Immigration - September 2006

a good percentage are not even working a steady job. Someone just called me A hillbilly racist because I called someone an "illegal alien" These illegals are not doing this country any favors..they are tottaly self-serving. If we ask for some workers.from other countries then maybey they can be called "undocumented worker." The arrogance i'ved experienced is off the charts

2006-09-17 13:52:32 · 18 answers · asked by sam s 1

If so, why? They move to the U.S. but don't learn our language so it should go both ways, right? If you don't agree, why not then??? Back it up baby!!

2006-09-17 13:42:00 · 25 answers · asked by escapegrl1 3

I just finished the movie Hotel Rwanda. It's wierd that I didn't know anything about this until the video, and I didn't even know it was real until I looked it up, just outta curiosity. I was little when it happened, but it's wierd it's not talked about much anymore. Who was aware when it happened, and what happened? Like, what did you hear on the news and stuff.

2006-09-17 13:35:48 · 15 answers · asked by ♥Charming's Princess♥ 3

I have lost my job in Mexico at the taco bending factory. I am leaving to cross the border to find job in america.are there any taco bending jobs open to illegal aliens?

2006-09-17 13:31:08 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or will that cure the whole fuss? Can we start calling you lazy, racist americans when you have to pay taxes and pay medical bills..I would love to see that

2006-09-17 13:16:36 · 14 answers · asked by sam s 1

What did they mean by Ghost Towns in the Gold Rush+

2006-09-17 13:05:47 · 9 answers · asked by de-de 1

1. Why are the majority of people who think this Latino?

2. Why is it supposedly an act of a bigot to not support an illegal act?

3. I came here with my family from Mexico legally, but unlike some I was raised to assimilate and take pride in my new country, by speaking its language and working to make it better, so why do people think just because of my background I should support open borders?

4. Why do people always bring up "but this country was founded on immigrants..." yeah, that was 200 years ago when we actually needed citizens, now this country is suffering massive wage cuts, tax increases, lower standard of living, more diseases like TB, larger classrooms, and higher crime due to illegal immigration, so your outdated reference is nonsense?

5. Why do people always bring up "This country was originally blahblah's then you stole it?" Look throughout history, most major countries were stolen! Stop living in the past and get a real argument.

2006-09-17 13:00:20 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

What position would the ultimate christian, jesus take in the whole immigration problem. And why would he take that stance?

think about it?

2006-09-17 12:57:19 · 28 answers · asked by snowteller 3

I am in the United States currently on a TD Visa (it's a Visa that gives me legal alien rights as long as my father is in the United States legally, as well).

How old do I have to be to apply for a Student Visa? How long do they last? Are university/college costs the same for students in the US on a Student Visa and those who have a citizenship? If I have a Student Visa, can I apply for citizenship (after the required 5 years of residency)?

I would appreciate anyone's help!

2006-09-17 12:32:00 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

press 1 for English and 2 for Spanish? Even when you call a government office! When will the insanity stop? How did this country get to the point where our own government offices greet you this way when you call?

2006-09-17 12:22:07 · 28 answers · asked by 75160 4

after all the "americans" were foriegn and illegals at some point right. That is untill the they felt they needed to improve the land from how the natives used it. thats it good night, sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite.

2006-09-17 12:21:44 · 16 answers · asked by snowteller 3

the united states became a waste land. You had nothing left here and was very difficult to survive for you and your family. And canada was a country that was doing pretty darn good.

Would you go to canada anyway you could to survive?
Even if you weren't allowed in canada, would you still try?
If you did go then why did you go?

and remeber you have a family with kids so it's just not you. And staying in your country means starvation and poverty. Not that hard to imagine with 9/11 and the world not pleased with us

please answer in a honest matter

2006-09-17 12:03:06 · 16 answers · asked by snowteller 3

Can we return to a sound belief system and conquer the illegal invasion, in the process?




If Republicans are to retain control of Congress this year, they need to return to the winning formula Ronald Reagan used to win his 1980 campaign and Republicans used in the successful 1994 Contract with America campaign to take control of the U.S. House for the first time in 40 years. This formula would require the Republicans to re-identify themselves with the values of the American people.

House Republicans can create a winning agenda for November with eleven issues. (The Senate’s constitutional design, its institutional rules, and the center-left coalition currently dominating its agenda make it too slow to take action on the eleven but could benefit from a successful House effort). I call them the “American Eleven” because each issue defines the right solution, which not coincidentally enjoys overwhelming support from the American people.

The American Eleven begins with our nation’s security.

As President Bush emphasized this week in his September 11 address to the nation, America’s war against Islamic fascists is a struggle for civilization. Republicans in Congress must effectively demonstrate that they are the party doing what it takes to defeat our enemies. Republicans must force those who would retreat and withdrawal to bear the burden of defending their proposals. The full responsibility of undermining our alliances and strengthening our enemies must be placed on those who would seek peace at the cost of defeat and who would advocate weakness in the face of hatred and tyranny.

First, it is impossible for the American people to believe that we are waging a serious campaign to defeat our enemies while our borders remain unprotected. Therefore, the House should pass a bill to secure our borders. Once passed, conservatives in the Senate should move everyday to bring it up for a vote, requiring its opponents to publicly explain why they are blocking efforts to keep terrorists from entering our country.

Second, Republicans in Congress should pass legislation to equip the president with increased powers for tracking terrorists and conducting military tribunals.

Third, Republicans must lift the nation’s national-security dialogue beyond Iraq and explain the reality that America is engaged in an emerging third world war which we are not yet winning. In this conflict, we face not only terrorist enemies like al Qaeda but terrorist states like Iran and North Korea. Iran actively supports terrorists and is seeking nuclear weapons. North Korea likely already has nuclear weapons. Both countries are developing their missile capabilities. With their words and deeds, the dictators of these two countries have been unambiguous in their enmity toward the United States. Americans should take very seriously the fact that North Korea deliberately ignored international warnings when on our Independence Day, it launched a ballistic missile that was developed to be capable of hitting the United States.

Congress should hold hearings on the scale of the threat posed by both Iran and North Korea and commit America to replace these regimes — the only strategy that will ensure that they will be unable to threaten the United States. Our efforts should be directed to bringing about this change about through peaceful means, in the model Ronald Reagan so brilliantly used in Eastern Europe in the 1980s. In this context, Republicans must force those who seek to cut and run in Iraq to explain why a dramatically weakened America would not further embolden a defiant Iran, as it most assuredly would.

Fourth, House Republicans should demonstrate that they have a “do-what-it-takes” attitude about energy independence. They should pass Rep. Jim Nussle’s (R., Iowa) bill on renewable fuels as well as a tax-incentives system toward the development of new automobile technologies that will help change the underlying nature of our energy economy.

Fifth, Republicans must remind Americans that they are the party that protects America’s unique civilization against those who would radically redefine America. A good first step in this effort would be to pass legislation to protect the right to say “one nation under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance. Our founding political document — the Declaration of Independence — asserts that we are “endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights.” It is an attribute fundamental to the cultural DNA of America. But since the 1963 Supreme Court decision outlawing school prayer, the courts have steadily waged a 43-year assault on the core values of American liberty. It is time to return to a balanced constitutional system in which there is no constitutional case for five appointed lawyers on the court to act as if in a permanent constitutional convention.

Sixth, while Americans have always respected and honored a diversity of languages throughout the country, we should embrace English as the language necessary for success in America. Congress should pass a bill making English the official language of government, abolishing multilingual ballots, and reaffirming that new citizens should be required to pass a test on American history in English. Despite what the elite media may report, there are no anti-English congressional districts.

Seventh, Congress should move a bill requiring voters to present a photo ID card in order to vote. We must make certain that only legal U.S. citizens are voting. The bill should provide a mechanism for those without a valid photo ID to obtain one from their state for free. A photo ID for voting would be a huge step toward ensuring honest elections, strengthening our democratic system, and upholding the value of American citizenship.

The final set of initiatives in the American Eleven reasserts that Republicans are the party of taxpayers instead of the party of tax spenders.

Eighth, the House should force the Senate to vote on repealing the death tax, for good. It should pass the bill every week attaching it to various Senate bills until the Senate adopts it. It is simply un-American to ask a grieving family to visit the tax collector and the undertaker in the same week. The death tax destroys family businesses that, in the long run, collectively produce far more tax dollars to the government than the death tax ever collects. The death tax is like killing the goose that is laying America’s economic golden eggs and we should abolish it.

Ninth, the Congress should take steps to restore the property rights that were undermined by the Supreme Court’s Kelo decision that weakened citizen protections against the federal government’s eminent-domain power. Expanding the power of local governments to seize private property simply invites corruption. This decision will almost certainly lead to abuse at the expense of the citizenry’s property rights, especially those of the poor. Congress should pass legislation that restores the constitutional law to pre-Kelo rules and blocks the Supreme Court from reviewing this new law in the future.

Tenth, Congress should pass legislation to control spending with a step-by-step plan for returning to a balanced budget in seven years (the length of time we gave ourselves after winning the majority in 1994). In the mid-1990s, we balanced the budget for the first time in a generation and we did it four years in a row. We were able to achieve a balanced budget while cutting taxes and increasing defense and intelligence spending. Balancing the budget is not just a political issue; it is a moral issue because it forces politicians to set priorities. If politicians continue to spend as if they had open-ended credit with no consequences, then “yes” is the answer to every special-interest request — which is how we ended up with the current absurdly bloated, undisciplined federal budget.

Finally, Congress should tie education funding to school accountability. The No Child Left Behind law is making it blaringly obvious just how many schools are crippling and destroying children. We should save the children. Congress should require school systems to institute metrics-based performance standards in order to receive federal funding to ensure that every child is getting the education that they deserve.

House Republicans have two months to change history. With the American Eleven, they have a chance not only to save their majority in Congress, but also to return the Republican party to the center-right populist values of Ronald Reagan and the Contract with America. They can bring back the Reagan-Contract formula of listening to the American people and identifying with their values.

The choice is theirs — and ours.

Author = Newt Gingrich

2006-09-17 12:02:04 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-17 11:58:11 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-17 11:55:12 · 3 answers · asked by melissa g 1

2006-09-17 11:51:06 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

and why do they have to do that unless "most" of the illegals in the marches don't speak english? Is it right to give somebody citizenship that doesn't even speak the national language?

2006-09-17 11:50:00 · 10 answers · asked by sam s 1

think about why anybody would give up such perfect land?

does anyone really know how we got it?

how much did we pay for it? was it a good deal

who lived here before the u.s. "bought" it?

2006-09-17 11:38:51 · 20 answers · asked by snowteller 3

read/heard anything?

2006-09-17 11:24:52 · 10 answers · asked by gokart121 6

2006-09-17 11:16:36 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Positive/negative/other?

2006-09-17 11:14:48 · 16 answers · asked by gokart121 6

in Miami, they did an investigative story. They followed a "street Beggar" and watched him throughout the day. A the end of the day he got into his almost new car, and drove home to his 90 thousand dollar house. Where his wife had just returned from work in her late model BMW 325i. He changed and actually gave an interview and said that he usually made about 50 to 60 thousand dollars per year doing this.
Is this comparable to what Mexico has been doing to America for years?

2006-09-17 10:42:53 · 16 answers · asked by Stands Alone 2

South Bend Tribune ^ | September 15. 2006 | JAMES PRICHARD Associated Press
GRAND RAPIDS — Federal immigration officials have completed a five-day sweep of western Michigan in which they apprehended 54 fugitive illegal immigrants who had disappeared after receiving deportation orders. They also captured an illegal immigrant with an extensive criminal history who had illegally re-entered the United States after being removed, officials at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Thursday. The initiative, dubbed "Operation Return to Sender," started Sept. 8 and ended Wednesday. The agency focused its efforts within the triangle formed by Lansing, Grand Rapids and Battle Creek.The sweep was part of an "interior immigration enforcement strategy" Burma, Cambodia, China, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, Nicaragua, Turkey and Yugoslavia.Ain't diversity grand?
And angela R they're just here to work 24hrs a day and send 90% of their money back to their wife, 20kids and 100yo grandmother. Oh the pain and heartache!
Plus even more STILLMORE, Ga. — Trailer parks lie abandoned. The poultry plant is scrambling to replace more than half its workforce. Business has dried up at stores where Mexican laborers once lined up to buy food, beer and cigarettes just weeks ago. This Georgia community of about 1,000 people has become little more than a ghost town since Sept. 1, when federal agents began rounding up illegal immigrants. The sweep has had the unintended effect of underscoring just how vital the illegal immigrants were to the local economy. More than 120 illegal immigrants have been loaded onto buses bound for immigration courts.

2006-09-17 10:42:14 · 8 answers · asked by Zoe 4

what is the one thing,you have the most problem with adjusting in a different Country?
10 points goes to the first on, that has the same problem as me,and i mean in any Country?

2006-09-17 10:31:24 · 24 answers · asked by what is the good word? 4

the minute-men should be deputized and goverened under a set of bylaws , so people with proper intent can have chapters in other citys and states ?

2006-09-17 10:29:56 · 7 answers · asked by Kitten,Doc 6

as I got a puppy and they are oh no no no crying get dog away from me otherwise I shall have to change my clothes, think this is very strange what is wrong with dogs and muslims,,,

2006-09-17 10:24:13 · 29 answers · asked by chromosone4 3

itunes or limewire?

2006-09-17 10:21:47 · 8 answers · asked by juliette 1

My profile pic looks GAY or QUEER.

http://profiles.yahoo.com/john.dickens2@btopenworld.com

2006-09-17 09:52:37 · 24 answers · asked by johndick 1

Preface: Im Hispanic. Our country already has too many freaking people in it; adding still MORE people will just strain systems and dilute resources that much more. Clearly we cannot allow anyone in the world who wants to come here do so. Every sane person will agree to that. But for some reason if you replace the word "anyone" with "Mexican" millions of people including almost all latinos (go figure) suddenly lose their minds and decide this country can handle any influx imaginable. Actually, *hint hint* they're not doing any analysis, they're just spouting bullshiat based on emotion and/or old-fashioned Sesame Street caliber tribalism. We don't owe non-citizens anything. I'll repeat that. We don't owe non-citizens anything. Helping out non-citizens is one of those "nice to do" things. It's not something you do if it hurts real citizens. A massive increase in competition for resources versus a much smaller increase in those resources = hurting real citizens, lower standard of living.

2006-09-17 09:44:48 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

I posted this question a while ago but its still happening. Dont tell me to call INS, that wont do anything. I live in a majority Hispanic neighborhood (me and my family are also Hispanic) and my next door neighbors blast mariachi music at intermittent times throughout the day but mostly at night until the early morning hours. Ive counted 26 people living in that one house not including their babies. When I try to tell them to turn it down they ignore me, when I tell them in Spanish they still ignore. We have called the cops for months but they always come at like 7 in the morning when their music is already down. How can I get something done if the cops always come late? My nana is sick and I can tell she doesnt want to be there anymore but cant move. I have homework to do and I get bad grades or have to drive to the library just to do it, but gas is expensive these days, plus I shouldnt have to do that? Help?

2006-09-17 09:33:56 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous