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Latest Articles: Immigration
McDonald's workers held in immigration raid
Post Date: 2007-09-29 05:50:15 by noone222
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RENO, Nev. - Federal agents raided 11 McDonald's restaurants in northern Nevada and made dozens of arrests Thursday as part of an investigation into illegal immigration. Agents for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement made at least 56 arrests in Reno, Sparks and Fernley after raids at the restaurants and a franchise corporate headquarters in Reno, agency spokesman Richard Rocha said. "They are people suspected of being in the country illegally. As far as I know, they were all McDonald's employees," he told The Associated Press. The investigation began five months ago and was sparked by an identity theft complaint, Rocha said. A local law enforcement agency then gave ...
How George Bush became the new Saddam
Post Date: 2007-09-23 12:40:30 by Ferret Mike
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COVER STORY: Its strategies shattered, a desperate Washington is reaching out to the late dictator's henchmen It was embarrassing putting my flak jacket on backwards and sideways, but in the darkness of the Baghdad airport car park I couldn’t see anything. “Peterik, put the flak jacket on,” the South African security contractor was saying politely, impatiently. “You know the procedure if we are attacked.” I didn’t. He explained. One of the chase vehicles would pull up beside us and someone would drag me out of the armoured car, away from the firing. If both drivers were unconscious—nice euphemism—he said I should try to run to the nearest army ...
(NY) Spitzer to let illegal immigrants get driver's licenses
Post Date: 2007-09-23 00:53:53 by robin
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New Yorkers will soon be able to get driver's licenses regardless of their immigration status, Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced yesterday in a follow-up to a campaign pledge. Immigrants will be able to show foreign passports and other identification documents to qualify for licenses - and no longer be denied for lack of Social Security numbers. The policy will start phasing in by year's end. The decision is a big turnaround at the Department of Motor Vehicles, which under Gov. George Pataki tightened the rules for foreign-born applicants. The DMV barred people from renewing their licenses without valid Social Security numbers, something illegal immigrants would not be able to present. ...
U.S. Will Speed Entry Of Refugees From Iraq (12,000 to Be Admitted in the Next Year)
Post Date: 2007-09-22 16:13:43 by Zipporah
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Officials Say New Measures Will Allow 12,000 to Be Admitted in the Next Year Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, September 22, 2007; A10 About 12,000 Iraqi refugees will be admitted into the United States over the next year as measures to speed up the process begin to take effect, government officials said yesterday. The new target represents an increase in the number and pace of Iraqi refugees entering the country and means that 17 percent of the 70,000 refugees expected to be admitted next year will come from Iraq, officials from the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security told reporters. An estimated 4 million Iraqis have been displaced and about 2.2 million ...
France Races to Oust Illegal Immigrants
Post Date: 2007-09-22 12:25:58 by Mister Clean
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France Races to Oust Illegal Immigrants (09-22) 04:11 PDT PARIS, France (AP) -- A Russian boy suffers head injuries after falling from a window while trying to elude police. A North African man slips from a window ledge and fractures his leg while fleeing officers. A Chinese woman lies in a coma after plunging from a window during a police check. As France races to deport 25,000 illegal immigrants by the end of the year — a quota set by President Nicolas Sarkozy — tensions are mounting and the crackdown is taking a toll. Critics say the hunt threatens values in a nation that prides itself on being a cradle of human rights and a land of asylum. Protesters have gathered by the ...
Glitch Renders 'Virtual (border) Fence' Unusable
Post Date: 2007-09-22 07:54:09 by Zipporah
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Glitch Renders 'Virtual Fence' Unusable Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Because of a software glitch, the first high-tech "virtual fence" on the nation's borders remains inoperable, three months after its scheduled debut. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said he is withholding further payment to the prime contractor, Boeing Co., until the success of the pilot project stretching 28 miles near the border southwest of Tucson. Nine 98-foot towers laden with radar, sensors and sophisticated cameras have been built in an area heavily trafficked by illegal immigrant and drug smugglers. The towers, each a few miles apart, are intended to deter or detect ...
Mexicans pour into Canada from U.S:Agencies brace for thousands more; 'Give us a chance,' one begs ( cue violin music)
Post Date: 2007-09-21 03:36:25 by scrapper2
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For 15 years, Manuel Ortega was living his version of the American Dream in Florida. He had steady employment, sometimes working as a detailer for local car dealers, other times as a forklift driver. He earned enough to buy a van and rent a house for his wife and three children. His kids earned good grades in school and played with the family pet, a Shih Tzu named Chaparro (Shorty). They were safe and kept out of trouble. Ortega's dream, as he recounted it Tuesday standing outside a room at a Windsor motel, is now but a memory. He is one of an estimated 180 Mexicans from Florida who've rushed across the border and into Windsor to claim refugee status, fleeing a crackdown on ...
Some Oregon schools adopting Mexican curriculum
Post Date: 2007-09-20 12:22:02 by winston_smith
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Some Oregon high schools are adopting Mexico's public school curriculum to help educate Spanish-speaking students with textbooks, an online Web site, DVDs and CDs provided free by Mexico to teach math, science and even U.S. history. The Oregon Department of Education and Mexico's Secretariat of Public Education are discussing aligning their curricula so courses will be valid in both countries. Similar ventures are under way in Yakima, Wash., San Diego, Calif., and Austin, Texas. "Students come to us with such complex issues," said Tim King, director of Clackamas Middle College and Clackamas Web Academy, where a virtual course using Mexico's learning materials got ...
Bourbon, Baseball Bats, And Now the Bantu
Post Date: 2007-09-19 20:50:44 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- In 2003, Mattie Cox read about the arrival here of Hussein Issack and other refugees from Somalia's long-persecuted Bantu minority. Mr. Issack came from a subsistence-farming family and had never set foot in a factory. Nonetheless, Ms. Cox's first thought was to put him to work at the trailer maker where she is a human-resources manager. "He was a man with kids who was new here and needed work," she says. Four years later, Mr. Issack is still working at Kentucky Trailer, having learned on the job how to use industrial tools to make doors for Allied Van Lines Inc. and other moving companies. "Today, he's multiskilled," Ms. Cox says. ...
Cheech & Chong - Born in East L.A.
Post Date: 2007-09-19 20:28:36 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Vietnam bride hell for Maurice
Post Date: 2007-09-15 21:38:48 by Zipporah
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'Silly fool' ... heartbroken Maurice with picture of his wedding to Cucu A LOVELORN pensioner has told how his angelic bride from Vietnam became a “monster” as soon as they got back to the UK. Maurice Baldacchino, 71, met Cucu Co through pals and spent £11,000 on a lavish wedding. But the 32-year-old beauty became a nightmare — like Thai bride Ting Tong Macadangdang from Little Britain, with hubby Dudley Punt. Former merchant seaman Maurice told how she: KUNG-FU kicked him in the leg where he had a new hip replacement GAMBLED three nights a week, spending hundreds of pounds a time OGLED other men and flirted outrageously with them SHOUTED obscenities at ...
Mexican Truckers: Suspend Pilot Program
Post Date: 2007-09-15 14:52:32 by Zipporah
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MEXICO CITY — U.S. truckers aren't the only ones upset with a cross-border pilot program allowing long-haul Mexican tractor-trailers into the United States. Truckers south of the border aren't thrilled with it either. The private organization representing the majority of Mexico's freight haulers on Thursday demanded the government suspend the program, saying it leaves Mexican truckers at a competitive disadvantage with their U.S. counterparts. Until last week, Mexican trucks were restricted to a narrow commercial zone along the border. But after a more than decade-long dispute over the NAFTA provision opening up the roadways far across the border, the pilot program is ...
3 illegal aliens arrested trying to enter Los Alamos National Laboratory
Post Date: 2007-09-15 14:47:40 by Zipporah
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3 illegal aliens arrested trying to enter Los Alamos National Laboratory Sep 14, 2007 01:52 PM SANTA FE, N.M. - Three Mexican nationals made their initial appearance in federal court here Thursday after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Investigations special agents arrested them for trying to use fraudulent identity cards to gain access to a secure area inside the Los Alamos National Laboratory. ICE special agents on Wednesday arrested Noel Lopez-Villegas, 29, and brothers Juan Carlos Nieblas-Rodriguez, 41, and Guadalupe Nieblas-Rodriguez, 39. All are Mexican nationals who were illegally living and working in the United States. On Wednesday, the three men ...
Illegals charged in Fairview rape
Post Date: 2007-09-14 04:16:48 by freepatriot32
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FAIRVIEW -- Three undocumented immigrants have been charged in the predawn rape of a woman behind a Fairview Avenue bank. The 29-year-old woman was drunk when she got off a bus from Manhattan at about 1:40 a.m. Tuesday on her way home to West New York, said Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli. of the defendants approached her at a bus stop and then carried her to an area next to the Oritani Bank, where one of them raped her, Molinelli said. The second man ran off when a passerby spotted him, the prosecutor said. The passerby, state Corrections Officer Carl Lio, flagged down a police officer a block away. Together they went around the building and found a man -- identified as ...
Illegal Immigration Bankrupting America
Post Date: 2007-09-13 22:54:55 by robin
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Few Americans comprehend the financial costs of illegal migration into the United States. Like a cancer, it enters the body while proliferating until, at some point, it destroys the integrity of surrounding tissue. Illegal migration sneaks up on legal American taxpayers who work honestly within their system. At first, communities and individual taxpayers don't notice it. But soon, it grows beyond normalcy toward malignancy. With in excess of 20 million illegal alien migrants working and living in the United States today, that malignancy spreads out of control in every state where a sizable population of aliens congregates. Gig Conaughton, reporter for the North County Times, ...
Rising dollar dents RBA result [Oz Central Bank]
Post Date: 2007-09-12 00:16:05 by DeaconBenjamin
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The strengthening Australian dollar has dented the balance sheet of the Reserve Bank, with more paper losses likely as the country's relatively high interest rates increase the chances of the currency gaining further. The RBA today reported net unrealised valuation losses of $2.475 billion, generating a total accounting loss of $1.393 billion, the central bank's first loss in 13 years. "This is not the first such loss - the Reserve Bank last experienced one on an AIFRS basis in 1993/94 - and it is unlikely to be the last," RBA governor Glenn Stevens said. "The reason is that there is very little scope for a central bank to manage foreign currency risk without ...
Rudy Giuliani Says Illegal Immigration Is Not a Crime
Post Date: 2007-09-11 19:20:47 by Zipporah
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Posted: Friday, 07 September 2007 9:15PMRudy Giuliani Says Illegal Immigration Is Not a Crime WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said illegal immigration is not a crime, prompting rival Mitt Romney to accuse him of not taking the problem seriously. The two have clashed for weeks over illegal immigration, an issue that inflames GOP conservatives who influence primary elections. The irony is that both candidates have in the past taken more liberal stands on the issue. "It's not a crime,'' the former New York City mayor said Friday. "I know that's very hard for people to understand, but it's not a federal crime.'' ...
Cheap Tomatoes?
Post Date: 2007-09-11 13:08:37 by robin
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This should make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent From a California school teacher - - -'As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of: I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels. Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens , Huntington Park , etc., where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 Schools. Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. ...
URGENT: Senate Vote Could Block Mexican Truck Program - Take Action
Post Date: 2007-09-10 19:18:21 by Zipporah
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URGENT: Senate Vote Could Block Mexican Truck Program - Take Actionby TeamsterPower Mon Sep 10, 2007 at 12:19:21 PM PDTThe Senate is expected to take up the 2008 transportation appropriations bill soon. And as early as this evening, Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-ND, will introduce an amendment that would block funding for Bush's illegal Mexican Truck pilot program. Tell your senators to support the Dorgan amendment now. TeamsterPower's diary :: :: The House passed a similar measure in May that passed by the overwhelming margin of 411-3. This is a bi-partisan, commen-sense, grass-roots issue. Americans of all political persuasions are outraged that the Bush administration would disregard ...
Mexican Dynamite Truck Explodes; 37 Die
Post Date: 2007-09-10 18:18:09 by Esso
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Mexican Dynamite Truck Explodes; 37 Die Sep 10 08:59 AM US/Eastern PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico (AP) - A truck carrying explosives for the mining industry exploded after running into another vehicle in northern Mexico, killing at least 37 people, a federal police official said Monday. The two cars collided Sunday evening on a highway in Coahuila state, near the town of Sacramento, Luis Horacio de Hoyos said. Soldiers, police, emergency officials, nearby residents and reporters were on the scene when the vehicle suddenly caught fire, igniting the truck full of explosives. Maximo Alberto Neri Lopez, a federal police official, said 37 people were killed and 150 were injured. He said the ...
Switzerland: Europe's heart of darkness? (i.e. Swiss see the Light)
Post Date: 2007-09-08 01:05:30 by Horse
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Switzerland is known as a haven of peace and neutrality. But today it is home to a new extremism that has alarmed the United Nations. Proposals for draconian new laws that target the country's immigrants have been condemned as unjust and racist. A poster campaign, the work of its leading political party, is decried as xenophobic. Has Switzerland become Europe's heart of darkness? Published: 07 September 2007 At first sight, the poster looks like an innocent children's cartoon. Three white sheep stand beside a black sheep. The drawing makes it looks as though the animals are smiling. But then you notice that the three white beasts are standing on the Swiss flag. One of the white ...
Tribal chief charged in immigration scheme
Post Date: 2007-09-07 20:05:52 by Zipporah
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WICHITA, Kan., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- The head of an American Indian tribe in Wichita, Kan., was charged Friday with helping illegal immigrants get citizenship fraudulently through his tribe.Authorities charged 69-year-old Malcolm L. Webber with attempting to defraud the government by allegedly helping illegal immigrants become U.S. citizens by joining the Kaweah Indian Nation, The Wichita Eagle reported."Reports are coming in from Social Security offices, driver's license bureaus and law enforcement agencies in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Missouri, Texas, Michigan, California and other states that foreign nationals are showing up with documents purchased from Mr. Webber," U.S. ...
Frosty Wooldridge: US Truckers Jobs On Chopping Block
Post Date: 2007-09-06 20:57:51 by robin
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Via President Bush and Congress' "Mexican Truck Pilot" program, American trucking will change: for the worse. Thousands of Mexican drivers without formal driving standards, without drug testing and without legal passports to identify them to us-shortly will invade America's freeways. They lack the ability to write and read in English, jeopardizing safety checks and logbook protocol. To top it off, they lack experience driving in snow and major metropolitan gridlock traffic. As a former United Van Lines truck trainer and safety officer, I charge President Bush and Congress for contempt of American truckers and American jobs. Of all the lowball frauds Bush perpetrated on ...
Robots May Become Essential on US Farms
Post Date: 2007-09-06 19:43:39 by mirage
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — With authorities promising tighter borders, some farmers who rely on immigrant labor are eyeing an emerging generation of fruit-picking robots and high-tech tractors to do everything from pluck premium wine grapes to clean and core lettuce. Such machines, now in various stages of development, could become essential for harvesting delicate fruits and vegetables that are still picked by hand. "If we want to maintain our current agriculture here in California, that's where mechanization comes in," said Jack King, national affairs manager for the California Farm Bureau. California harvests about half the nation's fruits, nuts and vegetables, ...
Herndon to Shut Down Center for Day Laborers
Post Date: 2007-09-06 00:07:44 by DeaconBenjamin
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The Town of Herndon announced yesterday that it would close its 21-month-old day-laborer center next week instead of complying with a judge's ruling that the site must be open to all residents, including those who might be illegal immigrants. The decision to close the site, which became a flash point in the national debate over immigration, was reached late Tuesday by Mayor Stephen J. DeBenedittis and the six-member Town Council after a 2 1/2 -hour closed-door session. It brings the western Fairfax community virtually full circle in its attempts to regulate -- critics say drive out -- its large population of Latino day laborers. The center was established in late 2005 as an alternative ...
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