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Latest Articles: Immigration
Hit-and-Run: Death in a 'Sanctuary City'
Post Date: 2010-02-01 13:47:00 by christine
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It was one of the strangest hit-and-runs police had ever seen in Austin, Texas. Early last September, officers answering a call at 4:19 a.m. found a young man dead along a highway. They surmised he was a motorcyclist. He was, after all, wearing motorcycle garb -- a helmet, black-leather jacket, boots. A few hundred feet away, officers spotted a single skid mark running down the highway, and disappearing from sight. Oddly, no motorcycle could be found. A check of the victim's driver's license revealed his name: Eric M. Laufer. Laufer, 25, was a highly-regarded musician and songwriter in Austin -- and unlike many musicians here, the graduate of Boston's prestigious Berklee ...
Immigration Debate Prompts Growing Jewish-Latino Ties [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-01-31 17:13:07 by Jethro Tull
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Washington — Even as health care reform twists in the wind, immigration policy looms as the next big political debate — and Hispanics and Jews are moving to the forefront in a burgeoning political alliance. The next three months are seen as critical in the fight for immigration reform, but the weakening of the Democrats’ grip on Congress with the recent loss of a key Massachusetts Senate seat does not bode well for the passage of reform legislation. The Jewish-Latino alliance on immigration issues builds on the heritage and experience of the Jewish community and on the enthusiasm and urgent needs of the Hispanic community, which has a strong interest in issues of family ...
White People Sticking Up for Palin and McCain
Post Date: 2010-01-31 12:58:01 by Deasy
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Supporters of Sarah Palin at rally in Richmond, Va., on October 13, 2008. Footage and interviews by Shepherd Johnson and David Swanson.
Poster Comment:Pathetic. The camera team obviously likes Obama. The saddest thing is that people in 2008 believed a vote for Obama would be a vote for peace. Lesson #1: your vote does not matter. Zip. Forget it. Both parties were effectively 100% pro-Amnesty at the time of this interview.
Recession causes record drop in money sent to Mexico
Post Date: 2010-01-28 12:20:04 by DeaconBenjamin
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Hit by the recession, Mexican migrants sent home 15.7% less in remittances last year, a record drop, the country's central bank reports. Although it marked the second straight yearly decline — and the second drop since tracking began in 1996 — migrants still sent home big bucks: about $21.2 billion. For 2008, the bank reported $25.1 billion in remittances. The Banco de Mexico breaks out the types of transfers for the last three months of '09, along with a state-by-state breakdown of where the money went in Mexico from April to December. If you want to know more about how money can be transferred through a U.S. bank, the details are here. Seeking Alpha pointed out this ...
How Some Haitians Want to Save Port-au-Prince: Leave It Behind
Post Date: 2010-01-27 15:05:40 by Prefrontal Vortex
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How Some Haitians Want to Save Port-au-Prince: Leave It Behind By JAY NEWTON-SMALL / PORT-AU-PRINCE AND JIMANI Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010 A dozen young men jostled one another waiting in line on Jan. 24 for food and water in Cité Soleil, one of Haiti's poorest neighborhoods. One wore an Obama campaign T-shirt, and when asked about it, he and his comrades grinned and chanted, "Obama!" But when asked if they would stay in Port-au-Prince and help rebuild the devastated city as the Obama Administration is encouraging Haitians to do, they all shook their heads. "As Obama said, all Haitians are Americans, and all Americans are Haitians," said Bertrand Aboite, 31. The ...
Calif. councilman defends 'proud racist' remark at immigration rally
Post Date: 2010-01-27 14:44:56 by X-15
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A Southern California councilman is attracting attention and drawing some fire for declaring at an anti-immigration rally that he is "a proud racist" if that means believing that the United States should have only one flag and one language, the Los Angeles Daily News reports. In a long article posted yesterday (and flagged by memorandum), the paper writes that Santa Clarita Councilman Bob Kellar "stood by his remarks" at the Jan. 16 rally, saying they "reflected his frustration with illegal immigration, but weren't intended to express animosity against nonwhites." "It doesn't mean I'm going to saddle up the horses at midnight," said ...
Send Illegal California inmates to Mexico
Post Date: 2010-01-26 00:05:09 by DeaconBenjamin
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SAN FRANCISCO - GOVERNOR Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested on Monday California could ease its crowded prison system by sending thousands of undocumented inmates to specially built jails in Mexico. Speaking to reporters at the Sacramento Press Club, Mr Schwarzenegger said California could ease its strained finances by a billion dollars if 20,000 illegal immigrants currently held in the state were housed across the border. 'I think that we can do so much better in the prison system alone if we can go and take, inmates for instance, the 20,000 inmates that are illegal immigrants that are here and get them to Mexico,' Mr Schwarzenegger said. 'Think about it - if California gives ...
Debate grows in aftermath of quake: Should U.S. let more Haitians immigrate?
Post Date: 2010-01-25 19:45:04 by scrapper2
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From morning until night, Dieula Celestin's cellphone rings in Miami's Little Haiti. It is her younger brother, Roger Paul, calling from Port-au-Prince, where he and their 65-year-old mother live with no food, no job and no money in the street outside the remnants of their house. Celestin knows that federal immigration rules forbid her brother, her mother and half a dozen other people in her family who survived the earthquake -- as eight others died -- to enter the United States. Still, she flew to Haiti late Saturday, hoping that somehow she could find a way to bring them back. Now that the earthquake's initial shock is giving way to the realities of trying to cope in the ...
Wiser Than America: Neighboring Dominicans Refuse Haitian Influx
Post Date: 2010-01-19 15:48:21 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Wiser Than America: Neighboring Dominicans Refuse Haitian Influx [Patrick Cleburne] @ 12:01 am [Email author] [Email this article] [Print this article] As the Obama Administration seizes the pretext of the Haitian earthquake to relax border enforcement so as to increase and render permanent the Haitian invasion of America, the neighboring Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola, is doing exactly the opposite. Tension grows in the border with Dominican Republic as Haitians try to escape by Daniel Shoer Roth The Miami Herald Saturday 1.16.10 splutters: Dominican officials along the border with Haiti confirmed on Friday that they were expecting tens of thousands of ...
State, Palm Beach County agencies gearing up for possible waves of refugees from Haiti
Post Date: 2010-01-14 21:21:52 by Jethro Tull
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As aid workers dug through the rubble of Haitian cities devastated by Tuesday's massive earthquake, county, state and federal agencies across South Florida were gearing up Thursday to accommodate anticipated waves of refugees from the battered Caribbean nation. In Palm Beach County, a mass-migration expert with the emergency management division was monitoring relief efforts, and emergency managers were readying for action if immigrants started coming ashore. "Any time you have an event like this," migration is a possibility, said Chuck Tear, Palm Beach County's emergency operations director. "We're continuing to monitor the situation and will provide support as ...
California: South Africa Revisited?
Post Date: 2010-01-14 19:02:48 by Prefrontal Vortex
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California: South Africa Revisited? By Boethius What, besides perfect weather, does modern California have in common with Apartheid-era South Africa? More than meets the eye. That California is in deep financial trouble is no secret. Also no secret (at least while Lou Dobbs was on the air) is that a major source of the trouble is the swollen population of low-income Hispanics who pay no income taxes while needing more social services than the working-class Americans they displaced. However, there is more to California’s fiscal nightmare than a mismatch of falling taxes and rising needs. There is also the staggering cost of salaries, benefits, and pensions for California’s ...
Mexican woman tells of ordeal with cross-border child traffickers
Post Date: 2010-01-13 19:03:09 by Horse
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A young Mexican woman who escaped from human traffickers has told US special agents how she witnessed babies and children being "sold to order" to US citizens. America's Department of Homeland Security in Washington says the girl, known only as Maria, had "significant ~information" and possessed a "remarkable memory" of her experiences inside the gang. In an interview with Channel 4 News, to be broadcast tonight, the teenager tells of a cross-border trade in babies and young children, where Mexican and US gangs worked together to supply a demand in the United States. As a result of the interview, US officials and Mexican authorities have begun an ...
Migrants leave Italian town amid violence
Post Date: 2010-01-12 18:28:34 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Migrants leave Italian town amid violence By Richard Allen Greene, CNN (CNN) -- The message blaring out of the speakers on the van was stark: "Any black person who is hiding in Rosarno should get out. If we catch you, we will kill you." Abdul Rashid Muhammad Mahmoud Iddris got out. He's one of hundreds -- perhaps thousands -- of African migrants taken by bus out of the Italian town over the weekend after violent demonstrations shook southern Italy. The unrest was among the worst of its kind in recent Italian history, said a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration. "We have not witnessed such protests in a long time," said Flavio Di Giacomo. ...
Obama Readying Immigration Overhaul Despite Political Risks
Post Date: 2009-12-31 14:22:50 by X-15
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WASHINGTON - The punishing battle over healthcare is still unresolved, but the Obama administration is quietly laying plans to take up another issue that could generate even more controversy and political division--a major overhaul of the nation's immigration system. Already, senior White House aides have privately assured Latino activists that the president will back legislation in 2010 to provide a road to citizenship for the estimated 12 million undocumented workers now living in the United States. In a conference call with proponents, White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina, political director Patrick Gaspard and others recently delivered the message that the White House is ...
Corrupting Our Mexican Border Patrol ~ Good fences make good agents
Post Date: 2009-12-21 10:22:21 by mel_living
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Corrupting Our Mexican Border PatrolGood fences make good agentsAmerican Patrol Report Comment -- December 21 "For as long as historians can remember, lying has been part of the Mexican culture." Andres Oppenheimer, Bordering on Chaos In 2006 the New York Times reported that 62 percent of U.S. Border recruits were Hispanic. Since the vast majority of Hispanics in the U.S. are of Mexican heritage, it is safe to say that we have been recruiting mostly Mexicans to guard the Mexican border. Mexicans have strong family ties that reach across the border. Is it racist to suggest that many of these new agents might be somewhat conflicted in ...
Millionaires' Row 2009: How hundreds of families get luxury homes on benefits far beyond the means of most working people
Post Date: 2009-12-20 11:47:48 by Jethro Tull
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Millionaires' Row 2009: How hundreds of families get luxury homes on benefits far beyond the means of most working people By Paul Bracchi Last updated at 8:40 AM on 19th December 2009 Comments (-) Add to My Stories Their magnificent townhouse overlooks a courtyard and is in one of the most expensive areas of London. It has four storeys, six bedrooms (some with balconies), three sitting rooms and four bathrooms - as well as a concierge service.The property is worth a cool £1.8 million and would cost you or me nearly £1,600 a week to rent. Enlarge Luxury: Francesca Walker and three of her eight children. The family is housed in a £2.6million London villa in ...
Judge: Gangs more deadly than some Gitmo detainees
Post Date: 2009-12-19 19:35:28 by Jethro Tull
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WASHINGTON – The chief judge of the federal court in Washington told lawyers Thursday that domestic street gangs are more deadly than some Guantanamo Bay detainees who could face trial in U.S. courts. Judge Royce Lamberth was speaking at an American Bar Association breakfast about Attorney General Eric Holder's recent decision to put the reputed Sept. 11 mastermind and four accused henchmen on trial in New York federal court. Lamberth didn't refer specifically to those five in his comments, but rejected the suggestion made by some critics of Holder's decision that U.S. courts cannot secure defendants like terror suspects held at Guantanamo. "The gangs are more ...
Two vehicles hit by gunfire at Nogales port of entry
Post Date: 2009-12-17 10:44:07 by mel_living
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Several shots were fired near the Mariposa Port of Entry in Nogales on Monday, striking two vehicles waiting in line to enter the United States. Between six to eight shots rang out at about 7:45 p.m., striking a bus and car as they awaited entry into the U.S., said Brian Levin, Customs and Border Patrol spokesman. No injuries were reported and the port was closed until 8:25 p.m. The shots came from Mexico and were not fired by someone in line, Levin said. The incident is the first of its kind at the port, which is now on heightened alert. 60;We are being very vigilant of what is around us,61; Levin said.
Sheriff Arpaio sued by members of MCSA and discredited ACORN
Post Date: 2009-12-16 14:50:39 by mel_living
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PHOENIX (CN) - Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been sued again, by people who say they were arrested for applauding critics of Arpaio at a county Board of Supervisors meeting, or for "trespassing" in a public building where they had gone to make an appointment with a county supervisor. Two women say sheriff's officers arrested them for "disorderly conduct" after they applauded criticism of Arpaio's immigration policies at a Board of Supervisors meeting. Some of the protesters say they were arrested three days before the meeting, for "trespassing," as they waited to make an appointment with a supervisor in a public waiting area of the board's offices. ...
OBAMA TO AMERICAN WORKERS: DROP DEAD! [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-12-16 10:48:32 by mel_living
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D.A. King Warning to Obama: Another amnesty not the answer Yesterday Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to reward the hordes of illegal aliens who made it past our Border Patrol Agents with legalization, jobs, public benefits and eventually the right to vote as citizens. With the open borders lobby57;s usual shameless contempt for the intellect of the American people, Gutierrez is calling his bill 60;Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America57;s Security and Prosperity.61; The 2010 battle for repeating the 60;one-time61; amnesty of 1986 has begun. Don57;t expect the legislation to receive nearly as much attention from the ...
Aztlan Surrender Act of 2009
Post Date: 2009-12-16 10:07:29 by mel_living
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Aztlan Surrender Act of 2009Eighty-seven Sign On to Amnesty BillAmerican Patrol Report -- December 16 Rep. Luis Gutierrez introduces his bill to end U.S. sovereignty. A bill [view here - pdf] that prohibits the United States of America from using its military to protect its borders, ties the hands of U.S. Border Patrol by imposing severe border environmental rules, and forces Customs and Border Protection to treat invaders as honored guests, is supported by at least 87 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill also grants amnesty to anyone who got across the border before December 15, 2009, the date it was introduced, and prohibits ...
Immigration overhaul bill unveiled in House
Post Date: 2009-12-16 07:09:16 by DeaconBenjamin
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The legislation, which includes a path to legalization, is met with criticism from conservatives and liberals. Reporting from Los Angeles and Chicago - Raising the curtain on a new round of debate over immigration reform, a group of Democratic congressional lawmakers introduced a comprehensive bill Tuesday that, among other provisions, would offer a path to legalization for the country's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants. The bill, championed by Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-Ill.), was decidedly more pro-immigrant than the bipartisan legislation House lawmakers debated two years ago. And the latest version drew immediate fire from the left as well as the right. Groups opposed to ...
Democrats move to overhaul immigration
Post Date: 2009-12-15 23:15:08 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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House Democrats Tuesday unveiled major legislation to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, pegging its passage to the fulfillment of a campaign promise by President Barack Obama. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), who has shepherded the bill, enjoyed chants of “yes we can” from a horde of onlookers in a packed room in the Rayburn House Office Building. But the future of the bill is more uncertain. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus, including Chairwoman Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) and its most senior member, Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-Texas), lauded the bill, saying it’s long overdue and would help integrate undocumented immigrants into U.S. society. But with the nation’s ...
‘This isn’t the Britain we fought for,’ say the ‘unknown warriors’ of WWII
Post Date: 2009-12-15 12:10:40 by Jethro Tull
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Sarah Robinson was just a teenager when World War II broke out. She endured the Blitz, watching for fires during Luftwaffe air raids armed with a bucket of sand. Often she would walk ten miles home from work in the blackout, with bombs falling around her. As soon as she turned 18, she joined the Royal Navy to do her bit for the war effort. Some WWII soldiers, and families of those lost in the war, have complained society today shows no sign of the effort they made to help Hers was a small part in a huge, history-making enterprise, and her contribution epitomises her generation's sense of service and sacrifice. Nearly 400,000 Britons died. Millions more were scarred by the experience, ...
Obama Moves on Amnesty
Post Date: 2009-12-15 10:22:52 by mel_living
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Today Rep. Luis Gutierrez will introduce legislation granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. This legislation would not have seen the light of day without the go ahead from Barack Obama, just as we predicted he would. Leading the charge to justify amnesty is Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. She told the Arizona Republic: "The congressional marks for number of agents and miles of fence are all being met. All the numbers (of immigrants entering the country) are down. The argument that there is this uncontrolled flow of people into the country just doesn't match with the facts." Napolitano is not telling the truth and the American people need to know it ...
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