rssThe Week in Immigration News
Friday, March 05, 2010 at 2:40 pm
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A roundup of the top immigration stories of the week:
- Yesterday, President Obama met with members of the Domestic Policy Council to talk strategy on immigration reform, focusing on ways to advance the efforts of Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who have been working on a bill for several months. The White House has agreed that the bill should include a path toward citizenship for the millions of illegal immigrants, but that it would come with penalties for violating the law and a fine.
- A Texas judge has publicly denounced the volume of court cases involving non-violent undocumented immigrants in Texas. The mounting number of cases has become increasingly problematic for courts across the country, and U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks of Austin has issued an order challenging the U.S. attorney’s office to justify each illegal re-entry case brought before him. His action is unprecedented, say lawyers. “It appears the United States Attorney is not screening these cases to eliminate those persons who need no federal prosecution and should simply be returned to their own country,” he wrote in his order. Sparks noted that these cases spend money and time on immigrants who could be deported without prosecution. His critique seems to be aimed at exactly what the Bush’s administration’s Operation Streamline, which has been continued by Obama, strives to do: prosecute all illegal immigrants criminally, regardless of criminal history.
- A Florida language school has been under investigation for what’s been called “the largest visa fraud investigation in the [U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement's] history.” The school’s owner and an employee are responsible for applying for student visas for students who never attended class. They apparently sold student visas without any requirements and made about $2.4 million over the past three years from their operation.
- Mexican drug gangs have been using U.S. public lands to grow marijuana for decades, but their presence is now more persistent than ever. About a million more pot plants were found by local, state and federal agents each year between 2004 and 2008. Mexican drug traffickers, using smuggled immigrants who are often extorted into working on the farms, can grow up to 30 tons a year.
- A new bill would offer legal residence status to immigrant entrepreneurs who secure a minimum of $250,000 to start up their businesses. The Start-Up Visa Act of 2010, proposed by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) last week, could also create jobs. This two-year visa would require that entrepreneurs create five or more jobs and collect an addition $1 million in investment or revenue during that time to obtain a green card. “It’s a more accessible version of the existing EB-5 Immigrant Investor visa program which grants legal permanent residency to immigrants who can prove that their investment (of at least $500,000 to $1 million) in a U.S. business preserves or creates at least 10 U.S. jobs after two years,” points out the pro-immigrant Immigration Impact.
- In New York City, advocates have denounced the police department’s failure to help victims who are in the process of applying for, or in need of, a U visa. The visa programs allows immigrants who were mentally or physically abused and who cooperate with the police during investigations to stay in the country legally and work up to four years while they apply for permanent residency. But several reports from Spanish-language newspapers have found that the NYPD has ignored many of these cases after women cooperated with officials.
- California’s GOP gubernatorial candidates are using illegal immigration as a central issue to distinguish themselves from one another to get ahead in the primary. Candidates Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman have been recently been using the issue of immigration in their speeches to appeal to different sides of the Republican Party. Poizner has had a firm stance on immigration, saying he plans on “stopping it once and for all.” Whitman, a moderate on the issue, has said she favors working on creating a path for illegal immigrants toward legalization, but opposes amnesty. Whitman is currently leading in the polls.
- In an NPR interview, Tomás Jiménez, an author and professor of sociology, discusses how drug and gang violence along the U.S.-Mexico border is changing the relationship between Mexican immigrants living in the U.S. and their relatives on the other side. Read the interview here.
- Here’s a look at the Census Bureau’s history of complicating and narrowing the cultural and ethnic compositions of Hispanic immigrants in the U.S.
- “In the past year, Texas saw an 85-percent increase in all official refugee arrivals,” The Texas Observer reports. Much of that might be attributed to North Texas refugee organizations. Since 2006, the Dallas-Fort Worth area has been a central refugee destination for Middle Eastern families, especially for Iraqis. “Between 2006 and 2009, 2,822 Iraqis officially resettled in Texas. Thousands more are on the way.”
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Comment posted March 7, 2010 @ 4:04 am
E-Verify has been under attack by any of the open border organization that represent a list of too many entities, whose only believe system is profit–no matter the consequences to the American labor force, irreversible Overpopulation and a marginalized country. I, personally will fight for it as many other bloggers will, because this foreign occupation must be halted. Some senior politicians under Rep. Gabrielle Gifford (D-AZ) are trying to stop its use, but offering another alternative. This in my mind is just another distraction to impede E-Verify and its growing popularity, throwing in some other new tool abbreviated as NEVA. Yes! E-Verify has been compromised by illegal workers using fake ID, Do you really think that this irregularity cannot be reversed? We have this enforcement tool now and its staying. Bloggers have made sure every American person is aware of it. A number of foreign workers are getting past the verification system. But upgraded, innovation will soon stop all this?
E-Verify which–WILL–become permanent application, that will evolve and finally will constitute a fearful computer program to apprehend illegal workers. It will not be undermined by corrupt legislators. The influx of hundreds of thousands more unskilled laborers would impoverish America's unskilled poor even further A growing number of police departments have had a favorable response to the use of the 287 (g) local officer enforcement. But the federal government under powerful politic elites as Sen. Harry Reid, Speaker Pelosi, HMS secretary Napolitano and other suspicious politicians, have made it their business to bring to this country, at least a million moderate legal immigrants a year, with no restrictive way of just importing highly skilled workers. President Obama has made it clear, that he is going to try and pass an Amnesty and–now–having discussions with Sen Chuck Schumer, Sen Lindsey Graham, Rep. Raul M. Grijalva and more who remain hidden.
It seems that its up to individual states to enforce the immigration laws, because the Federal government seems to have lagged way behind. California, a known–SANCTUARY STATE–is overrun with illegal people and currently trying to justify a $20 billion dollar shortfall. Many states have seen the errors of there ways and now realized the implications of underestimating their serious budget crisis, caused by the impact of illegal alien families they are supporting. Arizona, Georgia have taken major steps to enforce immigration regulations on their level of government. California has no such enforcement, in fact they haven't even a program of using a permanent E-Verify. Sacramento has disregarded any immigration laws and now have students and professors in universities complaining of budget cuts, because they are unaware or intentionally silent that money is going to supporting welfare programs for illegal foreigners. Yes! Some illegal families pay some taxes, but it nowhere compares to the siphoning off federal, state and municipal public coffers. STARTING WITH MIDTERM ELECTIONS, I PREDICT ILLEGAL ALIENS RIDICULING OUR BALLOT SYSTEM, SPECIALLY IN CALIFORNIA AND OTHER OVERWHELMED STATES BY VOTING. NO PROOF OF NATIONAL STATUS, IDENTIFICATION IS REQUIRED IN MOST STATES.
Under the shadow of utra-Liberal assembly in Sacramento, these extremist lawmakers have nearly destroyed there home state, by millions of illegal families stealing public welfare. There are those in Washington who would push through an American-Mexican agreement that would allow illegal immigrants access to the Social Security of every worker in our nation. There are those in Washington who have sold their soul to obnoxious business owners for less tangible gifts, so perpetrating the worst crime available of another- BLANKET-Amnesty. Not only would it cause billions of dollars to process those already here, but criminals would not surrender to immigration authorities and yet another call for Immigration reform would bring millions more banging at the gates to be let in? Its almost like their is no difference in national status between an illegal alien and a true citizen and legal resident, because of the status quo who allowed this believe system.
Many of our politicians have committed a capitol offense against the edicts in the US constitution, by allowing monetary corruption in clouding their minds and not stopping generations of illegal immigrants. Republicans are split on the the issue and Democratic with Liberal-extremist leanings think we should share every dollar with indigent foreign nationals. California schools are so overcrowded the children of illegal immigrants are ruining the chances of regular citizens not getting a decent education. We have millions of Americans in our prisons system, so we certainly don't need illegal aliens to house and feed. As usual the open border zealots are screaming , threatening potential court rulings-and perhaps immigration laws against states with a desire to protect their citizens, such as rescinding the instant birthright citizenship law; a verdict once and for all, be explored by the Supreme court?
Just as voters in California were cheated because their filing of Proposition 176, intentionally manipulated so as not to reach the highest court. The Public entitlement mentalities, and equally accommodating policies, are propelling the momentum of illegal immigration into this nation. Free health care, education are just part of the equation, that is causing major transference from needed infrastructure repairs and cutting back on social welfare programs for our poor and unemployed. We should vet every entitlement and only allocate to those persons who are legally here in the United states. THE AMERICAN RESISTANCE FOUNDATION has stated on there site THEAMERICANRESISTANCE.dot.com. To confront the powers that would destroy our Republic and our way of life. We recognize that silence is consent. It is our intention to bring together and focus the power of the millions of angry citizens – and the many small groups who will no longer be silenced.
Our nation is being invaded and colonized. As is our duty, We the People will resist.
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Comment posted March 7, 2010 @ 11:41 am
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