Bush plan sparks ire, immigration rally

NF Reporter · 04-07-2007, 10:38 AM

AP - Organizers expect several thousand people at an immigrant rights rally on Saturday, saying many illegal immigrants are angry about a White House plan that would grant them work visas but require them to return home and pay hefty fines to become legal U.S. residents.

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waltky · 12-25-2007, 10:00 PM

Granny says Fearless W wants to fire all these illiegals but Congress won't let him...

Results in for immigration crackdown
Dec. 25, 2007 WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is facing criticism after a report from Washington showed very few criminal cases have been filed against employers of illegal workers.

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Even though nearly four times as many arrests were made in 2007 than in previous years, fewer than 100 supervisors or hiring officials were charged in criminal cases out of about 4,900 arrests involving illegal workers, providers of fake documents and others in the past year, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

Immigration experts call the data a testament to the Bush administration's limited success in stopping illegal hiring by corporate employers.

"I know what it takes to get a criminal case," said Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., a former state prosecutor and member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee. "Why is it that hundreds of bar owners can be sanctioned in Missouri every year for letting somebody with a fake ID have a beer, but we can't manage to sanction hundreds of employers for letting people use fake identities to obtain a job?"

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waltky · 05-17-2008, 12:30 AM

Granny says, "Mebbe it's `cause dey wanna come up here an' sell dope an' party alla time"...

Mexican Immigrants Do Not Assimilate Quickly in US, Study Finds
May 15, 2008 - Immigrants to the United States are doing a good job of assimilating, with immigrants from Cuba, Vietnam, and the Philippines leading the way in adapting to an American way of life, according to a new study.

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But the one group not assimilating well is Mexicans, apparently because so many of them are in the country illegally. Excluding Mexican immigrants, the assimilation picture of the 21st century looks better than some might think, as the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a conservative think tank in New York City, documented in its report, Measuring Immigrant Assimilation in the United States , released Tuesday. Study author Jacob Vigdor of Duke University points out that there is no question that today's immigrants are dissimilar from the native-born population when they first arrive.

"If you look at assimilation as a snapshot, and take the immigrant population in its totality, it is less similar to the native-born population than at basically any point in the 20th century," Vigdor told Cybercast News Service. But the reality is, immigrants in the 21st century are doing a better job of assimilating into American society than did the generation of immigrants that arrived at Ellis Island a century ago, he said. "If you look at assimilation as a kind of moving picture - as a process that takes time as immigrants get used to living here and climb the economic ladder and so forth -- there is actually some encouraging news," said Vigdor.

The study used census data from 1890 to 2006 to look at how close foreign-born immigrants look to the native-born population. Immigrants from Cuba, Vietnam, and the Philippines rank near the top, alongside immigrants from Europe, Australia and New Zealand, as the quickest to acquire English, become naturalized, climb the economic ladder, intermarry with native-born Americans and become involved in American civic culture. In fact, they are making faster progress in the melting pot than other immigrants -- or immigrants from any other periods of history.

"Today's immigrants are making more progress in assimilation because they are assimilating more rapidly," Vigdor said. "They are starting out with a disadvantage, but they are making up for that disadvantage at a rapid pace for the most part." But Mexican immigrants, he said, are the exception. "Immigrants from Mexico are not exhibiting the same patterns as immigrants of other nationalities," Vigdor said. "They are assimilating more slowly over time. We see this particularly in terms of their economic and their civic assimilation."

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waltky · 08-17-2008, 01:19 AM

Fearless W workin' on a news visa policy...

US proposes changes in H-2B visa
16 Aug 2008, The US Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced a series of proposed rule changes that will streamline procedures for hiring workers, including from India, under the H-2B visa programme.

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The USCIS has also called for not issuing the H-2B visas to citizens of countries that are determined to be consistently refusing or unreasonably delaying repatriation of their nationals from the US with deportation orders. Eight countries, including India, China and Iran, have been identified by lawmakers early this year as falling in this category. Other nations are Laos, Eritrea, Vietnam, Jamaica and Ethiopia.

Early this year, three Republican lawmakers had called for the suspension of Visas to countries that have refused to accept deported aliens from the United States. The eight counties are said to have refused to repatriate a total of over 139,000 aliens. Of this number more than 18,000 are said to be convicted criminals who have been released back into the streets.

The Department of Homeland Security in announcing plans for revision of rules for the H-2B programme is now playing by the suggestions of lawmakers who have introduced legislations in the Senate and the House. The H-2B non-immigrant temporary worker programme allows US employers to bring foreign nationals to America to fill non-agricultural temporary jobs for which US workers are not available and India is one of the countries from where workers are sourced.

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Icorigin · 08-17-2008, 09:08 PM

TITLE: Say NO! to McCain

EXPLANATION: A few weeks ago (at the time of this writing) I (a.k.a. ME) had a short dialogue at a retirement party with a neighbor (a.k.a. HIM) of one of my wife's relatives. It went something like this:

ME: George W. Bush is already the greatest American president in the history of the United States, under the unusual dire circumstances he encountered and confronted, and his renown among the wise and perceptive will probably continue to grow.

HIM: Bush was stupid. He had no plan invading Iraq, but only stirred up a hornet's nest of trouble and ill-feeling against America. He is responsible for enraged Saudis and OPEC raising gas prices to $9.00/gallon nationwide and for allowing Al Qaeda terrorists to radioactively dirty-bomb 17 major American cities since 9112001.

ME: Actually, you are stupid for miscalling Bush stupid. Obviously he had a plan and reason to invade Iraq, and even democrats in Congress voted for it, idiot. Besides, even if Bush held down gas prices to under $4/gallon and saw to it that no Al Qaeda terrorists harmed any American city since 9112001, the Bible says:

Exo 22:28 "You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
Psalm 74:10 How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile thy name for ever?
Matt 5:11 "Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
Luke 6:22 "Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude you and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of man!
Jude 1:8 Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
Jude 1:10 But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.

Besides, NO one could successfully negotiate with Saddam.....not the United Nations, not NATO, not the EU.......NO one.......despite what naiive-rookie-twerp Obama bellered out to the contrary! Saddam would not meet, confer, consult, nor take any counsel from any presidents of any sovereign nation, but was an anti-Christian/antisemitic rogue blattering out venomously-noncooperative hate speech while using his massive-soverign-country wealth and resources to threaten OPEC with the effect of OPEC starting to seriously consider cutting off foreign oil supply to the United States while Saddam (according to Israeli websites) harbored suicide-bomber training camps within Iraq after SCUD missiles from the direction of Iraq were launched into Haifa and Tel Aviv with delayed Israeli retaliatory response. So, because:

Prov 19:19 A man of great wrath will pay the penalty; for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.
Prov 29:19 By mere words a servant is not disciplined, for though he understands, he will not give heed.
Eccl 10:13 The beginning of the words from the mouth of [a man of great wrath] is foolishness, and the end of his talk is wicked madness

the ONLY sensible recourse for Bush and like-minded congressional democrats was:

Prov 26:3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the back of fools.

HIM: A lot of people can quote a lot of Bible verses to try to prove anything.

ME: What is that supposed to mean? Are you disparaging the quoting of Bible verses? Do you have a problem with me reciting Scripture verses? In your fake omniscience are you inferring that the Bible verses I mentioned are not applicable and pertinent to the scenarios in question?
Even if I was wrongly reciting certain translational wording, or the verses cited did not apply (which certainly is NOT the case regarding what I stated!), are you insinuating that no one can ever quote Bible verses nor rightly apply them to specific situations? Who are you to pronounce intolerant and defamatory criticism and judgment as to what you presume is or is not pertinent and applicable?
Are you jealous of my Bible-verse knowledge, which apparently is superior to your inferior ignorance?
Neither I nor anyone else around here really needs to discover your asinine lack of Bible knowledge by your insolent and irreligious utterances.

[The neighbor got up from his chair, red-faced with anger and embarrassment, and quietly walked away in a huff].

Should McCain and his Republicans be overcome by such anti-Bush, anti-war, racist and sexist evil-rites and equal-rites belligerance? Should McCain and his associates become discouraged because of the subversive, non-peaceful, cruel and vicious verbage of demonic anarchists? Concerning that, we must all say a definitive NO! to McCain and his crew.

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waltky · 10-06-2008, 01:33 AM

Keep the violence on the other side of the border...

9 more bodies dumped in Tijuana
Sat., Oct. 4, 2008 - Nearly 50 killed in Mexico's border city in a week related to drug trade

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Police have found nine more bodies dumped around the Mexican border city of Tijuana, where nearly 50 people have been killed in a week of violence related to the drug trade. Municipal police found five of the bodies Saturday between two small shopping centers in the eastern part of the city. They had been beaten and had their hands bound. The bodies of two beheaded men were found wrapped in blankets on a road elsewhere in the city, according to the Baja California state Attorney General's Office. The heads were in black plastic bags nearby.

A piece of cardboard left by the bodies read: "These are the bricklayer's people." On Monday, a message found with 12 bodies next to a Tijuana elementary school threatened "all of those who are with 'The Engineer.'" State prosecutor Rommel Moreno has blamed the violence on warring leaders within the Arellano Felix drug gang. More than 400 people have been killed in drug-related violence in the city across from San Diego this year, including at least 49 this week.

On Friday night, two men were found shot to death in the same empty lot near the elementary school where the 12 bodies were found Monday. Execution-style killings, beheadings and shootouts have soared across Mexico since the army and federal police intensified their fight against the drug trade nearly two years ago.

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5 police held in deadly clash at Mexican ruins
6 Oct.`08 - Four killed during raid on protesters who had seized the site's entrance

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Five state police officers were arrested Sunday in connection with the deaths of four villagers during a raid on protesters who had seized the entrance of a Mayan archaeological site. The five officers led an operation on Friday to remove hundreds of mostly indigenous villagers who had occupied the entrance of the Chinkultic ruins in southern Mexico for nearly a month, the Chiapas Justice Department said. The officers were being investigated on possible homicide charges.

The villagers, most of them from the Mayan Tzeltal and Tzotzil cultures, had been protesting excessive entrance fees and the failure to reinvest those fees into the area's infrastructure and environment. They were demanding a role in the administration of the ruins. Protesters fought the raid with sticks, rocks and machetes. They wrested 75 guns from the officers and poured gasoline on others, threatening to set them on fire, the department said.

State Justice Secretary Amador Rodriguez Lozano said four villagers were killed and two are missing. Two dozen other people were injured, including 16 police, the justice department said. Indigenous leaders say the two missing protesters were found dead, bring the toll to six. Another 295 police who had been held for questioning had been released by Sunday. But the Justice Department said more could be arrested as investigations continue.

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