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January 31, 2008
Guest Workers Disappear from Ala. Plant "About 100 people who came from Nepal to work at a north Alabama I knew it! Americans are disappearing at an alarming rate. Just look - over a thousand vanished from Huntsville, Al.( Since the town has a space center, maybe the mothership got them) I'm sure that's what happened or the Cinran Company would not have needed to import workers from Nepal. Or, is this another instance of Americans being too stupid? If you'd like to work for this company, just practice. Keep repeating - "pick up box, place DVDs in box - close box and seal." Now, you're almost ready for this entry level position. Several things irritate me about this article. 1. The article said, " . . . said it turned to foreign workers because the area job market couldn't fill its needs." I'll be that if they were willing to pay a fair wage they would have been overflowing with job applicants from the local job market. 2. "It's possible that they had work visas, they expired, and they went home," Let's be realistic! They haven't the foggiest idea where these people are, where their furniture is and have no intention of following up on it. 3. "The workers can earn $8 an hour working 12-hour shifts packing DVDs in boxes." These workers "CAN" earn $8 an hour but what are they REALLY earning. $8 is barely above minimum wage. I`M SURE THEY HAD NO VISAS... THE COMPANY COULDN`T FIND WORKERS IN THE AREA, BECAUSE THEY DIDN`T WANT TO PAY AMERICANS A DECENT LIVING WAGE, SO AS THE USUAL GREEDY BUSINESS, THEY HIRE CHEAP FOREIGN, AND PROBABLY ILLEGAL LABOR. Posted by: American Me on January 31, 2008 03:37 PMWeird story. Why did this company even open a plant in the U.S.? In a location that (supposedly) never had enough U.S. workers to fill their needs in the first place. Why Huntsville? Then they import 1350 workers from Bolivia, Nepal, Jamaica? Thats an extraordinary amount of money and effort to put into filling positions for minimum wage jobs. Positions that U.S. workers would have filled in some other location. They say in real estate that location is everything, so this company's choices don't make much sense, or pass the smell test. I hope DHS, ICE, and the state's attorney general will take a very close look. Posted by: jeebie on January 31, 2008 04:04 PMIT IS A WEIRD STORY Perhaps the company is a smuggling operation, gets them in legal on phony jobs, then sells them like slaves to the American organised crime highest bidder? Posted by: Softwarengineer on January 31, 2008 04:44 PMI hope there is an investigation of this entire transaction from beginning to end. Who came up with this idea in the first place? Who approved it? Who got it through government? Etc. Perhaps Nepal could hire John Edwards and Rudi Giuliani to do the investigation. The Bipartisan Disappearing Nepal Investigation. With co-chairmen Edwards and Giuliani. They can appoint Kerik as executive director. Posted by: Old Atlantic on January 31, 2008 07:45 PMget use to this happening if the media darling JOHN STRAIGHT AMNESTY EXPRESS Mccain wins and sends all your sons to Iraq to die for nothing Posted by: impeachbush on January 31, 2008 09:20 PMWonder how long they were gone before the company "reported it" ?? Posted by: Jay on January 31, 2008 10:15 PMsoftware engineer sounds like he could help DHS find the truth. V Posted by: Vickie on February 1, 2008 12:54 AMI hope the apartment owner sues the company for his losses. Posted by: Lifelong Democrat on February 1, 2008 08:42 AMUnskilled guest workers are at high risk of going illegal -- they can make more money. Guest worker visas breed illegals. Beware of the "we need guest workers" Republicans no matter how tough they talk on immigration. They are as phony as a 3 dollar bill. Posted by: Richard A. on February 1, 2008 11:52 AMI think there are alterior motives for this story making to the press...whicb woud ordinarily be filtered out by the media and greedy corporate stock holders. My guess is angry stock investors leaked this story. Check out the stock price for this company over the past 6-months. It has gone from $25/share down to $5.00/share. The board of directors of this scam company are being penalized through by angry investors via stock price. If the stock price would have stayed high we would have never heard this story. We should now send ICE in to prosecute this company for recketeering and hiring illegal aliens. Posted by: Had IT on February 1, 2008 11:56 AMI think Softwarengineer is onto something. I want to know how these jobs were advertised to the American Public before they decided that they "just had to seek workers from overseas". I would love to ask one of these workers what did they truly earn an hour (day, week, etc.). Were there threats made to them to come here and stay here or other false promises? I also wonder if these people are undercover terrorists who duped Cinram, the U.S. Government, and all the other greedy bastards?! Did no Americans apply to live at this apartment complex that had so much extra space for these people? They also saw the big payday until they were utterly screwed!! I hope we Americans don't pay (more than we already are) for the greed of others. Will McCain win if legally admitted immigrants blow us up?! Posted by: United Statesian on February 1, 2008 04:29 PMSounds like they took the money and everything else they can use, and ran. Way to go. Just what this country needs. More people "lost" in the system. Guess they weren't willing to do just any work, after all. Probably moving on to greener pastures. It's amazing how we let foreigners dupe us at every turn. On the other hand, everyone involved, except we good citizens, got what they deserved. I find it hard to believe there are no unskilled Americans who would work for $8.00/hr. Happy hunting. P.S. Since these workers will need to be replaced, try hiring born and bred Americans. They likely won't "flee." Posted by: Born American on February 4, 2008 02:51 PMThe fact that they say "perhaps they had visas that expired and they went home" is crap! There is no record of them purchasing tickets of any kind to leave the country and last time I checked, the land bridge through the Alaska area had long since melted away... More federal BS to try and absolve themselves of responsibility... And we're considering McCAin as the republican nominee???? Should Illegal Aliens Get a $1.8 Billion Tax Rebate?
Update 2/1: The loophole is still in the bill "With little debate in the U.S. House of Representatives, a bill was passed to 'stimulate' the economy. Nevermind the fact that jobs continued to be created in January and that the so-called stimulus package simply shifts money from one taxpayer group to the other (not a conservative position), but there is another glaring problem with the bill. As it turns out, you don't even need to be an American citizen to get a rebate from the American taxpayer. Because of the wording in the House bill and the way it was rushed to a vote without amendment, illegal aliens could also be getting checks sent to them compliments of Uncle Sam," notes Bobby Eberle. As noted in a story by FOX News, once the bill was passed, "A mini-brushfire broke out in the Capitol Wednesday as members realized that the decision to refund tax payments to ITIN holders meant illegal immigrants could possibly benefit." Click here for a larger version of the illegal alien rebate check. FAIR's initial estimate is that 4 million illegal aliens (roughly one-half of illegal aliens in the workforce who have withholding taken from their check) could be eligible for rebates, and assuming half get $300 and half get $600, the total cost would be at least $1.8 billion. As of 1pm CST the Senate is still going to vote on the economic stimulus package with the loopholes giving illegal aliens tax rebates still included! CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW! Posted by: Steve on January 31, 2008 02:19 PMWhy am I not surprised? Posted by: June on January 31, 2008 02:36 PMWhat a crock! All of our "elected representatives" should be recalled and we should start with a completely new batch of people. Maybe we could find some with the brains and balls to do what is right for this country before it's too late. I will be calling my representative to express my opinion! Posted by: Sick 'n Tired on January 31, 2008 02:54 PMYou forgot to mention fraud. How many illegal aliens have multiple identities? Posted by: Bill Dexter on January 31, 2008 03:15 PMABSOLUTELY ABSURD! BUT THAT`S OUR GOVERNMENT... Posted by: American Me on January 31, 2008 03:32 PMTHIS IS GREAT NEWS NOW MY ILLEGAL WIFE AND HER ILLEGAL FRIENDS CAN POCKET THE TAX MONEY THEY SO DESERVE. THANKS AGAIN AMERICA I LOVE YA Posted by: JOSE BUSH on January 31, 2008 04:05 PMI AGREE THAT NON-CITIZENS SHOULD NOT GET A CHECK Here's the FAIR URL for telling your Senator and Congressman the same thing I just did: https://secure2.convio.net/fair/site/Advocacy?alertId=215&pg=makeACall&JServSessionIdr004=p1ouh7ixn1.app6a I told them: "No checks to an ITINs individual [a replacement SSN for illegals], you must be physically present in America and a No Match check by the IRS on the SSN used to get the check." On the article above I totally disagree with part of it. The reason both Republicans and Democrats are voting for economic stimulus is because our GDP 4th quarter was 0.6% (recessionary) and the stock market/dollar/Money Market rates are crashing. Conservatives and Liberals won't argue those pragmatic facts. We don't need anymore overpopulation immigration, that's why we're in this mess! And thank you FAIR for the URL! Posted by: Softwarengineer on January 31, 2008 04:40 PMCONGRESS FIXED THE ILLEGAL ALIEN LOOPHOLE TODAY. ONLY VALID SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS, NO ILLEGAL ALIEN TAX NUMBERS WILL GET A REBATE, IF IT PASSES... SORRY JOSE BUSH, YOUR ILLEGAL GANG WILL GET NOTHING, UNLESS YOU RESORT TO FRAUD, OR IDENTITY THEFT AS USUAL! Posted by: Independent on January 31, 2008 04:43 PMFriends, I suggest we have a campaign to allocate some of the rebates to support this effort and the other efforts to stop illegal immigration by donating a portion of our checks to this and the other sites needing funding. Greg Posted by: Greg on January 31, 2008 04:51 PMShould ilegal aliens get billions in rebates. Actually, the relevant thing to note is that--our politicians think they should. How much does it take to get through to some Americans? Posted by: Bobby on January 31, 2008 05:02 PMNHO BUT HE--NO!!!!!! Posted by: ALOHA on January 31, 2008 05:59 PMShould illegal aliens get a $1.8 Billion Tax Rebate? Why, sure, shucks, our elected officials are giving our country away to Mexico, anyway, so what's a few more dollars for all our amigos . . . sorry, I just violently hurled. Posted by: bpm on February 1, 2008 09:50 AMWhat a second! I thought they didn't pay taxes? How many sides of an issue do you guys want to argue? They don't pay taxes but they shouldn't get refunds. They dumbing down the schools and not interested in an education, yet they're taking all the slots at Universities. There sending all their money back home but yet you introduce legislation to prevent them from purchasing(investing in) real estate here. We're starting to see through this line of garbage that you're trying to feed us. It's called scapegoating and fear-mongering. So just knock it off. Posted by: Alan on February 1, 2008 01:27 PMOn January 31, 2008 I sent the email (excerpted from FAIR's Action ALert) below to Senators Max Baucus and Charles Grassley of the Senate Finance Cmte. I also sent this letter to both of my senators and congressman. "The economic stimulus package traveling through Congress right now does nothing to stop the IRS from issuing rebate checks to illegal aliens. The issue stems from defining who is eligible for a tax rebate. In drafting H.R.5140, Congress left gaping loopholes. Section 101 excludes "nonresident aliens" from being eligible, but this is essentially meaningless as the IRS does not determine whether an individual is a "nonresident alien" based on his or her immigration status. Moreover, it does not address the eligibility of illegal aliens who send in tax returns using stolen or false social security numbers. At a minimum, the IRS should be required to screen the numbers (whether individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs) or social security numbers (SSNs)) used to issue the checks to ensure they match the name of the taxpayer in question. If a name and number do not match, the IRS should be prohibited from issuing a tax rebate check. Please take action to correct this oversight." So illegal aliens do pay taxes. So why was i made to believe that they do not ??? Posted by: Dan on February 1, 2008 08:42 PMUm, there is very little fear mongering about the 3rd world invasion of illegals into the US. Because of the mass immigration we are experiencing today, the US will grow increasingly overpopulated so that the quality of life will suffer along with the availability of resources. The census bureau predicts that the population of the US will swell to 420 million by 2050. That is an increase of 120 million people in 43 years. This is a far cry from sustainable development of a country. Posted by: toalan on February 2, 2008 07:06 AMsure send it ... if we have an address then we know where to send ICE ... Posted by: Benjamin9 on February 3, 2008 09:34 AMBorder ID Rules Finally in Effect "New rules for the types of identification U.S. and Canadian citizens I IMAGINE THE CANADIANS WILL BE HORRIFIED They probably like to shop in America with our devalued dollar; caused from elite globalist American immigration overpopulation and outsourcing destroying the economy. Posted by: Softwarengineer on January 31, 2008 11:55 AMBUT STILL, ILLEGAL ALIEN BORDER JUMPERS DON`T NEED A THING! Posted by: American Me on January 31, 2008 03:39 PMTHE ILLEGALS ARE NOT GOIONG TO WORRY ABOUT PROPER IDENTIFICATION. THEY NEVER HAD TO BEFORE SO WHY START NOW. Posted by: ALOHA on January 31, 2008 06:04 PMYea, Right. ATTENTION, AMERICAN PEOPLE: ON TUESDAY IN FABRUARY 5 IS AN ELECTION, SO PLEASE, AMERICAN PEOPLE, GIVE YOUR POWERFUL VOTE FOR MITT ROMNEY-- HE IS A LAST HOPE TO BEAT McCAIN-MEXICAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!EACH YOUR VOTE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO SAVE THIS COUNTRY AGAINST McCAIN'AMNESTY AND HIGH TAXES. DO NOT LET ANY MEDIA DESTROY YOUR VOTE AND THOUGHTS TO VOTE FOR McCAIN-TRAITOR WHO WANTS TO SELL THIS COUNTRY TO ILLEGALS. PLEASE, AMERICAN PEOPLE, VOTE FOR MITT ROMNEY-- HE IS A LAST HOPE TO SAVE THIS COUNTRY AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND INVASION, AGAINST TERRORISTS, AND HIGH TAXES!!!! DO NOT WAST YOUR VOTE FOR HACKABEE OF RON PAUL, EVEN IF THEY ARE GOOD PEOPLE, BUT THEY DO NOT HAVE A CHANCE TO WIN, THAT IS WHY, VOTE FOR MITT ROMNEY-- HE WILL SAVE THIS COUNTRY AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND ECONOMICAL DESTRUCTION!!! THINK ABOUT YOUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE HOW THEY WILL LIVE IN THE FUTURE IN AMERICA IF LIBERAL WINS AN ELECTION, THAT IS WHY, AMERICAN PEOPLE, VOTE FOR MITT ROMNEY-- HE IS A LAST OUR HOPE TO SAVE AMERICA FROM ITS DESTRUCTION!!!!!!!!!!! MITT ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT 2008!!!!! DO NOT WASTE, AMERICAN PEOPLE, YOUR VOTE FOR HACKABEE OR RON PAUL, JUST VOTE FOR MITT ROMNEY--- HE MUST BEAT McCAIN-TRAITOR WHO SUPPORT ILLEGALS AND AMNESTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Posted by: jack on February 1, 2008 10:35 AMplease don't wait, go vote for Romney. America is at stakE, And the media is dong everyting to push an amenesty crowd. Call you friends and family and get them to the pool for Romney. He is OUR only hope in combatting the drain on our country by third world illeglas invaders. I fear fro my childrens' future. I plead with you - GO VOTE ROMNEY! Please make the needed efforT. GOD BLESS! Thank you. Posted by: christina on February 1, 2008 12:55 PMChristina, how absolutely true and right you are about the corrupt, and connected, John,"AMericans wouldn't pick lettuce for fifty dollars an hour" McCain. My Lord, for this insult alone you would think Americans would trash his chances. Have some people know self respect? Posted by: Bobby on February 1, 2008 02:04 PMJuan Hernandez ... nuff said. Posted by: Benjamin9 on February 3, 2008 09:52 AMRemittances to Mexico Steady With More Enforcement, Housing Recession "For the first time in years, the flow of remittances – greenbacks from DON'T PUT LIPSTICK ON OUR PIG ECONOMY If unemployment was actually so darn low and the economy so darn vibrant, needing overpopulation immigrants to shoulder the load; why are we writing emergency income tax rebates to help revive this rosy economy? Why has the stock market and dollar [your CD and Money Market rates too] plummetted lately? Why is America's 4th quarter GDP 0.6% [recessionary level] and we still call the economy good deserving more overpopulation immigration? Sometimes I think the whole country has gone mad [except people like us in the Fair Board]. Posted by: Softwarengineer on January 31, 2008 12:15 PMIf McCain wins the GOP he will make the US a POW. He will surrender the border to Mexico, give up on protecting Americans by allowing illegals take over our country, and worst of hold hostgage the 1st Amendment. Posted by: Peter on January 31, 2008 01:09 PM"If McCain wins the GOP he will make the US a POW." Mitt Romney CLEARLY distinguished himself on immigration last night. He also came across as a smart, tough, reasonable and amiable guy. The kind of person I want holding the trigger to our nuclear weapons. Now the voters need to respond and send the New York Times-endorsed McCain home to his wife's house in Arizona. During the debate, McCain reiterated his lie about Romney's voting record with a wide, smug, plastic "I can do whatever I want and get away with it" grin, then dodged the question about his own amnesty bill by saying it wouldn't be brought up again, anyway. OF COURSE he would vote for it again. Are the voters of California going to take that lying down on their home turf? California talk radio needs to rally the troops. Beside the fact McCain's a dirty-tricks, lying creep, McCain's made a cynical calculation: he thinks Americans, deep down, love the guy who's mean, bullying, defiant to social graces and sticks his middle finger right in the world's face. That's who he thinks we are as a people. Are we? If so, then he's right down at our level where everyone can relate and identify with him as "one of us." If, on the other hand, we want lawbreakers to go to the back of the line and we want a thoughtful, intelligent president who stands his ground under fire, then GOP voters need to rally around Romney, not split their votes among him and the other candidates. This is it. Speaking of which, McCain's demeanor reminds me of an avowed communist classmate I had in college. The guy's whole demeanor was humorless except when laughing at someone or basking in a feeling of superiority. He lived in his head: his facial expressions would move in calculated ways, but the rest of his body never budged. It was all "thought-out" emotion, never genuine. A question worth asking: what did the North Vietnamese do to his mind during those long years of captivity? Anyone worth his salt knows the Soviets, Chinese and North Vietnamese would have been very sophisticated in indoctrinating a political catch like McCain. It would have included ideas about American history and changes in our demographics, a central part of Soviet nuclear war strategy. National security readers: ask some of the old-timers if you don't already know this yourselves. I have specific ideas on how that would play into McCain's rush to change our population to 700 million plus, but the bottom line is that McCain is de-facto a Manchurian Candidate, whether he knows it or not, and the man's also displaying lack of feelings for his colleague Mitt Romney, another sign he's been damaged in the Hanoi Hilton, where they may have done a good job on him, indeed. GOP: don't nominate this man. Posted by: Concerned Citizen on January 31, 2008 02:24 PMThis will be good news for John" Americans wouldn't pick lettuce for fifty dollars an hour," McCain." He wouldn't want remittances hurt. He wouldn't want anything to spoil the reconquista and strip mining of Americans taxes by illegal aliens. Oh, no. Anyway, whats the worry. If lettuce picking jobs dry up, theres always Mayor "who will take care of the golf courses" Bloomberg to fall back on. Posted by: Bobby on January 31, 2008 05:10 PMMoan and groan all you want , but it is looking like McCain is our man. once John AMNESTY EXPRESS becomes president or el presidente dos, these Mexicnas will come to the US LEGALLY and be eligible for welfare, so they wont need remitinces, oh yes he'll make a draft for his hundred year war as well Posted by: impeachbush on January 31, 2008 09:45 PMLets see now, Remittances to Mex 24 billion Shortage in California 14.5 billion Gee, if RINO Swartzenager sent his illegals home how much better off would genuine Californians be? Posted by: jmac on February 1, 2008 07:08 AMI watched the repub debate as most. Sorry to say that my impression was that McCain blew Romney and the rest out of the water and made them all look stupid. This is a disaster, to the average voter who can not see through the lie's McCain is going to be the guy they vote for. Unless Romney still has something up his sleeve I would say it is all done but the vote. God help us all. Posted by: Brian H. on February 1, 2008 10:46 AMHey Everybody, How about a law for government to seize all remittances from the USA to Mexico and if the sender can't prove in 30 days that the money has had the taxes paid the money goes into the general fund to defray welfare and social service payments for illegal aliens. Posted by: jmac on February 2, 2008 01:47 PMCivil Society Helps (civilsocietyhelps.org) helps perpetuate fraud against U.S. citizens. The courts in Minnesota are ill equipped and uninformed about the immigration fraud these kinds of groups promote. See http://www.marthasullivanlaw.com to learn about a common immigration fraud tactic. With false accusations from an immigrant residency seeker and the help of VAWA laws, a stable American citizen can be reduced to living in poverty. All of your assets can be seized and given to the immigrant residency seeker even if you are not found guilty. You will immediately be forced to surrender a portion of your income to the immigrant residency seeker. The courts will order you to turn your motor vehicle over to the immigrant residency seeker even if the car is in your name and the residency seeker does not have a drivers license. Your illegal immigrant spouse becomes legal and you become illegal. The court system will abuse you and strip you of your rights while social programs that promote immigration fraud thrive. Posted by: Sean Patrick on February 3, 2008 04:33 PMNew Proposal Aims to Increase Iowa Enforcement of Immigration Law "Local Senator Steve Kettering is one of three Iowa Senate Republicans SOUNDS GOOD IOWA Especially the part about employer sanctions! Posted by: Softwarengineer on January 31, 2008 11:57 AMIowa sounds like they are headed in the right direction with this. I think I will be moving there to avoid the influx of illegals to Wisconsin my home state. The politicians here in Wisconsin can't even decide if they should ask if some one applying for public assistance is illegal. Then besides that two words Russ Feingold enough said there, what a bunch of knot heads. Posted by: Brian H. on February 1, 2008 10:57 AM"Sanctuary City" Vows to Defy Immigration Law . . . of Mexico "Jose Luis Gutierrez is the mayor of the biggest city in Mexico you've WHO NEEDS SOVEREIGN GOVERNMENTS ANYMORE? Mob rule works better? Has the whole North Ameican continent lost its brain? Posted by: Softwarengineer on January 31, 2008 12:00 PMGutierrez said. "Those people are heroes for us.". Well here in the USA they are criminals. Posted by: Dave A on January 31, 2008 01:27 PMSoftwarengineer - I ask myself the same question every day. I think we both know the answer. Posted by: June on January 31, 2008 02:49 PMAND THEN THEY WILL ALL END UP HERE! Posted by: American Me on January 31, 2008 03:41 PMYes, Gutierrez is someone that can be held up as an example to lawabiding nations everywhere. Nothing whatever, that Mexico does should be an example to this nation. Nothing. Posted by: Bobby on January 31, 2008 05:05 PMwho needs govts? who needs war? who needs taxes? Posted by: impeachbush on January 31, 2008 09:47 PM |
factory seemingly vanished from a pair of apartment buildings, along with a lot of furniture and appliances, and can't be located, officials said Tuesday. Immigration agents are trying to determine what happened to the Nepalese workers, among hundreds brought to the United States to work at a DVD factory operated by Cinram Inc., said Lauren Bethune, a spokeswoman for the Alabama Department of Homeland Security," the AP reports. "Reports last fall said Cinram had hired about 1,350 foreign workers to package DVDs at its plant in Huntsville. Cinram - which describes itself as the world's largest maker of pre-recorded multimedia products - said it turned to foreign workers because the area job market couldn't fill its needs. Bethune said about 100 immigrants were believed to be missing. Agents are trying to determine exactly what type of visas they used to enter the United States."
must present to cross into the country went into effect Thursday and authorities were optimistic the changes wouldn't cause significant delays. Under the new rules, people will no longer be allowed to simply declare to immigration officers at border crossings that they are citizens, said Jayson Ahern, deputy commissioner with U.S. Customs and Border Protection," the AP reports. "Instead, those 19 and older will have to show proof of citizenship -- a passport, trusted traveler card or a birth certificate and government-issued ID such as a driver's license. ''We'll be asking those who cross our borders to present to us secure, more reliable documents to prove citizenship and to confirm their identity,'' said Ahern, who is heading a national effort to call attention to the changes."
Mexico's many migrants in the U.S. – was virtually flat along what the World Bank calls the planet's largest migration corridor. Mexico's Central Bank reported Wednesday that it received nearly $24 billion in 2007, compared with $23.74 billion in 2006, after several years of double-digit increases. The government cited the sluggish economy in the U.S. and increased vigilance by U.S. officials," the Dallas Morning News reports. "At the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which advocates for immigration restrictions, spokesman Ira Mehlman said the flattened flow of remittances reflects the economic downturn, and 'I don't think anyone is rooting for a recession.' To a smaller extent, Mr. Mehlman said, it reflected tougher enforcement."
making up a new task force that unveiled a plan Tuesday to crack down on illegal immigration in Iowa. Iowa Republican insist the action is needed because the federal government has failed to act. Their proposal includes hiring more state troopers, cutting government services such as Medicaid and food stamps to illegal immigrants, requiring agencies to check citizenship and banning illegal immigrants from community colleges and public universities," the Storm Lake Pilot Tribune reports. "'The state is only stepping in because of the complete and utter failure of the federal government to address this problem,' said Kettering, Lake View. The three senators said other states, including Oklahoma and Arizona, have moved ahead with similar reforms as Congress has failed to pass a comprehensive plan. Kettering said that businesses caught hiring illegal aliens would be penalized. 'The rules for businesses will be reasonable, consistent and enforceable. If businesses follow the rules, they have nothing to fear,' he said."
never heard of, a sprawling suburb of Mexico City built by people on the move. And the charismatic Gutierrez has done something almost as unheard of: He has declared this city of as many as 3 million people a "sanctuary" for the illegal immigrants from Central America who pass through here each day," the LA Times writes. "He has ordered his police officers and city officials not to arrest, extort or otherwise harass the migrants. He's also ordered them not to cooperate with Mexican immigration agents. 'Let them go and guard the borders,' he said. 'For Ecatepec, migration is not a criminal act. It's a universal right: the right to seek work and the right to travel freely from one place to another.'"
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