Immigration - September 2007

It is well known that a person born in the United States is an automatic citizen regardless of the mother's citizenship status. However, the United States is unusual in its offer of citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil. Only a few European countries still grant automatic citizenship at birth. The United Kingdom and Australia repealed their U.S. style policy in the 1980s after witnessing abuses similar to those plaguing the U.S. today. Why does the United States continue to allow a practice subject to widespread fraud? The answer lies in how American jurisprudence has interpreted the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. The 14th Amendment was added to the Constitution as part of the post Civil War reforms aimed at addressing injustices to African Americans. It states that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States.
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2007-09-14 05:00:26 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

The ACLU filed a lawsuit to keep ICE from raiding workplaces to find Illegals.
Which I think would be the best place to look for them.?

If a federal judge goes along, ICE won't be able to look for Illegal Immigrates in the workplace!
Who funds the ACLU?
What are they doing defending the rights of people who are in this country illegally?
I know that they have done some good work in the past, but don't understand them on this issue?
Confused?

2007-09-14 04:38:31 · 19 answers · asked by Working Man 6

Personally I believe it never was intended to pass.If you read it you'll know why.I think it not passing was planned all along to further the NAU.Illegal immigrants are not the true motive for many things before Congress right now.But they are convienent as a buffer to get your focus off the true agenda of ALL parties.What do you think?

2007-09-14 04:13:07 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

can i apply the fiance visa if i just got back from england 2-3 months?? cos UK imm they says leave to enter with 6 months(that is for the traveler).so i m worry i have to wait more 6 months if i want to apply the fiance visa.
or fiance visa can apply anytime after you visited the england?i m actually want to visit my bf and we plan to get marrige less then 6 months time,and i want to visit him for just a 3 weeks between then,if i visit him now,did UK will stop me apply for the visa in 6 months and i need to wait more 6 months later for my fiance visa to UK?

2007-09-14 03:57:48 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

My girlfriend is a Polish citizen living in NYC on a work visa. We are travelling to Mexico on Tuesday for vacation. She is not sure of the required documentation for her to travel. She has a Polish passport. Anyone know what papers are needed? Thanks in advance.

2007-09-14 03:33:05 · 4 answers · asked by Mark C 3

Hope everyone is learning spanish.

I am seventh generation American but wonder about this.

2007-09-14 02:57:56 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hello,

I filed an I-130 petition for my sister, her husband and her daughter a few years ago. While waiting, my sister have another baby. How do I add this new born to the petition I already filed?

Thank you so much!

2007-09-14 02:39:29 · 7 answers · asked by mito4008 1

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., plans to offer an amendment to the five-year farm bill that could come to the floor in October that could legalize 1.5 million farm workers. The Congressional Budget Office estimated they would bring another 1.8 million relatives into the country with them.

Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., assured Feinstein of a vote on the so-called AgJobs measure, which she introduced earlier this year as a freestanding bill (S 340). "I will do everything I can to make sure it is part of the farm bill," Reid said.

2007-09-14 01:57:16 · 8 answers · asked by Naturescent 4

I read Gupta's question yesterday.
It was obviously a spoof and quite funny. Went back later to give a funny answer and it was gone.
When I first read it I noticed a very opinionated answer saying she was going to report it. Looks like she did. People like that need to grow up.

2007-09-14 01:53:34 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Legislation (S 774) labeled the DREAM Act would allow states to provide college benefits to illegal immigrants. This could be offered as an amendment to the fiscal 2008 Defense appropriations bill (HR 3222) later this month. The measure could benefit 1.3 million illegal immigrants.

2007-09-14 01:49:45 · 12 answers · asked by Naturescent 4

It's a big step to move to a new country. It takes drive and motivation and courage.
Immigrants are famous for building business on hard work and sacrifice, and yet so many people are against immigration.
Why is that?

2007-09-14 01:42:06 · 15 answers · asked by shara. 2

residence in Montreal, Quebec on federal level.So I am interested how long does it takes for us to receive visa for immigration?

2007-09-14 01:22:19 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Here's my situation. I am an American citizen. My 2 kids are both American citizens. My wife is an illegal alien. Now before all of you people who apparently have never broken a law in your lives start saying "illegal is illegal" hear me out. My wife was brought over by an uncle when she was only 15 yrs old. Now I don't know about others but I listened to my elders when I was 15. Should she be punished for being here illegally? If I were to send my 12 yr old into the store to steal something should 12yr old goto jail or me. Anyway We have been working on obtaining my wifes visa, green card, numbers ect. for along time now (5yrs and counting). Being a brown citizen (nationality unknown) I have never felt the hatered I have felt in the last 6 yrs. towards myself and my family. We are good people who work hard to provide for our kids. Now I have been told to send her back to mexico with the kids and carry myself as well. Does the American public really hate us that much?

2007-09-13 21:40:28 · 13 answers · asked by kleatherfoot 2

we are taking him to vegas in 2 weeks, we are hoping to find some girls who would be "sober" enough to just go through the Drive-Thru Wedding Chapel. so he can stay in US and file for an extension. he's 19 and on his student visa. Will it work? or is there a underground service in vegas, that girls would get married for money?

2007-09-13 18:10:15 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

They do jobs that american people won't do so why can't we just leave them alone??? With out them America would not be what we are today !!! READ THIS LINK AND YOU WILL SEE!!!!!!


http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/01/news/economy/immigration_economy/index.htm

2007-09-13 16:42:05 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous

i was born here in u.s as were my parents and grandparents , my greatgrandfather was born in anson tx, he helped build the courthouse there and was a corthouse interpetater his father i beleive was born in mexico his name was francisco miranda he was one of the greatest horseman of maybe 20 other mexicans whom fought under sequin in the little wars preceding the alamo he was mexican and im proud to be a mexican what didi others in that era do he also was issuied about 300 acres for his role

2007-09-13 16:20:24 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

You know how the big argument for keeping illegals are that they do the work average Americans wont do. However if the pay was fair (at least minimum wage, hazard pay, over time, ect) would you do the work they do?

Do you think some of the homeless and/or poor legal American citizens would do these jobs if the pay was fair as well?


I know when I was in high school I would done these jobs in a heartbeat. Fresh air, getting some sun, sweating, perfect for a growing teenager.

2007-09-13 16:20:12 · 14 answers · asked by John S 2

west white countries have small birth rates even when they are receiving millions of immigrants from africa, Asia, Latin America what keeps their population stable, east white countries have the smallest birth rates in the world. Does that means white race is dommed to extinction?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Birth_rate_figures_for_countries.PNG

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_rate

2007-09-13 16:14:10 · 25 answers · asked by Chespirito 2

When a U.S . Citizen marries a non U.S. citizen and they become legal residents without having to leave the country.
What do you think and why? I think that they should bring it back its a right to US citizens.

2007-09-13 14:30:18 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

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2007-09-13 14:12:04 · 18 answers · asked by iliana 1

Most Americans as myself that grew up in the sixties that were taught civics were imbued with the theory that the majority prevailed on any issue. Today Americans are preached to by president Bush that we do not have the right to close the border and deceide who is allowed into our country. We are chastised by the President of another country of our treatement of illegal aliens that are in our country. Why as a nation have we sunk to this low?

2007-09-13 13:25:29 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.lcsun-news.com/latest/ci_6884618

"LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Three illegal immigrants who used fake documents to try to get badges that would let them work on a construction job at Los Alamos National Laboratory have been turned over to federal immigrant agents.

Security officers were suspicious of documents presented to the lab's badge office Wednesday by the three men from Mexico, and faxed the documents to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Albuquerque.

ICE officials confirmed that the documents presented by the men were false. Lab security officers contacted local police, who escorted the trio off lab property and held them for immigration authorities.

Police said it's a federal offense to falsify identity to federal agencies."

What do you think?

2007-09-13 10:52:49 · 8 answers · asked by DAR 7

i long to adopt,i was thinking a young one from africa,how does the immigration situation be?

2007-09-13 10:44:10 · 16 answers · asked by monica a 2

2007-09-13 10:01:06 · 3 answers · asked by mik 1

Hi, I have a friend the USCIS alleged to have committed fraud in getting her greencard 5 years ago. She was under derivative from her US citizen mom.

The rule said, while the application is pending, she is to remain unmarried. She did. She only filed for marriage license when her boyfriend was ready for marriage, 2 months after her green card was approved.

Incidentally, she has 2 children while her application was pending but never legally married.

While staying in Indonesia, her ID card and family card were erroneously printed as married. She has obtained the record from the civil office in Indonesia stating that she has never been married.

Indonesia does not recognize common law marriage, nor California where she has been residing.

On the Notice to Appear for removal proceeding, it says that the allegation was that she claimed she was single, when in fact she was married. Does USCIS has legal grounds for the allegation? She is distressed.

2007-09-13 09:50:48 · 2 answers · asked by LLim 1

(in general) Most Mexican people you talk to about the debate on illegal immigration take a personal offense to this. It is not about hating Mexicans or any other illegal’s, it’s about money. I am a hard working, tax paying person that is just one little tick mark on the known and accounted for population of this country contributing smog, tax revenue, contributing to the economy, so I count as a driver on the road, or a student (if I had kids) in the public school system. Because of this, the government can estimate or have an idea of the overall strain on each of these services. Most people who take offense to this issue fail to understand that Americans really do not want to make this a race issue. They want everyone that is in this country to be a part of the Census so we are not faced with overcrowded roads, schools, housing, healthcare, etc. Is this really so wrong?

Anyone have an opinion on this?

2007-09-13 09:33:47 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA091307.03B.Voter_Fraud.2f71d87.html

"Authorities said they are anticipating charging some of the undocumented people alleged to have voted in Bexar County with felony violation of state law before they are turned over to immigration agents and likely deported.

As the federal portion of the investigation begun in late May winds down, Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed will determine how she'll proceed in the case of the 41 people who allegedly voted, some repeatedly, despite being non-citizens. "

What do you think?

2007-09-13 09:11:18 · 19 answers · asked by DAR 7

Do you think that the United States should increase legal immigration in a proportionate ratio to deportation?

2007-09-13 08:37:12 · 23 answers · asked by CHARITY G 7

I am a bounty hunter and 1 out of the past 100 people I have apprehended spoke english and are here illegally, when I bring them in as ordered they are released and back on the streets again, and we wonder why we have an immigration problem, here's the answer if they have an order to surrender kick them out of the US, our tax dollars are paying for these llegals and they have homes, not apartments, brand new cars and every person I have arrested has had at least 150 cash on them, this is b.s. and I want toknow what everyone thinks

2007-09-13 08:12:14 · 19 answers · asked by ME 1

Ok, on here I can see there are many people against illegal immigration. (I am against it as well) However, for some the arguement is always aimed at the Mexicans crossing the border into the US. And, that they can just walk across and they are in the States.

Well, when we mention the borders and building a fence no one mentions the Canadian border?

~Don't we have people crossing that border? - without the correct paperwork?
~Why aren't we annoyed at them too?
~Is there already a fence at this border?
~Or are the Canadians too smart to come here?

Having never been to either border the US/Mexican border OR the US/Canadian border I have no clue what the set up or situation of these borders looks like.


Polite answers please

2007-09-13 08:05:18 · 26 answers · asked by Mama~peapod 6