Immigration - October 2006

I´m a new immigrant prompt to arrive to Australia and I´m worried about it

2006-10-27 17:26:46 · 7 answers · asked by Roberto CRG 1

They truely are a part of the U.S. Like it or not. Thousands of businesses would go down, fruit & vegetables would cost alot more, etc.

2006-10-27 17:25:33 · 17 answers · asked by NONAME 1

2006-10-27 17:24:18 · 23 answers · asked by Go For Broke 3

2006-10-27 17:23:29 · 24 answers · asked by Go For Broke 3

Why are there American citizens homeless & hungry & without medical benefits... when we have 40 something million illegal immigrants taking advantage of American tax payers... by receiving welfare benefits, medical insurance, etc...

2006-10-27 17:18:59 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you think that benefits will eventually be stopped for anyone in the U.S. illegally. Do you think this will cause Mexicans to eventually go home to strengthen their own country with the trades they've learned here (North of the boarder)?

2006-10-27 17:03:26 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a friend that have been married to an American citizen for about a year. The problem started when she got her permanent residency and a job. Everytime she gets a check, the husband just want to use the money, he doesn't allow her to go out, can't talk to the other people and control her financial which she has to pay all the house expenses and pay his cigarette and food. Everytime he gets mad, he will yell and hit her. If she decide to leave him without divorce, of course the husband will get mad and remove her green card. Is there any suggestion for this problem?

2006-10-27 17:01:43 · 7 answers · asked by Nov_Bug 1

My fiance is from South Africa and is currently living there. I am living in America. We want to live in America for awhile and then possibly move to South Africa (he doesn't want American citizenship). What is the best way for him to come to America? Should we get married in South Africa or America? What visas can he legally be employed with? I'd appreciate any advice and tips for where to find more information. Thanks!

2006-10-27 16:47:33 · 5 answers · asked by Seesa 1

i understand its a cultural passport.thank you

2006-10-27 16:45:19 · 8 answers · asked by nick w 1

"they just want a better life" . for those who constantly repeat this phrase like a broken record let me ask this. if you have a better house than me with better food, tv, computer, appliances, and etc does that give me the right to just waltz into your home whenever i please, help myself to the food in your fridge, and make myself at home at your expense just because i want a "better life"?

2006-10-27 16:39:27 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

Today I went shopping in the toy aile for my 6 month old son. For learning toys, mind you... so when I began to press some buttons, to my suprise there were buttons for Spanish & English. Since when has Leap Frog come out with bilingual learning toys. Do American citizens think its okay for another language to be forced upon our small children. Do you think that the boarders should be more tightly secured. If not... don't you think that America will eventually be taken over by the Mexicans? All answers are welcome.

2006-10-27 16:28:24 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

People come into the U.S. illegally, and we catch them and send them back home to their country, really whats wrong with doing this ?

2006-10-27 16:20:44 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why is it so much to ask, for people to just obey the laws ? The laws are in place, you don't like them, then become a American citizen and try to change them. If you want to do something, then follow the procedures. Democracy works for the peoples best intrest, but when people try to side step the laws, you get what is called anarcy.

2006-10-27 16:07:06 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

In 2005, the most important risk factor associated with tuberculosis in Arizona and nationwide was birth outside the U.S., according to the state's Tuberculosis Surveillance Report, released 1 October 2006.

About 130 people in the U.S. were diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in 2004, up 13 percent from 2003. More than 40 cases in Arizona were found to be resistant to one or more forms of anti-tuberculosis medication, according to the 2005 report. That year, Arizona reported 281 active tuberculosis infections. A total of 172 infected people were foreign-born, 68 percent from Mexico, where the tuberculosis incidence rate is 10 times higher than in Arizona.

2006-10-27 15:53:06 · 9 answers · asked by ax2usn 4

For those of you who are Christian Conservatives and want all the illegals to GO HOME because it's against the law that they are here as a Christian how do you feel about the laws in certain states the support and allow same-sex marriages?

The reason I ask is this...I support and follow GOD's law 1st. If God's law conflicts with the laws of my state or my nation I don't feel an obligation to follow the states law, agree with it or abide by it. God is first, country is 2nd. God's law says that homosexuality is a sin and therefore I cannot and will not support same-sex marriages even though the laws of the land may allow for it.

Should we just say that regardless of whether or not it's a sin or if God is displeased by it but solely because it's the law of the land we should just blindly follow it?

2006-10-27 15:45:04 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-27 15:37:34 · 17 answers · asked by olin1963 6

There are many people on immigration who hate illegal immigration and I frequently see the question "What part of illegal don't you understand? Illegal means they're ciminals..." I have a question for you people who say that: In Imperial Rome, when the romans converted to Christianity, the emperor banned sausage citing it's "Pagan" roots... Protesting the Catholic church was illegal (and punishable by death) in many countries in medieval europe... So bassically what I'm asking is: If I wanted to have you executed for apostasy in saudi arabia, and you didn't want to be executed, would the excuse "What part of illegal don't you understand?" be a valid one? I mean, if a law is stupid, should you still support it?

Seriously, you people believe that the USA is the most perfect country in the world, so why do you want to have harsh restrictions (that will prevent some people from ever attaining citizenship) on becoming a legal citizen?

2006-10-27 15:20:56 · 21 answers · asked by John S 4

i was wondering if anyone has ever came to canada with a DUI charge. if so how easy was it and what was required.

2006-10-27 15:18:00 · 5 answers · asked by pammeh_2k6 2

Other than giving them a map out the country what does the country do for anyone ?

2006-10-27 14:43:36 · 16 answers · asked by Carol R 1

...is a silly language isn't it?

Let's face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.

English muffins were not invented in England or french fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So, one moose, 2 meese? One index, two indices? Is cheese the plural of choose?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

In what language do people recite at a play, and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can the weather be hot as helll one day and cold as hell another?

When a house burns up, it burns down. You fill in a form by filling it out and an alarm clock goes off by going on.

When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it?

2006-10-27 14:43:04 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you can't read don't complain how long it is.
Drug smuggler Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila was shot in the buttocks as he ran away from two border patrol agents near the Rio Grande River in February 2005.

Department of Homeland Security officials told congressional leaders last month that two Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a drug smuggler admitted to supervisors that they were "out to shoot Mexicans" the day of the shooting, but have yet to provide proof the agents made such statements.

In an effort to convince four concerned congressman that the trial, conviction and sentencing of El Paso, Texas, Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were warranted, representatives of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General met privately with the congressmen to assure them of Ramos and Compean's guilt.

The agents were convicted earlier this year of shooting admitted drug smuggler Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila in the buttocks as he ran away from them near the Rio Grande River in February 2005. Ramos and Compean were sentenced last week to 11 and 12 years, respectively, in prison.

Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, one of the congressmen at the private meeting, said he and three of his House colleagues were told by the OIG's office that the agents "were out to shoot Mexicans," and that Homeland Security had other damning information about Ramos and Compean's actions the day Aldrete-Davila was wounded.

Poe and fellow Texas Republicans John Culberson, Kenny Marchant and Michael McCaul met with the OIG officials Sept. 26 in Texas.

Those officials, however, did not provide proof of the agents' supposed confession. Instead, they said they would provide the information after last week's sentencing hearing, according to the congressmen.


Two of the congressmen, along with National Border Patrol Council President TJ Bonner and Andy Ramirez, chairman of the Chino-based Friends of the Border Patrol, now are demanding that the OIG immediately provide the evidence it promised. Both organizations have publicly supported Ramos and Compean.

Officials at the Office of Inspector General did not return phone calls for comment.

"They will provide us the information we requested. They will either provide it informally, or they will be doing it formally," Poe said.

Jack Hirschfield, a spokesman for McCaul, said the congressman's office also has asked for the OIG information.

"Congressman McCaul is interested in following the ongoing issues involved in this case," Hirschfield said.

Poe said it is unclear what type of evidence the OIG will provide against the agents, and wonders why it wasn't used in their trial.

Bonner said the OIG's claims are an effort to detour Congress from holding hearings on the agents' case in November.

"These outrageous fabrications were clearly intended to derail the congressional investigation into the circumstances underlying the prosecution of two innocent Border Patrol agents," Bonner said.

Texas U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, whose office successfully prosecuted Ramos and Compean, said at a press conference after last week's sentencing that the pair shot an unarmed suspect.

"Being a United States Border Patrol agent is not a license to shoot people," Sutton told reporters. "It is especially not a license to shoot unarmed ... suspects who are running away from you. ... It is not a license to write a report and turn it in which leaves out the fact that you shot an unarmed suspect who was running away from you."

But an Office of Inspector General memorandum obtained by the Daily Bulletin Tuesday contradicts Sutton's claim that Ramos and Compean reported Aldrete-Davila was unarmed.

The memorandum of activity was written April 4, 2005, by Christopher Sanchez, the OIG investigator who questioned Compean about the Feb. 17, 2005, shooting. Sanchez was the same agent who went to Mexico to interview Aldrete-Davila, according to documents obtained by the newspaper. Sanchez brought the smuggler back under protective custody to the United States, where he was given medical care and was granted immunity by the Texas U.S. Attorney's office to testify against the agents.

Sutton could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

The six-page memo includes Compean describing what happened after Aldrete-Davila wrestled with the agent and threw dirt in his eyes.

"Compean said that Aldrete-Davila continued to look back over his shoulder towards Compean as Aldrete-Davila ran away from him," the memo reads. "Compean said that he began to shoot at Aldrete-Davila because of the shiny object he thought he saw in Aldrete-Davila's hand and because Aldrete-Davila continued to look back towards his direction. Compean explained that he thought the shiny object might be a gun and that Aldrete-Davila was going to shoot at him because he kept looking back at him."

Assistant U.S. Attorney Debra(cq with official web site) Kanof told the Daily Bulletin in August that the agents never told anyone the smuggler was carrying a gun. Kanof also could not be reached for comment on the incident report.

Two of Aldrete-Davila's family members, interviewed by the Daily Bulletin in El Paso last week, said Aldrete-Davila has been smuggling drugs since he was 14 and "wouldn't move drugs unless he had a gun on him," said one.

The family member, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal, added that Aldrete-Davila has "been bragging about the money he's going to get in a lawsuit every time we talk to him - but now he's nervous."

Aldrete-Davila is suing the U.S. Border Patrol for $5 million for violating his civil rights.

Meanwhile, the families of both agents are still trying to understand why the government would tell congressional representatives Ramos and Compean wanted to "shoot Mexicans."

"If anybody knew our family, they would know that most of our family still lives in Mexico," said Claudia Martinez, Compean's sister. "We are of Mexican heritage. Ramos is the same. Why would they ever say such a thing?"

2006-10-27 13:59:32 · 7 answers · asked by Zoe 4

how bout this...if illegals want to have amnisty...then join the armed forces and do 2 yrs. in iraq or afganistan,learn to speak english and then become a citizen of the usa?

2006-10-27 13:38:16 · 12 answers · asked by bluesharpman_642000 3

iranians who are christians , Jews and muslims of course, because in my country , we do not have freedom , ,however , there are so many people here who are resisting our goverment and therefore sent in to the jail or get killed , if America attack my country , so many people will die, people who are the enemies of America 's enemies , please help us to overcome our goverment and make a world a better place for the people of the wold and also ourselves without going in to any war . My Question is that would you it at all possible to have your support ?

2006-10-27 13:29:17 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-27 13:23:22 · 8 answers · asked by jhalo13 2

How do you think the movie A day without a Mexican would effect Bush's idea for that 700 mile fence? Or if Bush would sit down and watch Born in East L.A.? Would he change his mind have you seen either of these flicks and what do you think?

2006-10-27 13:01:26 · 27 answers · asked by E.F. Landeros 3

A. sends illegals back to mexico or

B. sends them over to your house to take care of your yard?

2006-10-27 13:01:17 · 7 answers · asked by arkie 4

then try to change it to be just like the place they left?

Are they only here to benefit from the social programs our tax dollars pay for and take jobs that do not require them to pay into the system?

2006-10-27 12:47:59 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

My guess is darn few. The letter in question has been translated into English and is reproduced below.Dear ----------,

You are receiving this letter because you have recently registered to vote. If you are a U.S. Citizen, I urge you to participate in the democratic process of voting.

Be advised that if your residence in the United States is illegal or if you are an emigrant, voting in a federal election is a crime that can result in incarceration, and possible deportation for voting without the right to do so.

In the same way, be advised that the U.S. government is installing a new computerized system to verify names of all the newly registered voters who participate in the elections in October and November. Organizations against immigration will be able to request information from this new computerized system.

Not like in Mexico, here there is no benefit to voting. In the United States there is no registration card to vote. Therefore, it is useless and dangerous to vote in any election if you are not a citizen of the United States.

Do not pay attention to a politician who may try to tell you otherwise. They only care about their own interests. They just want to win elections and it doesn't matter to them what happens to you.

Sincerely, Sergio Ramirez

Go here, to find an online copy: http://www.theliberaloc.com/pdf/theletterenglish.pdf

After reviewing the letter itself, it is clear that Nguyen's staff is simply reminding citizens to vote and non-citizens not to vote. What is wrong with that, for heaven's sake?

2006-10-27 12:44:55 · 17 answers · asked by Zoe 1

Consider: cheap labor held captive by the threat of deportation. It's even better than slavery, actually, because today's slaves own their own trucks, live in their own homes and buy their own food. No muss, no fuss! Just reliable inexpensive labor without all that unsavory stuff about the dogs and guns and whips.

2006-10-27 12:33:56 · 20 answers · asked by slippped 7

2006-10-27 12:03:27 · 20 answers · asked by scottfreefunny 2