Rubashkin Gets Arrested
The CEO of Agriprocessors finally got hauled into court for immigration violations. Its interesting, it looks like most of the charges stem from activities after the raid. It looks like he assisted in getting the new employees fake documents, and even rehired some of the terminated people with new fake documents. This comes ont he [...]
What a Great Idea
What a great idea! Let’s stimulate the economy by encouraging more people to come here and deposit funds into, and buy property in,the US. The US currently grants green cards for investors but the amount is between 500K and 1MM, and all the funds must go into the venture. In an opinion piece that ran [...]
Check Out Fox Chicago Tonight
They are doing a story on non-citizens voting. I hope they show how it can happen by mistake. Jeff Goldblatt is great, I hope he shows how people like me can get crossed up by the Secretary of State when I got a drivers license, and the idiots in the polling places.
Mayor Bloomberg Saves the US
Mayor Bloomberg wrote an awesome letter to the next president. It really hits home. I am inseritng the section on Immigration. Please listen people!
Immigration
Pioneering green energy—and countless other new technologies—requires the best and brightest minds. Unfortunately, our broken immigration system has been shutting too many of them out. In many cases, brilliant young students come [...]
Bolante goes Home
I have never been so aghast at our government. They have been colluding with Philippine officials for over two years and now they leak Jocelyn Bolante’s travel information resulting in a media circus. I can not believe that after denying him rights for so long they now have him sitting on a plane with members [...]
ICE is Repugnant
I can’t believe it. They have managed to get even worse. I already knew they had no respect for individuals and their rights. Today I learned that they have no care for human life. I guess I should not be that surprised since we have already seen ICE deny medical treatment to people and allow [...]
Dear Supreme Court – Please!
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case where someone used a social security number that turned out to belong to someone else. The question is whether you need to know the particular SSN belonged to someone specific. Some of the jurisdictions have said you need to know in order to be punished by [...]
War on Immigrants
Well thank goodnbess for the NY Times. At least someone out there (besides me) has noticed that the candidates for president have skipped the issue of immigration. In an editorial this morning they reminded us that these ridiculous raids are what we can all expect if someone does not start to talk about what needs [...]
Visa Waiver Program Expansion
Expansion of the Visa Waiver Program! South Korea, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, and Slovakia, all will now enjoy visa-free travel to the United States beginning about one month from now. Hurray for what looks like easing of access to the US.
A Little Good News
So while we can not get the candidates to talk about immigration (the only time the word cameup in the debate was by McCain talking about Obama’s ads), there has been some small good news. First the TN visa has been extended from one year to three years. Second, the EB-5 pilot program was extended [...]
Let’s Debate!
I know tonight is the third and final debate, and I am hoping that somehow immigration comes up. Everyone keeps saying the candidates agree on the topic so that there is nothing to talk about, but that is just so untrue. Obama has talked about driver’s licenses for everyone, he implied he might extend immigration [...]
Priest expresses frustration that lingers months after Postville, Iowa Raid
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/15/postville.priest/index.html
US should take some lessons from Canada!
I am so frustrated with how backwards the current US Immigration system is. Workers are needed in so many categories and so often its just impossible to get to the US or stay in the US. But then you see the programs that Alberta, Canada is running, and you can’t help but wonder how they [...]
More Raids? Really? Really?
Are you kidding me? I feel like SNL should do a skit on this its so ridiculous. After watching what they did to the Federal Government and AIG last night on the Thursday night special, I think they need to get on someone about these raids. The Stock Market is collapsing. Congress is pretending to [...]
Mortgage Crisis not Out of Status Immigrants Fault
Can you believe that this has been a regular statement of people in the US? This was argued again recently. I am so glad that this is being debunked all over the place. We need to stand up and remind everyone that we are a country of immigrants. We are the back bone of this [...]
Who cares about Immigration?
So I watched another silly debate last night, and its just more of the same even when its different. Puffery from an old guy who calls everyone names and new ideas that could cost us a fortune from the new guy. The vetted questions made it seem like people only care about the economy, but [...]
Right to Attorneys & Good Advice
The Attorney General is reviewing the rights of immigrants to effective assistance of counsel. The right and protection that it affords is much needed, since courts have gone so far as to say that in some cases as an immigrant, even if you get bad advice and follow it, you may not have a right [...]
More Ill Advised Raids and Arrests
For some reason this country’s immigration policy keeps pushing senseless enforcement. Last week they announced over 1100 people arrested in California as part of a 3 week crack down. Before that it was a plant in Mississippi, and before that it was a plant in Iowa. Each of these crackdowns has been described as the largest in [...]
How come no one says anything about Immigration?
I watched another debate last night, and still not one word about Immigration, reform, policy, enforcement. How can something that was such an important issue be gone? No one in Congress seeems to do anything for the professions that need workers, like nursing, or trucking. What about the fact that Microsoft is moving jobs to [...]
Sad State of Politics
Its sad when what happened last night is considered a debate. Now more then ever I miss Tim Russert. To watch what is supposed to be the future of leadership in this country stand and deliver without sdaying anything. I think its time to drop the charade and move to a
