Immigration - September 2006

This, from an LA Times article foaming against the fence.

Which raises a good concern for those in favor of border security as well, although to the LA Times it is the one saving grace:

"At last, the good news. Four months ago, the Senate voted to build a border fence. Two months ago, it voted against paying for it. For the moment, there's $1.8 billion in an entirely different bill for a fence, but even that money may wind up being spent on something else.

Everyone who votes for this photo-op law now gets to go home and campaign on how tough he is on homeland security, voting for a monster fence, never mind that there may never be any money to build it. That's the beauty of it, after all — a 700-mile fence made of ink and paper and hot air. It could be the best bargain Congress ever gave us."

What do you think? Will they put their money where their mouths are?

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-morrison21sep21,0,2104216.column?coll=la-opinion-rightrail

2006-09-21 15:51:15 · 14 answers · asked by DAR 7

Although they condemn the West

2006-09-21 15:36:15 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

The majority of hispanics do not use birth control because the Catholic church tends to deny it's practice for it's objective ---as to prevent a pregnancy-- yet, hispanics pull the religion card out and lecture us on how they believe God will prevent a baby to be born if it is not meant to be....

So, if hispanics are truly this religious, why are they to disregard one of the most common teachings of Christ himself-- as to wait till marriage before each partner engages in sexual acts?

I'm just curious, as to why a group of people must blame their actions on a religion, and deny a common tradition of the Catholic church ---and Christianity for that matter-- simutaneously?

--Rob :)

2006-09-21 15:26:37 · 9 answers · asked by stealth_n700ms 4

This was posted by JD

The problem is that this (Fourteenth Amendment)
has been misinterpreted in recent years
(Since The Reagan Amnesty)
to mean simply that anyone born in the U.S,
under any circumstances,
is an American citizen.

This is neither the original intent of the law
nor the way it was interpreted by the courts
in subsequent decades.

Some Americans speak of birthright citizenship
as if it were an immutable law of nature.
It is not,
and most other nations do not, in fact, recognize it.

It is only a bad habit
that could be broken with a simple Executive Order.

According to estimates,
some 300,000 so-called anchor babies
are born in the United States every year

Once a mother has birthed a child on American soil,
she can then seek to obtain citizenship for herself
on the strength of the family-reunification laws.

2006-09-21 15:19:21 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think he seems pretty intelligent and realistic in his answers. Do you agree?

2006-09-21 15:07:16 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've been wondering when we would see dismembered bodies, but I was thinking of adults due to the evidence that the drug cartel operations have spilled over the border. This was speculated to be for non-payment of a coyote, but the dad says they were paid.

"“The deaths of these children stood as a message for others,” Judge David Mitchell said.

He said there was evidence that some family members knew about the murder plan “and did nothing to intercede.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14945046/

Has any one else seen anything like this?

Did you see this?

2006-09-21 14:37:05 · 15 answers · asked by DAR 7

I'm a K1 holder. I'm going to adjust my status to permenant resident.
The I-129 petition was approved before I came US. Do I need to apply I-130 ??
And other required paperworks?
Kind of confused...Thank you for the correct answer

2006-09-21 14:23:42 · 4 answers · asked by whatsup2015 1

Federal immigration agents arrested 120 suspected illegal immigrants who were working at this housing-construction site at Buckley Air Force Base. The Wednesday morning arrests were made within a mile of top-secret global-surveillance and missile early-warning facilities- See El Paso Times For Full Story
And Border agents find immigrants in sealed duffel bags

FALFURRIAS, Texas (AP) -- Agents working an immigration checkpoint found three illegal immigrants hidden in sealed nylon duffel bags, Customs and Border Protection said Thursday.

None of the immigrants found during the two consecutive stops Wednesday was harmed. All declined medical attention, though agents said they were sweating profusely.

In the first stop, agents searched a Dodge Durango with a Border Patrol dog after the driver and passenger appeared nervous. They found five people, including a woman and 5-year-old in a zipped duffel bag.

The driver, a 39-year-old U.S. citizen, and the passenger, a 23-year-old U.S. citizen, were arrested and charged with alien smuggling.

Agents then searched the next vehicle after seeing a foot move under the back seat. Agents found four illegal immigrants, one concealed in a duffel bag.

The driver, a 23-year-old U.S. citizen, was arrested and charged with alien smuggling.

The immigrants were returned to Mexico.

Falfurrias is about 75 miles north of the Mexican border.--From El Paso Times

2006-09-21 14:19:29 · 10 answers · asked by Zoe 4

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=53720272/K=Illegal+immigrants/v=2/SID=e/l=NSR/R=7/;_ylt=A9htfMJHLRNFgwgBIwDQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBjZmpxdmw3BHBvcwM3BHNlYwNzcg--/SIG=133h8r7nf/EXP=1158971079/*-http%3A//www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section=9&screen=news&news_id=52246
A new federal program designed to streamline deportation of illegals?

2006-09-21 13:28:34 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

ILLEGAL immigration?

2006-09-21 13:02:24 · 15 answers · asked by «»RUBY«» 4

they are breaking the law

2006-09-21 12:56:06 · 32 answers · asked by jsilvaperez01 1

I feel there should be some investigation to make sure the immigrants are not criminals, but why can a person not come here if they do not have a sibling or parent as a citizen. Many illegals either can not afford the sponsorship or do not have someone to sponsor them. If a child comits a crime then the parents are not held responsible so why does somone have to be held responsible for an immigrants actions. There should be rules but there does not need to be sponsors.

2006-09-21 12:52:20 · 25 answers · asked by aposadaw 2

One day a Florist goes to the barber for a haircut. After the cut
he goes to pay the barber and the barber replies: "I'm sorry I
cannot accept money from you. I'm doing a community service."The
Florist is happy and leaves the shop. The next morning when the
barber goes to open his shop, there is a thank you card and dozen
roses waiting at his door. A cop goes for a haircut and he also
goes to pay the barber after the cut.But the barber replies: "I'm
sorry I cannot accept money from you. I'm doing a community
service."The cop is happy and leaves the shop. The next morning
the barber goes to open his shop, there is a thank you card and
dozen donuts waiting at his door. A Mexican cook goes for a
haircut and he also goes to pay the barber after the cut. But the
barber replies: "I'm sorry I cannot accept money from you. I'm
doing a community service." The Mexican cook is happy and leaves.
The next morning when the barber goes to open his shop, guess what
he finds there?

2006-09-21 12:50:54 · 24 answers · asked by hittykkiod 1

http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/assets/documents/2006_KenanInstitute_HispanicStudy.pdf

Are the criminal trespassers worth the cost?

2006-09-21 12:41:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

In the first stop, agents searched a Dodge Durango with a Border Patrol dog after the driver and passenger appeared nervous. They found five people, including a woman and 5-year-old in a zipped duffel bag.

The driver, a 39-year-old U.S. citizen, and the passenger, a 23-year-old U.S. citizen, were arrested and charged with alien smuggling.

Agents then searched the next vehicle after seeing a foot move under the back seat. Agents found four illegal immigrants, one concealed in a duffel bag.

The driver, a 23-year-old U.S. citizen, was arrested and charged with alien smuggling.

The immigrants were returned to Mexico

http://www.team4news.com/Global/story.asp?S=5442238&nav=0w0v

2006-09-21 12:29:00 · 12 answers · asked by DAR 7

http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149190737825&path=!news!today
Is the will of "We the people" finally going to to hold sway on immigration into America?

WASHINGTON

The House and the Senate moved yesterday toward a piecemeal crackdown on illegal immigration, pushing forward separate bills to require photo identification to vote, build fences on the U.S.-Mexico border and speed the deportation of undocumented workers. The bills would take the place of President Bush's far broader rewrite of the nation's immigration laws.

Voting almost completely along party lines, the House voted 228-196 for a bill that would require all who register to vote in federal elections to show photo identification that proves that they are U.S. citizens.

The Senate, meanwhile, voted 94-0 to take up a bill passed by the House last week to build 700 miles of double-layered fencing on the U.S.-Mexico border, with a final vote to come as early as Monday.

Today, the House is scheduled to take up bills to speed up the deportation of illegal immigrants, ratchet up penalties for immigrant gang members and human smugglers, end an exemption for Salvadoran illegal immigrants from rapid deportation, make it a crime to tunnel under the border, and overtly deputize state and local police officers to enforce federal immigration laws.

In an interview on CNN, Bush said he would sign the legislation, even though it does not embrace a more comprehensive approach - including a guest-worker program - that he has backed.

"Yes, I'll sign it into law," he said. "I would view this as an interim step. I don't view this as a final product."

Passage of the legislation - should it occur - would permit leaders of the Republican-controlled Congress to claim they have taken steps to deal with the flood of illegal immigrants. It is an issue that has rent the party, spawned demonstrations in many cities last spring, and called into question the Republicans' ability to face tough issues.

"Border security is national security," said Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Rules Committee, with House GOP leaders by his side. "We're going to try our daggonest to enact as many of these bills as we can."

With little more than a week left before the Sept. 29 start of Congress's scheduled recess, GOP leaders are considering appending some or all of the bills to a must-pass spending bill before they leave town. But Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., the Appropriations Committee chairman, appeared to close off that avenue last night, saying he will not add any legislative language onto the spending bills that could slow their progress in the final days before the coming recess.

The sudden rush of activity startled immigrant and civil-rights groups, which had largely thought a legislative response on illegal immigration was dead for the year. The National Immigration Law Center sent out an "urgent" notice to allies to prod them into action, saying, "In recent days, there has been a serious deterioration of the position of pro-immigrant forces in Congress."

The legislators' embrace of a piecemeal approach came as members of a private task force on immigration repeated its belief that a comprehensive solution is necessary to solve the nation's problems with illegal immigration. The task force's plan includes strong border enforcement and a program that allows illegal immigrants already in the country to stay by paying a stiff fine.

But it also proposes that the president and Congress establish two federal organizations that would regulate the flow of immigrants and help them assimilate into society. Former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., who was a co-chairman of the Migration Policy Institute task force with former Sen. Spencer Abraham, R-Mich., said that the House's approach is too draconian against illegal immigrants, and a Senate bill approved in May is too complex.

Most of the provisions in the bills the legislators are now considering were plucked from the House's border-security and anti-illegal-immigration bill that passed in December, then prompted protests this spring that brought millions of illegal immigrants into the streets. But Republicans say that the politics of illegal immigration have shifted in favor of their get-tough approach. Even some Republicans who have backed Bush's approach, such as Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., said yesterday that the shift among voters in favor of "enforcement first" is palpable.

"While I've made it clear that I prefer a comprehensive solution, I have always said we need an enforcement-first approach to immigration reform," said Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., the majority leader, who surprised many immigration-rights activists when he took up the House border-fencing bill.

Cecilia Munoz, the vice president of the National Council of La Raza, said that Republicans "are politically playing with fire" with Hispanic voters, who gave 40 percent of their vote to Bush in 2004.

The rhetoric in the House yesterday was particularly heated, with a stream of black and Hispanic Democrats taking to the floor to denounce a voter-ID bill that they called a "modern-day poll tax" intended to disenfranchise minority, elderly and disabled voters who lean Democratic.

2006-09-21 12:27:00 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

It looks as if the US is initiating electronic border monitoring at the US / Canada border. No longer can we say, "we have the world's longest undefended border."

What's next, barbed wire, guard towers?

See more at:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/09/21/border-towers.html

2006-09-21 12:22:35 · 12 answers · asked by fergy_1967 3

Is it fair that they are persecuted as well? They grow up here and this is all that they know? Some don't even know about where they came from. When we are of elementary school age, we don't understand these issues. Should we give those individuals some leeway? After all, they are not the ones who made the decision to illegaly cross the border themselves when they were little. Their parents did it without thinking of how it might be more bad for them (living in fear of being sent back, etc.) than good to come here. (Remember, I am talking about those individuals who grew up here since they were very young and are more American than some Americans. You know, the ones who are educated and are fluent in the American culture.)

2006-09-21 12:05:45 · 17 answers · asked by zeus 3

Americans should not be allowed out of thier country They hate other cultures they can't stand other launguages


Every time they do leave thier nation it's for some military war like thing

I say America for Americans stay there for a change

What do you think?

I am willing to stay in my country are you willing to stay in yours?

2006-09-21 11:57:25 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Los Angeles? San Francisco? Santa Barbara? And so on.... None of these are English names.

2006-09-21 11:53:41 · 17 answers · asked by kingstubborn 6

2006-09-21 11:46:54 · 14 answers · asked by gokart121 6

this one is gonna get a lot of hits

2006-09-21 11:42:36 · 23 answers · asked by hittykkiod 1

2006-09-21 11:40:42 · 5 answers · asked by Blue Demon 1

They most love the smoky mountains. How come they all live in basement and garages?..is that because it's cooler down there.?
how come when I invite them to Mexico for a trip with me..they say..No way Jose.....they are strange sometimes


Love,
The clueless gringo

2006-09-21 11:28:51 · 11 answers · asked by hittykkiod 1

http://www.dcnewspress.com/site/tab11.cfm?newsid=17222662&BRD=2713&PAG=461&dept_id=559196&rfi=6

2006-09-21 11:20:18 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

One of my customers said an illegal Arab crossed the Mexican border today carrying a nuclear bomb. His source was Rush Lumbaugh. Can't find any mention on Homeland Security or in the news. Did anyone else hear this?

2006-09-21 11:14:34 · 18 answers · asked by loryntoo 7

can't wait to see these

2006-09-21 11:12:16 · 30 answers · asked by hittykkiod 1

It's getting close to elections for congress and the senate,candidates up for reelection are trying to act tough on illegals,didn't we have this same problem 20 years ago when 3 million illegals became citizens and our government promised to stop the new wave of illegals and start fineing companys that hire illegals,if they didn't keep their promise then what do we expect now when it's up to 12 million illegals to deal with

2006-09-21 10:59:19 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

THE POLICE ARE PRETTY KOOL WITH POT . BUT IT WAS SO BAD IN THE EAST SIDE AT ONE TIME THAT IT WAS LITTERALLY WALL TO WALL DRUG DEALERS AND USERS AND MOST WERE SHOOTING UP. IT WAS VERY SCARY AND STILL NO ONE HERE REALLY PAID TO MUCH ATTENTION. JUST TURNED A BLIND EYE. BUT THINGS ARE CHANGING. SLOWLY.....

2006-09-21 10:55:19 · 10 answers · asked by jason s 2

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode08/usc_sec_08_00001324----000-.html

2006-09-21 10:53:14 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous