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Latest Articles: Immigration
Mercedes exec arrested under Alabama immigration law
Post Date: 2011-11-26 03:27:11 by Tatarewicz
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Police in Alabama last week arrested and briefly held a visiting Mercedes-Benz executive from Germany for not having a drivers license, drawing attention to the US state's controversial new immigration law. According to the Associated Press, the unnamed 46-year-old manager was only able to present a German identity card when pulled over by Tuscaloosa police last Wednesday. He was subsequently arrested and charged with not having proper identification as required by Alabama’s new immigration law, which has been criticised as being excessively draconian. Eventually, a colleague was able to find the man’s passport, visa and drivers licence at his hotel and took it to police, ...
Tequila Party is pro-immigration
Post Date: 2011-11-14 04:39:04 by Rotara
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The national Tequila Party is not, as you might think, an alcohol-themed college soiree. It's a national movement, with roots in Nebraska, aimed at countering anti-immigration sentiment. It draws its name from the Aztec legend of Mayahuel, lover of the god Quetzalcoatl. Mayahuel is said to have died at the hands of an evil goddess whose favored nectar was tequila. "As Latina/os, we are reclaiming our Tequila Legend that symbolizes strong Indigenous women with Free Will," Shirley Mora James, a lawyer in Lincoln, said by email. Mora James was one of the first on the Tequila Party scene. In her work against what she sees as an anti-immigrant mentality, she found DeeDee Garcia ...
An American Nightmare
Post Date: 2011-11-11 13:22:21 by farmfriend
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An American Nightmare Dan Rather I recently finished an investigation into what's being called one of the largest cases of human trafficking in U.S. history. The project was eye-opening because, before starting, I thought of the crime of human trafficking as inherently violent -- women snatched off the street at gunpoint and forced to sell their bodies; foreign workers indentured and exploited by the violent criminals who snuck them into the U.S. But our report, "American Nightmare", which aired on HDNet, tells a very different story. The alleged victims we found never faced violence or physical threats, but claim they were victims of a modern form of slavery nonetheless. ...
PROSPEROUS AMERICAN FUTURE DEPENDS ON INFLUX OF IMMIGRANTS
Post Date: 2011-11-07 01:52:39 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON -- Sometime last week, demographers estimate, a baby was born who brought the planet's population to a staggering 7 billion. That's worrisome, given the stresses on precious resources such as water. But the underlying trend that has created a crowded planet is not a baby boom in distant, impoverished countries. It's a phenomenon you can see in your own neighborhood or church or civic club: People are living longer and healthier lives. As someone who hopes to live to an advanced old age, I can hardly denounce the trend. But we'll face a slew of challenges -- including inevitable economic decline -- if there are not enough younger workers to fill the coffers for ...
Lanny Breuer: Should have learned from past 'gun-walking' failure
Post Date: 2011-11-01 10:17:54 by Phant2000
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A senior Justice Department official was aware last year that controversial “gun-walking” tactics were used in a gun-trafficking operation carried out five years ago during the Bush administration, but did not take aggressive steps to ensure that such techniques were not repeated in other federal investigations. The same tactics of allowing the purchase of firearms so they could be tracked to gun traffickers and Mexican drug cartel leaders are now at the heart of a congressional investigation into the “Fast and Furious” operation carried out by the the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives during the Obama administration. “Knowing what I now know was ...
Norway's Sovereign (oil) Wealth Fund dumps Freddie and Fannie
Post Date: 2011-10-31 07:06:08 by Tatarewicz
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Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Norway's $570 billion sovereign wealth fund sold all its holdings in U.S. mortgage-backed securities as part of a shift of its fixed-income portfolio. The fund holds no mortgage bonds issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the U.S.-controlled mortgage financiers, and an "insignificant" amount of private home loan-backed bonds, said Yngve Slyngstad, chief executive officer of Norges Bank Investment Management, today in an interview in Oslo. "We've reduced our holdings of mortgage-backed securities," he said. "MBS has been taken out of our internal policy benchmark. This means that we don't have mortgage-backed securities ...
Hungarian Gypsies flocking to Canada
Post Date: 2011-10-29 22:16:55 by X-15
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TORONTO, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Canadian immigration authorities say an unprecedented number of gypsies from Hungary are seeking refugee status on arrival in Toronto. Canada Border Services Agency workers were overwhelmed one night last week when a record 110 gypsies arrived on one flight and extra staff had to be called in to process them, the Toronto Sun reported. The agency said as many as 50 gypsies from Hungary show up and apply for refugee status each day. In recent years, the stateless ethnic group has denounced the term gypsy as derogatory and adopted the name Roma. Gina Csanyi-Roban, executive director of the Roma Community Center, told the Sun city shelters are full and efforts ...
"27% Of All Prisoners In America Are Foreign Nationals!" Congressman Poe
Post Date: 2011-10-25 22:34:28 by Horse
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Poster Comment:That is 27% in federal prisons which are loaded with tax ecaders and illegals don't pat taxes.
Ellis Island and Other Myths
Post Date: 2011-10-25 19:44:20 by GreyLmist
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We have often been told that “America was built by immigrants.” Certainly our nation has been one of the most welcoming nations in the world if not the most welcoming nation. Anually, the United States grants lawful immigrant status to more than 1.1 million aliens–immediately placing them on the pathway to United States citizenship. The issue is that those who advocate open borders and unlimited immigration have seized on that phrase about America having been built by immigrants as a way of persuading as many people as possible- among them our fellow Americans as well as our leaders, that the American Dream was the result of this massive influx of immigrants. If you accept ...
US expelled 400-thousand illegals in 2011
Post Date: 2011-10-19 04:12:37 by Tatarewicz
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The US has deported about 400,000 immigrants in 2011, marking the highest number of such expulsions since the formation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) eight years ago. Over 50 percent of the 396,906 deportations, from October 2010 through September 2011, concerned illegal immigrants with criminal records, Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday. Concerning the number and priority of the deportations, ICE Commissioner John Morton told reporters, "You can count on seeing more of the same next year." US President Barack Obama's administration decided in September to extend the deployment of 1,200 National Guard troops on the US-Mexico border through the end ...
Man Arrested For 65th Time After Holding Woman And Her Children Hostage
Post Date: 2011-10-02 14:03:22 by Horse
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NORTHBROOK, Ill. (STMW) – A woman and her two small children escaped a home in unincorporated Northbrook after her attacker fell asleep, ending a week-long captivity during which the woman repeatedly beaten. Francisco Tirado, 27, of the 3700 block of Salem Walk in unincorporated Northbrook, was charged Friday with two felony counts of aggravated domestic battery and one felony count of aggravated unlawful restraint, according to a release from the Cook County Sheriff’s office. The arrest was the 65th since 2001, the release said. Tirado was also charged with two counts of domestic battery and one count of interference with emergency communications related to domestic battery, ...
With Tens of Millions of Citizens in Great Need, Why Spend Hundreds of Billions on Illegal Aliens?
Post Date: 2011-09-26 19:34:05 by James Deffenbach
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With Tens of Millions of Citizens in Great Need, Why Spend Hundreds of Billions on Illegal Aliens? Millions of American citizens are in serious financial trouble. Consider the pandemic of economic ruin running rampant in our great nation: Unemployment and underemployment have idled or undercut 14-25 million Americans. In the black community, the devastation is even more pronounced, the suffering all the greater. Foreclosures and bankruptcies are at record levels. Millions of Americans owe more on their homes than the homes are worth. 40-50 million Americans are on food stamps. Young adults are being forced to move back into the homes of their parents just to survive. New graduates from ...
Arthur Kemp - Demographics is Destiny
Post Date: 2011-09-24 17:45:38 by X-15
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Study: Most new Texas jobs went to immigrants
Post Date: 2011-09-22 12:37:43 by Jethro Tull
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ORLANDO -- With both jobs and immigration likely topics of sharp debate at tonight's Republican debate here in Florida, a new report suggests that newly-arrived immigrants have filled a majority of new jobs created in Texas, home to Republican frontrunner Gov. Rick Perry. "Of jobs created in Texas since 2007, 81 percent were taken by newly arrived immigrant workers (legal and illegal)," says the report from the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that advocates reduced levels of both legal and illegal immigration. The report estimates that about 40 percent of the new jobs were taken by illegal immigrants, while 40 percent were taken by legal immigrants. The vast majority ...
Couple Accused of Stealing Millions Intended for Preschoolers’ Meals
Post Date: 2011-09-18 04:41:42 by noone222
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A Staten Island couple stole at least $2.5 million in federal funds meant for nutritious meals for preschoolers, prosecutors asserted in a criminal complaint unsealed on Friday. Uli Seit for The New York Times The Red Apple Child Development Center chain includes a preschool at 42-31 Colden Street in Flushing, Queens. The complaint accused the couple, Joanna Fan and her husband, Ziming Shen, of siphoning money over five years from accounts at the nonprofit Red Apple Child Development Center preschool chain, of which Ms. Fan, also known as Xiao Ping, is the executive director. The complaint accused the couple of using the money to make mortgage payments on several Manhattan ...
NYC Settles With Mom Who Got Pepper-Sprayed
Post Date: 2011-09-03 08:55:28 by Eric Stratton
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NYC Settles With Mom Who Got Pepper-Sprayed By ADAM KLASFELD BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CN) - New York City agreed to pay $40,000 to settle the civil rights claims of a mother who went into premature labor after a cop pepper-sprayed her. Shacassie Nicole Rollins Risher was 8 months pregnant as she attended a family barbecue in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant on Aug. 2, 2008. Police officers got into a fight with a partygoer at around midnight, and called for backup. Risher's said an unidentified officer got out of his patrol car, banged his stick, and shouted, ...
Illegal immigration is flash point for Republican White House hopefuls
Post Date: 2011-09-02 19:46:05 by X-15
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KEENE, N.H. — Mitt Romney opened his town hall meeting here talking about the economy — his thoughts on growing business, getting government out of the way — just as he does nearly every other campaign event. But when he opened last week’s forum for questions, the first voter he called on didn’t seem concerned about any of that. He wanted to know the Republican presidential candidate’s stance on border security. A similar scene played out in South Carolina a few days later, when Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) attended a town hall meeting she assumed would center on the economy, jobs and the federal deficit — only to see the assembled voters react most ...
<strike>Undocumented workers </strike> Illegal Aliens got billions from IRS in tax credits, audit finds
Post Date: 2011-09-02 11:19:55 by Jethro Tull
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Undocumented workers got billions from IRS in tax credits, audit finds By Lisa Rein The Internal Revenue Service allowed undocumented workers to collect $4.2 billion in refundable tax credits last year, a new audit says, almost quadruple the sum five years ago. Although undocumented workers are not eligible for federal benefits, the report released Thursday by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration concludes that federal law is ambiguous on whether these workers qualify for a tax break based on earned income called the additional child tax credit. Taxpayers can claim this credit to reduce what they owe in taxes, often getting refunds from the government. The vagueness ...
Mexican Police Are Now Staging Drug Raids From Inside The U.S.
Post Date: 2011-08-28 19:03:35 by Horse
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The New York Times reports that the Obama administration is now allowing Mexican police to orchestrate cross-border drug raids from inside the United States. Under the new program, Mexican agents travel secretly to the U.S. where, with intel and support from the DEA, they launch so-called "boomerang missions" against suspected drug traffickers back across the border. The operations are yet another indication of the deteriorating security situation in Mexico. By staging operations from the U.S., both governments hope to avoid the cartel corruption that continues to plague the Mexican military. The campaign also skirts around the strict limitations Mexico puts on U.S. agents ...
Feds Break Up Iraqi Crime Ring Accused Of Selling IEDs To Mexican Drug Cartels
Post Date: 2011-08-20 13:14:15 by Horse
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Federal law enforcement agents in San Diego arrested 60 people in connection to an Iraqi criminal ring with ties to Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel. The gang is accused of selling drugs, machine guns and improvised bombs (IEDs) out of a social club for Iraqi immigrants in El Cajon, Calif., a city close of more than 90,000 located near the Mexican border. According to the federal indictment, unsealed yesterday, the six-month investigation led to seizures of 34 firearms, including machine guns and semi-automatic assault rifles, four IEDs, 3,500 pounds of marijuana, 18 pounds of meth, and other drugs. A DEA operative was also shown a hand grenade by one of the Iraqis, and was told ...
Greenfield — Now Too Indigenously Diverse for Local Mexicans (Greenfield, California)
Post Date: 2011-08-16 14:29:30 by Big Meanie
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The town of Greenfield, California, first flashed on my radar screen in 2001 when I read about local Mexicans sexually harassing girls as they walked home from school every day. The moms complained to the INS since many if not all of the perverts were illegal aliens. (See A Town Divided: INS deports 39 after schoolgirls and parents complained of harassment, sparking debate on racism and sexism in Salinas Valley, San Francisco Chronicle, 4/16/01....LINK). Concerned parents were accused of racism even though they were Hispanic themselves. because any objection to criminal alien behavior gets the programmed response, no matter what. Greenfield got national attention in 2009 when a story ...
Sharia Law Controlled Zones in British Cities - Press Conference
Post Date: 2011-07-30 13:01:59 by Horse
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Poster Comment:I am opposed to Zionism but these guys are going too far.
ICE Raids University of Northern Virginia Offices School prohibited from accepting foreign students
Post Date: 2011-07-29 10:17:07 by Horse
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Dozens of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided offices at the University of Northern Virginia's Annandale campus Thursday. The University of Northern Virginia is an unaccredited, for-profit private university that calls itself the most popular American university for students from India. Thousands of students are registered at three locations in northern Virginia. Agents have removed boxes of documents from a building on Little River Turnpike where the university leases two suites. The university temporarily can't accept any foreign students, reads a notice posted on the door of the offices. UNVA students must leave the country immediately if they are unable “to ...
Chicago mayor creates support office for immigrants
Post Date: 2011-07-26 12:40:00 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Chicago mayor creates support office for immigrants Published July 19, 2011 | EFE Chicago – Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday announced the creation of the Office of New Americans to provide support for Chicago's immigrant communities and strengthen their contributions to the city's economic, civic and cultural life. "Chicago's vitality has been built on the strength of immigrant populations that have come to enjoy new freedoms and access new opportunities," Emanuel said in a statement. "I want to make Chicago the most immigrant-friendly city in the world," the mayor said. According to the mayor, who is thus fulfilling one of his campaign promises, the ...
Bank Financed Drug Gang Plans to Overthrow Mexican Government Next Year
Post Date: 2011-07-25 12:54:10 by Horse
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Last week, Carmen Álvarez Excelsior wrote a report for Salem-News.com claiming the notorious drug gang Los Zetas will attempt to overthrow the Mexican government next year using weapons sent by the United States. Excelsior said the brutal gang uses an airport in Fort Worth, Texas, to fly the weapons into Mexico. Rejón Aguilar, one of the original seven members of Los Zetas who was recently captured by police, told Mexican officials the gang bought guns directly from the U.S. government under its Operation Fast and Furious. Excelsior reported that military-grade weapons are also brought into the country through the El Paso-Ciudad Juarez and Palomas-Columbus border crossings. ...
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