Politics & Government - 27 March 2007

I live in El Paso TX, and everyday about 10,000 Mexican residents cross the border to work on this side. It's driven the job market to the point where you have to speak Spanish, be Mexican and/or know somebody to get a job. I can't even get a scholarship because they've all been given to Mexican residents! Is it just me, or is this illegal? And if it isn't, should it be?

2007-03-27 15:42:37 · 13 answers · asked by Jenna K 1 in Immigration

C´mon... we have to do something. In other parts of the World (and not necessarily in the North), women get up to 4 even one year of paid maternity leave. Denying such a right (yes, for me it is a right) to women is a sort of discrimination, forcing them to choose between their work or their families.
My proposal: women get on a "sex strike" for one week (at least)! (see it that way... women may be the ones paying the consequences -9 months later- of having sex... we should stand for a change, then)

2007-03-27 15:42:11 · 11 answers · asked by mmsc 2 in Other - Politics & Government

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thankkyou

2007-03-27 15:42:05 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

2007-03-27 15:41:49 · 3 answers · asked by Donald C 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

what is the limit on weed where it goes form a misdemetor to a felony? like is it an ounce?

2007-03-27 15:41:40 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

What's up with that?

2007-03-27 15:41:27 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I wun't an m-16 and dad's gonna buy me one!

2007-03-27 15:39:57 · 11 answers · asked by buster b 1 in Military

those buildings looked like they had been brought down by demolition crews not planes. and did you ever see a plane hit the pentagon

2007-03-27 15:38:01 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

what would the cops do?

2007-03-27 15:37:51 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Can i carry a handgun in my car in the state of Wisconsin? If so, can I do so without a permit or do I need a permit? And how will I go about obtaining a permit?

2007-03-27 15:37:46 · 11 answers · asked by bunnifoofoo 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-03-27 15:34:48 · 10 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5 in Politics

2007-03-27 15:34:36 · 7 answers · asked by It's me 1 in Other - Politics & Government

he raised money for "Scooter" Libby's defense fund? Who would want a President that condones perjury?

2007-03-27 15:34:34 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I was wondering if someone else was in same situation or either know about the whole thing. I am not citizen yet, but a permanent resident of california. Got married back in my country and now want to apply for my wife. someone told me you cant do it so since I am not a US citizen. Is that RIght??

2007-03-27 15:33:25 · 4 answers · asked by Sheeno 2 in Immigration

The interrogator that is trying to find out where the stinger missiles are. The colonel, and the guys with him.

Is he a special forces interrogator or what???

2007-03-27 15:33:13 · 1 answers · asked by Robbie B 2 in Military

You know I'm amazed that anyone could believe such crap about 6 million Jews being killed in gas chambers and burnt in ovens.let me explain something to you, It's illegal to question the Holocaust in Europe. (Why)? because questions bring out answers, True answers. The truth will destroy a lie. So if you make the truth illegal the lie will survive. Lets talk about these fake ovens. 1. They can't be found. 2 to cremate even 3 million people it would take 35 years with ovens running 24 hours a day in perfect conditions, It takes 4 hours and lots of gas to cremate 1 body. If you piled 20 bodies together the time is increased to about 6+ hours a body as you're massing more together remember therefore 120 hours to burn 20 bodies. the body is mostly water. Its hard to burn water. and then you have to wait for the ovens to cool off before you can load them again because no one is going to willingly walk into a hot oven. the supposed gas chambers would leave bodies to be unloaded & buried

2007-03-27 15:32:58 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

For violating 18 USC 2441. ?

2007-03-27 15:32:48 · 23 answers · asked by Ugly Betty 3 in Military

I am just amazed. I have been living in Europe and other places in the world where paid maternity leave up to 3 or 4 months (sometimes even a year) is considered a right of every working woman without any doubt. It is just hard for me to understand how you do not have a decent and paid maternity leave in the US as a law requirement for every employer! So, this is my proposal: a one day of strike, all working women in the country, and no shopping, no eating out... just for one day, to claim a right that is fundamental, that is recognized to other women in the world!... (my other idea was a bit more extreme: a whole, nation-wide, non-sex strike!)

2007-03-27 15:32:43 · 8 answers · asked by mmsc 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-03-27 15:31:58 · 7 answers · asked by Fred 7 in Government

2007-03-27 15:30:03 · 2 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5 in Politics

something the think about...

2007-03-27 15:28:54 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Due to loss of troops, and few Millitary Volunteers, this country may reinstablish "The Draft."
If there was a Draft, Would you go? Why?

I am 15, and if there was a draft, once I was 18, I would go.
I admit that at times I Dont like war, But if given the chance, I would gladly serve this country to protect our freedom and the freedom of others. if I had to, I would even give my life.

2007-03-27 15:28:44 · 16 answers · asked by True American 4 in Military

MORELIA, MEXICO — As many as half the citizens of the home state of Mexican President Felipe Calderon are believed to be working in the United States. So it was no great surprise when Calderon revealed recently that among Michoacan's migrants were some of his own kin.

What's odd is that apparently no one here in Calderon's hometown, not even his family, seems to know who they are.

"I don't know of any relative that is or has been in the United States," said Luis Gabriel Calderon Hinojosa, a physician and the president's eldest brother. "There are more than 100 cousins and we're all over the place. Maybe, by chance, there's someone on the other side."

At an international news conference with President Bush last week, Calderon said that he had relatives working in the fields, "probably handling the vegetables you eat." He cited them, as he had during last year's presidential campaign, to urge a new U.S. immigration accord and more investment in the Mexican economy to slow the expatriate flow.

"I hope one day I can see them, greet them, hug them," Calderon told Bush and reporters.

Calderon's poignant revelation that he had family working the lowest rungs of the U.S. labor market triggered a brief media stampede to find out who they were. Later, his office said it would not reveal any names, to protect the relatives' privacy.

Many in this state capital, including Calderon's former high school teacher, were puzzled by the news.

"The Calderons are not farmers," said Father Eliseo Albor, who taught the president and three of his four siblings at the private Instituto Valladolid. "They don't have the need to cross the border…. They've done well. They've got good jobs."

A cadre of presidential police guard the home where Calderon grew up and where his mother, Maria del Carmen Hinojosa de Calderon, still lives. It is a walled, three-story stucco house in an aging but upscale neighborhood. The president's late father was a founder of Calderon's National Action Party, known as PAN.

The state PAN president, Francisco Javier Morelos Borja, said he didn't doubt Calderon's claim. "Nearly all of us have someone abroad," he said. Maybe they're relatives of Calderon's mother, from Puruandiro, he said. The town of about 65,000 has one of the state's highest emigration rates.

Morelia Mayor Salvador Lopez Ordu–a has been pals with Calderon since childhood and grew up on the next block.

"I'm sure they have relatives who are migrants," said Lopez, who's seeking the PAN nomination for governor. "They could be from Puruandiro, or if not, some other pueblo. I don't know of anyone, personally, but I'm sure it's true."

In Puruandiro, a 90-minute drive north of Morelia, signs of the region's longtime migration patterns are everywhere: pickup trucks with U.S. license plates. The town is small enough for people to know where to find a Calderon relative.

"Yes, we're cousins," said Jesus Madrigal Hinojosa, the owner of an auto repair shop. "But I don't know of any relatives living in the United States."

Calderon's description of relatives working with lettuce and other vegetables suggests they would be in California, which supplies most of the nation. Tens of thousands of Mexican immigrants work fields in the Imperial Valley, the Oxnard Plain and the Salinas Valley, as well as the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys.

Michoacan has supplied California with field hands for generations. But a brief survey of passersby in Morelia's main plaza revealed the reach of their relatives' work abroad: New York high-rise construction, San Jose tiling, Los Angeles roofing, Oregon logging, Sacramento fruit packing and New Jersey factory work.

Shoeshine man Gabriel Ortega Zarco, 55, said eight of his 10 children are working illegally in New Jersey. "My kids tell me to meet them up north, but I'm too old for that," he said. "The last time I was up there I froze" for three days.

Nearby, Father Gabriel Ruiz, a parish priest, said he had known the Calderon family for six years but didn't know about any relatives living in the United States. The president's mother attends Mass two or three times a week in Our Lady of Fatima parish. "She's very reserved, never talks," he said, "so I wouldn't know much."

Juan Luis Calderon, a civil engineer described by the president in his biography as his closest sibling, heads the local water agency. The mayor's office called to arrange for a interview with him Tuesday to clear up the matter. He tentatively agreed.

Later on Tuesday, however, Juan Luis Calderon's secretary said her boss could not make the meeting. And on Wednesday, she said he would be busy the rest of the week.

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2007-03-27 15:27:21 · 5 answers · asked by Zoe 3 in Immigration

EVERY LAST FREAKING NEWS STATION HAS ANNA OR HER SON'S DEATH ON IT???????????????????

UNFREAKINGBELIEVABLE!!!!!!

2007-03-27 15:26:46 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

If the election is held today, who would you vote for and why?

2007-03-27 15:26:35 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

vermont and several other states have a grass roots effort to have prez bush impeached. what do you think? the idea of haveing chaney in the main seat of the white house is just plain scary.

2007-03-27 15:26:08 · 24 answers · asked by frank h 2 in Politics

2007-03-27 15:25:52 · 6 answers · asked by jlundy71 1 in Government

Ok, here's the deal....I need help coming up with some slogans for homecoming signs for our sailors who are returning from the desert and have been gone 6 mths...Anyone have any ideas, it would be MUCH appreciated!!!

2007-03-27 15:18:57 · 19 answers · asked by Kristina D 1 in Military

2007-03-27 15:18:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

so im writing a letter to a soldier in iraq. what should i say? it needs to also include something about giving them hope

2007-03-27 15:18:20 · 9 answers · asked by docpepper33 2 in Military