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Latest Articles: Immigration
Farmers Fret Over Losing Immigrant Workers
Post Date: 2006-03-14 13:02:32 by Brian S
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OMEGA, Ga. (AP) - Randy Scarbor was counting on the 15 immigrant workers who lived on his farm to harvest his 60-acre sweet-potato crop last fall, but they vanished just as the work got underway. He instead was forced to bring in some less-motivated substitutes for the backbreaking job. "I wound up hiring some locals that weren't worth hauling to the field," he said. "It was the worst harvest labor in my life and I've been in the farming business 35 years. But we got it in." Scarbor believes most of his regular workers were lured away to the Gulf Coast by the promise of higher wages for jobs associated with hurricane recovery. He said he knows a few also switched to ...
Gang members charged in rape allegedly watched by mother of one
Post Date: 2006-03-14 10:35:03 by Horse
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Authorities called it one of the worst rape cases they could recall. Seven gang members and three female associates were charged Monday with raping a woman as the mother of one suspect allegedly watched and encouraged the assault, authorities said. The 23-year-old victim was targeted because her boyfriend had angered members of the Anaheim gang, authorities said. She was lured into a hotel room by a female gang associate at a Feb. 23 party then sexually assaulted over a seven-hour period, Anaheim police Chief John Welter said. He called it "one of the worst rapes I've seen in my 35 years experience." Authorities identified the 38-year-old "gang mother" as ...
'I Am Outraged'
Post Date: 2006-03-13 19:43:21 by Coral Snake
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'I Am Outraged' By Frosty Wooldridge 3-12-6 "I am outraged!" a reader responded concerning the killings of Americans by illegal aliens; by our schools being overwhelmed; by our language being displaced inside our own country and our laws being ignored by aliens and elected officials all the way to the president. "The question is how long before it reaches a boiling point, and when it does: 1) Will Americans place the blame where it properly belongs and deal effectively with the roving band of robbers in Washington that allowed it to reach this point? 2) Will Americans have the fortitude to see it through and take back their country from the usurpers? At this point, I have ...
Tancredo Foresees Immigration Battle
Post Date: 2006-03-13 19:10:40 by Brian S
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Posted Mar 13, 2006 Rep. Tom Tancredo (R.-Colo.), chairman of the 90-member Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, spoke with the editors of HUMAN EVENTS last week about the immigration-reform legislation now beginning to move through the Senate.You supported the House immigration reform bill that passed in December.I did.Now we have a bill starting through the Senate Judiciary Committee under Chairman Arlen Specter (R.-Pa.). What are your concerns there?Number one, the bill would provide amnesty for just about every one of the 13 to 20 million illegal aliens. It has an unlimited guest-worker plan attached to it. The provisions that are designed to actually enhance border security are so ...
Illegal Aliens Are Most Crime-Prone Group
Post Date: 2006-03-12 22:29:58 by BTP Holdings
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Illegal Aliens Are Most Crime-Prone Group By James P. Tucker Jr. American Free Press | March 20, 2006 Aday after illegal aliens protested pending immigration legislation, a new report showed they are the most crime-prone segment of society. If the nation’s 24 counties bordering Mexico were a 51st state, they would rank number one in crimes, mainly due to immigration and drug arrests, according to a study released in Washington March 8. “We have many challenges to address, and our problems have a significant impact on the nation as a whole,” said Greg Cox, president of the U.S./Mexican Border Counties Coalition and a San Diego County supervisor. The report, At the ...
Guest Worker Program - Observation On Population
Post Date: 2006-03-12 20:45:22 by Coral Snake
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Guest Worker Program - Observation On Population By Frosty Wooldridge 3-12-6 How many kids in your family? Two, maybe three? If you're the average, you've got two kids. If you're big on family, you may have four. How would you like to be forced to adopt 10 more kids? What if someone dumped 20 more kids into your home and you were forced to feed them with your paycheck that doesn't grow with the number of kids 'you' adopted? Hold onto your seatbelts, because your president and Congress force you on a ride you will not survive. Pennsylvania's Senator Arlen Specter along with Arizona's John McCain and Massachusetts' Ted Kennedy propose a guest worker program that will add 60 million people ...
100,000 rally for immigrants in Chicago
Post Date: 2006-03-11 21:48:35 by Zipporah
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Big News Network.com Saturday 11th March, 2006 (UPI) More than 100,000 immigrants and supporters rallied in Chicago in opposition to a federal bill that would put a fence at Mexico's border. The crowd marched from Union Park to Federal Plaza Friday, shutting down the Loop, calling for a wider acceptance of immigrants, specifically Mexican. The bill, H.R. 4437, which already passed in the House, would increase punishment for undocumented immigrants along with other enforcement measures. Protestors mostly support an alternative bill offered by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. The Chicago Tribune said Friday's events spread by word of mouth and shut down many ...
100,000 Wetbacks March in Chicago!
Post Date: 2006-03-11 16:25:13 by Flintlock
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100,000 March in Favor of Immigrant Rights By KAREN HAWKINS & Nathaniel Hernandez Associated Press Writer March 11, 2006, 10:56 AM EST CHICAGO -- Hoisting American flags into the air, tens of thousands of immigrants from the Chicago area marched downtown in a display of support for immigrant rights as a bill to stiffen border enforcement awaits action in the U.S. Senate. Many took up enthusiastic chants like "Si, se puede (Yes, it can be done)" and "La raza unida nunca sera vencida (A people united will never be defeated)." The mostly Latino marchers Friday descended upon the plaza across from the federal courthouse, where they listened to speeches backing ...
Bush Defines Amnesty as 'Automatic' Citizenship
Post Date: 2006-03-10 12:47:20 by Brian S
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President Bush has repeatedly said that he is not for providing “amnesty” to illegal aliens in the United States, but he has not always made clear exactly what he means by the word “amnesty.” White House spokesman Scott McClellan defined it this week, however, when I put the question to him at a White House press briefing. Webster’s Dictionary defines “amnesty” as “the act of an authority (as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals.” McClellan, however, said that the President believes “amnesty” would be anything that “put someone on an automatic path to citizenship.” In other words, ...
McCain and Hillary Rally Illegals
Post Date: 2006-03-10 12:46:04 by Brian S
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Posted Mar 10, 2006 Senators John McCain (R.-Ariz.) and Hillary Clinton (D.-N.Y.), the current frontrunners for their parties’ 2008 presidential nominations, joined Senators Teddy Kennedy (D.-Mass.) and Charles Schumer (D.-N.Y,) in rallying a group of illegal aliens who came to Washington, D.C., on March 8 as part of a lobbying effort funded by a foreign government to push for amnesty for illegal aliens. McCain and Clinton both effusively greeted the illegal-alien lobbyists as if they had come to champion some great moral and constitutional cause. “It is so heartening to see you here,” said Clinton. “You are really here on behalf of what America means, America’s ...
Border Security Backfire; Illegal Immigrants Afraid To Visit Hometowns
Post Date: 2006-03-08 21:19:59 by Brian S
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Beefed-up efforts to tighten the borders have failed to slow the flow of undocumented immigrants and are even discouraging illegal residents from returning to their home country, the author of a study released Tuesday found. A Pew Hispanic Center study found that undocumented immigrants pour past U.S. borders at a rate of 850,000 a year. As they arrive, they are finding a receptive labor market and staying longer. About one out of seven workers in Los Angeles County is now undocumented, compared with about one in 20 nationwide, the study found. "Once they come in, they are actually reluctant to leave," said Jeffrey Passel, author of the study for the Pew Hispanic Center. ...
Ariz. Governor Orders Troops to Border
Post Date: 2006-03-08 18:35:37 by The 7th MJS2U2
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PHOENIX - Gov. Janet Napolitano on Wednesday ordered more National Guardsmen posted at the Mexican border to help stop illegal immigrants and curb related crimes. ADVERTISEMENT National Guard troops have worked at the border since 1988, but Napolitano signed an order authorizing commanders to station an unspecified number of additional soldiers there to help federal agents. Once the funding is approved, the troops will monitor crossing points, assist with cargo inspection and operate surveillance cameras, according to the order. "They are not there to militarize the border," the governor said. "We are not at war with Mexico." About 170 National Guardsmen are already ...
View On Guest Workers Changes; Director of US Citizenship & Immigration Services Ready To Run Program...
Post Date: 2006-03-08 12:02:13 by Brian S
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March 8, 2006 The director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said yesterday that the agency is now ready to run a guest-worker program, just five months after he told a Senate hearing that the agency was not prepared. Emilio Gonzalez said the agency can handle whatever program Congress sets up, in part because much of the workload would be outsourced to contractors. "We have the tools, we have the personnel, and I believe we have the structure to adequately handle a guest-worker program if and when we get one," he said. "Obviously, we'll need some additional tools and some resources, but we're ready." In October, at his confirmation hearing, Mr. Gonzalez ...
Raising a racket against illegal immigrants' hirers
Post Date: 2006-03-08 11:52:53 by The 7th MJS2U2
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CALDWELL, Idaho — Like many communities, this fast-growing agricultural pocket of southwestern Idaho is paying a high tab for illegal immigration. When an undocumented worker gave birth to a premature baby, the county wound up with a $174,000 hospital bill. County officials say the jail spent thousands to house another illegal immigrant at a motel to keep him from spreading tuberculosis to fellow inmates. But where others have merely chafed at paying such costs, officials in Canyon County are trying a novel approach: The all-Republican county commission has filed a racketeering lawsuit against four big businesses in the area, charging that they knowingly and deliberately hired ...
Illegal Immigrants Rise To 12M — 5% Of All Workers In U.S.
Post Date: 2006-03-07 16:36:37 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of illegal immigrants in the United States has grown to as many as 12 million, and they now account for about one in every 20 workers, a new estimate says. Efforts to curb illegal immigration have not slowed the pace, said a report Tuesday by the Pew Hispanic Center. Instead, the report's author said, those efforts are having an unintended consequence: People who illegally enter the United States from Mexico are staying longer because it is harder to move back and forth across the border. "The security has done more to keep people from going back to Mexico than it has to keep them from coming in," said Jeffrey Passel, a senior research ...
TREASONOUS BUSH: Illegal Alien Gold Card
Post Date: 2006-03-07 01:07:17 by Uncle Bill
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Does Bush Have The Midas Touch? The Dan Stein Report Dan Stein March 7, 2006 Can he sell the Senate "Tarjetas Dorado" aka "Gold Cards" for Illegal Aliens allowing them to stay in U.S. indefinitely? The Stein Report has learned of an secret briefing for Senate staffers by the Bush administration today. In a move to build support for Bush's guest worker amnesty plan, administration officials talked about how they would actually implement the program. Jaws dropped as the administration reps explained the centerpiece of the program, a "Gold Card" that would enable illegal aliens to enter the U.S. at will, and work at any job with no labor market or other tests ...
US, Mexico End Cement Spat To Boost Post-Katrina Rebuilding
Post Date: 2006-03-06 22:35:24 by Brian S
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The United States and Mexico signed an agreement to end a long-running dispute over cement trade, boosting the rebuilding effort for US communities ravaged by hurricanes last summer. US Trade Representative Rob Portman's office said the accord ended all legal action at the World Trade Organisation brought by Mexico in response to anti-dumping duties imposed by Washington on its cement exports. "This agreement will provide a needed increase in the supply of cement in the United States at a time of strong demand, as our Gulf Coast is accelerating its rebuilding following the devastation of hurricanes Katrina and Rita," Portman said in a statement. The deal provides for up to ...
Globalization's many discontents
Post Date: 2006-03-06 16:21:09 by Tauzero
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Globalization’s Many Discontents By Paul Craig Roberts Yale University law professor Amy Chua writes in World on Fire that “free market democracy” has an Achilles’ heel: market-dominant minorities. The disproportionate success attained by market-dominant minorities foments ethnic hatreds. Democracy provides the envious and resentful majority the means to strike at the successful minority, making conflict inherent in “free market democracy.” What is to be done? Chua is too realistic to offer pie-in-the-sky alternatives to markets and democracy. After relating examples of how “free market democracy” works against itself in countries with multi-ethnic ...
Arizona Torn on Immigrants
Post Date: 2006-03-05 19:38:50 by Zipporah
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In the state that sees half of the unauthorized border crossings in the U.S., residents and officials are unable to reconcile their positions. By Nicholas Riccardi, Times Staff Writer March 5, 2006 MESA, Ariz. — One minute, Glenna Twing talks about the immigrant residents of the apartment buildings she manages with the warmth typical of Arizona's business-friendly conservatives who cherish immigrant labor. Her tenants, Twing says, are in the country legally and "are hardworking business entrepreneurs who are trying to make a living and contribute back to society." Another minute, the 60-year-old Arizonan expresses the frustration that has made the state the epicenter of ...
Chertoff Promotes Guest Worker Program; Says Security Of Nation Depends On It
Post Date: 2006-03-05 16:06:00 by Brian S
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Homeland Security secretary says security of nation depends on it The Brownsville Herald March 4, 2006 — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Friday stressed the importance of a guest worker program for the security of the nation during a visit to Brownsville. “We are in the midst of a serious discussion about a guest worker program,” Chertoff said Friday at Alice Walker Hope Park, which is on the bank of the Rio Grande with a view of Gateway International Bridge. “Not as amnesty, not a reward, but a constructive mechanism to allow migrants in the U.S. to assume a strong labor demand.” A mandatory identification card and background check ...
Sheriffs testify (in US Senate) that border overtaken by criminals
Post Date: 2006-03-02 23:15:48 by Red Jones
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Sheriffs testify that border overtaken by criminals Lilly Rockwell Cox News Service Mar. 1, 2006 04:11 PM WASHINGTON - The number of border patrol officers assaulted has doubled in the past fiscal year. More illegal immigrants are dying in the deserts of Arizona and Texas. And sophisticated smuggling rings are using tunnels and military-style uniforms to bring drugs into this country. That's the dire picture of life along the border between the United States and Mexico painted by border patrol and customs officials, a Texas rancher and sheriffs at a Senate hearing Wednesday on border violence. "The problems along the border will continue unless our federal government does ...
U.S. Will Clamor For Mexican Workers In Coming Years, Fox Says
Post Date: 2006-03-02 14:13:23 by Brian S
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ABOARD THE PRESIDENTE JUAREZ - Flying high above the Yucatan peninsula, Mexican President Vicente Fox leaned forward and pointed a finger to make this point: In a few years, he said, the United States may be begging Mexico for the very workers it's now trying to keep out by building a wall along the border. With the looming retirement from the work force of the U.S. baby boom generation, and with Mexico's population growth-rate declining, immigration from Mexico will slow just as demand for workers in the United States will be growing, he told Knight Ridder in an interview aboard his presidential jet. "I am absolutely convinced that by 2010, the United States will have a great ...
Violence On Border At Record High
Post Date: 2006-03-02 13:55:59 by Brian S
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March 2, 2006 Violence on the U.S.-Mexico border is at an all-time high because illegal aliens are more willing to attack U.S. authorities, and an increasing number also are convicted criminals, border sheriffs said yesterday. Whereas 10 years ago they would flee back to Mexico if anyone challenged them, now aliens make it clear they will fight, the sheriffs told a Senate Judiciary Committee panel. "They make it known to the deputies: 'We're going through, you're not going to stop us,' " said Sheriff A. D'Wayne Jernigan of Val Verde County in Texas. And Sheriff Larry A. Dever of Cochise County in Arizona said when smugglers are involved, law enforcement now expects the worst. ...
Better Education Urged for Hispanics [One of every seven U.S. residents is Hispanic]
Post Date: 2006-03-01 12:39:50 by Brian S
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(03-01) 08:22 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of every seven U.S. residents is Hispanic, and that will eventually increase to nearly one of every four, according to a new study that calls for improved education to integrate the minority group into society. "Failure to close Hispanics' education and language gap risks compromising their ability to both contribute to and share in national prosperity," cautions the study by the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences. Gabriela Lemus, director of policy and legislation at the League of United Latin American Citizens, agreed that graduating from high school is critical. Without that "they are less ...
Judge Rules for Cubans Who Got to Bridge
Post Date: 2006-02-28 22:27:08 by Brian S
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(02-28) 18:50 PST MIAMI, (AP) -- A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the U.S. government acted unreasonably when it sent home 15 Cubans who thought they had safely made it to the United States when their boat reached an abandoned bridge in the Florida Keys. Judge Federico Moreno ordered the federal government to make its best effort to help the immigrants return to the United States, said Kendall Coffey, an attorney for the Cubans and their relatives. One of the 15 migrants, Elizabeth Hernandez, 23, was celebrating the decision from her family's home in Matanza, Cuba. "I am so happy," she told The Associated Press by telephone Tuesday evening. "I always had hope I ...
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