Immigration - March 2007

Someone told me they are in the country illegally. Can I make a citizen's arrest with this information ?

2007-03-29 12:42:03 · 12 answers · asked by Lou Dobbs 1

Inmates? Not really resourceful.

2007-03-29 12:25:33 · 23 answers · asked by AG74 1

2007-03-29 12:10:57 · 31 answers · asked by ICE AGENT 2

and do you think its right

2007-03-29 12:06:03 · 21 answers · asked by brian.yates 1

the first thing comes to mind is mexicans? are they the only immigrants here?it seems to me that all the attention is focused on them!

2007-03-29 12:04:10 · 10 answers · asked by chavonlev 1

Do you think we will get elp or do you as americans think you should help us?

2007-03-29 11:55:47 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

if you know the correct way to do this please respond what is the process consist of and cost or odds of getting granted one easier since the person is 80 yrs old

2007-03-29 11:52:54 · 3 answers · asked by gina l 1

2007-03-29 11:05:52 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Shouldn't they be happy to go back to their proud country?

2007-03-29 10:22:09 · 24 answers · asked by a bush family member 7

Don't say nothing.

2007-03-29 10:14:57 · 29 answers · asked by Antis Suck 3

2007-03-29 10:04:59 · 19 answers · asked by Terry H 3

2007-03-29 09:00:26 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

but it tasted really good n u liked it! n i cooked it!

2007-03-29 08:49:42 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

First offense $2,000,000 per employee, no matter what country they are from.

2007-03-29 08:28:28 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

This word is directed at a mutlitude of people and events undeserving of its condemning connatations.

2007-03-29 08:22:37 · 27 answers · asked by Terry H 3

2007-03-29 07:14:17 · 34 answers · asked by ferengifighter 3

I think they will lose their money.

2007-03-29 06:57:46 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

we just want to work "hard work" not easy work

2007-03-29 06:38:06 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous

Fence execs sentenced for illegal hiring By ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press Writer
Wed Mar 28, 8:29 PM ET



Two executives at a company that once helped build a fence to keep illegal immigrants from crossing the Mexican border were sentenced Wednesday to six months of home confinement for hiring undocumented workers.

Mel Kay, founder, chairman and president of Golden State Fence Co., and manager Michael McLaughlin had pleaded guilty in federal court to knowingly hiring illegal aliens. U.S. District Judge Barry Ted Moskowitz ordered each to serve 1,040 hours of community service and spend three years on probation.

Kay, 64, was fined $200,000 as part of a plea agreement, and McLaughlin agreed to pay $100,000.

Federal prosecutors took the rare step of seeking prison time after the men acknowledged hiring at least 10 illegal immigrants in 2004 and 2005. The charges carried a maximum possible penalty of five years in prison.

However, prosecutors were unable to find a previous case in which an employer had been sent to jail for knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.

"Prosecution is long overdue in this area," Moskowitz said. "Honestly, the government's efforts have been at the border, not with the employer. Obviously, the government has signaled a change with this case."

In December, company officials acknowledged knowingly hiring illegal immigrants and agreed the firm would pay a $4.7 million fine, one of the largest for immigration violations.

Moskowitz said he was uneasy with handing down jail time because the company did not deserve to be "the poster child" for unscrupulous employers. All of Kay's workers paid Social Security taxes and received health benefits, vacation and sick time. Many earned more than $50,000 a year.

Golden State saw sales soar from $60 million in 1998 to $150 million in 2004, according to a biography of Kay provided by the company.

Federal authorities said they found no evidence that illegal immigrants were hired in the late 1990s while the company built more than a mile of the 14-mile fence near a border crossing in San Diego.

Government agents raided Golden State Fence's Riverside office last year and found that more than 100 were unauthorized to work — including three the company had been ordered not to employ after a 1999 audit by the government.

Kay apologized before he was sentenced and described how his business suffered after the guilty pleas. Golden State was banned from government work, which accounts for 30 percent of its revenue. The company has laid off about 150 employees, leaving it with about 500 workers.

"I feel I have paid a tremendous price," Kay said. "I've lost a lot of accounts. (Customers) don't want to be guilty by association."

McLaughlin said he was relieved at not having to serve prison time.

The company did work at military bases and other government facilities — an irony that Moskowitz noted as he considered whether to send Kay to prison.

"He'd probably go to one of the camp facilities that he built the fence for," the judge said.

2007-03-29 05:22:36 · 13 answers · asked by NONAME 2

2007-03-29 05:14:29 · 21 answers · asked by jutakai 3

2007-03-29 05:11:48 · 7 answers · asked by xn7x 1

'Slaps on wrist' for attacking Minutemen
Columbia University issues only written warnings for rioters

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Posted: March 29, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern



© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com



Protesters storm stage at Columbia University (WND photo)
After nearly six months, Columbia University has issued punishments, including "slaps on the wrist," to students who wildly rushed a campus stage and shut down a speech by Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist.

As WND reported, Gilchrist was attacked at the New York City school during an Oct. 4 speech on illegal immigration. Minuteman board member Marvin Stewart, an African-American who spoke prior to Gilchrist, was taunted with the "n-word" and was on stage when the protesters stopped the event. WND's Jerome Corsi was waiting backstage, scheduled to follow Gilchrist by reading excerpts from their co-authored book, "Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America’s Borders."

Video of the attack can be seen here

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Three students confirmed to the Columbia Daily Spectator campus newspaper Monday they were charged with simple violations of the university's Rules of Conduct.

The paper said the warnings – the lowest of four possible outcomes – will be notated on the students' transcripts and remain there until the end of 2008.

Students who receive a disciplinary warning suffer no financial or academic restraints, and the notation simply states "future violations will be treated more seriously."

Then Tuesday, the paper reported at least three other students were censured, a step up in severity from a disciplinary warning. A censured student who violates rules a second time is automatically suspended from the university.

Corsi said yesterday the students deserved much tougher punishments and called it "a sad day for higher education."

"The university is supposed to be a bastion of free speech. Instead, Columbia has decided to take a political position," he said. "The students who disrupted our Minuteman presentation should have been severely disciplined, possibly even expelled. Instead, by issuing minor punishments and rebukes, Columbia signals that protecting the free speech of the Minuteman Project was far less important than making sure the disruptive protestors had the opportunity to deliver their violent message of angry opposition."

One of the three students given a disciplinary warning, Monique Dols, told the paper she considered it "a light punishment."

"It's a slap on the wrist," she said. "It's a victory for free speech and anti-racism."

A second student handed a disciplinary warning, David Judd, president of the International Socialist Organization, was found, along with Dols, to have briefly interrupted a university function and aided others in doing so.


Minuteman board member Marvin Stewart speaks amid taunts at Columbia University (WND photo)

A third student, Andrew Tillet-Saks, also was found to have engaged "in conduct that places another in danger of bodily harm."

Minuteman national media director Tim Bueler said that after taking six months to hand down a decision, the disciplinary warnings were a "travesty of justice."

"They should have been expelled from the school," he told the Columbia paper.

Judd said he's glad the Minutemen are outraged.

"They get press from whining, but an impression of strength is more important in the long run for a vigilante group which thrives on intimidating immigrants, and this verdict, like the protest, helps subvert that," he said.

Tillet-Saks insisted the students who went on stage acted peacefully, and he contended the Minutemen were the dangerous ones.

"I don't think I endangered anybody. I'm upset at the administration for choosing to condemn my peaceful actions in protest while the Minutemen walk around toting rifles," he said. "It's illogical, hypocritical and also a hindrance to further progress. I'm not pleased with the university."

Tillet-Saks criticized the university's disciplinary process, saying the students had no rights and administrators didn't give them due process.

Outgoing Student Governing Board chairman Sakib Khan wrote in a statement the "whole discipline process is/was a show trial to avert a lawsuit by the Minutemen against the university."

"The thought of being suspended or expelled certainly crossed my mind," Tillet-Saks said. "I didn't think it was a likelihood. I understood that if that's what they thought was best for their PR they wouldn't have hesitated to do that."

The paper reported yesterday students given censures were Karina Garcia, chairwoman of the Latino outreach group Lucha; Lucha member Martin Lopez; and Cosette Olivo.

Garcia told the Daily Spectator the university had "brought shame on itself" with the disciplinary action.

"They bowed to right-wing pressure. It's noteworthy that Columbia reserved the harshest punishment for Latinos – two Mexican-Americans and one Dominican," she said.

'Workers of the world unite!'

Just before the Oct. 4 event, a group of protestors estimated by New York police to number around 200 assembled outside the meeting hall with placards and a loudspeaker to denounce Gilchrist and the Minutemen.

Slogans on the placards included, "Workers of the world unite! Same struggle, same fight!," and "Minutemen, Nazis, KKK! Racists, fascists, go away!"

About 20 protesters managed to momentarily take control of the stage during Gilchrist's speech, with loud shouts and fists thrust in anger. Security fought to restrain them and managed to rush Gilchrist backstage before he could be assaulted, according to Corsi

Corsi said the protestors were "angrier than I have seen before."

After taking over the stage, protesters unrolled a banner that read, in both Arabic and English, "No one is ever illegal."

According to the New York Sun, as security guards began escorting people from the auditorium, students jumped from the stage, pumping their fists, chanting victoriously, "Si se pudo, si se pudo," Spanish for "Yes we could!"

Protesters in the crowd harassed Stewart with shouts, and toward the end of his speech, some in the audience stood silently and turned their backs to him.

The Sun report said that when Stewart referred to the Declaration of Independence's self-evident truth that "All men are created equal," audience members called him a racist, a sellout and a black white supremacist.

One student's demand that Stewart speak in Spanish drew thundering applause and brought the protesters to their feet, the New York paper said. At that point, the protesters turned their backs to Stewart and drowned him out by chanting, "Wrap it up, wrap it up!"

Stewart appeared unfazed, however, and with a smile, said, "No wonder you don't know what you're talking about."

2007-03-29 05:07:13 · 17 answers · asked by NONAME 2

I am writing my senior thesis on the recently passed bill HR6061, and ultimately have to decide whether or not the United States should build a border wall between the US and Mexico. It was passed in the Senate with a vote of 96-3. I have read many studies and have a lot of statistics, but I want to know what the "average person" thinks. I am hoping to get the opinion of those around the country and around the world. Please let me know what you think and why. Thanks!

2007-03-29 04:30:01 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Being that the media and other groups have tried to blur the meaning of terms "illegal alien" and "immigrant". We need a term that really describes what the difference is between a criminal that is just here to take advantage of all the bleeding hearts willing to spend our tax dollars to subsidize their families, who by the way don't have any allegiance to our country and TRUE legal immigrants who went about becoming a citizen the proper way.

2007-03-29 04:06:36 · 7 answers · asked by PlanetofFools 1

is the current administration enhancing or eroding civi rights in ameria

2007-03-29 04:05:55 · 9 answers · asked by love_jade 1

Best anwer wins a pair of my moms old pants

2007-03-29 03:56:21 · 9 answers · asked by pigsblood 1

My expired passport was issued for short term 1 year in 2002 and expired in 2003. I am in India.

2007-03-28 22:16:50 · 11 answers · asked by last_desire 3

My expired passport was issued for short term 1 year in 2002 and expired in 2003.

2007-03-28 22:15:32 · 6 answers · asked by last_desire 3

I want to travel in Canada to visit my common law partner. I don't have a required amount in my account, but my sister will give me some money if my visa gets approved. Do you think it is fine?

2007-03-28 18:58:53 · 4 answers · asked by madonna 1

And what do the questions have to do with immigration?

2007-03-28 18:32:25 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous