PHOENIX, July 25 (Reuters) - Nicaraguan mother Lorena Aguilar hawks a television set and a few clothes on the baking sidewalk outside her west Phoenix apartment block.
A few paces up the street, her undocumented Mexican neighbor Wendi Villasenor touts a kitchen table, some chairs and a few dishes as her family scrambles to get out of Arizona ahead of a looming crackdown on illegal immigrants.
"Everyone is selling up the little they have and leaving," said Villasenor, 31, who is headed for Pennsylvania. "We have no alternative. They have us cornered."
The two women are among scores of illegal immigrant families across Phoenix hauling the contents of their homes into the yard this weekend as they rush to sell up and get out before the state law takes effect on Thursday.
The law, the toughest imposed by any U.S. state to curb illegal immigration, seeks to drive more than 400,000 undocumented day laborers, landscapers, house cleaners, chambermaids and other workers out of Arizona, which borders Mexico.
It makes being an illegal immigrant a state crime and requires state and local police, during lawful contact, to investigate the status of anyone they reasonably suspect of being an illegal immigrant.
The U.S. government estimates 100,000 unauthorized migrants left Arizona after the state passed an employer sanctions law three years ago requiring companies to verify workers' status using a federal computer system. There are no figures for the number who have left since the new law passed in April.
Some are heading back to Mexico or to neighboring states. Others are staying put and taking their chances.
In a sign of a gathering exodus, Mexican businesses from grocers and butcher shops to diners and beauty salons have shut their doors in recent weeks as their owners and clients leave.
On Saturday and Sunday, Reuters counted dozens of impromptu yard sales in Latino neighborhoods in central and west Phoenix/
"They wanted to drive Hispanics out of Arizona and they have succeeded even before the law even comes into effect," said Aguilar, 28, a mother of three young children who was also offering a few cherished pictures and a stereo at one of five sales on the same block.
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Monday, July 26, 2010
Friday, July 9, 2010
An ex-Romanian ally of the KGB says the premature exposure and exchange of Russian spies in the U.S. was "a huge mistake"
...yesterday, the U.S. intelligence community lost a unique chance to learn what was behind Russia's current illegal operations. It is a huge mistake to have wasted this opportunity by rushing to exchange the ten illegals for, among others, a Russian who was framed as a spy (and does not want to leave Russia). There is nothing in this exchange for the United States. We should have first learned what we can from the ten illegals, before starting to think about exchanging them. Even the infamous Abel was not exchanged until five years after he was sentenced. And he was exchanged for an American who had made history for the U.S.
POST-SOVIET RUSSIA has been transformed in unprecedented positive ways. The barriers the Soviets spent over 70 years erecting between themselves and the rest of the world, as well as between individual Russians, are slowly coming down. Russian culture is reviving, and the country is developing a new national identity.
In 2000, however, some of my former colleagues in the KGB, which instrumented the Cold War, took over the Kremlin at the end of a palace coup and instituted what seems to be the first intelligence dictatorship in history. During the Soviet Union, the KGB, which killed off some twenty million people, was a state within the state. Now the KGB is the state. Over 6,000 former KGB officers are running Russia's federal and local governments, and they are also managing the country's oil and natural gas industries, which were renationalized.
On February 12, 2004, Russia's new tsar, Vladimir Putin, declared the demise of the Soviet Union a "national tragedy on an enormous scale." We kept quiet. In July 2007, he predicted a new Cold War against the West. We kept quiet. "War has started," Putin announced on August 8, 2008, minutes after Russian tanks crossed into the pro-Western country of Georgia. We kept quiet. But the remarkable number of Russian illegal officers identified inside the U.S. strongly suggests that the Kremlin is indeed engaged in a new Cold War against us.
POST-SOVIET RUSSIA has been transformed in unprecedented positive ways. The barriers the Soviets spent over 70 years erecting between themselves and the rest of the world, as well as between individual Russians, are slowly coming down. Russian culture is reviving, and the country is developing a new national identity.
In 2000, however, some of my former colleagues in the KGB, which instrumented the Cold War, took over the Kremlin at the end of a palace coup and instituted what seems to be the first intelligence dictatorship in history. During the Soviet Union, the KGB, which killed off some twenty million people, was a state within the state. Now the KGB is the state. Over 6,000 former KGB officers are running Russia's federal and local governments, and they are also managing the country's oil and natural gas industries, which were renationalized.
On February 12, 2004, Russia's new tsar, Vladimir Putin, declared the demise of the Soviet Union a "national tragedy on an enormous scale." We kept quiet. In July 2007, he predicted a new Cold War against the West. We kept quiet. "War has started," Putin announced on August 8, 2008, minutes after Russian tanks crossed into the pro-Western country of Georgia. We kept quiet. But the remarkable number of Russian illegal officers identified inside the U.S. strongly suggests that the Kremlin is indeed engaged in a new Cold War against us.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Chutzpah: Mexico will issue IDs to illegals at Catalina Island
The Mexican government is opening a satellite consular office on Catalina Island -- a small resort off the California coast with a history of drug smuggling and human trafficking -- to provide the island's illegal Mexican immigrants with identification cards, The Washington Examiner has learned.
The Mexican consular office in Los Angeles issued a flier, a copy of which was obtained by The Examiner, listing the Catalina Island Country Club as the location of its satellite office. It invites Mexicans to visit the office to obtain the identification, called matricular cards, by appointment.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican whose district includes Catalina Island, said handing out matricular cards will exacerbate an already dangerous situation.
"Handing out matricular cards to Mexicans who are not in this country legally is wrong no matter where it's done," he said. "But on Catalina it will do more damage. It's a small island but there's evidence it's being used as a portal for illegals to access mainland California."
Rohrabacher added, "If there were a large number of Americans illegally in Mexico and the U.S. consulate was making it easier for them to stay, Mexico would never permit it."
Mexican officials with the consular office in Los Angeles could not be reached immediately for comment. The matricular consular identification card, is issued by the Mexican government to Mexican nationals residing outside the country, regardless of immigration status. The purpose is to provide identification for opening bank accounts and obtaining other services. But the cards are usually used to skirt U.S. immigration laws, since Mexicans in the country legally have documents proving that status, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.
In 2004 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI officials called the card an unreliable form of identification. The agency said that Mexico lacks a centralized database for them, which could lead to forgery, duplication, and other forms of abuse.
Officers with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said their agency was asked by Mexican officials not to enforce U.S. immigration laws on the island while the cards were being issued.
The Mexican consular office in Los Angeles issued a flier, a copy of which was obtained by The Examiner, listing the Catalina Island Country Club as the location of its satellite office. It invites Mexicans to visit the office to obtain the identification, called matricular cards, by appointment.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican whose district includes Catalina Island, said handing out matricular cards will exacerbate an already dangerous situation.
"Handing out matricular cards to Mexicans who are not in this country legally is wrong no matter where it's done," he said. "But on Catalina it will do more damage. It's a small island but there's evidence it's being used as a portal for illegals to access mainland California."
Rohrabacher added, "If there were a large number of Americans illegally in Mexico and the U.S. consulate was making it easier for them to stay, Mexico would never permit it."
Mexican officials with the consular office in Los Angeles could not be reached immediately for comment. The matricular consular identification card, is issued by the Mexican government to Mexican nationals residing outside the country, regardless of immigration status. The purpose is to provide identification for opening bank accounts and obtaining other services. But the cards are usually used to skirt U.S. immigration laws, since Mexicans in the country legally have documents proving that status, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.
In 2004 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI officials called the card an unreliable form of identification. The agency said that Mexico lacks a centralized database for them, which could lead to forgery, duplication, and other forms of abuse.
Officers with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said their agency was asked by Mexican officials not to enforce U.S. immigration laws on the island while the cards were being issued.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
It's a matter of time before the Party of Conspicuous Compassion blocks roads to keep illegals from leaving Arizona
PHOENIX (AP) - Many of the cars that once stopped in the Home Depot parking lot to pick up day laborers to hang drywall or do landscaping now just drive on by.
Arizona's sweeping immigration bill allows police to arrest illegal immigrant day laborers seeking work on the street or anyone trying to hire them. It won't take effect until summer but it is already having an effect on the state's underground economy.
"Nobody wants to pick us up," Julio Loyola Diaz says in Spanish as he and dozens of other men wait under the shade of palo verde trees and lean against a low brick wall outside the east Phoenix home improvement store.
Many day laborers like Diaz say they will leave Arizona because of the law, which also makes it a state crime to be in the U.S. illegally and directs police to question people about their immigration status if there is reason to suspect they are illegal immigrants.
Arizona's sweeping immigration bill allows police to arrest illegal immigrant day laborers seeking work on the street or anyone trying to hire them. It won't take effect until summer but it is already having an effect on the state's underground economy.
"Nobody wants to pick us up," Julio Loyola Diaz says in Spanish as he and dozens of other men wait under the shade of palo verde trees and lean against a low brick wall outside the east Phoenix home improvement store.
Many day laborers like Diaz say they will leave Arizona because of the law, which also makes it a state crime to be in the U.S. illegally and directs police to question people about their immigration status if there is reason to suspect they are illegal immigrants.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Up to 7 million illegals hold jobs in U.S.
"Who is getting the jobs for which these native-born black and Hispanic young could qualify?
Illegal aliens hold literally millions of them.
Last week, the CIS reported, "An estimated 6 to 7 million illegal immigrants are currently holding jobs. Prior research indicates they are overwhelmingly employed in lower-skilled and lower-paying jobs." [Unemployment for Immigrants and the US-Born: Picture Bleak for Less-Educated Black & Hispanic Americans By Steven A. Camarota, February 2009]
Exactly what sort of jobs?
"Illegals are primarily employed in construction, building cleaning and maintenance, food preparation, service and processing, transportation and moving occupations and agriculture."
With the exception of agriculture, a majority of the workers in these occupations are native-born Americans. Thus, illegal aliens are taking jobs Americans are not only willing to do, but are doing, and taking 7 million of these jobs from young Americans now out of work.
By failing to enforce U.S. immigration laws, the government of the United States is selling America's working class down the river."
http://www.vdare.com/buchanan/090223_courage.htm
Illegal aliens hold literally millions of them.
Last week, the CIS reported, "An estimated 6 to 7 million illegal immigrants are currently holding jobs. Prior research indicates they are overwhelmingly employed in lower-skilled and lower-paying jobs." [Unemployment for Immigrants and the US-Born: Picture Bleak for Less-Educated Black & Hispanic Americans By Steven A. Camarota, February 2009]
Exactly what sort of jobs?
"Illegals are primarily employed in construction, building cleaning and maintenance, food preparation, service and processing, transportation and moving occupations and agriculture."
With the exception of agriculture, a majority of the workers in these occupations are native-born Americans. Thus, illegal aliens are taking jobs Americans are not only willing to do, but are doing, and taking 7 million of these jobs from young Americans now out of work.
By failing to enforce U.S. immigration laws, the government of the United States is selling America's working class down the river."
http://www.vdare.com/buchanan/090223_courage.htm
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Is it sloth? Or hispandering? Illegals stay here
"The U.S. government spends tens of millions of dollars each year persuading federal circuit courts to uphold orders for thousands of illegal immigrants to leave the country, but those orders have been enforced in only one-fifth of the cases, according to sources familiar with a recent Justice Department study.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a branch of the Department of Homeland Security, is responsible for "removing" illegal immigrants who stay in this country against the law. But the study found that more than 80 percent of the illegal immigrants whose deportation orders were upheld by a federal appeals court last year were still in the country as of five weeks ago, according to an internal Justice Department memo obtained by FOX News.
"If the people aren't getting removed, why the heck are we spending all the money?" asked one former Justice Department official who left with the Bush administration."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/18/justice-department-fail-enforce-deportation-orders/
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a branch of the Department of Homeland Security, is responsible for "removing" illegal immigrants who stay in this country against the law. But the study found that more than 80 percent of the illegal immigrants whose deportation orders were upheld by a federal appeals court last year were still in the country as of five weeks ago, according to an internal Justice Department memo obtained by FOX News.
"If the people aren't getting removed, why the heck are we spending all the money?" asked one former Justice Department official who left with the Bush administration."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/18/justice-department-fail-enforce-deportation-orders/
Monday, February 2, 2009
As jobless toll rises, Dems invite more immigrants
When did we lose the loyalty of our exalted leaders? How did we turn them off to the point where their loyalty shifted to citizens of other lands? Will they ever give us a chance to win them back?
President Obama has declared himself a "citizen of the world," and apologized to foreigners whose feelings may have been hurt by the Texas cowboy who preceded him in the White House. Worse, he has ordered the closing of the Guantanamo, Cuba, group home where terrorists who have plotted against America are housed, even in the absence of an alternative destination.
The Texas cowboy, in turn, made it very clear that, faced with a choice between Americans and Mexicans, he sided with the Mexicans. President George Bush's eight years in the White House brought eight years of relentless hispandering and a to-hell-with-them brush-off of American workers and families.
Before the Texas cowboy there was President George Herbert Walker Bush, who famously said, "It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance."
That's the bad news. The good news is that, so far as is known, no one has been arrested yet for reciting the pledge to the flag or putting the interests of Americans first. But then, when was the last time our exalted leaders put the interests of Americans first?
Ostensibly, the objective of the ongoing hispandering was to corral immigrant voters for the Republican Party, a reasonable objective given the increasing role of hispanics in American elections. In November, they accounted for 9 percent of the total vote.
But the receptive teatment accorded by the Bush administration attracted a horde of illegal immigrants from Mexico, who readily took the low-paying jobs that traditionally have been filled by students and young workers eager to climb onto the first rung of the economic ladder.
I am familiar with that rung, having pitched manure, weeded fields and rebuilt railroad bridges.
The Bush administration and its apologists answered the critics by arguing that the Mexicans were simply "doing the jobs that Americans won't do." But the argument was flawed. There are no jobs that Americans won't do. Reports put out by the Bush administration showed that Americans made up most of the work force in every category of employment tracked by the federal government.
Bush and his apologists lied. It was more important to them that their party got hispanic votes than it was to protect vulnerable American workers trying to get a foothold in the work force and a chance at the American dream. The illegals not only took jobs from Americans, but suppressed wage rates for blue-collar workers who did have jobs.
The Republican Party is in disrepute because it deserves to be. Its most recent candidate for president, Sen. John McCain, often boasts about his forays "across the aisle" to vote for liberal proposals.
It is a measure of the arrogance and anti-Americanism of our exalted leaders that the Democrats, now in power, plan to try again to provide amnesty, as well as a probable pathway to citizenship, to illegal immigrants who are here. Because the border fence remains unfinished, that includes an untold number of Mexicans who will set out for the border as soon as the bill is passed.
So, it wasn't enough that young blue-collar Americans were denied a chance in recent years; now, they are to be denied again as a predictable new waves of illegals crosses the southern border to claim jobs and medical and educational benefits available here.
Senate Majority leader Harry Reid has introduced the new amnesty bill, which is cosponsored by Ted Kennedy, Mark Begich, Jeff Bingaman, Sherrod Brown, Barbara Boxer, John Kerry, Dick Durbin, Amy Klobuchar, Pat Leahy, Carl Levin, Joe Lieberman, Claire McCaskill, and Charles Schumer.
The title of the bill is: "Stronger Economy, Stronger Borders Act of 2009."
If satire was intended, the title would be funny. But it isn't satire. It's a reflection of how our exalted leaders think. Words don't have to make sense. Titles on bills don't have to reflect reality. That is why, in the midst of rising unemployment and a dangerous recession, the Democrats are preparing to expand the work force, perhaps by millions of illegals from Mexico.
Since any new workers will be surplus, some will inevitably take jobs now filled by Americans. The unemployment rolls will grow.
How many Republicans will support this absurdity remains to be seen.
Their previous hispandering has not been rewarded. In the November election, hispanics voted for Obama by a two-to-one margin, even giving him a 57 percent majority in Florida, a state previously won by Bush.
There must be a word for people who do the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. Oh yes, now I remember; Albert Einstein's word for it was "insanity."
President Obama has declared himself a "citizen of the world," and apologized to foreigners whose feelings may have been hurt by the Texas cowboy who preceded him in the White House. Worse, he has ordered the closing of the Guantanamo, Cuba, group home where terrorists who have plotted against America are housed, even in the absence of an alternative destination.
The Texas cowboy, in turn, made it very clear that, faced with a choice between Americans and Mexicans, he sided with the Mexicans. President George Bush's eight years in the White House brought eight years of relentless hispandering and a to-hell-with-them brush-off of American workers and families.
Before the Texas cowboy there was President George Herbert Walker Bush, who famously said, "It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance."
That's the bad news. The good news is that, so far as is known, no one has been arrested yet for reciting the pledge to the flag or putting the interests of Americans first. But then, when was the last time our exalted leaders put the interests of Americans first?
Ostensibly, the objective of the ongoing hispandering was to corral immigrant voters for the Republican Party, a reasonable objective given the increasing role of hispanics in American elections. In November, they accounted for 9 percent of the total vote.
But the receptive teatment accorded by the Bush administration attracted a horde of illegal immigrants from Mexico, who readily took the low-paying jobs that traditionally have been filled by students and young workers eager to climb onto the first rung of the economic ladder.
I am familiar with that rung, having pitched manure, weeded fields and rebuilt railroad bridges.
The Bush administration and its apologists answered the critics by arguing that the Mexicans were simply "doing the jobs that Americans won't do." But the argument was flawed. There are no jobs that Americans won't do. Reports put out by the Bush administration showed that Americans made up most of the work force in every category of employment tracked by the federal government.
Bush and his apologists lied. It was more important to them that their party got hispanic votes than it was to protect vulnerable American workers trying to get a foothold in the work force and a chance at the American dream. The illegals not only took jobs from Americans, but suppressed wage rates for blue-collar workers who did have jobs.
The Republican Party is in disrepute because it deserves to be. Its most recent candidate for president, Sen. John McCain, often boasts about his forays "across the aisle" to vote for liberal proposals.
It is a measure of the arrogance and anti-Americanism of our exalted leaders that the Democrats, now in power, plan to try again to provide amnesty, as well as a probable pathway to citizenship, to illegal immigrants who are here. Because the border fence remains unfinished, that includes an untold number of Mexicans who will set out for the border as soon as the bill is passed.
So, it wasn't enough that young blue-collar Americans were denied a chance in recent years; now, they are to be denied again as a predictable new waves of illegals crosses the southern border to claim jobs and medical and educational benefits available here.
Senate Majority leader Harry Reid has introduced the new amnesty bill, which is cosponsored by Ted Kennedy, Mark Begich, Jeff Bingaman, Sherrod Brown, Barbara Boxer, John Kerry, Dick Durbin, Amy Klobuchar, Pat Leahy, Carl Levin, Joe Lieberman, Claire McCaskill, and Charles Schumer.
The title of the bill is: "Stronger Economy, Stronger Borders Act of 2009."
If satire was intended, the title would be funny. But it isn't satire. It's a reflection of how our exalted leaders think. Words don't have to make sense. Titles on bills don't have to reflect reality. That is why, in the midst of rising unemployment and a dangerous recession, the Democrats are preparing to expand the work force, perhaps by millions of illegals from Mexico.
Since any new workers will be surplus, some will inevitably take jobs now filled by Americans. The unemployment rolls will grow.
How many Republicans will support this absurdity remains to be seen.
Their previous hispandering has not been rewarded. In the November election, hispanics voted for Obama by a two-to-one margin, even giving him a 57 percent majority in Florida, a state previously won by Bush.
There must be a word for people who do the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. Oh yes, now I remember; Albert Einstein's word for it was "insanity."
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