rssThe Week in Immigration News
Friday, April 09, 2010 at 1:45 pm
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A roundup of the top immigration stories of the week:
- Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), a longtime supporter of immigration reform, could become a leader on the issue this year. Just days after he said reform is still a top priority in his agenda, he will be joining activists in a Chicago rally tomorrow in support of comprehensive immigration reform.
- About 200 Chicago businesses partnered with Jim Edgar, the former Republican governor of Illinois, in announcing a coalition to push for the reform of federal immigration laws. From the Chicago Tribune: “The group argued that legal status for an estimated 540,000 illegal immigrants in the state would result in billions of dollars of new economic activity. … Edgar said he has tried to convince Republican colleagues of the economic merits of immigration, warning that a lack of support could cause lasting political damage. ‘If the immigrant community views us as a party that is hostile to them … we just can’t afford that,’ he said.”
- Reps. Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas), Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and Ed Pastor (D-Ariz.) met with Mexican president Felipe Calderon this week to discuss the future of the fight against drug cartel violence, and they said they intend to try to expedite aid, from the Merida Initiative, to the Mexican government to help it fight increasing violence. This comes just as U.S. authorities announced that trafficking routes in Cuidad Juarez, one of the most violence-ridden city in Mexico due to drug trafficking, is now controlled by the powerful leader of the Sinaloa cartel. Read more about this story here and about the Mexican drug war here.
- Arizona’s senate bill 1070, which would mandate some of the toughest immigration enforcement laws in the country, is still on hold, according to KPHO news channel’s Website. The bill would make it a state crime for anyone to be in the country illegally and for anyone to harbor or transport an illegal immigrant. Since it has already been passed by the state senate and two House committees, the bill was expected to move quickly to the governor. Now many believe the bill is being put on hold because it doesn’t have enough votes in the House. It is expected to be heard by the full House sometime next week.
- Service Employees International Union members are calling for abuses within the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to stop during a two-day vigil. The union is protesting ICE abuses as documented recently by The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Department of Homeland Security’s own Office of Inspector General. This appears to be the first national attempt to draw attention to the most recent mismanagement issues by ICE.
- A former guard at Port Isabel Detention Center, an immigration detention facility, in Los Fresnos, Texas, was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday for six charges filed against him — three deprivation of civil rights charges and three abusive sexual contact charges. According to court records, the former guard will serve five years probation after his release from prison. This adds to the list of claims against Port Isabel from civil rights groups who have previously noted injustice and abuse in the facility. It’s also the same facility that prompted detainees to go on a hunger strike last year.
- New America Media has a Q&A with Laura Hill, a research fellow at Public Policy Institute of California, to discuss a new study that looks at data from 2003 to examine the effects of permanent residency on the wages and earnings of immigrants. “Our comparison group was immigrants who have been continuously legal and who got a green card at the same time as those who were unauthorized,” Hill said. “We found that getting a green card is not really associated with earning gains especially in the short term for the low skilled worker. If you were a high skilled worker, had a Bachelor’s degree or higher, you could see an earnings or occupational gain attributable to a green card.” Read about the study here.
- Californians are shifting away from proposals that call for the removal of all social services from illegal immigrants, including public schooling and emergency medical attention, according to a new Los Angeles Times/University of Southern California poll. From the Los Angeles Times: “Large majorities in the poll supported two alternative proposals: one that would couple stronger enforcement at the border with a temporary worker program, and one that would combine stronger border enforcement with a path to eventual citizenship for illegal residents who perform community service, pay back taxes and learn English. The support for both a guest-worker program and a citizenship option were notable partly because they come at a time when California voters remain deeply pessimistic about the state’s economy.” Read more here.
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For decades now our legislators have turned a blind-eye, to the movement from South of the border. Nor have they rushed to fix the loophole that allows unprecedented millions of foreign visitors vanish into America. These a two paramount factors have caused for 20 years the massive influx of the 20 to 30 million or more foreign nationals. Thanks to years our politicians selling their reputations to the highest wealthy bidder undetected in the scheme of things. Of course open border purveyors don't want to be recognized, because they are donating multi-millions of dollars to keep the border region under-funded and open to traffic. But, why would they? These pro-illegal immigration people live isolated lives away from the crush of big cities, surrounded by bodyguards. They do not have to every worry in their gated communities, or large mansions of the rising crime rate from foreign nationals, as long as their bottom line is substantial cash benefits for cheap labor is protected.
Patriotic Americans should GOOGLE–donations to the ACLU, US Chamber of Commerce and La Raza even environmentalist groups. Money has no conscious, even when our border territory is covered with the remnants of human trash mounds. It would stun the most ordinary US citizen or document carrying permanent resident, of those companies that donate huge amounts of money to even extremist organizations that are remain silently in the background. California, a refuge for foreign nationals is not a melting pot any more, but a over pouring cauldron of very angry citizens whose taxes are going towards subsidize the lives of illegal alien families. The majority of immigrants are indigent and have no skills, when even the lowest citizen has some schooling. Therefore people from the lower countries are more dependent on big government social welfare programs.
This is where the Democratic-Liberal excel. Using taxpayer money, Libs-Democrats recognize that underwriting to foreign aliens, both – legal and illegal – with generous giveaways will result in votes and support from their benefactors. The momentum in this issue is that by giving away so much of the public welfare, (our own poor citizens-veterans, senior citizens, handicapped) even US born students get abundantly shortchanged. Government handouts also encourage more illegal immigrants to cross the open borders with hands reaching for plentiful goodies. Long before 60 percent of the citizens of Los Angeles demanded the end to benefits for illegal families under Prop 187, politicians in Sacramento have ignored the plea to stop the inflow. California is just one of the gateway states that is overcome by people who have shunned our laws. Arizona is in financial turmoil followed closely by Utah, and others are in financial turmoil because most lawmakers have no spine.
The same as the Governors, mayors, officials and even judges have either collected favors or have earned a secret stipend for ignoring federal laws. Aiding and abetting illegal immigrants seems to have fallen on deaf eyes even for those public servants we voted for? They forgot a pledge of allegiance to the main body of the American population and seemed more in tune with doing the bidding of foreign presidents. For failing to seal the border with a full compliment of patrolling Agents and keeping the funding below par, we now have the most serious immigration problem we have ever have to face. Years of empty promises to landowners within the border region has finally culminated in a vicious murder of an old Rancher. Opening this can of worms is even worse, because he died from a gunshot wound by some foreign national, who quickly escaped back across the border.
IT PROVES THAT THE BORDER WAS NEVER SEALED AND THAT AMERICANS LIVING THERE, MUST FOREVER LOOK OVER THEIR SHOULDERS. WITHOUT THE DETERRENT OF A FULLY ARMED NATIONAL GUARD OR FEDERAL MILITARY OUR NATION WILL NEVER BE SAFE. THE CONSEQUENCES ARE THE RISING PUBLIC ENTITLEMENTS AND THE HUNDREDS OF BILLION DOLLAR EXPENDITURES THAT ACCOMPANIED THIS UNRESOLVED ISSUE.
Whether it was a armed lone illegal alien or a drug cartel who hit Rob Krentz is likely just the beginning of violence spilling into the US? If the border had been the two separated walls of steel and concrete originally formulated by Rep.Duncan Hunter this senseless death may not have occurred? Part of their apparent politico ego is that citizens-residents are inclined to believe the lies leaving their lips. As far as I am concerned, if bloggers had not kept on stimulating the general public about the great properties of E-Verify, 287 G, immigration programs they would have been long gone. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) would have made sure of that. It is obvious they are not interested in opening jobs for Americans, still allowing 8 million illegal aliens to steal the jobs of our own unskilled, poorly educated people.
Even ICE raids are now in peril as Janet Napolitano has altered the occurrences around the country. A amended 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli bill makes far more sense, than another costly AMNESTY. A regimented points system could be included to offer expedited immigration to a high level of skilled workers who have earned specific technical and scientific merits. Instead for the most part our illegal immigrants are uneducated, unskilled, non-English speaking laborers from Third World lands. Many are criminals, transporting drugs, and some have been exposed to previously eradicated diseases. Most are just looking for a job and better way of life. But we have our own looking to get out of poverty. They often are taken advantage of by greedy and unscrupulous businesses owners that hire them for a few dollars and pay them in cash under the table to avoid taxes or any scrutiny. Illegal aliens have already been are coached and enabled by family members already here, or groups like ACORN that advocate for them.
They are taught before they even make the trip on how to manipulate the system to maximize government entitlements. Startling reports of road maps and how to bypass immigration agents is already knowledge before they leave. And that our nation allows instant citizenship to Mothers given birth to anchor babies which are free tickets to Social Security and additional benefits such as free medical care, housing subsidies and education for their kids. A fully functioning two layer wall would have been a ultimate deterrent, against any criminal walking into America. For the skeptical individual prey take a tour of the border. It's nothing like our government promised. It's been one lie since its conception. The second high fence is not there? In fact the fence itself doesn't as they claim, cross the 2000 miles from San Diego to Brownsville. Routes are still open for every conceivable type of illegal alien criminal, where just ancient barbed wire bars the way.
But now its backfired, by a respected Rancher left to die on his vehicle along with his dog. All politicians must be held accountable for this ugly crime, as the people who reside along the border have never been taken seriously for requests for policing. NUMBERSUSA, with a million members have answers to all your questions.
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