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October 29, 2007

Mariana Islands Try Crying "Amnesty" To Thwart Immigration Controls

"A U.S. territory in the Pacific is battling to stop Congress from imposing federal guest-worker rules and an 'amnesty' for current temporary workers, saying aliens could then use the territory as an entry point to get into other places in the U.S. The government of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) says two bills working their way through Congress to impose federal immigration law on the territory would go back on the 1976 convention with the U.S. and put the islands' economy, already reeling, into a tailspin," the Washington Times reports. "But those pushing the bill say CNMI, which currently writes its own rules for immigration, is a magnet for human trafficking and is a huge hole in U.S. homeland security. They say the only solution is to impose the U.S. federal immigration system, which would include a new legal status for some long-term foreign workers." [FAIR comment: This was one of the big issues for disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who pocketed millions in fees to keep the (in some cases literal) slave labor/contract labor system going in the Marianas, enriching clothing firms that made goods there to get a "Made in the USA" label.]

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The American citizenry will never understand the damage these lobbyists do. I don't care if they lobby for big business or a foreign nation, all of it is against Americans interests and is bringing us down to disaster.

Posted by: Bobby on October 29, 2007 05:38 PM

this is the least porblem in immigiration, the real problem is BUSH and his ISLAMIC/TERRORISTS loving state department

Posted by: impeachbush on October 29, 2007 11:12 PM

Speaking of bringing us down to disaster, everybody please call your Senators. The U.S. Senate is set to consider The Law of the Sea Treaty, or LOST on Wed. morning. LOST created the Internation Seabed Authority [ISA] giving it total jusrisdiction over all the oceans and everything in them, including the ocean floor, and the power to regulate 7/10th's of the world's surface.

This treaty threatens American sovereignty by subjecting the U.S to dispute resolution,by a International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. It will compromise American security by requiring the transfer of sensitive military technologies to other nations and international organizations, hostile to American interests.
It will impose U.S. compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, Establish an international tax, and grant the U.S only one vote despite the fact that the vast majority of funding will come from American taxpayers. LOST will sell out both American interests and taxpayer dollars to many socialist, third-world nations.

Please call your Senators and tell them to vote NO on LOST. This is another power grab by the United Nations. LOST undermines the Bill of Rights, the Constitution and the Sovereignty of the United States. We cannot allow our Representative in the Senate to sign all of this away.

Posted by: marg on October 30, 2007 03:51 AM

THE ISLAND TODAY REMINDS ME OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE PORTS IN 1750

Another stopoff point for greedy American employers to grab up cheap foreign labor.

See the proof:

http://www.slaverysite.com/Body/maps.htm#map4

Posted by: Softwarengineer on October 30, 2007 01:53 PM