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Latest Articles: Immigration
Mexican Drug Wars Hit YouTube
Post Date: 2007-04-09 22:43:04 by Horse
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Mexican drug cartels are increasingly turning to the Internet to taunt and threaten rivals, recruit members and glorify the narco-trafficker lifestyle. Some of the videos posted by the cartels depict executions and torture or display the dead bodies of victims in the Mexican drug wars – including law enforcement officials who interfere with the cartels’ lucrative business. "It’s out of control,” Victor Clark, a Tijuana-based drug expert, told the Washington Post. "The Internet has turned into a toy for Mexican organized crime. It’s a toy to have fun with, a toy to scare people.” Drug raids in Mexico often capture cameras, computers and computerized ...
Bush Touts Guest Worker Program Proposal
Post Date: 2007-04-09 15:37:20 by Brian S
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Bush Touts Immigration Plan Proposals in Border States, Work to Gain Congressional Support By BEN FELLER YUMA, Ariz. - President Bush visited the U.S.-Mexico border Monday to tout a guest worker program for immigrants, pursuing a key domestic policy goal despite chilly relations with Congress. The trip, a bookend to the visit that Bush made to the same southwest desert city last May, comes as tension rises over a new immigration proposal tied to the White House. Bush's team is privately working hard to rally votes for what Bush calls comprehensive reform a mix of get-tough security with promises of fair treatment for undocumented residents. Upon arriving in Yuma, Bush met Homeland ...
Immigrant Tuition Bill Falters in Md. Senate
Post Date: 2007-04-08 10:24:31 by DeaconBenjamin
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The threat of a Senate filibuster has stalled a bill approved by the House of Delegates that would offer in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants in Maryland. With the 90-day session ending Monday, the measure's chance of passing is dimming quickly. The bill's lack of progress underscores the extent to which immigration has become a flashpoint, even in a state as liberal as Maryland. Several lawmakers said this week that it was politically untenable to wade into the thorny issue of immigration legislation. The bill, which has the support of Gov. Martin O'Malley (D), was approved by the House last month, 81 to 57, after an emotional debate on the floor. Opponents of the ...
Thousands March In Los Angeles Against Bush Immigration Policies
Post Date: 2007-04-07 21:53:49 by Brian S
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Saturday, April 07, 2007 Article tools LOS ANGELES (AP) - Thousands of people marched through downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, demanding a way for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States to become citizens and condemning President George W. Bush's latest proposal. Carrying signs saying "Amnesty Now," more than 3,000 people danced to Mexican ranchera music and passed large U.S. flags over their heads. Organizers said many illegal immigrants are angry about a White House plan that would grant them work visas but require them to return home and pay thousands of dollars to become legal U.S. residents. "Charging that much, Bush is going to be even ...
LAPD: “We Don’t Get Into” Immigration Status Of Christmas Story Director’s Killer
Post Date: 2007-04-07 06:40:18 by YertleTurtle
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At 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 4, Bob Clark, the 67-year-old director of the Christmas movie classic A Christmas Story, and his 24-year-old son Ariel Hanrath-Clark, were killed when the Infiniti that Clark was driving was hit head on—by a drunk, unlicensed driver in a GMC Yukon driving in the wrong lane. An AP story on the incident reported that "the driver of the other vehicle, Hector Velazquez-Nava, 24, of Los Angeles … will be booked for investigation of 'gross vehicular manslaughter' after being treated" for minor injuries at UCLA Medical Center, according to LAPD spokesman, Lt. Paul Vernon. The AP story quoted Lt. Vernon as saying: "The initial ...
White House Floats New Immigration Plan
Post Date: 2007-03-29 19:46:50 by Brian S
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(03-29) 16:41 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- A White House plan devised in weeks of closed-door meetings with Republican senators would grant work visas to undocumented immigrants but require them to return home and pay hefty fines to become legal U.S. residents. The draft immigration legislation is the first stab by the White House and Republican senators to address the presence of 11 million to 12 million illegal immigrants living and working in the country and the reliance by employers on illegal workers. The White House draft plan was circulating Thursday around Capitol Hill and among groups with an interest in immigration legislation after elements of it were leaked late Wednesday. ...
THE NEXT ADDED 100 MILLION AMERICANS' Part 27
Post Date: 2007-03-29 17:34:59 by Nostalgia
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Food and Environment As we move through this series, the picture for overpopulation clarifies for every American. Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry said in that great movie, “A man’s got to know his limitations.” The same stands for a family, a community, state and country. Everything has limits. A glass of water can only hold as much as it can hold. Only nine players can play on a baseball team on the field at one time. Basketball limits a team to five players. A movie theater holds a limited amount of seating. A plane with a 200 passenger limit must carry exactly that number and not one extra. David Pimentel, Cornell University, January 4, 2007, said, “The U.S. ...
UN predicts huge migration to rich countries
Post Date: 2007-03-29 11:53:15 by Zoroaster
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UN predicts huge migration to rich countries By David Blair Last Updated: 2:08am GMT 17/03/2007 Can the UK cope with nine million more people? At least 2.2 million migrants will arrive in the rich world every year from now until 2050, the United Nations said yesterday. Europe's population change: Click to enlarge Britain's population will rise from 60 million to approaching 69 million by 2050 - almost entirely because of immigration. The latest figures from the UN's population division predict a global upheaval without parallel in human history over the next four decades. There will be billions more people in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Of these, tens of millions ...
The Racist War On Immigrants
Post Date: 2007-03-29 09:09:10 by Stephen Lendman
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The Racist War on Immigrants - by Stephen Lendman Emma Lazarus' memorable words on Lady Liberty's pedestal once had meaning as a new nation grew. No longer in a country hostile to the tired, the poor, the huddled masses, the wretched refuse, the homeless and many others not making the grade in a white supremacist Judeo-Christian state worshiping wealth and privilege. No welcome sign is out for the unwanted poor and desperate. At best, they're ignored to subsist on their own. At worst, they're scorned and abused, exploited and discarded like trash or labeled "terrorists" in a post-9/11 world of mass witch-hunt roundups aimed at Muslims because of their faith or ...
Samsung unveils 1.8” 64 GB flash hard drive [the end of spin]
Post Date: 2007-03-28 09:14:33 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Samsung unveils 1.8” 64 GB flash hard drive
http://www.tgdaily.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=31367
By Wolfgang Gruener
Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:26
Taipei (Taiwan) – Is there a flash hard drive in your future? If you have been thinking about replacing your good old hard drive with a solid state device, but have been turned down by price (or lack of availability), you soon may have a few options: Samsung today unveiled a 64 GB drive – which indicates that capacities are rising quickly and prices may be dropping at a similar pace.
We have been writing about solid state disk drives, commonly referred to as SSDs, for quite some time. Samsung has been ...
The Southland’s Hidden Third World Slums - In the Coachella Valley, hundreds of trailer parks house desperately poor Latino workers amid burning trash, mud, contaminated water.
Post Date: 2007-03-27 04:14:07 by Jethro Tull
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{snip} Out here—just a few miles from world-class golf resorts, private hunting clubs and polo fields—half-naked children toddle barefoot through mud and filth while packs of feral dogs prowl piles of garbage nearby. Thick smoke from mountains of burning trash drifts through broken windows. People—sometimes 30 or more—are crammed into trailers with no heat, no air-conditioning, undrinkable water, flickering power and plumbing that breaks down for weeks or months at a time. “I was speechless,” said Haider Quintero, a Colombian training for the priesthood who recently visited the parks as part of his studies. “I never expected to see this in ...
Call It Treason: Flake-Gutierrez Bill Immigration Insanity And Merger With Mexico
Post Date: 2007-03-27 00:29:49 by robin
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Call It Treason: Flake-Gutierrez Bill Immigration Insanity And Merger With Mexico By Juan Mann The latest nation-destroying amnesty scheme of H.R.1645—the Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy (STRIVE) Act—was introduced in the House of Representatives on March 22 by Treason Lobby mouthpieces Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL). But don’t be fooled. This bill is not just about selling-out America to the lowest foreign worker bidder. The end-game of H.R. 1645 is the even more deadly: the sovereignty-eroding Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) plan for regional government. H.R. 1645 is 697 pages of ...
Truckers Boycott Border States
Post Date: 2007-03-27 00:01:38 by robin
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Truckers Boycott Border States "Circle-the-Wagons Blockade Against Anarchy" By Frosty Wooldridge 3-26-7 S T O P the Bush-Kennedy Plan to Give Trucker-Jobs to Mexican Drivers All 48 CONUS state legislature capital-buildings circled & shut down National Capital U-Circled; Bumper-to-Bumper, Three-Wide Monday Tuesday - Wednesday APRIL 23, 24, 25- 2007 The CB-radios are rumbling already- we have a 'war' on our hands. Do you agree with the Bush-Kennedy Plan to "outsource" your job to a Mexican national driver ? Do you remember how the Congress stood up when the farmers circled the Capital with John Deere tractors, and tied-up the city big-time ? ...
How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico
Post Date: 2007-03-26 23:57:04 by robin
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from the July 06, 2006 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico By John Dillin WASHINGTON George W. Bush isn't the first Republican president to face a full-blown immigration crisis on the US-Mexican border. Fifty-three years ago, when newly elected Dwight Eisenhower moved into the White House, America's southern frontier was as porous as a spaghetti sieve. As many as 3 million illegal migrants had walked and waded northward over a period of several years for jobs in California, Arizona, Texas, and points beyond. President Eisenhower cut off this illegal traffic. He did it quickly and decisively with ...
Immigrants push passage of Dream Act [ in-state college tuition for illegals - yippee!]
Post Date: 2007-03-26 22:53:12 by scrapper2
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GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Eagle resident Amador Lopez would be pursuing a career in something like law enforcement in his ideal future. Instead, he works in an automotive tire shop, studies English and dreams of what might be if he could afford to get a college degree. Because Lopez is an undocumented resident from Mexico, he has to pay out-of-state tuition to go to college. It's more than he can afford. The same goes for his friend Francisco, a Gypsum resident and Mexican immigrant who declined to give his last name. He's working in carpentry but also dreaming of going on to get a degree. For now, Lopez said in an interview, "We're stuck between high school and ...
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 ...
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