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Latest Articles: Immigration
MEXICO'S PLAN PUTS AMERICAN VALUES TO THE TEST
Post Date: 2006-04-04 09:35:24 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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WASHINGTON -- Behind the illegal immigrants waving Mexican and Salvadoran flags in Los Angeles last week; behind the Mexican girl in Arlington, Va., who was quoted as saying on radio, "Citizens -- what are they for? We do all the work"; behind the antiquated calls for taking back the Southwest in the name of a Mexican Aztlan -- there is a plan. I am not saying that this plan, propagated by Mexico City, could challenge the lies, secrecy and Machiavellian scheming of American war plans in the Middle East. I am not saying that the Mexican Foreign Ministry, with its offshoot the Institute of Mexicans Abroad, is directing an "invasion" of the United States. But what is ...
Police brought in as teachers lose control at Berlin school
Post Date: 2006-04-03 20:01:02 by Tauzero
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Police brought in as teachers lose control at Berlin school 31 March 2006 BERLIN - Violence at a Berlin school dominated by Arab and Turkish youths and the nearby slaying of police officer, shot in the head while trying to arrest muggers, has fuelled alarm that troubled parts of the German capital are lurching out of control. Police have now been brought in to help control the situation at the Ruetli school in the immigrant-dominated Neukoelln district, with six officers checking students for weapons. Teachers at the school published a letter this week widely interpreted as saying conditions at their school had become so bad that it should be closed down. The letter said teachers had ...
Immigration Bill Proposes In-State Tuition For Illegals
Post Date: 2006-04-03 13:22:06 by Brian S
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April 3, 2006 The immigration bill now under consideration in the Senate would grant even a broader amnesty to illegal aliens than similar legislation did in 1986, conservatives say, and would make hundreds of thousands of illegal residents eligible for in-state tuition at public colleges and universities. "It should be called 'No Illegal Alien Left Behind,' " said Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican. In 1986, Congress granted amnesty to 2.7 million illegal aliens. Current legislation would allow an estimated 11 million illegal aliens to continue working in the U.S. while applying for full citizenship. Backers of the current legislation say it's not amnesty because the ...
WHAT JOBS AMERICANS WON'T DO?
Post Date: 2006-04-03 12:46:47 by christine
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One reason we're supposed to rejoice at the pitter-patter of illegal feet is that foreigners are only coming here to "do jobs Americans won't do." It's one of those basic assumptions upon which the argument in favor of forgetting we have borders, a culture and laws rests, and even President Bush mentioned this "truth" while speaking about immigration reform recently. And, undoubtedly, there are certain immutable laws of economics. Only, this isn't one of them. The next time someone mindlessly parrots this mantra, just ask, "What jobs would those be?" As you'll soon learn, the answer doesn't really matter, but sometimes we're shamed by didacts who ...
Immigration Debate
Post Date: 2006-04-02 20:16:23 by mirage
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Consider the oxymoron. Hundreds of thousands of law-breaking aliens march in America's streets demanding that their right to live and work in the U.S. illegally be respected. Fearful of backlash at the polls from millions of aliens who, in theory, have no right to vote, the U.S. Congress is preparing to reward those who have broken our laws with the most precious treasure on Earth -- the opportunity to become United States citizens. The politically correct call these people immigrants, but what kind of immigrant enters illegally, works illegally, identifies himself illegally and sends every extra dime he makes back to his former home? The $15 billion to $20 billion sent back to Mexico ...
Skull and Bones ‘Link’ is the Money Behind Immigration Marchers
Post Date: 2006-04-02 16:49:34 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Skull and Bones ‘Link’ is the Money Behind Immigration Marchers Saturday, April 1st, 2006 By Peter Herberg 02/04/06 (RINF) — The strength, size and geographical breadth of recent pro-immigrant marches has stunned many across the United States and the World. This did not happen by coincidence. The marches are anything but spontaneous. They require resources , organization and money. This is the story about the money. The face behind the money is skeletal. It is a primary ally of the Yale University based Society of Skull and Bones. Vicente Fox hired Republican Rob Allyn as an Immigration Lobbyist a few months ago. Rob Allyn is not just a lobbyist- his firm got Vicente Fox ...
Civil rights? How about lawlessness?
Post Date: 2006-04-02 13:54:25 by robin
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Civil rights? How about lawlessness? The protesters seem intent on ending border restraints, not improving immigrants' lives. By Joe R. Hicks, JOE R. HICKS is vice president of the L.A.-based human relations organization Community Advocates, Inc. April 1, 2006 THE DEBATE over illegal immigration has reached a vigorous boil, with contrasting bills in the House and Senate and hundreds of thousands of protesters demonstrating nationwide. The complexities of this debate seem lost on many of the protesters. Many claim that what lies beneath reform efforts is raw racism, leading to the view that the recent protests signal a new civil rights movement. It's simply not true. This nation's civil ...
Immigrant Issues Are Personal for Bush
Post Date: 2006-04-02 11:32:53 by Sam Houston
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Immigrant Issues Are Personal for Bush Associates say he has long had a comfort level with Mexicans and their culture. In a 2004 campaign video, he waved a Mexican flag. By Peter Wallsten, Times Staff Writer April 2, 2006 MIDLAND, Texas — Cecilia Ochoa Levine was a Mexican trying to make it in America. But when she hit upon a promising business opportunity, to make knapsacks south of the border to sell in the United States, she could not get the trade permits she needed. And so Levine asked for help from a longtime friend in Texas, where she had been a legal resident for many years. George W. Bush. Within a week, Levine was on a plane to Washington for a meeting with trade ...
Bloomberg: Illegal Immigrants Help Golfers; golf fairways would suffer if illegal immigrants were deported...
Post Date: 2006-04-02 01:05:33 by Brian S
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NEW YORK, April 1 (UPI) -- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says golf fairways would suffer if illegal immigrants were returned to their native country. "You and I are beneficiaries of these jobs," Bloomberg told his WABC-AM radio co-host, John Gambling. "You and I both play golf; who takes care of the greens and the fairways in your golf course?" However, Robert Heaney, general manager of Deepdale Golf Club -- a Long Island course where Bloomberg often plays -- told The New York Daily News that no illegal immigrants work at the club. "Deepdale Golf Club has always been in 100 percent compliance with all immigration laws, and it is absolutely our policy to remain ...
Minutemen Kick Off Return Engagement In Arizona, Other States
Post Date: 2006-04-01 18:43:51 by Brian S
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THREE POINTS, Ariz. – Minuteman volunteers concerned over the continued flow of illegal immigrants across the border from Mexico gathered Saturday with lawn chairs, binoculars and cell phones for a new monthlong campaign aimed at raising public awareness of the issue. A year after their first watch-and-report operation along the border in southeastern Arizona, members of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps embarked on a much larger effort in the busy migrant-smuggling corridor. “I'm concerned about what's not being done by the government – hasn't been done, apparently,” said J. Glenn Sorensen, a retired school administrator now living in Flagstaff. Sorensen, who was not ...
Thousands in NYC Protest Immigration Bill
Post Date: 2006-04-01 18:41:38 by Brian S
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(04-01) 15:11 PST NEW YORK, (AP) -- Thousands of immigrants formed a line stretching more than a mile long Saturday as they marched across the Brooklyn Bridge, waving flags from more than a dozen countries as they demonstrated against possible immigration reform in Congress. Heralded by a cacophony of trumpets, whistles and drums, the crowd of mostly Latin Americans gathered in downtown Brooklyn and trudged a path laden with symbols of the city's immigrant strength on their way to a plaza in lower Manhattan. The marchers mustered in a neighborhood settled by the Dutch, crossed a bridge designed by a German, and finished in a square at the edge of Chinatown in an area that once held ...
OPERATION WETBACK (1954) - 1,300,000 Illegal Aliens Rounded Up And Deported
Post Date: 2006-04-01 16:53:53 by Uncle Bill
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OPERATION WETBACK The Texas State Historical AssociationFred L. Koestler June 1, 2001 Operation Wetback was a repatriation project of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service to remove illegal Mexican immigrants ("wetbacks") from the Southwest. During the first decades of the twentieth century, the majority of migrant workers who crossed the border illegally did not have adequate protection against exploitation by American farmers. As a result of the Good Neighbor Policy, Mexico and the United States began negotiating an accord to protect the rights of Mexican agricultural workers. Continuing discussions and modifications of the agreement were so successful that ...
How Talk Radio Spurred Immigrant Demonstrations
Post Date: 2006-04-01 12:17:58 by Eoghan
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Word traveled fast over the airwaves helping to pump up turn out at protests across the country For Los Angeles radio producer Luis Garibay, the crusade began with a question, put to Angelica Salas, executive director of the city’s Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights. Was the recently passed House bill making felons of undocumented immigrants and those who help them a serious enough threat, he asked her, that Latino deejays should do something to promote opposition to it? “The anti-immigration forces have their echo chambers through FOX News, CNN and talk radio,” she told him. “You guys have to be ours.” And so it was. For the next two weeks, Garibay's ...
'Let the prisoners pick the fruit'
Post Date: 2006-04-01 00:45:03 by Tauzero
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'Let the prisoners pick the fruits' House members condemn immigration bill WASHINGTON (AP) -- House conservatives criticized President Bush, accused the Senate of fouling the air, said prisoners rather than illegal farm workers should pick America's crops and denounced the use of Mexican flags by protesters Thursday in a vehement attack on legislation to liberalize U.S. immigration laws. "I say let the prisoners pick the fruits," said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California, one of more than a dozen Republicans who took turns condemning a Senate bill that offers an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants an opportunity for citizenship. "Anybody that votes for an amnesty bill ...
Soldier's mother faces being deported (son was killed in Iraq, may be sent back to Mexico because of meth use)
Post Date: 2006-03-31 21:54:43 by Zipporah
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After prison sentence: The woman, whose son was killed in Iraq, may be sent back to Mexico because of meth use The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune OGDEN - The mother of a soldier killed in Iraq admitted in a Thursday court hearing to abusing methamphetamine, breaking the conditions of her treatment program. Angela Cabral was sentenced to up to 5 years in the Utah State Prison, a term that will apparently end with her deportation from the country for which her son died. Cabral, a legal resident of the United States but not a citizen, already was struggling with drug abuse when she learned that her son, Juan Carlos Banuelos Cabral, had been killed in a roadside bomb attack near ...
New Poll: Americans Favor a Guest Worker Plan
Post Date: 2006-03-31 20:06:54 by Brian S
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79% say illegal immigrants should have the chance to work here, but most want tougher enforcement too By JYOTI THOTTAM Americans polled by TIME magazine show strong support for a guest-worker program and a process for undocumented workers to become citizens, but they take a tough stance on securing the borders. And most do not want illegal immigrants to have access to health care, public education or driver's licenses. In the telephone survey of 1004 adults, conducted Wednesday and Thursday, 79% say they favor a guest worker program that would allow illegal immigrants to remain in the U.S. for a fixed period of time — the main provision of the bill proposed by Senators John McCain ...
FOX NEWS TONY SNOW: Immigration Is Not The Pox Neo-Know Nothings Make It Out To Be
Post Date: 2006-03-31 19:18:48 by Mind_Virus
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March 31, 2006 / 2 Nissan, 5766 Immigration Is Not The Pox Neo-Know Nothings Make It Out To Be By Tony Snow Illegal immigration seems to have spawned a dreary debate about the merits of Mexicans, when it should be drawing attention instead to a very different matter: how to build on the luster and wonder of the American dream. Immigration is not the pox neo-Know Nothings make it out to be. Begin with the astounding influx of illegal immigrants, the vast majority of whom hail from Mexico. While the population includes an eye-popping number of crooks, drug-dealers and would-be welfare sponges, it also provides a helpful prop for sustaining American economic growth and cultural dynamism. ...
Bush committed to comprehensive immigration reform
Post Date: 2006-03-31 16:18:13 by Zipporah
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Big News http://Network.com Thursday 30th March, 2006 President Bush says he is committed to getting a comprehensive immigration reform package through the U.S. Congress, one that includes creation of a guest worker program. He spoke after talks in the Mexican resort of Cancun with President Vicente Fox. President Bush went to Cancun at a time when Americans across the country are focusing on the emotional issue of illegal immigration. Polls show the public is just about split, with half wanting a crackdown on undocumented workers and others saying steps should be taken to allow many to work in the United States legally on a temporary basis. The debate followed Mr. Bush to Mexico - ...
Students Who Want To Fly American Flags Walk Out / Skyline Students Say Their Flags Were Confiscated
Post Date: 2006-03-31 15:29:19 by mirage
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LONGMONT, Colo. -- More than two dozen students walked out of Skyline High School Friday morning to protest what they say is a ban that doesn't allow the American flag to be flown on school grounds. Several students said that they were upset that Mexican flags can be waved around but that American flags couldn't. They said that school officials confiscated their American flags because it has become inflammatory because of recent immigration issues. "What we want to know is since when was it against the rules to have an American flag on a car, in a car, in your hands in a school?" said student William Cassity. "When the immigration laws came out we noticed that a lot of ...
Mexico North
Post Date: 2006-03-31 13:07:49 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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As one of those American rarities — a Los Angeles native — I looked at recent, mainly Mexican protests against proposed restrictions on illegal immigration with more than just outrage over lost U.S. sovereignty. I was also reflexively examining aerial photos to pinpoint where in L.A. those hundreds of thousands of Mexican-flag-waving demonstrators were marching. It was downtown Los Angeles, of course, a section of the sprawling city I rarely visited growing up. Then it hit me: As a little kid in the 1960s, my mother had taken me on an outing to Olvera Street, an old section of downtown ("old" for Los Angeles being mid-to-late-19th century) where visitors went to enjoy ...
March Diary [Derbyshire on Immigration] [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-03-31 12:46:35 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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The issue of immigration was suddenly all over the news this month. The interesting question here is: Why does the federal government find it so difficult to do anything? It would seem to be a pretty elementary thing, and a basic function of government, to secure the nation’s borders and monitor who comes in, who goes out. Why can’t we do that? You hear all sorts of reasons. Big Agriculture wants fruit pickers and hog gutters; Elite America wants domestic servants; Middle America wants gardeners (sorry “landscapers” — hard to keep up with job-title inflation); the Dems want future voters; the Catholic Church wants souls; and so on. The real reason we find it so ...
BORDER WAR 2006 - Lou Dobbs in Mexico
Post Date: 2006-03-31 11:50:52 by BTP Holdings
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http://www.apfn.org/audio/M005I060330155839-immigration-dobbs-3-30-06A.MP3 (3.01MB) http://www.apfn.org/audio/M006I060330161158-immigration-dobbs-3-30-06B.MP3 (3.33MB) http://www.apfn.org/audio/M007I060330163355-immigration-dobbs-3-30-06C.MP3 (3.98MB)
Hill Conservatives Warn Bush Of Amnesty Anger
Post Date: 2006-03-31 10:57:01 by Brian S
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March 31, 2006 House conservatives yesterday issued a dire warning to President Bush and Republican leadership that they will pay a devastating political price if they proceed with a guest-worker program or anything resembling amnesty for illegal aliens before securing the borders and enforcing existing immigration laws. "They will remember in November," Rep. J.D. Hayworth, Arizona Republican, said of voters nationwide. "And many of those who have stood with our Republican majority in the last decade are not only angry, many of them plan to be absent from the polls" this year when the entire House and one-third of the Senate is up for re-election. Mr. Hayworth and ...
Jewish Groups Behind Immigration Invasion
Post Date: 2006-03-31 08:06:06 by Zoroaster
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The Official Website of Representative David Duke, PhD 3/31/2006 Jewish Groups Behind Immigration Invasion Posted under: General— @ 3:46 am Jewish groups support immigration invasion The (Jewish) Forward reveals that major Jewish organizations supported the recent pro-illegal alien march in Los Angeles and spearhead amnesty legislation. Commentary by Dr. David Duke Some European Americans suffer under the illusion that organized Jewish power in America is now an ally in our efforts to stop immigration and preserve the heritage and freedom of our American and European homelands. An article in one of the leading Jewish newspapers in the United States, The Forward, thoroughly ...
Text of Salazar's immigration speech
Post Date: 2006-03-30 23:57:13 by mirage
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I rise this morning to speak in support of the immigration reform bill which has been produced of our Judiciary Committee. I want to first congratulate Senator Specter and Senator Leahy for their leadership in that effort in the Judiciary Committee. I also want to congratulate all of my colleagues, Republicans and Democrats, who have come together in support of this historic measure that is now before the Senate. I believe that this measure truly represents the kind of bipartisan spirit that leads to the best policy creation for our country. I’m also proud of the eight sponsors of the McCain-Kennedy bill, including Senator McCain and Senator Graham, Senator Brownback, Senator ...
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