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	Border Issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		La Paz Agreement, is the area 100 kilometers (62.5 miles) on either side of the 3,200 km (2,000 mile) boundary between the two countries.
		In Texas, the border region is a unique area ranging from the sister cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, to the Gulf of Mexico, near the sister cities of Brownsville and Matamoros.
		The Texas border environment is also affected by rapid industrial growth and increases in population on the Mexican side of the border, particularly in cities bordering Texas.
	www.tnrcc.state.tx.us /exec/ba (3145 words)

	In Their Own Hands: Colonias Organize
		One of the first actions of the Union de Colonias Olvidadas was to ask TRLA to represent it in claims that Webb County was sitting on colonias development funds, making no effort past an engineering study.
		Colonias Unidas accepted, and although the feedlot question is still pending, Colonias Unidas is growing in strength and direction.
		Colonias Unidas' work on the political front centers on the issue that first brought the group together, the lack of running water in Las Lomas.
	www.nhi.org /online/issues/82/colonias.html (2555 words)

	Texas Colonias - Community Affairs - FRB Dallas
		The colonia population is predominately Hispanic; 64.4 percent of all colonia residents and 85 percent of those residents under 18 were born in the United States.
		Colonia residents, nonprofit organizations, the private sector—including financial institutions— foundations, and local, state and federal government agencies are all involved in improving colonia living conditions and providing alternative housing options.
		Texas STEP is a self-help program that assists communities that want to use local volunteers, materials and financial resources to solve local water and wastewater problems.
	www.dallasfed.org /ca/pubs/colonias.html (5943 words)

	Texas Attorney General
		Colonias are substandard housing developments, often found along the Texas-Mexico border, where residents lack basic services such as drinking water, sewage treatment, and paved roads.
		The State of Texas has undertaken a number of programs to remedy the conditions in existing colonias and to prevent new colonias.
		At this site, Texas residents, community leaders, public interest groups and local governments who are planning Census participation events can view and print the same maps used by the Bureau of the Census to locate and target areas for intensive enumeration campaigns.
	www.oag.state.tx.us /texmex.shtml (491 words)

	Links to housing resources on the web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, Inc. provides the leadership to ensure that the public's business is conducted in public and to protect individual liberties guaranteed by the First Amendment.
		Papers presented at bi-national conference on colonias sponsored by the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Mexican Center at the University of Texas in May 1995.
		Responsible for enforcement of colonias legislation in Texas.
	www.texashousing.org /txlihis/resour/links.html (1626 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: CUEVITAS, TX
		But by 1976 it had been replaced by the colonia, which had forty-eight dwellings and a population of 242.
		The Handbook of Texas Online is a joint project of The General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association.
		College of Liberal Arts and the General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/CC/hrcqh.html (258 words)

	Drinking Water & Health Newsletter - C3.org
		In Texas, various state and county agencies, with some added federal funding, have initiated programs to supply water and sewer services to the colonias There are also programs to provide basic education in sanitation and hygiene, along with instructions for water disinfection and safe storage in the home.
		The Texas Water Development Board operates the Economically Distressed Areas Program (EDAP) focused on the colonias At present, $205 million in state grants and loans, along with additional funding by U.S. have been committed to construction of 88 water and wastewater projects in 284 colonias serving 120,000 residents.
		Despite the persistence of poverty and disease throughout the colonias, it is encouraging that steps are being taken to improve their quality of life.
	c3.org /news_center/ccc_periodicals/drinking_water/dwhn010196.html (3450 words)

	Border Colonia Geography Online - Office of Attorney General
		Colonia geography includes the location, boundary and area of each colonia, roads serving the community, the internal road network and, in some counties, driveways leading to occupied units.
		The proximity of colonias to other geographic features as well as their relationship to census geographic units is also displayed.
		Inclusion of colonia areas in CDPs means that better, more specific Census statistics will be available for local government and colonia project planners.
	maps.oag.state.tx.us /colgeog (279 words)

	Racism and poverty exposed in Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The office of the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, in a 1998 study, found that if the 43 border counties were a separate state it would be number one in poverty, unemployment and adults lacking a high school diploma, and dead last in per-capita income.
		The cities of the border region have had an unemployment rate that is an average 3.5 percent higher than that of the state as a whole.
		While the situation in the cities is bad it is worse in the 1,500 colonias in the Rio Grande Valley.
	www.pww.org /past-weeks-2000/Texas%20miracle%20misery.htm (684 words)

	Las Colonias Singles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		En las colonias del Chaco, debido a la sequÃa, fueron vendidas 25 mil...
		La esclavitud finalmente se aboliÃ³ en todas las colonias britÃ¡nicas en 1834...
		Las colonias de morsas viven en islas, dispersas a lo largo...
	www.adatingagency.co.uk /personals1/datingindex8179.html (565 words)

	Las Colonias, Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Las Colonias is a town located in Zavala County, Texas.
		\nLas Colonias is located at 28°42'44" North, 99°49'10" West (28.712295, -99.819576)
		According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 35.2 km² (13.6 mi²).
	www.portaljuice.com /las_colonias__texas.html (362 words)

	Colonias Quick Facts - Community Development - CPD - HUD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A colonia is in this program as any identifiable community in the U.S.-Mexico border regions of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas that is determined to be a colonia on the basis of objective criteria, including lack of a potable water supply, inadequate sewage systems, and a shortage of decent, safe, and sanitary housing.
		The set-aside was voluntary in FY 1995; it was required by the appropriations act in FY 1996, and made permanent by the 1997 appropriations act.
		In FY 1998 Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico set aside 10 percent of their State CDBG funds for use in colonias while California set aside two percent.
	www.hud.gov /offices/cpd/communitydevelopment/programs/colonias/index.cfm (437 words)

	HUD - CPD - Desarrollo Comunitario - Programas - Datos Sobre Colonias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		La Sección 916 de la Ley Nacional de Vivienda a Precios Razonables (National Affordable Housing Act) de 1990, exigió que los estados de Texas, New Mexico, Arizona y California reserven 916 por ciento de sus fondos de CDBG del año fiscal 1991 para las colonias.
		La reserva fue voluntaria para el año fiscal 1995; fue requerida por la ley de apropiaciones del año fiscal 1996 y convertida en permanente por la ley de apropiaciones de 1997.
		La mayoría de los fondos se han destinado a agua, cloacas y asistencia de vivienda.
	www.espanol.hud.gov /offices/cpd/communitydevelopment/programs/colonias/index.cfm (733 words)

	PBS: The Forgotten Americans: Focus: Las Colonias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This in combination with the development of new colonias that at first glance offer a cheap solution to housing needs has fueled the growth of these communities in suburban areas as well as remote rural locations.
		In El Paso, Texas alone, at least 20,000 additional units of affordable housing are needed, according to the Lower Valley Housing Authority.
		A preliminary report by the University of Texas estimates that by the year 2010, more than 700,000 additional people will need affordable housing on the Texas border if current trends continue.
	www.pbs.org /klru/forgottenamericans/focus/housing.htm (131 words)

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	Las Colonias, TX Houses, Apartments, Cars, and Residents Info
		Las Colonias, TX Houses, Apartments, Cars, and Residents Info
		Back to: Las Colonias main page, Texas, United States.
		Back to: Las Colonias, TX (don't miss, contains a wealth of additional information), Texas, United States.
	www.city-data.com /housing/houses-Las-Colonias-Texas.html (239 words)

	The Forgotten Americans
		In America, colonias "the Spanish word for neighborhoods" has come to describe rows of "ruddy, crudely constructed shacks that are little more than a patchwork of old boards and cardboard," according to one resident.
		These single or double room dwellings were placed on land that was never registered with any city or county.
		There are 1,400 Texas colonias, sitting primarily along its 1,248-mile border with Mexico.
	www.pbs.org /klru/forgottenamericans/focus.htm (93 words)

	La Prensa San Diego Bilingual Newspaper
		Los cambios atmosféricos que han dado como resultado la elevación de la temperatura en nuestra Tierra, tienen su origen en actividades humanas que alteran la composición química de la atmósfera debido a la emisión de gases como dióxido de carbono y gas metano.
		La ley de 1996, diseñada para terminar con "la asistencia tal como la conocemos", tuvo un gran impacto en la gente pobre puesto que acabó con su derecho a la asistencia gubernamental después de un plazo de cinco años y, en su lugar, puso otras limitaciones y sanciones.
		Las Vegas casino tycoon Donald Sinclair is determined to keep his wealthiest high rollers happy, so he's concocted a new, quasi-legal sporting event for them to bet on: a human "rat race."
	www.laprensa-sandiego.org /archieve/august10/010810.html (1791 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: GUADALUPE GARCIA, JOSE DE
		GUADALUPE GARCÍA, JOSÉ DE José (also called Abrán or Abraham) de Guadalupe García, soldier, son of Jesús and María García, was born in San Pedro de las Colonias, Chihuahua, in 1836.
		In 1872 García enlisted in Lt. Manuel Bau's Company X of the Texas Ranger Minute Men in Maverick County and served in the Mexican border area, fighting Indians and bandits.
		He died on March 7, 1925, in Hondo, Texas, and was buried in the Old Mexican Cemetery next to his wife and one of his daughters.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/GG/fgurz.html (343 words)

	Las Colonias News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Local news for Las Colonias, TX continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.
		Raul De La Cruz, 44, was arrested at his home in Mexia, Texas, without incident.
		Ray and Mary Grace Klespies of Floresville are proud to announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Sarah Kathleen, of Bishop, Texas, to Jay Manning...
	www.topix.net /city/las-colonias-tx (415 words)

	Colonias In Texas
		The Colonias Transportation Program provides transportation to the residents of the colonias in the border...
		for the colonias in the Texas-Mexico border region...
		COLUMBUS â” Residents of the Mexican colonia of Las Chepas were greeted Tuesday morning by the arrival of a bulldozer that razed 31 abandoned buildings in the area.
	www.colonia.biz /colonia/colonias-in-texas.html (569 words)

	Las Colonias, Texas Detailed Profile - travel and real estate info, jobs, hotels, hospitals, weather, schools, crime, ...
		Las Colonias, Texas Detailed Profile - travel and real estate info, jobs, hotels, hospitals, weather, schools, crime,...
		New: Las Colonias, TX residents, houses, and apartments details
		Nearest cities: Crystal City, TX (2.0 miles), Chula Vista-River Spur, TX (3.8 miles), Carrizo Springs, TX (13.2 miles), Brundage, TX (13.5 miles), Carrizo Hill, TX (14.5 miles), La Pryor, TX (16.1 miles), Asherton, TX (18.8 miles), Big Wells, TX (19.7 miles).
	www.city-data.com /city/Las-Colonias-Texas.html (684 words)

	La Opinion: Las colonias marginadas de Texas@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		La Opinion: Las colonias marginadas de Texas@ HighBeam Research
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		The above preview is from La Opinion, March 18, 2001.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:79402353&refid=holomed_1 (149 words)

	Las Colonias, Texas (TX) Relocation - Houses & Apartments - Schools, Jobs, Weather - For Sale & Rentals
		Welcome to the state of Texas and links to important resources for the city of Las Colonias and vicinity.
		We offer the services you need to help with your move as well as data you need to help you make informed decisions about your move.
		Population for Las Colonias, TX (2000): 283 comprising 146 (51.6%) males and 137 (48.4%) females.
	www.relo-guide.com /tx/Las-Colonias_tx.html (133 words)

	Drug Abuse Help, Alcohol Abuse Help, Las Colonias, Texas
		Help is available in Las Colonias, Texas for those who wish to end their drug abuse, or alcohol abuse problem.
		Help for prescription drug abuse is on the increase as more and more individuals are becoming dependent on the various forms of "legitimate" medication.
		Generalization of National Illicit Lifetime Drug Use based off population for Las Colonias, Texas in the year of 2000.
	www.drug-help.com /city.htm?state=texas&city=las-colonias (4276 words)

	Las Colonias Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Las Colonias, Texas Total Land Area: 13.547868 square miles
		Las Colonias, Texas Total Water Area: 0.043839 square miles
		Coming Soon: Las Colonias Texas Hotels, Las Colonias Texas Real Estate, Las Colonias Texas Jobs, and Las Colonias Texas Travel.
	www.travel-demographics.com /Texas/Las-Colonias-Texas.htm (50 words)

	Texas/Tamaulipas
		The Texas Center for Border Economic and Enterprise Development (Centro Tejano para el Desarrollo Económico y Empresarial de la Frontera)
		Texas Center for Policy Studies (TCPS) (Centro Tejano para Estudios de Política)
		Instituto ubicado en el campus de la Universidad de Texas en Austin; tiene la misión de mejorar la calidad de ambientes interiores no-industriales.
	www.borderecoweb.sdsu.edu /ewf/s_region/TexTam.html (692 words)

	Recommended Reading - South Texas Environmental Education and Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas describes the Texas border colonias, where an estimated 400,000 people live without electricity, running water or sewerage in many cases.
		The U.S. Geological Service describes the ecosystem of the lower Rio Grande as part of its initiative to research and provide information about the biotic resources of the river, and its adjacent land habitats.
		This article looks at conditions in las colonias and what has been done during the past 10 years to improve life there, with special emphasis on Cameron County colonias, home to nearly 27,000 residents.
	steer.uthscsa.edu /reading.html (197 words)

	Las 13 Colonias
		Bandera dise??????ada por Betsy Ross con 13 estrellas y 13 bandas, representando a las Trece Colonias.
		Luego, las 13 colonias se convierte en una vasto...
		En 1776 las 13 colonias proclamaron su independencia, si bien...
	www.colonia.biz /colonia/las-13-colonias.html (615 words)

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