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Latest Articles: Immigration
Mexican Leader Assails Border Fence Plan
Post Date: 2006-11-09 14:32:27 by Brian S
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(11-08) 23:58 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Ahead of a meeting with President Bush, Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon is acknowledging his unhappiness with U.S. border security measures, saying the two countries need "bridges for progress and not walls that isolate and divide." U.S. steps to stem the flow of migrants across the border were expected to dominate Bush's discussions on Thursday with Calderon, who takes office on Dec. 1. Mexico has been highly critical of the U.S. plan to build a 700-mile fence along the border. The law authorizing the fence was signed by Bush on Oct. 26. Calderon noted that barbed wire is also part of the U.S. border control apparatus. The ...
Anti-illegal-immigration measures, official English pass with landslides
Post Date: 2006-11-09 11:54:37 by Tauzero
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Tucson Region IMMIGRATION PROPOSITIONS Anti-illegal-immigration measures, official English pass with landslides By Brady McCombs arizona daily star Tucson, Arizona | Published: 11.08.2006 Arizona voters resoundingly passed three anti-illegal-immigrant ballot measures Tuesday and established English as the state's official language. The landslide victory — all four passed by about 3-to-1 ratios statewide — sends a message that the state won't tolerate illegal immigration, said proponent Don Goldwater. "The people of Arizona have said, 'Enough,' and that they want this issue taken care of," said Goldwater, a gubernatorial candidate who lost in the Republican primary in ...
Bush eyes Democrats for help on amnesty
Post Date: 2006-11-09 10:26:18 by Brian S
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President Bush yesterday said he will team up with Democrats to pass an immigration bill with a guest-worker program that his own party blocked this year, and his Republican opponents predicted a bloody intraparty fight but said they cannot stop such a bill from passing. "We will fight it, we will lose. It will go to the Senate, it will pass. The president will sign it. And it will happen quickly because that's one thing they know they can pass," said Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican and chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus, who had led the opposition to a guest-worker plan. "I am absolutely horrified by this prospect, but I have to face reality." Mr. ...
CHEAP LABOR MY ARMPIT (The true cost of illegal immigrant workers)
Post Date: 2006-11-08 08:04:47 by BTP Holdings
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CHEAP LABOR MY ARMPIT By Frosty Wooldridge November 6, 2006 http://NewsWithViews.com An October report by the Washington Post exposed illegal aliens sending $25 billion in cash back to Mexico annually. Another $25 billion transfers to Central and South America. An additional $16 billion U.S. dollars vanish into Asia annually. Cash remittances sent back to immigrant countries bleed the United States into serious financial consequences. We suffer a $700 billion annual trade deficit from over 3.1 million jobs off-shored and out-sourced — compliments of your U.S. Congress with their wonderful H-1B, H-2B and L-1 visas giveaways. As to cash draining out of the United States, illegals ...
565,000 immigrants to UK last year
Post Date: 2006-11-02 12:01:31 by Horse
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More than 1,500 immigrants arrived in Britain every day last year, official data showed. The Office for National Statistics said 565,000 people came to live here for at least a year during the course of 2005. Meanwhile, 1,000 people a day left the UK to live abroad - an estimated 380,000 - half of whom were British citizens. It means the country's net population rose by 500 a day, or 185,000 during the 12 months. The ONS's Total International Migration figures said the 565,000 estimate was 17,000 fewer than the 2004 figure, but added: "This still continued the overall trend of high in-migration into the UK that began in the late 1990s." The largest group of migrants were ...
Hispanics Fleeing Hazleton, Pennsylvania Like Roaches With The Light On
Post Date: 2006-11-01 08:48:36 by Mind_Virus
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10/31/2006 Hispanics Fleeing Hazleton, Pennsylvania Like Roaches With The Light On This small hillside city in Northeastern Pennsylvania has yet to enforce a tough, first-of-its-kind law targeting illegal immigrants, but evidence suggests that many Hispanics - illegal or otherwise - have already left. That has hobbled the city’s Hispanic business district, where shops that flourished six months ago have closed or are struggling to stay open. “Before, [Hazleton] was a nice place,” said Soto, 27, who came to the United States from the Dominican Republic a decade ago. “Now, we have a war against us. I am legal but I feel the pressure also.” Mayor Lou Barletta, who ...
Hispanics Flee Pa. Town Before Crackdown
Post Date: 2006-10-31 20:25:42 by Horse
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HAZLETON, Pa. Elvis Soto's variety store used to make money. But few customers have been walking through his door lately, and his merchandise _ calling cards, cell phones, car stereos, clothing _ is collecting dust on the shelves. With bills mounting, Soto might have to take another job to stay afloat financially, and may even close the store. On Wednesday, a tough, first-of-its-kind law targeting illegal immigrants goes into effect in this small hillside city in northeastern Pennsylvania. But the evidence suggests many Hispanics _ illegal or otherwise _ have already left. That, in turn, has hobbled the city's Hispanic business district, where some shops have closed and others are ...
Bush's border fence scam
Post Date: 2006-10-30 10:41:55 by Destro
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Bush's border fence scam By Dimitri Vassilaros Pittsburgh TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, October 29, 2006 A proposed 700-mile fence along America's porous border with Mexico could be the quintessential example of the Republican Party being its own worst enemy. It's almost inconceivable that an issue with such overwhelming public support could have been mishandled so badly by a party that is so badly in need of a winning issue. The GOP brain trust could have answered five simple questions about the fence in 30 seconds. Instead it took the better part of Wednesday to learn the ugly truth. Thursday morning, President George W. Bush signed into law the Secure Fence Act of 2006. "We have a ...
France sends more riot police after bus attack
Post Date: 2006-10-29 17:16:13 by Diana
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PARIS (Reuters) - France sent riot police reinforcements on Sunday to the southern city of Marseille where young vandals torched a bus during the night, leaving a woman severely burned and fighting for her life. The attack on Saturday sparked fears of more violence in French cities, coming as France marks the anniversary of riots that scarred the nation's poor, largely immigrant suburbs. President Jacques Chirac condemned the new unrest. "The president told the victim's family about his horror concerning this shameful act and assured them everything would be done to find the criminals and punish them with the utmost severity," Chirac's office said in a statement. Interior ...
DHS worker says he was punished for reporting illegal immigrants
Post Date: 2006-10-29 12:40:02 by DeaconBenjamin
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OKLAHOMA CITY -- A state Department of Human Services worker says he was punished for trying to report illegal immigrants who were applying for state benefits. Steve Thomas told the House Revenue and Taxation Committee he tried to follow a rule requiring memos be written to DHS superiors when they come across an applicant who's an illegal immigrant. Thomas says he was taken before DHS' civil rights office and accused of threatening illegal immigrants. His testimony came at the request of Representative Randy Terrill who wants the committee to study illegal immigration in Oklahoma. But Oklahoma Catholic Charities attorney Shirley Cox says Thomas sounds like a disgruntled employee. Cox says ...
Citizenship Changes Draw Objections
Post Date: 2006-10-28 08:50:30 by DeaconBenjamin
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The Bush administration is considering proposals that would make it tougher for legal immigrants to gain U.S. citizenship. The proposals being drafted by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), a division of the Department of Homeland Security, could nearly double application fees, toughen the required English and history exams, and ask probing questions about an applicant's past, such as "Who is your current wife's ex-husband?" In an interview yesterday, a USCIS spokesman said the contemplated changes are necessary to pay increased administrative costs and to standardize an application that is subjective and varies across the country. But immigration rights ...
A county of bad ol' boys - Bootlegging, brothels, cockfights and chop shops.
Post Date: 2006-10-27 02:05:32 by Morgana le Fay
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Guilty sheriffs and federal investigations. This slice of Tennessee has earned its image. Newport, Tenn. How bad is Cocke County's lawless reputation? So bad that its tourism and economic development chief, Donald Hurst, likes to kick off out-of-town business meetings with a self-deprecating joke. All of the visiting Cocke County officials, he tells his audience, are right here in the building — so "rest assured, your home is safe." To many Tennesseans, Cocke County is the place their parents warned them about, the butt of hillbilly jokes, the last redoubt of an old, untamed Appalachia. For decades this poor and dramatically beautiful area, north of the Great Smoky ...
Lefties Gone Wild
Post Date: 2006-10-26 23:11:56 by gargantuton
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Lefties Gone Wild By Roberta Leguizamon FrontPageMagazine.com | October 26, 2006 When the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) planned to bring “Catch an Illegal Immigrant” to the University of Michigan on Oct. 13, they expected resistance. The event, which has been held with varying degrees of success on other campuses across the country over the last few months, is purposefully offensive. Like the “Affirmative Action Bake Sale” which has also been held at numerous universities over the last few years, “Catch an Illegal Immigrant” is an event designed to create passion and dialogue about issues which sit at the heart of America’s cultural landscape. This ...
Average IQ by State: Honest Numbers at Last
Post Date: 2006-10-25 13:50:55 by Tauzero
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Average IQ by State: Honest Numbers at Last By Steve Sailer One of the most popular Web postings of November 2004 was a table purporting to show that John Kerry had swept the 16 states with the highest average IQs (such as Connecticut with its 113 mean). George W. Bush, in contrast, had carried the 26 dumbest states (such as Utah at only 87). The first person to post these data after the election exulted: "Wow, what can I say, in the first 24 hours over 540,000+ people viewed this page!" I would guesstimate that total viewership of the IQ table ultimately approached ten million fellow Democrats -- all consoling themselves with the thought that what they lacked in quantity of ...
Mexican Gangs Putting Enemies' Heads On Display
Post Date: 2006-10-21 20:25:51 by Horse
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(AP) VILLA MADERO, Mexico The drug lords at war in central Mexico are no longer content with simply killing their enemies. They are putting their severed heads on public display. In Michoacan, the home state of President-elect Felipe Calderon, 17 heads have turned up this year, many with bloodstained notes like the one found in the highlands town of Tepalcatepec in August: "See. Hear. Shut Up. If you want to stay alive." Many in Michoacan's mountains and colonial cities are doing just that: They are tightlipped, their newspapers are censoring themselves and in one town, 18 out of 32 police officers quit saying they had received death threats from drug smugglers. In the most ...
Flow of Immigrants’ Money to Latin America Surges
Post Date: 2006-10-20 16:59:54 by robin
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October 19, 2006 Flow of Immigrants’ Money to Latin America Surges By EDUARDO PORTER There is a common cycle to immigration from Latin America. Immigrants arrive in the United States and quickly find work. Several months later — in the case of illegal migrants, as soon as they have finished paying off the smuggler who brought them across the border — they start sending money home. According to a new report about immigrants’ money transfers to Latin America, the remittances flow from almost every state. Even in states that had virtually no Latin American immigrants only a few years ago, like Mississippi and Pennsylvania, a growing trickle of money is making its ...
Pat Buchanan: America 2050 A Nation of Turtles
Post Date: 2006-10-20 07:53:19 by Liberate Jim Traficant
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LBJ signs 1965 Immigration Act at Liberty Island, NYAmerica 2050: A Nation of TurtlesBy Patrick J. Buchanan October 20th, 2006 Does it matter who was the 300-millionth "American"? Indeed, it does. If it was a baby born to an American, that is wonderful news. If it was a baby born to an illegal alien, it means we have lost control of our borders. And as Ronald Reagan said, a country that can't control its borders isn't really a country anymore. And if it was a Mexican who slipped over the Rio Grande in the early morning darkness of Oct. 17, it may be a harbinger of the end of America as we knew her. If the people are not celebrating the 300 million along with the editorial ...
Mister Graf Goes To Washington
Post Date: 2006-10-19 22:11:42 by robin
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Mister Graf Goes To Washington By Frosty Wooldridge and Jan Herron 10-19-6 For years, Senators John McCain and John Kyl, Congressmen Kolbe and Flake failed Arizona voters. With illegal aliens flooding across Arizona's borders by the hundreds of thousands, these men stood in the halls of Congress-pretending to serve their constituents-but did nothing. They're still doing nothing. Today, because of their inaction, Arizona citizens suffer 57,000 stolen cars in the Phoenix area annually. Illegals live 20 to a house with five cars parked in front yards. Drug routes mainline through Phoenix. Hospitals suffer tens of thousands of anchor babies underwritten by taxpayers. People-smuggling 'safe ...
Fencing Us In, Not Keeping 'Them' Out
Post Date: 2006-10-14 17:53:40 by PnbC
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Fencing Us In, Not Keeping 'Them' Outby William Norman Grigg To say that Congress's vote to erect 700 miles of “secure” fencing along the southern U.S. border is an “empty” gesture is a felonious act of understatement. It is barren of any meaning save cynical political opportunism: The fence offers politicians on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border (which is slated for abolition in 2010 anyway) to strike faux-populist poses while screwing down the police state lid on their respective helot populations – who are soon to be co-mingled in one polity, anyway (about which more anon). Mexico is threatening to protest the border fence at the UN. Please forgive me for ...
The Next 100 Million And The Face Of America
Post Date: 2006-10-13 20:36:42 by Mind_Virus
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The Next 100 Million And The Face Of America By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor The one sure thing about US population as it moves past 300 million - expected to happen in the next few days - is that there will be more Americans. A lot more. Everything else is informed speculation. Still, much will turn on how big the United States becomes and how fast it grows - from its use of natural resources to its settlement patterns to shifts in political clout. There will be 400 million Americans in 2043, climbing to 420 million by midcentury, the US Census Bureau estimates. The added numbers will change the nature of the populace, reflecting trends already ...
Over 50 Illegals Found In Home
Post Date: 2006-10-12 17:01:57 by noone222
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More than fifty immigrants were taken into custody Wednesday after a raid at a west side home. Police were called to the home on Senisa Street after they received a tip about stolen cars. When they arrived, they saw four people running from the house. They looked inside the "stash house" and found 51 illegal immigrants - 38 men, 12 women and a teenage girl – all crammed into three bedrooms. “This is a case where we obviously just can't walk away,” Sgt. Gabe Trevino with San Antonio Police said. “We called the federal government to come out here and do their job.” Trevino said two men escaped while police confirmed that two cars in the back of the house ...
Legalization For Aliens A 'Must,' Bush Announces
Post Date: 2006-10-11 13:14:33 by Brian S
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Posted: October 11, 2006 President Bush says that part of the solution to illegal immigration "must" include a way for those already in the United States but without legal authorization to be given that status. "We will conduct this debate on immigration in a way that is respectful to our heritage," he said at a recent White House event honoring Hispanic Heritage Month. "We are a nation of law, and we will enforce our law. "But at the same time, we must remember that in order to secure our borders, in order to make sure we fulfill our heritage, immigration reform must be comprehensive in nature. We must understand that you can't kick 12 million people out of ...
Turning Red: Immigrants Tip the Balance in Belgian Local Elections
Post Date: 2006-10-10 18:00:07 by Tauzero
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Turning Red: Immigrants Tip the Balance in Belgian Local Elections In last March’s local elections in the Netherlands the immigrant vote tipped the balance in favour of the Socialists. The same phenomenon marked yesterday’s local elections in Belgium’s major cities. In Antwerp the Socialists became the largest party. They jumped from 19.5% to 35.3% of the votes, winning 22 of the 55 seats in the municipal council – a gain of ten seats. Seven of the Socialist councillors, almost one third of the total, are Muslim immigrants: Fatma Akbas, Karim Bachar, Ouardia El Taghdouini, Youssef Slassi, Fauzaya Talhaoui, Güler Turan, and Sener Ugurlu. Six of the seven are new in ...
Mexico May Take Fence Dispute to U.N.
Post Date: 2006-10-09 19:33:44 by Brian S
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(10-09) 13:59 PDT PARIS, France (AP) -- Mexico's foreign secretary said Monday the country may take a dispute over U.S. plans to build a fence on the Mexican border to the United Nations. Luis Ernesto Derbez told reporters in Paris, his first stop on a European tour, that a legal investigation was under way to determine whether Mexico has a case. The Mexican government last week sent a diplomatic note to Washington criticizing the plan for 700 miles of new fencing along the border. President-elect Felipe Calderon also denounced the plan, but said it was a bilateral issue that should not be put before the international community. Derbez said Monday after meeting with French Foreign ...
‘Desert angels’ offer food, water for migrants crossing U.S. border
Post Date: 2006-10-08 01:11:40 by gargantuton
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‘Desert angels’ offer food, water for migrants crossing U.S. border By Agostino Bono 10/5/2006 Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) – Rafael Hernandez knows the hardships of trekking across desert and mountains to sneak into the United States from Mexico as a migrant. Hernandez did it with his wife and daughter 21 years ago. Now, as a legal U.S. resident, Hernandez and his band of volunteers patrol both sides of the Mexican-California border near San Diego looking for lost migrants and leaving water, clothing and food at strategic desert locations to help people on their journey. "I know how people suffer. I've lived it in the flesh," Hernandez said in a ...
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