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Latest Articles: Immigration
U.S. Farmers Shifting to Mexico
Post Date: 2007-12-10 17:49:38 by richard9151
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California farmer Steve Scaroni built a $50 million business growing lettuce and broccoli, depending on immigrant workers, but last year he began shifting part of his operations to rented fields in Mexico. Now, about one-fifth of his business comes out of nearly 2,000 acres on five farms in Guanajuato. About 500 Mexicans run his operation, and Scaroni is happy: the workers run no risk of deportation, and Scaroni runs no risk of labor loss due to immigration raids. He's not alone. Western Growers, a California-Arizona farm association, conducted a spring survey among its members. Twelve afribusinesses admitted that they have operations in Mexico with 11,000 workers. Statistics are hard ...
Farmers Seek Prison Help
Post Date: 2007-12-10 17:31:26 by richard9151
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Colorado sends female prison inmates to harvest onions, corn and melons; Iowa is considering similar steps; Arizona prisoners (NOTE; This is also going on and has been for quite some time in Texas.) have been working in agriculture for nearly 20 years. About 10 percent of Arizona's 37,000 prisoners are cleared to outside work. They must be paid a minumum of $2.00 an hour. Thirty percent of their wages go for prison room and board; the rest goes for victim-restitution payments, applicable child support, and a mandatory savings account. Labor acivists consider the system to be demeaning to agricultural workers, yet there are not enough harvesters to go around. Arizona's Jack Dixon, ...
Huckabee promotes 'open door' policy at LULAC (Tan Klan R Us) convention
Post Date: 2007-12-09 13:23:08 by FOH
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By Wesley Brown Arkansas News Bureau LITTLE ROCK - In a impassioned speech before hundreds of influential Hispanic civil rights leaders from across the nation, Gov. Mike Huckabee told a captive audience Wednesday that America is great because it has always opened it doors up to people seeking a better way of life. "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you," Huckabee said, citing the Golden Rule. "I have tried to govern that way and it stands to reason that I really do believe that what made this great country so great and so unique is that it has always been a place for people to run to - and not run from. "I would hope that no matter who we are, or where we ...
Mike Huckabee? Are you kidding? Who are you people?
Post Date: 2007-12-09 13:05:18 by FOH
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Arkansas Governer Mike Huckabee suddenly seems to be the established GOP savior. True, he is great on the stump. He is and should be a preacher. But president? NOT if you're a conservative!Remember, a lot of Arkansans voted for a Clinton presidency so they could get him out of the state! Most of them feel asuninspired about the Huckster. YES, I do mean Huckster.I made a prediction a few months back, that Huckabee would get a GOP push, that he would be perfect pick to them to balance out a moderate Rudy type candidate with his southern charm and religiosity. Now, I'm convinced of it.A wise observer stated one of Huck's problems perfectly, "Yep Huckabee is his own man ...
Chertoff To Give Texas Landowners Ultimatum On Border Fence
Post Date: 2007-12-06 23:28:07 by freepatriot32
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Washington -- Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is giving Texas property owners, who don't want a border fence, one last chance to allow access to their land. If not, then Chertoff plans to take court action against them to enter the property. U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said letters from the Department of Homeland Security are expected to go out Friday. Federal officials said they need access to the land to assess possible sites for the fence to curb illegal immigration from Mexico and other crime. Cornyn said he's continuing to urge Homeland Security to consult with local officials. Cornyn also said Chertoff told him about 40 landowners have refused to provide access to ...
Boston firefighter stabbed
Post Date: 2007-12-06 22:59:22 by Horse
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BOSTON — A Boston firefighter is mending from what could have been deadly stab wounds he suffered early yesterday morning when he was allegedly jumped in East Boston while off duty by a group of Hispanic males who told him they "don't want any gringo here." Though police are not classifying the incident as racially fueled, the Boston Police Department's Community Disorders Unit is investigating. The 32-year-old jake, whose name officials were not releasing, is white. Ironically, the firefighter's life was likely saved because he sought refuge from his alleged assailants at Engine 5 on Saratoga Street - the station house he's assigned to. "Fortunately, ...
Mexican City Exhumes Thousands of Bodies
Post Date: 2007-12-06 13:21:01 by Jethro Tull
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By MARINA MONTEMAYOR The Associated Press Wednesday, December 5, 2007; 11:46 PM CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Authorities in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez said Wednesday that they plan to exhume the remains of more than 4,000 unidentified people buried in common graves and take DNA samples in an attempt to identify them. Rene Medrano, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general's office, said the bodies were being exhumed because state attorney general Patricia Gonzalez "wants to bring order and clarity to past police practices." Officials did not provide more exact reasons for the exhumations, which they called part of a statewide project that ...
Romney fires landscaper over illegals
Post Date: 2007-12-05 00:03:19 by FOH
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MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) -- Republican Mitt Romney, ridiculed by rival Rudy Giuliani for employing illegal immigrants at his "sanctuary mansion," said Tuesday he had fired the landscaper for his suburban Boston home after learning for a second time about undocumented workers laboring on the property.In a statement issued after he concluded his campaign appearances for the day, Romney said: "After this same issue arose last year, I gave the company a second chance with very specific conditions. They were instructed to make sure people working for the company were of legal status."We personally met with the company in order to inform them about the importance of this ...
Appeal Heard in Border Agents' Shooting
Post Date: 2007-12-03 23:00:01 by robin
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal prosecutors appear to have "overreacted" in their pursuit of a case against two Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a fleeing drug suspect and hiding evidence, one of three judges considering an appeal said Monday. Jose Alonso Compean is serving 12 years in prison and Ignacio Ramos 11 years for assault, obstruction of justice and civil rights violations in the wounding of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila on the border near El Paso, Texas, in 2005. The agents want the convictions thrown out; they claim the shooting was a case of self-defense but acknowledge not reporting the incident. If the agents had reported the shooting as required, "this ...
France stunned by rioters’ savagery
Post Date: 2007-12-02 21:32:56 by Horse
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IN retrospect, it was not a good idea to have left his pistol at home. Called to the scene of a traffic accident in the Paris suburbs last Sunday, Jean-François Illy, a regional police chief, came face to face with a mob of immigrant youths armed with baseball bats, iron bars and shotguns. What happened next has sickened the nation. As Illy tried to reassure the gang that there would be an investigation into the deaths of two teenagers whose motorbike had just collided with a police car, he heard a voice shouting: “Somebody must pay for this. Some pigs must die tonight!” The 43-year-old commissaire realised it was time to leave, but that was not possible: they set his car ...
Show seeks to love match migrants and U.S. citizens
Post Date: 2007-12-01 22:23:22 by Horse
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PHOENIX (Reuters) - A Los Angeles company is touting a new reality game show called "Who Wants to Marry a U.S. Citizen" that aims to create televised matrimony between legal citizens and immigrants who have temporary visas. The show's backers at Morusa Media hope to make a sort of love match between reality TV and a national obsession with immigration. But the producers make no promise that a marriage will occur or lead to U.S. citizenship. Show creator Adrian Martinez said that Morusa Media has not yet found a network to produce or air the show, but he is currently in talks with one cable TV network and already has signed up contestants for six episodes. "It's ...
Dog's fate devastates family (guess who)
Post Date: 2007-12-01 11:56:31 by X-15
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PRINCETON TOWNSHIP -- A family whose beloved German shepherd faces death for having led a dog attack on a landscaper is devastated by the news but vows to continue to fight to save him. "He needs to come home," said Guy James, the Princeton homeowner who managed to call his dogs off the landscaper, but only after the worker was severely mauled in the June 5 attack. "He's innocent. He did nothing more than protect my wife. He never bit anyone until she was grabbed and pulled to the ground," James said. Congo has been ruled vicious by a municipal judge and ordered put down. "As a family, it's destroyed our way of living," said James, 46. ...
MSNBC report on Border incursion Oct 18 2007
Post Date: 2007-11-30 17:28:06 by TwentyTwelve
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MSNBC report on Border incursion Oct 18 2007 Click for Full Text!
Canadians Plan for RFID chipped drivers licenses in response to U.S. regulations
Post Date: 2007-11-30 14:37:54 by Artisan
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The above is my title; i have a newspaper from the Winnipeg Sun from 11/26/07 with the article that outlines their plan to implement RFID chipped licenses (linked to an online database) so that Canadians won't have to use a passport for shopping trips. I haven't found that article online but this editorial makes reference to it. OUR OPINION : Manitoba joins move to ease crossings Published Tuesday, November 27, 2007 The Red River flows north - and right now, the Green River is flowing south as Canadian travelers roll down to Grand Forks to spend money. The cash flood makes Grand Forks practically ankle-deep in greenbacks and promises great things for the local economy in the ...
US Plant Orders English-Only Spoken For Safety - Gets Sued
Post Date: 2007-11-28 04:05:56 by robin
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After a sheet metal plant in Connecticut ordered its employees to speak only English on the job because of safety concerns, five Spanish-speaking workers decided to take the company to court. The employees, who are legal immigrants, say the rule amounts to discrimination and actually makes the workplace more hazardous. "I can think of no good reason for them to institute this policy," said Steven Jacobs, the lawyer for the workers who are suing GC Industries in Deep River, Conn. "It's offensive to people who speak Spanish and is potentially dangerous. It inhibits them from communicating in their native tongue in situations that could put people at risk." According ...
We are pleased to confirm that you have been granted a Visitor Electronic Travel Authority (ETA) to travel to Australia for tourism purposes.
Post Date: 2007-11-27 19:27:40 by tom007
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Re: Electronic Travel Authority (ETA) Referral Mr.XXXXXXXXX We are pleased to confirm that you have been granted a Visitor Electronic Travel Authority (ETA) to travel to Australia for tourism purposes. The ETA System has replaced visitor visas and no visa label will be placed in your passport. PLEASE NOTE: Your Visitor ETA is valid for multiple entries into Australia until 27 NOVEMBER 2008 for a stay of up to 3 months on each entry. When you travel, the check-in staff at the airport will confirm your ETA electronically using your passport details. If for some reason the airline is unable to confirm your travel authority, they have the contact details for the 24-hour Entry Operations ...
Proof: Our Founders Wanted A White America
Post Date: 2007-11-27 17:45:24 by Mind_Virus
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Proof: Our Founders Wanted A White America Re: president George W. Bush's guest-worker plan [January 2004] to allow millions of illegal immigrants to remain in America: How did our Founding Fathers feel about the matter of 'who can become a citizen of America?' Let's take a look: Act of March 26, 1790 (1 Stat 103-104): "That any alien, being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof, on application to any common law court of record, in any one of the States wherein he shall have resided for the term of one year at least, and ...
Latino influx shakes up Iowa's political picture
Post Date: 2007-11-23 14:43:06 by Dakmar
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MARSHALLTOWN, IOWA — Colorful piñatas hang from the ceiling, and Spanish-labeled goods fill the shelves of Angel Regalado's grocery in this rural town with a bulging immigrant community. Many of his customers lived in Mexico a decade ago. But the influx of Latinos to Marshalltown, with its large meatpacking plant, and elsewhere across Iowa has changed the political dynamics in what was one of the most homogeneous states in America. Now more than 115,000 Hispanics live in Iowa, comprising almost 4 percent of the state's population of 3 million. Though their community is tiny by Texas standards, their numbers increased 37 percent between 2000 and 2005, according to the ...
ICE Agents Secretly Reassigned by Bush Administration
Post Date: 2007-11-20 18:38:41 by FOH
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by Jim Kouri, CPP The latest news not being covered by the mainstream news media is President George W. Bush's reassignment of some 1,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to work as US Customs officers. News of this reassignment began to leak out after a press conference by Julie L. Myers, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for ICE, announcing that special agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement had executed criminal search warrants at Koch Foods in Fairfield, Ohio. ICE identified more than 180 Koch employees working at the Fairfield plant requiring further questioning and administratively arrested more than 160 for immigration violations. ICE agents ...
Michigan: House Plan Would Punish Those Who Employ Illegal Immigrants With Felony Charge
Post Date: 2007-11-20 11:10:40 by Brian S
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Employers would face felony charges for hiring illegal immigrants if a new plan were to pass the Michigan Legislature. House Democrats unveiled a plan Thursday that they claim intervenes where the federal government has failed to act. Under the plan, employers would be required to document the legal status of their workers. Michigan workers also would be provided legal recourse when they suspect companies have replaced them with undocumented laborers. Reps. Kate Ebli, D-Monroe, and Kathy Angerer, D-Dundee, met at the Monroe County Courthouse Thursday morning to discuss the plan. "With Michigan struggling under the nation's highest unemployment rate, we must make sure that ...
Record numbers seek new lives abroad
Post Date: 2007-11-19 19:47:56 by Zipporah
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Record numbers seek new lives abroad By Nigel Morris, Home Affairs Correspondent Published: 16 November 2007 For decades it has been the dream of millions, but for an increasing number of Britons it is becoming a reality. New figures show the number of people leaving the country to start a new life abroad has reached record levels, with almost 600 emigrating every day. Attracted by the prospect of better pay or warmer climes, 207,000 UK nationals left the country for good last year in search of a better quality of life. Australia, Spain and France ...
Mi Casa, Sue Casa: Nancy Pelosi tries to force the Salvation Army to hire people who can't speak English.
Post Date: 2007-11-19 13:00:55 by Horse
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It's been less than a week since New York's Sen. Hillary Clinton and Gov. Eliot Spitzer had to climb down from their support of driver's licenses for illegal aliens. Now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has moved to kill an amendment that would protect employers from federal lawsuits for requiring their workers to speak English. Among the employers targeted by such lawsuits: the Salvation Army. Sen. Lamar Alexander, a moderate Republican from Tennessee, is dumbstruck that legislation he views as simple common sense would be blocked. He noted that the full Senate passed his amendment to shield the Salvation Army by 75-19 last month, and the House followed suit with a 218-186 vote just ...
HOW US ATTORNEY SUTTON STACKED THE DECK AGAINST 2 BORDER PATROL AGENTS
Post Date: 2007-11-19 10:14:10 by christine
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William E. Gladstone, former Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1868 to 1894 is famously remembered for his quote, "Justice delayed is justice denied." An article appears in today's edition of the Washington Times written by a staff reporter Sara A. Carter. She was also awarded the Eugene Katz Award for journalism by the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington-based think tank with which I have been associated for a number of years. The news report in question discusses the arraignment of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, a Mexican citizen who has been charged with conspiracy to distribute hundreds of pounds of marijuana in the United States between June 2005 and November 2005. ...
Dutch float 'migrant prison' scheme
Post Date: 2007-11-18 19:21:03 by robin
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Dutch float 'migrant prison' scheme By Dominic Hughes BBC News, Zaandam In the middle of an industrial estate in Zaandam, just north of Amsterdam, stands the newest prison in the Netherlands. The prison is built by the side of an old wood yard But the word "stands" is not quite right, because this prison is in fact moored on one of the country's many waterways. And the inmates in this floating prison are not criminals but illegal immigrants, guilty of what the Dutch call an "administrative offence". This is the answer to a problem the authorities faced in the late 1990s - how to separate illegal ...
Illegal immigrant demands to be flown home because Britons are 'rude and unfriendly'
Post Date: 2007-11-18 01:09:24 by mirage
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An illegal immigrant has demanded to be flown home after saying he was fed up with British people - because they are "rude and unfriendly". Speaking today, Mokhtar Tabet, 30 - who has been given a home, food and free travel around London - claims his local council has breached his human rights by moving him to a place he does not like. He was refused asylum in 2004 and is set to be deported. He said: "The council evicted me from my home in September and moved me to Streatham, which I don't like. "The new place is small, and the kitchen closes at 9pm, so I can't have anything to eat late at night. They have taken away my human rights." Croydon Council ...
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