Immigration - September 2007

The American taxpayer has kids to send to college, buy expensive health insurance and pay exorbitant property taxes and the middle class finds itself squeezed each year. The illegal mexican get free schooling, free medical and does not pay high property taxes. The money comes out of our pockets and is not grown on the tree by the federal government. Americans must rise up and stop this unjust system.

2007-09-24 12:38:57 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

What is it about?Whats its status? Is it possible to come to effect? How does it look so far?

2007-09-24 11:00:45 · 7 answers · asked by Josue M 1

My dad is a Canadian Citizen who immigrated here 5 years ago. He is 68, married and has no income. Presently he doesn't get any monies from the government. Is he entitled to OAS or any government pension program. If yes, what steps do I have to take and who can I reach to help me?

2007-09-24 10:51:15 · 1 answers · asked by genome76 1

If this is to long skip it.
Immigration hawks have been on a winning streak lately. An unprecedented surge of public outrage at the prospect of amnesty for illegal immigrants led to the defeat in June of the Senate immigration bill and the probable end of President Bush's dream for comprehensive immigration reform. And that was merely the latest in a series of victories for supporters of tighter controls, including the Real ID Act of 2005, the Secure Fence Act of 2006, proliferating enforcement efforts at the state and local levels and a new package of modest but meaningful enforcement measures announced last month by the Department of Homeland Security.

What of the results? Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told The Times that "there will be some unhappy consequences for the economy out of doing this." While the enforcement climate is still too new to show results in government data one way or the other, Chertoff's prediction doesn't appear to be playing out. On the contrary, there is extensive anecdotal evidence that enforcement is actually having its desired effects: More illegal aliens are going home, leading to improved conditions for American workers and communities.

The first consequence of stepped-up enforcement is attrition of the illegal population -- a steady decrease in the total number of illegal aliens as more people give up and go home. Attrition is the real alternative to amnesty, and we're seeing it work.

The Arizona Republic ran a story last month explaining how migrants were leaving the state in anticipation of tough new immigration rules. Public radio station WBUR in Boston reported that "in the midst of the debate about immigrants coming to America, something unusual is happening in Massachusetts: Brazilian immigrants are quietly packing up and leaving." And the Chicago Tribune, reporting on the Pennsylvania town at the forefront of the resistance to illegal immigration, has written that "over the summer, when Hazleton officials created the nation's first ordinance aimed at driving away undocumented residents, thousands of people apparently packed up and left."

Far from having "unhappy consequences," these developments are improving the economic bargaining power of less-skilled American workers. The Rocky Mountain News reported that in Greeley, Colo., "the line of applicants hoping to fill jobs vacated by undocumented workers taken away by immigration agents at the Swift & Co. meat-processing plant . . . was out the door." New England Cable News reported that only after a raid on a plant making leather goods for the military in New Bedford, Mass., were Americans and legal immigrants able to get hired. As one new employee said of the raid: "In a way, you know, it's sad, and then in a way it's good because at least it gives people that were not employed for so many years . . . a break to be able to work and support their families."

When illegal aliens were removed from a Crider Poultry plant in Stillmore, Ga., the Atlanta Journal Constitution and the Wall Street Journal documented the benefits to local workers. The plant raised wages significantly, began offering free shuttles from nearby towns and provided free rooms in a company-owned dormitory. For the first time, Crider sought applicants from the state unemployment office and began hiring probationers and men from a local homeless mission. And, as the Journal noted, "for the first time since significant numbers of Latinos began arriving in Stillmore in the late 1990s, the plant's processing lines were made up predominantly of African Americans."

Better enforcement doesn't result only in economic improvements. While there is an ongoing scholarly debate about the overall crime rates of immigrants versus the native-born, there's no doubt that tougher enforcement has had a notable effect on gang activity. In an upcoming study, my Center for Immigration Studies reports that using immigration law against gangs has helped bring about a 39% drop in gang activity in the Washington suburb of Fairfax County, and Dallas police report a 20% drop in the murder rate as a result of the same initiative.



Of course, the consequence of uncontrolled immigration that most ordinary Americans see is what political scientist Peter Skerry calls "social disorder." Hazleton offers a good example: While cleaning graffiti from her building, a local locksmith told the Tribune that "about the same time the ordinance passed, the whole tone of the street changed. Virtually overnight, it was a totally different place."

As recent enforcement victories are sustained and expanded, we can begin to document the benefits in other areas: less stress on hospital emergency rooms, less-crowded classrooms, slower growth in government social spending. But the results we've seen so far are clear: We can get illegal aliens to return home, and doing so will improve conditions in American communities. Why didn't we start doing this a long time ago?

Mark Krikorian is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that supports tighter controls on immigration.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-krikorian24sep24,0,6872271.story?coll=la-opinion-center

2007-09-24 10:27:19 · 4 answers · asked by Untied States Of Latina 2

a new naturalized citizen is if a person moved to the US from another country and is turn into a citizen by doing tests.

heres the definition: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/naturalized

what would you give a naturalized citizen?
a flag?whats else?

2007-09-24 10:15:19 · 14 answers · asked by Flying Ninja 3

Did you see how the students applauded the Iranian president? There were a few "boos" here and there but most of the students seemed star struck to be in the same room with their fellow Bush-hater.

Last year when the minutemen were on stage, the students stormed the stage at Columbia University's Roone auditorium, knocking over chairs and tables and attacking Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minutemen. Here's a video as a reminder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfnn7wTgoE8

I do not like Bush either but I would never applaud for Ahmadinejad. I want Columbia to invite the Minutemen again. They did not even get a chance to speak last time. The Minutemen are the true heroes who deserve our applause.

2007-09-24 10:11:45 · 21 answers · asked by GoYankees&Giants! 5

Is it a myth or reality?

Do you really believe that an American or English employer would employ an immigrant over a fellow coutrymen?

Come on, get real. All statistics prove that with equal qualifications, no employers would employ an immigrant over a national citizen.
The fact is that immigrants are only employed if they are extremely well qualified or if national citizens don't want to do the job. Unemployment is down to underachievement or laziness.

How do you explain the fact that immigrants can find jobs in less than a month of their arrival and that normal citizens are suffering unemployment? Jobs are available out there for anybody who wants one!

A little fact for the sceptic: unemployment has gone down in the Uk, even after it opened its borders to eastern european countries who
"flooded" the country.

What do you think?

(... I can hear heads exploding ... the truth must hurt)

2007-09-24 09:59:28 · 31 answers · asked by gumtrunk 2

Is there a website one can go to and see if a certain social security number is valid?
BTW, I don't want to be reading any hate response against undocumented immigrants, so don't waste my time....thanks.

2007-09-24 09:49:31 · 13 answers · asked by M. E 2

I'd like to know, from those of you who have legally immigrated and naturalized, how you feel about the immigration problems in the U.S.? Do you have empathy for illegal aliens, or does it upset you?

I'm looking for serious, honest opinions. Thanks in advance for your respectul answers.

2007-09-24 09:36:38 · 3 answers · asked by steddy voter 6

A couple of days ago I met a couple of foreign students here in sunny South Africa. Amongst them were some Americans. We started chatting and asked each other a few questions. We asked each other about music, movies etc. such as who knows Roxette? Who knows anything about cricket, rugby and soccer? We started talking about nutrition and the protein content of eggs. The one American guy studying chemical engineering had such a big mouth and told us that the yellow of eggs contain the most protein! None of the Americans knew who Roxette is and they knew almost nothing about any of the above mentioned sports!

Myself and the other foreigners then resalised that Americans know very little of anything non-American and enough about America to survive in it. By the way, the rest of us had a fairly decent knowledge of each others countries including America.

So, why does bush and many Americans criticise others and jump to conclusions about everyone when their perspectives are almost 0?

2007-09-24 09:03:38 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Since most illegal aliens are not criminals and only want a better life, we should probably help them out. Personally, I have a guest bedroom in my house that usually goes unused. Should I leave the window to that room unlocked so illegal aliens and sneak in and have a cozy place to sleep for the night? They're not criminals, so I won't have to worry about them stealing anything... right?

2007-09-24 08:30:33 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2007/09/22/it-sounds-reasonable-to-deport-criminals-why-the-us-doesnt.html

2007-09-24 08:20:12 · 20 answers · asked by DAR 7

Many schools these days have classes in Spanish, to accommodate the children of parents that can’t be bothered to learn the language or integrate into American society, and there are laws requiring any school with a certain percentage of foreign students to tech classes in native tongues, yet when the local school district in my area started teaching classes in Polish to accommodate a large Polish population, the parents of those students insisted that their children learn in English.
Why can’t certain “other” people try to melt into the pot with the rest of the people in this great country?

2007-09-24 08:12:08 · 14 answers · asked by rayb1214 7

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0924erfle-ONL.html

When will we get serious and start enforcing the laws on the books?

2007-09-24 07:50:47 · 9 answers · asked by chuck_junior 7

The U.S. has all these immigrants coming from different countries, both legally and ilegally, and I'm just wondering why America? I mean i think it's a great thing that they choose this country because it gives the U.S. culture and diversity, and it also helps the immigrants have better lives, but I'm just curious why not Canada, or Sweden, or Japan? I need a detailed explaination for school. Or you can just tell me what you think. Thanks!

2007-09-24 07:49:46 · 11 answers · asked by yoshi 1

Two former U.S. Border Patrol agents sentenced to lengthy prison terms for shooting a drug-smuggling suspect have asked a federal appeals court to overturn their convictions, saying they were charged with a nonexistent crime and convicted after the jury was given improper instructions by the trial judge.



Houston defense lawyer J. Mark Brewer said two counts of a grand jury indictment against former agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean charged them under a federal statute with the discharge of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, but the statute does not define a crime and contains only a sentencing factor to be addressed after conviction.



Mr. Brewer said in a 20-page motion that the "improperly-crafted indictment" misfocused the agents, counsel and jury on a nonexistent crime of unlawful discharge of a firearm, because the agents were authorized to possess, carry and use a firearm in the normal course of their job.



He said that in order to charge a crime under the government's 10-year mandatory sentence statute, an indictment "must allege that a defendant either has used or carried a firearm ... during and in relation to any crime of violence or has possessed a firearm in furtherance of such a crime." He said the prosecution "misstated" the crime defined by federal statute.



Mr. Brewer said the district court "erroneously told the jury the federal statute made it a crime for anyone to discharge a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence."



A ruling in the case is expected next month."This is an outrageous case of prosecutorial abuse," said Paul Kamenar, senior executive counsel for the Washington Legal Foundation, a watchdog group among eight organizations and persons who have filed briefs in support of the agents. "Instead of prosecuting the drug smuggler, the Justice Department filed a dozen felony charges against two agents trying to do their job."



The pending appeal is being heard by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans and seeks to overturn 11- and 12-year prison terms Ramos and Compean received, respectively, after they shot Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila in the buttocks when he abandoned a van containing 743 pounds of marijuana and fled back into Mexico.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070924/NATION/109240047/1002

2007-09-24 07:09:21 · 11 answers · asked by Untied States Of Latina 2

Would our views of illegal immigration be different?
If so, please explain.

2007-09-24 06:50:45 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

English is all I know, don't other county need to learn our language before they come here i say atleast 8th grade english to get a license! or health care! our nation doesn't need to support the world they should look to Mid-east for asstance!! or is it because we are "Such a Great nation?" so learn english to be able to read the constition!! before becoming a citizen 4th generation American!!!

2007-09-24 06:48:32 · 9 answers · asked by ? 7

The Senate will take up a farm bill in October that in part will look to grant legal status to over 1.5 million agricultural workers. Feinstein, architect of the bill, has strongly voiced her opinion on the shortage of farm workers and feels nothing else can be done to rectify the scarcity except by providing a path to citizenship for undocumented farm workers.

Feinstein is confident that she has more than 60 Democrat and Repub-licans votes and the bill has extensive support in the House too.

Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, opposed to the Feinstein bill he calls amnesty, is suggesting a program that would allow foreign workers to stay in the country for 10 months, but then they must return and re-apply for another temporary work cycle.

Don't let this one slide through quietly after the Dream Act is voted down.

2007-09-24 06:26:42 · 15 answers · asked by Lori K 7

Does anyone else feel that there are to many immigrants entering the UK. What do you think.?

2007-09-24 05:54:18 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Pro or Con, have you contacted your Senators to let your opinion be known?

2007-09-24 05:39:26 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-24 04:58:56 · 9 answers · asked by Orange County is great! 2

2007-09-24 04:53:49 · 12 answers · asked by dear1791 1

How would react to someone who seems entirely justified in commiting this kind of identity theft?

2007-09-24 04:50:49 · 26 answers · asked by Lori K 7

Why do we have such a problem with illegal immigration? Why would minorities or poor people from countries like Mexico want to risk their lives to come here just to face more discrimination and oppression?

Why would anybody bother to come here to live if the United States is as bad as the ant-American crowd makes it out to be? If you believe the mantra of many left leaning liberals/socialists, the United States is a racist, intolerant country where the rich and powerful take advantage of downtrodden minorities and poor people. According to them, there's mostly only justice for wealthy white people. People become successful not by hard work and education, but by cheating and taking advantage of those weaker than themselves.

I know this country is far from perfect, but to listen to many of the liberal extremists, the United States must be a horrible place to live. But apparently immigrants, both legal and illegal, must not be paying any attention to them.

2007-09-24 04:38:20 · 11 answers · asked by susandiane311 5

What are some of your opinions on this subject. Should we allow the illegals here to stay or should we possibly cap the amount of people coming legally.

What is your opinion on what this does to our country/government?

2007-09-24 04:36:46 · 12 answers · asked by Carrie 2

What do you think of this?
Fair? not fair?

well there is nothing you can do anyways, unless you elect another governator.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57771

oh well may be we will see a bunch of mexicans on the next terrorist attack.

But I dont think this will ever happen becuase mexicans are so lazy (< information taken from racist) that they are just going to sit back and wait until al qaeda makes another one.

2007-09-24 04:33:54 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Also,isn't it against the law?

I would think it's a very strange situation to say the least.How does this work anyone know?

http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-msgr&p=mail%20order%20women

2007-09-24 04:11:26 · 11 answers · asked by Dog Tricks 4

My asylum was denied at the appeal level,but i have appealed to the higher courts of appeal.Its usually a very long time to wait for a decision,could be a year and more.Ive got an english boyfriend who is willing to get on an invitation if i returned voluntarily.He satands as my sponsor and a company is offering me a job but i need to go to africa and get a visa.My boyfriend is willing to put in writing that he will take care of me,shelter and everything,and to support myself,i have had a job offer with a sales company.Unfortunately my boyfriend cant sign a marriage contract with me.I will have to let my country embassy no dat i sort asylum and want to go back to uk on de above grounds.any chances of getting a visa?banck statement given by my boyfriend.

2007-09-24 04:03:05 · 3 answers · asked by lolo 1

I prefer one way ticket then i can leave USA whenever I want in those three months

2007-09-24 03:38:32 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous