immigrants – International Diplomat America

End The Chaos at the Border

12/24/2018

CHRONIQUE DES INVITÉS/GUEST COLLUM By Deena Flinchum End the chaos at the border A caravan of more than 7,000 migrants from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador is barreling north towards the southern border of the United States. Their end goal ? Eventual “asylum” status within our borders. This surge in unfettered immigration is the new normal. The number of families arrested for unlawfully crossing the southern border spiked nearly 40 percent between July and August. The chaos at the border…

A piece of Switzerland in Uruguay

01/23/2009

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Have you ever heard of Swiss cheese made in Uruguay? No? Believe it or not, it exits, and is produced in a small town, some 120 kilometers from Montevideo on Route 1, called Colonia Suiza – or the Swiss Colony. It may not taste exactly like the one made in Switzerland, but it is authentic, made by descendents of Swiss pioneers that settled here in the early 1860s. On our tour of the city we stumbled upon the Centro…