Immigration - October 2006

Mexico doesn't like The U.S. Congress' plan to build a wall along 700 miles of the border, and its foreign secretary, Luis Derbez, said he may take the issue to the United Nations.

Congress approved the border fence plan last month, before adjourning for the November elections. President George W. Bush has said he will sign it into law.

Mexico sent a diplomatic note last week criticizing the plan and asking the president to veto the legislation.

Speaking to reporters in Paris, Derbez said U.S. immigration policy was being used for political gain. On a tour of Europe, he said he was raising the matter with his counterparts in France, Italy and Spain.

2006-10-10 15:46:22 · 13 answers · asked by Akkita 6

My husband is illlegal from Mexico and we have everything it takes to make him a U.S. citizen, except money.I heard it costs thousands of dollars and we don't have that to spare.I don't know why they can't make it easier, it's all about the money for them.

2006-10-10 15:33:36 · 21 answers · asked by LeighAnn D 4

2006-10-10 15:23:04 · 32 answers · asked by :) 1

Blah. I have one thing to say, this country has laws, if you choose to abide by them you can be a citizen and lead a healthy happy life here. May take you awhile, may take some effort and money, but it is not impossible. If you choose to not abide by the laws then you have no voice, and that includes protesting. You look stupid being an illegal immigrant protesting that the country you snuck in to will not do something for you. And maybe mix in an American flag when you protest, at least it will make us feel you are somewhat grateful for gettings something from a country who owes you nothing....

2006-10-10 15:14:32 · 7 answers · asked by angela R 1

that is my past that my agency make me use the false passport coz i was 20 yrs old before and this is my situation and i telling the truth ,i meet my husband in korea and i go home in the philippines make married there in the philippines with my real name and i was pregnand with my oldest babys . I cannot remember my false passport ,i lost it.and i came back in korea i used my truth passport living with my husband and i got two kids of my husband now ,and then we apply immigrant visa they asking me my false passport and the name ,birthdate,and number of my false passport.my husband is military and i wanna stay foreever with my family and i will die with my family .my husband living in january in the state and i wanna go together with my husband and my two kids.how can i anwer my problem ,i lost it my false .can you help me ? im with my true passoport here in korea .

2006-10-10 14:59:15 · 4 answers · asked by Gena S 1

Every alien group (legal and illegal) appears to WANT to learn English except Latinos.
If Latinos are catered to by having everything in Spanish, why should they learn English?
Isn't it discriminatory towards others (Polish, Italian, Greek, etc.) that the government makes THEM learn English but not the Latinos?
Why aren't Latinos talking about the rights of others instead of focusing solely on themselves?

2006-10-10 14:59:12 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

With all the posts about the things the anti-immigration people claim illegals do, I just wonder how they know someone is illegal, just by looking at them.

They drive badly, their kids run wild, they trash bathrooms, they they they...

Or do they just wave that "But They're ILLEGAL" flag to cover up their own bigotry?

2006-10-10 14:46:04 · 15 answers · asked by kcockcussmed 1

We don't speak chinese or any asian language
look chinese
eat chinese food, (well sometimes I do)
Europeans look more chinese than I do
Maybe you are just chinese and want me to be you...sorry No proof papasan.

2006-10-10 14:30:08 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Guess what I'm native american. And I'm getting tired of "illegal" Europeans.

2006-10-10 14:20:33 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous

SAN DIEGO - Five people trying to sneak into the United States from Mexico became trapped in a narrow tunnel and had to be rescued Tuesday after the largest of them, a nearly 200-pound man, got stuck trying to climb out through a storm drain, authorities said

Firefighters used jackhammers

i thought they said there were no fat mexicans lol
send them back what do you say

2006-10-10 14:19:01 · 23 answers · asked by the duke 1

2006-10-10 14:18:29 · 4 answers · asked by Reyna G 1

2006-10-10 14:18:28 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

A new poll examines the views of likely voters nationally and in 14 contested Senate and House races. The findings show strong majorities of Americans want immigration laws enforced and illegal immigrants to go home. One of the strongest findings is that the public overwhelmingly opposes increases in legal immigration of the kind found in the bill passed earlier this year by the Senate.


The results are surprisingly consistent across the country, both in terms of how voters see the problem, and what they want done about it. Unlike many other polls, the survey uses neutral language and avoids terms like "amnesty" and "illegal alien." The survey was done by the polling company inc. for the Center for Immigration Studies.

2006-10-10 14:17:40 · 7 answers · asked by DAR 7

2006-10-10 14:12:44 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-10 14:09:58 · 16 answers · asked by laruud 2

2006-10-10 14:04:45 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please show your source, and no propagand or Aztlan stuff.

This is the 4th time I asked this, and yet to get a good responce .

2006-10-10 13:49:04 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

You constantly hear some Mexican people who live in the US get upset and ask why some Americans don't treat them like other american citizens. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that many of them consider themselves Mexican before being Americans. Like this picture shows:
http://www.foxnews.com/images/197673/2_23_032706_immigration1.jpg

See, my family came from europe just a few generations ago (so they did NOT come over on the Mayflower!) and I'm able to admit that Europe sucks. That's why my family came to America in the first place.

Why is this so hard to get?

2006-10-10 13:39:16 · 18 answers · asked by bennyjoe81 3

When the Pilgrims landed here does anyone here honestly believe they would have gotten back on the boat and sailed right back home if the Native Americans presented them with their written law saying they were not allowed here? Give me a break! The white people didn't abide by their own laws and own word and broke treaties with the Native Americans. Everybody is talking about how "we paid for this land". I don't see too many rich Native Americans walking around...in fact, I don't see that many at all! Hmmm! Wonder what happened to them? And for those of you who want me to ask Native Americans what they think about illegal immigration - WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY ARE GOING TO SAY?! Look what happened LAST TIME that happened. They almost got wiped out.

2006-10-10 13:37:05 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

The illegal aliens enter the United States illegally, forge documents, steal American ID's, drive without driver license and insurance, not show up for court dates. Harbor other illegal aliens, don't pay child support, don't pay federal taxes. Many return after being deported which is a felony.

Is this OK with you? Have you ever been in trouble and let go without a punishment or fine mulitple times like illegal aliens?

2006-10-10 13:34:58 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-10 13:05:50 · 8 answers · asked by Mind Movie 3

If 90% of Americans are aginst illegal immigration, does this mean that 90% os Americans have the same veiws as the Minute-Men ?

2006-10-10 12:57:46 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I see them everyday and actually all look very healthy. In my opinion they want a ride on the easy USA streets. It doesn't take a lot of time to get a non-immigrant H-2 visa, actually it is a quick process. They come in for six months (legally) as a guest worker and then they go back home. I don't have pity on them, because to me it seems that they don't want to bother with the process.

2006-10-10 12:53:33 · 62 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-10 12:45:04 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

I live in Arkansas, and I see a lot of confederate flags, does it mean they dont like blacks, latinos, or others? Help me out.

2006-10-10 12:24:26 · 36 answers · asked by Bluelaugh1.0 1

Legal or illegal ones. Asian mail order brides, and Mexican hotties.

2006-10-10 12:18:49 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

They just hop the freakin fence and get fake IDs and drive cars(badly) and I'm not just talking about mexyCAN'TS im talking about the Indians who come here to study "cumpooters" as they call 'em go to school for free then zip back to India to be rich bastards??? they increase the cost of tuition for us legal borns ya know?

2006-10-10 12:17:24 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

This means hiring them or housing them.

2006-10-10 12:16:26 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

does anyone realize illegal employees dont get these benftits but illegal employers do? get richer off the poorer
what protections do you have on fair housing that illegals dont?
who makes the profit.. slumlords ? how many illegals are housed in your area so sliumlords make more money on bad overcrowded substandard places. why dont more peoepl ask the users of the desperate the profiteers be fined!? that will surely get rid of illegals more humanely too!

2006-10-10 12:01:22 · 4 answers · asked by homelessinorangecounty 3

Shivering Alaskans to Hugo Chavez: Keep your oil
POSTED: 9:09 p.m. EDT, October 9, 2006
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- In Alaska's native villages, the punishing winter cold is already penetrating the walls of the lightly insulated plywood homes, many of the villagers are desperately poor, and heating-oil prices are among the highest in the nation.

And yet a few of the small communities want to refuse free heating oil from Venezuela, on the patriotic principle that no foreigner has the right to call their president "the devil."

The heating oil is being offered by the petroleum company controlled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, President Bush's nemesis. While scores of Alaska's Eskimo and Indian villages say they have no choice but to accept, others would rather suffer.

"As a citizen of this country, you can have your own opinion of our president and our country. But I don't want a foreigner coming in here and bashing us," said Justine Gunderson, administrator for the tribal council in the Aleut village of Nelson Lagoon. "Even though we're in economically dire straits, it was the right choice to make."

Nelson Lagoon residents pay more than $5 a gallon for oil -- or at least $300 a month per household -- to heat their homes along the wind-swept coast of the Bering Sea, where temperatures can dip to minus-15. About one-quarter of the 70 villagers are looking for work, in part because Alaska's salmon fishing industry has been hit hard by competition from fish farms.

The donation to Alaska's native villages has focused attention on the rampant poverty and high fuel prices in a state that is otherwise awash in oil -- and oil profits. In 2005, 86 percent of the Alaska's general fund, or $2.8 billion, came from oil from the North Slope.

The Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, a native nonprofit organization that would have handled the heating oil donation on behalf of 291 households in Nelson Lagoon, Atka, St. Paul and St. George, rejected the offer because of the insults Chavez has hurled at Bush.

Chavez called Bush "the devil" in a speech to the United Nations last month. He has also called the president a terrorist and denounced the war in Iraq.(Watch former President Bush call Chavez "an ***" -- 2:10)

Dimitri Philemonof, president and chief executive of the association, said accepting the aid would be "compromising ourselves." "I think we have some duty to our country, and I think it's loyalty," he said.

Over the past two years, Citgo, the Venezuelan government's Texas-based oil subsidiary, has given millions of gallons of discounted heating oil to the poor in several states and cities -- including New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Maine -- in what is widely seen as an effort by Chavez to embarrass and irritate the U.S. government and make himself look good.

Maine Gov. John Baldacci, who approved an agreement last winter to buy discounted oil, said he had no plans this year to seek a similar arrangement. In Boston, Massachusetts, a City Council member wants a landmark Citgo sign near Fenway Park taken down and replaced with an American flag. In Florida, a lawmaker asked the state to cancel Citgo's exclusive contract to sell fuel at turnpike service stations.

About 150 native villages in Alaska have accepted money for heating oil from Citgo. The oil company does not operate in Alaska, so instead of sending oil, it is donating about $5.3 million to native nonprofit organizations to buy 100 gallons this winter for each of more than 12,000 households.

"When you have a dire need and it is a matter of survival for your people, it doesn't matter where, what country, the gift or donation comes from," said Virginia Commack, an elder in the arctic village of Ambler, an impoverished Eskimo community of 280 where residents are paying $7.25 a gallon for fuel.

For years, Alaska natives have accused the state and federal governments of sending too little money to their tiny, far-flung communities, where fuel and grocery prices are bloated by the high costs of delivery by plane and barge.

An editorial last month in the Anchorage Daily News bashed the Legislature's rejection in March of an $8.8 million state supplement to a federal program that helps poor Alaskans with home heating costs.

"It's embarrassing that residents in a state with so much oil wealth should be looking to a foreign nation for help," the newspaper said. "It's hard to blame villagers for accepting the gift."

A spokesman for Gov. Frank Murkowski, John Manly, said the governor believes Chavez's donation is a ploy to undermine Americans' faith in their government. But he said it is up to each village to make its own decision.

"It seems like a very strange irony that we produce the oil and yet every year there seems to be a chronic problem in getting the fuel to people that need it," Manly said.

Joan Eddy, principal and teacher at Nelson Lagoon's school, said most buildings in town were erected 30 to 40 years ago, which makes them pretty old, considering how they get battered by the constant 20-25 mph wind coming off the ocean. Their heating systems are aging, too.

She noted the fuel barge is late arriving this year, and said residents are turning on their furnaces for only a few hours in the morning and at night.

"We're conserving as much as we can because we are concerned. It looks like it's going to be a snowy winter and cold," she said.

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2006-10-10 11:58:09 · 13 answers · asked by RENEGADE. 2