http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/immigration/ en-us Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:33:37 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051093/posts link only per rules: http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080725/METRO/807250385/1409/METRO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051093/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:33:37 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/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/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 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050872/posts Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, blasted the Bush administration today for conducting what Democrats described as harsh and punitive immigration raids, calling special attention to a raid at a kosher meatpacking plant in Iowa last May where nearly 400 illegal workers, mainly Guatemalans, were arrested in the largest worksite immigration raid in U.S. history. Lofgren, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee's immigration panel, said at a hearing on the raid that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents rounded up workers at the Agriprocessors meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa, and then they were "herded into a cattle arena and prodded down... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050872/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:01:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050739/posts SAN FRANCISCO — The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday called on Mayor Gavin Newsom to allow the federal agency full access to information about local inmates, saying the city should rescind its policy that prohibits ICE agents from reviewing jail logs and records. A letter sent to Newsom from ICE director Julie Myers urging more access to inmate records was the latest flare-up following accusations that a San Francisco policy to shield undocumented immigrants also caused the city to shelter felons charged with serious crimes. Eileen Hirst, chief of staff for San Francisco County Sheriff Michael Hennessey,... Contra Costa Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050739/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:12:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050639/posts PHOENIX (Reuters) - Two-thirds of U.S. Hispanic voters support Democrat Barack Obama for president over Republican John McCain and the partisan gap among the United States' fastest growing voter bloc is broader than at any point this decade, a study found. The nationwide telephone survey by the Pew Hispanic Center released on Thursday said 66 percent of a sample of 2,015 registered Latino voters polled said they backed Obama, with 23 percent supporting McCain, a senator from Arizona. The survey said Obama's strong showing represented a sharp reversal in his fortunes from the primaries "when he lost the Latino vote... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050639/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:21:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050198/posts The Castorena Family Organization is a large-scale criminal organization with more than 100 key members who oversee cells of 10 to 20 individuals in cities across the United States, according to public court documents filed by the US government in Colorado and in other judicial districts around the country. Several of the senior leaders of the organization are believed to be based in Mexico, although they enter the US occasionally to oversee the operations of lieutenants of the crime family. The organization is alleged to be involved in the manufacture and distribution of high-quality counterfeit identity documents, including social security... American Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050198/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:06:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050415/posts U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo sent an open letter to Sen. John McCain criticizing his recent meeting with Hispanic leaders where he reportedly pushed his amnesty agenda. Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050415/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:36:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050549/posts An alleged gang member accused of triple murder in the slayings of a San Francisco father and two sons pleaded not guilty Wednesday at a hearing in which the judge refused to issue a blanket gag order in the high-profile case. Edwin Ramos, 21, is accused of the June 22 shooting deaths of Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16, ....... Ramos spoke softly and slowly in denying each of the allegations. The defense sought the gag order after The Chronicle revealed that Ramos was an illegal immigrant who was found to have committed two felonies... SF Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050549/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:00:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050535/posts Formal border checks between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland will be introduced to prevent the movement of illegal immigrants to and from Britain, according to proposals published by the two governments today. The proposals would constitute a “substantial change” to the Common Travel Area (CTA) established in 1925. Throughout the Troubles border checkpoints were common, but the porosity of the border has come under renewed scrutiny because it was feared it was a soft touch for people traffickers and illegal immigrants. The British and Irish governments will also step up to catch non-British and non-Irish nationals traveling between... Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050535/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:44:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050468/posts Myles Gladstone is the vice president of Human Resources at Miller & Long Co., a Maryland-based concrete subcontractor that has programs in place to help immigrants integrate into the workplace.(CNSNews.com) – Deported criminals are more violent after learning how to use semi-automatic weapons while in the United States, said an official from a Maryland company with a workforce that is 60 percent Hispanic. Myles Gladstone, vice president of human resources at Miller & Long, a concrete construction firm with headquarters in Bethesda, Md., was speaking at a roundtable discussion hosted by the Americans Society and Council of the Americas (ASCA)... CNS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050468/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:43:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050494/posts HONOLULU -- Federal officials said they netted 43 illegal aliens in an immigration raid on O`ahu. (snip) Agents said the aliens were employed by a company called The Farms which does agricultural work. The 43 men were all citizens of Mexico. KITV Honolulu http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050494/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:31:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2050292/posts In the early- to mid- 1970’s, the current crop of liberal alarmists were coming to the fore and feeling their oats. There was Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the book which singlehandedly led to the elimination of DDT. And finally, there was the grand-daddy of them all, Paul Erlich’s The Population Bomb, an updated salute to Malthus. I can still remember the words on the cover: “While you were reading these words, people will die of starvation, most of them children.” It seems that the world was eating itself out of house and home, beyond any possibility of rescue. It is... grey_whiskers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2050292/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:43:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050106/posts Mexican officials say a concrete barrier constructed by the U.S. Border Patrol in a storm-water tunnel beneath Nogales appears to be on Mexican soil and was the main cause of serious flooding July 12 in Nogales, Sonora. The flooding caused about $8 million in damage in Nogales, Sonora, the officials say. The 5-foot-high wall on the floor of the tunnel in front of a gate was put in without notifying the International Boundary and Water Commission, said Sally Spener, spokeswoman for the U.S. section of the commission. The commission requests that any agency doing work on the border that could... Arizona Daily Star (Tucson) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050106/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:50:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050089/posts Agency says getting all people, legal and illegal, to safety is its top priority The U.S. Border Patrol said today it is not checking the documents of individuals who are fleeing Hurricane Dolly, and it has no intention of using natural disasters as a pretext for rounding up and deporting illegal immigrants, 1200 WOAI news reports. Officials in the Rio Grande Valley have been worried about Border Patrol actions ever since a reporter spotted a Border Patrol official conducting a document check during a hurricane evacuation drill in McAllen in May. Some officials had expressed concern that Rio Grande Valley... 1200 WOAI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050089/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:24:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050012/posts For nearly two years, the South Florida middle school art teacher forced the boy to have sex in a classroom supply closet. Sometimes, Aaron Mohanlal would call in sick to work, take the boy to his home for sex and drop the seventh-grader back off at school at the end of the day. To keep the abuse secret, Mohanlal bought the 13-year-old a cell phone and created nicknames for their genitalia. When police arrested him, the teacher was caught on hidden video trying to destroy letters threatening the boy if he ever told. Last summer, a Broward County jury convicted... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050012/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:47:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050043/posts A study published on the July 22 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association called for more aggressive action against tuberculosis, after it had discovered an increase in the number of foreigners in the US infected with TB. Although TB cases in the US dropped 45 percent between 1996 and 2006 (from more than 25,000 to less than 14,000), according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s statistics, there was a five percent increase in TB cases among immigrant populations living in the US during the same period, Dr. Kevin P. Cain head of the CDC’s... eFluxMedia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050043/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:50:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049769/posts The last illegal immigrant juvenile offender who had been in a $7,000-a-month group home as part of San Francisco's now-abandoned effort to shield young immigrants from deportation has bolted, authorities said Tuesday. The youth walked away from the unlocked center in Atascadero (San Luis Obispo County) on Sunday, bringing to 12 the number of illegal immigrant offenders in the past month who have walked away from youth homes hundreds of miles from the city. Ten of the 12, all of them from Honduras and all detained for dealing drugs, are still at large, including the youth who disappeared early Monday.... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049769/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:50:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049875/posts GAINESVILLE, Mo. -- A man living in Ozark County is charged with second-degree murder after a shooting during a family outing Sunday near Mammoth. The victim was a man from Mountain Home, Ark. The shooting was next to Lick Creek near Mammoth, south of Gainesville, on private property near Big Rock swimming hole. A family of about 10 from Mountain Home was enjoying their Sunday, swimming and cooking hot dogs, when the owners came down to confront them. “There was an argument, push came to shove, a gun was drawn,” said Sheriff Raymond Pace. Pace says that's when Jesus Sesena-Murrieta,... KYTV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049875/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:16:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049964/posts A recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation concluded that the number of Hispanics infected with HIV/AIDS is on the rise, with as many as one in four gay Hispanic men having HIV, almost equaling HIV rates in the sub-Saharan Africa. Although Hispanics make up about 14 percent of the US population, they represent 22 percent of new HIV and AIDS diagnoses in 2006. Hispanics in Washington DC appear to have the highest rate of new AIDS cases in the country. The 22 percent was the result of analyzing HIV rates in 33 states and Puerto Rico, but not California,... eFluxMedia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049964/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:12:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049924/posts "As Congress heads into a critical week of votes on how to relieve America's home-foreclosure crisis, one of the toughest issues will be how to deal with the racial and ethnic dimensions of the problem. Minorities will be watching closely to see who gets the help."..... ......"Black and Hispanic families have gotten a disproportionate share of subprime lending, and subprime loans are the driving force behind the foreclosures," says Katheen Day, spokeswoman for the Center for Responsible Lending, a nonprofit research and policy group based in Durham, N.C. "We know that black and Hispanic communities are hardest hit."..... Christian Science Monitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049924/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:00:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049807/posts A 41-hour manhunt ended Friday with the arrest of a man suspected of gunning down his cousin’s wife in her east Rogers home. Sergio Morales-Carrera, 23, was arrested in a vehicle in Fayetteville about 2: 10 p. m. by members of the Rogers Police Department’s criminal investigation division, said Lt. Mike Johnson, department spokesman. Morales-Carrera was arrested “without incident,” Johnson said. He was taken to the Rogers jail and later to the Benton County jail, Johnson said. A bond hearing is scheduled for 9 a. m. Monday, he said.Two other men also were arrested on charges of hindering apprehension: Ramiro... NWAnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049807/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:15:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049611/posts Laura Ingraham interviewed Danielle Bologna this morning. It was a tear-filled, emotional, gut-wrenching interview. Danielle was widowed on June 22 when Edwin Ramos, 21, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, allegedly gunned down her husband, Anthony, and two sons, Matthew and Michael, in a road rage incident when her family was returning from a picnic. Ramos was a felon. He was protected by Mayor Gavin Newsome and his San Francisco sanctuary policy and not reported to ICE for deportation. He was out walking free and was able to murder three Americans. The mayor, who is the champion of gay marriage,... Laura Ingraham show http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049611/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:38:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049641/posts PALMETTO – An 18-year-old Palmetto man is accused of having sex with a 12-year-old girl who he picked up after she ran away from home around noon Sunday. Gavino Guitierez, of 4003 3rd Ave. Blvd. E., told authorities he had sex with the girl three times. He also admitted that he is an illegal immigrant from Mexico, according to a Manatee County Sheriff’s report.The girl returned home at about 6 p.m. Sunday and deputies were waiting to question her about where she had been. The girl said she was with Guitierez and had sex with him, according to a report.Guitierez... HeraldTribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049641/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:26:27 GMT