CALEXICO

kəlĕkˈsĭkō, city (1990 pop. 18,633), Imperial co., S Calif., at the Mexican border; inc. 1908. A port of entry from adjacent Mexicali, Baja California, it is also a trade center for the southern part of the fertile Imperial Valley. Tourism is central to Calexico's economy; smuggling has long been a problem.

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books on: Calexico  - 113 results

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The Devil's Hand: A Novel
Book by Edith Summers Kelley; Southern Illinois University Press, 1974
Subjects: United States--Social Life And Customs--20th Century--Fiction
...of being late for his appointment at Calexico; but Rhoda misconstrued it and her heart...Ive got a rather important date at Calexico at six-thirty." He hesitated for a moment...lettuce lumbered along on its way to Calexico, driven by a little Jap who looked no...
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Chavez and the Farm Workers
Book by Ronald B. Taylor; Beacon Press, 1975
Subjects: Chavez, Cesar--1927-, Labor Unions--Agricultural Laborers--California
...through the dark streets into downtown Calexico.Even at 2:30 A.M. the streets were peopled...Blythe, a hundred miles north and east of Calexico, in the fields near the Colorado River...traffic ticket and had to go to court in Calexico later in the day.The ticket would save...
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On the Rim of Mexico: Encounters of the Rich and Poor
Book by Ramón Eduardo Ruiz; Westview Press, 1998
Subjects: Mexican-American Border Region--Economic Conditions, Mexican-American Border Region--Social Conditions, Mexicans--Mexican-American Border Region--Economic Conditions, Mexicans--Mexican-American Border Region--Ethnic Identity, Mexicans--Mexican-American Border Region--Social Conditions, Mexico--Relations--United States, United States--Relations--Mexico
...nearly 1 million, patronize stores in Calexico, a town of no more than thirty-five thousand...the same token, buy their gasoline in Calexico, preferring to "fill up" in the United...game leg, he baptized both Mexicali and Calexico, combining in the two the names of both...
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Mexican Americans and the Catholic Church, 1900-1965
Book by Jay P. Dolan, Gilberto M. Hinojosa; University of Notre Dame Press, 1994
Subjects: Catholic Church--United States--History--20th Century, Mexican American Catholics--History
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Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920's
Book by Kevin Starr; Oxford University Press, 1996
Subjects: California, Southern--History, Los Angeles (Calif.)--History
...towns, Mexicali on the Baja California side of the border, Calexico on the American side where CDC set up its headquarters. The...newspaper, the Imperial Press , and telephone service to Calexico. A branch line of the Southern Pacific reached Imperial in...
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journal articles on: Calexico  - 26 results

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A University-Public School 'Key-Pal' Partnership: Working in a Low-Tech Environment to Create a Local Community of Learners
Journal article by Cecile M. Arquette; T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education), Vol. 32, 2004
Subjects: Calexico, California, No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Project method (Education)--Models, Project method in teaching--Models, Public schools--Management, Public schools--Technology application
...Valley Campus (SDSU- IVC) is a small campus of 900 students in Calexico, Calif., located seven blocks from the U.S.-Mexico border...in another part of Mexico. Spanish is the first language of Calexico, and it is common to hear it spoken throughout the valley...
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All Night at the Owl: The Social and Political Relations of Mexicali's Red-Light District, 1913-1925
Journal article by Eric Michael Schantz; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 43, 2001
Subjects: Mexicali, Mexico--History, Prostitution--History, Travel industry--History
...Mexicali and that of its border twin, Calexico, as monuments to the transborder irrigation...Enrique de la Sierra, the Mexican consul at Calexico, in 1909. He objected, as did his successors...message they sent to Mexicalis twin city. Calexico stood directly across from Mexicalis...
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Toward a Caring-Centered Multicultural Education within the Social Justice Context
Journal article by Qiuyun Lin; Education, Vol. 122, 2001
Subjects: Minorities--Education, Multiculturalism--Social aspects, Teaching--Demographic aspects
...achievement is the philosophy of instruction in the Calexico Unified School District. Calexico is a rural community of 20,000 located in imperial...seasonal workers. The average family income in Calexico is less than 12, 000 a year (Mora, Jones, and...
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U.S. Ports of Entry on the Mexican Border
Journal article by Josiah Mcc. Heyman; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 43, 2001
Subjects: Ethnology--Research, Mexican-American Border Region--Social aspects, San Ysidro, California--Social aspects
...saturation point. The other three ports, Calexico, Nogales, and Douglas, were less completely...reflect their locale more actively. Calexico and Nogales also faced periodic volume...and generously. A former INS manager at Calexico described very forceful and direct pressure...
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Further Cross-National Studies of Tree Form Preference
Journal article by Robert Sommer; Ecological Psychology, Vol. 9, 1997
Subjects: Environmental Psychology--Periodicals
...forms in the bottom row. Europe; and Calexico close to the Mexico--U.S. border, representing...common in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Calexico, the globe in Estonia and Italy, and...in Italy and Estonia, the palm in Calexico, and the oak in Switzerland. Again we...
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magazine articles on: Calexico  - 18 results

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It's Boycott Time in California
Magazine article by Richard Steven Street; The Nation, Vol. 240, March 23, 1985
Subjects: Abatti Produce--Cases, California, California. Agricultural Labor Relations Board--Political activity, Chavez, Cesar--Management, Collective bargaining--Cases, El Centro Agricultural Labor Relations Board--Cases, Farms--Cases, Imperial Valley, Migrant agricultural laborers--Cases, United Farm Workers--Political activity
...sodium-vapor lights along the main street in Calexico until they are selected by one of the...shape-up at 4 A.M. along the main street in Calexico, and then truck them to the fields at...memorial march from the town of Heber to Calexico. At a rally in Rockwood Plaza he told...
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New Members
Magazine article; PSA Journal, Vol. 65, December 1999
...Nadine Alcala, Pale Cedro, Vivian Pfleiderer, FPSA Victor Beltran, Calexico Darkroomers Photographic Club, San Diego Alvin Dockter...
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Q: Is Bilingual Education Failing to Help America's Schoolchildren?
Magazine article by Linda Chavez, James J. Lyons; Insight on the News, Vol. 12, June 3, 1996
Subjects: Bilingual education--Evaluation
...bilingual education. School officials in the Calexico Unified School District, located on the...college admission. Fully 98 percent of Calexico students are Hispanic; 80 percent are...farmworkers. Average family income in Calexico, where unemployment runs between 25 and...
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Megacorruption at the Border
Magazine article by Jamie Dettmer; Insight on the News, Vol. 12, November 11, 1996
Subjects: Mexican-American Border Region--Crime, Misconduct in office--Investigations, Narcotics, Control of--Analysis, United States. Customs Service--Investigations
...notorious -- with Californias San Ysidro and Calexico and Arizonas Douglas and Nogales mentioned...any cocaine at the POE in Nogales. At Calexico, a Customs intelligence analyst estimates...operates," explains a Customs source. "Take Calexico. Thats a homeboy port. It is dominated...
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Holding the Line: On a Typical Day at the U.S.-Mexico Border, Officers Arrest 3,256 People for Illegal Entry and Seize 5,400 Pounds of Narcotics. That's Just the Beginning
Magazine article by Teresa Anderson; Security Management, Vol. 50, September 2006
Subjects: Border security--Management, Drug dealing--Prevention, Drug traffic--Prevention, Illegal immigrants--Prevention, Mexican foreign relations, Ports--Safety and security measures, United States foreign relations, United States. Coast Guard--Management, United States. Coast Guard--Safety and security measures
...border, but with stations at San Ysidro, Otay Mesa, Tecate, Calexico, and Andrade, it is by far the busiest. The San Diego sectors...half of 2006. In one week in May 2006, CBP officers at the Calexico port seized more than 1,300 pounds of marijuana, 200 pounds...
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newspaper articles on: Calexico  - 59 results

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The Next Big Thing CALEXICO
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 5, 2008
The Next Big Thing CALEXICO. Byline: ADRIAN THRILLS The next big thing CALEXICO WHO ARE THEY? AN AMERICAN duo singer and guitarist...rhythm section in Tucson, Arizona, before forming Calexico in 1996. Naming the band after a town on the...
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Slightly Batty Patti; Pop
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), April 25, 2004
Subjects: Smith, Patti
...Smith, Trampin (Columbia, out tomorrow) Calexico, Royal Festival Hall, London Theres...Smith, William Blake then turns up at the Calexico show. Not in the stalls, which would...to invoke Blakes peculiar vision. But Calexico are entitled to. That makes them a rarity...
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Calexico's Latest Album Is a Gorgeous 'Ruin'
Newspaper article by Mark Guarino; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 11, 2006
Calexicos Latest Album Is a Gorgeous Ruin. by Mark Guarino Byline: Mark Guarino Daily Herald Music Critic Garden Ruin Calexico * * * 1/2 out of four Over the past eight years, Calexico established itself as a first-rate Tex-Mex band at work in the indie rock universe. The band...
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Mexicans Smuggle Chinese Aliens; California Post Reports 3 Cases
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 23, 2007
Subjects: Smuggling
...conducting security inspections at the Calexico, Calif., port of entry arrested a Mexican...officials said, was the second at the Calexico port in less than a week in which a smuggler...Chinese nationals had focused on the Calexico port of entry. The driver, identified...
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Sunny States Sounds
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), October 27, 2006
...Alan Nichol The Arizona-based sextet Calexico head for The Sage on Tuesday night. Thats...relocated to Arizona. That side-project, Calexico, appeared to thrive in Arizonas desert...Wine and Neko Case as collaborators. Calexico also appear as the bar band in the Tom...
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encyclopedia articles on: Calexico  - 4 results

 
 
1.
Calexico
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
CALEXICO k lek siko, city (1990 pop. 18,633), Imperial co., S Calif., at the Mexican border; inc. 1908. A port of entry from...California, it is also a trade center for the southern part of the fertile Imperial Valley . Tourism is central to Calexicos economy; smuggling has long been a problem. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright...
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Mexicali
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
MEXICALI maheka le, city (1990 pop. 438,377), capital of Baja California state, NW Mexico, across the border from Calexico, Calif. Once noted chiefly as the center of a cotton- and cereal-raising area, it has experienced extensive construction...
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All-American Canal
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Mexico. The Imperial Dam, NE of Yuma, Ariz., diverts water from the Colorado River into the All-American Canal, which runs W to Calexico, Calif. Smaller canals move water into the Imperial Valley; the Coachella Canal branches NW to the Coachella Valley. This canal...
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Imperial Valley
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...vegetables for the northern areas of the United States; cotton, dates, grains, and dairy products are also important. Brawley, Calexico, and El Centro, Calif., are the main U.S. cities in the valley; Mexicali, Mexico, also in the valley, is the center of Mexicos...


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