http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/aliens/ en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:35:46 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051802/posts The theory is that by providing sanctuary to those who've entered the U.S. illegally and not notifying federal authorities, the police get cooperation and intelligence from the illegal alien community in fighting crime. Never mind that certain crimes would never happen if the illegals committing them weren't here in the first place. How many crimes would be prevented if those who shouldn't be in this country had their immigration status checked in encounters with police, and those found to be illegal were sent home? We know of at least one. Edwin Ramos, now 21, is being held on three counts... INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051802/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:35:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051773/posts School Budget Cuts Derail English Language Program By Dean Gray and Jackie Devereaux Coachella Valley, CA – An important English reading fluency program is threatened to end due to severe budget cuts to this year’s school budget. The Valley Partnership, is at the end of a three-year program, funded by an annual grant of $329,000. Without the matching funds the program is at risk and over 20 people lose their paid volunteer positions. Fundraising efforts are still trying to raise $55,000 by August 3rd to meet the target start-up date. The sponsors are asking for donations by philanthropists and charitable... Desert Valley Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051773/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:13:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051785/posts A doctor who bound a 14-year-old girl with washing line and raped her has been jailed for 12 years. The terrified girl hid in a wardrobe after calling 999 following her ordeal, Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday. Mohammad Sajjad was led weeping to the cells after a judge told him his “deep remorse” was just self-pity. Sajjad, a qualified doctor who was granted asylum in the UK, had been employed as a learning disabilities healthcare assistant in the Bradford area. The court heard he three times tied the girl’s hands tightly with red washing line and bound her feet before... thetelegraphandargus.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051785/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:43:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051776/posts MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) ― Their colorful shops line the streets, catering to their own culture and drawing in ours. Beginning in 1993, Somali people began arriving in Minnesota from refugee camps in Kenya. By that time, Somalia's political chaos had led to the killing or starvation of many of its people. For refugees, Minneapolis offered a place to start a new life, a new business, or a new family. "Many things attracted Somalis to Minnesota to stay. Good health cover and good education," said Huda Farah. Farah works on refugee resettlement with the Minnesota Department of Health. It's through her work... wcco.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051776/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:24:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051757/posts By Burt Prelutsky It seems to me that when it comes to foreign policy, the U.S. has two separate problems. To begin with, there are those two billion foreigners in places like China, Russia, North Korea, and all the various Islamic nations that give America and much of the rest of the world non-stop migraines. But compounding the problem for us are the millions of illegal aliens who have been flooding across our southern border for the past 25 years or so. It’s bad enough that they’ve placed a terrible burden on our schools, our prisons, and our health care... Modern Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051757/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:32:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051672/posts Click on link per house rules. Austin American Statesman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051672/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:05:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051665/posts TEA has until the end of January to change program for secondary schools. Austin American Statesman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051665/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:48:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051556/posts Supreme Court allows construction to proceedThe U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a case that challenged the Homeland Security Department's right to waive environmental laws and litigation to build a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. The decision, made without comment, seemingly removes a potential hurdle to construction of a $48.6 million fencing project across a canyon known as Smuggler's Gulch, west of the San Ysidro port of entry. “It's over. They're going to build a wall,” said attorney Cory Briggs, who in 2004 filed suit to stop the project on behalf of the Sierra Club, San Diego Audubon Society,... San Diego Union-Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051556/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:14:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051489/posts IN THE first six months of this year an increasing number of South Africans considered or decided to migrate to Australia. As a result, a wide range of businesses is booming. While few firms can give exact figures, they are all sure of one thing: demand is high. One says most inquiries it gets are from Afrikaners. Immigration lawyers, airlines, travel agents, removal companies and pet-relocation companies have benefited. The Australian high commission in Pretoria said that while no figures were available yet on how many South Africans had settled in Australia so far this year, 3996 relocated there last... Business Day http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051489/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:22:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051454/posts SAN DIEGO – Forty-nine people being smuggled into the United States were found Friday morning packed inside the metal tank of a water truck a Border Patrol agent noticed near the notorious Smuggler's Gulch. The truck was coming out of a construction area, its driver apparently trying to blend in, when the agent saw it didn't have a license plate, said Border Patrol Agent Jason Rodgers, a spokesman for the agency. Rodgers said the agent followed the truck from Monument Road and Hollister Road in an under-the-speed-limit pursuit that ended not far away with the arrest of the driver and... San Diego Union Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051454/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:01:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051401/posts WASHINGTON (July 25, 2008) — A new analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies of monthly data collected by the Census Bureau shows that the illegal-immigrant population has declined significantly between last summer and May of this year. The study is the first to find quantitative evidence that illegal-immigrants are leaving the country. It also examines the extent to which stepped-up enforcement and the downturn in the economy account for this trend..... The Center will formally release the report at a press conference on Wednesday, July 30th at 2:30 pm in room 1309 of the Longworth House Office Building. The... Center For Immigration Studies http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051401/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:26:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051338/posts It’s time for the Mexican government to take some responsibility for the immigration crisis. Now that more Mexicans are failing to make it across the northern border, or find themselves back in Mexico after being deported from the United States, it’s time for the Mexican government to demonstrate that it — and not the U.S. government — is primarily responsible for the welfare of its citizens. Raymundo Pacheco, 28, is a Mexican citizen deserving of government help. In June Pacheco, originally from Santa Cruz Nexila, a small indigenous village in central Oaxaca, was deported from California to Tijuana....he had no... La Prensa San Diego http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051338/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:51:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051320/posts For a generation, Mexican intellectuals have pondered the possibility of a “Greater Mexico” – the idea that Mexican immigration to the United States was so persistent and sustainable, that Mexican culture could “re-settle” lands lost to the United States at the conclusion of the Mexican American War. Americans, clinging to the belief of a “melting pot,” dismissed that notion, arguing that Mexican immigrants would follow historical norms and assimilate into mainstream American life, as previous generations of newcomers did before them. A new study by the Institute of Mexicans Abroad (IME), part of Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Relations, offers insight... La Prensa San Diego http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051320/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:28:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051292/posts Republican presidential candidate John McCain received a warm welcome and standing ovation from a Hispanic veterans group Friday as he sought to highlight his credentials to be the country's commander-in-chief. Speaking at Denver's Grand Hyatt hotel, McCain said he and rival Barack Obama faced a choice 18 months ago when the situation in Iraq had deteriorated. In prepared remarks, the Arizona senator called it a "real-time test for a future commander-in-chief. America passed that test." McCain advocated sending more troops to Iraq before the Bush Administration decided to follow that strategy. Obama has opposed it and said again this week... Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051292/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:35:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051285/posts The American Embassy in Baghdad announced Thursday that it had expanded tenfold its program to help Iraqi employees of the American government here, who faced threats for their work, to obtain visas and ultimately citizenship in the United States. The decision is the latest step in the administration’s attempt to answer sharp criticism over its failure to help even those Iraqis who have made the American presence in Iraq possible by serving as translators and supervisors on embassy projects, for the American military and for the Agency for International Development. But critics in the refugee relief community noted that the... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051285/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:24:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051303/posts HEREFORD — The founder of a new Web cast recorded in Cochise County that focuses on border and illegal immigration issues says the program is already popular among listeners and he is hopeful it will only get better. “On the Border with Al Garza,” which first aired July 14, is hosted by Garza, who is perhaps best known for his role as national executive director of the border watch group Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. Chuck Alton decided to start Cochise Talk due to the lack of local originated radio in Sierra Vista and Cochise County. Garza consented to be the... Sierra Vista Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051303/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:55:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051273/posts LISTEN ONLINE to KABC RADIO IN LOS ANGELES.This is a replay from this morning. Don't miss it! KABC RADIO, LOS ANGELES http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051273/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:00:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051253/posts Raleigh, N.C. — Two months after recommending that North Carolina community colleges deny admission to illegal immigrants, the state Attorney General's Office has reversed that stance. The switch comes after U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials told state officials that federal laws don't prohibit illegal immigrants from attending college. Community College System officials decided in May to stop allowing illegal immigrants to enroll in degree programs after the Attorney General's Office issued an advisory opinion recommending the 58 community colleges tighten their admissions standards to be more in line with federal laws. J.B. Kelly, general counsel for the Attorney General's... WRALNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051253/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:28:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051128/posts "One in five American adults - 22% - believe that any state or region has the right to "peaceably secede from the United States and become an independent republic," a new Middlebury Institute/Zogby International telephone poll shows." "Broken down by race, the highest percentage agreeing with the right to secede was among Hispanics (43%) and African-Americans (40%). Among white respondents, 17% said states or regions should have the right to peaceably secede." "Politically, liberal thinkers were much more likely to favor the right to secession for states and regions, as 32% of mainline liberals agreed with the concept. Among the... Zogby International http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051128/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:39:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051097/posts Three good men are dead thanks largely to San Francisco’s outrageous sanctuary-city policy, which forbids city authorities from notifying federal immigration authorities when they arrest illegal aliens for crimes they commit, and it’s time for President Bush to crack down on all the cities in the United States that follow this absurd policy. On June 22, Anthony Bologna and his sons Michael and Matthew were shot to death by Edwin Ramos, 21, after a brief traffic incident when Anthony Bologna allegedly briefly blocked Ramos' car from making a left turn, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Ramos, an alleged member... humanevents.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051097/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:37:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051057/posts " OSLO (Reuters) - Twenty-three people were wounded when a gang of 40-50 men armed with steel bars and machetes attacked residents at a refugee centre in Norway late on Thursday, officials said on Friday. No one was seriously wounded, but 10 were sent to hospital and 13 treated at a local clinic, hospital officials said. An official at the centre in Oestfold south of Oslo said the attackers were Chechens and the victims Kurds. Police declined to confirm or deny that and said they had made no arrests so far. "There was an attack from outside the asylum centre... Reuters via Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051057/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:22:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051000/posts The owner of a downtown Los Angeles sushi restaurant facing wage payment claims by two alleged undocumented workers has launched a novel counterattack by filing a class-action lawsuit against the California labor commissioner for defying federal immigration law. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 24, 2008 California Employer Sues State Over Wage Claims for Illegal Workers The owner of a downtown Los Angeles sushi restaurant facing wage payment claims by two alleged undocumented workers has launched a novel counterattack by filing a class-action lawsuit against the California labor commissioner for defying federal immigration law. Masayoshi Kaji of Sushi Sharin argues that the commissioner’s policy... Workforce Management http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051000/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:20:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050944/posts WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama has picked up support from nearly all the Hispanics who voted for his rival Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries, giving him a nearly 3-1 lead over John McCain, according to a new poll. Results of the Pew Hispanic Center survey show Obama with 66 percent of the Hispanic vote to McCain's 23 percent. The results represent a ''sharp reversal'' in Obama's fortunes from the primaries, when he lost the Latino vote to Clinton by nearly 2-1, prompting speculation that Hispanics were leery of voting for a black candidate, said Susan Minushkin, the center's deputy director.... Miami Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050944/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:16:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050945/posts FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens do exist. And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions - but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades. Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as 'little people who look strange to us.' Daily Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050945/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:16:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050911/posts Frank Kennedy, brother in law of murder victim Tony Bologna will be on with John and Ken in a few minutes. The illegal alien MS-13 gang member had been protect by Gavin Newsom's sanctuary city of San Francisco. Instead of throwing him out of the country, he was here to murder Denise's Bologna's husband and two sons. This case may be the rallying cry to wake up the nation. LISTEN ONLINE ON KFI KFI in Los Angeles http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050911/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:58:28 GMT