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October 16, 2007
Myers Decision to Speak at Michigan Forum Hosted by "The Hezbollah Social Club" Questioned "Julie Myers, the head of the U.S. Immigration and Cus toms Enforcement Vicente Fox Continues U.S. Book Tour, Blasts "Racism" for Stopping Amnesty "Top of the order for [Vicente] Fox is continuing his fight to get the U.S. Fairfax Finally Takes Action on Illegal Boardinghouses, Landlord Jailed "Fairfax County [Virginia] authorities said yesterday that they have arrested and jailed SSN No Match Plan Presents Opportunity to Reverse Illegal Immigration The Christian Science Monitor has a background article about the "'Nothing is 100 percent perfect,' says Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a nonprofit group in Washington, D.C. 'The procedures allow 90 days to rectify any errors – and quite frankly, if there are any errors about me, I'd rather find out about it now, rather than when I file for benefits.' He and other advocates note that the law requiring correction of Social Security mismatches has been on the books since 1986. Every year, the SSA sends out more than 100,000 letters warning employers if there are mismatches, but there has been little enforcement. The decision by DHS to include a set of procedures for rectifying the problems – as well as a listing of penalties of up to $11,000 per employee for failure to do so – is a simple way to enforce current law, they say." |
agency (ICE), is set to deliver tonight's keynote address in Dearborn, Mich., to a group that honors lax judges - including ones who interfere with enforcement of our immigration laws. What's worse, the head of the group - the Michigan American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - is a suspected former terrorist who repeatedly violated U.S. immigration laws, then used political ties to avoid deportation," writes Debbie Schlussel in her latest column. "The venue: a place known to local cops and federal agents as 'The Hezbollah Social Club.' Yes, Dearborn, Mich.'s Bint Jebail Cultural Center is named after the village in south Lebanon that sheltered the terror group's chief, Hassan Nasrallah, during last year's Hezbollah-Israel war. Rockets are shot from Bint Jebail into Israel even today."
Congress to approve temporary work permits for millions of Mexicans and a path to permanent residency for those who want to remain in the United States. Seeing such an agreement through was the chief foreign policy goal of his administration, which ended last December. The challenge now, he said, is that racism and fear are shaping the debate," the Houston Chronicle writes. "'You get the xenophobes trying to influence the debate and take it to their side,' he said in English during a meeting with the Houston Chronicle's editorial board. 'Fear, very unfortunately, is guiding the debate and the decision-making process on immigration. Immigrants are not terrorists, but still many people are dealing with the issue through fear.'"
the landlord of an illegal boardinghouse, the most dramatic development since county leaders launched a crackdown on overcrowding and other zoning violations in June," the Washington Post reports. "Rosita Lim Ong Chang, 66, was arrested Friday and sent to jail by a judge for contempt of court. Chang was cited four years ago for illegally boarding tenants in her single-family home near George Mason University. Since then, Chang has done nothing to comply with county demands that she remove an illegal kitchen from her basement or with a 2005 court order that she notify the county every time she leases a room to a new tenant, Fitzgerald said."
DHS plan to implement tough enforcement of "no-match" letters sent by the Social Security Administration. "One of the biggest problems that prompted the judge to halt DHS's plan is the size and complexity of the federal records involved. Each year the Social Security Administration (SSA) processes more than 250 million wage reports from employers. The information is used to determine future Social Security, disability, and survivor benefits for each eligible worker. Last year, an estimated 4 percent of the wage reports had an employee's name that didn't match the corresponding Social Security number – that's about 8 million mismatches. In total, the SSA has 435 million records in its database. A 2006 report by the SSA's inspector general found a total of 17.8 million of those records contained errors."