Posted on 05/01/2006 11:34:36 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
And every one is a criminal, hence the "illegal" part.
Show your source for the statement that immigrtion is down under Bush. Because it sure isn't illegal immigration. Government figures don't back your statement. Enlighten us.
Midwest News
Minn. Officials Look for Ways to Teach Immigrants What Tornado Sirens Mean
May 2, 2006
Officials in Minnesota are looking for ways to teach new immigrants what tornado sirens mean.
Mao Thao had no idea when it meant the first time she heard a tornado siren go off. The recently arrived Hmong refugee spoke no English, and she grew terrified when the loud wailing erupted.
Thao thought she was about to be arrested. She dropped her bicycle and ran all the way home. "I thought the cops were coming after me,'' she said.
As tornado season returns, emergency officials statewide are increasingly concerned that some of the state's newest residents may not know that the loud wail means seek shelter immediately.
Many immigrants have no idea what a tornado is or how deadly Minnesota storms can be.
Selena Lee of the Neighborhood House community center in St. Paul said one of her clients was killed in a thunderstorm last year in Minneapolis. He was unaware of the dangers of being outside in the storm. He left his car and died when he was struck by a falling tree branch.
Lee said the man was one of many Hmong immigrants who don't know what to do during a storm or what the sirens mean. In many cases, new immigrants speak very little English so warnings on the television or radio don't help.
In Stearns County, officials are preparing for a severe weather drill designed for the growing numbers of recent immigrants.
The drill is planned for late May at a St. Cloud-area mobile home park. It will test how management and emergency workers are able to communicate with the estimated 300 residents who don't speak English.
Bel Clare Estates has more than 800 residents and would be one of St. Cloud's most vulnerable areas if a tornado hit, said the park's general manager, Vern Larsen. He said the residents don't always use the park's shelters.
Marv Klug, Stearns County director of emergency management, said local media have been contacted to develop Spanish-language announcements for TV and radio. But different approaches may be needed with other languages, Klug said.
The Somali language, for example, has a relatively new written form, so literacy rates vary, Klug said. County officials plan to identify major contacts in an immigrant community, such as restaurant owners, to start a chain of disaster communication.
In Redwood County of southwestern Minnesota, where many Hmong work in food processing plants, officials are taking a different approach.
County officials are working on translating severe-weather brochures into Hmong, Sheriff Rick Morris said. But, he said, the most effective way to get out information is through the students who speak English and can bring that information home.
Some immigrant groups are also getting involved to help alert new residents about severe weather.
Thao, the woman who was frightened when she heard her first tornado siren, now works with Emergency & Community Health Outreach (ECHO). She has hosted several short public TV programs in Hmong. One tackled severe weather. One bit of advice she gives: Look at the colors on radar screens.
With such a vast array of cultures in the state, new immigrants and refugees can come up with unusual misinterpretations of the warning sirens.
Abdi Warsame, a Somali refugee who works at the Brian Coyle Community Center in Minneapolis, said a woman he knows thought the first tornado siren she heard was one of the great horns signaling the apocalypse.
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Find this article at:
http://www.claimsguides.com/news/midwest/2006/05/02/67834.htm
If a company hires illegals and pays them in cash, how do they account for the money in their books? Does it get listed as misc expenses? I'm sure the IRS would like to know.
NEWS MAX publioshed a chart showing that immigration (both legal and illegal) peaked in 1999. Maybe you have not noticed that they informed us that there were 12 million illegals in the country after 9/11. The number has not changed. So do your research and inform yourself.
I will if you will; let's see your numbers.
Here are mine:
The number of migrants coming to the United States each year, legally and illegally, grew very rapidly starting in the mid-1990s, hit a peak at the end of the decade, and then declined substantially after 2001. By 2004, the annual inflow of foreign-born persons was down 24% from its all-time high in 2000, according to the Pew Hispanic Center analysis of multiple datasets collected by the Census Bureau and other government agencies.
http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=53
Another couple of pieces of info:
Bush Taxes Immigrants Wanting to Become U.S. Citizens George Bush says that America is a "welcoming" nation. So why has he raised fees on the very things he wants incoming immigrants to do: work hard, play by the rules, and become citizens? Over the past four years, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (now a faction of the Department of Homeland Security) has raised the cost of 31 existing fees and has added nine categories of new ones. The tax to become an American citizen has increased 55 percent. The Bush administration has privatized the 1-800 immigration help line, and the new privatized workers usually need to read from a script to answer callers' questions, resulting in the dispension of incomplete or conflicting information. The administration cites the cost of increased security for the price hikes, but that figure ($21 per application) is less than half the amount of the recent fee increases. The real cost of these increased fees may be that fewer immigrants can afford to take the legal route to citizenship. Source: AlterNet, "Taxing Immigrants," Jonathan Rowe, Oct. 19, 2004.
Immigration Tops Federal Prosecution List Under Bush by Brendan Coyne Oct. 3, 2005 – Federal law enforcement has increasingly turned its gaze on immigration violations in the years since George W. Bush ascended to the presidency, leading to a record number of prosecutions last year, according to a report released yesterday by a private research firm. Much of the impetus for the policy shift came about at urging by the Department of Homeland Security, a related report notes. Federal prosecutions of immigration crimes jumped from 16,310 in 2001 to 37,854 last year, according to the study by Transactional Records Access Clearing House, a private firm affiliated with Syracuse University.
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2430/printmode/true
Consider yourself enlightened.
It is my birthday on 2 May and what I told people all around me from family, friends and co workers who spend money on "cake and gifts" to instead send it either to the minutemen or to a Republican candidate who is serious about borders. The other thing is a charity of their choice. I mean after now 37 years of celebrating, I thought it was time for once in my life to give back to something worthwhile.
The correct way is vote out all who held up the original House Bill. Also,any Senator,who supports illegals needs to go. Personally, I am tired of those,who do not even show up to vote. Feeding at the public trough is about all many do.
Your figures are bogus because they are only about LEGAL immigrants, which are not the problem. OF COURSE "total" immigration dropped after 9/11, but I'd bet that ILLEGAL immigration didn't even slow down.
They have no interest in facts or the truth of this invasion and the complicity of George W. Bush in it. The Border patrol and every source except what he presented says otherwise.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55202-2005Mar21.html
Flow of Illegal Immigrants to U.S. Unabated
Mexicans Make Up Largest Group; D.C. Area Numbers Up 70 Percent Since 2000
Despite tighter border enforcement and a post-Sept. 11, 2001, economic slump, the number of illegal immigrants in the United States has continued to grow steadily, with many moving into states that traditionally have small foreign-born populations, according to a new report released yesterday.
Based on Census Bureau and other government data, the Pew Hispanic Center, a private research group in Washington, estimated the number of undocumented immigrants at 10.3 million as of last March, an increase of 23 percent from the 8.4 million estimate in 2000. More than 50 percent of that growth was attributable to Mexican nationals living illegally in the United States, the report said.
Pew Hispanic Center Director Roberto Suro said that the number of illegal immigrants continues to grow at the same rate as in the 1990s -- approximately 485,000 a year -- "despite significant efforts by the government to try to restrain the flow . . . at the border[snip]
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This analysis demonstrates that the December, 2003 Department of Homeland Security estimates of 8 million to 12 million illegal aliens in the United States and 700,000 new illegals entering and staying per year represent significant undercounts. This analysis shows that it is reasonable to state that at least 20 million illegal aliens reside in the United States and that up to 12,000 illegal aliens enter the United States every day, or, as Arizona Senator John McCain reports - more than 4 million per year.
This analysis also demonstrates that the proposed White House "guest worker" amnesty proposal of January, 2004 resulted in at least a 25 percent increase in the number of illegal aliens entering into the United States.
The precise number of illegals entering the United States and the exact rate at which they cross our borders is unknown. Official government numbers are often hard to come by and are routinely sanitized. The estimate of the number of illegals who enter depends on Border Patrol apprehension rates and estimates of the number that "got away". The following sections presents a methodology to estimating the number of illegals and the impact of amnesty proposals on illegal immigration numbers.
Contents:
1. How many illegal aliens are there in the U.S.?
2. Step 1: Estimate the gross numbers of illegals entering the U.S.
3. Step 2: Factor in repeat apprehensions of the same individuals
4. Step 3: Factor "short term" stays and legalization from the overall estimate
5. Step 4: Estimate the total number of illegal aliens in the U.S.
6. Considerations regarding illegal immigration numbers
7. Mexico's fertility and growth rate
8. Proportion of illegals from countries other than Mexico
9. Visa overstays contribute to illegal alien numbers
10. Impact of amnesty proposals on illegal immigration numbers
11. Conclusion
12. References
http://www.desertinvasion.us/data/invasion_numbers.html
Good info---thanks.
Search the 1965 Immmigration Act. Ted K is on every search of the Act.I suggest we repeal it.
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