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Latest Articles: Immigration
Border Patrol "spot checks" on ferries provoke outrage in San Juan Islands
Post Date: 2008-04-23 04:04:48 by Ferret Mike
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A Washington State ferry approaches the ferry dock in Friday Harbor, San Juan Island. Residents have complained about occasional Border Patrol checks in Anacortes when they ride the ferries to the Washington mainland. FRIDAY HARBOR, San Juan County — The people of the San Juan Islands tend to be independent sorts, espousing a do-it-yourself, leave-me-be ethos as natural and ever-present as the tide. But for many of the 17,000 people of this island county, the normal rhythms of small-town life have hit a dissonant chord lately. A couple of months ago, the U.S. Border Patrol began occasional "spot checks" of every vehicle and passenger arriving in Anacortes off state ...
A New View of Vacant Houses, Immigrant Crackdown Changing Block for the Better, Pr. William Pair Say
Post Date: 2008-04-22 23:58:24 by christine
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When Chris Pannell walks down the Prince William County street she has called home for all of her 39 years, she's dismayed by what she sees -- vacant houses -- and delighted by what she says she doesn't see -- illegal immigrants. "I will take coming down here and looking at 10 empty houses any day over what we had before," says Pannell, a title examiner, as she and her neighbor, Allison Kipp, 42, amble past lifeless houses. This stretch of Lafayette Avenue in the Manassas area is a fairly gloomy scene. "For Sale" signs flap outside two of the 30 1960s-era red brick starter homes on the block. Eight others appear to be vacant. Few cars are parked on the street. ...
Tancredo Criticizes Pope’s Comments on Immigration
Post Date: 2008-04-22 18:12:24 by X-15
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( WASHINGTON, D.C. ) – Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) today criticized the Pope’s comments regarding U.S. immigration policy. According to reports, Pope Benedict XVI said the United States must do “everything possible to fight ... all forms of violence so that immigrants may lead dignified lives.” “I would like to know what part of our lax immigration policy is considered violent,” Tancredo said. “I fail to see how accepting more refugees than any other nation –and providing free health care, education, housing and social service benefits to millions of illegal aliens is in any way ‘violent’ or ‘degrading.’” Pope Benedict ...
Mexican security, railway damage slow flow of illegal immigrants from Central America to U.S.
Post Date: 2008-04-21 23:46:13 by Ferret Mike
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ARRIAGA, Chiapas — For thousands of illegal immigrants from Central America, the long journey to the U.S. has started here, on the groaning back of a freight train they call "The Beast." These days, however, fewer of them are finding their trips to be a success. Central Americans without documents face increased security within Mexico, including checks on the train for stowaways. It's also harder for them to head north once they cross into Mexico because of hurricane damage to the tracks. The result: The number of non-Mexican immigrants stopped by the U.S. Border Patrol has dropped almost 60 percent from 2005. About 68,000 non-Mexican immigrants — mostly Central ...
Americans 'Off-Shore'
Post Date: 2008-04-21 18:19:46 by richard9151
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Over 5 million Americans live outside the country or its territories. Few pay income taxes. "Few" in this case means about 300,000. And those 300,000 probably are on penisions, which is why they file. And just because they file does not mean that they pay. If they had to pay more than they collected, most of them would not file. I have posted before that the accumlative tax rate within the United States now exceeds 85%. From the lack of comment about that when I have posted it, I assume that most of you really do not understand just how serious it is. No nation can exist with that type of tax burden. Perhaps if some of you will think that through, you will begin to see where ...
Moral dilemma. Would you deport his kid back to Mexico w/o medical care? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-04-21 08:23:16 by Jethro Tull
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LOS ANGELES - Ana Puente was an infant with a liver disorder when her aunt brought her illegally to the United States to seek medical care. She underwent two liver transplants at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center as a child in 1989 and a third in 1998, each paid for by the state.But when Puente turned 21 in June, she aged out of her state-funded health insurance and the ability to continue treatment at UCLA.This year, her liver began failing again and she was hospitalized at County-USC Medical Center, affiliated with the University of Southern California. In her Medi-Cal application, a USC doctor wrote, "Her current clinical course is irreversible, progressive ...
Lawyers in a how-to video: as in how to avoid hiring an American
Post Date: 2008-04-19 06:49:55 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workers. See what Bush and Congress really mean by a "shortage of skilled U.S. workers." Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and thousands of other companies are running fake ads in Sunday newspapers across the country each week. PERM Fake Job Ads defraud Americans to secure green cards for Illegals
AG's refusal to take illegal immigrants' case threatens federal funding (Nebraska)
Post Date: 2008-04-18 18:36:10 by _______
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LINCOLN, Neb. (Legal Newsline)-Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning's failure to prosecute a case on behalf of two illegal immigrants could cost the state federal funding aimed at fighting discrimination. Earlier this month, after the Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission forwarded him the latest case involving the illegal immigrants, Bruning said the state should consider shutting down the commission entirely. Taxpayer money, he added, should not be used to pursue a case on behalf of an illegal immigrant, even if there was a legitimate complaint. A U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said Thursday that it would no longer reimburse the state for pursuing discrimination ...
Makeover urged for 'North American Union' effort
Post Date: 2008-04-16 11:29:59 by FOH
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Heavy criticism of continental integration prompts plan to save flagging movement Poster urging protest of North American Security and Prosperity Partnership On the verge of next week's North American summit in New Orleans, a Canadian think tank has suggested renaming the "North American Union" to renew progress toward continental integration in the face of mounting criticism. A paper entitled "Saving the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership", published last month by the Fraser Institute in Canada, contends President Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper have decided to expend no more political capital in pursuing "the bust" that ...
Department of Homeland Security: A Complete Fraud
Post Date: 2008-04-14 09:13:15 by christine
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While bombing Iraq and Afghanistan in the name of the “War on Terror,” George Bush allowed(s) millions of unidentified people from around the world a free pass into the United States daily for the past seven years of his presidency. His terrorism war proves a complete fraud on the American public when placed under the scrutiny of verifiable facts. President George Bush may be compared to Captain Edward John Smith of the Titanic. Both men pretended expertise in their chosen professions; both men created two significant man-made disasters of the 20th and 21st centuries. Smith sailed too fast through iceberg infested waters during the maiden voyage of the steamship Titanic. He ...
Feds say border fence not tough enough (Illegal immigrants armed with torches, hacksaws, ladders and even bungee cords are making it around a section of the border fence hailed as the most efficient way to stop them)
Post Date: 2008-04-11 18:23:03 by _______
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COLUMBUS, N.M. (AP) — Illegal immigrants armed with torches, hacksaws, ladders and even bungee cords are making it around a section of the border fence hailed as the most efficient way to stop them. In the 10 months since the section was put up, the only method federal agents haven't seen is a tunnel — "Yet," said Victor Guzman, the supervisory Border Patrol agent responsible for the stretch of close-together 15-foot cement-filled steel poles planted three feet into the ground. Agents responsible for guarding the stretch of border here "almost immediately" started seeing cuts in the fence. The towering gray and rust colored posts are marked with bright ...
Busting Paranoid Right-Wing Fantasies of Dissolving the Mexico-U.S.-Canada Borders (Canadian Commies NO LONGER Allied with American Anti-NAU Coalition)
Post Date: 2008-04-11 18:22:58 by _______
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A version of the following article was published at AlterNet.org on April 9, 2008. It is reprinted here with permission from the authors. This month, President Bush will host the leaders of Canada and Mexico to advance the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), a project Lou Dobbs has predicted will "end the United States as we know it."Lou sounds downright blasé, though, compared to all the online ranting and raving on this subject. And while there are plenty of reasons for progressives to be up in arms over this effort to expand the North American Free Trade Agreement, the xenophobes have clearly cornered the market.In their paranoid fantasies, the three North ...
Villaraigosa warns ICE to back off immigration raids
Post Date: 2008-04-10 14:53:18 by _______
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L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa warned that work-site raids on "nonexploitative" businesses could have a severe impact on the local economy. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (Tony Villar) is asking federal officials to rethink their policy on workplace immigration crackdowns that involve established businesses and to focus on employers that mistreat workers instead. The mayor said in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that work-site raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement could have "severe and long-lasting effects" on the local economy, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. ICE made more than 4,900 work-site arrests nationwide in fiscal 2007, ...
Slain Teen’s Family Begs LAPD To Ask And Deport
Post Date: 2008-04-09 19:34:01 by Horse
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Weakening accusations that Judicial Watch is racist for fighting a police department’s don’t-ask-don’t tell immigration policy is a black family’s emotional plea for “ask and deport” after their teenage son was brutally murdered by an illegal alien gang banger one day after the thug completed a jail sentence for a previous felony. This blog pointed out last month how the Los Angeles Police Department’s longtime policy (Special Order 40) of banning officers from inquiring about suspects’ immigration status essentially allowed a notorious gang member—and illegal alien—to murder a high school football star 24 hours after being released from ...
Mexico Complains of Too Many Repatriated Mexicans
Post Date: 2008-04-09 17:53:49 by ghostdogtxn
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Mass Migration
Post Date: 2008-04-09 17:50:20 by ghostdogtxn
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HOOVER, EISENHOWER & DEPORTATION
Post Date: 2008-04-09 14:29:13 by Jethro Tull
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Here is something that should be of great interest for you to pass around. I didn't know of this until it was pointed out to me. But, back during the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover ordered the deportation of all illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American citizens that desperately needed work. And then again in 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower deported 1.2 million Mexican nationals! The program was called "Operation Wetback" so that American WWII and Korean veterans had a better chance at jobs. It took 2 years, but they deported them! Now, if they could deport the illegals back then, they can sure do it today!! Again, if you have doubts about ...
(Arizona) House panel suggests guest worker proposals
Post Date: 2008-04-07 21:38:49 by Red Jones
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House panel suggests guest worker proposals Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services Undocumented workers already in the state would be ineligible for employment under any guest worker program Arizona might set up. Sen. Marsha Arzberger, D-Willcox, said Monday the legislation she crafted with Rep. Bill Konopnicki, R-Safford, had to be written that way to avoid opposition from “the anti-immigrant crowd.’’ The measure would die if they weren’t excluded, she said. And that, she said, doesn’t help anyone. “Our intent is to fill the need and get some temporary labor here,’’ said Arzberger of HB 2863. But Arzberger conceded the legislation still will ...
Coming soon to you -- the Third World!
Post Date: 2008-03-29 15:54:18 by YertleTurtle
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Poster Comment:Ain't this sweet? This is in America! I wonder how hard it would be to build a rotary gun -- you know, a Vulcan mini-gun. It might come in handy someday.
Throw the Book at 'Em: Judge Sentences Three Men to Learn English or Go to Jail
Post Date: 2008-03-27 18:33:24 by robin
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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A judge known for creative sentencing has ordered three Spanish-speaking men to learn English or go to jail. The men, who faced prison for criminal conspiracy to commit robbery, can remain on parole if they learn to read and write English, earn their GEDs and get full-time jobs, Luzerne County Judge Peter Paul Olszewski Jr. said. The men, Luis Reyes, Ricardo Dominguez and Rafael Guzman-Mateo, plus a fourth defendant, Kelvin Reyes-Rosario, all needed translators when they pleaded guilty Tuesday. "Do you think we are going to supply you with a translator all of your life?" the judge asked them. The four, ranging in age from 17 to 22, were in a group ...
An Impeachment Resolution in Every State; One Way to Jump-Start Impeachment
Post Date: 2008-03-27 16:04:54 by ralphlopez
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Illegal immigration, Constitution, national security For those following the drama of New Hampshire residents using "Jefferson's Manual" to force the Congress to take up the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney, here's the dirty little secret: it's really easy. All you need to do is print out a version of the below resolution, walk it to an amenable state representative (or assemblyman/woman), and have them enter it into State House business. Now you have an active impeachment resolution in your state. Is it effective? From a legal standpoint, no one knows, since no presidential impeachment has ever been commenced through Jefferson's Manual, Section 603 of ...
Scoping Out Pepe
Post Date: 2008-03-27 12:42:22 by Tauzero
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Scoping Out Pepe Why We Should Get It Right, But Won't March 26, 2008 Gringos here in Mexico talk endlessly about how they love and admire the Mexican people, how friendly the natives are, how wonderful the culture is and, by strong implication, how wonderful the gringos are for appreciating Mexico. Actually they don’t. They live in gated communities in the hills, can’t speak three words of Spanish, and have surprisingly little contact with the country. They have invented a Mexico that doesn’t exist, and have fallen in love with it. Thus many of their idea about Mexicans are wrong, compounded equally of ideology and wishful thing. The same happens in America. This ...
Bush Overruled in Death Penalty Dispute
Post Date: 2008-03-25 15:01:49 by robin
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Bush Overruled in Death Penalty Dispute Supreme Court Says Bush Overstepped Authority by Intervening in Mexican National's Case By ARIANE de VOGUE March 25, 2008— In a victory for the state of Texas, the Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 that President George W. Bush cannot force the state to reconsider a death penalty case, even if the conviction violated an international court's ruling. Jose Medellin, a Mexican national, was convicted and sentenced to death in 1994 for raping and killing two teenage girls in Houston. However, the International Court of Justice at The Hague, Netherlands ruled that his conviction was in violation of international treaties, which ordered that ...
U.S. jaguars threatened by Mexico border fence
Post Date: 2008-03-25 12:47:54 by Tauzero
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U.S. jaguars threatened by Mexico border fence By Tim GaynorPosted 8:03 pm EDT SANTA RITA MOUNTAINS, Arizona, Mar. 24, 2008 (Reuters) — Jaguar biologist Emil McCain stoops over a remote-sensing camera attached to a tree in these rugged mountains a few miles to the north of the Arizona-Mexico border. The researcher is checking for images of a handful of extremely rare jaguars that prowl up from Mexico over mountain trails in some of the wildest country in the southwest, although they are now under threat. Scrolling through images of bobcats and deer snapped by the camera, he explains how the habitat for one of the United States' most elusive predators is being pressured by ...
Gov. Richardson’s Endorsement of Obama a Media Scam?
Post Date: 2008-03-24 12:12:23 by Peppa
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On Friday, the mainstream news media breathlessly announced that Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico endorsed Barack Obama in his run for the Democrat nomination for President of the United States. Putting aside how Richardson stabbed his benefactor in the back — he’d be just another political hack if it wasn’t for former President Bill Clinton — and putting aside the fact that the media keep harping on the fact that Richardson is the only Latino governor in the nation, the news media are hyping what is really a self-serving endorsement by a man who’s been exposed as a sneak and a liar. For example, remember New Mexico’s “state of emergency” ...
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