Immigration - February 2007

I heard a report on NPR today about how much the migrant workers sent home last year. I understand the necessity of hiring migrant workers in certain businesses, but I just don't see how so many Americans wouldn't want to earn some of that 45 billion dollars. Please don't write insulting or ignorant comments, thanks.

2007-02-12 13:43:39 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

See another Border Patrol Agent Being Sent To Prison.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/200702...
A Texas deputy sheriff who fired shots at a fleeing vehicle after the driver tried to run him down faces 10 years in prison for injuring one of the passengers, a Mexican national being smuggled illegally into the United States.
The U.S. attorney, who won lengthy prison terms last year for two U.S. Border Patrol agents in the shooting of a drug-smuggling suspect, also prosecuted Edwards County Deputy Sheriff Guillermo F. Hernandez, who is to be sentenced next month.

2007-02-12 13:04:26 · 17 answers · asked by Zoe 4

just wondering someone i work with told me he was a resident

2007-02-12 12:34:14 · 10 answers · asked by foreverknight 3

Get ready ! Immigration and Emigration will never stop

2007-02-12 12:09:00 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-12 12:03:54 · 14 answers · asked by Lou Dobbs 1

2007-02-12 10:22:15 · 2 answers · asked by Sterling 2

Obviously, this would require new governance for all countires as the existing ones care NOTHING of their people. So, if all peoples from the U.S./Mexico border to the Panama canal agreed to "replace" all governments with a decent, pro-education, one-child, policy, how many white Americans would volunteer to fight?

Our government wouldn't be able to "officially" involve itself, given Iraq and what may soon come of Iran and N. Korea. So, our foundations would be the most powerful contributors in the world: voluntary donations of United States, private entities and idividuals.

These are our neighboring nations. Illegal immigration will destroy this country and wouldn't even exist if not for the failed economic policies of those countries.

So, I, for one, would be quick to put my life on the line to nip this 'downward spiral' in the bud. It'd be a worthy cause.

Who among you would sign on?

2007-02-12 10:10:34 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Prosecution and Imprisonment of Border Patrol Agents? This contains 3 different letters. It will take a few minutes to read.
The prison assault against Agent Ramos is not simply “regrettable” – it is intolerable. BOP is well aware of the inherent risks that federal agents always face when they are themselves sent to prison, and must interact with inmates who may have committed crimes they used to prosecute. And if Yazoo City prison officials allowed its inmate population to see a TV news story that highlighted Mr. Ramos’ case, I do not understand why they were not extra vigilant to ensure Agent Ramos’ safety.

I find these circumstances disturbing, and therefore ask that you provide me with the following information:

Please describe all of the circumstances behind the recent assault against Agent Ramos while in federal custody, including any efforts undertaken to ensure Agent Ramos’ safety.
Please describe and provide all documents relating to the basis for his security classification, his placement at Yazoo City FCC, whether he is in Yazoo’s Low or Medium security facility, and BOP’s rationale and risk-based findings that led to his designation there.
Please describe any warnings and opportunities given to Agent Ramos to accept protective custody, explain whether after his initial refusal he was given any opportunity to reconsider protective custody once incarcerated and aware of added risks, and any security measures taken in recognition of his status as a former federal agent even in the absence of his placement in protective custody.
Please provide copies of any documents relating to the investigation of this incident, including all witness statements, summaries of witness interviews, and any conclusions or reports.
I have asked the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate this matter, and I therefore ask that you provide me with this requested information as expeditiously as possible.

2007-02-12 10:06:40 · 4 answers · asked by Zoe 3

if my brother or any person has just come from another country. so how can he get health insurance or make an appoinment with doctor? And also what about a new born baby? And 1 more quistion: If I don't become iligible to get health insurance because of my high income then what I gotta do? (thanks a lot).(appreciated).

2007-02-12 09:52:48 · 5 answers · asked by Sumcraft 1

why so Much Mexican pride if you benefit from living in the US,,Mexico didn't care about you,,,yet you love it so

2007-02-12 08:48:30 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

my dad gets so pissed off n mad when i make a joke about sumthin. i dont remember ever seeing that **** laugh

2007-02-12 08:48:25 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

One of the most important facts about Mexican immigration is that at least Mexican people are Occidental Chiristians. The U.S. is still an Occidental Christian country but there is the huge problem of the chinese and hindu immigration.
Go to Canada you hardly will see Mexican immigrants in their cities, but you will see thousands and thousands of horrible chinese and hindues with their strange religions and habits. The crime in Canada is because all that Asian extrange and really ugly people.

2007-02-12 08:39:22 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

give me money and a place to live to raise my 3 children but i want a full english education

2007-02-12 08:34:10 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you think about it illegal aliens are doing jobs that Americans don't want to do. Like working at a slaughterhouse. They are the ones doing the dirty work because Americans dont want to do them. But also they are taking away some other jobs because the people that employ them think that they can pay them less and they won't know the difference so an American is out of work so to speak. There are 11 million illegal immigrants in the US with more coming over the border every day.

2007-02-12 08:31:21 · 12 answers · asked by Brooke R 2

help need to start a fund raiser,they have depeted all of uor funds, mine and my boyfriends,now hes ready to leave me too, to much pressure.says that he gonna go on with his own life,so iam stuck drowning,emotinaly broken as i watch him walk away PLEASE NEED INFO..A.SA.P.

2007-02-12 08:20:26 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

yes or no

2007-02-12 08:18:03 · 8 answers · asked by Jeremy P 2

all of the illegal ppl comeing from mexaco shuld have to join the us army for 4 years b4 they can be givin there rights to live here...and they would have to know ENGLISH!!!!

does anyone agree?

2007-02-12 08:14:00 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-12 07:55:22 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

If our country is truly a free one and we have the right to chose in every aspect of our life, then why do so many people expect immigrants(legal or not) to adapt to our culture and not retain their own? I have seen so many people on here spout off that immigrants should adapt to our culture. What is american culture anyway but a melting pot of cultures from around the world. Learning our language and laws is one thing, but when it comes to traditions and religion and the language they choose to speak with one another, is that not a choice that our freedom allows them to make. Why do so many expect them to start living as we Americans live and forget where they came from.?

2007-02-12 07:51:50 · 8 answers · asked by whoareyou 3

2007-02-12 07:48:08 · 5 answers · asked by SAID22 D 2

Your thoughts?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/12/fbi.laptops/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

2007-02-12 07:38:24 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am a foreign student of 5-th course from a medical academy. I am a citizen of Mauritius. My wife is a Russian citizen. We got married 4 months ago. Every year federal migration office in my academy gave me registration in a hostel. this year, I receive registration in the apartment where my wife and her parents have the permanent registration. all these years 2 times only I left Russia for a short period of time. What should be my further step to get closer to the Russian citizenship?

2007-02-12 07:34:27 · 3 answers · asked by neo 1

http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20070209/cm_rcp/arnolds_immigration_fbomb1

Opinion
Arnold's Immigration F-Bomb
Tom Bevan Fri Feb 9, 1:01 PM ET
Latinos are up in arms over the most recent round of audio tapes leaked out of Arnold Schwarzenegger's office that show the Governator engaging in a very frank and thorough discussion of the immigration issue. Condemnations are ranging from offensive and outrageous" to "abhorrent." But after you read the LA Times piece, go spend a few minutes reading the full 24 page transcript of Arnold's conversation (also provided by the Times, to their credit) , which paints a vastly different and more interesting picture of his views.
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Here is some of what Governor Schwarzenegger said that caused such a huff, starting with questions about what to do if Mexicans in the United States on some kind of work visa program stay in the country and refuse to return home to Mexico and leading into a comment about the Simpson-Mazzoli bill:

GOVERNOR: Do you go back then and chase them down? Do you then make them criminals for staying here? Do you put them in prison for staying here? Do we have the prison beds, and do we have the supervision? Do we have enough of the personnel in the prisons, in the county jails for this stuff, to feed them and to guard them and all of those things? Do you round them up? Do you send them back?

Q: Well, those are the nitty-gritty detail questions that need to be answered in Washington. But I think --
GOVERNOR: But the most important thing here is -- you see, that's the interesting thing about it. That, for instance you call the 'nitty-gritty detail', but that actually is the biggest issue. Because why? Because our government in 1986 --

Q: The amnesty.

GOVERNOR: Has f***** the American people.

Q: Yeah, we've got twice as many illegals --

GOVERNOR: You see, because what happened, they said, "Look, we came up with a solution."

Q: Right. M-hmm.

GOVERNOR: And now 20 years later the government comes up again and says, "We are going to work on a solution."

Q: It's worse now.

GOVERNOR: And what happened was with the solution is that they said that if we give them amnesty and if we solve this, and we are going to go and track them down if anyone comes in here illegally, and we'll send them back, and the people that are providing jobs will be punished and all. No one enforced the law.

And later Arnold says this about assimilation:

GOVERNOR: It is changing, but in reality, I tell you. We can talk about what do we say when we get asked in an interview, and there are certain things you can't say. And one of the things that is, I think, tough for the American people to digest is that Mexicans, because it's next door, are holding onto their tradition and to their language much longer than the Polish did when they came over here, and the Germans and the Austrians when they came here, the French when they came here, because that was like you wanted to go and become part of America so quickly that you tried to learn the language. The older generation had always much more difficulty, as much as I have more difficulty getting up to speed with the computer. The older generation that is kind of like still with this new technology kind of stay away from it. But my son is on the computer and everything, and he's much better in English than I am, and he's 12 years old. So that's just the way it is. But I made an effort. But the Mexicans don't make that effort. See, they are building, as you saw down there -- you were down there, right, with the Mexican shopping mall?

Q: You bet.

GOVERNOR: Which is like a --

Q: Plaza de Mexico.

GOVERNOR: Which is like the -- yeah, the Plaza de Mexico, which is like a growth.

Q: On our side?

GOVERNOR: Yeah (SS)

Q: (SS) Linwood.

GOVERNOR: In Linwood. I mean, it's spectacular, when you see that shopping mall. Literally I felt I was in Mexico City, because I was in Mexico City for months and months and months doing my movies there. And it felt like I was down there. Everyone only spoke Spanish, every shop was in Spanish, every sign was in Spanish. They create a Mexico within California.

Q: You bet. And it's not just in that area. It's in (SS)

Q: Oh, I know.

GOVERNOR: And so you have to now bring all your brochures and everything in Spanish, all your government forms in Spanish, and all of this and all of that. So we have to make an effort, and I think that annoys people in California. It annoys people in America. They say, "Look, you want to come in here as a guest, but then behave as if you are a guest. That if you come --" I always compare the country to a house, your home. If you have someone coming to your home, he's going to say, "This family wakes up at 6:00 in the morning, and then they leave the house, or they go out running and all this. If I stay here I think I should get with the program here, you know? That's the way it is. And it's really funny what I've seen here in the Dehlson's house. Everyone does chores here. It's wild.

Q: They do?

GOVERNOR: Kids go and take out the trash, and the wife is doing the cooking, and Gary is there, he's going out shopping to get the food while she's doing the vegetables ready, he's getting the steaks. And so and so and doing this, and the grandmother is over there putting the flowers -- everyone is doing something. I'd better get with the program. So if I'm smart now, if I'm the guest, I go to his wife and I say, "Hey, what can I do?"

Q: That's true.

GOVERNOR: Right?

Q: That's a big part of it, absolutely.

GOVERNOR: Because I'm not going to say, "Well, in my house, I sit there and I read all day, no matter what happens around me, I read." Well, when you are a guest you don't want to go and sit in a chair while everyone is working and you keep reading your book because you love your novels. You go and get up in this one hour, at least you will then go and make an effort here, because I'm a guest here. Or, let me go out and get the flowers, to the wife, to the lady of the house. "I'm going to get some flowers for doing all of this," with a little message on it. So you do certain things. But what do we see in return? We see protestors carrying the Mexican flag.

Q: Carrying the Mexican flag.

GOVERNOR: And stepping on the American flag, and speaking in Spanish and talking about, "We are here and we're going to stay." So now imagine, someone coming to your house and he has no place because his house burned down next door. Now, he comes to your house because of the misery he went through, or she went through, comes to your house now and you say, "Come on in here for a week or two weeks until you get going." And that person comes out and says, "I'm not going to move anymore. You know, something, Gary? I'm here to f****** stay."

Again, I urge you to read the whole transcript, not just the parts that are generating the most heat in the press. Arnold remains very pro-immigration but, like most everyone else, is grappling with the complexities of solving this very contentious issue.

2007-02-12 07:08:27 · 20 answers · asked by luv3dbb 5

I was living in the UK for the past year. We came to the US on January 13th for vacation, however, I have been offered a job here in the US and we have decided to stay. For her immigration papers, etc, since she came under the Visa Waiver Program and according to the USCIS: if you are an immediate relative of a U.S. citizen(parent, spouse, widow, widower or unmarried childunder 21 years old) you can adjust your status to that of a permanent resident if you came under the VWP. So the first piece of paperwork we have to file is the I-130 Petition for an Alien Relative. Once that has been filed, does the fact that she is only allowed to stay in the US until April 13th (90 days) due to the Visa Waiver Program change so that we have time to file all the needed paperwork?

2007-02-12 06:44:55 · 4 answers · asked by Cali Dude 4

can sobebody tell what's the production of australia?, that is, why the salaries in australia are higher than in other countries that have more industry or more economical production such as spain, or italy.

2007-02-12 06:42:46 · 4 answers · asked by lobazo 1

The term "alien" had nothing to do with space creatures when it was used in the Bible thousands of years ago. It was referring to people from another nation, and that term still applies today.

So "illegal alien" is a perfectly legitimate, non-insulting, accurate term for illegal aliens.

http://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=alien&qs_version=31

2007-02-12 06:32:13 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54199
Corruption cover-up charged in case of jailed agents
"Why is this Border Patrol agent Rene Sanchez over in Willcox, Arizona, so interested in searching out this drug bust information in Fabens, Texas?" Ramirez asked WND. "Sure, we know that Aldrete-Davila and Rene Sanchez grew up together in Mexico. But how much more to the story is there than that?" I would think that normal police procedure, when you confiscate a drug-laden vehicle with a cell phone, is to immediately gather evidence in order to try to identify suspects in order to make arrests. So, why does it seem like that didn't happen in this case?

2007-02-12 06:20:56 · 4 answers · asked by Zoe 3

2007-02-12 06:09:05 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

According to this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6346931.stm
China has a surplus of males. Maybe America can help. Since there is an increasing number of American males who don't like girls - well, at least they don't want to marry a girl, maybe America could import some of these Chinese males of marriageable age to fill the vacuum. Or does anyone have any other ideas as to how we can help China solve this growing problem?

Thanks, Henrietta

2007-02-12 05:05:39 · 25 answers · asked by Henrietta 2

2007-02-12 04:45:32 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous