Immigration - September 2007

MOUNT HOLLY — A Pemberton Township man was in the country illegally and free on bail in another case when he wounded his ex-girlfriend and killed her boyfriend Saturday, a prosecutor said.

Jesus A. Avila, 22, a native of Mexico who now lives on Kinsley Road in Pemberton Township, shot Gilbert Parra and the 17-year-old girl outside a house on Washington Avenue in Burlington City, said James A. Ronca, deputy first assistant Burlington County prosecutor.

Ronca said Avila was in the United States illegally, but he did not know how long the suspect has been in the country.

Ronca said Avila killed Parra while free on $5,000 bail for creating a false public alarm. Ronca did not know the circumstances surrounding the charge, but state law says the charge can be filed against someone who initiates or circulates a false warning about a fire, a bomb or a similar emergency.

A judge yesterday kept Avila's bail at $1 million during the suspect's first court appearance since his arrest Saturday.

Avila was being held in Burlington County Jail on charges of murder, aggravated assault and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.
Ronca told Superior Court Judge Patricia Richmond LeBon that Avila has tattoos that identify him as a gang member. Ronca emphasized, however, that the killing was not related to gang activity.

After the hearing, Ronca said an argument that led to the shooting was prompted by Avila's harassment of the girl, whose name has not been released.

Police officers who responded to a 911 call of a shooting at about 3:10 a.m. found Parra lying outside the Burlington City house and the girl inside the house, prosecutors said.

Parra, 19, of Burlington City had been shot several times. He was flown by helicopter to Capital Health System's Fuld Campus in Trenton, where he was pronounced dead.

The girl was taken to Cooper University Hospital in Camden, where she treated for a gunshot wound to the ankle.

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/112-09052007-1402490.html

2007-09-05 16:21:33 · 8 answers · asked by ShoeShine 1

How can anyone Not feel sick at this?

U.S. Deports Parents of Dead Soldiers
By Domenico Maceri, New America Media. September 5, 2007.

Three years after U.S. Army Private Armando Soriano, 20, died fighting in Haditha, Iraq, his father is facing deportation. Soriano is now buried in Houston, Tex., his hometown, where his parents, undocumented workers from Mexico, are currently living.
Before his death Soriano had promised his parents he'd help them get green cards. He only succeeded partially before losing his life. Although his mother was able to obtain a green card, his father did not qualify and is on the verge of being deported.
Enrique Soriano, Armando's father, is not the only person to have lost a son or daughter in the Iraq war and face deportation. There are more than three million people born in the U.S. with parents who came into the country illegally. Those born in the U.S. are automatically citizens and have all the rights and duties enjoyed by Americans. That includes military service with the possibility of losing one's life.

2007-09-05 15:57:31 · 14 answers · asked by ♥ ~Sigy the Arctic Kitty~♥ 7

I've heard it is not difficult to get the Canadian cityzenship. If this is true, Where can I find the requirements or forms I may need to fill in? please help. I'm very interested

2007-09-05 15:42:58 · 12 answers · asked by pulpis 2

Whats your opinion on this? Should children be seperated from their parents because of their immigration status? The people on this show were hard working people..people who worked LEGALLY with a visa but because of a lawyers mistake or because simply immigration wanted to deny renewal these children were left alone..you have a six yr old girl who instead of playing with dolls, is learning about immigration laws and suffering a great pain...you have little kids whos lives depend on their 17 yr old sister whom instead of hanging out with friends and having fun is having to pay bills and make sure her siblings dont go hungry...how is this justified?? why treat someone like a criminal when theyve given there lives and sacrificed so much so that their children can live well??

2007-09-05 15:38:07 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

abandon the rule of law and accede to Mexico's inherent supremacy .In his state of the union address to the Mexican nation, Calderon said that Mexico does not stop at its border, that wherever there is a Mexican, there is Mexico.

What are your feelings on this statement?

2007-09-05 14:30:56 · 29 answers · asked by Grogan 5

ive noticed that everyone is saying beaner to them and stuff like that, mexico doesn't pay much because of the las stupid presidents that stole all the money, anyway why don't you like them? you don't like the legal/illegal ones? or the americans that have mexican roots? explain why you don't like them please

2007-09-05 14:01:17 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous

Seeing our government panders to big business what would be our governments reaction do you feel?

2007-09-05 13:44:24 · 9 answers · asked by Dog Tricks 4

2007-09-05 13:37:52 · 18 answers · asked by Vanessa 2

That is my question. I'll edit for comments

2007-09-05 13:32:37 · 17 answers · asked by Dog Tricks 4

How can America be Free more than anyother country in the world as I hear this country has freedom and is land of the free i want to know how. Also if it was Free why is it that when I tell people how it is in this country compared to my nativeland of Germany how it was when I was there they tell me "If you don't like it here why don't you go back to where you came from?" whats weird is all americans except the indians are immigrants just look at your ancestry so if I should go back where I came from then so should everyone else as even though they were born in the usa their ancestors wasn't. I'm not the only person that is getting told this go back where you came from like the guy who's profile is Laswap. My mom's friend gets told the same and she has been here since 30 yrs i think and when someone tells her to go back she tells them i would but don't get paid enough to go back since she has bills to pay of course. So How is this country Free tell me I want to finally know.

2007-09-05 13:24:20 · 12 answers · asked by Tom 3

Or have seen them working but have not called the local police or news to ask questions as to why nothing is done over it?

It is easy to sit back and complain about it, but, without action to do something about it, do we give up the right to complain?

2007-09-05 13:17:37 · 4 answers · asked by Common Sense 5

2007-09-05 13:15:36 · 7 answers · asked by Common Sense 5

or any other 3rd world nation, was required to pay the same wages as where they was located before. Do you think that would move there? And if they did, and actually paid the wages, would it effect the immagration problem?

2007-09-05 13:13:56 · 9 answers · asked by Common Sense 5

The governments which encourage it?
All governments encourage it you do realize.Ours is as much to blame as any other.Especially where Mexico is concerned.So do you hate the players or do you hate the game makers?

Personally the game makers I detest.The people of our countries are just pawns in a major marketing game.

2007-09-05 12:29:25 · 19 answers · asked by Dog Tricks 4

Please note I am referring to ILLEGAL immigration, not immigration in a regulated and law-abiding fashion.

2007-09-05 12:15:31 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

No more illegally entering the US while pregnant, dropping anchor and living the life of Riley ever after.

2007-09-05 12:09:45 · 12 answers · asked by kristycordeaux 5

2007-09-05 11:52:00 · 3 answers · asked by shaan 1

against our government for putting us threw high taxes? and turning our country into a 3rd world? i don't want my kids suffering in 20 years because our government refused to close our borders.

2007-09-05 11:32:52 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

can a naturalized us citizen be considered an american?

2007-09-05 11:23:44 · 7 answers · asked by some person 1

I just moved to Norway. I do not have a work or residence permit, but i intend to marry a Norwegian native. I would like to know if i automatically become a norwegian citizen as soon as i marry him, and i would like to know where i can research the rights i will inherit after doing so,,,Thank you so much for your time and help...

2007-09-05 10:53:18 · 5 answers · asked by Paulann 2

Ok I'm done skirting around this issue for fear of my question being deleted or offending someone and getting a violation.So here's the scoop..Take it or leave it.

Our government in either party doesn't want to solve this issue either by "amnesty" or "deporting". If they seriously did YOU wouldn't have stopped amnesty.YOU wouldn't stop deportations.It's all up to them in the end.The bill that failed was suppose to fail.It had things added they knew people on the other sides wouldn't agree with.It's called cheap labor and laugh at us the citizens and laugh at the illegal immigrants who are all taking heat for our governments(both) GREED.The NAU is coming so unless you want borders erased and our liberties taken wake up.Maybe it's time we pulled together instead of apart on this issue and realize just what they're doing here and stop it before it's too late.Or they'll just continue the comedy and laugh at how gullible we are.

So...Do you think we're being played for fools?
I do

2007-09-05 10:45:47 · 14 answers · asked by Dog Tricks 4

U know it ! I know it ! it's full of illegals....don't they know this???

2007-09-05 10:12:24 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Let me know if you would or not folks. If you were getting deported, would you do it and do you know anyone who has? If so, tell me what the results were good or bad. What's the process of marrying anyway? Is there an interview that has to be taken?

2007-09-05 10:06:32 · 9 answers · asked by Go Broncos! 1

That would let us put Federal Troops along the border as they came back from Iraq.
It would also make it very dangerous for illegal aliens trying to sneak in as they could be shot on sight.
I think the time has come.
Also, we need to increase greatly the number of ICE Officers in the country!
There are only 2,200!
We really need 100,000 for an effective internal enforcement.
We need to start s$#%hammering our Congressmen and Senators about this!
What do you think?

2007-09-05 10:04:50 · 8 answers · asked by tom p 3

The government last week released its annual statistical report on poverty and household income. As usual, we -- meaning the public, the media and politicians -- missed a big part of the story. It is this: The stubborn persistence of poverty, at least as measured by the government, is increasingly a problem associated with immigration. As more poor Hispanics enter the country, poverty goes up. This is not complicated, but it is widely ignored.

The standard story is that poverty is stuck; superficially, the statistics support that. The poverty rate measures the share of Americans below the official poverty line, which in 2006 was $20,614 for a four-person household. Last year, the poverty rate was 12.3 percent, down slightly from 12.6 percent in 2005 but higher than the recent low, 11.3 percent in 2000. It was also higher than the 11.8 percent average for the 1970s. So the conventional wisdom seems amply corroborated.

It isn't. Look again at the numbers. In 2006, there were 36.5 million people in poverty. That's the figure that translates into the 12.3 percent poverty rate. In 1990, the population was smaller, and there were 33.6 million people in poverty, a rate of 13.5 percent. The increase from 1990 to 2006 was 2.9 million people (36.5 million minus 33.6 million). Hispanics accounted for all of the gain.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/04/AR2007090401623.html?hpid=opinionsbox1


You have to be blind not to see this and to compound the problem, these immigrants will remain in poverty for generations. Hispanic girls are surpassing every other ethnic group in teenage and unwed pregnancy!!! They by and large do not take advantage of the education opportunities once here which means a high drop out rate. So once they get here, they remain illiterate and then have tons of kids, which by the way are AMERICAN CITIZENS.

2007-09-05 09:57:28 · 11 answers · asked by Untied States Of Latina 2

I live in a border state,NM. There are alot of illegals here, and i personally know alot of them. (i used to work at a roofing company). What i want to know is how do so many of them just drive across the border, i mean i see sooooo many mexican license plates all over, I dont understand this. and yes i know most of them are illegal. So this obviously means they are not just sneaking across the border.

2007-09-05 09:55:40 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm a US Citizen, married for three years now and we have a two year. Just found out the she was not legally a citizen of the US. Her parents moved here when she was 16 and their visa expired two years after they moved here. Now what can happen to my wife and can I get in trouble?

2007-09-05 09:55:27 · 13 answers · asked by kbosmor 1

IF you were smart enough you would figure out by now that this country needs cheap labor...and a labor source.. as you can tell our 'legal' americans of the US aren't filling these jobs up.. IF THEY HAD DONE THAT ABOUT 50 YEARS AGO.. ILLEGALS WOULD HAVE NOT COME HERE TO FILL EMPTY JOBS UP!..



by the way..this immigration issue is just about the right for a group of people to be able to continue to work.. they aren't asking for money....or are they>? if they are tell me who. now those aren't illegal.

2007-09-05 09:39:54 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

A woman accused of stabbing a Border Patrol agent in the leg is in custody Tuesday, 10News reported.

The agent was taken to Grossmont Hospital, according to Border Patrol officials.

The agent was stabbed in the thigh while attempting to stop a suspected drug runner Tuesday in Campo, according to Border Patrol officials. The driver of the vehicle ran away, but the female passenger stabbed the agent as he tried to arrest her, officials said.

The agent's injuries are not life-threatening, officials said.

More than 180 pounds of marijuana was found inside of the car, according to Border Patrol officials. http://www.10news.com/news/14045410/detail.html
Border Patrol spots Perla Cedillo, the 1st Princess in the Miss National City Pageant, driving into and out of Border State Park in Imperial Beach last Sunday. BP figures this is a little strange. The Princess drives over by the bathrooms where three men jump out of the bushes. She gets out, opens the trunk of her car and two men climb in. The third sits up front with her and off she goes. BP does the stop routine. She claims USA citizenship and can prove it . . . the others are Mexican Nationals (read: illegals)," says Jimmy Valentine with the Roger Hedgecock show. "The Sanctuary City Princess was arraigned…charges are violation of 8 USC 1324 - Alien Smuggling. The three illegals are being held as material witnesses . . . we’re told that they made some remarks that are not helpful to the Sanctuary Princess . . . we surmise the comments might have had to do with her soliciting them to be transported for money. Just another Princess doing the work that Americans won’t do."
http://www.steinreport.com/archives/2007_09_05.html#010736

2007-09-05 09:25:27 · 12 answers · asked by Untied States Of Latina 2

My fiancee overstayed his Visa and we currently cannot get married in the state we reside because it is expired, we cannot even get his name added to the birth certificate for our daughter. We have begun talking to a lawyer and have tried looking into doing things here, but if it's impossiable for us to get married here, we are thinking about going to his country and trying to do it from his country. This is causing an emmense strain between the two of us because of the worrying of keeping our family together. If anyone can help I thank you in advance.

2007-09-05 09:08:37 · 10 answers · asked by Lil mama 2