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September 18, 2008
Hurricanes Increase Chance of New Cuban Immigration Crisis "The destruction inflicted on Cuba by Hurricanes Gustav "In years past, when economic shocks dashed expectations for a better life on the island, Cubans by the thousands have looked northward. Economic crises have been a prelude to migration crises -- the 1980 Mariel boatlift and the 1994 balsero crisis. On both occasions, Washington failed to heed the warning signs that migration pressures were building and was woefully unprepared when the crisis erupted." Obama Spanish Ad Calls McCain Two-Faced on Immigration "The Obama campaign has released new radio and TV Another Legal Victory for Prop. 200 "A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld an H-P Is Using an Immigration Law Firm to Screen U.S. Citizen Applicants? "An HP representative told Bryan Fischer said that the Cramer notes that the contact listed for the new job positions is with the Fragomen Firm, which was audited by the Dept. of Labor for potential abuses of the hiring process and discriminating against U.S. citizens. "The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that it has begun auditing all permanent labor certification applications filed by attorneys at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP. The department has information indicating that in at least some cases the firm improperly instructed clients who filed permanent labor certification applications to contact their attorney before hiring apparently qualified U.S. workers," the DOL said in a release this year. |
and Ike dramatically raises the risk that the next U.S. president will face an immigration crisis next summer when the warm weather makes crossing the Florida Strait propitious for Cuban refugees. Cuba's economy was struggling even before the back-to-back storms destroyed half the island's crops and damaged more than 10 percent of its houses. World market prices for Cuba's two major imports -- food and petroleum -- have risen significantly during the past year, straining Cuba's hard currency reserves," says William Leogrande in the Miami Herald.
ads in Spanish that seek to tie Sen. John McCain to anti-immigrant comments made by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. The ads also suggest the Republican has 'dos caras' -- 'two faces' -- when it comes to his relations with Latino voters. The new messages, airing in Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico, come in response to recent Spanish-language ads by the McCain campaign that suggest Obama is responsible for the collapse of last year's bipartisan immigration reform efforts," the Washington Post reports. 
Arizona law that penalizes businesses that knowingly hire illegal immigrants and requires them to verify the employment status of their workers. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision rejected a challenge by business and civil-rights groups that contend the law infringes on federal immigration powers," the AP reports. "The law, intended to lessen the economic incentive for immigrants to sneak into the country, imposes civil penalties on employers by suspending or revoking their business licenses when they are found to have knowingly hired illegal immigrants. While it upheld the law, a three-judge panel of the court left the door open for other challenges, saying no one has been accused of violating the law since it took effect nine months ago."
software engineering positions posted on the Idaho Department of Labor website--while HP was laying off software engineers--was a miscommunication, and the job has indeed been removed. But now there are other positions that are now appearing on the Idaho Department of Labor website that again are very curious. It is a bit more specialized that the 'mistake', but not likely so specialized that it wouldn't fit some of those being laid off. More importantly, it was posted on September 17--and again tells you to apply to Petra Ramirez, 'Immigration Consultant,'" notes conservative blogger Clayton Cramer, who was just laid off by H-P.