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Author: Joelle Fishman, Rosalío Muñoz and Emile Schepers People's Weekly World Newspaper, 01/17/08    A look behind the anti-immigrant furor In the buildup to the 2008 elections, the right-wing Republicans have decided to make immigrants the scapegoat for the failure of the Bush administration and the shortcomings of the capitalist system. Right-wing personalities on cable TV, on talk radio and in newspapers are fueling this process. Vicious lies are being told about immigrants. The questions and answers here are designed to provide you with accurate information about the impact of immigrant workers and their families, with or without papers, on the United States today.   Why are so many immigrants coming to the United States? • Working people in Mexico and other poor countries have been devastated by the practices of U.S. and other international corporations. So-called free trade pacts like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are imposed with conditions ...

By Jonathan Fildes Science and technology reporter, BBC News   A lack of "big thinking" by politicians has stifled a scheme to distribute laptops to children in the developing world, a spokesman has said.     Walter Bender of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) said politicians were unwilling to commit because "change equals risk".   But, he said, there needed to be a "dramatic change" because education in many countries was "failing" children.   In an interview with the BBC, Nigeria's education minister questioned the need for laptops in poorly equipped schools.   Dr Igwe Aja-Nwachuku said:   "What is the essence of introducing One Laptop per Child when they don't have seats to sit down and learn; when they don't have uniforms to go to school in, where they don't have facilities?"   "We are more interested in laying a very solid foundation for quality education which will be efficient, effective, accessib...