Category: Other Immigration

White House Amnesty chit-chat happened last Friday

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The bipartisan White House strategy meeting to discuss Amnesty and border security that we originally heard was scheduled for June 8th, finally occurred Friday the 26th according to this news report from NumbersUSA.   No consensus was reached but Obama still says he wants Amnesty.    From NumbersUSA:

Pres. Barack Obama took the first step on Thursday towards immigration reform and an amnesty for more than 11 million illegal aliens. Members of the Administration met with 30 Members of Congress from both sides of the issue and both sides of the aisle to get the debate rolling, but Pres. Obama said after the meeting that there was “not by any means consensus across the table.”

Despite the differing opinions on how to handle the illegal alien population, how to secure the borders and how to monitor the flow of future immigrants, Pres. Obama said he’s committed to getting an amnesty through Congress.

See the NumbersUSA story to see who attended.

And, by the way, to one of our Progressive (radical leftwinger) commenters the other day who said I didn’t  know the difference between refugees and other immigrants, as long as the refugee agencies who are contracted to take care of refugees conflate the two and lobby for amnesty, so can I put the two together.   Frankly, it defies logic when federal contractors, like the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), can say that giving amnesty to 11-12 million illegal aliens won’t hurt refugee job prospects.

If you haven’t done so previously, check out the NumbersUSA permanent link at the top of our home page and see what the growth charts tell us about immigrations’ impact on the US over the next few decades.  If you are concerned about overcrowding, the loss of farmland and open space (more schools, more houses, more roads), the impact on air and water resources and a diminished quality of life for your kids and grandkids, Roy Beck’s demonstration is pretty scary.

Question for Progressives visiting RRW:  I’m curious, how do you justify in your minds the obvious impact millions of additional people arriving as immigrants to the US will have on our resources and our environment, since Leftwing policies promote both environmental protection AND more immigration?

Minnesota wants to count every single person in the 2010 census….

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Your tax dollars: 

….to be sure not to lose a Congressional seat or to lose a penny from its federal dole.  From the Bemidji Pioneer (sorry if they are making you log in):

“The Census is so critical to the state of Minnesota,” Dolan said. “About $300 billion is tied to the Census numbers every single year in federal money to the states. With the new administration, it’s nearly $400 billion.”

It means that for every person missed in Minnesota’s Census county, $1,000 to $1,200 per person in lost federal aid, he said.

“If we miss one person in the Census, we lose $10,000 to $12,000 over a 10-year period,” he said, with the Census done every 10 years. That sum pales unallotments or the loss of Local Government Aid, he said.

“We can’t afford to lose anything as a result of the Census over the next 10 years,” Dolan said. “If we miss 100 people in the Census, which I’m sure we will, that could mean over a 10-year period $1 million to $1.2 million in lost revenue to the state from the federal government.”

Count those illegal aliens too!  Makes me wonder if  the illegal alien population will enhance a state’s chances of getting (or keeping) seats in the House of Representatives and getting federal money.  Does anyone know, do illegals count for those purposes?

Other problems a reason for an accurate count include getting handle on the state’s immigration population, especially undocumented foreigners and refugees…

Last night on Fox, a Congressman (didn’t get his name) was promoting what I thought was a great idea.  Don’t hire all these tens of thousands of workers to do the census, just have the postal service do it—they need the money and they wouldn’t be as untrustworthy as we know ACORN will be.

Update and an answer:  Congresswoman Bachman was just on FOX this evening and reported there is no question on the Census form that asks for one’s immigration status.  So it appears they will count the illegal aliens as well but there will be no way of knowing which immigrants are legal and which are not.

Uniting American Families Act sounds like more opportunity for fraud

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Update later in the day:  It appears that this bill is a way to begin breaking the so-called comprehensive immigration reform bill that was defeated in the summer of 2007, into smaller pieces.  See SEIU website here.

This morning when I was visiting the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) website to prepare my earlier post,  I happened across their pitch for support of the United American Families Act (UAFA) which among other things extends immigration rights to anyone in a “permanent partnership” with someone already here in the US.

We learned that “Permanent partnership” is defined as:

The term “permanent partnership” means the relationship that exists between two permanent partners.

I kid you not!  And, by the way, LIRS (in that pitch linked above) never mentions to its supporters this “permanent partners” business.

Family Reunification is suspended.

We already know that the P-3 Family Reunification program has been suspended worldwide and as far as I know it still is due to widespread immigration fraud resulting from mostly Africans lying on their applications to re-join their supposed “family” in the US.    Now we are going to extend rights to this vague category of permanent partners, and mind you, this does not mean only married partners!

I still want to know how LIRS can spend time and money lobbying Congress.  On their site they tell people how to write to legislators on the UAFA.   Are they using our money, our taxpayer money?  And, shouldn’t they use every bit of time and money taking care of the refugees they are reportedly leaving in a lurch in New Hampshire and elsewhere.

Modern Slavery Comes to Kansas….

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….and maybe your state too!   That title is from an opinion piece at the Wall Street Journal today and all I can say is, ‘I told you so!’    This is the reason big business is so pro-open borders—cheap labor is the driver.  In this case it was truly slave labor!

On May 27, a federal grand jury indictment was unsealed accusing a group of 12 people, mainly Uzbekistanis along with a company called Giant Labor Solutions, of running a labor trafficking ring in Kansas City, Mo., and its suburbs. If the indictment is to be believed, the scam involved the same sort of debt-bondage tricks that have pushed workers elsewhere into servitude for years.

The way it allegedly worked was this: The Kansas City ring recruited hundreds of workers from Jamaica, the Philippines, and the Dominican Republic with promises of visas through the federal H-2B seasonal worker program. To get the process started, however, the indictment says that workers had to pay the accused racketeers hefty fees.

Once in America, the workers found themselves at the mercy of the traffickers, who allegedly kept “them as modern-day slaves under threat of deportation,” in the words of James Gibbons of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

How do you think the Uzbekistanis got here—the Refugee Resettlement Program of the US State Department tops my list as a the likely source.   As of 2005 we brought in a half a million so-called “refugees” from the former Soviet Union.   If you are checking the numbers, it is only in recent years (2008 and 2009) that the Uzbekistanis are separated out on the data charts kept at the Office of Refugee Resettlement.

Guess what Kansas industry was using the “slaves” supplied by Giant Labor Solutions—-the hotel industry!  Ring a bell anyone?   Is that why the Loew’s Vanderbilt Hotel in Nashville and its manager Tom Negri are so pro-immigrant?   Surely, it’s out of the goodness of his heart that Negri helped start pro-immigrant phoney-baloney grassroots groups in Nashville with Chicago-style community organizers.   That’s why they gathered all the bleeding hearts of Nashville together for a press conference at the hotel just a couple of weeks ago to proclaim their love of immigrants.  LOL!

The days of appreciative servitude are over now, however, and a spokesman for the city’s hoteliers told the Kansas City Star that they had nothing to do with the labor recruiter’s alleged distasteful practices.

But I suspect this problem won’t be brushed off so easily. Hotel chains may denounce their former labor recruiter, but the Web site of the hotel industry’s trade association still bellows its support for the federal H-2B visa program that may have made it all possible. 

Author Thomas Frank wraps up with this!

The answer comes in another choice phrase from the Web site of the accused: Bring on Giant Labor and “your recruiting, hiring and payroll expenses will drastically drop.”

It’s a “labor solution,” all right. It’s “a win-win situation,” even. For everyone but the workers.

Note to do-gooders:  This is all about an unholy alliance between big business (cheap labor) on the one hand, and using immigrants to destabilize communities on the other hand.    You may care deeply about the plight of the world’s downtrodden but the driving force behind the open borders movement is BIG BUCKS for some and more Leftwing angry demanding voters for others.

Question for Ms. Sebelius, former Governor of Kansas and now Secretary of Health and Human Services that oversees the Office of Refugee Resettlement—-what did you know about this back in Kansas?

More fluff and puff from the Tennessean…

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….and from openly pro-Open Borders reporter Janell Ross.   I can’t stand it.  I read so much biased reporting it makes me sick and the Tennessean is one of the most biased of the biased papers in the nation on immigration.   Here is the title for this blatantly promotional piece for the Tennessee Immigration and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC):

Tennessee group seeks straight talk on immigrants

‘Welcoming’ effort addresses residents’ fears and perceptions

This deceptive article may as well have had the word “advertisement” across the top!  Makes you wonder if the community organizers even bring in their own reporters.

Ms. Ross sets the stage by suggesting that regular Tennessee folks standing around coffee shops are a bunch of redneck boobs filled with irrational fear for the unknown and the outsider.

Then she goes on to say:

The people inside those coffee shops are the kind Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition workers want to reach. The group recently received a $50,000 grant to expand its Welcoming Tennessee program, money to fund thought-provoking billboards or gather people to air fears and complaints.

Other groups are joining in — starting conversations about the estimated 4 percent of Tennessee’s population born in other countries. The topics are as simple as why various groups settled here and as complex as immigration and tax laws.

“We’re not so much trying to change the public’s concept of who is American … but to get people to think, to use reason instead of reacting to immigrants from a place of frustration and fear,” said Stephen Fotopulos, the coalition’s executive director.

I previously told you about the so-called $50,000 grant prize here.  Please go read it and then come back. 

Ms. Ross then tells us about the “grassroots” campaign that made sure the English Only ballot initiative failed earlier this year.   She doesn’t tell you that the “grassroots” were major big Nashville players and huge companies funding the campaign to kill it!   The TIRRC was on the side of BIG BUSINESS against the average “coffee-shop” Nashville citizen.   Big funders against the little guy were Caterpillar, HRC (mega giant hospital company) and even Vanderbilt University.  All told the “Nashville for all of Us” coalition—the opposition to English Only— raked in a cool $286,000.   See Judy’s post entitled, “Communism, Socialism or Fascism and Corporatism here to understand why Leftwing groups are in bed with big business.

I don’t want to overwhelm readers but here in a nutshell is what is going on in Nashville.   Community organizers from Chicago arrived in Nashville a few years ago and proceeded to set up a whole host of phoney-baloney “grassroots” groups (Soros strategy) with a few people involved in most of them (interlocking boards etc.).   That gives the general public the impression that there is a groundswell of support for anything having to do with immigrants.  There is even one called Tennesseans against Genocide that did virtually nothing that I can tell except take in money.

We saw a demonstration of how the few key players gathered together their myriad faux groups to give the public the idea that they represented hoards  of people in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens at this recent press conference at Nashville’s Loew’s Vanderbilt hotel.  And, what do you know, this politically correct story was written by Janell Ross.

Human nature is such that people don’t want to be outside the group, outside of what they perceive most of their peers are thinking and doing.  Judy told me the other day that that is part of the strategy that Obama used to win election, but I can’t remember if Judy posted on it!   That is what today’s Tennessean article is about—it is meant to tell the “coffee-shop” people that they are out of the mainstream.

In addition to making people feel that the smart people are all for more immigration, the mission of the TIRRC and its elitist community organizers is to continue to keep the community of Nashville in turmoil —- angry poor immigrants are ideal for that.  If you are thinking that can’t make sense, I didn’t think so either when I first learned about Saul Alinsky’s method of destabilizing communities by creating chaos.  The “have-nots” have to be continually fighting the “haves” to bring “change.”    By the way, tonight Glenn Beck opened his show with a discussion of the method.

And, of course one of the most galling aspects of all this is that in addition to corporate funding of these groups, ethnic organizations such as the Somali Community Center of Nashville,* get federal and state grants and contracts.  Their mission to destabilize communities is funded by the taxpayer which surely gives the organizers hearty laughs about pulling the wool over the eyes of those redneck “coffee-shop” citizens.

The jig is up!

Ms. Ross, how about a little real reporting for a change.

* For new readers, the US State Department has admitted over 80,000 Somali refugees to the US in the last 25 years and then last year had to suspend family reunification because widespread immigration fraud was revealed through DNA testing.