Immigration - December 2006

OUR MOTHER WHO WAS A U.S. CITIZEN, DIED WHILE OUR PETITION WAS CURRENTLY BEING PROCESSED BY NVC. WE ARE IN THE PHILIPPINES AND HAS A SIS WHO LIVES IN THE U.S .WE WOULD LIKE TO REAPPEAL THE CASE TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL..HOW AND WHERE CAN WE MAKE THE APPEAL?

2006-12-21 15:58:00 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Its no sercert illgeals take a 18hr job and turn it into a 8 hr job.

2006-12-21 15:48:39 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

How come you won't go to jail or even a ticket?

2006-12-21 15:20:59 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

A few years ago I raked blueberries up in Maine. It was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life, and I got paid almost nothing. One thing that i got out of it was a better acceptance of immigrants in our nation, especially hispanic ones.

Just wondering if anyone has experienced anything similar to this?

2006-12-21 15:00:50 · 16 answers · asked by blank 3

cuz every1 at my school says it's wrong and my spanish teacher says that in 10 years (or deis anos) that over half the population will be hispanic and not white!!! oh my god what will i dooooooo

2006-12-21 14:43:20 · 16 answers · asked by tlmesi 2

All Hispanic are________________?

2006-12-21 14:38:22 · 28 answers · asked by EW 3

thou shalt set no boundories for immigrants let them come

2006-12-21 14:35:09 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

well, I sent a letter to immigration to withdraw my application, so i wounder if i can reapply for citizenship and also i wonder if they going to be against me because that.
thank all for the advice.

2006-12-21 14:29:31 · 5 answers · asked by nick 1

I visited the Mexican town of Agua Prieta with my friend Pasquali. We stopped there to watch the vaqueros train horses. I understand Chip Sugar, famous Horse Whisperer, of Hawley, Texas once helped out here. These are some of the finest young cowboys I have ever seen. Their ability to train and ride horses is uncanny. I got talked into buying a young Stallion and I have decided to call him Chingadero, because I don’t think he will get real big and is a little ornery. He will fetch many times his cost here in the U.S. to benefit charity and they can call him whatever they want.

I don’t know much about horses much past what end to feed, however I do know a great deal about people. What I don’t understand is how Mexico with its abundant resources and human capital can screw things up so bad?

2006-12-21 14:27:16 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Becoming Illegal (From an Iowa resident to his senator)

The Honorable Tom Harkin
731 Hart Senate Office Building

Washington DC, 20510

Dear Senator Harkin,

As a native Iowan and excellent customer of the Internal Revenue Service, I am writing to ask for your assistance. I have contacted the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to determine the process for becoming an illegal alien and they referred me to you.


My primary reason for wishing to change my status from U.S. Citizen to illegal alien stems from reading the bill which was recently passed by the Senate and for which you voted. If my understanding of this bill's provisions is accurate, as an illegal alien who has been in the United States for five years, all I need to do to become a citizen is to pay a $2,000 fine and income taxes for three of the last five years. I know a good deal when I see one and I am anxious to get the process started before everyone figures it out.

2006-12-21 13:13:07 · 17 answers · asked by Pandora 6

i am illigaly in usa... i am coming in next week in india so i am doing right or wrong? Explain me..

2006-12-21 13:09:37 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-21 12:59:44 · 15 answers · asked by IKnowWhoUAre! 2

Should he be deported? Answer carefully this is a trick question.

2006-12-21 12:34:11 · 6 answers · asked by MinuteWoman 2

My husband didnt recieve the fiancee notice of approval and that paper is one of the important thing to file my temporary residency here..we cant file the papers in uscis...What is the best thing to do?please i need help...

2006-12-21 12:32:43 · 7 answers · asked by mariposang_gala 3

RUSH: Let's look at the latest news here on the illegal immigration front and these recent raids at Swift & Company. "Fewer Hispanic immigrants are being hired to replace meat packing workers arrested at Swift & Company plants in Grand Island, Nebraska, and Greeley, Colorado, during last week's immigration raid, according to union officials." Fewer Hispanic immigrants are being hired. "Local 22 union president Dan Hoppes said Tuesday that 40 to 50 new workers have been hired at the Grand Island plant since the raids, and he said the lion's share of those people were Caucasian." Now, as you remember, ICE people "arrested 1300 people, mostly Hispanic, at six Swift & Company plants in the sweep, and some experts say that the raids could lead to a shortage of meat packers and thus higher wages, and thus higher prices for the beef in homes and restaurants.

"Several union officials said that Swift, which has denied knowingly hiring illegal workers and has not been charged, improved its wages and benefits and bonuses before the raids." Now, let's look at this. "Experts say the raids could lead to a shortage of meat packers, higher wages, and higher prices for the beef in homes and restaurants." Now, why is this? Well, a shortage of meat packers. That's right, because the illegal immigrants will only do jobs that Americans won't do, and so when you go in there and raid the place, and you throw out a bunch of illegals, well! You're short of workers because Americans refuse to do it! So you gotta pay more, and the higher wages thus lead to higher prices so you people at home are going to get blamed for this.

Well, you're not going to get blamed but you're gonna face the tell you the responsibility for it. But wait. "Before the raids, roughly 90% of the Greeley plant workers were Hispanic. In Greeley, where Swift is headquartered, union local president Ernie Duran said about 75 new workers have been hired, including about 30 Caucasians, 15 Somali immigrants and seven Hispanic immigrants with the rest being US-born Hispanics, but the raid has not dissuaded Hispanic immigrants from seeking work at the plant." So let me see now if I understand this. Illegals don't exactly take "the jobs Americans won't do;" it seems like illegals take the jobs American companies won't offer to Americans. Now when ICE goes in and removes a percentage of the workforce because they're illegal, then Caucasians get the gig, then Americans get the jobs. Am I interpreting this right? (interruption)

Well, I don't know if it's indelicate or not, it seems to me we hear that Americans won't do these jobs, ergo we need this uneducated, low-wage workforce in order to fill these jobs because Americans just won't do it. When you remove some of the uneducated, low-wage workforce, why, 30 Caucasians were hired, which means they will do the work. They will. I know they hired some Somalis, but they will do the work, but we're told they won't, but they do. So if they'll do the work and aren't doing it, then whose fault is it? Is it maybe they're not being given the jobs or offered the jobs. A companion story here. This is from NebraskaStatePaper.com: "Guess who's hiring Americans who happen to be white? Some of the jobs Americans purportedly won't do have apparently been getting more popular among the white people who are doing them these days but for better money than the illegal immigrants they replaced. Union officials say that Swift & Company meat packing plants have been hiring more Caucasians since the feds raided their plants last week looking for workers who were in the country illegally.
"Up to 50 new workers have been hired at the Grand Island plant since the raids that snagged 261 workers there. Hoppes told reporters the lion's share of those people were Caucasian." Now, it didn't say white people because that could be subject to classification as a politically incorrect, so they're "Caucasian." Now, this is a story by a guy named Ed Howard at this website. He says: "Here's the interesting thing about the new hires. Union officials also said that Swift began improving wages and benefits and bonuses before the raids, not after. Was this a reflection of the holiday spirit? If so, it also reflected the fact that Swift & Company knew well in advance the raids were coming and that replacements would be needed if illegal workers were hauled off. The company apparently was just being cautious since it never knowingly hires illegal workers but understands that such things can obviously happen.

"The recent hires at Swift might indicate some Americans will do these jobs for better wages and benefits," and of course who would have thought that? Well, it seems that the meat packing industry knew it. If they knew the raid was coming and they raised wages and benefits and bonuses before the raids, they knew that they were going to have to replace these workers. So Americans will do the work if the pay is above what you will pay your uneducated, low-wage illegal immigrant workforce, and this from the Louisville Courier-Journal: "A married couple who embodied the American dream were sentenced yesterday for hiring illegal immigrants to work at their Jumbo Buffet Restaurant in Jeffersontown, Kentucky. Juan Bin Yeung, 34, received three months of home incarceration, and her husband, Hau Yeung, 34, was sentenced to three months of prison after they had admitted to hiring 13 illegal immigrants between February of '05 and February of '06.

"'These are hard-working people who in many respects embody the American dream,'" talking about the Yeungs, "Chief U.S. District Judge John Heyburn II said before imposing punishment. He opted for a punishment that he said wouldn't destroy the Yeungs' family or business, while sending a message that the nation's immigration laws must be respected. In a similar case pending in Louisville, Heyburn yesterday accepted a guilty plea from Jian Chai Lin, 35, to a charge of knowingly hiring 10 illegal immigrants over the past year to work at his Radcliff restaurant, Golden China Buffet. As part of a plea agreement, Lin forfeited $42,788 from a restaurant bank account." Well, this is a story that talks about all kinds of penalties that are being meted out for the hiring of illegals. They're just trying to pursue the American dream. So the romance, the romancing: "Well, I know they're illegal, but these people, they were immigrants themselves, just trying for the American dream." This is, "Oh, how can we dare pass judgment? Well, just so poor people. They're just trying to do the right thing, and none of us ever succeed all the time in doing the right thing so how can we hold them accountable?" and so begins the snowball. Here is John in Logan, Utah. John, welcome to the EIB Network.

CALLER: Hey, mega dittos, Rush.

RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: From a native Sacramentan. I'm in Logan. We are about five minutes from one of the plants that was -- that was raided, and a couple things. Add to that list of newspaper articles, one from the Rocky Mountain News, where apparently there are lines of people waiting to get these jobs and all of them of course aware that their status is going to be in question, so I'm assuming these people are citizens. The interesting thing of course is I'm waiting to see articles like this because I've never bought the tripe that only illegal immigrants will do this kind of labor, so it was posed as though these people are kind of like cannibals, coming in to clean up afterward and then, you know, live off the dead bodies --

RUSH: Vultures, yeah, vultures.

CALLER: Yeah, exactly.

RUSH: Cannibals eat live people. Vultures wait for you to die.

CALLER: Well, one of the guys was a roommate of one of the illegals that was sent off, and he was left with all of his goods in his apartment; he took his animals and gave them to people that could take care of them. So it was really kind of an interesting article. But there are lines of people. Now, I don't know if you saw this, here in Logan, the newspaper that there are 16 indictments that have come down, all related to various forms of fraud and --

RUSH: Oh, come on.

CALLER: -- identity.

RUSH: This is excessive! We're talking about human beings here.

CALLER: I know.

RUSH: They're called citizens and they're human beings, and everybody has to eat.

CALLER: I know, I know, and it's really sad, and one of the editorials led off in our local newspaper saying this was appalling. "We are not first and foremost a country founded upon laws. We are a country founded on compassion," and so I am obviously out of line.

RUSH: (Laughing.) Yes, you are, because you cold-hearted extremist SOB you. Here you -- (laughing.)

CALLER: (Laughing.) And I appreciate you giving voice to the things that I have always felt and believed. So thank you, Rush.

RUSH: Thank you. I'm glad you called. I appreciate that. Thanks very much. Americans will do the work, but I there's always something left out of that equation. The jobs Americans no longer will do, the jobs Americans refuse to do -- at the wages being paid to an uneducated workforce here illegally. That's what's left out.
END TRANSCRIPT
Read the Background Material...
(AP: Unions: Fewer Hispanic immigrants hired since Swift & Co. raids)
(NebraskaStatePaper.com: Guess Who Is Hiring Americans Who Happen To Be White?)
(Rocky Mountain News: Loss for one is another's gain)

2006-12-21 11:49:45 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you think it would be a good idea to garnish the wages of illegal aliens, if and when they try and buy real-estate, apply for legal status, or any other way? They owe us. Some day they will be legal and they will have to pay us back.

2006-12-21 10:46:25 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-21 10:41:17 · 3 answers · asked by David Z75015 1

How would you rephrase this question to remove bias?

What would you add as details?

What catagorie would you put this question?

And ofcourse the root question is how would you deal with this issue OR is it an issue to you at all.

2006-12-21 10:11:37 · 24 answers · asked by concerned_earthling 4

it seems to me that england is no longer england but a country for everyone to sponge off of.i am canadian but have an english boyfriend!i dont want our children to grow up here because it seems that the english are concidered second class citizans in their own country.i dont want my daughters too feel that way because they have to worry about the assylum seekers and illeagle immagrents first!i have so much trouble being able to stay here and im from canada which not long ago was still concidered british.everywhere i go it seems that they are there and expecting something like we owe them the world!call me racist if u want i call it common sense!cival war will break out here i know it!im afraid to walk out alone here because they attack the younger girls here and seem to target white girls as they could never do that to one of their own.they hate the country and their westren ways but when they want something they are the first to suck áss,and sponge it all in what abt the british?????

2006-12-21 10:05:02 · 24 answers · asked by jmc 4

2006-12-21 09:31:17 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Republicans held the legislative branch and the executive branch for the last 6 years. In the last six years we've heard alot of militant, macho, talk about how we need to stop immigration and how we're fighting another war in America. But that's all we've gotten out of them: talk. We haven't seen any new fence put up, we haven't seen the military go to the boarder and ARREST illegals, and so we haven't seen ANY progress in terms of preventing illegal immigration. We've heard alot of talk, but not alot of action. Talk doesn't count for anything in my book.

Then we'll hear Republicans/conservative bit** at the liberals for being pro-immigration and how the liberals love illegal Mexicans, etc. . .But what about conservatives? They talk about liberals loving immigrants and how conservatives want to prevent it, but they haven't prevented it. They haven't done any of the things they promised. They had SIX years of control of what goes on in the US but they've done nothing.

WHY?

2006-12-21 09:25:51 · 8 answers · asked by LaissezFaire 6

sanctuary cities and states are run by liberal Democrats.

The new governor of MA has decided to not allow state troopers to arrest illegal immigrants.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061221/ap_on_re_us/massachusetts_immigration

2006-12-21 09:17:53 · 14 answers · asked by Chainsaw 6

2006-12-21 09:16:10 · 12 answers · asked by Bill Clinton 1

yeah were trying to be progressive, were obviously not theyr yet, who in here beliefs that hatred and false generalizations are leading us in the right direction,

2006-12-21 09:14:10 · 4 answers · asked by el chavo 4

Don't we have enough criminals without the ones from Mexico coming here?

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17618775&BRD=2075&PAG=461&dept_id=386538&rfi=6

He tentatively identified the SUV driver as Edgar Rodriguez, possibly 27, of Mexican origin.
“I think he’s an illegal alien,” said Fogle, noting Rodriguez was carrying four identifications all with different birth dates.
“Three of the four have warrants attached to them,” said Fogle.
Meanwhile, Rodriguez faces at least four charges in this incident, three of leaving the scene and one of criminal recklessness with a vehicle, said Fogle.

2006-12-21 09:07:12 · 9 answers · asked by pedohunter1488 4

George W. Bush is promoting the inmigration (legal and illegal).
These are the reasons.
The USA have more than 150 000 soldiers in Iraq, and others in Afghanistan.
In abroad bases are nearly 300 000 Yankee soldiers, including the Navy vessels.
This is the problem 500 000 wives, girlfriends, etc, are alone now, but many of them got a latin lover (an inmigrant legal or illegal, no problem for them) to spend hot nights, when her men are killing, consuming drugs, and having homosexual relations.
And now Bush is announcing more men to Iraq, this will increase the number of alone women and girls.

2006-12-21 08:08:50 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Based on their comments and logic. Please no unswers from hipocryrts that say "my feelings are only against illegals" we all know that's a cover up.

2006-12-21 08:01:47 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

ungrateful ........ !

2006-12-21 07:31:32 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-21 07:27:45 · 17 answers · asked by solisiron 1

2006-12-21 07:23:30 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous