Immigration - August 2006

Mom says its because he got one leg shorter than the other and he can't stay off the hooch. Uncle Jed said its them Illegal Mexicans too. What do you guys think? Do any of you have Daddy's who blame the Illegal Mexicans for not getting a job?

2006-08-25 07:50:40 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

Mexico is one of the largest exporters of oil in the world, believe it or not. Mexicans are our biggest illegal immigrant problem. Let's take over Mexico, naturalize all Mexicans and take all their oil. Everyone's happy !

2006-08-25 07:44:36 · 11 answers · asked by jim 6

I think its somewhere in the region of a quarter or third of a million immigrants coming in each year. Which must be nearly the population of one of our medium-large sized cities like bristol.

2006-08-25 07:35:39 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

A lot of people on this forum like to split hairs over this word. Yes, technically 'America' and 'American' make reference to the entire Western Hemisphere. But people shouldn't get all upset when the word American is applied to citizens of the United States only. When radical Islamists chant "death to America," do you really think they're referring to El Salvador and Haiti as well, or do you think they're talking solely about the United States? Even in Central and South America the term 'Americano' is synonymous with "gringo" in that they use it to refer to citizens of the U.S.

2006-08-25 07:22:04 · 7 answers · asked by baq2calli 2

Like welfare, free education, tax breaks, free health care, not having to get car insurance or serve on juries, and virtual immunity from the law?

2006-08-25 06:59:21 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I entered America as an legal immigrant and I didn't want to come at first because I would leave my friends but now I love America. Do you hate me because I'm from another country or do you accept me?

2006-08-25 06:41:48 · 48 answers · asked by Halle Berry 3

10 years ago, I never saw an Indian?
Now they are everywhere!
Where did they come from? Are they coming in from India like crazy? Big boats filled up with them?

Do you think we should send half home?
Take a lottery. And pick half to go home?
And see how it goes?
Then send more back if needed?

2006-08-25 06:41:21 · 16 answers · asked by Avenger 1

2006-08-25 06:39:44 · 5 answers · asked by dionx14 1

Like when a manager working for a resturaunt gets a bonus for saving money, but your resturaunt has no glasses, or

the paint is peeling off the walls or when companies lay off just to protect the CEO's ungodly salary. Buisnesses

that betray their country by employing cheap labor that is in the country illegally, or our sons and daughters who

are dying daily to secure an oil rich country.

2006-08-25 06:38:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-25 06:37:47 · 3 answers · asked by rising star 1

Every question you ask is offensive and racist, if you hate us so much why are you on here? You can chat w/ any country you want here, why not switch to one not full of people you hate?

2006-08-25 06:28:57 · 19 answers · asked by Slutlana 4

I've been reading the posts here and it's always "if they became legal, I wouldn't have a problem"
I live in Mexico, and at the American Embassy here, I see very, very long lines of people hoping to get a work visa to work in the USA, those people sleep for days in that line and most of them come out of there with their faces all sad, because they were denied that visa. I think that this is the way they become illegals.
I know that there is a big problem, but if maybe they were given temporary visas, and someway made sure they returned to their country, they would apply for a visa again and that way, he wouldn't have to be an illegal.
The other thing is, when employers ask for a work visa for their employees, theyhave to sign a letter stating that they will pay at least the minimum wage in the USA, so this WOULD take jobs from Americans, but if they were to lower the amount, maybe this way they would have legal workers and the only people sneaking over the border would be criminals.

2006-08-25 06:24:16 · 13 answers · asked by Princess B 3

What is your veiw on other cultures, such as mulims moving into our country, getting jobs with minimum wage wich means no British person can get a job, building mosque's and shrines, and most of all protesting against us? about the protesting they had banners saying things such as "bombs on the way for you Europe". I read a document about all this immigration it said "by the year 2060 the British culture will be a minority, if we dont act now" so please tell me your veiws about all this, Thanks.

2006-08-25 06:23:43 · 13 answers · asked by Charlie N 2

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Some border towns begin strict enforcement of immigration laws




Standing in a cramped federal courtroom in Del Rio, Texas last month, illegal immigrant Walter Oscar Portillo-Machado pleaded with a judge for mercy. But he came to the wrong place for that.

The Salvadoran man was caught along a 210-mile stretch of the Texas-Mexico border that has been set up as zero-tolerance zone for illegal immigration. Instead of merely getting sent back home, immigrants here are arrested, prosecuted, and sometimes sentenced to prison before they are formally kicked out of the country.

The effort began late last year along a border area that includes the Rio Grande border towns of Del Rio and Eagle Pass. It has been hailed by federal officials as a creative use of local and federal resources to tighten the border.

While other border sectors avoided strict enforcement because they did not have enough jail space or prosecutors, authorities in the Del Rio area found bed space elsewhere in the region, assigned federal agents to help prosecute cases and began running illegal immigrants through a courtroom at a rate of one case per minute.

Immigration advocates have criticized the practice, saying it only moves the problem elsewhere along the border and may sacrifice civil liberties for the sake of efficiency.

"There's nothing we're doing that wasn't already on the books," said Hilario Leal Jr., a supervisory Border Patrol agent in the Del Rio sector. "It's nothing new. We just started enforcing the law."

The Del Rio sector also ended the widespread practice of "catch-and-release" that freed most non-Mexican immigrants with a piece of paper ordering them to show up in federal immigration court a month later -- and almost no one did.

Most Mexican citizens with no criminal record who cross outside the Del Rio sector are still escorted back shortly after their arrest. Those from other countries are held in a detention center -- not as criminals serving time -- while the paperwork is being completed to return them to their home countries.

But in the Del Rio sector, every adult illegal immigrant, regardless of their home country, is criminally prosecuted and removed from the country after they have served his sentence.

"They know if they come (to Del Rio) they are going home, they are going to jail," Leal said.

Before the effort began, illegal immigrants came across the river near Del Rio in droves, with Central and South American citizens often surrendering to agents because they knew they would be let go -- after receiving food, water, medical care and sometimes a ride to a bus station, along with their notice to appear in court.

In recent years, the situation had become so hectic that Del Rio sector agents were lucky if they patrolled the border for two hours during an eight or 10-hour shift, Agent Cynthia Bilyk said. The rest of their time was spent processing the immigrants.

Agents in the sector were averaging about 500 arrests a day, Leal said. Now there are fewer than 100 daily arrests, and the reforms are credited with reducing arrests by about 29 percent so far this fiscal year.

While the changes have curbed arrests, freed up agents and other resources, they have not slowed the traffic at the federal courthouse.

The day Portillo-Machado stood shackled and handcuffed in the courtroom, he was surrounded by more than 30 defendants facing the same charge. The judge handled about one guilty plea a minute.

When his name was called, Portillo-Machado said "Cupable," which means guilty in Spanish. He then asked the judge for forgiveness and was later sentenced to 120 days in jail.

Court staff said the day's docket was light in comparison with the average crowd of would-be immigrants that often overflows the courtroom.

Magistrate Judge Dennis Green said the cases are heard quickly, but each defendant meets with a court-appointed lawyer before going to court. If there is any question about an immigrant's potential defense, that person's case is heard separately, the judge said.

The federal court's two Del Rio magistrate judges are hearing about 2,100 cases a month. Their counterparts farther from the border in West Texas are averaging about 140.

Opponents say the process just pushes the problem to other sectors.

"The border is like a balloon," said El Paso immigration lawyer Felipe D.J. Millan. "If it expands in one area, guess what? It still comes in from another area."

Millan also worries that the reforms in the Del Rio sector and a similar plan in southern New Mexico are simply backdoor efforts to criminalize immigrants.

2006-08-25 06:20:59 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

How open borders turn
Americans into roadkill
Illegals drive up highway deaths as U.S. hits
new highs for unlicensed, uninsured motorists

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Posted: August 25, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern



© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com


Vitalina Bautista Vargas bids farewell to husband in court (courtesy Chattanooga Times Free Press)
WASHINGTON – Marcos Ramos Medina was driving his 1997 Chevrolet Lumina erratically, according to witnesses, swerving several times across the center line, causing a tractor-trailer rig to jackknife in Yakima, Wash., Aug. 4, 2005.

That was before his car plowed into the 2000 Lexus driven by Peggy Keller, 53, dean of distance education at Yakima Valley College, who was killed in the head-on crash.

Prosecutors in his vehicular homicide trial contended Medina was coming down from a methamphetamine high. When Russell T. "Todd" Sharpe, a six-year Washington State Patrol officer, testified that Medina fought against his restraints while being taken to the hospital for a blood alcohol test and refused to answer questions, the case against the Mexican national with a criminal record who had twice been deported was declared a mistrial because his constitutional right to remain silent had been violated.


"It pains me greatly, but in this case I must exercise an abundance of caution," explained Judge James P. Hutton.

Little caution, critics say, is being exercised when it comes to preventing mayhem on America's highways as the country witnesses record high numbers of unlicensed, unregistered, uninsured drivers – millions of whom are illegal aliens like Medina.

While no one – in or out of government – tracks traffic accidents caused by illegal aliens, the statistical and anecdotal evidence suggests many of last year's 42,636 road deaths involved illegal aliens.

A report by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Study found 20 percent of fatal accidents involve at least one driver who lacks a valid license. In California, another study showed that those who have never held a valid license are about five times more likely to be involved in a fatal road accident than licensed drivers.

Statistically, that makes them an even greater danger on the road than drivers whose licenses have been suspended or revoked – and nearly as dangerous as drunk drivers.

While police do not routinely ask drivers about their immigration status, New York's Rockland County District Attorney Michael Bongiorno – who has prosecuted more than 20 felony cases this year involving people accused of both unlicensed driving and drunken driving – estimated that two-thirds of about 70 drivers charged in Spring Valley with misdemeanor counts of driving while intoxicated and unlicensed driving were illegal immigrants.

"Unfortunately, the undocumented drivers here do that (drive unlicensed) more than the natives,'' said California Highway Patrol Officer Wendy Hahn. "If they've been involved in an incident, they flee because they don't want to deal with immigration.''

Federal immigration officials typically do not get involved when an undocumented person is charged with drunken driving or driving without a license, said Bongiorno and police officials around the country.

While the Census Bureau estimates there are 9 million illegal aliens living in the U.S., other sources put the figure closer to 20 million. Running parallel to those estimates are the best guesses on the number of unlicensed motorists – 17 million.

In addition, the states with the most illegal aliens also have the most unlicensed drivers. Those states are also in the lead for the most hit-and-run accidents, according to reports issued by the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and the Pew Hispanic Center. California ranks at the top with 24.1 percent of the known 11.1 million illegal aliens.

The proportion of unlicensed drivers varies widely state-by-state, with 6 percent in Maine and 23 percent in New Mexico.

Many of those advocating allowing illegal aliens to get driver's licenses make the case by suggesting most unlicensed drivers are so because they cannot get a license.

In California, for instance, the Legislature is considering several proposals that would help illegal immigrants drive. One of them is a bill that would prevent police from seizing vehicles driven by unlicensed drivers. Senate Bill 626 by Sen. Nell Soto, D-Ontario, would apply to all drivers who have never obtained a California license. Opponents point out those favoring the bill are the same people promoting licenses for illegals.

'Under current state law, police can seize vehicles for up to 30 days if the driver is unlicensed. Under the new bill, if the driver never had a license, the vehicle could be seized for only 24 hours; those who had licenses suspended or revoked would still have the vehicles impounded for up to 30 days.

Who are the people who have never had a license? Disproportionately, critics of the bill say, they are illegal immigrants.

In the Maryland Legislature, Delegate Luiz R.S. Simmons, D-Montgomery, is drafting legislation that would stiffen penalties for unlicensed drivers. His bill requires them to appear before a judge and would make them subject to up to 90 days in jail for a first offense and as much as a year for a second offense. In addition, cars belonging to unlicensed drivers could be impounded for up to a month or forfeited if they were involved in an accident that caused an injury.

Though there is absolutely no government data on the identity of Maryland's unlicensed drivers – or those in any other state – Simmons's bill has been attacked by immigrant rights' activists, who say it targets Latinos.

Whether they are mostly illegal aliens or not, one thing is certain – there are more unlicensed drivers on the road than ever before. So prevalent is the trend that many police departments have cut back on sobriety checkpoints in favor of checkpoints to check the documentation of drivers.

A WND statistical study of police reports of dozens of such checkpoints around the country show that close to 10 percent of drivers stopped are either unlicensed or have suspended licenses. Even at sobriety checkpoints, far more drivers are found to be unlicensed than intoxicated.

While some say the answer to the illegal alien-unlicensed driver crisis is permitting illegals to get licensed, others say the solution is decreasing the number of illegal immigrants living in the United States.

Rules determining who is eligible for a driver's license vary by state. Eleven states do not require legal immigration status to obtain a license. The rest do require proof of legal status, either by state law or the documents required to apply. The eleven states are: Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin. Tennessee and Utah have introduced a separate "certificate for driving" for state residents who cannot prove they are lawfully present in the United States. But Tennessee stopped issuing the certificates in February after reports that undocumented immigrants were coming from out of state and using false documents to apply.

The Real ID act, scheduled to take effect in 2008, will prohibit all states from issuing licenses to illegal aliens or the licenses will not be accepted as identification for federal purposes.

In addition to being unlicensed, most illegal alien drivers are uninsured – making the accidents they cause even more injurious. Statewide, more than one-third of California drivers are without insurance, according to the California Department of Insurance. In some low-income and minority neighborhoods, the rate is over 50 percent. In San Jose, for instance, 55 percent of all drivers on the road have no auto insurance. In some parts of Los Angeles, Imperial, San Diego and Alameda counties, the rate reaches as high as 90 percent.

The situation isn't much better in other states with high populations of illegals. In Texas, 27 percent of drivers are uninsured. In Florida, the estimates are between 15 and 25 percent. In Colorado, 32 percent.

Even though citizens and legal residents are victimized by the high percentage of uninsured drivers, illegal aliens themselves are often immune to the pain.

Take the case of Victor Manuel Caballero. Even though he entered the country illegally from Mexico five years ago, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that he could collect damages for being hurt in an auto accident from a special state fund set up to benefit those hurt in accidents with uninsured drivers.

Caballero would hitch a ride to his computer job with a co-worker, 19-year-old Ricardo Martinez. One morning, Martinez fell asleep at the wheel, veered off the road and struck a parked tractor trailer. Martinez walked away from the accident, but Caballero was badly hurt.

Surgeons repaired injuries to his abdomen and intestines over a week in the hospital at a cost of $38,300 in medical bills and $1,482 in lost wages. He had no medical insurance. The driver, Martinez was not only unregistered, he had no auto insurance. It turns out he was illegal, too.

The $38,300 in hospital bills was paid by a special hospital charity fund. And because of his successful lawsuit that went all the way to the state Supreme Court, Caballero was eligible for up to $15,000 for "pain and suffering."

There are no official statistics about highway carnage and illegal aliens. But there is an increasing awareness among law enforcement officials – and victims of traffic accidents – that illegal aliens are playing a disproportionate role in the road mayhem.

Earlier this month, a court in Chattanooga, Tenn., heard the case of an illegal alien convicted of running her car into a house and killing a 91-year-old woman. A judge ordered Vitalina Bautista Vargas deported. Amazingly, the family of the victim remained compassionate and merciful.

"They wanted one of the conditions to be that she learn how to drive," prosecutor Jay Wood said.

Prosecutor Wood said federal officials insisted that she be deported. He said as a convicted felon, she will not be allowed to apply to re-enter the country for at least 10 years.

Louella Winton, the victim, was asleep in her bed when the car crashed into her house. The vehicle knocked the victim through the bedroom wall and threw her against the wall of the house next door.

2006-08-25 06:06:24 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

There was a posting the other day about well to do Mexicans paying to make the journey that illegals make, like a tourist attraction. What if we did the same thing, charged wealthy Americans to live a day in the life of an illegal. Picking fruit, cleaning toilets, standing on the corner drinking the beast beer, riding in the back of a truck at 70 mph down the freeway in the rain. All the stuff that people claim americans dont want to do would get done by americans. No more jobs for illegals.

2006-08-25 06:04:23 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

is she in love?

2006-08-25 05:46:46 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

I always wondered during the "today we march tomorrow we vote" crap that went on why we just did not block the streets and arrest them, figure out who is illegal and deport them... again for the 90th time.....

also came up with a plan....

STEP 1) get caught here illegal, fine, we will send you back....

Step 2) get caught here illegal AGAIN and you can not legally become a US citizen for 10 years......... no big deal you say... ok...

STEP 3) get caught a third time..... 10 years in Prison with no parole...... Upon release sent back.......

Step 4) Get caught a 4th time.... Life in prison...

The US should not have to bow down to these people and their threats. We can hire ANYBODY and I mean ANYBODY to build decks and to clean tables. People keep forgetting that the key word here is ILLEGAL ALIEN... ILLEGAL!!!!!!!

That means you do not have rights, period...... Want rights.... go back to your homeland.

The rest of us waited in line, you can too!!

2006-08-25 05:45:22 · 19 answers · asked by Ramphog 2

Not just Mexico on this one, from ANYwhere?

2006-08-25 05:38:01 · 17 answers · asked by gokart121 6

Today I was on the train speaking to a fellow Black man about our experience with racism in America and how Mexicans profane Black peoples accomplishments for civil rights in which not one racist Mexican marched with them [they are/were willing to sell us down the river so that they can take our places]....

2006-08-25 05:36:57 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does anyone else noticed the simularities between Star Wars and what's happening in real life U.S. right now?

Robots attacking the Repbulic so the Republic would create tougher laws?

The Senitor hired the people who controlled the robot armies to cause a crisis so he could get voted to be emperor?

2006-08-25 05:31:45 · 10 answers · asked by My Two Cents 2

I know there is some companies that Register anybody in Green Card Lottery with a fee. I want do it myself directly in Green Card lottery. Is it available to register with online services not with mail?
Thanks.

2006-08-25 05:30:13 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

employment organization in Vancouver

2006-08-25 05:25:41 · 1 answers · asked by allo_3 1

actual laws and concepts?

The poem on the statue of liberty was not made into a law. We are not required to take anyone into our country.

2006-08-25 05:24:56 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

12 million special forces attack goverment offices and police stations in every city in the US. Tanks, backed by a one million man army sweep through Dallas, "We won't stop untill we Liberate W.D.C" is the cry being heard.
Bush fly's to Irag saying, "Heck it's were my Army is, What do you expect me to do to help Dallas? We can't even help New Orleans!"

It could happen, What would you do? Change your name to Lopas?
Become an insurgent and try to help take back Dallas?
Offer them a low paying job pluckin chickens?
Try to save your community and way of life by stopping them from destroying what we have?

What would YOU do?

2006-08-25 05:18:26 · 9 answers · asked by neil r 3

If you immigrate to our country, you have to speak the native language.

* You have to be a professional or an investor; no unskilled workers allowed.

* There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools. No special ballots for elections. No government business will be conducted in your language. You MUST learn to speak the language.

* Foreigners will not have the right to vote — or hold political office.

* If you’re in our country, you cannot be a burden to taxpayers. You are not entitled to welfare, food stamps, or other government goodies.

* But if you want to buy land, it'll be restricted. No waterfront, for instance. As a foreigner, you must relinquish individual rights to the property.

* You don’t have the right to protest. You're allowed no demonstrations, no foreign flag waving,no flag burning, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our President or his policies.

* And if you come here illegally, you're going to jail.

2006-08-25 05:13:40 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-25 05:08:50 · 39 answers · asked by Poohbear 1

yet still apply to the US even if they seperated and how long will it take and what if there from a middle eastern country. And what if there visa is still pending since they got married and can they cancel it and the person start over even if there are no relatives in the US.

2006-08-25 04:59:21 · 4 answers · asked by CHRISTINA L 2

“Give us your tired, your poor, your hungry, your huddled masses yearning to be free” What ever happend to this saying that is carved on the Statue of Liberty? Why isn't the United States honoring it? Has the United States Changed it's mind now? Or did it mean "Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free (as long as they are white or look white but not your Mexicans?)." Has it occured to anyone that first they get rid of this, then they abridge the rights of the U.S. citizens after 9/11 and soon the Constitution goes, then what are we left with?

2006-08-25 04:49:41 · 27 answers · asked by Vero 3

They are all coming here.Why don't we just go down there maybe they would want to stay home then.

2006-08-25 04:49:11 · 10 answers · asked by Desperado 5