rssThe Week in Immigration News
Friday, March 26, 2010 at 3:00 pm
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- The Obama administration is working toward immigration reform, according to Janet Napolitano, secretary of Department of Homeland Security. Napolitano told an audience yesterday at Arizona State University: “We’re going to keep pushing this until we get it over the finish line,” according to The Arizona Republic. The paper wrote: “Napolitano emphasized that the United States has a sovereign right to secure its borders, and she touted a nearly 20 percent increase in the deportation rate of criminal illegal immigrants since President Barack Obama took office. She added, however, that America also needs an immigration system that upholds ideals of fairness and openness. ‘What I cannot tell you is the when,’ Napolitano said.”
- Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) staff said she supports immigration reform and would be happy to meet with organizers of the pro-reform rally held in front of her office Wednesday night. “Sen. Feinstein is well on the record as saying she supports comprehensive immigration reform,” Gil Duran, her spokesman, told The San Francisco Chronicle. Duran also had this direct message to the organizers of Wednesday’s rally: “We appreciate them keeping it at the forefront.”
- More than 200,000 demonstrators gathered on the National Mall Sunday to advocate for comprehensive immigration reform. “March for America” drew organizations and activists from around the country, as well as lawmakers, to gather and show their support for immigration legislation.
- The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, an Arizona-based group which follows the national Minuteman movement, dissolved earlier this week after group president Carmen Mercer said she feared the group’s “call to action” would threaten its existence. Last week, Mercer e-mailed their members asking them to go to the border “locked, loaded and ready.” The Arizona Daily Star reports: “Mercer said she received a more feverish response than she expected — 350 personal e-mails she said — and decided the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps couldn’t shoulder the responsibility and liability of what could occur, she said. ‘People are ready to come lock and loaded and that’s not what we are all about,’ Mercer said. ‘It only takes one bad apple to destroy everything we’ve done for the last eight years.’” The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps PAC, the political arm of the organization, will continue its operations.
- A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the city of Farmers Branch, Texas violated the constitution with an ordinance banning illegal immigrants from renting housing. U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle, of Dallas, ruled that Ordinance 2952 was an attempt to enforce U.S. immigration laws, something under the federal government’s jurisdiction. Tim O’Hare, the city’s mayor, said the City Council would have to decide whether to continue the fight — it has already cost Farmers Branch about $3.2 million since 2006. In the past four years, the city has proposed a series of ordinances that would make it illegal for landlords to rent to illegal immigrants. Read more here.
- A Justice Department immigration board ruled that a Mexican national and former federal drug informant cannot be deported to Mexico because he would be not be safe. They concluded that he would be tortured either by government agents or by those involved in the cartel. Guillermo “Lalo” Ramirez Peyro had informed the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of homicides by a cartel he witnessed and recorded in Ciudad Juarez. Peyro had been a police officer before the 2004 homicides. The ruling, though, could be overturned if the Mexican government shows improvement controlling drug and cartel violence.
- The Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an anti-illegal immigration organization, released a report this week outlining how illegal immigration and amnesty has hurt the American working class. According to the study, the 1986 immigration reform cost the U.S. $78.7 billion over 10 years and promoted an “unprecedented” rise in illegal immigration,” that hurt working class Americans — with whom illegal immigrants compete for jobs. The report states: “The influx of uneducated, unskilled illegal alien workers has created a massive labor surplus at the lower end of the labor market…There are many out-of-work Americans who want and need the jobs now being held by illegal aliens. Illegal aliens are doing work not just that American[s] will do but that Americans are doing.” Immigration Impact refutes much of the study here.
- Mary Rose Wilcox, Maricopa County (Ariz.) supervisor, called for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s indictment when about 20 people protested outside of the Department of Justice on Monday to demand that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder stop ignoring criticisms and lawsuits against Arpaio. Here’s a video of Wilcox’s speech (h/t Phoenix Business Journal). Arpaio critic and activist Salvador Reza and the Arizona Puente Human Rights Caravan attended the immigration rally Sunday and asked to speak with Holder. Arpaio told AZ/DC that “he hopes Reza returns to Arizona soon because he said he misses Reza demonstrating outside his office building in downtown Phoenix. ‘While he’s out there protesting, I’m enforcing the law,’ Arpaio said of Reza.”
- This week, HBO aired the premiere of a documentary on the 2007 fight for immigration reform in the Senate, focusing on the now late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s struggle to find Republican and Democratic support for comprehensive immigration reform. The documentary, “The Senator’s Bargain,” is “the centerpiece of a decade-long project undertaken by [the filmmakers] to delve methodically into the legislative process,” reports New American Media.
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Comment posted March 26, 2010 @ 7:04 pm
All SPECIAL Interest & “Minority” PAC / Groups AND CHURCHES MBINING & organizing. That paired w/the millions & millions of anchor babies voting & soon able to vote.. that should TERRIFY Legal American Citizens. KEEP IT SINGLE ISSUE, Immigration only. The left knows to put abortion, union, and USES the race card to divide. SINGLE ISSUE BALLAD – require it in your State. Start talking to your family, your neighbors, people at restaurants & at work.
If we do no GET ORGANIZED, forwarding Emails that affect our freedom as a Nation, TURN OFF THE TV's and GET UP out of our chairs.. we are going to lose. No one is going to do this for you. THEY ARE THE ONLY ONES MAKING THEIR VOICES HEARD.
The time is NOW, do not wait for the legislation – we have to be ready, united and prepared and DEMAND Immigration Laws ENFORCED, REMOVE ANCHOR law & NEVER EVER ANY FORM OF AMNESTY! PLEASE AMERICA – for OUR CHILDRENS FUTURE!
And for Christian community supporting immigration reform in favor of amnesty, quoting scripture & waving signs that say: “What would Jesus do..” He would listen to the word's of Our Father, The Lord: “God has established the nations (Deut. 32:8,? Acts 17:26), and their laws should be respected.”
Comment posted March 26, 2010 @ 8:40 pm
Who would Jesus deport?
And, next time in English. Makes it easier to mock the xenophobia if people can understand what you are writing.
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Comment posted March 26, 2010 @ 9:00 pm
FAIR is a hate group. Why is anyone listening to their 'stats'?
Comment posted March 26, 2010 @ 9:05 pm
I understand youre afraid but there is no doubt that the entire system needs to be fixed. The current system we have now is antiquated at best. I have no idea why youre so terified of people who want to better themselves and this country. In fact most immigrants are alot more pro America than born citizens. Please, stop being afraid and actually get the facts from a credible org……not one like FAIR or NUMBERS USA which are classified as hate groups.
Comment posted March 26, 2010 @ 9:17 pm
The connection between the computerized E-Verify federal application and illegal immigration is blatantly obvious? That's why the open border extremists have concocted everything in their parameters of influence, to ruin the illegal immigrant worker removal app to justify the scrapping of the program. Its exceptional qualifications to intercept illegal aliens in the workforce has gained in popularity for a large majority of Americas job market, along with its physical partner the 287 (g) police enforcement arrest program that has the ability to question persons in state, county or city jurisdictions on legal status. Thanks to Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano and a group of majority leadership Democrats and few Republicans led by Sen. Chuck Schumer Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. John McCain much of our Southern fence, E-Verify, 287 (G) are at risk.
This is the lead-up to force through an ultimate Immigration Reform Act, Which is better named as AMNESTY, that will de-criminalize somewhere between 20 and 30 million illegal aliens who have entered this country. IT WOULD COST MILLIONS OF DOLLARS LESS, TO REVISE THE 1986 SIMPSON/ MAZZOLI BILL WITH AMENDMENTS, THAN CONFRONTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHICH SUCH ANOTHER TRAVESTY. If the US public do not stand their ground on this terrible onslaught, our population will explode from not only those who broke the law, but the sponsorship of millions of the family circle. Once here hundreds of thousands will be financially deserted, leaving the taxpayers as the burdened beneficiary. Nor does the payout end up there, as millions more are waiting in expectation to climb the fence or slip through airport terminals.
For instance they could make E-Verify permanent, including 287G. Next a Guest worker program for the harvesting of fruits and vegetable, but with a limited permit to work in that particular enterprise, with the understanding of returning to their home country after expiring. Next promote special visa for high caliber workforce of technical engineers, scientists and personnel who have special abilities as an interest in our nations future. Outside of these two recipients we do not need or require people who are here to either work menial jobs, or looking for a better life. We have our own population of every nationality who entered this country by following the rules. We certainly don't need the flotsam and jetsam of criminals, that we have imported through the wide gapped open fence areas.
FIND THE ANSWERS TO WHY OUR POLITICIANS HAVE SOLD OUT AMERICA TO CORPORATE CONCERNS AT NUMBERSUSA.. BE AWARE THAT MANY YEARS OF TURNING THEIR BACK TO THIS INSIDIOUS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION INVASION, HAS BROUGHT US TO THE POINT? THE BORDER WAS ALWAYS UNDER MANNED, UNDERFUNDED BY WASHINGTON. NOW THEY MUST PAY THE PIPER BACK, BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ULTIMATE BLAME FOR THIS WHOLE CHARADE OF WORKING IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST. IF WE RELEASE MILLIONS OF FOREIGN NATIONALS INTO THE MAINSTREAM LEGITIMACY, STATES LIKE CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA, TEXAS AND NEW YORK WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CARRY THE EXTRA FINANCIAL WEIGHT? California has rapidly sunk under the enormous weight of supporting the millions of illegal alien families, anchor baby families that has squeezed government benefits from taxpayers.
Only American citizens have the voting power, to throw out the rancid accumulation of legislators who have undermined American society, our flag, our language. USE the phone to explain this insanity to your Senators and Representatives To get any change the only thing these public servants adamantly understand is losing your vote? Same with State law makers? THEY ARE ALL INVOLVED IN cover-ups? Read about all the corrupt politicians in the Capital and State level at JUDICIAL WATCH.
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Comment posted March 26, 2010 @ 11:09 pm
The connection between the computerized E-Verify federal application and illegal immigration is blatantly obvious? That's why the open border extremists have concocted everything in their parameters of influence, to ruin the illegal immigrant worker removal app to justify the scrapping of the program. Its exceptional qualifications to intercept illegal aliens in the workforce has gained in popularity for a large majority of Americas job market, along with its physical partner the 287 (g) police enforcement arrest program that has the ability to question persons in state, county or city jurisdictions on legal status. Thanks to Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano and a group of majority leadership Democrats and few Republicans led by Sen. Chuck Schumer Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. John McCain much of our Southern fence, E-Verify, 287 (G) are at risk.
This is the lead-up to force through an ultimate Immigration Reform Act, Which is better named as AMNESTY, that will de-criminalize somewhere between 20 and 30 million illegal aliens who have entered this country. IT WOULD COST MILLIONS OF DOLLARS LESS, TO REVISE THE 1986 SIMPSON/ MAZZOLI BILL WITH AMENDMENTS, THAN CONFRONTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHICH SUCH ANOTHER TRAVESTY. If the US public do not stand their ground on this terrible onslaught, our population will explode from not only those who broke the law, but the sponsorship of millions of the family circle. Once here hundreds of thousands will be financially deserted, leaving the taxpayers as the burdened beneficiary. Nor does the payout end up there, as millions more are waiting in expectation to climb the fence or slip through airport terminals. MUCH OF THE IMMIGRATION FAULT IS THE TREATY OF NAFTA, AS MILLIONS OF MEXICANS LOST THEIR LIVELIHOOD IN GROWING CROPS.
For instance they could make E-Verify permanent, including 287G. Next a Guest worker program for the harvesting of fruits and vegetable, but with a limited permit to work in that particular enterprise, with the understanding of returning to their home country after expiring. AMENDMENTS CAN BE ADDED TO THE 1986 IMMIGRATION CONTROL & REFORM ACT approved by no other that the demised TED Kennedy. The short list can be added, but American Patriots will fight anything smelling of AMNESTY. Initially promote special visa for high caliber workforce of technical engineers, scientists and personnel who have special abilities as an interest in our nations future. Outside of these two recipients we do not need or require people who are here to either work menial jobs, or looking for a better life. We have our own population of every nationality who entered this country by following the rules. We certainly don't need the flotsam and jetsam of criminals, that we have imported through the wide gapped open fence areas.
FIND THE ANSWERS TO WHY OUR POLITICIANS HAVE SOLD OUT AMERICA TO CORPORATE CONCERNS AT NUMBERSUSA.. BE AWARE THAT MANY YEARS OF TURNING THEIR BACK TO THIS INSIDIOUS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION INVASION, HAS BROUGHT US TO THE POINT? THE BORDER WAS ALWAYS UNDER MANNED, UNDERFUNDED BY WASHINGTON. NOW THEY MUST PAY THE PIPER BACK, BECAUSE BOTH PARTIES MUST CLAIM THE BLAME FOR THIS WHOLE CHARADE OF WORKING IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST. IF WE RELEASE MILLIONS OF FOREIGN NATIONALS INTO THE MAINSTREAM LEGITIMACY, STATES LIKE CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA, TEXAS AND NEW YORK WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CARRY THE EXTRA FINANCIAL WEIGHT? California has rapidly sunk under the enormous weight of supporting the millions of illegal alien families, anchor baby families that has squeezed government benefits from taxpayers.
Only American citizens have the voting power, to throw out the rancid accumulation of legislators who have undermined American society, our flag, our language. USE the phone to explain this insanity to your Senators and Representatives To get any change the only thing these public servants adamantly understand is losing your vote? Same with State law makers? THEY ARE ALL INVOLVED IN cover-ups? Read about all the corrupt politicians in the Capital and State level at JUDICIAL WATCH. WATCH CAREFULLY AS ILLEGAL ALIENS WILL BE VOTING IN THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS.
No Copyright. Get this commentary or any of my articles to the Public.It will entice Millions more to come for free government entitlements and feeding from your Social Security.
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Comment posted March 27, 2010 @ 6:56 am
Brittanicus:
30 million undocumented immigrants? What are you smoking?
Youre part of NUMBERS USA and FAIR, spewing hate and misinformation. Shame on you!
Comment posted March 27, 2010 @ 7:03 am
Brittanicus:
FYI…NUMBERS USA, Judicial watch and FAIR are known hate groups. None of what you say in your rant is at all true. I see you spew the same 'comment' verbatim on many other sites. Disgraceful! Instead of becoming educated on the matter, you just spew hate. These are peoples lives youre playing with. Stop it!
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Comment posted March 29, 2010 @ 10:46 am
30 million illegal aliens, yes, 30-50 million thieves sounds about right. Who cares what jesus would do, that is YOUR religion, not mine, Mine says deport the bastards.
Comment posted March 29, 2010 @ 10:55 pm
Armando Dizon Chan SS #377-86-7356 here. Obama is all talk. We need action.
Comment posted April 3, 2010 @ 3:16 am
If you noticed every time you see a Immigration topic. “OBAMA is always working toward the Immigration Reform” It is a work without an end. Obama, how about sending it to the Senate and ask them to start debating it ? Your word is all B/S!
Comment posted April 3, 2010 @ 5:20 am
yea try to deport us all see whose gona do the hard work u lazy fucking americans i dnt think so bitches u just want office jobs but u cant even finish highschool all u want is to collect money from the goverment try sweating it out lke all the hard wrking ppl that cme to ur dam country VIVA MEXICO PUTOS Y TODOS LOS LATINOS ILLEGALES muy pronto we gona take over this dam country
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