illegal immigration
Posted at 6:20pm on Jul. 2, 2008 Mercosur Demands Lebensraum
By Neil Stevens
The South American trade union demands that its people know no boundaries, according to the BBC:
The EU laws, due to come into force in 2010, could see illegal immigrants held for up to 18 months and face a five-year ban on re-entry if expelled.
....In a joint declaration, [Mercosur leaders] rejected "every effort to criminalise irregular migration and the adoption of restrictive immigration policies, in particular against the most vulnerable sectors of society, women and children".
They used to call this sort of thing an invasion, sending your people across national boundaries and demanding full rights to that territory. If the EU caves on this, I bet Hitler would be kicking himself right now. He might have had Poland without a fight had he just demanded an end to "restrictive immigration policies."
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Posted at 12:00pm on Jun. 10, 2008 Federal Jobs Illegal Immigrants Can’t Do
The President Gets It. Better Late Than Never
By Mark I
President Bush modified an Executive Order from the Clinton Administration yesterday to effectively bar illegal immigrants from working jobs on the Federal dole. All Federal contractors will now have to register for the Department of Homeland Security’s E-Verify program and check the status of all their workers and subcontractors’ workers before starting work on Federal contracts.
The E-Verify program is the bane of civil liberties and open borders groups because it uses the Social Security Administration’s database to actually cross check the often times fraudulent or stolen numbers provided by illegal immigrants on their employment applications. A Federal Court in San Francisco, natch, blocked part of Homeland Security’s program in a lawsuit filed by the ACLU, the San Francisco Labor Council, and the strange political bedfellows of the AFL-CIO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. That ruling, issued by Supreme Court Justice Steven Breyer’s brother Judge Charles Breyer, has prevented the Social Security Administration from sending out over 140,000 “no match” letters to employers. The letters would have required employers to take steps to verify their employees’ identities within 90 days or else fire the workers.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said at the time that the ruling did not amount to a “holiday from law enforcement,” and that the Administration would do, “as much administratively as we can, within the boundaries of existing law,” to continue to crackdown on illegal immigration. The president rightfully took a lot of criticism from the right for his backing of the Senate’s disastrous “comprehensive” immigration bill, and many have been skeptical of the Administration’s stepped up enforcement of illegal immigration laws in the wake of that compromise’s failure in Congress. Sen. McCain, too, a champion of the Senate bill, professes to have seen the light on illegal immigration and now calls for securing the border before taking up any immigration bill. Yesterday’s move to secure federally contracted jobs for American workers is evidence that the Administration does get it, and is another huge victory for opponents of the comprehensive approach to immigration reform. Sen. McCain can show that he gets it too by pledging not to alter or rescind the order if elected.
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Posted at 12:27pm on Jan. 8, 2008 Suffer Not the Little Children-Huckabee Panders on Illegal Immigration [UPDATE] Huck Flops Back
By Mark I
UPDATE: Huck flops, or is it flips, back again. Read through for the full story.
Gov. Mike Huckabee curiously won the endorsement of Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist right before the Iowa primaries. At the time, some questioned how a former governor with a soft record on illegal immigration could win the backing of a grass roots organization dedicated to stopping the flow of illegals into the country. Today the answer became clear: shameless pandering.
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Posted at 11:20am on Dec. 26, 2007 The Housing Crisis and Illegal Immigration
By blackhedd
Submitted for your consideration: is the weakness in the housing/construction industries reducing illegal immigration?
This is a connection I haven't seen anyone else make. Instead, the question people are asking is: why isn't unemployment a whole lot worse than it is?
The recently-departed US bubble in residential and commercial real-estate prices understandably touched off a huge boom in overbuilding in many regions of the country. And this activity created a lot of (real) economic activity and growth, just as the Internet bubble did ten years ago.
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