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LOS ANGELES — A clothing maker with a vast garment factory in downtown Los Angeles is firing about 1,800 immigrant employees in the coming days — more than a quarter of its work force — after a federal investigation turned up irregularities in the identity documents the workers presented when they were hired.
The firings at the company, American Apparel, have become a showcase for the Obama administration’s effort to reduce illegal immigration by forcing employers to dismiss unauthorized workers rather than by using workplace raids. The firings, however, have divided opinion in California over the effects of the new approach, especially at a time of high joblessness in the state and with a major, well-regarded employer as a target.
Immigration officials said they would now focus on employers, primarily wielding the threat of civil complaints and fines, instead of raids and worker deportation.
“Now all manner of companies face the very real possibility that the government, using our basic civil powers, is going to come knocking on the door,” Mr. Morton said.
The goal, he said, is to create “a truly national deterrent” to hiring unauthorized labor that would “change the practices of American employers as a class.”LOS ANGELES — A clothing maker with a vast garment factory in downtown Los Angeles... more
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In a nutshell, it will cost $6.5 billion over the next 20 years to maintain the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. However, despite the fact that $2.4 billion has already been spent to build 633 miles of fence along the southwest border, there's no way to evaluate cost-wise whether the fence has helped to control the flow of illegal immigrants.
If there is a will, there is a way. And beleive me the illegal immigrants crossing our border have huge expectations of America and won't let a fence stop them from getting here. This is a huge waste of money and I believe it's nothing but racially-set political propaganda. What do you think.In a nutshell, it will cost $6.5 billion over the next 20 years to maintain the fence... more
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Tijuana cartel's Zetas introduced a paramilitary approach to the cartel's enforcement apparatus. The Zetas, mostly ex-soldiers who joined the drug cartel, are enforcers who now control the Tijuana cartel's drug operations......more at link
By Diana Washington Valdez / El Paso Times
Posted: 09/21/2009 12:00:00 AM MDTTijuana cartel's Zetas introduced a paramilitary approach to the cartel's enforcement... more
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The number of people slain in Juárez continues to increase with few signs that it will let up in the near future.
State officials on Sunday reported the slaying of 10 people on Saturday and at least three others by Sunday afternoon.
Most of the victims were shot to death. Some were shot with handguns and others with AK-47 rifles, officials said.
Some of the victims were found on the street, some inside homes, and two were shot on a front porch.
More than 3,000 people have been killed since violence began in the city in January 2008.
El Paso Times Staff
Posted: 09/21/2009 12:00:00 AM MDT
This is all that gets to the web for my own local paper these Mere dozen people were killed no more than 5 miles from your country people. WAKE UP.The number of people slain in Juárez continues to increase with few signs that it... more
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The armed commandos entered the facility and attacked 23 people, killing 18 and leaving five more wounded, a source in the public security department said overnight.
"There could be more bodies," the source said, adding that the dead were found near a small area of an entranceway to the centre.
Ciudad Juarez is the bloodiest stage for an ongoing turf war between Mexican drug cartels battling for the right to control the trafficking of drugs across the border into the United States.
More than 9600 people have died in the drug-related violence since 2008, and according to a tally based on police data, in the first seven months of 2009 there were 1161 murders in Ciudad Juarez alone, despite thousands of police and soldiers deployed there to maintain security.The armed commandos entered the facility and attacked 23 people, killing 18 and... more
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In its zeal to protect us from Mexicans who want to pick our fruit and clean our homes, the federal government is walling off our southwestern border. Congress passed the “Secure Fence Act” [SFA] in 2006, authorizing barriers along some portions of the 1969-mile boundary; other stretches will contend with a “virtual” wall of motion-sensors and cameras. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was supposed to have built almost 700 miles of physical fence by the close of 2008 and the Bush Administration; we can assume it fell short since the Federal government is ever incompetent and since it’s tight-lipped about how many miles it has completed.
More people cross this international boundary each year than any other in the world – 250 million with government’s permission, a fraction of that without (estimates range from 400,000 to a million). Patches of the border, particularly urban ones, have been fenced and policed for decades. But this dotted line inconvenienced rather than stopped folks who neglected to secure a bureaucrat’s consent for their trip: travelers trying to exercise their inalienable right to free movement simply went around the barriers. The Feds never like being outfoxed, so they extended the fencing beyond populated areas. This drove migrants into increasingly remote and hostile terrain. There they not only had to survive encounters with America’s Border Patrol but also dehydration in the desert. No More Deaths, a group that=2 0caches food and water along routes migrants are likely to take, estimates that at least 238 travellers perished in Arizona alone in 2006, with more than 4000 “men, women, and children” overall “[losing] their lives in the deserts of the US-Mexico borderlands” from 1998 to the present.
Walling off Rights
You might think that would be tragedy enough for anyone. But as former President George Bush said when he signed the SFA, “We have a responsibility to enforce our laws. We have a responsibility to secure our borders. We take this responsibility seriously” – apparently, far more seriously than we do corpses or Constitutional limits on government. And so the Act “authorize[d] the construction of hundreds of miles of additional fencing along our southern border… more vehicle barriers, checkpoints and lighting to help prevent people from entering our country illegally. The bill authorize[d] the Department of Homeland Security to increase the use of advanced technology, like cameras and satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles to reinforce our infrastructure at the border.”
READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE HERE: http://www.alisterpaine.com/wall.htmlIn its zeal to protect us from Mexicans who want to pick our fruit and clean our... more
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Disgusted with vacationing Americans and their horrible behavior, this video news report reveals that Mexico is doing something about this: They are building a wall to keep Americans out of their country.Disgusted with vacationing Americans and their horrible behavior, this video news... more
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SAN DIEGO - Two suspected undocumented immigrants were in custody Friday after being caught on surfboards off the coast of Imperial Beach with a 141-pound load of marijuana.
The men were about 200 yards offshore, towing the bails of cannabis on a third surfboard, when U.S. Border Patrol personnel spotted them about 11 p.m. Thursday, according to Customs and Border Protection public affairs.
With help from a helicopter crew that shone a spotlight on the suspects, agents in a boat intercepted the pair and towed them and their illicit cargo to shore.
more....................SAN DIEGO - Two suspected undocumented immigrants were in custody Friday after being... more
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this is my favorite resort area in rocky point- where all your dreams come true!
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just a really beautiful place. viva la Mexico!
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this was our annual girls trip to rocky point ( a place everyone in AZ goes) our trip was soothe and beautiful - we aren't going this year. its kewl though - im off to Amsterdam :) beware we are goofy chicks just having fun- no groundbreaking heartwarming message here.this was our annual girls trip to rocky point ( a place everyone in AZ goes) our trip... more
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The Boston globe provides some pictures of the on going all out war in Mexico between the authorities and the drug cartels. (There are 34 pictures on the link above)
Amazing pictures capture the war shot by shot, some quite graphic so please beware. Also included in the photo set is the newly constructed US/Mexico border wall which can be lifted from the sand dunes after sandstorms bury it.The Boston globe provides some pictures of the on going all out war in Mexico between... more
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Reporting from Mexico City -- In candid comments aimed at reassuring a sensitive neighbor, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton accepted Wednesday that the United States shares blame for Mexico's drug violence, and promised more equipment and support to help the country's war against traffickers.
Clinton said the U.S. has a duty to help since it is a major consumer of illicit drugs and a key supplier of weapons smuggled to cartel hit men.
"We know very well that the drug traffickers are motivated by the demand for illegal drugs in the United States, that they are armed by the transport of weapons from the United States to Mexico," Clinton said during a news conference with Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa. "We see this as a responsibility to assist the Mexican government and people."Reporting from Mexico City -- In candid comments aimed at reassuring a sensitive... more
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The U.S. Border Patrol plans to poison the plant life along a 1.1-mile stretch of the Rio Grande riverbank as soon as Wednesday to get rid of the hiding places used by smugglers, robbers and illegal immigrants.
If successful, the $2.1 million pilot project could later be duplicated along as many as 130 miles of river in the patrol’s Laredo Sector, as well as other parts of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Although Border Patrol and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials say the chemical is safe for animals, detractors say the experiment is reminiscent of the Vietnam War-era Agent Orange chemical program and raises questions about long-term effects.The U.S. Border Patrol plans to poison the plant life along a 1.1-mile stretch of the... more
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Seeing discussions like this take place on national television really encourages me that we could be at the turning point!!!
The more people inform themselves, the more prohibitionists like this asshole Hutchinson will seem completely out of touch with reality (which he totally is).
THEY CAN'T KEEP LYING TO US!!!! THE TRUTH WILL PREVAIL!!!
I'm very strongly considering a trip to DC this July to join in the national protest of prohibition. The social climate seems perfect for such an action!Seeing discussions like this take place on national television really encourages me... more
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When her baby girl takes an afternoon nap, or on those nights when she just can't sleep, Sarah Andrews, 32, tosses off her identity as a suburban stay-at-home mom and becomes something more exotic: a "virtual deputy" patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border.
From her house in a suburb of Rochester, New York, Andrews spends at least four hours a day watching a site called BlueServo.net.
There, because of a $2 million grant from the state of Texas, anyone in the world can watch grainy live video scenes of cactuses, desert mountains and the Rio Grande along Texas' portion of the international border.
When Andrews spots something she deems suspicious -- perhaps a fuzzy character moving from right to left across the screen or people wading through the river with what appear to be trash bags atop their heads -- she and the site's 43,000 registered users can send e-mail messages straight to local law enforcement, who then decide whether to act.When her baby girl takes an afternoon nap, or on those nights when she just can't... more
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More than 1,500 Mexican troops have moved into a city on the US border being fought over by rival drug gangs. Soldiers moved into Ciudad Juarez to try to regain control of a city in which more than 2,000 people have been murdered over the past year. Officials say they intend to have 7,000 troops and police in position by the end of the week. Rival gangs are battling for control of the city, which is a key entry point for drug smuggling into the US.More than 1,500 Mexican troops have moved into a city on the US border being fought... more
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Do we really need to spend millions more on a fence right now? Thanks to the US economy, immigrants are leaving the US via the southern border, not trying to get in illegally.
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"The government has completed 500 miles of fencing along the Southwest border, 170 miles short of its goal."
"Congress has set aside $2.7 billion for the fence since 2006. But there's no estimate how much the entire system — the physical fence and the technology — will cost to build, let alone maintain."
"The fence along the U.S.-Mexico border is not intended to stop illegal immigration altogether, but make it more difficult for people to enter the U.S. illegally, Bush administration officials say."Do we really need to spend millions more on a fence right now? Thanks to the US... more
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"Border Patrol agents went to check it out and Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine sent a helicopter, Lowrie said.
They confirmed that the humvee was within the United States, he said. They spotted the humvee about one quarter mile east of the US Mexican border, which runs north-south along the Colorado River.
They were on the west side of the Salinity Canal, an irrigation canal that runs parallel to the Colorado River to the east.
Agents talked with the soldiers and determined they were from the Mexican army and that they were lost, Lowrie said.
They were apparently out doing military maneuvers and didn’t realize they were on the US side, Lowrie said."
So are we safer now in post 9/11 America when the Mexican army can accidentally invade the US?"Border Patrol agents went to check it out and Customs and Border Protection Air and... more
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Illegal Immigration.
What is it?
The term wasn't necessarily heard of before this century, or at least it wasn't very important.
It comes from the term "migration". Migration is a basic law of nature that cannot be changed and occurs when times are tough and beings just basically move.
Immigration is like migration, except the migrant moves to stay.
Now we are all hearing that this is made illegal, people are being deported in the hundreds every day. Normal people like us. People who work, who live on this land, who want to actually make something of themselves. People who quite possibly do not know or remember any other land but ours.
This country was founded by immigrants searching for a better life. These fellow immigrants are now making it impossible for other immigrants to do just that. The American Dream has been lost.
There are people out there who are trying to make a difference. Look at it this way:
remember the migration thing? It being a basic law of nature?
When this country becomes tough, people will go where it is nice or do something about it, that's just how it is. Apparently problems in other lands are larger than anyone can deal with right now. In the U.S. there is still a chance. There is talent here. There are people here who can make a difference.
The only problem is that the government has labeled them "illegal".
Join us to make our voices heard. You have to take small steps first before you can get somewhere you want.
Stop the limitation. Support the Dream Act, support The REAL American Dream.Illegal Immigration.
What is it?
The term wasn't necessarily heard of before... more
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