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15 Surprising Facts About Immigration

longknife — Sat, 18 May 2013 19:20:47 GMT

Immigration is a hot-button issue @ 15 Surprising Facts About Immigration

Each of the pictures have links to FACTS

How are there so many?

HumanBeing — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:01:49 GMT

From watching American TV (and listening to Americans complain), I was under the impression that it must be pretty easy to immigrate there, especially for an Englishman such as myself.

Turns out, it's virtually impossible. The only way I will ever legally be allowed to live in the US is if I marry an American (highly unlikely), or apply for an EB-5 visa which would involve getting into more business, when my reason for going there is to get out of business and into just living life.

How is it that there are so many foreigners living there? Am I doing it wrong? All I want to do is buy something like 50-100 acres somewhere isolated, hire a farmer or something for a year or two to teach me the ropes, and get on with living my life. I wouldn't be a burden to your nation. I could pay for the property up front in either precious metals or US dollars, I would take good care of the land, and I'd be careful not to disturb anyone.

What's so bad about me compared with the millions upon millions of people who seem to have managed to find a way in? Your whole nation was founded by immigrants, is there really no room for one more?

Living On The Border, Driven � Literally � Underground

JackFrost — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:43:59 GMT

Living On The Border, Driven

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After living underground in the United States � figuratively speaking � some undocumented immigrants deported to the Mexican border city of Tijuana are living in holes. These migrants have dug bunkers along Tijuana's sewage canal to protect themselves from police who routinely burn down their makeshift homes.

The Tijuana River is lined in concrete and cuts through the city for miles, draining sewage and runoff. Human feces litters the banks, trash swirls around in sudsy eddies and a dead dog occasionally floats by. It is estimated that between 1,000 to 3,000 people live along the river, many of them deported from the United States, like Abimael Martinez.

Martinez stands over a hole he dug; this is where he lives. The riverbed hasn't always been home. Martinez owned an auto body shop in Riverside, Calif., for eight years. He went to church, had a girlfriend and was like a dad to her kids. But two years ago, he was deported for driving without a license.

So he's homeless in the Tijuana canal and has fallen into the cross hairs of the police. The authorities think deportees are vagrants and criminals, and sweep through the river canal to flush them out.

"A policeman took my backpack and threw it in a fire when they came and burnt our stuff," he says through a translator.

After that, Martinez began to bury his belongings for safekeeping. That worked well, so he made himself a hole to live in. Martinez has reinforced the walls with wood that he collected at building demolition sites around the city. He brags that a police truck rolled over a few days ago and it didn't cave in.

Inside, there's no room to stand up. The space is about as big as two refrigerators laid side by side.

Martinez made a lid for his hole from a Styrofoam cooler. When the police come, he pulls it over the entrance. It lies flush with the riverbed and looks like just another piece of trash.

The U.S. government has returned hundreds of thousands of people from the U.S. to Tijuana since 2009. That includes a combination of people formally deported and those caught and returned the same day. In fact, more people have been removed to Tijuana than to any other Mexican border city.

Illegal-Immigration is an effect caused by bad laws and corrupt-government.

U.S./Mexico corporations & government profiting from deals like NAFTA, War on Drugs, etc. while the middle class and the poor suffer.

The middle/working class of Mexico and the United States need to stand on a united front against the elites of our countries, abusing Corporate handouts at the taxpayers expense and the monopolization of the drug war. By doing so, we will solve the problem of illegal-immigration.

Court Rules Against German Homeschool Family Seeking Asylum

American — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:53:42 GMT

Court Rules Against German Homeschool Family Seeking Asylum - Todd Starnes - Page 1

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The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Obama Administration�s decision to deny asylum to a German homeschooling family.

The Romeike family fled their German homeland in 2008 seeking political asylum in the United States � where they hoped to home school their children. Instead, the Obama administration wants the evangelical Christian family deported.

An Immigration judge granted them asylum in 2010 after the family revealed they were facing criminal prosecution for homeschooling their children. That decision was later overturned by the Board of Immigration Appeals in 2012.

The court ruled today that the Romeikes had not made a sufficient case and that the United States has not opened its doors to every victim of unfair treatment.

Home Schooling German Family Fights Deportation - ABC News

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement challenged the decision to grant the Romeikes asylum to the Board of Immigration Appeals in 2012, claiming that Germany's stringent policy against homeschooling did not constitute persecution.

The board overturned the initial asylum decision, arguing that homeschoolers are not a particular social group because they don't meet certain legal standards, The board said that the home-schooled population is too vague and amorphous to constitute a social group.

German Family Seeking Asylum to Continue Homeschooling Kids in US Fights Deportation | Fox News Insider

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The DOJ is arguing that homeschooling is not a protected right and that parents who do so are not a protected group.

Amnesty for illegals from Mexico (potential Democrat voters) is no problem, but asylum for Christians from Germany (potential Republican voters) is denied. Home schoolers are not a protected group, but illegal aliens are.....makes perfect sense. :doh And while we're at it, let's forget about why the Pilgrims (and many others) came to America in the first place, and take a dump on the 1st Amendment. Yep, no political or social justice agenda here, just move along folks......nothing to see. :roll:

I want to remind everybody of what the Statue of Liberty says, I forgot.

sbrettt — Wed, 15 May 2013 01:19:33 GMT

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

USC study: 1 in 10 L.A. County residents in U.S. illegally

jamesrage — Fri, 10 May 2013 01:30:11 GMT

I knew L.A. was infested with illegals but I didn't know it was this bad.

USC study: 1 in 10 L.A. County residents is in U.S. illegally - latimes.com
USC study: 1 in 10 L.A. County residents in U.S. illegally

One in 10 Los Angeles County residents is an immigrant living in the country illegally, according to a study released Tuesday by the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration.

Many of those immigrants have been in the country for more than a decade and are the parents of children who are American citizens, the study found. One in five children in Los Angeles County has at least one parent who is in the country without proper documentation.

One in four of the estimated 11 million people said to be in the United States without legal authorization lives in California. Statewide, the study estimates that about 7% of residents, or more than 2.6 million people, are in the country illegally.
That means the stakes for California are particularly high as Congress debates immigration reform, including the possibility of a mass legalization.

�The share of children with at least one undocumented parent really speaks to the interwoven generations,� said Manuel Pastor, the USC center�s director and a coauthor of the study. �Another thing that�s striking to me is the length of settlement of the undocumented population. Rather than the person who stands in front of Home Depot who just got here a year ago, it�s actually a more settled population.�

In Los Angeles County, 63% of unauthorized immigrants are from Mexico and 22% from Central America, according to the study. Eight percent are from the Philippines, Korea or China.

Workers Claim Race Bias as Farms Rely on Immigrants

jamesrage — Tue, 07 May 2013 14:21:51 GMT

Hopefully these workers win their lawsuit.Companies should not be allowed to use foreign workers to artificially keep wages and working conditions lows.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/us...it_th_20130507
To which J. Larry Stine, an Atlanta lawyer for Stanley Farms and other big farms, replied: �The farmers are not racist or against Americans. They have crops to be picked, and they see that domestics just don�t have their hearts in it.�

Jim Knoepp of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit group that has campaigned against the guest worker program, said that farm work, like other difficult labor, could be made attractive to Americans at reasonable cost, and that farmers should not be excused from doing so.
�There used to be lots of American pickers who moved around the country,� he said. �But wages have stagnated and conditions have deteriorated, and agriculture is unwilling to make these jobs attractive. Think of trash collection. That�s not very appealing, either. But if you offer a decent wage and conditions, people do it.�
Cindy Hahamovitch, an expert on guest worker programs at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, said that in the 1970s about two-thirds of farm workers were Americans and a third were foreign, and that a decade later the proportion was reversed. Today, she said, the vast majority of farm workers around the country are immigrants, although not in the guest worker program.
Republicans in Congress, mindful of the Democrats� desire to bring legal status to the nation�s 11 million unauthorized immigrants, have made an expansion of the guest worker program a key element of any deal. Current proposals include increasing the number and category of temporary workers to the dairy and construction industries, and increasing their stays from a matter of months to three years so that employers have the workers they say they need.
The guest workers who are planting cucumbers for Southern Valley and harvesting onions for Stanley Farms are among 10,000 holders of H-2A visas in Georgia this year and 85,000 nationally. They are generally guaranteed a minimum wage of just over $9 an hour, but are paid per piece and can boost those wages by increasing their productivity. Other workers, known as H-2B and numbering around 65,000, labor in other businesses in which there is a demand for temporary or seasonal workers, including hotels.
Employers must show that they have tried to hire Americans through advertising and other means and that they could not attract enough of them before resorting to the H-2 system. In the litigation that resulted in the consent decree with Southern Valley, the federal government argued that the effort had not been made or had been intentionally not serious. Excuses were used not to hire locals or to fire them � training was minimal, and people were fired when they were less skilled than others who had been doing the work for years.
�You�ve got some people who don�t work as fast as Mexicans, but they don�t teach you, and it can be learned,� said Misty Johnson, who was fired and then rehired by Southern Valley as part of the consent decree.

Obama Supports Including Gays in Immigration.....

MMC — Sat, 04 May 2013 02:42:31 GMT

President Barack Obama says he supports recognizing gay unions in a broad immigration bill pending in Congress but won't say whether he would sign legislation that fails to do so.

Obama says that recognizing same-sex relationships in the bill is "the right thing to do." But he says it would be premature to telegraph what he will or won't do before lawmakers send him a bill.

But Republicans, including some who helped draft the bill, have made it clear that amending the legislation in that fashion would cost their support.....snip~

Obama supports including gays in immigration bill

Looks like the Democrats and Obama will do what they can to kill the Immigration Bill before it even gets out of the starting gate.....Rubio has stated that this will be what kills the Bill and he will withdraw support.

They're Comming, 33 MILLION of Them !!!

APACHERAT — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:14:12 GMT

Immigration bill to bring in at least 33 million people

>" The pending Senate immigration bill would bring a minimum of 33 million people into the country during its first decade of operation, according to an analysis by NumbersUSA, a group that wants to slow the current immigration rate.

By 2024, the inflow would include an estimated 9.2 million illegal immigrants, plus 2.5 million illegals who arrived as children � dubbed �Dreamers� � plus roughly 3.4 million company-sponsored employees with university degrees, said the unreleased analysis.

The majority of the inflow, or roughly 17 million people, would consist of family members of illegals, recent immigrants and of company-sponsored workers, according to the NumbersUSA analysis provided to The Daily Caller.

The estimate is likely the first of several that will be produced by advocates as the Senate grapples with the immigration bill developed by the �Gang of Eight� senators.

The 844-page bill was released last week, and was scheduled for debate and amendment in the Senate�e judiciary committee starting April 25. However, the amendment process was held up for a week by Republican Senators, who said they need more time to study the complex bill.

Advocates for the bill have yet to release any estimates of the future inflow.

�Nobody has a number that is based on the bill right now that�s accurate,� Lynn Tramonte, deputy director of the pro-immigration America�s Voice Education Fund, told the Christian Science Monitor in an April 25 article. �It�ll take a bit more [analysis] to get a specific number about how things will change.�

A high inflow could prove to be a political problem for the bill�s advocates.

An April 20-22 Fox News poll of 1,009 registered voters showed that 55 percent of respondents want a reduction in the current number of legal immigrants.

Currently, the country accepts 1 million immigrants and 700,000 temporary company-sponsored workers each year. The bill would boost that to roughly 3 million immigrants and 1 million company-sponsored workers per year.

Forty-five percent of non-whites, 53 percent of independents and 62 percent of people without college degrees, favor a reduction in legal immigrants. Only 18 percent of Republicans and 29 percent of independents favor an increase in legal immigration, the Fox poll reported.

The current population of the United States is 314 million. That estimate includes roughly 40 million immigrants, both legal and illegal.

Opponents of the immigration bill are already highlighting the potentially large inflow.

�I believe the interest that needs to be protected is the national interest of the United States, and that includes existing workers today, workers whose wages have been pulled down, without doubt, by a large flow of� low-wage labor into the country,� Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions said during one of three hearings on the pending bill.

�This bill would continue that in a way that�s very disturbing to me,� he said.

NumbersUSA� said that its estimates of a 33 million inflow �are conservative � [because they do] not attempt to project increases in these categories that are certain to occur in future years,� once many of the new immigrants seek green cards for their overseas relatives.

Also, some categories of immigrants are uncapped, and the analysis �does not attempt to project increases in these [family unification] categories that are certain to occur in future years,� it says.

The pending bill allows illegal immigrants to bring their overseas spouses and children into the country, says the NumbersUSA report. If that provision is implemented, �it could more than double the [illegal immigrant inflow] number shown in the chart,� bringing the total inflow to 40 million by 2024, it said.

The analysis shows an inflow of roughly 3.4 million university trained immigrants. That estimate does not include graduates who get green cards under the family unification route, or the uncapped inflow of doctors and PhD-carrying scientists.

Roughly 1.8 million Americans graduate from college each year, including 300,000 with degrees in science and engineering. "<

NumbersUSA: Immigration bill to bring in at least 33 million | The Daily Caller

Federal Court finds Obama DREAM policy illegal,

longknife — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:05:32 GMT

but may not require actual deportations

Oh really? Anyone else NOT surprised by this?

Posted by William A. Jacobson Thursday, April 25, 2013

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There are many news reports about the preliminary decision issued by Judge Reed O�Connor in the Northern District of Texas in a lawsuit brought by ICE agents challenging the Obama administration�s administrative DREAM provisions which direct Homeland Security not to commence removal proceedings as to people who meet the criteria.

DREAMERS still getting deported! YEEE HAAAA GO JOE!

274ina — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:10:01 GMT

And think of the USA jobs he is creating......

felony chanrges made the DREAM and US law dodging by Obama disapear!

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It was obvious Veronica Perez had been crying. Her eyes were red and puffy as she stood in front of a microphone to speak Tuesday morning in Phoenix.

“My name is Veronica, and I am the mom of Zamira,” she said, holding back the tears. “My daughter has been detained for 90 days because she was working. They accused her of being a criminal, and she is in jail.”

Her daughter, Zamira Perez, was arrested on Jan. 11 while she was working at a telemarketing company using false documents. The 23-year-old Dreamer began working there after she graduated high school in 2008 and couldn’t afford to attend college because of a state law that requires undocumented immigrants to pay out-of-state tuition.

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Group: Arizona charges immigrants with felonies to ensure deportation

SCOTUS: No Deportation for Small Amounts of Marijuana

calamity — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:33:01 GMT

Every once in a while most justices are on the same page. In this 7-2 decision, sensibilities prevailed as the Supreme court decided that immigrants carrying small amounts of marijuana should not be deported.
Justices Say U.S. Improperly Deported Man Over Marijuana : NPR

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By a 7-2 vote, the justices said that it defies common sense to treat an offense like this as an "aggravated felony" justifying mandatory deportation.

Dissenting from the decision were Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

Obviously Alito and Thomas lack "common sense".

Senators Unveil Bipartisan Immigration Bill......

MMC — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:14:13 GMT

A bipartisan group of senators on Tuesday unveiled long-awaited landmark legislation to remove the threat of deportation for millions of illegal immigrants and give them an opportunity to eventually become U.S. citizens.

Under the proposal, undocumented immigrants who came to America before December 31, 2011 and stayed continuously could apply for "provisional" legal status as soon as six months after the bill is signed by the president.

But beyond that, they would have to wait a decade or more without receiving federal benefits, while the government meets a host of tough conditions for securing U.S. borders and enforcing current immigration law

.The measure would focus on tightening porous zones in "high-risk" areas like parts of Arizona, where law enforcement has had less success in sealing the border, in part because of a more difficult terrain.

The bill sets a goal of stopping 90 percent of illegal crossings at the riskiest sections of the southern border with Mexico, either by catching people or forcing them to go back to their country.

The proposal would expand access to both low- and high-skilled labor for American businesses, attempting to keep organized labor happy with provisions designed to keep companies from hiring cheap foreign labor or filling jobs with immigrants when Americans are available.

For the U.S. technology sector, it increases the number of visas available for educated workers filling specialized jobs, though it imposes new pay requirements designed to keep the hiring from depressing wages for U.S. technology workers.....snip~

Senators unveil bipartisan immigration bill

Think the House will pass it.....already they are saying a host of amendments will be added to it. Thoughts?

Illegal Aliens Flood Across Border: �Where do I go for my amnesty?�

longknife — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:19:11 GMT

Posted 12/04/2013 by sfcmac

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The �undocumented Democrats� take advantage of Obama�s fatuous disregard for our immigration laws.

Officials say the number of people entering the U.S. illegally is way up and, tragically, the number of undocumented immigrants who have been found dead in the unforgiving Texas Brush Country is way up, and is on path this year to beat last year�s record for the number of people found dead in the ranch country.

Read more @ Illegal Aliens Flood Across Border:

Did we expect anything different?

The AMNESTY loophole

274ina — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 06:41:05 GMT

Accord reached on farmworkers for immigration bill - latimes.com

I can hear it now, "see I have worked here 5 years picking" LMAO

And employers are ALREADY required to provide transportation and housing, but of course only to LEGAL workers.......

AMNESTY that floods USA with unlimited foreign criminals and changes nothing!

From the WSJ

"The United Farm Workers union praised the deal, with President Arturo Rodriguez saying in a statement that workers "would be able to work in the fields without fear of getting deported immediately and will be able to reunite with their families in a relatively short period of time."

His statement applauded another measure in the agreement that would allow farm workers who are in the U.S. illegally to gain permanent legal status faster than other unauthorized workers, as long as they agree to continue working in agriculture."

"Obama will let me go"

APACHERAT — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:22:45 GMT

The debate in Washington on immigration reform has had no political impact, but the debate is having a major impact on south Texas, 1200 WOAI news reports.

Officials say the number of people entering the U.S. illegally is way up and, tragically, the number of undocumented immigrants who have been found dead in the unforgiving Texas Brush Country is way up, and is on path this year to beat last year's record for the number of people found dead in the ranch country.

Linda Vickers, who owns a ranch in Brooks County, which is Ground Zero for the immigration debate, pins the blame directly on talk of 'amnesty' and a 'path to citizenship' for people who entered the U.S. illegally.

She recalls one man being arrested on her ranch not long ago.

"The Border Patrol agent was loading one man up, and he told the officer in Spanish, 'Obama's gonna let me go'."

Border Patrol agents report that immigrants are crossing the border, and in some cases surrendering while asking, �Where do I go for my amnesty?�

"When you have amnesty waving in the wind, you're going to get an increase," Vickers says. "And when you get an increase, especially with this heat, you're going to get an increase in deaths."

She says the current increase in illegal immigrant entries began last summer, at almost exactly the same time as President Obama unilaterally announced plans to no longer deport young people who came to the U.S. as children with their illegal immigrant parents.

"Washington is directly responsible for these deaths," she said.

Brooks County routinely has the largest number of illegal immigrant deaths each year because smugglers come up U.S. 281 from the Rio Grande Valley, but kick their human cargo out of the truck before reaching the Border Patrol checkpoint in Falfurrias.

"If that individual, illegal immigrant, can't keep up, they are left behind," she said. "And you are going to die out in this heat if you can't find water."

She is afraid of 'carnage' this summer, when temperatures in the Brush Country routinely reach 115 degrees.

Negotiators in Washington yesterday agreed to limit any 'path to citizenship' or any benefits under immigration reform to people who arrived in the U.S. before 2012, but Vickers says that won't do any good.

She says immigrant smugglers, who charge between $2000 and $7000 per person to smuggle them into the U.S., routinely lie to would be immigrants, and the current lie is 'if you can only get into the U.S., you'll get amnesty.'

Read more: "Obama Will Let Me Go" - 1200 WOAI San Antonio's Breaking News, Traffic and

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McCain would rather have a foreign whore than a sexy US CITIZEN to look at

274ina — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:57:43 GMT

Shimmying her way to a green card
Burlesque dancer and part-time pin-up girl, Bettina May, recently earned the coveted "extraordinary abilities" visa. Now that she has her green card, she's pursuing her art on tour around the United States. MSNBC

YUP - THose sexy US CITIZEN women are now on the street so this foreign slut can earn some money...........

Gang of 8 is a gang of TRAITORS.......and will get a TRAITORS end.

Facebook�s CEO Forms Group to Push for Immigration Overhaul

Helix — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:06:13 GMT

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April 11 (Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg announced the creation of an advocacy group called Fwd.us to lobby for immigration changes, higher academic standards and investments in scientific research.The group is backed by technology entrepreneurs and investors, including John Doerr at venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and LinkedIn Corp. CEO Reid Hoffman, according to the Fwd.us site. The organization has offices in Silicon Valley and Washington.

Read more: Facebook

all of the above certainly need attention. i'm not big on lobbyists, but that's the system.

U.S. Holds Visa Lottery for 85,000 Skilled Workers.....

MMC — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:44:46 GMT

A U.S. visa program ran a lottery on Sunday to award 85,000 slots for high-skilled workers just one week after the application period opened, the Citizenship and Immigration Service said, signaling companies feel confident enough about the economy to hire more foreign workers.

The USCIS held the lottery to approve petitions for the slots after it received approximately 124,000 H-1B petitions last week, including petitions filed for holders of advanced degrees from U.S. universities. The USCIS started accepting petitions for the visas just a week ago, on April 1 and stopped accepting them five days later because of high demand.

The last time the USCIS used a lottery this quickly to grant H-1B visas, a type companies must initiate, was in 2008, before the economic crisis hit. In April that year, when unemployment was around 5 percent, it received 163,000 petitions in five days.

The cap includes 65,000 high-skilled workers, plus a separate H-1B allocation of 20,000 masters and PhD graduates from U.S. universities. The actual granting of visas is made by the State Department, the final step for any H-1B applicant.

Petitioners are being notified by U.S. mail if they have won a slot, USCIS said. Those who have not will receive their petitions in the mail, along with their refunded filing fees.

The H-1B is a nonimmigrant visa in the United States that allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations. The duration of stay is three years, extendable to six years.

U.S. companies, particularly in technology, say they need the visas to fill vacant positions. But some worker-advocacy groups counter that the companies are using the visa program to hire cheaper foreign labor.....snip~

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Can you believe it? Here we have all kinds of people out of work. People who aren't even looking for work. Yet they will give away skilled jobs to Foreigners. I don't think to much about the issue of they are bringing them in and paying them cheaper. I am looking at jobs that should be going to Americans First. Unemployment hasn't improved it has gotten worse. None can say we don't have any skilled people out of work.

Due to the economic situation and the downsize of creation with jobs. There is no way we should just throw jobs to people from overseas that want to come and live here for 3-6 years and then go back home. Our people have the Right to these jobs First. Especially when there is so many in the country out of work. Which isn't even counting young teenagers just graduating.

Moreover on thing we don't need more of are people with PH.D's.....how is that they are coming in skilled with this. What we don't have enough PH. D's. running around? Give me a break. Thoughts?

Liar Liar Obama's Pants Are On Fire.

APACHERAT — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 19:04:33 GMT

As usual Obama and the second rate people who are part of his administration are caught again lying to the American people.

The U.S. Border Patrol has caught a fraction of the border crossers spotted by a sophisticated sensor mounted on unmanned spy aircraft and flown over remote stretches of desert, casting doubts on claims that the area is more secure than ever, according to documents obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting.
The border crossers were spotted with a new, all-seeing radar system developed for use in the Afghanistan War and patrolling above the U.S.-Mexico border in parts of Arizona since March 2012. The system can reveal every man, woman and child under its gaze from a height of about 25,000 feet.
Between October and December, records show, the remotely operated aircraft detected 7,333 border crossers during its Arizona missions. Border Patrol agents, however, reported 410 apprehensions during that time, according to an internal agency report. The sensor was credited with providing surveillance that led to 52 arrests and 15,135 pounds of seized marijuana. [...]

�The border is more secure than ever? Well, that�s a pretty low bar,� said Michael Nicley, who retired in 2007 as the Border Patrol�s sector chief in Tucson, Ariz. �Border Patrol agents would be the first to stick out their chests and say the border is under control. That�s not what they�re saying. Agents I talk to down here say we�re getting hammered.�

New drone radar reveals Border Patrol 'gotaways' in high numbers | Center for Investigative Reporting

AP decides to kiss the butts of pro-illegals by dropping the term illegal imigrant

jamesrage — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:04:02 GMT

I wonder if they will now refer to drug dealers as unlicensed pharmacist and call burglars and theives 'unlicensed repossessors' or call murderers post birth abortionists.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...rom-stylebook/

The Associated Press has dropped the phrase “illegal immigrant” from its stylebook, a victory for immigrant advocates who argue that the term is biased against the people it describes.

The Stylebook no longer sanctions the term ‘illegal immigrant’ or the use of ‘illegal’ to describe a person,” a blog post from AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll explains. “Instead, it tells users that ‘illegal’ should describe only an action, such as living in or immigrating to a country illegally.”