Politics & Government - 14 October 2007

what can we do so Quebec would not separate from Canada?

2007-10-14 10:46:01 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Do you think it’ll happen during the up and coming election?

Don’t use Iraq as an excuse. That WILL come to an end. The programs and promises will last forever. Thanks.

2007-10-14 10:44:25 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-10-14 10:40:07 · 3 answers · asked by wowzies 3 in Military

Simple Poll:

Yes or No

Lets be really democratic and see what the majority thinks.

2007-10-14 10:39:57 · 20 answers · asked by Edmund 3 in Government

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGoelj7l668

Does this express American values? Enjoy... :-)

2007-10-14 10:39:56 · 6 answers · asked by Dog Tricks 4 in Immigration

2007-10-14 10:39:08 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

if you do, have you always been a moron or is this a new condition?

2007-10-14 10:23:06 · 3 answers · asked by captain_koyk 5 in Politics

Yes it takes a minute to read so do not whine.LONG ISLAND officials protested when federal agents searching for immigrant gang members raided local homes two weeks ago. The agents had rousted American citizens and legal immigrants from their beds in the night, complained Lawrence W. Mulvey, the Nassau County police commissioner, and arrested suspected illegal immigrants without so much as a warrant.

“We don’t need warrants to make the arrests,” responded Peter J. Smith, the special agent in charge in New York for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the agency that conducted the raids.

His concise answer helps explain the friction that the Bush administration’s recent campaign of immigration enforcement has caused. Last week, immigration officials announced that they had made more than 1,300 arrests across the country over the summer when they went looking for gang members. Since the raids were carried out under immigration law, many protections in place under the American criminal codes did not apply. Foreign residents of the United States, whether here legally or not, answer to a different set of rules.

Immigration agents are not required to obtain warrants to detain suspects. The agents also have broad authority to question people about their immigration status and to search them and their homes. There are no Miranda rights that agents must read when making arrests. Detained immigrants have the right to a lawyer, but only one they can pay for.

While criminal suspects are generally sent to jails near the courts that hear their cases, immigration agents have discretion in deciding where to hold immigrants detained for deportation. Many suspected illegal immigrants who were detained in Nassau County, for example, were quickly moved to York, Pa., distant from family and legal advice.

This parallel course for noncitizens is not new. But it has come into fuller view as the enforcement drive has swept up record numbers of illegal immigrants, also reaching legal immigrants and citizens. In answer, a barrage of lawsuits is challenging both the laws and their enforcers…

Immigration law remains founded on the notion that immigrants are not full members of American society until they become citizens, writes Professor Kanstroom, who is also a practicing immigration lawyer. The reduced protections in modern-day law were shaped by some of the darker episodes of the 20th century, he writes, including the prosecution of immigrant dissidents, like the Australian union leader Harry Bridges, in the 1930s; and the mass roundups of Mexican workers in the 1950s.

Arising from that landscape, the courts that handle immigration cases are part of the Justice Department, not the judiciary. Even immigrants who have lived here legally for many years, lawyers said, can run afoul of the immigration laws with minor infractions or misdemeanors. A late filing of visa renewal papers or a shoplifting citation can quickly spiral into an order for the ultimate penalty: deportation. Immigrants who fight the orders have more limited bail rights than American criminals and can spend years behind bars while their cases inch through the overburdened court system…

There are sharp differences among legal experts and law enforcement officials about the limited protections in the immigration laws, many of which have been upheld over the years by the Supreme Court. Officials point out that the majority of the people deported last year entered the country illegally or plainly had lost any claim to legal status, including thousands of convicts.

“Immigration law enforcement is all about getting you to where you belong, which is outside the United States,” said Jan C. Ting, a law professor at Temple University who is a former assistant commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the precursor to ICE. He pointed out that immigration laws are civil codes, not criminal. “A lot of constitutional protections that one would normally expect in a criminal case do not necessarily apply,” he said.

Professor Ting says ICE agents are well within their authority to question people they come across in the course of a raid, even if they are not its targets, and detain them as suspects.

But new legal challenges are seeking to restrain ICE’s powers. A lawsuit in Tennessee challenges raids where agents teamed up with a county sheriff to search trailer parks, forcing their way without warrants into Hispanic immigrants’ homes. In a suit against ICE in Texas, seven citizens and legal immigrants contend their rights were violated in raids last year at Swift & Company meatpacking plants…

The basic laws of our country seem to have come as a nasty shock to the legal scholars at the New York Times.


Immigration law remains founded on the notion that immigrants are not full members of American society until they become citizens…

What an outrage.


The reduced protections in modern-day law were shaped by some of the darker episodes of the 20th century, he writes, including the prosecution of immigrant dissidents, like the Australian union leader Harry Bridges, in the 1930s; and the mass roundups of Mexican workers in the 1950s.

Would that be Harry Bridges the Communist rabble rouser who was prosecuted by successive Presidents FDR, Truman and Eisenhower for his non-stop union thuggery?

And would that horrific ”mass roundup of Mexican workers” be the completely lawful and highly effective “Operation *******,” which deported approximately 80,000 Mexican nationals in less than a year? And which convinced another 500,000 - 700,000 illegal aliens to go home?

Ah, those were “darker episodes” indeed. We certainly can’t anyone enforcing our nation’s laws, can we?

But hopes springs eternal in the breast of the “paper of treason.”

With the NYT’s championing, the ALCU and other taxpayer supported 501c3 charities will soon be able to sue away all of those hidebound, pettifogging distinctions like “citizen” or “taxpayer.”

After all, there are votes to be harvested for their DNC masters. And to hell with everything else.

2007-10-14 10:22:45 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

i was goig through my grandpas war stuff(he was in WW2) and i found a badge. it was green and shaped like a diamond and had a red bird holding a gold circle with his feet and it had a reef on its neck. and on the badge it said standschutzen bataillon IMST. im pretty sure its german or itilian. can you tell me what it means?

2007-10-14 10:19:44 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

a. uphold all quotas

b. affirm that race is the only factor in making affirmative action decisions

c. uphold quotas when they help overcome the effects of long-standing biases

d. deny the use of all quotas because they take the rights away who are equally or more qualified for certain positions

2007-10-14 10:15:04 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7044268.stm

2007-10-14 10:09:25 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

a. allow all refugees a safe haven

b. help many from other countries become citizens of the united states

c. exert limited control over who can enter the country

d. adapt regulations to fit changing conditions at a particular time

2007-10-14 10:08:42 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Would it affect my US citizenship?

2007-10-14 10:05:54 · 3 answers · asked by beckham37615 1 in Embassies & Consulates

Again, from a technical standpoint are there restrictions on appointments to the supreme court and/or federal judiciary? Obviously, from a practical standpoint, a judge or lawyer is preferred and some states do have legislation on this subject. However, I was wondering about the feds.

Thanks.

2007-10-14 10:02:23 · 9 answers · asked by l s 1 in Law & Ethics

The bill on Armenian genocide is absolutely unnecessary and begs many questions of Congress’s collective propensity for shoving its head up its own ***. While they sit and preach about events occurring nearly 100 years ago, genocide and crimes against humanity are occurring right now, yet they do nothing. The hypocrisy of addressing the Turkish crimes while ignoring those that occurred in America is striking and obvious. Tell me, what do you think Native Americans think of your war of genocide against them? Or blacks, once slaves here? And the stupidity and poor timing of bringing up a bill which could negatively impact our ability to support our own troops. I think instead of doing dumb stuff like this Congress should get on with the business of serving the country and making it a better and safer place to live. Its no wonder most Americans think Congress is nothing more than bunch of boobs.

2007-10-14 10:01:04 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

And they must answer ALL questions!

2007-10-14 09:56:44 · 2 answers · asked by Mutley 6 in Government

What is the difference between Stalinist communism and Marxist communism.

2007-10-14 09:53:13 · 7 answers · asked by Entragian 2 in Politics

1. How do we know they're illegals? I know some citizens who've had to go this route too.

2. Why do raids on these types of groups target the ones needing the work? I would think the raids would target those trying to employ these people. They usually pay cash and don't pay into Workman's Comp etc. Which violates MANY Tax laws etc.

What do you think?

2007-10-14 09:52:57 · 9 answers · asked by Dog Tricks 4 in Immigration

I know that the legal age in some other states is 16 or 17 or sometimes 20. I was wondering what age you had to be in kansas in order to be considered an adult. I believe it is 16 but I just want to be sure.

2007-10-14 09:51:20 · 14 answers · asked by inuyasha10121 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-10-14 09:51:09 · 33 answers · asked by Liberal City 6 in Politics

"Mom and Dad" as well as "husband and wife" have been banned from California schools under a bill signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who with his signature also ordered public schools to allow boys to use girls restrooms and locker rooms, and vice versa, if they choose.

"We are shocked and appalled that the governor has blatantly attacked traditional family values in California," said Karen England, executive director of Capitol Resource Institute.

"With this decision, Gov. Schwarzenegger has told parents that their values are irrelevant. Many parents will have no choice but to pull their children out of the public schools that have now become sexualized indoctrination centers."

See link - http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58130

Question - What are your thoughts ?

2007-10-14 09:46:54 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I'm the target of assassination by the terrorist regime of Israel because I oppose and reject the jewish state and don't recognize it as a legitimate country.

2007-10-14 09:46:23 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

My fiancee just left for basic training on tuesday and i havent heard from him since, im hoping to recieve a letter from him soon. but im new to all of this and no one in our families has been in the military before so none of us know any of the real facts. i dont want to send him something hes not supposed to get and him get in trouble. so can someone please help?!

2007-10-14 09:46:16 · 9 answers · asked by hilarym02 1 in Military

They can protest when they want too.BOCA DEL RIO, Mexico - Opposition protesters egged and then tore down a bronze statue of former Mexican President Vicente Fox down today, just hours after it was erected.

Workers put up the commemorative statue before dawn in the city of Boca del Rio, in Veracruz state.

But by 9 a-m some 100 angry protesters, many of them members of the Institutional Revolutionary party, or P-R-I, surrounded the figure.

Fox, of the conservative National Action party, ended 71 years of P-R-I rule with his historic election in July 2000.

The crowd launched eggs at the statue, fastened a rope around its neck and pulled it to the ground, breaking off the right hand and damaging the base.

Boca del Rio Mayor Francisco Gutierrez de Velasco, a member of Fox's party, condemned the acts but said municipal police did not intervene because the statue is the state's property.

An inauguration ceremony scheduled for Sunday has been cancelled until further notice
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5i9ZK3lHES5CA5bxeYCn1jALD1NAQ

2007-10-14 09:46:01 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

2007-10-14 09:45:12 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Insert no religion into the argument, it won't help my research paper.

2007-10-14 09:41:39 · 18 answers · asked by ? 6 in Law & Ethics

I was at Target last night, around the home section and I feel something on my shoe, so I turn around, and theres a brown pile of something in the middle of the isle. I pick my shoe up and smell it to see what it was, it was poop. It made me very sick and I was really dissapointed that, that happened. So, I go to tell a manager, and my boyfriend was more angry about it than anyone else, and we told her about that and how it was completely rediculous and they should do something for us because of it. So she told us, "Why, what do you want, a apology?" As rude as she could. ..and said "Well its not our fault, thats the customers fault." I've been in retail business, and the customer ALWAYS comes first! So should I call the Target Corporate office and go talk to a lawyer? Need some advice.

2007-10-14 09:40:21 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

These Programs and initiatives we would not be enjoying the benefits of GPS systems,Blue Tooth Technology that we enjoy today?

On March 23, 1983, when Ronald Regan announced to the world his Strategic Defense Initiative aka "Star Wars" program there was so much critisism.

The spy satellites initially invented for National Security and the defense system has lead to the SATELLITE programs that we are benefitting from.

What do you think now knowing that this has advanced modern day life?
Are you as critical of Nasa and their programs knowing this?
What is your view on this?

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/22/documents/starwars.speech/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/22/
http://ca.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhsw.uol.com.br%2Freceptores-gps.htm&lp=pt_en&.intl=ca&fr=ybr_rog

2007-10-14 09:37:13 · 6 answers · asked by Soundproof 6 in Politics

with happy end.

2007-10-14 09:33:12 · 6 answers · asked by Mexkilroy 1 in Civic Participation

I noticed that the US depends a lot on militias abroad . they even gave Saddame Husain to a miltia to hang him and US officials move aroud in Baghdad not under the protection of thier army but under the protection of a security company called Blackwater which practically has a militia . where this idea come from ? is it only a reflection that what rules the US is militias without people feeling it ?

2007-10-14 09:31:28 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics