Posted by Christian lopez
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Why and How to Stop Illegal Immigration
ImmigrationBy KyleImmigration issues are in the news more and more and everyone is forming an opinion about immigration. I feel illegal immigration should be stopped immediately.Many people argue illegal immigrants don't hurt the country and even that they help the United States. I would like to point out that just by entering the US they have committed a crime, they are illegal immigrants. There are ways to enter the country legally but some people choose to run across the border. They are criminals and should be treated as such. Instead of taking them back to the other side where they will undoubtedly run right back, illegal immigrants should be imprisoned. It may seem that locking them up would be more costly than just sending them back, but they would have to be sent back many times until they eventually got past the border patrol.
Rush Limbaugh takes a call
RUSH: It's fascinating you bring up illegal immigration here.
CALLER: Isn't it?
RUSH: Yes it is, because I have a story here, actually a commentary piece from today's Wall Street Journal by Rosa Rosales called, "Immigration Misfire." You have provided me an excellent transition to it. I appreciate your comments, and you're right, I make so much sense it hurts I think a lot of people. You said something about the Drive-Bys and my relevancy. Can I show you the hypocrisy of the Drive-Bys on this? The Drive-Bys are going against their own errant logic when they say a McCain victory is the end of Limbaugh. Why? They still cling to the flawed analysis that Bill Clinton beating me made the EIB Network into the powerhouse that it is today. Remember back in '90, '92, "Well, that's the end of Limbaugh," they said. Then it mythologically became, "Limbaugh was made during the Clinton term," even though I started that term with 500 stations and ended up with 612, they believed that Clinton made me. So by the same token, audience grew during Clinton. If they believe that I reached my height because of Clinton in office, they should logically -- earnestly, too -- they should logically conclude that a McCain victory will expand my audience again, right? If the guy I oppose happens to win, and that makes me, which is what they said about Clinton, then shouldn't they be writing, "Limbaugh secretly wants McCain to win because he knows his audience will skyrocket." I mean that's the kind of sheer idiocy we are dealing with here in Drive-By analysis.
CALLER: Isn't it?
RUSH: Yes it is, because I have a story here, actually a commentary piece from today's Wall Street Journal by Rosa Rosales called, "Immigration Misfire." You have provided me an excellent transition to it. I appreciate your comments, and you're right, I make so much sense it hurts I think a lot of people. You said something about the Drive-Bys and my relevancy. Can I show you the hypocrisy of the Drive-Bys on this? The Drive-Bys are going against their own errant logic when they say a McCain victory is the end of Limbaugh. Why? They still cling to the flawed analysis that Bill Clinton beating me made the EIB Network into the powerhouse that it is today. Remember back in '90, '92, "Well, that's the end of Limbaugh," they said. Then it mythologically became, "Limbaugh was made during the Clinton term," even though I started that term with 500 stations and ended up with 612, they believed that Clinton made me. So by the same token, audience grew during Clinton. If they believe that I reached my height because of Clinton in office, they should logically -- earnestly, too -- they should logically conclude that a McCain victory will expand my audience again, right? If the guy I oppose happens to win, and that makes me, which is what they said about Clinton, then shouldn't they be writing, "Limbaugh secretly wants McCain to win because he knows his audience will skyrocket." I mean that's the kind of sheer idiocy we are dealing with here in Drive-By analysis.
[posted by: Alejandro Jimenez]
US to Promote "Self-Deportation"
The pilot program, christened "Operation Scheduled Departure," will offer illegal immigrants -- primarily those who have ignored or eluded final deportation orders -- a window of opportunity to voluntarily surrender to U.S. authorities. Those who participate in the program can count on cooperation from the government to enable them to close out their affairs prior to leaving.
For the government, the program comes at a time when there is mounting pressure on immigration courts and detention centers, which have been jammed to the hilt by the Bush administration's immigration crackdown. The government hopes to sell illegal immigrants on the idea of avoiding a long, painful battle with the U.S. immigration bureaucracy.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121744672797097895.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Posted by: Verenice Andrade
Illegal immigrants cashing in on federal tax credits, study shows
Large numbers of illegal immigrants file tax returns using phony Social Security numbers to cash in on the federal Earned Income Tax Credit, thanks to lax government management, according to the author of a new study.
“Technically, only people authorized to work in the U.S. are eligible for the credit, you need a valid Social security number,” said Ed Rubenstein, a financial analyst and economist, speaking at a news conference Tuesday at the National Press Club.
“But identity theft, stolen Social Security numbers, and other scams effectively nullify the restriction. As a result, illegal aliens actually receive the EITC at even greater rates than legal immigrants,” Rubenstein said.
The IRS makes little or no effort to verify the authenticity of Social Security numbers, or existence of dependant children, Rubenstein said.
This makes it possible for illegal immigrants to claim children still living in Mexico as dependents and for parents living illegally in the U.S. to file separate returns claiming the same children as dependents under the EITC, Rubenstein said.
The EITC was created to boost work incentives for poor families with children. Childless households received a maximum $438 payment in 2008, while the maximum available to families with two or more children was $4,824.
Full article here
[Posted by Marwin Yeung]
Legalizing unauthorized immigrants would help economy, study says
Washington (CNN) -- Legalization of the more than 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States would raise wages, increase consumption, create jobs and generate more tax revenue, two policy institutes say in a joint report Thursday.
The report by the Center for American Progress and the American Immigration Council estimates that "comprehensive immigration reform that legalizes currently unauthorized immigrants and creates flexible legal limits on future immigration" would yield at least $1.5 trillion in added U.S. gross domestic product over a 10-year period.
"This is a compelling economic reason to move away from the current 'vicious cycle' where enforcement-only policies perpetuate unauthorized migration and exert downward pressure on already low wages, and toward a 'virtuous cycle' of worker empowerment in which legal status and labor rights exert upward pressure on wages," study author Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda writes.
Full article here
[Posted by Marwin Yeung]
Too many jobs going to illegal immigrants
A janitor’s job opened up at an elementary school in Ohio, and within a week there were 839 applications. If that doesn’t tell our policy makers anything about a way to address the nation’s unemployment problems, I’ll help them out.
Hundreds of thousands of people are desperate for work at the moment. Many will do almost anything honest. Though this job paid $15 an hour, they’ll work for less than that if they have to.
But if menial positions don’t scare them away, something else sideswipes their hopes – illegal aliens who have already stolen work they’d like to have, who keep wages lower than they would otherwise be and who are themselves frequently exploited, sometimes sweating for less than the minimum wage.
One answer is to send the illegals packing, thus eventually freeing up millions of jobs, and here is another: Change immigration laws to favor the skilled and educated, thus boosting the economy and helping it grow.
Please, please, skip the argument that American citizens won’t do the work – they already constitute the vast majority of workers in virtually every field employing illegals – and cut out the blather that enforcement of our immigration laws would be either impossible or cruel or that only a bigot would worry more about the welfare of citizens than taking care of residents breaking the law.
Hardly anyone is suggesting a massive, national sweep of the illegal aliens. The need is for an insistent crackdown on employers who have first been equipped by the federal government with reliable methods of figuring out who is legal and who isn’t.
This strategy will pretty much do the trick if accompanied by seriousness in deporting illegals as they are found – all made doable by increasing the number of law enforcement officials as necessary, and why not?
The Obama stimulus package has already increased government jobs that do not generate private sector jobs, whereas this increase could provide opportunities galore, especially for our least trained, most needy citizens.
It’s this datum about those who benefit that shreds the bigotry charge. Cheerleading for illegals is a way of swindling citizens, many of them minorities, many of them poor, many of them unemployed.
[Posted by Marwin Yeung]
Think Latino Ambivalent about Immigration?
At the height of his hubris, Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform -- an anti-immigrant organization designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center -- decided that he is better qualified than Latino civil rights leaders to speak to Latino views. What's next, David Duke writing about African American views on affirmative action?
In his Feb. 2 Times Op-Ed article, "Priorities of immigration advocates are out of step," Mehlman latches on to Pew Hispanic Center polling data that show Latino voters rank education, healthcare and the economy over immigration to make the case that resolving the immigration question during the Obama administration would run counter to Latino interests. Nice try.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/sunletters/la-oew-martinez5-2009feb05,0,1915757.story
Posted by: Verenice Andrade
In his Feb. 2 Times Op-Ed article, "Priorities of immigration advocates are out of step," Mehlman latches on to Pew Hispanic Center polling data that show Latino voters rank education, healthcare and the economy over immigration to make the case that resolving the immigration question during the Obama administration would run counter to Latino interests. Nice try.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/sunletters/la-oew-martinez5-2009feb05,0,1915757.story
Posted by: Verenice Andrade
Immigrant Priorities Questioned
By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 5, 2009
As the Obama administration vows to re-engineer immigration policy to target criminals, a new report says that in recent years, a high-profile federal program shifted its focus away from catching the most dangerous illegal immigrants who were evading deportation orders.
Between 2003 and 2008, 27 percent of the more than 96,000 illegal immigrants arrested under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's National Fugitive Operations Program had criminal convictions. And in 2007, 9 percent of those arrested were fugitives from deportation orders who were criminals or were considered dangerous. That same year, the share of arrests of illegal immigrants not facing deportation orders grew to 40 percent.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/04/AR2009020403678.html
Posted by: Verenice Andrade
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 5, 2009
As the Obama administration vows to re-engineer immigration policy to target criminals, a new report says that in recent years, a high-profile federal program shifted its focus away from catching the most dangerous illegal immigrants who were evading deportation orders.
Between 2003 and 2008, 27 percent of the more than 96,000 illegal immigrants arrested under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's National Fugitive Operations Program had criminal convictions. And in 2007, 9 percent of those arrested were fugitives from deportation orders who were criminals or were considered dangerous. That same year, the share of arrests of illegal immigrants not facing deportation orders grew to 40 percent.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/04/AR2009020403678.html
Posted by: Verenice Andrade
Terrorists linked to immigration fraud; Obama administration silent
During his testimony before the US House of Representatives' Armed Services Committee, Marine General Peter Pace, former President George W. Bush's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, asserted that Hamas had joined Hezbullah and Al-Qaeda in the Triple Frontier Zone in Latin America where the borders of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay converge.
It is there, he stated, that the Islamic terror groups train recruits, gather intelligence on targets, launder money and sell drugs. There is evidence that these terrorists and narco-terrorists will soon migrate north into the United States. General Pace cited terrorism reports indicating terrorist groups are active in Canada and Central-South America.
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[Posted by Carl Randall Nash]
It is there, he stated, that the Islamic terror groups train recruits, gather intelligence on targets, launder money and sell drugs. There is evidence that these terrorists and narco-terrorists will soon migrate north into the United States. General Pace cited terrorism reports indicating terrorist groups are active in Canada and Central-South America.
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[Posted by Carl Randall Nash]
Illegal immigrants are terrorists?
Gov.Spitzer of New York finally succumbed to pressure from anti-immigration groups and abandoned his plan to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. While not commenting on his decision to issue a legal document to individuals residing illegally in this country, his intentions to bring them out of the shadows cannot be faulted.
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[Posted by Carl Randall Nash]
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[Posted by Carl Randall Nash]
Drugs, Terrorism and Illegal Immigration
We live in a dangerous world in which the past is now blending with the present, and possibly influencing the future. The past is the pervasive problem of the importation of illegal narcotics into this country, much of it flowing across the U.S.-Mexican border. The present is the attention paid to the problem of illegal immigration and the connection between illegal immigration and terrorism. The future may well find us with a federal immigration policy that allows illegal aliens to work here a “guests.”
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[Posted by Carl Randall Nash]
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[Posted by Carl Randall Nash]
Undocumented Haitians Should Be Deported Because Haiti is in "Great Need of Relief Workers"
Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti this week, many activists and politicians have heightened the cry for granting undocumented Haitians in the U.S. Temporary Protected Status (TPS). TPS is a longstanding cornerstone of U.S. immigration policy that is afforded to undocumented immigrants from a small number of federally designated countries suffering armed conflicts, natural disasters, or other extraordinary circumstances until conditions improve. Many claim Haitians should’ve received TPS after four consecutive tropical cyclones in 2008 left 800 people dead, hundreds missing, and made the Haitian city of Gonaives “uninhabitable.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/15/steve-king-haiti/
[Posted by: Verenice Andrade]
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/15/steve-king-haiti/
[Posted by: Verenice Andrade]
Americans for Legal Immigration-website
Tired of illegal immigration? Americans for Legal Immigration PAC ALIPAC has formed to address the disparity between the public's desire for more control of illegal immigration and the actions of lawmakers.
News about illegal immigration, illegal aliens, terrorism, national security, border patrol, crime, immigrant gangs, Americans, Congress, laws, and campaigns are Updated here Daily!
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http://www.alipac.us/
http://www.alipac.us/forum-6.html
[Posted by Juliana Steers]
Illegal immigrants detained, then freed to work
By Patrick Oppmann
CNN
CNN
BELLINGHAM, Washington (CNN) -- After 11 years of living illegally in the United States, it was not until Gerardo Arreola Gonzalez was nearly deported that he finally received permission to work here.
Arreola was one of 28 illegal immigrant workers arrested in February after agents from U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement raided a car engine repair business.
According to the immigrants, a small army of federal agents surrounded Yamato Engine Specialists in Bellingham Washington, and began searching for workers who could not show they had authorization to work in the United States.
"My blood ran cold," Arreola said in Spanish. "We went to the back door, but they were waiting for us. There was a bus already there, and they put us on it."
As he was being taken to an immigration detention center, Arreola said he thought of his wife and the five children they have had while living here and who are U.S. citizens by birth. He expected to be deported back to Mexico, Arreola said, and he was doubtful about when he would see his family again.
"I would have been there and they would have been here," he said. "I would have had to come back. I couldn't take them there. My children don't know anything about Mexico. They go to school here."Full Text Here
[Posted By: Denise Chan]
Illegal Immigration: The Painless Cure
By SafetalkerIn the past few years we have heard the muted roar of disapproval rising to new heights over the subject of Illegal Aliens living and working in our country. While this started out as a labor issue about cheaper labor undermining the ability of the Unions to hold employers to higher and higher labor costs, it is now a security issue about terrorist sneaking into our country to kill us. The result though is still the same. The people moan about it, the Politicians make laws about it, and the Illegal Aliens just keep on walking in. Is there no way to safely, and humanely stop this flood of people? If there is we must find it. It is hard to find a terror cell among millions of undocumented workers, and illegal Border crossers.The Irish arrived in large numbers when the Potato crop failed in Ireland; we processed them on Liberty Island and released them to make their dreams come true. Then in the 60's the anti-Castro Cubans arrived by Air and by Boat, we processed them and gave them a short stipend to get started and they merged into the American way of life. The Vietnamese boat people's arrived in the 70's, and we took them to Arkansas and processed them, and sent them on their way. In each case these new immigrants came to this country to start a new life. They were here to become Americans. Now however we have a different type of immigrant. Today millions of men, women, and children cross our borders in the dark of night, and the light of day. They come for many reasons. Some come to live the American dream. They want to find new lives without oppression, and without fear. Others however come to make as much money as possible and then to return to their homes with the cash and live our dream in their own country. I salute both of these groups for their bravery in walking across at least one desert, braving blazing temperatures in the 100's, drug runners, the infamous Federalies (Mexican Government Troops), and local border criminals on both sides. However, they are here as Criminals. They are not here as house guests but as brazen,house breakers.
Posted by: Christian Lopez
Illegal Immigrants Are a Problem
People Don't Want to Admit It, but Illegal Immigrants Are a Huge Problem in the U.SBy Eric Abrego
On March 25, 500,000 people, mostly Hispanics, marched in the streets of downtown Los Angeles in protest to a bill that congress is attempting to pass that would make being in the U.S. illegally a felony. Many are outraged over the proposal of the law, they believe it keeps people from living out their dreams in this nation, they also say that the illegal immigrants do jobs that Americans refuse to do. These two arguments have truly been over exaggerated and it's about time that our nation addresses the sensitive issue of illegal immigration. I don't understand why everyone is getting upset that we are finally putting our foot down as a nation and saying "this needs to stop", today there are over 12 million undocumented people living in the U.S., there isn't even 12 million people living in Cuba, so what does that say about the issue? If you live in a nation that has more than 12 million people living there that are not documented then it is not only irresponsible on the United States part, but it's dangerous as well.
Posted By: Christian Lopez
Why and How to Stop Illegal Immigration
By KyleImmigration issues are in the news more and more and everyone is forming an opinion about immigration. I feel illegal immigration should be stopped immediately.Many people argue illegal immigrants don't hurt the country and even that they help the United States. I would like to point out that just by entering the US they have committed a crime, they are illegal immigrants. There are ways to enter the country legally but some people choose to run across the border. They are criminals and should be treated as such. Instead of taking them back to the other side where they will undoubtedly run right back, illegal immigrants should be imprisoned. It may seem that locking them up would be more costly than just sending them back, but they would have to be sent back many times until they eventually got past the border patrol.The idea of a giant wall has been discussed, and I am in favor of this plan. If we can put them on the other side and they will be kept there that is the best solution. The great wall of America would make it much harder for illegal immigrants to cross the border undetected. While at first the wall sounds like it would be too expensive you must consider where money would be saved. The one time cost of building a wall would be replacing the constant costs of employing border patrol and removing illegal immigrants from the country.Before we can effectively determine a solution, it must be accepted that there is a problem. Immigrants are taking American jobs. Some say the jobs they take are jobs that wouldn't be done by anyone else because the pay is so low, but it is because of the immigrants that the wages are as low as they are. If the immigrants weren't taking the jobs at the lowest wages the companies would have to raise their wages to get employees to work there. When they increased the wages there would be more Americans who would take the jobs, resulting in less unemployed Americans.It is obvious that something must be done to put an end to problems like these. There are ways for immigrants to legally enter the country that protect jobs for Americans, and because of this there is no reason for illegal entry into this country. Violators should be treated as the criminals they are and more extensive measures are necessary to keep them from entering at all. Everyone needs to be aware illegal immigration is illegal; there is no room for questioning on that point.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/186903/_why_and_how_to_stop_illegal_immigration.html?cat=9
Posted By: Christian Lopez
"The DREAM Act Illegal Alien Amnesty: A bad Idea at the worst possible time, Says FAIR"
Washington, D.C. March 27, 2009) Despite overwhelming opposition by the American public when it was first proposed in 2000, the House and the Senate have reintroduced a sweeping illegal alien amnesty bill known as the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act.
The legislation, introduced by Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), is a broad amnesty measure disguised as an educational initiative that would allow millions of illegal aliens who meet a very loose definition of “student” to qualify for green cards. In addition, it provides in-state tuition benefits for illegal aliens that will displace legal residents competing for a fixed number of college admission slots and taxpayer subsidies.
Full text http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=20209&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1741
[Posted by Sonia Vissoni]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Canyon lawmakers sponser illegal immigration crackdown
By: Mike Butts
BOISE — Canyon County's four state senators have introduced legislation meant to crack down on illegal immigration.
Senate Bill 1271 would make it illegal to produce false identification when applying for employment and also for employers to knowingly hire employees that produce false documents at the time of employment.Full Article : http://www.idahopress.com/news/?id=29553
[Posted by: Evelyn Ramirez]
Operation Wetback
Operation Wetback
By: Jon Christian Ryter
Three times in the history of the United States US Presidents took what would today be considered a politically unpopular position by rounding up and deporting illegal aliens to create jobs for US Citizens. The first attempt occurred shortly after the banker-induced Stock Market Crash of 1929 when President Herbert Hoover ordered the round-up and deportation of illegals by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service. The program, dubbed "Operation Wetback," was carried out without any protests from US government-funded Hispanic advocacy groups—since there were none. The Clintonesque-liberal media political correctness dictionary was still 63 years in the future and the communist-left FDR (America's white Barack Obama) federal bureaucracy was still some 4-years in the making.
The Hoover roundup sent over one million Mexican illegal aliens packing—freeing up jobs for out-of-work US citizens. In addition, some 47 thousand Mexican nationals who were in the country legally, with visas, also opted to leave due to rising animosity by out-of-work Americans for any foreigner in the United States with a job. Operation Wetback was launched in the Southwest: Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas. But deportees also came from Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, and New York. Since Mexican illegals tried hard to remain under the radar screen, few of them traveled far beyond the border States, thus we can assume that most of the deportees from the States north of the Mason-Dixon line were legal residents. During the Hoover years, immigration to he United States was virtually stopped.
Full Article Here:http://www.newswithviews.com/Ryter/jon311.htm
[Posted by: Evelyn Ramirez]
By: Jon Christian Ryter
Three times in the history of the United States US Presidents took what would today be considered a politically unpopular position by rounding up and deporting illegal aliens to create jobs for US Citizens. The first attempt occurred shortly after the banker-induced Stock Market Crash of 1929 when President Herbert Hoover ordered the round-up and deportation of illegals by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service. The program, dubbed "Operation Wetback," was carried out without any protests from US government-funded Hispanic advocacy groups—since there were none. The Clintonesque-liberal media political correctness dictionary was still 63 years in the future and the communist-left FDR (America's white Barack Obama) federal bureaucracy was still some 4-years in the making.
The Hoover roundup sent over one million Mexican illegal aliens packing—freeing up jobs for out-of-work US citizens. In addition, some 47 thousand Mexican nationals who were in the country legally, with visas, also opted to leave due to rising animosity by out-of-work Americans for any foreigner in the United States with a job. Operation Wetback was launched in the Southwest: Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas. But deportees also came from Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, and New York. Since Mexican illegals tried hard to remain under the radar screen, few of them traveled far beyond the border States, thus we can assume that most of the deportees from the States north of the Mason-Dixon line were legal residents. During the Hoover years, immigration to he United States was virtually stopped.
Full Article Here:http://www.newswithviews.com/Ryter/jon311.htm
[Posted by: Evelyn Ramirez]
Health bills fail to block illegals from coverage
Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants could receive health care coverage from their employers under the bills winding their way through Congress, despite President Obama's explicit pledge that illegal immigrants would not benefit.
The House bill mandates, and the Senate bill strongly encourages, businesses to extend health care coverage to all employees. But the bills do not have exemptions to screen out illegal immigrants, who usually obtain jobs by using false identities and are indistinguishable from legal workers.
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posted by Maria Rohani.
The House bill mandates, and the Senate bill strongly encourages, businesses to extend health care coverage to all employees. But the bills do not have exemptions to screen out illegal immigrants, who usually obtain jobs by using false identities and are indistinguishable from legal workers.
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posted by Maria Rohani.
Immigration, Health Debates Cross Paths
As Congress's debate over health-care legislation lumbers toward a defining test for the Obama presidency, partisans on both sides of another issue -- immigration -- escalated their own proxy war this week, concluding that the fates of the two issues have become politically linked.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/14/AR2009091401498.html
[Posted by Araceli Vazquez]
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/14/AR2009091401498.html
[Posted by Araceli Vazquez]
Illegals Committing Crimes in America
A few years back as I watched America's Most Wanted I began to notice that as each week passed more and more of the criminals wanted for violent crimes in America were illegal immigrants that have committed crimes in the United States. As I hear often, sure many of the illegal immigrants from Mexico are here only to work and support their families. The problem with this statement is that many illegal immigrants are not. Many are here to be involved in crimes that include drug smuggling, rape, murder, human trafficking and a host of other violent crimes that have created a huge burden on the American legal system and law enforcement. U.S. prisons most notably in California, Arizona, Texas and other southwestern states are filling up with illegal immigrants that have committed violent crimes. It appears the problem is spreading to many parts of the country that traditionally did not have large numbers of illegals in the past.
http://www.terroristplanet.com/illegalsandcrime.htm
Posted by [Melissa Diaz]
http://www.terroristplanet.com/illegalsandcrime.htm
Posted by [Melissa Diaz]
(Dis)unity and Diversity in Post-9⁄11 America
Drawing inspiration from the work of Robin M. Williams Jr., I map out the complexities of ethnic and racial relations in the contemporary United States by focusing on the impacts of 9/11—particularly in relation to immigration policy. Because the attackers entered the country through regular immigration channels (i.e., as foreign students) the U.S. government has introduced policies to enhance border security, restrict immigration, increase the surveillance of immigrant populations, and more actively enforce immigration policy. These national-security-related immigration policies, however, are exacerbating existing tensions and producing new sets of ethnic and racialized conflicts in the United States. In this article, I first provide an overview of the key national-security-related immigration policies that were passed in the wake of September 11, 2001. Then, I review some of the recent sociological literature, as well as draw from my own preliminary research in the State of New Jersey, to illustrate the social impacts of these policies on ethnic and racial relations. I conclude with an outline of the ways the sociology of ethnic and racial relations specifically, as well as other subfields of the discipline, might approach analyses of social conflict in the contemporary United States, post–September 11.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/119406006/PDFSTART?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
Posted by [Melissa Diaz]
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/119406006/PDFSTART?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
Posted by [Melissa Diaz]
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Amnesty
Comprehensive Immigration Reform is a form of tricky Amnesty, often referred to as Shamnesty or Scamnesty.
Attempts to pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bills failed three times in 2006 and 2007 due to massive public opposition. While the legislation makes big promises of more border security and immigration enforcement in the future, why would anyone believe such promises, when our current immigration laws go grotesquely unenforced?
www.endillegalimmigration.com/Comprehensive_Immigration_Reform_Amnesty/index.shtml
Posted by [Melissa Diaz]
Attempts to pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bills failed three times in 2006 and 2007 due to massive public opposition. While the legislation makes big promises of more border security and immigration enforcement in the future, why would anyone believe such promises, when our current immigration laws go grotesquely unenforced?
www.endillegalimmigration.com/Comprehensive_Immigration_Reform_Amnesty/index.shtml
Posted by [Melissa Diaz]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Illegal immigration is costing taxpayers billions
We have elected a new governor and some state legislators; yet, we have heard little discussion concerning ways to reduce the stress of overburdened taxpayers.
Our local news organizations and others have addressed many issues facing our state, but for some unexplainable reasons haven't reported and addressed the issues caused by illegal immigration. I would like to share another important state and national issue concerning illegal immigration, because this issue is so grossly ignored by the main media sources. A report prepared by Fair Federation for American Immigration Reform has analyzed a state-by-state cost to taxpayers caused by illegal immigration.
Our New Jersey governor and Legislature need to address this major tax burden if we are to accomplish any future tax relief.
The illegal immigration population residing in New Jersey is costing the state's taxpayers nearly $2.1 billion per year for education, medical care and incarceration.
This estimate is derived from analysis of public expenditures on just three of several areas of expenditures for about 372,000 illegal alien residents. That annual tax burden amounts to about $800 per New Jersey household headed by a native-born resident. Even if sales, income and property taxes that may be collected from illegal immigrants -- estimated at $488 million -- are subtracted from the fiscal outlays, the net costs to New Jersey's taxpayers still amount to nearly $1.6 billion per year.
Even without accounting for all of the numerous other areas in which costs associated with illegal immigration are being incurred by New Jersey taxpayers, the program areas analyzed in this study indicate that the burden is substantial and that the costs are rapidly increasing.
The nearly $2.1 billion in costs incurred by New Jersey taxpayers annually result from outlays in the following areas:
Education. Based on estimates of the illegal immigrant population in New Jersey and documented costs of K-12 schooling, New Jerseyites spend more than $1.85 billion annually on education for the children of illegal immigrants. This estimate does not include programs for limited English students, remedial educational programs or breakfast and lunch programs available to students from low-income families. An estimated 11.7 percent of the K-12 public school students in New Jersey are children of illegal aliens.
For full text, http://www.thedailyjournal.com/article/20100126/OPINION02/1260337
Posted by [Julio Navarro]
Our local news organizations and others have addressed many issues facing our state, but for some unexplainable reasons haven't reported and addressed the issues caused by illegal immigration. I would like to share another important state and national issue concerning illegal immigration, because this issue is so grossly ignored by the main media sources. A report prepared by Fair Federation for American Immigration Reform has analyzed a state-by-state cost to taxpayers caused by illegal immigration.
Our New Jersey governor and Legislature need to address this major tax burden if we are to accomplish any future tax relief.
The illegal immigration population residing in New Jersey is costing the state's taxpayers nearly $2.1 billion per year for education, medical care and incarceration.
This estimate is derived from analysis of public expenditures on just three of several areas of expenditures for about 372,000 illegal alien residents. That annual tax burden amounts to about $800 per New Jersey household headed by a native-born resident. Even if sales, income and property taxes that may be collected from illegal immigrants -- estimated at $488 million -- are subtracted from the fiscal outlays, the net costs to New Jersey's taxpayers still amount to nearly $1.6 billion per year.
Even without accounting for all of the numerous other areas in which costs associated with illegal immigration are being incurred by New Jersey taxpayers, the program areas analyzed in this study indicate that the burden is substantial and that the costs are rapidly increasing.
The nearly $2.1 billion in costs incurred by New Jersey taxpayers annually result from outlays in the following areas:
Education. Based on estimates of the illegal immigrant population in New Jersey and documented costs of K-12 schooling, New Jerseyites spend more than $1.85 billion annually on education for the children of illegal immigrants. This estimate does not include programs for limited English students, remedial educational programs or breakfast and lunch programs available to students from low-income families. An estimated 11.7 percent of the K-12 public school students in New Jersey are children of illegal aliens.
For full text, http://www.thedailyjournal.com/article/20100126/OPINION02/1260337
Posted by [Julio Navarro]
Legalizing unauthorized immigrants would help economy, study says
Washington (CNN) -- Legalization of the more than 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States would raise wages, increase consumption, create jobs and generate more tax revenue, two policy institutes say in a joint report Thursday.
The report by the Center for American Progress and the American Immigration Council estimates that "comprehensive immigration reform that legalizes currently unauthorized immigrants and creates flexible legal limits on future immigration" would yield at least $1.5 trillion in added U.S. gross domestic product over a 10-year period.
"This is a compelling economic reason to move away from the current 'vicious cycle' where enforcement-only policies perpetuate unauthorized migration and exert downward pressure on already low wages, and toward a 'virtuous cycle' of worker empowerment in which legal status and labor rights exert upward pressure on wages," study author Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda writes.
The study looks at three scenarios: deportation of undocumented workers, temporary worker programs and legalization of the current undocumented population. Deportation would lead to a loss of $2.6 trillion in gross domestic product over 10 years, the report says, while a worker program would lead to a gain of $792 billion. Full legalization would lead to the best economic results, the study says.
Other groups, such as the Center for Immigration Studies and the Federation for American Immigration Reform, say that unfettered immigration harms the United States and that entry into the nation must remain limited.
When running for president in 2008, Barack Obama said that comprehensive immigration reform would be a priority in his administration, but the issue has been sidelined by health care reform efforts in Congress, the weak economy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There are indications, however, that the Obama administration aims to revive immigration reform efforts in Congress this year.
The study bases many of its conclusions on an examination of what happened after passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which granted legal status to 3 million unauthorized immigrants.
A 2006 Pew Hispanic Center report found that 56 percent of illegal immigrants in the United States in 2005 were from Mexico, a total of about 6.2 million unauthorized immigrants.
About 2.5 million unauthorized migrants, or 22 percent of the total, came from the rest of Latin America, primarily from Central America, the Pew Hispanic Center study found.
Of the remaining illegal immigrants, about 13 percent were from Asia, and 3 percent were from Canada and Europe, the Pew study said.
The report released Thursday says U.S. enforcement efforts -- mainly along the nearly 2,000-mile border with Mexico -- are costly and ineffective.
"The number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States has increased dramatically since the early 1990s despite equally dramatic increases in the amount of money the federal government spends on immigration enforcement," study author Hinojosa-Ojeda writes.
According to the report, the U.S. Border Patrol says its annual budget has increased by 714 percent since 1992, from $326.2 million in fiscal year 1992 to $2.7 billion in fiscal 2009. And the cost ratio of Border Patrol expenditures to apprehensions has increased by 1,041 percent, from $272 per apprehension in 1992 to $3,102 in 2008.
Similarly, the Border Patrol says the number of agents along the border with Mexico has grown by 390 percent, from 3,555 in fiscal 1992 to 17,415 in 2009.
"Yet the unauthorized immigrant population of the United States has roughly tripled in size over the past two decades, from an estimated 3.5 million in 1990 to 11.9 million in 2008," the report says, noting that illegal immigration appears to have declined slightly since 2007 as a result of the global recession.
The report points out that a long-term study conducted by the University of California, San Diego, found that 92 to 98 percent of unauthorized immigrants keep trying to cross the border until they succeed.
Increased enforcement has several unintended consequences, such as making the Southwestern border more lethal by channeling migrants through remote and rugged mountain and desert areas, the study found. The number of border-crossing deaths doubled in the decade after increased border enforcement started, a 2006 Government Accountability Office report said.
An October 2009 report by the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego & Imperial Counties and Mexico's National Commission of Human Rights estimates that 5,607 migrants died while crossing the border between 1994 and 2008.
Tightened borders also have created new opportunities for people smugglers, who charged an average $2,000 to $3,000 per person in 2006, the study said. Ninety percent of illegal immigrants now hire smugglers, according to the report.
An examination of trends after the 1986 immigration reform law shows that legalization of unauthorized immigrants has benefits, the report says. Legalized workers earned more, moved on to better jobs and invested more in their education so they could get higher pay and better jobs.
A previous study found that "the wages of unauthorized workers are generally unrelated to their actual skill level," Thursday's report said.
"Unauthorized workers tend to be concentrated in the lowest-wage occupations; they try to minimize the risk of deportation even if this means working for lower wages; and they are especially vulnerable to outright exploitation by unscrupulous employers. Once unauthorized workers are legalized, however, these artificial barriers to upward socioeconomic mobility disappear."
Study author Hinojosa-Ojeda is founding director of the North American Integration and Development Center at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The self-described progressive Center for American Progress is a nonpartisan research and educational think tank headed by John Podesta, who was chief of staff for President Bill Clinton.
The Immigration Policy Center, established in 2003, also is a nonpartisan institute.
The report, titled "Raising the Floor for American Workers, The Economic Benefits of Comprehensive Immigration Reform," can be found on the Web.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/07/immigration.economy/index.html?iref=allsearch
[Posted by: Gloria Jimenez]
The report by the Center for American Progress and the American Immigration Council estimates that "comprehensive immigration reform that legalizes currently unauthorized immigrants and creates flexible legal limits on future immigration" would yield at least $1.5 trillion in added U.S. gross domestic product over a 10-year period.
"This is a compelling economic reason to move away from the current 'vicious cycle' where enforcement-only policies perpetuate unauthorized migration and exert downward pressure on already low wages, and toward a 'virtuous cycle' of worker empowerment in which legal status and labor rights exert upward pressure on wages," study author Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda writes.
The study looks at three scenarios: deportation of undocumented workers, temporary worker programs and legalization of the current undocumented population. Deportation would lead to a loss of $2.6 trillion in gross domestic product over 10 years, the report says, while a worker program would lead to a gain of $792 billion. Full legalization would lead to the best economic results, the study says.
Other groups, such as the Center for Immigration Studies and the Federation for American Immigration Reform, say that unfettered immigration harms the United States and that entry into the nation must remain limited.
When running for president in 2008, Barack Obama said that comprehensive immigration reform would be a priority in his administration, but the issue has been sidelined by health care reform efforts in Congress, the weak economy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There are indications, however, that the Obama administration aims to revive immigration reform efforts in Congress this year.
The study bases many of its conclusions on an examination of what happened after passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which granted legal status to 3 million unauthorized immigrants.
A 2006 Pew Hispanic Center report found that 56 percent of illegal immigrants in the United States in 2005 were from Mexico, a total of about 6.2 million unauthorized immigrants.
About 2.5 million unauthorized migrants, or 22 percent of the total, came from the rest of Latin America, primarily from Central America, the Pew Hispanic Center study found.
Of the remaining illegal immigrants, about 13 percent were from Asia, and 3 percent were from Canada and Europe, the Pew study said.
The report released Thursday says U.S. enforcement efforts -- mainly along the nearly 2,000-mile border with Mexico -- are costly and ineffective.
"The number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States has increased dramatically since the early 1990s despite equally dramatic increases in the amount of money the federal government spends on immigration enforcement," study author Hinojosa-Ojeda writes.
According to the report, the U.S. Border Patrol says its annual budget has increased by 714 percent since 1992, from $326.2 million in fiscal year 1992 to $2.7 billion in fiscal 2009. And the cost ratio of Border Patrol expenditures to apprehensions has increased by 1,041 percent, from $272 per apprehension in 1992 to $3,102 in 2008.
Similarly, the Border Patrol says the number of agents along the border with Mexico has grown by 390 percent, from 3,555 in fiscal 1992 to 17,415 in 2009.
"Yet the unauthorized immigrant population of the United States has roughly tripled in size over the past two decades, from an estimated 3.5 million in 1990 to 11.9 million in 2008," the report says, noting that illegal immigration appears to have declined slightly since 2007 as a result of the global recession.
The report points out that a long-term study conducted by the University of California, San Diego, found that 92 to 98 percent of unauthorized immigrants keep trying to cross the border until they succeed.
Increased enforcement has several unintended consequences, such as making the Southwestern border more lethal by channeling migrants through remote and rugged mountain and desert areas, the study found. The number of border-crossing deaths doubled in the decade after increased border enforcement started, a 2006 Government Accountability Office report said.
An October 2009 report by the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego & Imperial Counties and Mexico's National Commission of Human Rights estimates that 5,607 migrants died while crossing the border between 1994 and 2008.
Tightened borders also have created new opportunities for people smugglers, who charged an average $2,000 to $3,000 per person in 2006, the study said. Ninety percent of illegal immigrants now hire smugglers, according to the report.
An examination of trends after the 1986 immigration reform law shows that legalization of unauthorized immigrants has benefits, the report says. Legalized workers earned more, moved on to better jobs and invested more in their education so they could get higher pay and better jobs.
A previous study found that "the wages of unauthorized workers are generally unrelated to their actual skill level," Thursday's report said.
"Unauthorized workers tend to be concentrated in the lowest-wage occupations; they try to minimize the risk of deportation even if this means working for lower wages; and they are especially vulnerable to outright exploitation by unscrupulous employers. Once unauthorized workers are legalized, however, these artificial barriers to upward socioeconomic mobility disappear."
Study author Hinojosa-Ojeda is founding director of the North American Integration and Development Center at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The self-described progressive Center for American Progress is a nonpartisan research and educational think tank headed by John Podesta, who was chief of staff for President Bill Clinton.
The Immigration Policy Center, established in 2003, also is a nonpartisan institute.
The report, titled "Raising the Floor for American Workers, The Economic Benefits of Comprehensive Immigration Reform," can be found on the Web.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/07/immigration.economy/index.html?iref=allsearch
[Posted by: Gloria Jimenez]
Lawsuit targets Nebraska's immigrant-tuition law
A Kansas attorney filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the validity of a 2006 Nebraska law that allows some illegal immigrants to pay in-state college tuition.
Kris Kobach filed the lawsuit in Jefferson County District Court on behalf of six Nebraska residents. The lawsuit names the University of Nebraska Board of Regents and other state college boards as defendants.
The state law allows students whose parents brought them to the U.S. illegally to pay in-state tuition fees, as long as they have graduated from Nebraska high schools, lived in the state for at least three years and be pursuing or promise to pursue legal status.
In-state tuition is sometimes significantly cheaper than fees for out-of-state residents.
The Nebraska law was passed in 2005 over Gov. Dave Heineman's veto.
Nebraska is one of 10 states that allow illegal immigrants who meet certain criteria to pay in-state tuition rates for college. At least four -- Georgia, Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona -- generally prohibit illegal immigrants from paying in-state tuition rates.
For full text http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9DF1TL03.htm
Posted by [Julio Navarro]
Kris Kobach filed the lawsuit in Jefferson County District Court on behalf of six Nebraska residents. The lawsuit names the University of Nebraska Board of Regents and other state college boards as defendants.
The state law allows students whose parents brought them to the U.S. illegally to pay in-state tuition fees, as long as they have graduated from Nebraska high schools, lived in the state for at least three years and be pursuing or promise to pursue legal status.
In-state tuition is sometimes significantly cheaper than fees for out-of-state residents.
The Nebraska law was passed in 2005 over Gov. Dave Heineman's veto.
Nebraska is one of 10 states that allow illegal immigrants who meet certain criteria to pay in-state tuition rates for college. At least four -- Georgia, Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona -- generally prohibit illegal immigrants from paying in-state tuition rates.
For full text http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9DF1TL03.htm
Posted by [Julio Navarro]
Monday, January 25, 2010
¡Salud, Amigo! The economic case for insuring undocumented immigrants.
¡Salud, Amigo!
The economic case for insuring undocumented immigrants.
By Christopher Beam
One of President Obama's favorite arguments for health care reform has been economic: If it saves money, do it. Except when it comes to covering undocumented immigrants.
Obama reiterated Thursday that a health care bill will not cover illegal immigrants. "Undocumented workers who are here illegally—we want to create comprehensive immigration reform so they can get on a path to citizenship," he told Univision. "Until they do, we can't reward them with some of the benefits which quite frankly cost us a lot of money." That was after some conservative commentators claimed that some versions of the bill would insure the undocumented, ignoring language in the bill that limits access to "an individual who is lawfully present in a State in the United States."
http://www.slate.com/id/2223912/
[Posted by Melissa Cuen]
The economic case for insuring undocumented immigrants.
By Christopher Beam
One of President Obama's favorite arguments for health care reform has been economic: If it saves money, do it. Except when it comes to covering undocumented immigrants.
Obama reiterated Thursday that a health care bill will not cover illegal immigrants. "Undocumented workers who are here illegally—we want to create comprehensive immigration reform so they can get on a path to citizenship," he told Univision. "Until they do, we can't reward them with some of the benefits which quite frankly cost us a lot of money." That was after some conservative commentators claimed that some versions of the bill would insure the undocumented, ignoring language in the bill that limits access to "an individual who is lawfully present in a State in the United States."
http://www.slate.com/id/2223912/
[Posted by Melissa Cuen]
Counting Immigrants Key for Communities
Counting Immigrants Key for Communities
by Jill Wilson
With a little over six months until the 2010 Census, outreach has already begun to ensure as complete a count as possible. A lot’s at stake.
Every ten years, the Census Bureau has the daunting task of counting everyone--no matter their legal status--living in the United States and its territories, as mandated by the Constitution. 2010 is one of those years.
http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-avenue/counting-immigrants-key-communities
[Posted by Melissa Cuen]
by Jill Wilson
With a little over six months until the 2010 Census, outreach has already begun to ensure as complete a count as possible. A lot’s at stake.
Every ten years, the Census Bureau has the daunting task of counting everyone--no matter their legal status--living in the United States and its territories, as mandated by the Constitution. 2010 is one of those years.
http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-avenue/counting-immigrants-key-communities
[Posted by Melissa Cuen]
How the Recession’s Affecting Immigration
How the Recession’s Affecting Immigration
by Jill Wilson and Audrey Singer
With U.S. unemployment at a 26-year high Americans will be feeling the economic downturn for some time. Immigration experts are seeing global signs of the recession in major shifts in U.S. immigration trends, especially at the high and low ends of the skills spectrum. Here are the most significant changes.
http://www.tnr.com/blog/how-the-recession’s-affecting-immigration
[Posted by Melissa Cuen]
by Jill Wilson and Audrey Singer
With U.S. unemployment at a 26-year high Americans will be feeling the economic downturn for some time. Immigration experts are seeing global signs of the recession in major shifts in U.S. immigration trends, especially at the high and low ends of the skills spectrum. Here are the most significant changes.
http://www.tnr.com/blog/how-the-recession’s-affecting-immigration
[Posted by Melissa Cuen]
Friday, January 22, 2010
Tackle immigration reform in 2010
San Diego, California (CNN) -- It's time again for New Year's resolutions, especially if Congress and the White House really plan to reopen the explosive immigration debate in 2010. Whether or not they do depends on which part of the political carnival you're looking at.
This week, the Los Angeles Times reported that the Obama administration is discreetly laying the groundwork to tackle immigration reform early next year.
According to the article, senior White House aides have privately assured Latino immigration activists that President Obama will throw his support behind legislation in Congress to provide a path to earned legalization for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants now living in the United States.
But last week, the Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill reported that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, has been offering some private assurances of her own. Pelosi, the article says, has told fellow Democrats not to worry about having to address immigration reform until the Senate acts first.
By passing the buck to "the world's greatest deliberative body," Pelosi is probably hoping that deliberation will become dithering and delay. Then the House can duck the volatile issue altogether. It's the politics of self-preservation. Concerned that voters would react negatively to any talk of legalizing millions of illegal immigrants, Pelosi is obviously trying to preserve her job by protecting vulnerable Democrats.
Nonetheless, let's assume that, whether Pelosi wants it to or not, the immigration debate is poised for a comeback in 2010. Surely, we can all -- Republicans and Democrats, natives and immigrants -- improve on our performance from the last time this issue was on the agenda, back in 2005-2007.
Full article found here
[Posted by Marwin Yeung]
This week, the Los Angeles Times reported that the Obama administration is discreetly laying the groundwork to tackle immigration reform early next year.
According to the article, senior White House aides have privately assured Latino immigration activists that President Obama will throw his support behind legislation in Congress to provide a path to earned legalization for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants now living in the United States.
But last week, the Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill reported that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, has been offering some private assurances of her own. Pelosi, the article says, has told fellow Democrats not to worry about having to address immigration reform until the Senate acts first.
By passing the buck to "the world's greatest deliberative body," Pelosi is probably hoping that deliberation will become dithering and delay. Then the House can duck the volatile issue altogether. It's the politics of self-preservation. Concerned that voters would react negatively to any talk of legalizing millions of illegal immigrants, Pelosi is obviously trying to preserve her job by protecting vulnerable Democrats.
Nonetheless, let's assume that, whether Pelosi wants it to or not, the immigration debate is poised for a comeback in 2010. Surely, we can all -- Republicans and Democrats, natives and immigrants -- improve on our performance from the last time this issue was on the agenda, back in 2005-2007.
Full article found here
[Posted by Marwin Yeung]
Thursday, January 21, 2010
America's Secret ICE Castles
America's Secret ICE Castles
by JACQUELINE STEVENS
"If you don't have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think he's illegal, we can make him disappear." Those chilling words were spoken by James Pendergraph, then executive director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Office of State and Local Coordination, at a conference of police and sheriffs in August 2008. Also present was Amnesty International's Sarnata Reynolds, who wrote about the incident in the 2009 report "Jailed Without Justice" and said in an interview, "It was almost surreal being there, particularly being someone from an organization that has worked on disappearances for decades in other countries. I couldn't believe he would say it so boldly, as though it weren't anything wrong."
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100104/stevens
[Posted by Melissa Cuen]
by JACQUELINE STEVENS
"If you don't have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think he's illegal, we can make him disappear." Those chilling words were spoken by James Pendergraph, then executive director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Office of State and Local Coordination, at a conference of police and sheriffs in August 2008. Also present was Amnesty International's Sarnata Reynolds, who wrote about the incident in the 2009 report "Jailed Without Justice" and said in an interview, "It was almost surreal being there, particularly being someone from an organization that has worked on disappearances for decades in other countries. I couldn't believe he would say it so boldly, as though it weren't anything wrong."
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100104/stevens
[Posted by Melissa Cuen]
AYOOB: Anti-Arab sentiment
Both campaigns must stop stereotypes
By Edward Ayoob
OP-ED:
When I learned that Sen. Barack Obama's middle name was Hussein, as an Arab-American, I feared that this presidential campaign was going to result in more anti-Arab bigotry than any election I have ever seen.
Republicans, I thought, would use fear and ignorance to exploit the senator's middle name for political advancement. Democrats, on the other hand, would do everything possible to distance themselves and the party's standard bearer from any Arab affiliation or cause.
Unfortunately, I was right. Recent rallies for Mr. McCain have invoked the phrase "Barack Hussein Obama" and have seen a sweet-sounding elderly woman from Minnesota tell the audience and Mr. McCain that she doesn't trust Mr. Obama because "he is an Arab." And we have all heard about those e-mails that declare Mr. Obama is Muslim even though it is well-established that he is Christian.
As for Mr. Obama and his campaign, women wearing Arab or Muslim dress have been moved out of camera shots. Arab Americans working for the campaign were summarily dismissed without cause or any proof of wrong-doing when challenged by Arab-haters.
These developments made me and many other Arab-Americans angry, but, sad to say, we were not surprised.
[posted by Ida Micaily]
FL - Illegal immigrant raped 76-year-old
FL - Illegal immigrant raped 76-year-old
Posted on Friday, January 15 @ 01:33:33 EST
Topic: illegal immigration alien arrests
UMATILLA - A 76-year-old grandmother is in stable condition after she was allegedly raped by a man that had been tasked with her supervision.
A Marion County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman said the woman is in the hospital awaiting surgery.
Subjects: Illegal Immigration, sexual battery, illegal immigrant, elderly woman raped
January 14, 2010
Millard K. Ives
HarborPoint Media and The Daily Commercial
Juan Cahuich-Santiago, 29, was charged Tuesday with sexual battery on a special condition victim. The illegal immigrant was being held at the Marion County Jail on Wednesday on no bail.
http://www.alipac.us/article4841.html
Posted by Ayanna Spikes and Tiffani Dawson
Posted on Friday, January 15 @ 01:33:33 EST
Topic: illegal immigration alien arrests
UMATILLA - A 76-year-old grandmother is in stable condition after she was allegedly raped by a man that had been tasked with her supervision.
A Marion County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman said the woman is in the hospital awaiting surgery.
Subjects: Illegal Immigration, sexual battery, illegal immigrant, elderly woman raped
January 14, 2010
Millard K. Ives
HarborPoint Media and The Daily Commercial
Juan Cahuich-Santiago, 29, was charged Tuesday with sexual battery on a special condition victim. The illegal immigrant was being held at the Marion County Jail on Wednesday on no bail.
http://www.alipac.us/article4841.html
Posted by Ayanna Spikes and Tiffani Dawson
To Overhaul Immigration, Advocates Alter Tactics
Times Topics: Immigration and Emigration
By JULIA PRESTON
Published: January 1, 2010
Lacing up new pairs of walking shoes with a flourish, four immigrant students set out on foot from downtown Miami on Friday, starting a four-month walk to Washington to protest what they called the Obama administration’s lack of action on legislation granting legal status to illegal immigrants.
Three of the four protesters, who are current or former students at Miami Dade College, do not have legal-resident status and risk detention by immigration authorities during the 1,500-mile walk.
The students’ trek showed the resolve and also some limitations of groups supporting an immigration overhaul that would include measures to legalize illegal immigrants. Those groups said this week that they would start a national campaign in January to pressure President Obama to push for the overhaul before midterm elections in November.
But as immigration enforcement has continued at a steady pace during the first year of the Obama administration, many illegal immigrants are clinging to jobs and families in this country and may be afraid to participate in public demonstrations. With unemployment holding at 10 percent, immigrant advocates acknowledge that their campaign could awaken passionate opposition in Congress and around the country.
The students in Miami said in a statement that they decided to begin their walk because they had a “deep desire and need for complete citizenship” after they reached dead-ends in school or work because of their lack of legal immigration status. The protesters include Carlos Roa, 22, who was 2 years old when his parents brought him here from Venezuela, and Felipe Matos, 23, sent from Brazil by his mother when he was 14. They say they support proposals in overhaul bills that would open a path to citizenship for students who came to this country illegally when they were young.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/us/02immig.html?scp=9&sq=california%20immigration&st=cse
[Posted by Yoori Chung]
By JULIA PRESTON
Published: January 1, 2010
Lacing up new pairs of walking shoes with a flourish, four immigrant students set out on foot from downtown Miami on Friday, starting a four-month walk to Washington to protest what they called the Obama administration’s lack of action on legislation granting legal status to illegal immigrants.
Three of the four protesters, who are current or former students at Miami Dade College, do not have legal-resident status and risk detention by immigration authorities during the 1,500-mile walk.
The students’ trek showed the resolve and also some limitations of groups supporting an immigration overhaul that would include measures to legalize illegal immigrants. Those groups said this week that they would start a national campaign in January to pressure President Obama to push for the overhaul before midterm elections in November.
But as immigration enforcement has continued at a steady pace during the first year of the Obama administration, many illegal immigrants are clinging to jobs and families in this country and may be afraid to participate in public demonstrations. With unemployment holding at 10 percent, immigrant advocates acknowledge that their campaign could awaken passionate opposition in Congress and around the country.
The students in Miami said in a statement that they decided to begin their walk because they had a “deep desire and need for complete citizenship” after they reached dead-ends in school or work because of their lack of legal immigration status. The protesters include Carlos Roa, 22, who was 2 years old when his parents brought him here from Venezuela, and Felipe Matos, 23, sent from Brazil by his mother when he was 14. They say they support proposals in overhaul bills that would open a path to citizenship for students who came to this country illegally when they were young.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/us/02immig.html?scp=9&sq=california%20immigration&st=cse
[Posted by Yoori Chung]
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