Mexican Immigration to USA: Net-Zero

“The population of undocumented immigrants in the US fell from 12 million to approximately 11 million during the height of the financial crisis (2008-09) …. And since then, Mexicans without documents aren’t migrating at rates to replace the loss, creating a net zero balance for the first time in 50 years.”

“Home again in Mexico: Illegal immigration hits net zero,” Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor (citing Douglas Massey, Mexican Migration Project, Princeton University)

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The National Food

With wieners in the news, Felisa Rogers takes the opportunity to examine the history of America’s iconic national sandwich, the frankfurter or tube steak:

“How the hot dog became the most American food,” Felisa Rogers, Salon

The Devil In America

America’s Roman Catholic bishops held a conference last weekend to train more priests in how to conduct exorcisms. There is a shortage of U.S. priests who know the rite.

We commend the Church for this quick response to the mid-term election results.

The conference was motivated by an increased demand for exorcisms, driven by an influx of Third World immigrants and a rejection of psychiatry, according to Illinois Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki, the meeting’s organizer. We we wonder if simple lack of access to medical services is a factor.

The training seems to have emphasized diabolical triage. “The problem is the discernment that the exorcist needs before he would ever attempt the rite,” according to Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, archbishop of Houston. Practitioners look for violent reactions to holy water, super strength, aversion to the name of Jesus or Mary and speaking in tongues. The latter may be problematic, as this is a major feature in the worship of a growing number of Catholic Pentecostals.