Category: Other Immigration

Bishops busy funding illegal alien activists while legal refugees suffer

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Here is the latest from Accuracy in Media on the role of the Catholic Church and specifially the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in promoting activist open borders groups.

A group organizing a May 1 “May Day” rally in favor of “immigrant rights” in Lafayette Park in front of the White House is financially supported by the Catholic Church, Big Business, the federal government, and various Maryland governmental entities.

It is anticipated that the demonstration will take the form of opposition to Arizona’s new law that is designed to discourage illegal immigration.

The buses will leave for Lafayette Park from CASA de Maryland centers starting at 12:30, with the rally scheduled to begin at 2 p.m.

So-called “May Day actions” are being planned in dozens of cities around the U.S.

CASA de Maryland, an illegal alien support group, is sponsoring the buses that will take hundreds of protesters to the event in the nation’s capital. CASA is considered the biggest promoter and facilitator of illegal aliens in Maryland.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and its Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), which got caught funding the radical group ACORN, are listed on the CASA website as being among its many financial donors and supporters.

Read on.  There is lots more information on CASA and its shocking list of funders.  If you spot a business there that you know, you should contact them and ask them why they support CASA.

So, as the Bishops agitate for illegal aliens to be legalized, refugees in their care in cities like Fredericksburg, VA and Albuquerque, NM (where we learned yesterday that an African woman is on a hunger strike because Catholic Charities isn’t doing enough for the refugees in that city) are suffering.

Here is the contact information for the USCCB’s main (lobbying!) office in Washington, DC.  All good Catholics should tell the Bishops to get their own house in order and spend some of their millions of dollars on refugees before they invite millions more immigrants to America!

Ethiopian man murders wife and daughter in Virginia

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Federal marshals are looking for an Ethiopian man who brutally murdered his wife and 3 year old daughter in Northern Virginia.  The little girl had her throat slit and marshals call the man a monster.   From the Washington Examiner:

U.S. marshals searching for a 34-year-old man they say killed his 3-year-old daughter and the girl’s mother at an Alexandria apartment.

Officers responded to a report of a domestic disturbance in a high-rise apartment complex on South Reynolds Street on April 11, and found 27-year-old Seble Tessema and her 3-year-old daughter dead. Police said Simon Asfeha used a knife to kill Tessema and slash the little girl’s throat.

“We’re not hunting a man, we’re hunting a monster. We need the public’s assistance in getting Asfeha off the streets as soon as possible,” says Rob Fernandez, commander of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force.

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He has an extensive criminal history including multiple charges for assault, weapons violations, drugs and making threats. Asfeha should be considered armed and dangerous.

Was April Ethiopians gone wild month?  We reported earlier this week on the Ethiopian man who opened fire at a hospital in Tennessee and then killed himself.

I wonder is Asfeha a refugee or asylee—only his resettlement agency or immigration lawyer knows for sure.

Immigration driving the cost of education

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Bottom line: immigration (legal and illegal) accounted for all of the increase in K-12 enrollment between 1999 and 2007.

That according to a new report published today by economist  Edwin Rubenstein at the Social Contract.  Hat tip:  Izzy.  According to a compilation of several studies the cost of education in the US is being driven by high levels of immigration.  In fact, enrollment of school age children would have leveled off and even declined by now if it hadn’t been for our high immigration rates.  

The ultimate driver for new school construction is rising enrollment – and the ultimate driver for enrollment is immigration. In fact, without immigration school enrollment would have declined in recent years…

Read it all.

Former Congressman calls for moratorium on all immigration

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Well someone had to say it!  It’s no surprise it is the guy with guts from Virginia—former Congressman Virgil Goode writing at Frontpage magazine today in a column entitled, “The Real Immigration Solution.”   I must admit I’ve been a big fan of Goodes ever since he bravely stared down the political correctness police and wimps at the Washington Post in 2006 when he linked immigration to Islamic terrorism (which he does in this article as well).  

The Far Left targeted him in the 2008 Obama-sweep and a pipsqueak, Tom Perriello, took his place in Congress.  Perriello is now a target of the Tea Party (that 5th Congressional District in Virginia is a hot bed of Tea Party activists) and he will likely end up a one-termer.

From Virgil Goode at Frontpage:

In the wake of Arizona’s SB 1070, illegal immigration is at the forefront of national discussion for the first time since the defeat of amnesty in 2007. Arizona’s law, which makes illegal presence a state crime, has rallied supporters of immigration enforcement. The open borders lobby is pretending that the sky is falling and using the law to demand that the federal government grant an amnesty.

Lost in this debate is any discussion of lowering legal immigration levels. In fact, many opponents of amnesty argue that while we need to stop illegal immigration, we should increase legal immigration.

Amnesty backers cannot deny that the 1986 amnesty failed to stop illegal immigration, so they now blame the problem on the fact that we did not increase legal immigration enough after the Act. They argue we can prevent future illegal immigration by simply increasing legal immigration alongside an amnesty. Luis Gutierrez’s amnesty bill includes a special visa to “prevent unauthorized migration” by simply increasing legal immigration from the country where illegal immigrants come from.

Most Americans do not know just how many legal immigrants we let in each year. The Department of Homeland Security just issued their statistics for new legal permanent immigrants in 2009. Last year, we issued 1,130,818 green cards, the fourth highest year since 1914. From 2000-2009, we issued over 10 million green cards, the highest decade of American history. Currently, there are 38 million immigrants, 24 million of whom are in the workforce. This does not include temporary workers. DHS did not release the 2009 figures yet, but they issued 912,735 temporary employment authorizations in 2008.

Most of these immigrants are low skilled and from the Third World. Less than 10% of new green card holders are from Europe. People of extraordinary ability, investors, and immigrants with advanced degrees made up less than 8% of the new immigrants.

Faced with these numbers, how can anyone argue with a straight face that we don’t admit enough immigrants?

Now!  He says it—the ‘m-word! ‘ MORATORIUM!

Individual legal immigrants are not to blame for these problems. They came here in search of a better life and played by the rules. The real culprits are the politicians who put cheap labor ahead of the interests of the American people. With 25 million out of work, it’s time to put the American citizens first by issuing a moratorium on legal immigration.

Read it all and pass it along!