Sunday, May 2, 2010

ARE ILLEGALS HEADING BACK TO MEXICO? Not If Obama & the LA RAZA DEMS CAN HELP IT!

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TIDES OF ILLEGALS HEADING HOME? That’s now history since BARACK OBAMA, Pelosi, Boxer, and Reid have ONCE AGAIN gone to bat for the illegals and their illegal votes!

OBAMA has demonstrated that no laws against hiring illegals will be enforced.

OBAMA has sabotaged E-VERIFY


OBAMA has stopped the building of the WALL WITH NARCOMEX even as the Mexican drug cartels pour over.

OBAMA has taken hundreds of border patrol off our borders

OBAMA LIED when he said the PELOSI-OBAMACARE did not include illegals!

OBAMA has cut funding for any and all state and local governments paying for the burden of the MEXICAN INVASION, OCCUPATION, AND EVER EXPANDING WELFARE AND PRISON SYSTEM…..

IF BARACK OBAMA HAD NOT LIED, WE WOULD STILL BE SEEING THE EXODUS OF ILLEGALS BACK TO MEXICO!


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Tide of illegal immigrants now being reversed
Border crackdown and tough economic times in the US are seen as reasons.
By Gail Russell Chaddock | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
from the July 31, 2008 edition
Washington - Some 1.3 million illegal immigrants have left the United States since Congress failed to pass comprehensive immigration reform in the summer of 2007. If the trend continues, according to a new study, the nation's illegal population will drop by half in the next five years.
Moreover, reports the Center for Immigration Studies, young Hispanic immigrants began heading south before the nation's economy did – a clue that what's driving the new outmigration is a stepped-up border and workplace enforcement, not a souring US job market.
The source of the report – a think tank with a record of opposing illegal and even some legal immigration – is controversial in immigrant communities. But its findings could help frame the debate in a new Congress and a new administration.
The key conclusion is that enforcement, not the economy, is driving the decision to self-deport.
"The dropoff in illegal immigration seems to occur before there is a runup in their unemployment rate," says Steven Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies.
But Mr. Camarota also cites evidence of a link to the discussion in Congress about a path to legalization for undocumented workers. "From May to April [2007] there is an actual uptick in the number of illegals in the country, which falls off after the legislation fails. It seems as if the discussion of legalization had some effect on the decision to come or go or both," he says.
Critics caution that little is known about a shadow workforce estimated at anywhere from 11 million to 20 million. "The problem is it's difficult to know what's causing a change like this," says Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA, an organization of employers nationwide lobbying for comprehensive immigration reform. "But the one thing we know for sure is that the country is in a deep economic downturn, if not a recession, which means there's much less need for workers, especially those providing services for the middle class."
"Immigration is a market-driven phenomenon and that's why immigration is beneficial to the economy," she says. "When we need them, they come; and when we don't, they go home. Has enforcement had some effect? Perhaps. But there's no question that the economic downturn would in and of itself have a huge effect in attracting fewer [illegal immigrants] and sending more home."
When the Senate fell short on its last vote on comprehensive immigration reform in June 2007, the takeaway message for politicians on both sides of the issue was this: Secure the borders first. Since then, the Department of Homeland Security has beefed up security along the southern border and reported a spike in the deportation of illegal immigrants – 285,000 in fiscal 2007 – and nearly 100 employers of illegal workers facing jail sentences and very substantial fines, also a record.
By the end of this year, the US border patrol will be the largest in history and twice the size it was when President Bush came to office, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a House panel on July 17.
"We've seen a turn of the tide in terms of illegal immigration," he told the House Homeland Security Committee, citing a "substantial" decline in apprehension of illegal immigrants crossing the border and reports that remittances through Mexico and other countries in Central America from the US are declining.
Anecdotal evidence supports that claim.
The Rev. Robin Hoover of Humane Borders in Tucson, Ariz., delivers water in the desert to help people survive the trek into the United States. "Without doubt, people have left, and without question fewer people are coming," he said in a phone interview, citing conversations with migrants on both sides of the border. He attributes the shift to extensive knowledge within the illegal immigrant communities of declining work prospects in the US.
"A lot of people doing the recruiting are friends, uncles, cousins, relatives. People crossing the border may not know what kind of work they will be doing, but they know it's work and there's somebody at the other end making the arrangement," he adds. "As I've said for years, the migrants on the South Side of Chicago know more about the economy than the US Labor Department."
Analysts at the Center for Immigration Studies note that there's always uncertainty when estimating the illegal population. Monthly data collected by the Census Bureau through May 2008 shows a significant decline in the number of less-educated, young Hispanic immigrants, but the authors note that in a climate of stepped-up enforcement, people may be more wary of answering a government survey. "This in turn could create the illusion that the illegal population is falling when in fact the population remains unchanged." But they add that other data – such as remittances home, border apprehensions, and school enrollment data – signal that illegal workers are leaving the country.
Other immigration experts note that there's a long-term correlation between immigration and the economy.
"The economy certainly influences immigration, but that's not to say that enforcement doesn't also influence immigration," says Steve Malanga, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
The difference is that if illegal workers are leaving their jobs because of a stepped-up enforcement, there's an opportunity for legal workers to take their place. If they're leaving because the jobs are disappearing, that's less the case, Mr. Malanga says. "With so many unskilled legal residents out of work, greater enforcement coming at a time of economic stress might afford these individuals an opportunity to find new jobs," he says.
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Why more illegal aliens self-deport

Stiffer enforcement at the workplace and at the border are forcing an exodus.

By the Monitor Editorial Board
from the July 31, 2008 edition
What to do with millions of illegal aliens in the US? The issue is still a sleeper in the presidential campaign. But maybe not for long. Americans who want strict law enforcement before a "total" immigration solution now have proof that stronger enforcement can bring results.
Exhibit A: The illegal migrant population has dropped an estimated 11 percent through May after hitting a peak last August, based on census data used in a report by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). Much of that decline is due to people who self-deported by slipping back across the border.
The drop began well before unemployment went up, which points to the real success story: Washington's wake-up call last summer to beef up enforcement, from plugging leaks in the border to cracking down on employers who hire illegal workers.
In raw numbers, the decline meant 1.3 million fewer illegal immigrants in the US, down from an estimated 12.5 million. Not bad for a year of attentive law enforcement but still a long way to go. And in another sign of change: Immigrant remittances to the Bank of Mexico are down after years of rising.
The study found the number of legal immigrants continues to rise, helping employers who are looking for low-wage workers.
Few people expect all remaining 11.2 million illegal immigrants to be forcibly deported. Many have lived in the US for decades, raising children who are American citizens. Those cases will need a blend of humane treatment and punishment, and then likely be set on a long course to legal residency.
This blend of justice and mercy should be the norm for federal raids on factories with illegal workers – the need to avoid rough treatment, especially of parents with children (but arrests nonetheless).
The latest big raid, last May on an Iowa meat plant, showed just how much government tolerance toward illegal entry into the US has helped create a corrosive culture of wrongdoing. The plant hired illegal aliens under 18 to work in deplorable conditions, while supervisors helped illegal workers obtain fraudulent IDs.
The CIS study estimates a 50 percent drop in the illegal population is possible in the next five years if current enforcement continues. Such a sustainable decline would send a credible signal to Americans that government is serious about enforcing immigration law in a post-9/11 world.
John McCain only reluctantly came around to the "enforcement first" idea last year while Barack Obama opposes it. Perhaps this study will make them true converts. Without credible enforcement, any legalization for long-time illegal aliens would only result in a flood of new migrants who think they can enter the US illegally and someday win legal residency.
Much of the credit for stronger enforcement goes to Secretary Michael Chertoff of Homeland Security. He has quickly increased the number of Border Patrol agents and detention centers. Employers are feeling the heat to hire legally. The fenced portion of the border is longer, too.
The efforts of this former federal judge reflect a strong bipartisan demand for "enforcement first." The next presiden

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Illegal Immigrants Have Chance to Self-Deport
By Spencer S. HsuWashington Post Staff WriterThursday, July 31, 2008; A17
Federal authorities yesterday urged illegal immigrants living in the United States in violation of deportation orders to turn themselves in under a pilot program planned for five U.S. cities next month.
The self-deportation program, called "Operation Scheduled Departure," gives immigrants a chance to avoid the risk of being caught and jailed, have up to 90 days to put their affairs in order and in some cases leave with some family members, said James T. Hayes Jr., acting director of detention and removal operations with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It runs Aug. 5 to 26 in San Diego and Santa Ana, Calif.; Phoenix; Chicago; and Charlotte.
The program is limited to illegal immigrants with no criminal record who pose no threat to their community or the country. Hayes estimated as many as 500,000 of the 572,000 illegal immigrants recorded as living in the country in violation of court orders -- deemed "fugitive aliens" -- could be eligible.
Immigrant advocates called the plan a gimmick that is unlikely to reduce the estimated U.S. illegal immigrant population of 12 million people. While federal raids at workplaces and neighborhoods have spread fear, there is little incentive for illegal immigrants to go into "permanent exile," or to check in with ICE first if they wish to leave, said Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum.
Noorani called the offer a "harebrained scheme," adding: "This is nothing more than a modern-day Trail of Tears."
Hayes said the program was inspired by critics who accuse ICE of using punitive tactics and say that fugitives would surrender themselves.
"This is a great opportunity for those advocacy and faith-based organizations who have asked us to look at other ways to conduct fugitive operations to really step up to the table and bring their clients to us and work with us to schedule their departure," Hayes said.

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THIS IS THE NEW REALITY OF OBAMA’S “HOMELAND SECURITY = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP”

There are already 38 million illegals in the country. La Raza, the Mexican supremacist party for expansion of the Mexican welfare state, is actively fighting against illegals participating in the census. They do this through the Mexican media, and through the Catholic church. The Senate has joined in this fight. BOTH LA RAZA ENTITIES DO NOW WANT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO KNOW HOW BAD THE MEXICAN INVASION AND OCCUPATION IS!

Where in this country is it NOT Mexican occupied?

Judicial Watch
Mexicans Say Amnesty Will Boost Illegal Immigration
last Updated: Wed, 10/14/2009 - 3:02pm
If President Obama keeps his promise of giving the nation’s 12 million illegal aliens amnesty it will encourage more Mexicans to enter the United States, according to residents of the struggling Latin American country who are undoubtedly rooting for the commander-in-chief’s plan.
The majority of illegal immigrants in the U.S. are from Mexico therefore the president’s reprieve project will greatly affect that nation. Two-thirds of Mexicans say they know someone living in the United States and around one-third have an immediate member of their household or close relative living in the U.S.
A majority of those residing south of the border say legalizing their undocumented countrymen will inspire more Mexicans to head north, according to a recent survey conducted by an internationally known polling and market research company. A vast majority of Mexicans with a relative in the United States said a legalization program would make people they know more likely to go to America illegally.
The results of the survey were made public this week by a research organization dedicated to studying the economic, social, fiscal and demographic impacts of immigration in the U.S. It reveals that nearly one-third of Mexican residents (nearly 40 million people) would like to live in the U.S. and if there was an amnesty a large number would come illegally with the hope of qualifying for a future exoneration.
An amnesty, therefore, would stimulate more illegal immigration which is the last thing this country needs. Furthermore, rewarding those who have violated our nation’s laws with coveted U.S. residency and possibly citizenship demeans the system, especially for those who follow the appropriate steps to come lawfully.
It’s bad enough that U.S. taxpayers annually dish out billions of dollars to educate, medically treat and incarcerate illegal aliens who are, in many cases, depleting local governments. Los Angeles County alone spends more than $1 billion a year, including $48 million a month in welfare costs, to provide services for illegal aliens. The crisis is hardly limited to border states, which have traditionally been the most impacted. Georgia’s skyrocketing illegal population costs taxpayers nearly $2 billion a year.
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REMEMBER THIS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT IS USING THE 12 MILLION LA RAZA PROPAGANDA NUMBER FOR ILLEGALS. A FIGURE THAT HAS NOT CHANGED FOR YEARS, EVEN AS MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS CLIMBED OUR BORDER AND JOBS!!!


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ILLEGAL ALIEN POPULATION MAY BE AS HIGH AS 38 MILLION

Study: Illegal alien population may be as high as 38 million A new report finds the Homeland Security Department "grossly underestimates" the number of illegal aliens living in the U.S. Homeland Security's Office of Immigration Studies released a report August 31 that estimates the number of illegal aliens residing in the U.S. is between 8 and 12 million. But the group Californians for Population Stabilization, or CAPS, has unveiled a report estimating the illegal population is actually between 20 and 38 million. Four experts, all of whom contributed to the study prepared by CAPS, discussed their findings at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington Wednesday. James Walsh, a former associate general counsel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said he is "appalled" that the Bush administration, lawyers on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and every Democratic presidential candidate, with the exception of Joe Biden, have no problem with sanctuary cities for illegal aliens. "Ladies and gentlemen, the sanctuary cities and the people that support them are violating the laws of the United States of America. They're violating 8 USC section 1324 and 1325, which is a felony -- [it's] a felony to aid, support, transport, shield, harbor illegal aliens," Walsh stated. Walsh said his analysis indicating there are 38 million illegal aliens in the U.S. was calculated using the conservative estimate of three illegal immigrants entering the U.S. for each one apprehended. According to Walsh, "In the United States, immigration is in a state of anarchy -- not chaos, but anarchy."

President of Mexico CALDERON'S DEMAND LIST FOR MEXICANS HE EXPORTED

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MEXICO’S ENDLESS LECTURE AS TO WHAT WE SHOULD DO FOR THE MEXICAN POOR, ILLITERATE, CRIMINAL AND FREQUENTLY PREGNANT THEY EXPORT OVER OUR BORDERS.

ISN’T IT TIME WE STOPPED BEING MEXICO’S WELFARE AND PRISON SYSTEM? ISN’T IT TIME THAT MEXICO PAID US BACK FOR THE STAGGERING COST OF THEIR EXPORT OF POVERTY?

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SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS

Mexican president challenges anti immigration rhetoric

WE ARE NARCO-MEX’S WELFARE SYSTEM. HERE WE JUST REFER TO IT AS WELFARE FOR EMPLOYERS....

“It's as if many Americans are waiting around for Mexico to solve our immigration problem by creating jobs south of the border or physically restraining those intent on crossing into the United States. If so, they're going to be waiting a long time. Mexico now takes in about $23 billion annually in remittances from Mexicans living in the United States. It has no interest in turning off the golden faucet.

Interestingly when illegals attempt to cross Mexico’s own southern border they are mauled and put in jail by Mexican police.

When Mexican business hire illegals they are fined big time.

You can never underestimate the hypocrisy of Mexico, nor that nation’s shamelessness in dumping 40 million of their poor, pregnant and criminal classes over our open borders. But this is allowed to happen by our own country’s betrayal of its people on behalf of profits.


CALDERÓN NOTES THE CHANGING U.S. POLITICAL PICTURE

By Ruben Navarrette Jr. 02/13/2008

Less than two years after taking office, Mexican President Felipe Calderón is getting mixed reviews from the Mexican people. On the one hand, he gets high marks for reforming the tax system, fixing a massive public pension fund and launching a $25 billion public works initiative. But he is also getting flak for not being vocal enough in protesting what many Mexicans see as the harsh and unfair treatment of their sons and daughters in the United States.

That is a fascinating turnabout. Not long ago, Mexicans were much too proud to think about the migrants who fled to the north searching for better opportunities. Now they're demanding that their leaders go to bat for these expatriates against what they see as a cruelty born of American xenophobia.

And that's why Calderón is on a whirlwind, five day swing though the United States with stops in Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Sacramento. Aides say that the main purpose of the trip is to focus attention on the Mexican immigrant community in this country.


Even before leaving Mexico City, Calderón set off fireworks with provocative interviews in U.S. newspapers. He surveyed the U.S. presidential race and without mentioning specific candidates noted approvingly that moderates have done well. "The most radical and anti immigrant candidates have been left behind and have been put in their place by their own electorate," he told one reporter.

Indeed, the three leading candidates for president John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton all support a comprehensive approach that provides a path to legalization. Although McCain now says that his first priority would be to secure the border, he hasn't ruled out legalization once the border is under control. Nor has McCain flirted with the sort of nativist arguments that other Republicans find so hard to resist, about how immigrants are destroying the national identity and changing the country's landscape for the worse.
Yet, Calderón noted to another reporter, conservative talk show hosts and others are ratcheting up their anti immigrant rhetoric and creating a hostile environment for all Mexicans in the United States. Calderón said this has produced "an atmosphere full of prejudice, an anti immigrant atmosphere with certain themes that are also anti Mexican, that benefits no one." And, he said, the worst thing that can happen is that countries mistake neighbors for enemies.

Many Americans commit that error. They're so reluctant to accept any responsibility for illegal immigration a self inflicted wound that they bring upon themselves by aggressively hiring illegal immigrants they can't wait to pin the blame on Mexico and its leaders.

I hear it all the time. It's as if many Americans are waiting around for Mexico to solve our immigration problem by creating jobs south of the border or physically restraining those intent on crossing into the United States. If so, they're going to be waiting a long time. Mexico now takes in about $23 billion annually in remittances from Mexicans living in the United States. It has no interest in turning off the golden faucet.

Calderón would probably argue with me about that, just as he did when we were graduate school classmates in 2000. He believes, as many Mexicans are slowly realizing, that the country is losing some of its best people and that the Mexican family perhaps the country's most beloved institution is disintegrating because of massive migration. This week, Calderón told an audience at Harvard University, his alma mater, that he didn't want to lose more people to the United States, only to better serve and protect those Mexicans who are already here.

For me and, I dare say, for many Mexican Americans who are loyal to this country and not the one that had little use for our parents or grandparents the immigration debate is an issue of national sovereignty. Calderón accepts that nations have the right to enforce their laws and control their borders. But, for him, this is also an issue of human rights rights that don't vanish at the U.S. Mexico border.

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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Mexico prefers to export its poor, not uplift them

“Washington and Ottawa have every right to insist that Mexico's pampered elite act responsibly, rather than expecting US and Canadian taxpayers to shoulder burdens Mexico should assume.”

March 30, 2006 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0330/p09s02-coop.html By George W. Grayson
WILLIAMSBURG, VA. - At the parleys this week with his US and Canadian counterparts in Cancún, Mexican President Vicente Fox will press for more opportunities for his countrymen north of the Rio Grande. Specifically, he will argue for additional visas for Mexicans to enter the United States and Canada, the expansion of guest-worker schemes, and the "regularization" of illegal immigrants who reside throughout the continent. In a recent interview with CNN, the Mexican chief executive excoriated as "undemocratic" the extension of a wall on the US-Mexico border and called for the "orderly, safe, and legal" northbound flow of Mexicans, many of whom come from his home state of Guanajuato. Mexican legislators share Mr. Fox's goals. Silvia Hernández Enriquez, head of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for North America, recently emphasized that the solution to the "structural phenomenon" of unlawful migration lies not with "walls or militarization" but with "understanding, cooperation, and joint responsibility." Such rhetoric would be more convincing if Mexican officials were making a good faith effort to uplift the 50 percent of their 106 million people who live in poverty. To his credit, Fox's "Opportunities" initiative has improved slightly the plight of the poorest of the poor. Still, neither he nor Mexico's lawmakers have advanced measures that would spur sustained growth, improve the quality of the workforce, curb unemployment, and obviate the flight of Mexicans abroad. Indeed, Mexico's leaders have turned hypocrisy from an art form into an exact science as they shirk their obligations to fellow citizens, while decrying efforts by the US senators and representatives to crack down on illegal immigration at the border and the workplace. Insufficient revenues mean that Mexico spends relatively little on two key elements of social mobility: Education commands just 5.3 percent of its GDP and healthcare only 6.10 percent, according to the World Bank's last comparative study. Transparency International, a nongovernmental organization, placed Mexico in a tie with Ghana, Panama, Peru, and Turkey for 65th among 158 countries surveyed for corruption. Geography, self-interests, and humanitarian concerns require North America's neighbors to cooperate on myriad issues, not the least of which is immigration. However, Mexico's power brokers have failed to make the difficult decisions necessary to use their nation's bountiful wealth to benefit the masses. Washington and Ottawa have every right to insist that Mexico's pampered elite act responsibly, rather than expecting US and Canadian taxpayers to shoulder burdens Mexico should assume.

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REP. TOM TANCREDO RESPONDS TO MEXICAN PRESIDENT’S ENDLESS DEMANDS AS TO WHAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OWE MEXICAN CRIMINAL INVADERS. WHAT DOES MEXICO OWE THEIR OWN PEOPLE? NOTHING MORE THAN A MAP TO OUR BORDERS?


WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) today sent a letter to Mexican President Felipe Calderon questioning the motives behind his current visit to the United States as well as the charges levied by Mr. Calderon against the fairness of American immigration policy. A copy of the letter is below: President Calderon: I was disappointed by misguided comments you recently made regarding U.S.-Mexico relations and U.S. immigration laws. Purveying misinformation and absurd allegations is hardly a positive step to building a constructive partnership. According to the Associated Press you recently said, “You have two economies. One economy is intensive in capital, which is the American economy. One economy is intensive in labor, which is the Mexican economy. We are two complementary economies, and that phenomenon is impossible to stop.” Yes, both countries benefit by the 85% of Mexico’s manufacturing exports that come to the U.S., but people are not commodities. While I appreciate your concern for our joint prosperity, the economic and social ills that plague your country cannot be resolved by simply exporting your citizens to the United States. It is undeniable that Mexico faces major challenges. Endemic corruption and the power of violent drug cartels still dominate everyday life across Mexico. Beyond the headlines, Mexico has deep institutional maladies. Mexico’s absurdly antiquated Napoleonic-inquisition styled legal system and the squandering of robust energy-industry opportunity by a poorly managed, state-run Pemex monopoly are just two examples of the kind of self-inflicted wounds that hobble your troubled nation. I understand that you are attempting to resolve some of these problems and applaud your leadership in trying to do so. But what would contribute more to the long term stability of your economy and your country would be to focus more energy on addressing your domestic challenges and less on lobbying the U.S. to provide amnesty for Mexicans who have illegally entered this country with the blessing of your government. In doing so, you might be able to keep Mexico’s “best and brightest young men” in Mexico – where they can contribute more to Mexico’s economy than remittance payments. Unfortunately, your recent comments indicate that Mexico will continue its policy of encouraging illegal immigration and treating the United States as little more than a dumping ground for your social and economic problems. In your speech yesterday to the California State legislature, you lectured the American people on how to improve our immigration policies. Why did you not propose that we model our policies on Mexico’s own policies toward illegal entry across your own southern border? Mexico expends enormous resources to prevent Guatemalans, Hondurans and Salvadorans from entering the country illegally, but you castigate the United States for wanting secure borders. Mr. President, in my neighborhood that is called hypocrisy. You proposed in your Sacramento speech that “migration” be made “legal, safe and organized.” Mr. President, we already have such a program and it is called legal immigration. Over one million legal immigrants come through our ports of entry each year, not across our border fences. The American people set limits on the number of legal immigrants through our immigration laws, and it is not the job of the Mexican government to revise or expand those limits. President Calderon, you are insulting the American people when you tell us that fifteen to twenty million illegal aliens in our country bring only benefits and no costs. I challenge you to give one concrete example of how the enforcement of our existing immigration laws violates anyone’s human rights. The people of Oklahoma are not anti-Mexican for passing laws to require verification of employment eligibility. The people of Indiana are not anti-immigrant for passing laws to require photo identification for voting. The people of California are not anti-Mexican for denying driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. The people of Arizona are not anti-immigrant for passing laws that deny welfare benefits to people who are in that state unlawfully. It is no secret that the purpose of your visit is to influence the American election, and in fact your trip has been billed as a high-stakes effort to shape the immigration debate underway in the U.S. presidential race. What is perhaps more disappointing, however, is your attempt to insinuate that anti-amnesty sentiment here in the U.S. is the same as anti-Mexican sentiment. I am referring to your statement, “I need to change in the perception that the Americans are the enemy, and it is important to change the perception that the Mexicans are the enemy.” It is both disingenuous and dangerous for you to inject this kind of xenophobia into this debate. The fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans support the enforcement of our immigration laws and take issue with the notion that we should reward illegal behavior, hardly qualifies as ethnic animosity or international enmity. What you must understand is that a treasured aspect of our national foundation is a respect for the rule of law. Perhaps if corruption were not so widespread and commonplace in Mexico, it would be easier for you to understand this.
President Calderon, in many ways your trip thus far has been a long series of mixed messages. You accuse the United States of recent protectionist trends, yet you heavily restrict foreign entry into Mexico’s energy sector through a massive, state-run Pemex monopoly. You assure American politicians that an open flow of cheap Mexican labor is not only benign but vitally necessary, but you take great care in securing your own southern border with Guatemala. You come to the United States purportedly to promote better political and economic ties with the U.S., but then issue a thinly veiled threat that Mexicans will regard the U.S. as an enemy if we refuse to provide millions of illegal aliens with unconditional amnesty. President Calderon, I respectfully suggest that the next time you visit our country, rather than trying to influence U.S. policymakers or our election process, you take time to listen to Americans rather than lecture them. If you want to make changes in government policies, apply your energies to Mexico’s laundry list of problems rather than meddling in domestic American politics.

Mexico Shamelessly Exports Their POOR, ILLITERATE, CRIMINAL & PREGNANT & Then Lectures Us On What We Owe These OCCUPIERS! What Does Mex Owe Their Own?

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MEXICO’S ENDLESS LECTURE AS TO WHAT WE SHOULD DO FOR THE MEXICAN POOR, ILLITERATE, CRIMINAL AND FREQUENTLY PREGNANT THEY EXPORT OVER OUR BORDERS.

ISN’T IT TIME WE STOPPED BEING MEXICO’S WELFARE AND PRISON SYSTEM? ISN’T IT TIME THAT MEXICO PAID US BACK FOR THE STAGGERING COST OF THEIR EXPORT OF POVERTY?

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SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS

Mexican president challenges anti immigration rhetoric

WE ARE NARCO-MEX’S WELFARE SYSTEM. HERE WE JUST REFER TO IT AS WELFARE FOR EMPLOYERS....

“It's as if many Americans are waiting around for Mexico to solve our immigration problem by creating jobs south of the border or physically restraining those intent on crossing into the United States. If so, they're going to be waiting a long time. Mexico now takes in about $23 billion annually in remittances from Mexicans living in the United States. It has no interest in turning off the golden faucet.

Interestingly when illegals attempt to cross Mexico’s own southern border they are mauled and put in jail by Mexican police.

When Mexican business hire illegals they are fined big time.

You can never underestimate the hypocrisy of Mexico, nor that nation’s shamelessness in dumping 40 million of their poor, pregnant and criminal classes over our open borders. But this is allowed to happen by our own country’s betrayal of its people on behalf of profits.


CALDERÓN NOTES THE CHANGING U.S. POLITICAL PICTURE

By Ruben Navarrette Jr. 02/13/2008

Less than two years after taking office, Mexican President Felipe Calderón is getting mixed reviews from the Mexican people. On the one hand, he gets high marks for reforming the tax system, fixing a massive public pension fund and launching a $25 billion public works initiative. But he is also getting flak for not being vocal enough in protesting what many Mexicans see as the harsh and unfair treatment of their sons and daughters in the United States.

That is a fascinating turnabout. Not long ago, Mexicans were much too proud to think about the migrants who fled to the north searching for better opportunities. Now they're demanding that their leaders go to bat for these expatriates against what they see as a cruelty born of American xenophobia.

And that's why Calderón is on a whirlwind, five day swing though the United States with stops in Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Sacramento. Aides say that the main purpose of the trip is to focus attention on the Mexican immigrant community in this country.


Even before leaving Mexico City, Calderón set off fireworks with provocative interviews in U.S. newspapers. He surveyed the U.S. presidential race and without mentioning specific candidates noted approvingly that moderates have done well. "The most radical and anti immigrant candidates have been left behind and have been put in their place by their own electorate," he told one reporter.

Indeed, the three leading candidates for president John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton all support a comprehensive approach that provides a path to legalization. Although McCain now says that his first priority would be to secure the border, he hasn't ruled out legalization once the border is under control. Nor has McCain flirted with the sort of nativist arguments that other Republicans find so hard to resist, about how immigrants are destroying the national identity and changing the country's landscape for the worse.
Yet, Calderón noted to another reporter, conservative talk show hosts and others are ratcheting up their anti immigrant rhetoric and creating a hostile environment for all Mexicans in the United States. Calderón said this has produced "an atmosphere full of prejudice, an anti immigrant atmosphere with certain themes that are also anti Mexican, that benefits no one." And, he said, the worst thing that can happen is that countries mistake neighbors for enemies.

Many Americans commit that error. They're so reluctant to accept any responsibility for illegal immigration a self inflicted wound that they bring upon themselves by aggressively hiring illegal immigrants they can't wait to pin the blame on Mexico and its leaders.

I hear it all the time. It's as if many Americans are waiting around for Mexico to solve our immigration problem by creating jobs south of the border or physically restraining those intent on crossing into the United States. If so, they're going to be waiting a long time. Mexico now takes in about $23 billion annually in remittances from Mexicans living in the United States. It has no interest in turning off the golden faucet.

Calderón would probably argue with me about that, just as he did when we were graduate school classmates in 2000. He believes, as many Mexicans are slowly realizing, that the country is losing some of its best people and that the Mexican family perhaps the country's most beloved institution is disintegrating because of massive migration. This week, Calderón told an audience at Harvard University, his alma mater, that he didn't want to lose more people to the United States, only to better serve and protect those Mexicans who are already here.

For me and, I dare say, for many Mexican Americans who are loyal to this country and not the one that had little use for our parents or grandparents the immigration debate is an issue of national sovereignty. Calderón accepts that nations have the right to enforce their laws and control their borders. But, for him, this is also an issue of human rights rights that don't vanish at the U.S. Mexico border.

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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Mexico prefers to export its poor, not uplift them

“Washington and Ottawa have every right to insist that Mexico's pampered elite act responsibly, rather than expecting US and Canadian taxpayers to shoulder burdens Mexico should assume.”

March 30, 2006 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0330/p09s02-coop.html By George W. Grayson
WILLIAMSBURG, VA. - At the parleys this week with his US and Canadian counterparts in Cancún, Mexican President Vicente Fox will press for more opportunities for his countrymen north of the Rio Grande. Specifically, he will argue for additional visas for Mexicans to enter the United States and Canada, the expansion of guest-worker schemes, and the "regularization" of illegal immigrants who reside throughout the continent. In a recent interview with CNN, the Mexican chief executive excoriated as "undemocratic" the extension of a wall on the US-Mexico border and called for the "orderly, safe, and legal" northbound flow of Mexicans, many of whom come from his home state of Guanajuato. Mexican legislators share Mr. Fox's goals. Silvia Hernández Enriquez, head of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for North America, recently emphasized that the solution to the "structural phenomenon" of unlawful migration lies not with "walls or militarization" but with "understanding, cooperation, and joint responsibility." Such rhetoric would be more convincing if Mexican officials were making a good faith effort to uplift the 50 percent of their 106 million people who live in poverty. To his credit, Fox's "Opportunities" initiative has improved slightly the plight of the poorest of the poor. Still, neither he nor Mexico's lawmakers have advanced measures that would spur sustained growth, improve the quality of the workforce, curb unemployment, and obviate the flight of Mexicans abroad. Indeed, Mexico's leaders have turned hypocrisy from an art form into an exact science as they shirk their obligations to fellow citizens, while decrying efforts by the US senators and representatives to crack down on illegal immigration at the border and the workplace. Insufficient revenues mean that Mexico spends relatively little on two key elements of social mobility: Education commands just 5.3 percent of its GDP and healthcare only 6.10 percent, according to the World Bank's last comparative study. Transparency International, a nongovernmental organization, placed Mexico in a tie with Ghana, Panama, Peru, and Turkey for 65th among 158 countries surveyed for corruption. Geography, self-interests, and humanitarian concerns require North America's neighbors to cooperate on myriad issues, not the least of which is immigration. However, Mexico's power brokers have failed to make the difficult decisions necessary to use their nation's bountiful wealth to benefit the masses. Washington and Ottawa have every right to insist that Mexico's pampered elite act responsibly, rather than expecting US and Canadian taxpayers to shoulder burdens Mexico should assume.

SOCIAL MISERY in the UNITED STATES - SO THEY WORK FOR AMNESTY - OPEN BORDERS???

HERE’S WHAT 20 YEARS OF BUSH, HILLARY, BILLARY, BUSH and their combine WAR PROFITEER, and OBAMA DONOR, DIANNE FEINSTEIN got us! WAVE AFTER WAVE OF CORPORATE RAPE and PILLAGE, BIG BUSH SAUDI OIL – CARLYLE GROUP WAR AND OIL PROFITS, along with 38 MILLION “CHEAP” LABOR ILLEGALS that loathe this country, our laws, flag, language and culture.

ALL ACCELERATED BY BARACK OBAMA’S SELLOUT TO HIS BANKSTERS DONORS, BIG DRUGSTERS and LA RAZA.

The La Raza Dems’ solution to the staggering unemployment is AMNESTY and CHAIN MIGRATION so the rest of Mexico can jump our borders and jobs!

Can we really afford to keep electing these LIFER-POLITICIANS?

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New Year in America: A portrait of social misery
By Tom Eley
5 January 2010
The new decade finds the US working class suffering a level of social misery not seen since the Great Depression. Unemployment, poverty, hunger, utility cutoffs, homelessness, foreclosures and bankruptcies have become common experiences for millions.
But unlike in the Great Depression, when limited reforms were put in place in response to the crisis, the Obama administration, Congress, and state and local governments are taking no serious measures to provide relief. On the contrary, the two parties of big business are exacerbating the crisis through budget cuts at the state and local level and the federal government is preparing new austerity measures.
Unemployment: At over 10 percent, the official US jobless rate reached in October and November was the highest since June of 1983. A broader measure of unemployment, taking into account those who have fallen out of the official workforce, reveals that something approaching one in five workers is unemployed or underemployed.
The economy has not added jobs since December 2007, and in that same time span has lost 7.2 million jobs overall. Coupling these losses with population growth—the economy must add about 150,000 jobs per month to break even—the net jobs deficit in the period is well over 10.5 million.
It is widely acknowledged that most of the jobs lost will not return for years, if ever. Even by the optimistic forecast of the Federal Reserve Board, the jobless rate will remain above 7 percent through 2011. Those without jobs face long periods of unemployment, the most recent figures showing that 38.3 percent of the unemployed have been without work for 27 weeks or longer.
Data for November show that all 50 states have witnessed an increase in unemployment since the end of 2008. Michigan continued to have the highest official jobless rate at 14.7 percent. Detroit, its principal city and the longtime hub of US auto production, had an official unemployment rate of 27 percent. The real rate approaches 50 percent, a number in line with the worst levels of big city unemployment during the Great Depression.
(THE LA RAZA DEMS HAVE A SOLUTION FOR UNEMPLOYMENT IN CA. IT’S CALLED UNLIMITED AMNESTY AND “CHAIN MIGRATION” SO THE REST OF MEXICO CAN HOP OUR BORDERS AND JOBS!)
In California, 12.3 percent of the official workforce was unemployed in November. The most populous US state had by itself shed 617,000 jobs over the previous year.
What remains of the US social safety net is woefully unprepared to meet this crisis, with jobless benefits reaching well under half of unemployed workers. In December nearly ten million workers in the US were receiving jobless benefits, not quite half of these in the form of extended or emergency relief. There were some 5.6 million workers who had both exhausted their unemployment benefits and given up looking up for work.
Those fortunate enough to keep their jobs in 2009 saw their hours, wages and benefits cut, even as employers drove up their productivity. In real terms, average weekly wages fell by 1 percent last year, while worker productivity was ratcheted up by 8.1 percent in the third quarter and 6.4 percent in the second.
Foreclosures and bankruptcies: Increasing numbers of unemployed and financially stressed workers have been unable to meet their mortgage payments. During the third quarter, the number of US homes in foreclosure surpassed one million. In October, a survey by the Mortgage Bankers Association found that about one in ten mortgages was at least one payment behind, while 4.47 percent were in the process of foreclosure.
Most of the recent increase in foreclosures has occurred outside of the subprime loan market, among households that had previously qualified for loans based on stable employment and income.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that filings for personal bankruptcy rose to 1.41 million in 2009, up by almost one third. The newspaper called the increase “a surge largely driven by foreclosures and job losses.”
Poverty and hunger: Poverty and hunger, already on the rise in 2008 before the brunt of the economic crisis hit, have intensified.
Analysis of the 2008 US census using criteria favored by the National Academy of Sciences shows that 47.4 million Americans, 15.8 percent of the population, were living below the official poverty line. The official government tally recorded 39.8 million people in poverty in 2008, or 13.2 percent of the population. One in five US children was living in poverty in 2008, according to the official data.
The real poverty rate is far higher, since the income threshold set by the government—$22,000 for a family of four—is absurdly low.
Judy Putnam, a spokesperson for the Michigan League for Human Services, discussed with the World Socialist Web Site her organization’s new study “Michigan by the Numbers: Hard Times Continue.” According to Putnam, 22 percent of the state’s children under five are growing up in poverty. For African American children, the figure is 45 percent, with half the children in Detroit growing up poor.
“Many of those who would have received cash assistance in past recessions are not getting it now,” Putnam said. “Only a third are getting cash assistance compared with two-thirds before ‘welfare reform’ in 1996. All of these folks who need assistance have been squeezed off the safety net. People in Michigan are heavily dependent on food stamps and, if they qualify, for unemployment benefits. But unlike previous recessions only the very, very poor qualify for cash assistance.”
The evidence of widespread hunger in the US is unmistakable. In December, the National Conference of Mayors released a study of 27 major cities conducted between October 2008 and September 2009. The report revealed the largest increase in those seeking food assistance since 1991.
In November, the United States Department of Agriculture reported that a record 49.1 million Americans, one sixth of the population, lacked dependable access to adequate food in 2008.
Also in November, Feeding America, a national food assistance organization, released details of an economic impact survey of some of its 63,000 member food charities. It found that between summer 2008 and summer 2009, demand for food charity rose by over 30 percent nationally.
Many of those reliant on food assistance have no other source of income, a new analysis of state data by the New York Times reveals. Six million Americans, or 1 in 50, report no income beyond what they receive in food stamps through the joint federal-state Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
According to a recent study published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, about half of US children will rely on food stamps at some point during their childhood. The figure is 90 percent for black children.
Homelessness and utility cutoffs: With a bitter cold snap settling over much of the nation last week, those suffering homelessness and utility cutoffs found themselves in dangerous conditions.
The caseload of the government’s Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) increased by 25 percent in 2009, and is projected to increase by another 20 percent in 2010.
Among the 27 major cities surveyed by the US Conference of Mayors report, 19 reported an increase in family homelessness between the autumns of 2008 and 2009. The largest increases were in Dallas (20 percent), Boston and Kansas City (22 percent each), and Charleston (41 percent).
Across the US, shantytowns reminiscent of the “Hoovervilles” of the 1930s have emerged. People in these encampments live in tents or shacks built of old wood, scrap metal, cardboard and other waste, with no running water, electricity, plumbing, or garbage removal.
An indelible scene took place in Detroit on October 5, when an estimated 50,000 city residents formed a long line stretching around the Cobo Hall convention center after hearing rumors that the city was dispensing assistance for utility bills and housing payments. City officials said only a tiny fraction of those seeking assistance would receive help.
Conditions of the youth: The economic crisis has exacted perhaps its greatest toll on the youth. All of the data related to hunger, homelessness and unemployment show that young people are disproportionately affected.
A study by the Pew Research Center published in November shows that one in ten adults under the age of 35 has moved back to his parents’ home as a result of the recession. Overall, half of those aged 18 to 24 now live with their parents. Only about half of young people have jobs, the lowest figure on record dating back to 1948.
A recent study showed that less than half of students graduate on schedule after signing up for a two- or four-year college program, and that most who quit or delay their studies do so on account of economic hardship.
Those who do graduate enter the worst market for degree holders in 30 years, and with record levels of student debt. The average college graduate in 2008 carried a burden of $23,000 in student loan debt, while the unemployment rate for college graduates aged 20 to 24 reached 10.6 percent in the third quarter.
Meanwhile, one in ten male high school dropouts, ages 16 to 24, is currently either in prison or juvenile detention. Among black male high school dropouts, more than a fifth are incarcerated, a study by researchers at Northeastern University shows. For the population as a whole, the Justice Department recently reported that 1 in 31 US adults is behind bars or on probation or parole.
The response of the government: The response of state and local governments to this social catastrophe is drastic reductions in social services and job cuts, under conditions where the Obama administration refuses to provide emergency aid to help cover budget deficits.
The total deficit of the states from 2009 to 2012 is now estimated at $460 billion, a figure that is likely to grow as more state capitals adjust estimates for rapidly declining tax revenue.
”Anything and everything’s on the table,” said Todd Haggerty, a policy associate with the National Conference of State Legislators. States have “cut the fat, cut the muscle and are now cutting bone. The easy decisions have already been made.”
The fiscal situation confronting the states is expected to deteriorate sharply next year when funds from the federal economic stimulus package, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, are exhausted.
Like the states, the federal government faces a fiscal catastrophe, with cumulative US budget deficits expected to top $10 trillion by the end of the new decade, according to the Obama administration’s rather optimistic forecast. Cuts in spending must be put in place, in part, to convince creditors, especially China, that the US “can get its finances back in order,” the Wall Street Journal wrote Monday in a feature on the annual gathering of the American Economic Association.
The response of the Obama administration is to call for an unprecedented program of fiscal austerity and sharp cuts in social spending, to be announced in his State of the Union address early next month and outlined in the new federal budget proposal shortly thereafter. Obama’s repeated insistence on the need for Americans to reduce their consumption—even as trillions more are allocated for the banks and for ever-expanding wars in Central Asia and the Middle East—is code language for a deepening of the assault on the working class.
The discussion of possible deficit reduction measures includes regressive taxes such as a national sales tax and sweeping cuts in entitlement programs on which millions of people rely, such as Medicare and Social Security.
Such measures are on top of the administration’s health care overhaul, which will reduce costs for corporations and the government while slashing benefits and increasing out-of-pocket expenses for millions of working people.
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THERE WILL NEVER BE UNEMPLOYMENT, MEXICAN WELFARE, OR MEXICAN BORDER TO BORDER CRIME ENOUGH FOR THE LA RAZA DEMS TO STOP PUSHING THEIR AMNESTY DOWN OUR THROATS!

FAIR Legislative Update December 22, 2009

Radical Amnesty Bill Introduced in House
On Tuesday, December 15, open borders advocate Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) introduced H.R. 4321, the “Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act of 2009,” (CIR ASAP). H.R. 4321 would grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, dramatically increase legal immigration, and create loopholes in existing penalties in exchange for promises of “enforcement” in the future. (See FAIR’s Legislative Updates from October 19, 2009 and December 14, 2009). At introduction, CIR ASAP had over 90 original co-sponsors in the House of Representatives. (See Cosponsor listing).
CIR ASAP contains several amnesty programs, including AgJOBS (Title IV, Subtitle B); the DREAM Act (sprinkled throughout the bill); and a broad amnesty program through which millions of illegal aliens could obtain “earned legalization” (Title IV, Subtitle A). These provisions are in many ways similar to those in the Bush-Kennedy Amnesty Bill of 2007, except that several significant requirements have been weakened. For example, for an illegal alien to receive amnesty under H.R.4321, he or she does not even have to establish employment, only that he or she is an active member of the community.
In addition to granting amnesty, CIR ASAP would dramatically increase legal immigration by:
• Recapturing purportedly “unused” family and employment-based green cards from 1992 to 2008 (§301(a)-(b)). According to State Department data, this provision alone could bring in as many as 550,000 immigrants—all of whom would compete with American workers for jobs. (U.S. State Department, Unused Family and Employment Preferences Numbers Available for Recapture, Fiscal Years 1992-2007).
• Expanding the definition of “immediate relatives” to include children and spouses of lawful permanent residents. (§302). This would allow an unlimited number of these children and spouses to immediately qualify for a visa.
• Increasing the annual per country limits on family and employment-based visas from seven percent to ten percent. (§303). Under current law, each foreign country has a seven percent share of the total cap of visas allocated each year.
In exchange for the multiple amnesties and massive increases in legal immigration proposed in the bill, H.R. 4321 contains measures ostensibly aimed at strengthening immigration “enforcement.” Upon closer examination, however, CIR ASAP would actually undermine the enforcement of our immigration laws. For example, the bill would:
• Repeal the highly successful 287(g) program, which allows federal officials to train state and local law enforcement agencies in the enforcement of federal immigration laws. (§184).
• Establish a new, untested electronic employee verification system. (§201). This would completely reverse years of progress made with respect to E-Verify.
• Temporarily suspend Operation Streamline pending a re-evaluation of the program’s future viability. (§125(a)). Operation Streamline is a highly successful, zero-tolerance program that targets illegal aliens for immediate prosecution upon apprehension at or near the border. After Operation Streamline was put into effect in December 2006, the Yuma, Arizona sector saw nearly 1200 prosecutions in the first 9 months. Border apprehensions decreased by 70 percent. (CBP Press Release, July 24, 2007).
• Prohibit the Armed Forces and the National Guard from assisting in securing the border unless: (1) the President declares a national emergency, or (2) the use of the Armed Forces/National Guard is required for specific counter-terrorism duties. (§131(a) & (b)).
• Require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to identify and inventory the current personnel, human resources, assets, equipment, supplies, or other physical resources dedicated to border security and enforcement prior to any increase in these categories. (§114(a); §116(a)).
At a press conference announcing the introduction of his bill, Rep. Gutierrez indicated that his bill was to set the Congressional Hispanic Caucus’s standard for immigration reform legislation. However, he also acknowledged that the Senate will most likely be the first chamber to act on amnesty legislation. While a bill has not yet been introduced in the Senate, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is planning to introduce a bill in early 2010, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has indicated he will kick off the amnesty debate sometime in February or March. (Congressional Quarterly, December 15, 2009).
FAIR will be releasing a more detailed summary of the Gutierrez amnesty bill shortly. Stay tuned for our in-depth analysis.

DEMOCRATS and the CULTURE of CORRUPTION - No American Need Apply Here!

NO JOBS FOR LEGALS – EXPORT JOBS OR IMPORT THIRD WORLDERS TO TAKE AMERICAN JOBS!


Barbara Boxer is once again running for 6 more years in the Senate, and the staggering bribes she tucks in her son, OAKLAND LAWYER, DOUGLAS BOXER’S pockets as “consultant fees”. This is one of the LA RAZA DEMS more commonly use forms of corruption.
BOXER HAS NEVER HAD A BILL MADE INTO LAW.
She survives by servicing SILICON VALLEY making sure there are boatloads of CHINESE AND INDIANS to take our jobs, and the borders left open for illegals to keep flooding.

THE MASSIVE JOBS SELLOUT is caused by BOXER, FEINSTEIN, LOFGREN, HONDA, WAXMAN, and PELOSI!

A visit to SILICON VALLEY and you would find a state under THIRD-WORLD OCCUPATION. NO LEGAL NEED APPLY HERE! Jobs go only to Chinese, Indians, or illegals from Mexico.
The place is so Chinese Indian it is unrecognizable as an American state. All “tech workers”??? Fill your gas take up and you’re handing your money to an Indian! Stay at any hotel, and they no longer hire illegals from Mexico to clean up, there all Indians. Most hotels in California are now owned and operated by Indians.
THESE LA RAZA DEMS HAVE CAUSED THE MELTDOWN IN CA. THEY WILL NEVER NOT SELL OUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR THEIR CORPORATE PAYMASTERS AND BRIBESTERS!

YOU REALLY WANT 6 MORE YEARS OF THE UTTERLY WORTHLESS BARBARA BOXER?
6 MORE YEARS FOR HER TO WRITE PULP FICTION AND GO ON 22 CITY BOOK TOURS? SEE AMAZON!

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NO JOBS FOR LEGALS – EXPORT JOBS OR IMPORT THIRD WORLDERS TO TAKE AMERICAN JOBS!

India outsourcers hiring staff as US demand grows
By ERIKA KINETZ, AP Business Writer
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
(01-20) 06:15 PST MUMBAI, India (AP) --
India's top three outsourcing companies are ramping up hiring and increasing pay as global corporations, mainly from the U.S., send more work offshore to cut costs as they emerge from the downturn.
Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, and Wipro expanded their global workforces by an average of 5.1 percent last quarter, together adding 16,701 employees, company documents show — an early sign that the Great Recession may ultimately benefit India as cost-conscious companies outsource more work, just as they did after the dot-com bust.
"Our expectations are for flat to marginally stronger IT budgets with a greater share of offshore spend," Wipro chairman Azim Premji said in a conference call Wednesday. "Our customers remain focused on cost reduction."
The employment revival in India's outsourcing sector, which counts on the U.S. for about 60 percent of global sales, comes as unemployment in the U.S. stagnates around 10 percent — near a 26-year high. Inflation-adjusted wages in the U.S. last year fell 1.6 percent, the biggest decline since 1990.
"When there is a downturn the compulsion to control costs increases," said Dipen Shah, an analyst at Mumbai's Kotak Securities. "The demand for offshoring will increase. That will play to the advantage of Indian IT companies."
He argues that the cost savings from offshoring has helped U.S. companies survive — and that's good for the American worker.
"You might say jobs in the U.S. are getting displaced by jobs in India, but because of the value provided by Indian companies and lower costs, there are firms who are able to keep their heads above water and continue to employ their existing employees," he said.
TCS, Infosys and Wipro, whose clients include leading companies like Goldman Sachs and General Electric as well as U.S. government agencies, can do everything from call center management and claims processing to software development and consulting. All three reported stronger than expected results for the December quarter, with revenue and volume growth, signaling that the cost-cutting imperative of this last, lean year may be over for India's $60 billion software services industry.
After about a year of hiring slowdowns, all three companies are sweetening compensation as the fight to hold on to talented employees in India heats up.
Infosys offered its Indian employees an average 8 percent pay hike in October, their first raise since April 2008, and executives said last week they are considering another raise to combat rising attrition.
"The market is heating up and we want to retain talent," human resources director Mohandas Pai told reporters.
Infosys last week raised its gross hiring target for the second time this fiscal year, to 24,000 people.
Wipro executives said they plan to offer staffers a raise in February.
Tata Consultancy Services has paid out 150 percent of performance-linked pay — which normally amounts to 20 to 45 percent of compensation — for the last two quarters, and executives say they will raise salaries next quarter, after a year-long wage freeze.
As demand for workers revives, employers have begun to worry about rising staff turnover. Employees who sat tight during the downturn have started to shop around for better jobs and better salaries.
Attrition at Wipro jumped to 13.4 percent last quarter, up from an average of 8.9 percent over the prior three quarters. Attrition at Infosys rose to 11.6 percent last quarter from 10.9 percent the prior quarter. Attrition at TCS has been stable, at around 11.5 percent, though executives say they expect that number to rise.
Indian firms say they are increasing global hiring, including in the U.S., as they pursue higher-end work like consulting. But U.S. employees remain a fraction of total staff.
TCS, for example, recently finished hiring 250 Americans for its Cincinnati campus, but U.S. employees still account for less than 0.5 percent of the company's global workforce.

NO JOBS FOR LEGALS – EXPORT JOBS OR IMPORT THIRD WORLDERS TO TAKE AMERICAN JOBS!

WHY DOESN’T JEFF GREENE HAVE A JOB? BECAUSE HE STANDS AT THE BACK OF THE LINE IN SILICON VALLEY BEHIND ENDLESS BOATLOADS OF CHINESE AND INDIANS.

NO AMERICAN NEED APPLY!

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S.F. garden to help feed the homeless
Rachel Gordon, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, May 1, 2010

Jeff Greene, an out-of-work engineer who would be homeless if not for a room in a residential hotel paid for by the city, grabbed a shovel Friday afternoon and began digging holes in a patch of dirt in Hayes Valley.
Greene, 45, was helping plant an urban fruit orchard along Octavia Boulevard on land once under the shadow of a freeway ramp.
His volunteer labor was used to help launch a nationwide project dubbed "Communities Take Root" in which fruit trees will be planted in 25 more communities across the United States to bring fresh and nutritious foods to the poor and others in need.
San Francisco's fruit orchard is being incorporated into a budding community food garden run by Project Homeless Connect, a 6-year-old program started by Mayor Gavin Newsom to help the homeless get housing, health care, clothing and other essential goods and services.
The garden, which runs along the east side of Octavia between Oak and Page streets, opened in February. The produce is intended to feed the homeless.
On Friday afternoon dozens of volunteers gathered in the sun-warmed garden to plant 17 fruit trees, among them grapefruit, apple, pear, guava, persimmon and apricot, and about two dozen plants and shrubs that will produce huckleberries, raspberries, grapes and the like.
The project is a joint effort of the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation of Mill Valley and Dreyer's, the Oakland food company.
The first substantial harvest should emerge in two or three years, said Cem Akin, executive director of the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation.
Ed DeMasi, deputy director of Project Homeless Connect, surveyed the garden - now sprouting greens and planted with fruit trees - that not long ago had been a neglected patch of asphalt beneath the Central Freeway ramp. The freeway, damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, is gone and a renewed neighborhood has taken root.
The garden is a symbol of the rebirth.
"Now people who are homeless and who have homes are coming together as one to work on a common goal, and that's learning about and growing sustainable food and building community," DeMasi said.
Greene, who is working to put his life back on track, said the garden has given him that and more.
"All these trees we're planting," he said, "remind me of hope."
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NO JOBS FOR LEGALS – EXPORT JOBS OR IMPORT THIRD WORLDERS TO TAKE AMERICAN JOBS!

ALIENS in AMERICA - Taxpayers Taken To the Cleaners

STAGGERING COST OF ILLEGALS ALIENS IN AMERICA

Aliens In America

Taxpayers Taken To The Cleaners
By Frosty Wooldridge

4-10-8

Illegal alien migration into the United States costs American taxpayers $346 billion annually reported by the National Research Council. While employers of illegal aliens rake-in billions of dollars, the US citizens subsidize what may be called organized "Slavery in 21st Century America."

While Congress facilitates outsourcing, insourcing and offshoring of American jobs by the thousands weekly, that same Congress imports 182,000 legal immigrant monthly who need jobs. Another estimated 100,000 illegal aliens arrive each month without jobs. All those immigrants seize jobs from American citizens at slave wages.

What happens to the American taxpayer?

"Immigrants are poorer, pay less tax, and are more likely to receive public benefits than American citizens," said Edwin Rubenstein, reporting on the National Research Council's new book: "The New Americans: Economic, Demographics and Fiscal Effects of Immigration." The Social Contract Winter 2007-08. www.thesoicalcontract.com

The NRC found that the average immigrant household receives $13,326 in federal welfare and pays $10,664.00 in federal taxes. Thus, American taxpayers shell out $2,682.00 for each immigrant household.

AND MOST NON-GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA SOURCES SAY THERE ARE 38 MILLION ILLEGALS. NOW YOU SEE WHY CALIFORNIA PAYS OUT $18 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS. LOS ANGELES ALONE OPERATES ONE BILLION IN THE RED, AND YET PAYS OUT $40 MILLION PER MONTH IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS.


Cost of illegal immigration
http://immigrationcounters.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homicide_rate
http://www.illegalaliens.us/reportillegals.htm
http://www.reportillegals.com/law.html
http://www.vdare.com/mann/reporting_aliens.htm
www.ice.gov - Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
http://americanchaos.wordpress.com/how-to/
www.americanborderpatrol.com
http://www.minutemanproject.com/
http://www.alipac.com/
http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters11ef
http://www.numbersusa.com/content/
http://www.predatoryaliens.com/html/wanted/wanted.htm
http://stoptheinvasionoforegon.wordpress.com/
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/27/navarrette.mexico/index.html
List of offenses
http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/isacrime.html
http://www.capsweb.org/content.php?id=32&menu_id=7&menu_item_id=25#legal_facts
http://www.texasborderwatch.com/

CALL call, CALL , REPORT, report, REPORT, JUST DO IT. ITS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY AS A TAX PAYER, UNITED STATES AMERICAN CITIZEN. THESE PEOPLE ARE CRIMINALS. RAPEST, PEDIFILES, THIEFS.
Report Illegals & Employers Toll Free... (866) 347-2423
INS National Customer Service Center Phone: 1-800-375-5283.
http://www.ice.gov/ ICE, ice, ICE
http://www.reportillegals.com/

WHORTON SCHOOL of ECONOMICS - The Real Cost of "cheap" Mexican Labor

The article below is predicated on there being 12 million illegals, the figure the government uses in their amnesty propaganda. Most sources put the figure at 38 million and breeding fast. The fastest growing political party in America today is the LA RAZA “THE (MEXICAN) RACE” which is fronted in Congress by THE CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS. LA RAZA is funded by BIG BUSINESS (fronted by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce), the FORTUNE 500, MEXICO (we are MEXICO’S WELFARE SYSTEM and PRISON SYSTEM), and the LA RAZA CORPORATE OWNED DEMS, that have one bible: CORPORATE PROFITS CAN NOT BE HIGH ENOUGH, AND WAGES CAN NOT BE LOW ENOUGH!

WSWS.org calculates that there are 40 million Americans living in poverty. Is there a connection with the fact there are 38 million Mex flag wavers in our country?

THE DEMS HAVE, AND WILL SELL US OUT TO ANY SPECIAL INTERESTS. LOOK WHAT THEY FOR THE BANKSTERS! YOU DON’T THINK THEY’D SELL US OUT TO THE ILLEGALS FOR THEIR VOTES? ALREADY IN MEX OCCUPIED CALIFORNIA, REPS. (SISTERS) LORETTA AND LINDA SANCHEZ WON THEIR SEATS WITH THE VOTES OF ILLEGALS. BOTH VOTE ONLY FOR BILLS THAT BENEFIT ILLEGALS AND EXPAND THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE (SEARCH ON MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com)

FORBES ARTICLE
DO ILLEGALS DEPRESS WAGES?

Knowledge@Wharton

Immigration's Impact
Knowledge@Wharton 01.02.07, 2:30 PM ET

Illegal immigration into the United States has sparked heated debate in Congress, roiled the two main political parties and prompted hundreds of thousands of immigrant supporters to take to the streets recently in peaceful demonstrations nationwide.
The controversy picked up new momentum on May 15 when President George W. Bush, in a televised address to the nation, called for a comprehensive approach to immigration reform. He said he would send 6,000 National Guard troops to four states along the U.S.-Mexican border beginning in June to provide intelligence and logistical support--but not armed law enforcement--to civilian border patrol agents. In addition to securing the border, Bush also said it was necessary for the House and Senate to pass legislation that would allow illegal immigrants who have lived in the United States for a long time to remain and be able to undergo a process to become citizens.
"There is a rational middle ground between granting an automatic path to citizenship for every illegal immigrant and a program of mass deportation," the president said. "That middle ground recognizes that there are differences between an illegal immigrant who crossed the border recently and someone who has worked here for many years and has a home, a family and an otherwise clean record." Meanwhile, Congressional leaders have said that they would like to send immigration-reform legislation to the president for his signature before the end of May.

HAVE YOU EVER MET A MEXICAN WITH RESPECT FOR THE RULE OF LAW?
THE MEX CRIME RATES, FROM ANY SOURCE, SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.

EVERYDAY 12 AMERICANS ARE MURDERED BY ILLEGALS.

At stake in the debate are the lives and livelihoods of as many as 12 million undocumented workers, the companies they work for, !!!!!!! respect for the rule of law !!!!!!, and the job opportunities of millions of low-skill American citizens--both native-born and immigrants who became naturalized by going through the proper channels. The large number of illegal immigrants raises key economic questions: Do illegal immigrants depress wages paid to low-skill workers? Do they take jobs away from Americans? How dependent on undocumented workers is the U.S. economy? Should illegal immigrants be compelled by law to return to their native countries? Or should Democrats and Republicans hammer out legislation that would allow illegal immigrants to pay some type of penalty yet remain in the United States and continue working?
Wharton management professor Peter Cappelli and Vernon M. Briggs Jr., professor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., are firm in their conviction that !!!!! illegal workers exert downward pressure on wages and reduce job opportunities for low-skill U.S. citizens.!!!!! Briggs believes that the negative impact of undocumented workers on American low-skill workers and on labor standards !!!!! is so great that immigration authorities should clamp down on employers who hire illegals so that a clear message is sent to current and potential illegal workers: Illegal immigration will not be tolerated.!!!!!
However, Bernard Anderson, practice professor in Wharton's management department and an assistant secretary of labor for employment standards during the administration of President Bill Clinton, says that while illegal workers do have some effect on wages and displace some American workers, their impact is far less onerous than Cappelli and Briggs assert. In addition, Anderson says, illegal immigrants work hard, do not come to the United States to receive welfare and should be allowed to remain in the U.S. after paying penalties.

WHAT? DO NOT COME TO THE UNITED STATES TO RECEIVE WELFARE? EVER HEARD OF ANCHOR BABIES? NOW 10% OF THE US BIRTH RATE, AND 1 IN 5 IN LOS ANGELES!!!!!

Jeffrey S. Passel, a demographer and senior research associate with the Pew Hispanic Center in Washington, D.C., says Pew, which bills itself as a nonpartisan "fact tank," has taken no formal position on the immigration issue. But he does say that the data on the broad economic impact of undocumented workers does not lend particularly strong support to either side of the argument.

Portrait Of Illegal Immigrants
A study released in March by the Pew Hispanic Center, which is supported by the Philadelphia-based Pew Charitable Trusts, contains extensive information on the nature and extent of illegal immigration. The study uses the term "unauthorized migrant," which it defines as a person who resides in the United States, but who is not a U.S. citizen, has not been admitted for permanent residence and has no temporary status permitting longer-term residence and work.

The report, which uses data from the U.S. Census Bureau's March 2005 Current Population Survey, estimates that the U.S. is home to between 11.5 million and 12 million illegal immigrants, up sharply from 8.4 million in 2000. Unauthorized migrants accounted for 30% of all foreign-born people in the U.S. as of 2005. Most unauthorized migrants--6.2 million, or 56%--come from Mexico. About 2.5 million, or 22%, come from the rest of Latin America.
In 2005, illegal migrants accounted for about 5% of the civilian labor force, or 7.2 million workers out of a labor force of 148 million. Approximately 19% of illegal workers were employed in construction jobs, 15% in production, installation and repair, and 4% in farming. The Pew report also shows that illegal immigrants comprise 24% of all workers in farming, 17% in cleaning, 14% in construction and 12% in food preparation. Within those categories, unauthorized migrants tend to be concentrated in specific jobs: They represent 36% of all insulation workers, 29% of all roofers and drywall installers, and 27% of all butchers and other food-processing workers.
It is often said by supporters of illegal, low-skill immigrants that the U.S. economy needs such laborers because they do the kinds of work that Americans will not do. But Cappelli calls that assertion a !!!!! "complete myth." !!!!! Immigrants have been hired to do such jobs in such large numbers not because Americans refuse them, but because Americans are not willing to perform such tasks where the wages are lower than they would otherwise be, where work rules may not exist and where the working conditions may be hazardous. Many employers seek illegal workers for the simple reason that it keeps costs down and means the companies do not have to invest in equipment and other capital improvements. Relative wage levels for low-skill and unskilled American workers, according to Cappelli, have plummeted over the past generation and show no signs of rising.
Cappelli says he has witnessed the effects of immigrant workers on wages and working conditions in other parts of the world, including the Middle East. In Bahrain, for instance, where guest workers from Bangladesh are frequently used on construction sites, a visitor can see them using picks and shovels instead of machinery.
Why do illegal immigrants force down wages? "That's how markets work," responds Cappelli. "It's hard for the average person to understand that these are markets. If illegal workers left the U.S. tomorrow, what would happen? Some people think nobody would do those jobs. If that were to happen, companies would change those jobs, and wages would go up. Yes, companies would hire the people who are not necessarily doing those jobs now. This goes on in every labor market. There are no jobs that we can think of where, over time, work doesn't get done. It doesn't happen."

IF ILLEGALS LEFT THE US TOMORROW, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN? COMPANIES WOULD CHANGE THE JOBS AND WAGES WOULD, GOD FORBID, GO UP

While it is true that low-skill workers who enter the United States legally also exert downward pressure on wages, there is a significant difference between them and their undocumented counterparts. "The difference is legal immigrants are let in, at least in part, on economic judgments about where the needs are for their skills," Cappelli notes. "That's one of the criteria for being allowed to come in."

Cappelli says the United States needs legislation that "faces up to the real economic issues. If you allow more unskilled workers into the U.S., it will lower costs for employers. It will also lower wages for people who do those jobs. It's clearly a political question. If you want to benefit low-skill American workers, you reduce illegal immigration. It's important to have a very clear conversation on the choice we want to make. And we are ducking that by saying these are jobs no one wants to do."
Briggs, the Cornell professor, says turning a blind eye to illegal workers, as U.S. immigration authorities have done, can end up harming U.S. citizens and the illegal employees themselves. Undocumented workers can "displace," to use the term of labor economists, African-Americans and other minorities who are young and seeking their first jobs or older minority workers with few skills. Moreover, even if the illegal workers are earning the minimum wage of $5.15 an hour--and most are, according to Briggs--the conditions under which they work can be dangerous. Yet these people have no way to seek legal remedies because they are in the U.S. illegally.

BULLSHIT. THE COURTS ARE FILLED WITH ILLEGALS.

Democracy's 'Seamier Side'
"Many [illegal immigrants] are working under conditions that are appalling," Briggs says. "Some are paid in violations of hours laws; some are children working in jobs they shouldn't be. It's one of the seamier sides of democracies. ... Some are working basically as slaves." Illegal immigrants are typically males ages 18 to 30 who are very ambitious, Briggs adds, and they will take any job, including those that make them vulnerable to abuse.
"Illegal immigration is an issue that takes everything down to its crudest level and makes it vile to discuss," he says. "The illegal immigrants will always win in jobs competition with U.S. citizens. This doesn't mean there's anything wrong with U.S. citizens; it just means there is a contrast" between the U.S. and the illegal immigrants' countries of origin. "No matter how bad things are in the U.S., it's better than the country [these workers] are coming from. If it means crowding into apartments or working weekends, they will do it, and they won't complain about sexual discrimination or racial discrimination. Tragically, many employers, if given a choice between illegal immigrants or U.S. citizens, will always take the illegal immigrant."
Briggs acknowledges that there is scant data to support his concerns about the plight of many illegal workers. But he is firm in his belief that "if we don't get serious about enforcing [immigration laws], people are going to continue to be hurt. These are the most vulnerable members of society."

THE ONLY EFFECTIVE WAY TO REDUCE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS TO TAKE EMPLOYER SANCTIONS SERIOUSLY.....


REMINDS ME WHEN BUSH FINALLY SHOWED UP AT KATRINA. HE CAME WITH AN ARM LOAD OF NO-BID DEALS FOR CHENEY-HALLIBURTON, CANCELLED MINIMUM WAGE FOR AMERICANS AND INVITED THE ILLEGALS IN SO HALLIBURTION COULD MAKE EVEN GREATER PROFITS.
THE NEXT TWO ARTICLES I READ ON NEW ORLEANS WAS ON THE SURGE OF MEXICAN GANG VIOLENCE IN NEW ORLEANS, AND THE SURGE IN MEXICAN BIRTHS.
WHERE THE MEXICANS HAVE INVADED IS IT EVER DIFFERENT?

In Briggs' view, the only effective way to reduce illegal immigration is to take employer sanctions seriously and actively enforce them at work sites. "That means [instituting] heavy penalties on employers who hire immigrants and making it clear that illegal immigrants are not going to work. They are not supposed to be here; they are not supposed to be working. You have to make it impossible for them to work. They will gradually get the idea they have to go back, that there's not much hope they are going to get legalized status."
Briggs says it may be useful to require immigrant workers to carry a "job identification" card that they would have to present to prospective employers in order to obtain work and to apply for government services. Briggs opposes building "massive walls" along the U.S.-Mexico border, but adds that "physical barriers" of some kind in strategic locations along the border may help. "We could possibly build more electronic fences that give signals when people cross them and tell [authorities] where they are."
Anderson, the Wharton labor economist, disagrees with Briggs' view of illegal immigration, saying the situation "is not as bad as Briggs says it is. ... One line of argument as to why it's necessary to protect the borders is that the failure to do so subjects the United States to an intolerable risk of terrorism, not that there's been any evidence at all that terrorists have come through the southern border. The other question is what impact there is on wages, economic status and employment for American workers. That's where you get a clear divide in the economic literature. The evidence produced by economists who have studied this question is mixed."
Anderson says there is indeed much anecdotal evidence that Hispanics now do many of the jobs once performed by African-Americans, such as service jobs in the hotel industry. Anderson says he himself has witnessed such changes across the American South during his travels over the past 30 years. "No one will convince me that there has not been labor displacement," he says. Nonetheless, there also is evidence that many African-Americans no longer perform low-skill service jobs--not because illegal immigrants have taken those jobs from them, but because they have moved on to take better-paying jobs or have grown older and retired from the labor force.
"There has been substantial [improvement] in the economic status of minorities in this country as a result of the civil rights movement," Anderson says. "There is no question that African-Americans have benefited in their occupational status as a result of that." He says that 70% of black workers today hold white-collar and service-sector jobs, while others are working in the many auto-manufacturing plants that have sprung up across the South.

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Illegal alien population may be as high as 38 million

Study: Illegal alien population may be as high as 38 million A new report finds the Homeland Security Department "grossly underestimates" the number of illegal aliens living in the U.S. Homeland Security's Office of Immigration Studies released a report August 31 that estimates the number of illegal aliens residing in the U.S. is between 8 and 12 million. But the group Californians for Population Stabilization, or CAPS, has unveiled a report estimating the illegal population is actually between 20 and 38 million. Four experts, all of whom contributed to the study prepared by CAPS, discussed their findings at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington Wednesday. James Walsh, a former associate general counsel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said he is "appalled" that the Bush administration, lawyers on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and every Democratic presidential candidate, with the exception of Joe Biden, have no problem with sanctuary cities for illegal aliens. "Ladies and gentlemen, the sanctuary cities and the people that support them are violating the laws of the United States of America. They're violating 8 USC section 1324 and 1325, which is a felony -- [it's] a felony to aid, support, transport, shield, harbor illegal aliens," Walsh stated. Walsh said his analysis indicating there are 38 million illegal aliens in the U.S. was calculated using the conservative estimate of three illegal immigrants entering the U.S. for each one apprehended. According to Walsh, "In the United States, immigration is in a state of anarchy -- not chaos, but anarchy."

IT’S ALSO THE NEXT GENERATION AFTER GENERATION OF “CHEAP” (FOR EMPLOYERS) MEXICAN LABOR......!

http://www.capsweb.org/action/activist_tool_kit.html


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US Census Bureau report: 40 million living in poverty
By Kate Randall
30 September 2009
The overall poverty rate in the US rose to 13.2 percent in 2008, as workers across all sectors of the economy became jobless and increasing numbers of families were forced into destitution, according to a new government report. Real median household income also declined by 3.6 percent.
The report released Tuesday, part of the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, is the most recent to measure the recession’s impact on working class families and the poor. Based on the changes between 2007 and 2008, the first full year of the recession, its findings do not reflect increases in poverty and joblessness this year as the consequences of the crisis have become even more acute.
The official poverty rate of 13.2 percent in 2008 was up from 12.5 percent in 2007. This figure translates into 39.8 million people in poverty across America. The official poverty level is set at $22,000 annually for a family of four with two children or $12,000 for an individual, an absurdly low threshold. This means that far more people than indicated by the survey do not have adequate resources to pay for food, shelter, medical care and other basic necessities.
The poverty rate rose across virtually all demographic groups. Poverty among Hispanics climbed from 21.5 percent in 2007 to 23.2 percent in 2008. Non-Hispanic whites saw poverty rise from 8.2 percent in 2007 to 8.6 percent in 2008, while poverty among Asians was up from 10.2 percent in 2007 to 11.8 percent in 2008. African-Americans were the only group where poverty remained statistically unchanged at a staggering 24.7 percent, or about one in four people.
The Census Bureau reported a rise in poverty in 31 states and the District of Columbia. Two of the four most populous states—California and Florida—saw poverty rates rise by 1 percent, to just over 13 percent in each state.
Connecticut saw the largest increase in poverty, rising to 9.3 percent, with an additional 1.4 percent of the state’s population living in poverty. Connecticut’s proximity to Wall Street, the center of the financial collapse, contributed to the state’s poverty as spending cuts by bankers and other financial employees in the New York City suburbs were reflected in declines in income for the lowest paid workers.
William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, commented in an interview, “People don’t go from being a CEO or a hedge fund manager into poverty, but there is a trickle-down effect when these groups of people start to cut back on their spending. In many places, the first people to go when things get tight are the lowest-earning workers.”
Michigan, which has been devastated by the collapse of the auto industry, is the only state that has seen poverty increase for two years in a row, with the rate now standing at 13 percent. The industrial states of Pennsylvania and Indiana also saw significant increases in poverty, along with Oregon and Hawaii.
The South remained the most impoverished, at 14.3 percent, up slightly from 14.2 percent in 2007. Mississippi, with 21.2 percent in poverty, saw the highest rate of any state, while poverty in Kentucky, West Virginia and Arkansas hovered around 17 percent.
The Midwest poverty rate rose to 12.4 percent from 11.1 percent the previous year. The West saw the largest increase in poverty, up by 1.5 percent, rising from 12 percent in 2007 to 13.5 percent. The Northeast, which saw an increase in poverty in 2007, saw the rate remain statistically unchanged, at 11.6 percent in 2008.
The rate of poverty among America’s children is alarming, with 19 percent—14.1 million children—affected in 2008, up a full percentage point from a year earlier. This rate increased in 26 states and in Washington, DC. Children in families headed by a single female suffered the highest rates of poverty: 43.5 percent of those under 18 years of age live in poverty, while 53.3 percent of children under 6 years are poor.
Increasing numbers of families, both the jobless and workers facing shrinking hours and paychecks, are turning to food pantries and the Food Stamp program. Food Stamp use in 2008 jumped 13 percent to nearly 9.8 million US households, led by Louisiana, Maine and Kentucky. Two cities—Pharr, Texas, and the former General Motors production center, Flint, Michigan—each had more than a third of their residents on food stamps. Families with two or more workers accounted for 28.4 percent of food stamp recipients in 2008, up 1.5 percent from 2007.
Following three years of annual income increases, real median income declined in the US by 3.6 percent between 2007 and 2008, falling from $52,163 to $50,303. The Midwest and South saw the biggest declines in median income, 4 percent and 4.9 percent respectively.
The gap between the richest and poorest Americans is also widening as the economic crisis ravages household budgets. An Associated Press analysis of the Census Bureau statistics shows that the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans, those making $138,000 or more a year, earned 11.4 times the $12,000 made by individuals living below the poverty line in 2008. In 2007, the richest 10 percent made 11.2 times more.
The jump in poverty and income inequality comes as the job market continues to shrink, even as government and economic analysts speak of a turnaround. According to US Labor Department figures from July, job seekers now outnumber openings six to one, with only 2.4 million full-time, permanent jobs open while 14.5 million people are officially unemployed and looking for work.
Many companies remain cautious about hiring new workers in the uncertain economic environment. Having trimmed back workers’ hours and laid off temporary workers, even if businesses do expand in the future they are likely to increase output by increasing the workload on existing employees.
Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told the New York Times, “They have tons of room to increase work without hiring a single person. For people who are out of work, we do not see signs of light at the end of the tunnel.”
From December 2007 through July 2009, job openings have declined in every area of the country: 45 percent in the West and South, 36 percent in the Midwest, and 23 percent in the Northeast. According to the Times, since the end of 2008 virtually every sector of the economy has been hit by the collapse in job openings, which have shrunk 47 percent in manufacturing, 37 percent in construction, 22 percent in retail, and 21 percent in education and health services.
While it is estimated that the government could spend in excess of $23 trillion to bail out the banks, and hundreds of billions to pursue its military conquests in Iraq and Afghanistan, nothing of any substance is being done to help the millions of Americans being plunged into joblessness and poverty.
The National Employment Law Project, an advocacy group, estimates that 400,000 Americans nationwide could exhaust their unemployment benefits by the end of September and 1.4 million long-term unemployed could stop receiving checks by the end of the year.
In some states, such as California, where the unemployment rate hit 12.2 percent in July—the highest level since 1940—workers laid off early in the recession have received three extensions on the regular 26 weeks of benefits, bringing them to a maximum of 79 weeks of payments.
The US House recently passed a $1.4 billion bill to provide another 13 weeks of jobless benefits in high unemployment states like California. The legislation still faces a vote in the Senate. The extension in benefits, however, would not cover many of the newly unemployed, or those yet to lose their jobs.
In California, for instance, hundreds of thousands who filed claims after June 14 of this year would be eligible for no more than 39 weeks of benefits. A House bill that would have provided longer extensions through 2010 was scrapped because it would have cost $70 billion, a price tag the lawmakers were unwilling to authorize.
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Weighing all the available evidence, and noting that the data are mixed, Anderson concludes that "there has been some displacement and some depression of wages" among U.S. citizens as a result of illegal immigration. "But it has not, in the main, had a significant effect in reducing the earnings and employment opportunities of American workers, including minority-group workers. Immigration, including illegal immigration, has not been terribly detrimental to employment opportunities for African-Americans. I firmly believe this. It is for that reason that you don't find African-American political leaders lining up with the opponents of immigration."
When you look at opponents of illegal immigration, Anderson adds, "you find the same right-wing, reactionary scoundrels who have opposed progressive legislation, who have opposed the minimum wage and efforts to improve the economic opportunities of minorities."

THE SAME RIGHT-WINGERS THAT OPPOSE MINIMUM WAGE ALSO WANT THE BORDERS OPEN FOR “CHEAP” MEX LABOR.

WHY DOES THIS PERSON THINK ILLEGALS ARE NOT HERE FOR WELFARE? THE COST OF THAT WELFARE IS BILLIONS.
What kind of an immigration bill would Anderson like to see emerge from Congress? "We must secure the borders. That has to be part of any legislation. We have to recognize that the huge numbers [of undocumented workers in the U.S.] are not here to receive welfare; they are here to work. If there were no employment opportunities for them, they wouldn't be coming. But we should not have an immigration system that allows immigrant workers to reduce the wages and diminish the working conditions of American workers. Therefore, I say protect the borders to significantly reduce the inflow. We should then move toward the legalization of those who are already here. If we legalize them [after requiring them to pay a penalty], then we let them out of the box they are imprisoned in and set in motion a process for improving wages and working conditions."

You Thought Illegals Were Not Voting? HEARD ABOUT THE "LATINO VOTE" - What Crime Don't They Do?

MEXICANS ARE THE MOST VIOLENT CULTURE IN THE HEMISPHERE.

IN 2006 WHEN THE MEXICANS MARCHED, THEY HAD HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF MEXICAN FLAGS THEY WERE WAVING. WHAT OTHER DATA DO YOU NEED?

THEY RANTED THEIR ASSUMED ENTITLEMENTS, AS THE RANT THAT THEY WILL NOT SPEAK ENGLISH, HONOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, STAND WHEN THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IS PLAYED, OR OBEY THIS NATION’S LAWS!

THE RACIST PRESIDENT OF MEXICO HAS PUBLICALLY STATED, “Where there’s a Mexican, there’s Mexico!”.

AGAIN, WHAT OTHER DATA DO YOU NEED?

IN MEXICAN OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES, LA RAZA PARTY REP. XAVIER BECERRA SAT ON HIS ASS WHEN THE NATIONAL ANTHEM WAS PLAYED. HE LAUGHED AT THE PERSON THAT QUESTIONED THIS OFFENSE. THIS WAS REPORTED BY JUDICIAL WATCH.org

AFTER THE 2006 MEXICAN MARCH, LA RAZA PARTY MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES, ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA ANNOUNCED THE DAY TO BE “THE HAPPIEST OF MY LIFE”.

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“In Mexico, a recent Zogby poll declared that the vast majority of Mexican citizens hate Americans. [22.2] Mexico is a country saturated with racism, yet in denial, having never endured the social development of a Civil Rights movement like in the US--Blacks are harshly treated while foreign Whites are often seen as the enemy. [22.3] In fact, racism as workplace discrimination can be seen across the US anywhere the illegal alien Latino works--the vast majority of the workforce is usually strictly Latino, excluding Blacks, Whites, Asians, and others.”
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LA RAZA AGENDA: 3 Examples
Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council "They're afraid we're going to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions. They're right. We will take them over. . We are here to stay."

Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Jerry Brown, also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton "California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave."

Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General We are practicing "La Reconquista" in California."
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“A recent Pew poll indicated that a very large percentage of Americans of Mexican descent regard themselves as Mexicans. Not Mexican-Americans, not American-Mexicans. Just Mexicans.”

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I DON’T UNDERSTAND THE “DESIRES” OF THESE MARCHERS! THEY SHOULD MARCH BACK TO MEXICO, AND MAKE MEXICO INTO THE MEX WELFARE STATE THEY CONTINUE TO DEMAND BE EXPANDED HERE!

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CRIMINALS MAKING THE DEMANDS!

The flags and the demands for action "NOW!" suggested a sort of arrogance and entitlement when humility would have been more in order.



BY EVA RODRIGUEZ


Mexican flag has no place in an immigration march

Let's get this out of the way: I am the daughter of immigrants who fled Cuba in 1960. They arrived in this country with the blessing of the U.S. government, which generously offered people like my parents refuge from Castro's regime. My parents became fluent in English, became citizens as soon as they could and raised their four children on lechon asado (Cuban roast pork) and the Pledge of Allegiance.

It is a travesty that the government does not give more people the opportunities presented to my parents, and through them, to me. Instead, many people desperate for work or for freedom or both take the law into their own hands and enter the country illegally. I understand the feelings of the tens of thousands of people who marched on the National Mall yesterday in pursuit of immigration reform and, in particular, paths to citizenship for millions of undocumented workers. I understand their desire to live without fear of arrest, to simply do an honest day's work and to see their children thrive. I understand that our immigration system is haplessly dysfunctional and that major reforms are needed.
What I don't understand is the claim by some at the march that those here illegally are somehow victims.
Did they not choose to come to this country, and did they not know that they either entered illegally or illegally overstayed visas? Of course they did. Do they not appreciate that one of the things that makes this country great is the rule of law -- unlike, sadly, some of the countries we leave behind? If so, undocumented immigrants must take responsibility for their plight. Finally, I found it offensive that some people in yesterday's march waved the flags of Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador while demanding rights and privileges from this country. The flags and the demands for action "NOW!" suggested a sort of arrogance and entitlement when humility would have been more in order. Perhaps these marchers meant the flags as symbols of cultural or ethnic identity and not as political banners of foreign sovereigns. Perhaps they meant absolutely no offense and are at once proud of their heritage and sincere in their desire to become Americans. I trust that they did.

“A recent Pew poll indicated that a very large percentage of Americans of Mexican descent regard themselves as Mexicans. Not Mexican-Americans, not American-Mexicans. Just Mexicans.”

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“TODAY WE MARCH, TOMORROW WE VOTE” Unregistered Illegal Voter

REALITY IS THAT ILLEGALS ARE VOTING ALL THE TIME. THIS IS WHY YOU HEAR THE THREATS, AS NOTED BELOW BY AN ILLEGAL ANNOUNCING HER VOTE FOR LA RAZA OBAMA. SHE’S UPSET THAT OBAMA DOES NOT HISPANDER ENOUGH, AND MAY NOT VOTE FOR HIM AGAIN!
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WHERE IN CALIFORNIA IS ENGLISH HEARD AND MEXICANS NOT OCCUPYING?

WELL, THEY’RE OCCUPYING SONOMA COUNTY, CA! BUT AT LEAST THE AMERICANS ARE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT.


By MARTIN ESPINOZA
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
Published: Friday, March 19, 2010 at 6:45 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 19, 2010 at 6:45 p.m.
Sonoma County Sheriff Bill Cogbill said Friday he wants to clear the air over a key local issue expected to turn out thousands of Latino immigrants and their supporters to a march and rally in downtown Santa Rosa on Sunday.
(YOU THOUGHT THERE WAS A PLACE IN MEXIFORNIA NOT UNDER MEX OCCUPATION?)
Thousands march in Santa Rosa for immigration reform
The issue is a new system in which fingerprints taken from people booked in the county ail are sent electronically to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, databases.
Cogbill said Friday the new program is not a local policy, nor is there any official agreement between the county and ICE, an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
“We didn’t have a choice in it,” Cogbill said. “They came to us just to let us know this is happening.”
He said that even before the “biometric” fingerprinting program was launched in Sonoma County this month, fingerprints were routinely sent to the state Department of Justice, which would then have them checked for criminal history against databases maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
But under a new initiative being rolled out gradually across the country, the FBI now is sending fingerprints to ICE.
Cogbill said he personally approves of the program because it helps more effectively identify illegal immigrants with criminal backgrounds. But he stressed, “we’re not doing anything different from our end” and there’s no agreement between the Sheriff’s Office and ICE.
ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice said the program, known as Secure Communities, is the latest tool being used to target illegal immigrants with dangerous criminal backgrounds, many of whom would otherwise “slip through the cracks.”
Top priority, she said, is illegal immigrants who commit crimes such as murder, rape, robbery, kidnap and drug offenses.
“Our desired outcome is to see that person removed from the United States,” Kice said.

(REALITY CHECK: MEXICANS ARE THE MOST VIOLENT, RACIST AND CRIMINALLY PRONE. THERE ARE OVER A MILLION MEXICAN GANG MEMBERS ALONE IN OUR OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS!)

But immigrant rights advocates say it’s not just people with serious criminal backgrounds that will be affected. Organizers of Sunday’s march charge that local jails hold illegal immigrants who have committed minor infractions, such as traffic violations.
“They’re not just taking cars, they’re putting people in jail,” said Alvarez.
(THE OL’ GRINGO IS A RACIST CRAP!)
He said he believes law enforcement officials are “profiling” immigrants based on their appearance, a claim Cogbill and other local law enforcement officials strongly reject.
Secure Communities, Kice said, recently has been expanded to Orange County, bringing the number of participating counties to 12. The others are Los Angeles, Ventura, San Diego, Imperial, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Sacramento, Solano, San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties.
There are 120 jurisdictions in 16 states now on board, she said. By next year, Secure Communities should be present in every state and should have nationwide coverage by 2013.


18,000 ILLEGAL CRIMINALS GUILTY OF MURDER, RAPE & KIDNAPPING NABBED!

Since its inception, Kice wrote in an e-mail, the program has identified “more than 18,000 aliens charged with or convicted of Level 1 crimes, such as murder, rape and kidnapping — 4,000 of whom have already been removed from the United States.”
Most of those who have not yet been deported are completing their sentences, she said. An additional 25,000 illegal immigrants charged with “Level 2 and 3 crimes,” such as burglary and serious property crimes, have been deported. This latter category of crimes represents 90 percent of the crimes committed by illegal immigrants, she said.
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HERE’S ANOTHER REALITY CHECK ABOUT OUR ILLEGAL INVADERS: THEY’RE VOTING ILLEGALLY!

Thousands march in Santa Rosa for immigration reform

KENT PORTER/The Press Democrat
Police estimated 3,000 to 5,000 people marched from Roseland to Courthouse Square for an annual rally to demand more rights for immigrants.

By RANDI ROSSMANN
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
Published: Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 2:24 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 2:24 p.m.
Thousands of people marched in Santa Rosa on Sunday to rally for federal immigration reform and demand changes in the way immigrants are treated by local law enforcement agencies.
The annual march, which began in Roseland and ended with a rally that overflowed Courthouse Square, drew more than 5,000 people, police estimated.
It was one of a series of marches held Sunday around the country — from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City and Salinas — designed to pressure lawmakers to overhaul the nation's immigration system.

ILLEGAL MARIA LEON, 38, AND HER DAUGHTER MARIA SANCHEZ, 13 ARE EITHER BOTH ILLEGALS, OR WE PAID FOR MARIA’S BIRTHING OF MARIA SANCHEZ AND THE WELFARE THAT FOLLOWED. MARIA LEON HAS BEEN IN THIS COUNTRY HOW LONG? SHE CAN’T SPEAK ENGLISH BECAUSE MEXICANS ARE RACIST, AND TO SPEAK THE GRINGO’S LANGUAGE IS APING THEM.
APPARENTLY NO ONE TOLD MARIA LEON IT IS ILLEGAL TO VOTE?????

BUT THEN OUR LAWS ARE LIKE OUR BORDERS; A STUPID GRINGO JOKE, ONLY REINFORCED BY THE LA RAZA DEMS HISPANDERING FOR THE ILLEGALS’ ILLEGAL VOTES.
WHAT IS A GREATER THREAT TO OUR NATION THAN 38 MILLION MEXICANS THAT HAVE CONTEMPT FOR OUR BORDERS, LAWS, LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND ARE OUT VOTING TO FOR THE BIGGEST HISPANDERER?


Waving U.S. flags, Maria Leon, 38, and her daughter Maria Sanchez, 13, said they marched in Santa Rosa to remind President Obama of his promise to push an immigration reform bill.
“We voted for him knowing he'd make change,” Leon said through her daughter, who acted as interpreter.
The annual march and rally are held in honor of the late Cesar Chavez, a farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist who helped found the United Farm Workers union.
PLEASE TELL THESE PEOPLE TO HEAD BACK TO NARCOMEX AND DO THEIR “AZTEC DANCING, AND MAKE NARCOMEX INTO THE DUMPSTER THEY MAKE COMMUNITIES THEY INVADE AND OCCUPY HERE.)
Hundreds of people began gathering Sunday morning at an Albertson's parking lot on Sebastopol Road, the staging grounds for the march. With the large crowd, mariachi bands, Aztec dancers, drummers, American flags and red, white and blue balloons, the pre-march had a festival air as people waited to walk.
Roseland University Prep teacher Enedina Avelar said she came with her three daughters to show support for the Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act — called the DREAM Act — a proposed law that would give minors the opportunity to enlist in the military or go to college and have a path to citizenship.
Laws preventing undocumented children from applying for jobs, scholarships and loans unfairly punish children for their parents' choices, she said.
“We have students in that situation, and they say it doesn't help them to work hard because when they graduate there are no opportunities,” Avelar said. “I tell them someday the laws will change and you'll be ready.”
A circle of about 20 people carried a 40-foot-long quilt made of the flags of North American countries. Among them, Ernesto Rodriguez, 39, of Rohnert Park said he's troubled by how often he hears racist rhetoric used by people in discussions of immigration laws.
(“WE’RE JUST FAMILIES. WE’RE JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE”… EXCEPT THAT THEY ARE NOT! MEXICANS ARE RACIST, HAVE CONTEMPT FOR THIS COUNTRY’S LAWS, BORDERS AND LANGUAGE. THE VOTE ILLEGALLY, AND WE PAY FOR THEIR BIRTHING WHILE THEY TEACH THEIR CHILDREN TO VIVA MEXICO!)
“The flags represent unity,” Rodriguez said. “It's important for us to come out so people see the faces of so-called illegals. We're just families. We're just like anybody else.”
Many banners, signs and chants called for law enforcement agencies to stop seizing cars from undocumented immigrants who lack a driver's license.
“Stop the confiscation of vehicles,” declared a sign carried by Graciela Rueda, 39, of Santa Rosa.
Immigrants who lose their cars cannot get to work or transport their families, said Davin Cardenas with Graton Day Laborers and the Committee for Immigrant Rights.
“It affects working people,” he said. “For a lot of people their automobile is the only property of value they own.”
Organizers also urged county officials to pull out of a controversial program that uses fingerprints to identify illegal immigrants in the county jail. Last week, Sheriff Bill Cogbill said his department had no input on the federal program, which scans inmates' fingerprints through a database maintained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Sonoma County and city officials must take a stand against local involvement in immigration law enforcement, Cardenas said.
“We need them to be outspoken,” Cardenas said.
The march was much larger than officials expected, said Santa Rosa Police Sgt. Doug Schlief.
“I think it was a little bit bigger than what we've seen in the last couple of years,” Schlief said. He said last year's march was about 2,000 people.
While the march was peaceful, it did cause unexpected traffic congestion as performers stopped to entertain, blocking roadways, Schlief said.
“It's turned into more of a parade,” Schlief said.
The march ended with a rally at Courthouse Square in downtown Santa Rosa. Marcos Suarez, a U.S. Census worker, urged the crowd to fill out census forms and tried to reassure them the information wouldn't be used to find people in the country illegally.
“If we don't get counted, then we lose money for services,” Suarez said. “We need to make sure we don't lose seats in Congress.”
In the crowd, Sebastopol City Councilwoman Kathleen Shaffer said she came to support the work of Graton Day Laborers and other groups working to bring undocumented immigrants out of the shadows.
“They're trying to bring workers in, get them organized. It gets them off the streets,” Shaffer said. “People can appreciate that. I'm here to support that idea.”
Anitra Kitts and Bill Vonseggern just returned home to Santa Rosa from a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico and decided to attend the rally as a show of support.
“We've seen what their home looks like and the needs that push them up here,” Kitts said, speaking of poverty and difficult living conditions they'd seen in Mexico. “They're just trying to have a good life like the rest of us.”