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Sanctuary, Compassion or flat-out stupidity in SF?
"By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press Writer
Thu Jul 24, 7:42 AM ET
SAN FRANCISCO - The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left.
But authorities say that was enough to cause Edwin Ramos to unload an AK-47 assault weapon on a man and his two sons, killing them.
The deaths immediately drew public outrage, which intensified when authorities revealed that Ramos, 21, is an illegal immigrant who managed to avoid deportation despite previous brushes with the law.
The case has put San Francisco's liberal politics to the test, setting off a debate over its sanctuary law that shields undocumented immigrants from deportation.
On Wednesday, Ramos pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder in the deaths of Anthony Bologna, 49, and his sons, Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16. Bologna and his older son died in the intersection on June 22. His younger son succumbed to his injuries days later.
Shortly after that, police arrested Ramos, a native of El Salvador and reputed member of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, known as MS-13. Investigators believe he was the gunman, though two other men were seen in the car with him.
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Diana Hull, president of Californians for Population Stabilization, called on about a dozen cities nationwide with similar sanctuary policies to end those programs.
"We need to remember always that a death-dealing policy like `sanctuary' hides behind the false mantle of compassion," Hull said. "
well... THAT should be an interesting one to watch....
"By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press Writer Thu Jul 24, 7:42 AM ET ... more -
Not only for one generation, but for ALL generations!
Introducing one of the most notorious TV Commercials "of the revolution!" Voice of The Revolution, by Darrel Hudson - ...saying to us;; "Chances are by the time you arrived on this earth the oceans were already damaged, the food chains upon which it's creatures depend, were already contaminated, the world overpopulated, the climate in upheaval and the atmosphere already approaching it's theoretical breaking point. In all likelihood by the time you came of age in this nation our political government had already been bought and sold, and the media was making it's transition into the private plaything of investment bankers. If you're under the age of thirty-five a NEW culture of wholesale felony trespass is the only immigration you've ever known. and you've probably been inundated by politically correct rhetoric designed to get you to accept it. In just one generation the quality of our education has already begun to crumble, and the American economy, that up until about 1970 was wonderful, and easy, and benevolent, for you, is becoming harder and harder to survive in and is now getting worse every day. If you're under the age of 35 this is probably the only America you have ever known. Well my friends, let me be the first and hopefully not the last to tell you it's NOT supposed to be that way. Contrary to what ANYONE may tell you, we can fix it. And in fact we must fix it and I am here to explain why."
Introducing one of the most notorious TV Commercials of the revolution!: "Trying to be a good parent? Looking at your children and thinking about their health, security, education and economic mobility is getting harder and harder as you realize that BOTH political parties have sold them out utterly. The morning, or week, or year after the next election and you realize that you have been conned yet again the Revolution is here for you."
Introducing one of the most notorious TV Commercials "of the revolution!" Voice of The Revolution, by Darrel Hudson - ...saying to us... more -
Anti-immigration robot secures Britain's borders
Tens of thousands risk their lives to cross into Britain each year by clinging underneath trucks transported on ferries. The border agency has a robot dubbed "Hero" that is capable of ferreting out these stowaways using a combination of cameras and sensors. Tens of thousands risk their lives to cross into Britain each year by clinging underneath trucks transported on ferries. The border ag... more
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Cubans arriving in the US via Mexico
Cubans have traditionally tried to enter the United States via Florida, which is a mere 90 miles away. Recently the US has cracked down on illegal immigration around Florida, so smugglers are moving westward.
Cubans refugees are fleeing their island by way of Cancun. Mexican officials have seen an influx of Cubans entering their territory in recent months.
In a proviso of US immigration law, if a Cuban makes on to US territory, they are entitled to legal US residency. Cubans have traditionally tried to enter the United States via Florida, which is a mere 90 miles away. Recently the US has cracked dow... more -
Burmese Woman Abused
Image of Malaysia’s secret immigration prison near the Thai-Malay border (Blantik Camp). (More than 120 Burmese are being detained here before deportation.)
Three Burmese women who went to work legally in Malaysia two years ago are being detained pending deportation after they lodged a complaint with police about sexual harassment and mistreatment in the workplace.
But on June 11, they filed a complaint with their local Brickfields police station that their kitchen supervisor had harassed and threatened them after they refused his sexual advances.
Police detained the women's supervisor on June 14, following the complaint. Local rights groups said they also found the electrical device which they alleged he used to threaten them. But then, the tables were turned once more, campaigners said.
"On the 17th, they revoked their work permits, and the immigration department arrested the women," he said.
Florida Sandanasamy, program coordinator for rights group Tenaganita, called on the government to justify sending the women for deportation.
"This is not against any of the immigration laws. However, not only did the immigration arrest them, they also put them in the immigration prison and are now even arranging for their deportation," Sandanasamy said.
Burmese migrant workers in Malaysia live at the mercy of international human-trafficking gangs who sell them back and forth as slave labor with the full knowledge of Malaysian and Thai immigration officials, according to a series of investigative reports by RFA's Burmese service.
Thousands of Burmese find themselves stuck in a human rights no-man's-land after losing their legal status, often because employers withhold passports or refuse to pay their return airfare.
Reports of mistreatment and substandard living conditions within Malaysia's little-known immigration prisons are rife, as undocumented migrants are detained for indefinite periods.
Conditions in the detention centers have sparked protests, complaints to Malaysia's human rights body, riots and breakouts. Immigration officers often stage raids on suspected illegal immigrants using volunteer security forces who have wide-ranging powers, the right to bear arms, and little professional training.
Image of Malaysia’s secret immigration prison near the Thai-Malay border (Blantik Camp). (More than 120 Burmese are being detained her... more -
Immigrants Find Solace After Storm of Arrests - NYTimes.com
"Then came the morning of May 12, when both satisfaction and retirement ended for the 75-year-old priest (Father Ouderkirk). Federal immigration agents raided the Agriprocessors factory, arresting nearly 400 workers, most of them men, for being in the United States illegally. Within minutes of the raid, with surveillance helicopters buzzing above the leafy streets, the wives and children of Mexican and Guatemalan families began trickling into St. Bridget’s Church, the safest place they knew."
"At a practical level, Father Ouderkirk has hired four temporary staff members to help track the court cases and distribute food and financial aid to the affected families. Along with other religious leaders around Iowa, he had been preparing for a march in defense of immigrants’ rights. St. Bridget’s parish, which has only about 350 members, is spending $500,000 in the relief effort, he said."
In light of many stories that highlight awful religious leaders, I'd like to post this article to simply remind the Current Community the potential an organized church has in furthering social action and change. Churches have organized numbers and motivation (God) on their side, and while many leaders are exploiting that, there are places that not only do good things, but become movements (Dr. MLK Jr's Ebenezer Baptist). "Then came the morning of May 12, when both satisfaction and retirement ended for the 75-year-old priest (Father Ouderkirk). Federal i... more -
Immigration harming communities?
Rapid immigration has damaged community relations in parts of England, a report by the Commons communities and local government committee says.
In three areas with high immigration - Peterborough, Burnley, and Barking and Dagenham - community cohesion is among the lowest in the country, the MPs say. In their report, Community Cohesion and Migration, the MPs say many migrants make "significant contributions" to local communities - working in the NHS or other public services. But it said there was "significant public anxiety" in some areas about immigration, which it warned "cannot simply be dismissed as expressions of racist or xenophobic sentiments". Some concerns arose from "practical concerns" - such as overcrowded accommodation and pressure on public services - such as sharp rises in the numbers of primary school children who do not speak English well.
The Local Government Association has repeatedly called for a £250m contingency fund to be made available for under-pressure councils. But Dr Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, of the Institute of Public Policy Research, said he was disappointed by the committee's "negative conclusion".
"We're risking turning everything that migrants do into a problem and forgetting that they are dynamically contributing to the local economy and to the country because they are working and paying taxes," he said.
For the Conservatives, shadow minister Baroness Warsi said the report was an "indictment" of the problems caused by the government's "failure to control the numbers of migrants coming into this country" and by their "inability to know where migrants are living and to fund local authorities accordingly". The Conservatives say it shows annual limits on economic migration are needed to ensure communities and public services can cope.
(Excerpts / BBC News) Rapid immigration has damaged community relations in parts of England, a report by the Commons communities and local government commit... more -
Immigrants mistreated at detention center
From excessive strip searches and overcrowding to a lack of due process, an immigrant advocacy group alleges detainees are being mistreated at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, which houses illegal aliens in the process of deportation.
The study - released by Seattle-based OneAmerica and the International Human Rights Clinic at Seattle University's law school - the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's operation at the Tacoma detention center is harshly criticized.
The report contains anecdotes in which detainees describe what they call degrading treatment by guards and subpar conditions at the jail.
"Probably the most striking, stark fact is that there's no accountability around conditions and standards, which is only made even more stark when you think of detention as being the fastest-growing form of incarceration in the United States," Pramila Jayapal, executive director of OneAmerica, said Monday.
Immigration officials denied the report's contentions, saying the detention facility complies with industry standards. The Geo Group, the Boca Raton, Fla.-based private contractor that runs the facility, declined comment Monday. From excessive strip searches and overcrowding to a lack of due process, an immigrant advocacy group alleges detainees are being mistr... more -
Sweet 16 turned bitter...
From Mary Scott Speigner
CNN's American Morning
ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Allie Mulvihill may seem like your typical American teenager, but she has something weighing on her mind that most 15-year-olds do not: deportation.
1 of 2 Allie may be forced to leave the country because U.S. immigration officials are questioning the legitimacy of the Guatemala native's adoption by her parents, Lori and Scott Mulvihill, in 1994.
When the Mulvihills brought their then 2-year-old daughter to their home in Allentown, Pennsylvania, they believed she would be granted citizenship.
But U.S. immigration officials questioned whether the woman who gave Allie up for adoption in Guatemala was really her biological mother. Allie's birth certificate was issued 10 months after she was born, which raised suspicions in U.S. officials' minds that she was made available for adoption due to a baby trafficking scheme.
The Mulvihills, however, say it is not uncommon for birth certificates to be issued for children months after they are born in Guatemala, especially for children born to poor families, because families must pay for the certificates.
The Mulvihills also say U.S. embassy officials in Guatemala interviewed the woman claiming to be her biological mother at the time of the adoption and did not raise any concerns. The embassy officials, however, did not conduct a blood test of the woman that would have definitely proven the woman had given birth to Allie.
The Guatemalan government also never challenged the adoption, the Mulvihills said.
But U.S. immigration officials still aren't satisfied, and the dispute over her adoption has become a roadblock on Allie's path to citizenship. Neither Allie nor her parents have a way to track down her biological mother and the adoption agency used by the Mulvihills to adopt their daughter has gone out of business.
The fact that she cannot get her immigration status resolved means the fear of deportation continues to loom.
More on CNN.com
CNN's Zain Verjee and Melissa Morgenweck contributed to this report.
© 2008 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
So... why should they deport her if there's no way to tell if she's adopted through trafficking?
A change in the process should be made for situations like these... From Mary Scott Speigner CNN's American Morning ... more -
Collapse of the United States may lead to a North American Union
In the following video, the senior-most woman in Congress in her thirteenth term in the US House of Representatives, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, who represents Northern Ohio's Ninth Congressional District, talks about the North American Union (NAU), which will integrate Canada, the US and Mexico under one centralized government.
For more than 13 years North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition (NASCO) and its members have been working diligently towards creating this centralized government, however, our ‘elected’ leaders continue to deny that such a project even exists.
In the following video, the senior-most woman in Congress in her thirteenth term in the US House of Representatives, Congresswoman Ma... more -
Aso Salm - British citizen
Having fled Iraq six years ago, Aso Salm is now a British citizen. In this short film Aso reflects on how it felt to get his first ever passport and his new life in Plymouth. Having fled Iraq six years ago, Aso Salm is now a British citizen. In this short film Aso reflects on how it felt to get his first eve... more
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Obama downplays criticism over bilingual comments
"Democrat Barack Obama batted away conservative criticism Friday over a comment he made about Americans’ lack of foreign language skills.
“The Republicans jumped on this. I said, absolutely immigrants need to learn English, but we also need to learn foreign languages,” the likely Democratic nominee said as the 1,000-plus crowd in a school gymnasium cheered. It’s a position he long has held.
“This is an example of some of the problems we get into when somebody attacks you for saying the truth, which is: We should want our children with more knowledge. We should want our children to have more skills. There’s nothing wrong with that. That’s a good thing. I know, because I don’t speak a foreign language. It’s embarrassing,” Obama said chuckling as his audience did the same.
At issue was a remark the Illinois senator made Tuesday in Powder Springs, Ga., that drew laughter from the crowd — but disdain from conservatives and groups advocating English as the official U.S. language. His remark has caused buzz on the Internet and talk radio.
The Americans for Legal Immigration PAC said in a statement, “Barack Obama has stepped on a political land mine by stating Americans should be forced to learn to speak Spanish.” But that’s not what Obama said.
Obama was answering a question on education when he said he doesn’t understand people who say “we need English only.”
“I agree that immigrants should learn English,” Obama said. “But instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English — they’ll learn English — you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish. You should be thinking about how can your child become bilingual. We should have every child speaking more than one language.”
He argued that the country should be emphasizing foreign language study in classrooms.
“You know, it’s embarrassing when Europeans come over here, they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And then we go over to Europe and all we can say is ‘merci beaucoup!”‘ Obama said, laughing."
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Okay NOW watch this video!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g30HduK1SGY&feature=...
Really, it is sad that he can't speak a foreign language especially considering that most Universities require a minimum foreign language proficiency to graduate! "Democrat Barack Obama batted away conservative criticism Friday over a comment he made about Americans’ lack of foreign language skil... more -
Immigrant Laborers in Limbo | American News Project
One hundred Indian guest workers marched hundreds of miles from New Orleans, LA, to Washington, DC, to protest their treatment by their employer, Signal International. Brought here under the auspices of the H2B visa program, the workers were promised much and given little in return. As concerns about immigration continue to hold the national spotlight, theirs is a cautionary tale. According to a recent article in the Washington Post, eighteen members of Congress have signed a letter to Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey asking for a Justice Department investigation on the group’s behalf. One hundred Indian guest workers marched hundreds of miles from New Orleans, LA, to Washington, DC, to protest their treatment by thei... more
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Overseas Adoption Nightmare.
A couple adopted a child from guatamala when she was two years old. They did everything legal and went through all the proper steps. However, immigration officials are suspicious and will not grant their daughter citizenship. She could even be deported even though her life here is the only life she's ever known. It shows the complexities involved and red tape involved in our immigration procedures. How many more stories like this are out there? ... more -
Our children should speak Spanish
Why should my children learn Spanish? To accommodate illegal aliens from the south?
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come on, let's make some pickles
i couldn't ask my dad if he had love in his life, so i asked his three ex wives
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Agatha Joseph: Exposing Detention
Agatha Joseph's daughter was placed in seven detention centers over three years. She was the victim of double jeopardy. Watch, as her mother, Agatha, tells the hardships her daughter endured behind the unsafe walls of the detention center.
www.breakthrough.tv
Agatha Joseph's daughter was placed in seven detention centers over three years. She was the victim of double jeopardy. Watch, as her ... more -
Voices from a Raid
Immigration arrests from worksite raids have increased tenfold in the last five years. As politicians on both sides of the aisle grapple with the issue, families are caught in the middle. ANP went to Annapolis, Maryland to see how people were coping in the aftermath of the state's largest immigration roundup in years. Immigration arrests from worksite raids have increased tenfold in the last five years. As politicians on both sides of the aisle grapp... more
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A Military Man Behind Bars
Angela Joseph and her brother Warren came to the U.S from Trinidad with greencards. Warren served in the US military for eight years and returned with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He turned to crime and after serving six months jail time, immigration refused to release him because he was not a U.S citizen. He sat in detention for almost three years and was just released. Watch Angela tell her brother's story at the Special Rapporteur's panel on May 12, 2007 in NYC.
www.breakthrough.tv Angela Joseph and her brother Warren came to the U.S from Trinidad with greencards. Warren served in the US military for eight years a... more -
Aarti Shahani: Reflections from Rikers
Aarti Shahani, founder of Families for Freedom, a Brooklyn-based defense network for immigrants facing deportation. She presented at Breakthrough's public forum, "Why Can't America Have Human Rights?" at The Riverside Church in New York City on September 14, 2006.
Aarti describes the impact of U.S. immigration laws on her own family and her ensuing organizing work.
www.breakthrough.tv Aarti Shahani, founder of Families for Freedom, a Brooklyn-based defense network for immigrants facing deportation. She presented at B... more
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