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Traductora: Rosalina Orocú M.
Enrique G. Serna está u-atando de
probar que un intelectual puede sobre-vivir
en el mundo de la política agresi-va.
Sema ascendió de Jefe Municipal de
la Ciudad Tucson del Sur, en que mane-jaba
fondos del orden de los $8.7 mil-lones
y 120 empleados, a Jefe del Con-dado
de Puna y Director Administmtivo,
en que controla un prqsupuesto de $594
millones y una planilla de más de 6,000
empleados.
Cuando Serna asumió la jefatura del
condado, el 5 de diciembre pasado,
By Tsering Tashi
Mexico and the United States must
seek bilateral accords to regulate the
flow of Mexican immigrants that affecta
both the countries, Henry Cisneros, the
former mayor of San Antonio said re-cently.
"Right now we acknowledge that the
(Mexican) workers coming are probably
good for the United States economy, but
force them to be undocumented because
the legal quotas are too low,' said Cis-aeros,
whose family migrated to this
country from Mexico in 1922.
Cisneros, 42, spoke to about 200 peo-ple
during a keynote address on The Or-deal
of U.S. Citizenship: Mexican Migra-tion,
Enduring Values and New Policies
conference held here last month.
The Hispanic politician said that in the
last four decades the legal Mexican im-migration
never amounted to more than
12 percent of the total immigration al-
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El hdepepdieifle
Enrique Sema a cargo
dei Condado de Pima
había dudas en cuanto a cómo sería su
relación con dos de los cinco miembros
de la Mesa Directiva de Supervisores.
El Supervisor Republicano Greg S.
Lunn se irritó porque la Mesa Directiva
rehusó posponer la votación para elegir
al Jefe del Condado hasta que el otro
miembro Republicano. Reginaldo T.
Morrison, regresara de una reunión en
Phoenix. Lunn abandonó cl recinto en
señal de protesta por lo que denominó
"la tiranía de la mayoría".
Despuds de unos meses los ánimos
están más calmados.
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By Israel G. Ramirez
Enrique G. Serna is trying t prove
that an intellectual can survive in the
world of hard-ball county politics.
Sema went from being city manager
of South Tucson, a city with an $8.7 mil-lion
budget and about 120 employees, to
being the Pima County manager and di-recting
an administration that controls a
$594 million budget and employs over
6,000.
When Serna took over as county man-ager
Dec. 5, his working relationship
with t-70 of the five members on the
Board of Supervisors was already uncer-tain.
Republican Supervisor Greg S. Lunn
was angered by the board's refusal to
postpone the appointment of the county
manager until fellow Republican Super-visor
Reginald T. Morrison could return
from a meeting in Phoenix, Lunn walked
out of the vote to protest what he called
the "tyranny of the majority."
Months later the fireworks have died
down, and things have calmed.
"It (the walkout) was a much misun-derstood
gesture," Lunn explained, "lt
was never a reflection on Enrïque, al-though
some of the press misinterpreted
it as such. My problem had to do with
the process. We (Morrison and Lunn)
were not included in the selection pro-cess."
Suddenly thrust into one of the most
powerful roles in Pima County, Serna is
being called upon to take an even tighter
grip on the reins.
"He needs to show strong forceful
leadership in order to survive," Demo-cratic
Supervisor Raul M. Grijalva said.
"Enrique, more so than any county man-ager
before him is going to have to show
Latin roots
Raíces Latinas
Enrique Serna holds reins
in top Pima County post
initiative and guts."
Meanwhile, board newcomers Lunn
and Grijalva are leading a movement to
clarify and redef'me the role of county
manager, and ensure that supervisors
cannot abuse their power in personnel
and administrative matters.
Lune says he is trying to change the
system that has forced former county
managers to run things with "one and a
half hands tied behind their backs."
Lunn says he wants Sema to make the
ultimate decisions on who is hired and
fired without having to deal with "daily
interference" from the five supervisors.
"The supervisors will hold him ac-countable
for his decisions, but he will
be able to exercise strong leadership,"
Lean said.
On Jan. 8, Grijalva sent Serna a memo
outlining the need for "substantial
change" in county operations.
Grijalva asked that Serna appoint a
commission on ethics and operations in
Pima County governmenL
Grijalva also called for recommenda-tions
from the commission regarding
personnel policies as well as any areas
that might be "prohibited areas of inter-ference"
for members of the Board of
Supervisors.
Serna doubts any limits that prohibit
individuai board members from directing
administrative heads can be enforced.
"Elected officials have a right to talk to
administrative department heads. That's
innate to being elected," Serna said.
Sema who talks with a slight Texan
accent, chooses his words carefully and
is very leery of offending board mem-bers,
commonly defering comment on is-sues
and othet matters of importance.
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Cisneros calls for U.S.-Mexico immigration accords
Cisneros pide acuerdo bilateral en inmigración
lowed into the United States. He said of-ficial
U.S. figures for undocumented mi-grants
were now estimated at 4 million,
with an average of 500.000 new entrants
every year.
Although the "demand and supply on
both sides" are responsible for the steady
flow of Mexicans into the United States,
many observers feel that the migrants
had jobs back home, Cisneros said. "It's
the differential in wages that brings them
Itere."
Cisneros, who once served on a
U.S-Mexico commission, said that in the
l980s, U.S. manufacturing wages aver-aged
$13.46 per hour, whereas in Mexico
manufacturing wages were $1.37 an
hour.
"There is an unending evidence that
the winners are U.S. companies that lake
advantage or utilïze the surplus labor as
well as the depressive effect on wages."
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Photo byioho Jods,
Latino leader Henry Cisneros
Traductora: Rosatina Orocú M.
México y Los Estados Unidos deben
buscar acuerdos bilaterales para regular
el flujo de sinnúmero de inmigrantes
mexicanos, lo cual afecta a ambos
países, dijo recientemente el ex-alcalde
de San Antonio Henry Cisneros.
"Ahora mismo nosotros reconocemos
que la venida de los trabajadores (mexi-canos)
es probablemente buena para la
economía de Los Estados Unidos, pero
los obligamos a estar indocumentados
porque las cuotas legales son demasiado
bajas", dijo Cisneros. cuya familia migró
a este país de México en 1922.
Cisneros, de 42 años, habló ante cerca
de 200 personas durante la conferencia
que se dictó el mes pasado sobre
"Ordalías de la Ciudadanía de EE.UU.:
Migración Mexicana, Valores Perdu-rantes
y Nuevas Políticas.
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