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Latest Articles: Immigration
Opening round of immigration reform begins
Post Date: 2007-03-26 22:43:28 by scrapper2
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It is the opening salvo in the new round of debate about immigration reform in Congress. Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) introduced on Thursday the STRIVE Act (Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy) of 2007, a bipartisan comprehensive reform immigration bill. In a debate that has been dominated by irrationality, harsh rhetoric and outright racism, the mere introduction of this bill is an all-important first step. "The introduction of the STRIVE Act is a step toward passing a bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill that will make our immigration system more humane while addressing border security, economic security, ...
Dr. Simon says ... Send home illegal immigrants
Post Date: 2007-03-25 23:15:17 by mirage
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Cook County health services chief disputes announcement that long-term residents should be evicted from Oak Forest Hospital Dr. Robert Simon, chief of Cook County health services, said the county should fly illegal immigrants living at Oak Forest Hospital back to the countries they came from. "We're giving luxury service in a setting like a park," Simon said in an interview Friday, referring to the acres of grass and trees on the sprawling campus. "We've got undocumented aliens that are living there like that." Simon was disputing that the county plans to evict about 220 patients by Sept. 1 -- as the patients were told Friday -- but defending his opinion that ...
IS NORTH AMERICAN UNION ABOUT POLITICAL IDEOLOGY?
Post Date: 2007-03-25 14:43:44 by Nostalgia
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If you believe there should be no borders marking a specific entity called the United States of America, then a North American Union will not concern you. If you believe nationalism, meaning love and pride of country, is a bad thing, then a North American Union will not concern you. If you believe government control of the market, of health care, and of energy policy is a positive force, then a North American Union will not concern you. If you believe anyone should be allowed to enter our nation, even illegally, obtain work, taxpayer-paid social programs, and owe no allegiance to the U.S., then a North American Union will not concern you. On the other hand, if you believe the United States ...
Illegals to sue imprisoned deputy sheriff
Post Date: 2007-03-25 10:52:01 by christine
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In a case eerily reminiscent of the controversial jailing of Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos while the illegal-alien drug-smuggler they wounded went free, two illegal aliens are now suing imprisoned Texas Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez for injuries from shell fragments that struck them as the officer shot at the tires of a van in which they escaped from a routine traffic stop. Maricela Rodriguez-Garcia and Candido Garcia-Perez are preparing to file a civil lawsuit against Hernandez and Sheriff Don G. Letsinger, possibly seeking millions of dollars in damages for alleged violation of their civil rights. Jimmy Parks, defense attorney for Hernandez, told WND the lawsuit ...
Study: 1 million sex crimes by illegals
Post Date: 2007-03-24 21:38:08 by Horse
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Researcher estimates more than 100 offenders crossing border daily Based on a one-year in-depth study, a researcher estimates there are about 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States who have had an average of four victims each. Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the Violent Crimes Institute in Atlanta analyzed 1,500 cases from January 1999 through April 2006 that included serial rapes, serial murders, sexual homicides and child molestation committed by illegal immigrants. She found that while the offenders were located in 36 states, most were in states with the highest numbers of illegal immigrants. California had the most offenders, followed by Texas, Arizona, New Jersey, ...
An Immigrant Segment by Radio’s ‘Jersey Guys’ Draws Fire
Post Date: 2007-03-24 08:21:12 by Jethro Tull
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NEWARK, March 22 — Craig Carton and Ray Rossi think mental illness is hilarious and Asian-Americans are best mocked with sing-song Chinese accents. The men, hosts of an afternoon radio show called “The Jersey Guys” that is heard here on WKXW (101.5 FM), favor adjectives for politicians that have to be bleeped out. Two weeks ago, Mr. Carton and Mr. Rossi started “Operation Rat a Rat/La Cucha Gotcha,” a listener-participation game that encourages people to turn in friends, neighbors and “anyone suspicious” to immigration authorities. They introduced the segment with mariachi music and set the campaign to end on May 5 (Cinco de Mayo), a well-known ...
Illegal immigrants allowed at least five strikes
Post Date: 2007-03-24 00:13:45 by Horse
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Border-crossings guidelines revealed amid probe into U.S. attorney firings Documents released in the controversy about eight fired U.S. attorneys show that federal prosecutors in Texas generally have declined to bring criminal charges against illegal immigrants caught crossing the border — until at least their sixth arrest. A heavily redacted Department of Justice memo from late 2005 disclosed the prosecution guidelines for immigration offenses, numbers the federal government tries to keep classified. DOJ officials would not say Thursday whether it has adjusted the number since the memo was written, citing "law enforcement reasons." The prosecution guidelines have been a ...
Benefits of Multi-Cultural Enrichment Caught On Security Camera
Post Date: 2007-03-23 20:56:55 by Liberate Jim Traficant
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An invader leaves a nice present in townsquare that everyone can enjoy!
Immigration: When doing the right thing hurts
Post Date: 2007-03-23 02:28:02 by mirage
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Kirsten Stewart is not the kind of American that President Bush and the Democratic congressional leadership is likely to bring up as they renew their push for so-called comprehensive immigration reform. Stewart is not the personification of any of the cliches that Bush and the Democratic leadership enjoy tossing about; she is not an impoverished illegal immigrant “living in the shadows.” Nor is she a businesswoman who can't seem to find an American willing to work hard for a fair wage. To the contrary, she is an example of the steep price America pays in integrity when its government refuses to enforce its laws, allowing many of its citizens to violate it with absolute ...
Bill would permit illegal immigrants to stay
Post Date: 2007-03-22 16:00:52 by Red Jones
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Bill would permit illegal immigrants to stay Mike Madden Republic Washington Bureau Mar. 22, 2007 10:17 AM WASHINGTON - Millions of undocumented immigrants could get legal permission to stay in the U.S. by paying fines and symbolically re-entering the country, under an immigration reform bill introduced in the House Thursday. The bill also would allow up to 400,000 foreign workers to come to the U.S. legally every year. The legislation would require Homeland Security officials to certify that border security and worksite enforcement measures are in place before allowing foreign workers to apply for new visas. It would force undocumented immigrants to leave the country and then ...
Immigration bill to include path to legalization
Post Date: 2007-03-22 12:36:17 by Red Jones
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Immigration bill to include path to legalization By Dena Bunis The Orange County Register (MCT) WASHINGTON - A bipartisan immigration bill set to be introduced in the House later this week includes a path to legalization for undocumented immigrants but would also require these residents to leave the United States and return legally before being eligible to change their status. A draft summary of the bill, obtained late Tuesday by the Orange County Register, includes most of the basic elements in the comprehensive immigration bill that passed the Senate. But what will make or break this legislation will be the details. The measure is to be introduced Thursday by Reps. Luis Guitierrez, ...
EU-style union coming to a continent near you, 'Working groups led by DHS should now [be] driven by a single agenda: the SPP'
Post Date: 2007-03-21 11:35:19 by christine
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A memo signed by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff implements a controversial program condemned by critics as a precursor to a European Union-style partnership with Mexico and Canada. The document shows the Security and Prosperity Partnership, or SPP, is being directed at the highest level of the Bush administration, says the public interest group Judicial Watch, which obtained it and other documents through a Freedom of Information Act request. The Sept. 22, 2005, memo describes the agencies within the Department of Homeland Security responsible for executing the security agenda of the SPP. Titled "Implementation Memorandum for the (SPP)," the ...
G.O.P. Candidates Confront Immigration Politics
Post Date: 2007-03-20 11:25:02 by Horse
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DES MOINES, March 17 — Immigration, an issue that has divided Republicans in Washington, is reverberating across the party’s presidential campaign field, causing particular complications for Senator John McCain of Arizona. The topic came up repeatedly in recent campaign swings through Iowa by Mr. McCain and Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, another Republican who, like Mr. McCain, supports giving some illegal immigrants a path to citizenship, a position that puts them at odds with many other conservatives. Both candidates faced intensive questioning from voters on the issue, which has become more prominent in the state as immigrants are playing a larger and increasingly visible ...
Utrecht: Ethnic Riots after Dutchman is Killed by Police
Post Date: 2007-03-20 01:15:37 by Tauzero
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Utrecht: Ethnic Riots after Dutchman is Killed by Police From the desk of Paul Belien on Wed, 2007-03-14 12:31 Ondiep, a working class neighbourhood in the Dutch town of Utrecht, is in turmoil. After the death last Sunday of Rinie Mulder, a 54-year old indigenous Dutchman who was shot by a police officer, non-immigrant citizens went on a rampage, burning cars, looting shops and arsoning a community centre in “inverted Paris style riots.” According to our sources the police officer who killed Mulder is a woman of Moroccan origin. The Ondiep residents have been complaining for months about harassment and intimidation by immigrant youths of Moroccan origin. The Dutch mainstream ...
PRESIDENTE BUSH - "And as the president of your grand country(Mexico), I know you're deeply concerned about how your citizens are treated within our country."
Post Date: 2007-03-19 03:34:30 by Uncle Bill
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Presidente Bush Worldnetdaily By Joseph Farah March 19, 2007 Does Bush think he is president of Mexico? Is Bush the president of Mexico? Apparently he believes he is. Last week he made his case to the Mexican people for what he euphemistically calls "comprehensive immigration reform" in the U.S. He pledged to do more for the Mexican people. Huh? Is that what Americans elected Bush to do? More for the Mexican people? What about his own country? What about his own people? And does Bush believe emptying out more than 10 percent of the Mexican population into the U.S. is somehow a service to the country and people of Mexico? Because that's what his open-border policies ...
ADL To Start Focusing On Fighting Anti-Immigrant Bias
Post Date: 2007-03-18 16:40:10 by Brian S
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BOSTON - The Anti-Defamation League of New England, which is primarily known for combating anti-Semitism, plans to put significant focus on the fight against what is says is rising hostility against immigrants. Leaders of the ADL said they are alarmed at the animus toward immigrants that is surfacing as the country debates how to secure its borders. ”We fight against bigotry in all forms,” Andrew Tarsy, regional director of the ADL of New England, told The Boston Globe. ”It has become clear both in the extremist world and even in the mainstream that the conversation about immigrants is laced with bigotry.” The ADL effort will include directly reaching out to ...
Gang mayhem grips LA
Post Date: 2007-03-18 14:40:36 by mirage
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A bloody conflict between Hispanic and black gangs is spreading across Los Angeles. Hundreds are dying as whole districts face the threat of ethnic cleansing. Paul Harris reports from the epicentre of America's new urban warfare Sunday March 18, 2007 The Observer Father Greg Boyle keeps a grim count of the young gang members he has buried. Number 151 was Jonathan Hurtado, 18 - fresh out of jail. Now the kindly, bearded Jesuit mourns him. 'The day he got out I found him a job. He never missed a day. He was doing really well,' Boyle says. But Hurtado made a mistake: he went back to his old neighbourhood in east Los Angeles. While sitting in a park, Hurtado was approached by a ...
The Anti-Immigrantion Agenda Veers Hard Right, Tancredo's Putsch
Post Date: 2007-03-17 05:22:01 by Zoroaster
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March 16, 2007 The Anti-Immigrant Agenda Veers Hard Right Tancredo's Putsch By TOM BARRY Republicans, like most Democrats, would prefer to keep immigration issues out of presidential politics. But restrictionist Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) has other plans. Having announced in January the creation of a presidential campaign exploratory committee, Tancredo hopes to make immigration policy a major campaign issue of the presidential race. Tancredo, who founded the House Immigration Reform Caucus, says that immigration "is the issue that propels me." It's a multifaceted issue, he notes: "It touches our educational system, our medical system, our national security, our ...
Bush: Indentured servants welcome
Post Date: 2007-03-16 10:49:04 by christine
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So George W. Bush has come back from his trip to Latin America with a newfound determination to open up the U.S.-Mexican border. Oops, I mean, he wants "comprehensive immigration reform." One big hint about his intentions came clear Tuesday afternoon in M–rida, Mexico, when the American president began his joint remarks alongside Mexican President Felipe Calder–n by telling his counterpart, "Perhaps the biggest single issue concerning your country is the issue of migration." Note that last word. The more precise term to describe Mexicans leaving Mexico is "emigration," but instead Bush chose the politically correct "migration." The ...
Outed CIA officer to tell her story to Congress [C-Span Babe Watch Alert] [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-03-16 07:54:24 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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WASHINGTON -- Valerie Plame's life changed the day her name appeared in a newspaper column, her job as a CIA officer exposed in black and white. THE COUPLE IN QUESTION: Former CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband, Joseph Wilson, say her CIA job was revealed to retaliate for Wilson's public criticism of the administration. - HARAZ N. GHANBARI / Associated Press She goes before a House committee today as both a shadowy figure and a celebrity, with lucrative book and movie deals in the works, a magazine cover in her past and her unceremonious unmasking four years ago the subject of persistent intrigue.Now she is lifting the veil by her own hand, and to maximum ...
GRE Cheating and Immigration
Post Date: 2007-03-15 00:43:17 by robin
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GRE Cheating and Immigration [Randall Burns] @ 3:58 pm [Email author] [Email This Article] [Print This Article] In the March 10 Tapei Times Max Hirsch writes: Rampant cheating by tech-savvy students in East Asia, including those from Taiwan, has forced the Educational Testing Service (ETS), the US-based testing organization with an annual budget of nearly US$1 billion, to promulgate a new, “cheat-resistant” version of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) worldwide, testing officials said yesterday. The GRE is a standardized test that most US graduate schools require prospective students to take. Now the big potential reward for foreigners taking the American-based GRE is ...
Bush to Congress: Immigration reform is key to better relations with Latin America
Post Date: 2007-03-14 19:12:34 by Brian S
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MERIDA, Mexico – President Bush, seeking to rebuild ties with Mexico, pledged Wednesday to intensify efforts to overhaul U.S. immigration laws and crack down on illegal drug trafficking. Bush said that he senses there has been a change of attitudes in Congress about updating immigration laws, from skepticism last year to recognition now that changes are in U.S. interests. “I will work with Congress, members of both political parties, to pass immigration law that will enable us to respect the rule of law – and at the same time, respect humanity,” Bush said in a news conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderón. Bush, facing a huge fight within his own ...
Greenspan: Let more skilled immigrants in
Post Date: 2007-03-14 17:37:48 by Tauzero
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Greenspan: Let more skilled immigrants in By Bloomberg News | March 14, 2007 WASHINGTON -- Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said allowing more skilled immigrants to work in the United States would help keep the income gap from widening. Inequality of incomes is the "critical area where capitalist systems are most vulnerable," Greenspan said yesterday in Washington at a conference on maintaining the competitiveness of US capital markets convened by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. "You cannot have a system that we have unless the people who participate in it believe it is just." Allowing more skilled workers into the country would bring down the ...
What Can We Learn from the Mexicans?
Post Date: 2007-03-14 01:19:52 by Tauzero
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What Can We Learn from the Mexicans? In his essay "America Vs Mexico: Clashing Civilizations", Frosty Woodbridge [sic], a columnist with a generally good head on his shoulders, puts forward ten points which he claims demonstrates that "everything about Mexico degrades everything about America." While I am sympathetic with Frosty's view that Mexicans do not make good Americans, and certainly not in the numbers which are now washing across the border like wastewater from a gigantic broken sewer line, I think he is seriously mistaken in the flaws he assigns to our Little Brown Neighbors. The following is list of Frosty's ten points, numbered here for convenient ...
Illegal Alien 'Colonias' Shantytowns Spreading Diseases, Death
Post Date: 2007-03-13 22:47:23 by robin
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Hello Jeff -- Frosty Wooldridge was the first to write about the horrors of 'colonias' years ago. I did locate one other article published in May of 2005 that described these despicable shanty towns set up by illegals living in disease and squalor. Why aren't local governments doing something? ANYTHING? I am sure these shanty 'colonias' are totally illegal in terms of zoning laws and should be torn down as a matter of public health immediately. Maybe public health laws only pertain to US citizens who can be cited, fined and even whisked away without explanation at a moment's notice by the Public Health authority? Excerpt from the article: "A 'hot-zone' ...
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