<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Ruben Navarrette: News &amp; Videos about Ruben Navarrette - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Ruben_Navarrette</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Ruben Navarrette from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:26:57 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Ruben Navarrette: News &amp; Videos about Ruben Navarrette - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Ruben_Navarrette</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Ruben Navarrette from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Move to where the jobs are</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/11/20/navarrette.move.for.jobs/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/11/20/navarrette.move.for.jobs/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In the early 1990's, I was listening to the Rush Limbaugh radio show when a young man from Youngstown, Ohio, called in to complain about... well, life.</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:43:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Give Obama A+ for school reform ideas</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/11/06/navarrette.obama.education/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/11/06/navarrette.obama.education/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>President Obama deserves an A+ for his agenda for education reform. His decision to nominate Arne Duncan as U.S. education secretary was inspired, and his comments on holding the system accountable are honest, refreshing and insightful.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:53:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary:  Latinos are assimilating in the USA</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/15/navarrette.latino.in.america/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/15/navarrette.latino.in.america/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Have you ever seen 47 million people hold their breath and hope for the best?</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Joe, Kanye, Serena -- aren't they special?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/18/navarrette.rudeness.narcissism/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/18/navarrette.rudeness.narcissism/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Thanks to Joe, Kanye, Serena, and other misfits, a lot of people are talking about how society is undergoing a rash of rudeness.</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary:  Prosecuting CIA a foolish move</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/28/navarrette.cia/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/28/navarrette.cia/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Obama administration actually has me feeling sorry for the Central Intelligence Agency. This week, the administration hit the CIA with both barrels.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Obama team flip-flops are showing</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/21/navarrette.democrats.health/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/21/navarrette.democrats.health/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In order to diagnose what ails President Obama's push for health care reform, we need less heated rhetoric and more "Cool Hand Luke."</description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary:  A toast to beer diplomacy</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/31/navarrette.gates.crowley/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/31/navarrette.gates.crowley/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>For the last two weeks, Americans have been divided into two feuding camps: "Team Gates" and "Team Crowley." But after Thursday, those terms seem antiquated.</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary:  Why GOP senators misfired on judge</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/27/navarrette.sotomayor/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/27/navarrette.sotomayor/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Judge Sonia Sotomayor cruised through her confirmation hearings without a scratch.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary:  Latino in the Ivy League</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/15/navarrette.latino.ivy/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/15/navarrette.latino.ivy/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sixteen years ago, after I wrote a memoir about my experience as a Latino in the Ivy League, I got a call from a retired Jewish obstetrician who saw his reflection in my words.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Immigration reform takes courage</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/29/navarrette.immigration.reform/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/29/navarrette.immigration.reform/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The advocates of comprehensive immigration reform have a message for their opponents: "Game on!"</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Obama must speak out on Iran</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/19/navarrette.obama.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/19/navarrette.obama.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>With Iran suffering a political earthquake, allow me to put in a good word for meddling.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Hate crimes terrorize all of us</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/11/navarrette.hate.crimes/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/11/navarrette.hate.crimes/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>To think there are some people who still argue that the law shouldn't categorize some offenses as hate crimes and allow for enhanced criminal penalties.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary:  Sotomayor made it on her own</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/27/navarrette.sotomayor/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/27/navarrette.sotomayor/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Listen closely. I'm going to say three words that you don't often hear from columnists: I was wrong. What's more, I've never been so pleased to be proven wrong.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Obama rebuffs advice on top court</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/15/navarrette.scotus/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/15/navarrette.scotus/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Things really have changed with the Obama presidency -- starting with the process for nominating a Supreme Court justice.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 16:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Immigration and common sense</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/08/navarrette.immigration.raids/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/08/navarrette.immigration.raids/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>On the prickly subject of immigration raids, the judicial branch is moving in the right direction. And the executive branch is moving in all directions.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 09:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Biden's voice feeds flu hysteria</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/30/navarrette.biden.flu/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/30/navarrette.biden.flu/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Obama administration forgot the first rule in a crisis: Never send Vice President Joe Biden to calm people's fears.</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 15:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: It's time to end flu hysteria</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/01/navarrette.biden.flu/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/01/navarrette.biden.flu/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Obama administration forgot the first rule in a crisis: Never send Vice President Joe Biden to calm people's fears.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 17:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Torture memos aren't criminal</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/24/navarrette.torture/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/24/navarrette.torture/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>For someone who insists he is personally opposed to torture, President Obama has a rhetorical knack for it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Obama treating Mexico as an equal</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/16/navarrette.mexico/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/16/navarrette.mexico/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>President Obama doesn't speak Spanish. But after his trip Thursday to Mexico City to meet with President Felipe Calderon, it's clear that the two leaders speak the same language.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Do Obama, Biden agree on immigration?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/10/navarrette.immigration/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/10/navarrette.immigration/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Obama administration's stance on immigration reform is like a never-ending telenovela with multiple plot twists --sometimes more than one in the same news cycle.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Enforce laws vs. hiring illegal immigrants</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/03/navarrette.jobs/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/03/navarrette.jobs/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Friday's new unemployment figures will underscore the fact that millions of Americans are either out of work or afraid they could end up that way.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Spring break in a nation at war with drug lords</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/20/navarrette.mexico/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/20/navarrette.mexico/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A lot of Americans are wondering: Is it safe to travel to Mexico? It depends where you go, and what your intentions are once you get there.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Immigrants didn't cause your problems</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/13/navarrette.immigrants/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/13/navarrette.immigrants/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Here's the good news: Authorities say that fewer illegal immigrants are crossing the U.S.-Mexican border. The Los Angeles Times recently reported that arrests along the U.S.-Mexico border in the last five months are down 24 percent from the same period last year.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: What Mexico's drug war means for U.S.</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/27/navarrette.mexico/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/27/navarrette.mexico/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>You may have heard the rumor that, as a result of a bloody drug war that has claimed more than 7,000 lives since January 2007, Mexico is on the verge of being declared a "failed state."</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:19:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Time for immigration reform is now</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/20/navarrette.immigration/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/20/navarrette.immigration/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Obviously, President Obama has a lot on his plate: two wars, an ailing economy, the mortgage crisis and more. But that doesn't relieve him of the obligation to serve up his plan for immigration reform.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:12:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Obama under fire from left and right</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/13/navarrette.stimulus/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/13/navarrette.stimulus/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>We have a deal. This week, House and Senate leaders agreed on a $789 billion stimulus package intended to jumpstart the economy, create millions of jobs, and alleviate some of the financial anxiety suffered by individuals and businesses.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:14:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Ridiculous items in stimulus plan</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/02/navarrette.stimulus/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/02/navarrette.stimulus/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>So much for the new bipartisanship.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:32:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Guess who's not giving Obama full support?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/16/navarrette.obama/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/16/navarrette.obama/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Because of circumstance, calamity and panic, President-elect Barack Obama's first days in office probably will be unlike anything experienced by other presidents in recent memory.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:16:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Thank you, Gov. Blagojevich</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/01/navarrette.senate/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/01/navarrette.senate/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is growing on me. You see, I like chutzpah and I don't mind chaos.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:21:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Respect Obama's choice of Rick Warren</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/19/navarrette.warren/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/19/navarrette.warren/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>If controversies were sitcoms, the ruckus over Barack Obama's decision to have the invocation at his inaugural ceremony given by Rick Warren -- bestselling author and pastor of the 20,000-member Saddleback Church in Southern California -- would be the "Seinfeld" of the bunch. After all, it's about nothing.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:13:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Obama picks show merit of diversity</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/20/navarrette.diversity/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/20/navarrette.diversity/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>More than 20 years ago, I got into an argument with a college roommate over affirmative action -- one I've thought about since President-elect Barack Obama began nominating people to serve in the Cabinet and White House staff.</description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:45:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: No time for hate</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/13/navarrette.killing/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/13/navarrette.killing/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>How's this for a paradox: Just days after Americans made history by electing the first black president, seven teenage thugs in Patchogue, New York, pulled a shameful page from history by forming what one prosecutor called a "lynch mob."</description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Obama embodies the American dream</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/05/navarrette.victory/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/05/navarrette.victory/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The presidential election confirmed what many of us knew: We live in a remarkable and wonderful country, and Americans are an interesting and complicated people.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:22:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Liberals let loose on Palin and Joe the Plumber</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/23/navarrette.liberals/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/23/navarrette.liberals/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>I thought liberals were supposed to be good-hearted, open-minded and non-judgmental.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Media didn't conspire to protect Edwards</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/11/navarrette.edwards/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/11/navarrette.edwards/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>For several weeks now, a friend -- who happens to be a fellow journalist with a good nose for news -- has been hounding me to be among the first columnists in the country to write about L'Affaire Edwards.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary:  Don't confuse immigrant victims with villains</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/04/navarrette.immigration/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/04/navarrette.immigration/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Last week, I wrote about what appears to be a ghastly hate crime in the small town of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, where teenagers allegedly beat to death a 25-year-old illegal immigrant named Luis Ramirez after spewing racial slurs and telling him to go back to Mexico.</description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: To stay relevant, media must diversify</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/23/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/23/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Thanks to the history-making candidacy of Sen. Barack Obama, Americans find themselves at a defining moment in our politics.</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: How to fix our broken immigration system</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/23/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/23/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In a recent commentary, I spelled out what bothers many Hispanics about the immigration debate.  In response, many readers demanded to know -- for all my criticisms -- how I would go about fixing our broken immigration system. I thought they'd never ask.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Immigrants melting into the pot as usual</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/27/navarette.may.27/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/27/navarette.may.27/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>On the question of whether recent immigrants assimilate as quickly as previous waves, many Americans exhibit short fuses -- and even shorter memories.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 00:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: 10 ugly things about the immigration debate</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/28/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/28/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In a recent commentary, I wrote that, as a Mexican-American, the ugliness of the immigration debate offends me -- not as a Mexican, but as an American.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: The ugly Mexican-American immigration debate</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/14/navarrette.mexican/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/14/navarrette.mexican/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In an episode of the television show "Seinfeld," Jerry Seinfeld worries that his dentist has converted to Judaism so he can tell jokes about Jewish people. Someone asks Seinfeld, "And this offends you as a Jewish person?"  No, he says, "it offends me as a comedian."         </description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Fear of losing culture fuels immigration debate</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/04/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/04/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>You must know what's really driving the immigration debate. It's the culture, stupid.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:51:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Foes run over sensible N.Y. license plan</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/20/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/20/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Score one for the knee-jerk naysayers. You know the type: those who find it easier to criticize proposed solutions to tough problems than to propose solutions of their own, which then could be criticized.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:58:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: No time to take advantage of tragedy</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/26/fire.navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/26/fire.navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>What turned out to be a life-changing week began, interestingly enough, with a lesson about misplaced priorities.</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Local police shouldn't enforce immigration law</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/22/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/22/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The wacky world of immigration reform is full of half-baked ideas, but none has the taste of having spent less time in the oven than letting local cops enforce federal immigration law.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Take your share of responsibility for illegal immigration</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/15/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/15/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A reader wrote in to complain about illegal immigration, not exactly a rare occurrence. He was concerned about his tax dollars paying for services for illegal immigrants.</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Mixed messages on Hispanics</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/27/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/27/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) gives all Americans the chance to gain insight into the nation's largest minority. </description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: 'English-only' debate rule lost in translation</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/10/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/10/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In politics, Hispanics are a bundle of contradictions.</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Save me from Romney ads</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/27/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/27/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Suddenly, I need sanctuary -- from presidential candidates who exploit tragedy to breathe life into their campaigns.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Risk, rewards in military duty for illegal aliens</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/13/navarette.opinion/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/13/navarette.opinion/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>What if we offered illegal immigrants a path to citizenship that included a stint in the U.S. military?</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: U.S. workers will pick that lettuce -- for $1,000 a week</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/16/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/16/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>There is nothing like coming home, and I got the chance to do that today thanks to an invitation to join in a lunch forum hosted by the Kenneth L. Maddy Institute at California State University, Fresno, which sets out to train new leaders. </description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Root for Tijuana to curb immigration</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/29/navarrette/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/29/navarrette/index.html</guid><description>I have taken my readers' advice. They're always suggesting interesting locales from which to report on the immigration issue. Like this: "Go back to Mexico!"</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:23:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Social Security is about math, not Mexicans</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/15/navarrette/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/15/navarrette/index.html</guid><description>For more than a decade, I've written about the need to reform Social Security. And I've blamed older generations of Americans for not fixing a program they know is unsustainable into the future.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:56:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary:  Immigration is a key test for Democrats</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/02/navarrette/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/02/navarrette/index.html</guid><description>In the 1980s, San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros helped convene a gathering of Hispanic leaders to christen the time in which they were living: the Decade of the Hispanic.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:19:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: No simple reason for alarming dropout rate</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/04/navarrette/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/04/navarrette/index.html</guid><description>In my travels, I'm often asked to explain who Latinos are and what their values entail. Sometimes, I have to begin by setting the record straight and correcting false impressions.</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:19:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary:  Town makes it illegal to fly a foreign flag</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/20/navarrette.flag/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/20/navarrette.flag/index.html</guid><description>This is where we've arrived in this country: You have the constitutional right to burn an American flag, but you can get into trouble for simply flying a foreign one.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:45:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Gilchrist: Don't fall for media's spin about the Minutemen</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/25/gilchrist.commentary/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/25/gilchrist.commentary/index.html</guid><description>On October 12, Ruben Navarrette Jr. penned a pompous commentary for CNN.com ("Minutemen have a right to be idiotic"). His litany of name-calling and bogus accusations against The Minuteman Project membership places him solidly in the category of propagandist journalists who "spin" their stories to suit their bias -- valid facts and objectivity be damned.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Letter is bid to intimidate Latino voters</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/23/navarrette/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/23/navarrette/index.html</guid><description>What we have here is an attempt to intimidate.</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary:  Minutemen have a right to be idiotic</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/12/navarrette/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/12/navarrette/index.html</guid><description>When Minutemen founder Jim Gilchrist sent me an angry e-mail calling me a racist a while back, I shrugged it off as a pot-kettle thing.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: House GOP pushes 'reform for dummies' </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/25/navarrette/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/25/navarrette/index.html</guid><description>In tackling the immigration issue, Republicans in Congress really outdid themselves. Call it: "Immigration Reform for Dummies."</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Bush still fighting the last war</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/11/navarrette/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/11/navarrette/index.html</guid><description>Do you feel safer than you did five years ago? Republicans hope the answer is yes and that you'll give them full credit.    Of course, on a related note, they also hope you've developed full-fledged amnesia.    They hope you've forgotten all about immigration reform and how the White House and GOP-controlled Congress were going to fix a broken system and seal a porous border -- things that make many Americans feel less safe and less secure.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Can you make it past my last name?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/24/navarrette/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/24/navarrette/index.html</guid><description>Some longtime readers insist they have detected a leftward drift whenever I write about illegal immigration. They're wrong.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Navarrette: What really bothers immigration foes</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/11/navarrette/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/11/navarrette/index.html</guid><description>Immigration restrictionists can be so dishonest.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Navarrette: Politicians fan language war</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/20/navarrette/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/20/navarrette/index.html</guid><description>Exactly what does promoting the English language have to do with protecting borders and reforming immigration policy?</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>