math along the way, teachers said).
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 El Cenizo, Texas Detailed Profile - travel and real estate info, jobs, hotels, hospitals, weather, schools, crime, ...
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 Dish Network El Cenizo Offer - Free Dish Network El Cenizo Texas (TX)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 Marine Deaths in Iraq, Marines Killed in Action, January 13, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Department of Defense announced on January 10 the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Lance Cpl. Matthew W. Holloway, 21, of Fulton, Texas, died Jan. 13 from injuries received as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Lance Cpl. Juan R. Rodriguez Velasco, 23, of El Cenizo, Texas, died Jan. 13 from injuries received as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
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 Untitled5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
El City Council of El Cenizo voted to make Español the official language of the City!
Los politicos tell El Jefito, they don't want to have a Mayor who is going to be in training for four years.
En pasando, El Jefe has been informed that La Prensa's story on Rodolfo "El Gato" Gonzales and his Miraculous cure by La Virgen de Guadalupe" has been sent to the Holy See in Rome.
www.laprensa-sandiego.org /archieve/august20/tezzy.htm   (590 words)

  
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The complainants alleged that on August 17, 1999, during the "Don and Mike" radio show, broadcast over WJFK-FM and other radio stations, the hosts called city hall at El Cenizo, Texas, where Ms.
According to the transcript and tape submitted with the complaint, Ms.
Barton in an extended discussion of El Cenizo's decision to conduct official business in Spanish that even Infinity describes as exceeding "the bounds of good taste in their treatment of Ms.
www.fcc.gov /Bureaus/Enforcement/Orders/2000/da001096.txt   (1530 words)

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