Amnesty for Illegal Immigrant Women buried in Violence Bill

TEA Party: Amnesty for Illegal Immigrant Women buried in Violence Bill - posted via ALIPAC
NY TIMES: WASHINGTON — With emotions still raw from the fight over President Obama’s contraception mandate, Senate Democrats are beginning a push to renew the Violence Against Women Act, the once broadly bipartisan 1994 legislation that now faces fierce opposition from conservatives. [. . . ]

The legislation would continue existing grant programs to local law enforcement and battered women shelters, but would expand efforts to reach Indian tribes and rural areas. It would increase the availability of free legal assistance to victims of domestic violence, extend the definition of violence against women to include stalking, and provide training for civil and criminal court personnel to deal with families with a history of violence. It would also allow more battered illegal immigrants to claim temporary visas, and would include same-sex couples in programs for domestic violence.

Republicans say the measure, under the cloak of battered women, unnecessarily expands immigration avenues by creating new definitions for immigrant victims to claim battery. More important, they say, it fails to put in safeguards to ensure that domestic violence grants are being well spent. It also dilutes the focus on domestic violence by expanding protections to new groups, like same-sex couples, they say.

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Georgia Moves to Halt Enrollment of ILLEGALS in Public Colleges

Times Free Press Opinion reports:

[A] bill in Georgia that would stop illegal aliens from gaining spots in public colleges in the Peach State offered some eye-opening facts about various states' policies on illegal immigrants enrolling in taxpayer-supported colleges and universities.

What's perhaps most remarkable, and troubling, is that so far only two states -- Alabama and South Carolina -- bar illegal aliens from enrolling. Georgia would make three if its bill passes.

That means 47 other states . . . let people who are in the United States illegally take up spots in colleges and universities -- almost certainly denying some seats to law-abiding U.S. citizens. It gets even worse than that, though.

In 12 states, illegal aliens can officially receive in-state tuition rates to attend public colleges and universities if they happen to reside in those states. That benefit -- which can easily come to many thousands of dollars per year -- is denied to U.S. citizens or legal immigrants who happen to live in a different state from the one where the college they want to attend is located.

The states that offer this improper and unjust benefit are California, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Washington.

Only four states -- Arizona, Colorado, Georgia and Indiana -- specifically forbid illegal aliens to receive in-state tuition rates.

Perhaps worst of all, three states actually grant financial aid for unlawful immigrants to attend college. Those states are California, New Mexico and Texas.

Supporters of letting illegal aliens attend U.S. colleges and universities say it would destroy their academic dreams to deny them enrollment. And of course there is sympathy for anyone who wants to improve himself through education. But when it comes to sometimes-scarce spots in college classrooms and limited funding for education, there is simply no justification for putting illegal aliens ahead of U.S. citizens and immigrants who have come to the United States through legal processes.

There should be no real controversy over Georgia's legislative attempt to reserve college and university spots for citizens and legal immigrants. Or if there is any debate, it should be over the fact that . . . other states have not yet moved to restrict enrollment in public institutions of higher learning to Americans and lawful immigrants.

It is often said that the federal government cannot find and deport every illegal alien. That is true. But if we cut off the availability of jobs as well as benefits such as higher education, many illegal aliens will deport themselves.

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Congress seeks accurate count of ‘got-aways’

Washington Times is reporting:

Rep. Darrell E. Issa has set a deadline of Thursday for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Intent on investigating allegations that the federal agency released “false and misleading border-crossing data,” the California Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has asked her for 2011 operational records from eight border-patrol stations in the Tucson, Ariz., region.

“The numbers appear to dramatically understate the volume of individuals who crossed the border illegally and are neither arrested nor turned back south (‘got-aways’),” Mr. Issa writes in a letter to Ms. Napolitano, . . . that 268,000 people entered the U.S. illegally and were never counted.

“The potential magnitude of the underreporting of got-aways casts doubt on the border-security numbers touted by the department during this administration. If got-aways are in fact being underreported to that extent, then the data on which you based the conclusion that ‘the border is safer than it has been in decades’ is seriously flawed,” . . . [Read More]

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Appeals Court: Illegals in Alabama Can Not Be Blocked From Getting Driver’s Licenses

What! A person can break the law by entering the U.S. illegally and then not being a legal resident in Alabama, the legal residents of Alabama are expected to allow the illegal person to obtain an Alabama driver's license! To do what? Commit more crimes, consume more taxpayer's services, potentially have a wreck and kill a legal citizen, potentially a child, and / or destroy a legal person's personal property. And while the illegal is getting their driver's license, maybe then should be allowed the opportunity to register to vote then to later vote illegally. Vote for who - Barack Obama? And this is just the tip of the iceberg on the problems. What about car insurance; who is going to pay for, etc. etc. etc.

Alabama has the sovereign right to establish the requirements for a driver license in their state. And why are the Feds using the term Hispanic? What about illegal Irish, German, Filipino, or even a French Canadian? The Alabama law applies equally. They only want legal residents fof their state getting an Alabama driver's licenses. For the rest of us, we don't want any illegals entering the U.S.A. "What in the H --- " are President Obama and AG Eric Holder doing? The allow unsecured borders, and Holder is responsible for his staff participate in gun running schemes to Mexico. Why are they involved again in a state issue? What are their motives and or agendas?

When leaders of the United States pay more deference to illegals invading the United States than to the 10th Amendment issues or to preserving and protecting the borders of the Unites States, what would you call the situation? Ahem ... way things are these days, it reminds me of a 60's book titled "None Dare Call it Treason."

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An appeals court ordered the state of Alabama on Thursday to stop enforcing additional parts of its controversial new immigration law, pending review of a federal challenge to the measure that is considered the toughest in the nation. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, based in Atlanta, issued a brief order expanding its initial injunction to include provisions that barred illegal immigrants from obtaining a driver's license and barred courts from enforcing contracts that involved illegal immigrants. The appeals court in October blocked the state from enforcing another key provision of the law that required schools to check the immigration status of children on enrollment. The provisions are blocked pending the outcome of the legal challenge by President Barack Obama's administration, which has argued that regulation of immigration should be handled by the federal government and not the states . . . . [Full Story]

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Californians Say Undocumented Should be Able to Keep Their Job

According to Fox News Latino: Seventy percent of Californians feel that undocumented immigrants who have lived and worked in the country for at least two years should have the opportunity to keep their jobs, a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California shows.

Support for that view is highest among Latinos, 92 percent, followed by Asians, 65 percent, and non-Hispanic whites, 60 percent, according to the latest PPIC Statewide Survey.

The poll was conducted via telephone interviews of 2,001 California adults during the period Feb. 21-28.

The survey found that 85 percent of Latinos and 60 percent of Asians see immigrants as a benefit for the state, while 49 percent of whites characterized them as a burden. . . . Read More

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Boo-Hoo; Mexican Drug Cartel Boss Doesn’t Like the Way His Arrest Went Down

From One Old Vet - Former Gulf Cartel plaza boss says feds conducted illegal raid

Jared Taylor:  A former Gulf Cartel plaza boss facing indictment in Houston claims federal authorities illegally searched his home looking for one of the organization’s bosses.

The Drug Enforcement Administration arrested Eudoxio Ramos Garcia after raiding his home near Roma on Oct. 27, 2011.

Court records filed in U.S. District Court in Houston say the U.S. Marshals, DEA and other agencies arrived at the two-story home at 600 River Point about noon that day.

The Marshals apparently had learned Gulf Cartel kingpin Juan Mejia Reyes, known as “R-1,” was at the house, armed with high-powered rifles, handguns and hand grenades.

Ramos, the former Gulf Cartel plaza boss of Miguel Alemán, accuses more than a dozen federal agents of entering his house without his permission, a warrant or any probable cause.

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Stimulus Money Used to Hire Foreign Workers Over Americans in Oregon

Federal Stimulus money went to hire foreign workers before Americans as KVAL (Eugene, OR) reports (March 7, 2012) [Video]
H/T Melony B. DeFord, TeaParty.org

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Immigration group blasts Boehner for failing to crack down on illegal workers

Roy Beck

By Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times Fed up with Republican congressional leaders, a group advocating a crackdown on immigration will begin running ads Thursday demanding that House Speaker John A. Boehner allow a vote on legislation requiring businesses to use E-Verify, the government database to check workers’ legal status.

NumbersUSA, the group sponsoring the ads, accused Mr. Boehner and his fellow Republican House leaders of blocking the bill over fears that it will anger Hispanic voters in an election year. But NumbersUSA says enacting the bill — which cleared a key committee in September but has since stalled — would help clear out unauthorized workers and open those jobs for Americans.

“Our gloves are off,” said Roy Beck, executive director of the group, who noted that his organization has pushed for action behind the scenes without success. He said the group is now ready to take the issue public with radio and television ads designed to force the GOP to choose between politics and American workers. “At some point, you just have to bring this stuff out into public. We’ve given the leadership all kinds of time, all kinds of excuses, but it’s been six months,” Mr. Beck said.

Immigration is one of the thorniest political issues as the general election in November approaches. Immigrant rights groups have blasted President Obama for failing to move a legalization bill, but NumbersUSA’s decision shows there is just as much frustration on the other side with Republicans, who won control of the House in 2010 while promising to get tough on illegal immigration, but who have not pushed through any major crackdown.

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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Slammed The Feds

AZ Gov. Jan Brewer

By Machenzie Weinger, Politico: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Tuesday slammed the federal government for its failure to secure the nation’s border, according to a report.

At a border-security expo in Phoenix, the Republican governor said the government’s “abdication of responsibility is the overarching outrage” of America’s illegal immigration crisis . . . .

Immigration isn’t about skin color or racism, she said, but about protecting Americans. During a talk for law enforcement officers and those working in the border-security industry, Brewer blasted both parties in Washington for their failure to secure the U.S-Mexico border and keep citizens safe.

“Of course, there are those in Washington who will tell you — from 3,000 miles away, by the way — that our border is more secure than ever,” Brewer said . . . “No amount of distortion can hide the absolute truth. The federal government, Republicans and Democrats alike, have failed every single American — all of us.”

Brewer cited the killing of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry — who was shot with guns linked to Operation Fast and Furious — as a prime example of the lack of security on the border.

“America’s failure to understand this problem at a national level and to deal with it has haunted borders like mine for decades,” she said.

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Vermont Efforts to Keep Cheap Illegal Farm Labor

ICE Checking Migrant Worker

Erin Hale, Vermont: Addison County dairy farmers and migrant labor activists are pushing for Vermont to adopt an identification system for its undocumented agricultural workers under bill S.238 in the Senate Agricultural Committee.

Though the bill makes provisions for residency registration, work authorization and the right to state services for undocumented farm workers, discussion has focused on how to provide workers with state identification cards. Vermont does not require a driver’s license to operate farm equipment, but lack of identification severely restricts the quality of life of many of Vermont’s undocumented dairy workers.

Natalia Fajardo of Migrant Justice, a Vermont migrant worker advocacy group, framed the issue as a human rights question, in her testimony to the Senate Agriculture Committee on Tuesday, because lack of identification restricts the freedom of movement for many undocumented workers. “We have the ability to allow farm works to move around freely, and that’s what’s at stake here.”

There are an estimated 1,200 to 1,500 undocumented dairy workers in Vermont, 90 percent of whom come from Mexico. The workforce is almost entirely male, and 68 percent stay less than 12 months, according to the Vermont Migrant Education Program.

Access to state identification or recognition of residency could allow workers to obtain a driver’s license and interact with police officers without reference to their immigration status. The Mexican consulate issues consular ID cards to its nationals in the United States, but only the Middlebury and state police accept it.

. . . While the nuts and bolts of an ID program are undecided, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was the elephant in the room throughout the hearing.

Issuing identification would still not protect dairy workers if apprehended by ICE. If the IDs were issued through the Department of Motor Vehicles, it could also compromise the state’s eligibility for federal highway funds.

Sen. Sara Kittell, D-Franklin, chair of Senate Agriculture, said the purpose of the bill was not to create a shadow immigration program but to improve the quality of life for dairy workers. Both Kittell and Sen. Robert Starr, D-Essex-Orleans, compared the bill to Vermont’s medical marijuana legislation, where the state does not enforce federal laws because of the perceived public good.

. . . Keith Flynn, commissioner of the Department of Public Safety, gave testimony in support of the bill, saying that his department was also less concerned with enforcing immigration laws than being able to identify individuals.

“Regardless of someone’s legal status in Vermont, law enforcement has a real interest in having a meaningful way of identifying who it is we’re interacting with – whether a suspect of a criminal charge, witness of a criminal charge, or witness to a criminal charge. Even when making motor vehicle stop, we need to know who’s operating it,” Flynn said.

Linking immigration status to driver’s licenses and IDs is a relatively new trend in Vermont, said Dan Barrett, a staff attorney at the Vermont ACLU.

“Vermont doesn’t have a long tradition of grafting immigration concerns into who can drive a car. It seems the state functioned perfectly well before then,” said Barrett. “Public safety concerns underlie the need of driver’s license: can you see well enough, take the written test. I’m sure driving in Mexico or Honduras is not any different than driving here.” . . . [Read Full Story]

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