Category: Other Immigration

Arizona Law said to rile up Hispanics for May Day march

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May Day is Saturday and according to Reuters the regularly scheduled Marxist May Day events will be larger than normal thanks to Arizona’s stand on illegal immigration.

From Reuters:

Protest organizers said on Wednesday outrage over the Arizona law — which seeks to drive illegal immigrants out of the state bordering Mexico — has galvanized Latinos and would translate into a higher turnout for May Day rallies in more than 70 U.S. cities.  [Check organizers here, I don’t see 70 cities, are they exagerating again?—ed]

“The marches and demonstrations are going to be far more massive than they otherwise would have been,” said Juan Jose Gutierrez, a Los Angeles rally organizer who runs an immigration assistance company.

The backlash began on Friday after Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law a measure that requires state and local police to determine a person’s immigration status if there is “reasonable suspicion” they are undocumented. Critics say it is unconstitutional and opens the door to racial profiling.

Republican backers of the law say it is needed to curb crime in the desert state, which is a key corridor for drug and migrant smugglers from Mexico.

A Rasmussen Reports poll on Wednesday found that almost two-thirds — 64 percent — of voters in the state favored the measure.

The crowds on the streets, from Los Angeles to New York, could be the biggest since 2006, when hundreds of thousands of marchers urged former President George W. Bush to overhaul of federal immigration laws. He tried, but failed in Congress.

For a history of May Day—it ain’t all about flowers and Maypoles!—see here and here.

I’ll be looking for evidence that federal refugee contractors are involved in bringing out marchers as they did recently in Washington, DC here.   You can be sure that Cardinal Mahoney is whipping up the Bishops!

I’ll bet you a buck there is violence by some of those demonstrating on May Day.   I wonder will Obama order out the riot police as he did yesterday in Quincy, IL  against old lady Tea Partiers (go here to Gateway Pundit for a good laugh at Obama).

Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Will he or won’t he?

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Update April 28th:  Good op-ed here on the Arizona law. Author suggests to counter boycott of Arizona that everyone who supports the law should visit or spend money in Arizona.

In light of the measure signed into law in Arizona yesterday which allows police officers in that state to arrest illegal aliens, President Obama seems on the verge of pushing the on-again-off-again amnesty legislation this year. 

From Reuters:

WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Friday warned that without federal immigration reform the door would be open to “misguided efforts” such as a new Arizona law that has raised questions of civil rights.

Obama pressed for immigration reform at a White House Rose Garden ceremony in which 24 members of the U.S. military originally from China, Mexico, Ethiopia and other countries became American citizens.

“Today we celebrate the very essence of the country that we all love — an America where so many of our forbearers came from someplace else,” said Obama, whose father was Kenyan.

“And so on a day like this, we are also reminded of how we must remain both a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws,” he said. “This includes fixing America’s broken immigration system.”

Just hours after Obama singled out the Arizona measure as threatening “to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans,” the state’s Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed into effect the toughest immigration law in the United States.

Meanwhile, Gateway Pundit tells us that by a large majority Arizona voters approve of the strong measure.

To our critics who wonder what this has to do with legal refugees, here is my answer.  All of the federal contractors whose job it is to resettle refugees and find them homes and jobs are busy lobbying for so-called Comprehensive Immigration Reform (and were involved in the recent open borders march).  Are they also using our tax dollars earmarked for refugee resettlement for their politcal activities?

And, would someone please explain to me how giving amnesty to millions of illegal aliens will help legal refugees find jobs.

Update:  Here we go!  A bunch of agencies that have federal contracts to take care of refugees are blasting the Arizona law that is all about coming into the country ILLEGALLY.   I don’t know why they don’t focus on taking good care of their legal refugees! The only thing I can figure is that they figure if millions are legalized overnight they will be getting more of your tax dollars for programs for the newly legalized.  I’m sorry to say, that old axiom—follow the money—seems to apply here too!

Send in the National Enquirer to find the missing illegal Somalis!

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That is the suggestion of radio talk show host Roger Hedgecock writing at World Net Daily yesterday!  The National Enquirer has gotten so good at investigating maybe they could show the FBI* a thing or two.   Although obviously meant to be humorous there is a grain of truth in the suggestion in addition to a bit of news I didn’t know about this case (for background see Judy’s recent post)!

Anthony Joseph Tracy has been arrested on charges he conspired with the Cuban Embassy in Kenya to smuggle some 300 Somali young men into the U.S. Immigration officials are “concerned” about Mr. Tracey’s admitted contacts with the Somali terrorist organization Al-Shabaab, an al-Qaida ally.

In support of the charges, Justice Department attorneys told the federal court that prosecutors had “issued numerous subpoenas, reviewed Department of Homeland Security records and conducted witness interviews throughout the U.S., as well as in Australia and Africa.”

The feds allege that Mr. Tracy got the Somali men visas from the Cuban Embassy in Kenya. The Somalis then traveled from Kenya to Dubai to Moscow to Cuba to South America to Mexico – then entered the U.S. illegally across the Mexican border.

No evidence was presented as to how poor young Somali men could afford such an expensive, circuitous travel itinerary.

However, under questioning by Federal District Judge Leonie Brinkema, the feds admitted that they could not identify any of the Somalis smuggled into this country or identify where in the country they might be. The judge threatened to dismiss the charges unless the government could produce evidence that even one of the Somalis was actually illegally in the country and was here through the efforts of Mr. Tracy. [Wow!  I did not know that Tracy could escape prosecution if they don’t find any evidence that these guys are in the US–ed]

So far, the federal government cannot find any of these Somalis.

Send for the National Enquirer.

Good idea! 

* By the way, shouldn’t the Secret Service and the FBI have known about John Edwards affair with a staffer that was ultimately exposed singlehandedly by the National Enquirer?

Roy Beck at NumbersUSA: Immigration has undercut environmental progress

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Thursday is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.  Roy Beck is the President of NumbersUSA and today he has a message for America about how the high levels of immigration (legal and illegal) have an unsustainable impact on our environment.  For the rapidly increasing numbers of immigrants we lose open space as we must provide land for schools, roads, housing, and as the population expands we will undoubtedly see a degradation of air and water quality as well.   As Beck points out in his message today, I too wonder why the leftwing Democrats don’t see that.

Sustainability was the big idea 40 years ago when much of the nation’s attention was drawn to the events and news of the first Earth Day. I was a cub newspaper reporter covering the events. And I remember well that an important theme in 1970 was that sustainability required the U.S. to begin to stabilize its population after having added the SECOND 100 million in just 55 years.

Well, now we’ve added the THIRD 100 million in less than the 40 years since that first Earth Day and we’re on pace to add the FOURTH 100 million even faster!

[….]

Nearly all of the population growth is caused by the increases in immigration that Congress ordered or allowed since 1970. For every restriction and cost that the government has put on us since then to improve environmental quality, it has negated part or all of the benefits by forcing high population growth through radically increased immigration numbers.

[…..]

Without all the increases in immigration, our communities would have around 250 million inhabitants right now, with little likelihood of ever going over 265 million.

Instead, because of a quadrupling in legal immigration numbers, we have more than 310 million inhabitants and are on a trajectory to cross 600 million well before the end of this century!

How the Sierra Club and to a lesser degree the Natural Resources Defense Council sold out the environment. 

I’ve written a lot of posts on the subject here, here, here and here for starters.  Readers need to know that the Sierra Club and NRDC * are part of the far left, pro-union, pro-open borders Apollo Alliance which is credited with drafting the stimulus bill to redistribute the wealth (as Van Jones would say) to an increasing number of the world’s poor while hiding behind a faux green jobs agenda.  Heck, one Apollo Alliance board member—John Podesta of the Center for American Progress— is a big open borders advocate and the CAP pushed for an airlift of 100,000 Iraqis to the US last year when we have no jobs let alone the mythical “green” ones.  And, would someone explain to me how all the immigrants Podesta is pushing won’t compete with the union workers supposedly represented by union leaders on the Apollo Board.

* I note that since I wrote my first post on the Apollo Alliance that Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, has gotten off the Apollo board (I’m glad I had copied the board of directors list in that earlier post), and she doesn’t even mention her Apollo Alliance role in her bio, here.  I wonder why?

One more thing:  After I posted this, I searched NRDC’s website and found only one obscure mention of the Apollo Alliance in reference to an employee who had previously worked there.  Interesting—not proud of their earlier key role on the Board of the Apollo Alliance?

Muslims vs. McDonalds

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If I were a betting person I would put my money on the Muslims especially since you can be sure that CAIR is already on the scene.  CAIR is the Council on American Islamic Relations (aka the Muslim Mafia) and if I were a betting person, I’d bet CAIR is behind this.   An immigrant from Bangladesh was told she could not wear her head scarf while working at McDonald’s in Detroit. From UPI:

DETROIT, April 14 (UPI) — A Muslim woman in Michigan says she was turned down for a job at McDonald’s because she wears a headscarf or hijab.

Nasihah Barlaskar, 19, the daughter of immigrants from Bangladesh, has filed a discrimination complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [many critics call the EEOC CAIR’s handmaiden-ed], the Detroit Free Press reported. She alleges she failed to get a job at a McDonald’s restaurant in Rochester Hills because of religious bias.

In an interview with the newspaper, Barlaskar said a manager asked her during a March 27 interview whether she was required to wear “that thing,” referring to her headscarf. She said she responded: “I do. Is that a problem?”

The manager told her she would not be able to wear the hijab on the job, she said.

Meanwhile other western countries are actually attempting to ban the hijab, most notably Canada, Belgium and France.  I haven’t followed the news that closely on the issue in those countries so I don’t know where it stands, but will report it here when I find out.

Just for your information, Bangladesh is a Muslim country that has been making the news lately for its attacks on Rohingya Muslims seeking refuge there.  Because Bangladesh is discriminating against its co-religionists we have begun resettling Rohingya to the US.   That is a whole other story that you can learn about in our Rohingya Reports category here.