Apr 14 2009
Immigrants File Lawsuits for Violations; Obama Takes on Immigration Reform
President Obama announced last week that he intended to take up the thorny issue of immigration reform this year, even as opponents argue that the recession is the wrong time to discuss citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Meanwhile, an Associated Press investigation found this week that some US citizens have been caught up in immigration detention and deportation proceedings. A total of 55 cases have been documented but the number could be much higher. In local immigration news, a lawsuit by the ACLU and National Immigration Law Center contends that immigrants have been held in overcrowded and unsafe conditions at a detention center in downtown Los Angeles. The facilities, designed to house people for only 12 hours at a time, were used for weeks at a time in many cases. Immigrants, both documented and undocumented, have filed a number of lawsuits over the last several years as a result of rights violations during the Bush years. As May 1st approaches, activists are gearing up for what has now become a traditional day to mark immigrants rights in the US.
GUEST: Karen Tumlin, attorney with the National Immigration Law Center
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3 Responses to “Immigrants File Lawsuits for Violations; Obama Takes on Immigration Reform”
President Obama is at the helm in a battle of the century, that is about to commence. Illegal Immigration is more expensive to taxpayers than anybody realize? Only because the inception of the Internet are millions of people aware of the consequences. Experimentalist stay silent, because rich donors have paid for their silence. But the consequences are obvious–OVERPOPULATION! I personally have signed on to a single payer health care system rumored on the Capitol beltway. The only problem illegal immigrants will tap into Universal health care.
In a progressive agenda for AMNESTY, is that the new immigrants will vote largely Democrat, because of resistance of other parties. Unions have adapted to the same, because their own ranks are full of illegal alien workers. This in addition means claiming a large blocks of Union dues and more influence in the Congress. Even the Catholic church has been ostracized by it’s practitioners, owing to child predatory nature of priest, who have been shielded by the church. Their religion has found a financial windfall, in illegal aliens crossing our distressed border from Catholic countries. The anti-sovereignty, pro-illegal immigration army is amassed against common sense. A new AMNESTY will bring millions more to America’s shores and border. It will be another tremendous burden on taxpayers in caring for the poor, their children and sick. The danger to our countries resources is environmental catastrophe. Find facts at NUMBERSUSA, JUDICIALWATCH, CAPSWEB.
We have a process for bringing in immigrants to our country legally. We need to follow it, to enforce its terms explicitly. My maternal grandparents travelled from Russia and Czechoslovakia to come here and learned to speak English, to obey the laws, to be good citizens. They had a small business of their own, and raised their NATURAL BORN CITIZEN children here proudly. All the seekers after freedom must earn that freedom. They must respect this great country as my grandparents did. They must give back, not simply take and believe that they are entitled. And if they cannot find it in their hearts to do the right thing, then we should/must send them back to their country of origin, along with their flag and native pride.
If you want to come to America, we will welcome you, but only if you will become PRODUCTIVE AMERICANS. Any other path should send you back to the poverty and repression you admire.
AMERICA DOES NOT MEAN “FREE RIDE”.
Amnesty for illegal immigrants in the United States, will cost taxpayers more than the Liberals will admit? The majority who have no papers are paid under the proverbial table, by parasite employers. Those who are using fraudulent or bogus Social Security Numbers, do pay Federal taxes. A great example of the pathway illegal aliens have fraudulently, exploited free money is the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). In his book financial analyst and economist Edwin Rubinstein. He states that (EITC) is the largest anti-poverty program in the United States — and the most illegal-immigrant friendly. In 2007, more than 23 million households received more than $47 billion in the EITC payments. Much of the so-called “tax relief” goes to people who never paid a cent in taxes, and may have already defrauded the government of huge sums each year. EITC has become yet another means of depriving hard-working Americans of their own resources. It robs some to give to others. The EITC is the most accessible of the major entitlement programs and used by more people than food stamps and welfare (TANF)* combined the author admits.
The open border factions, including the payed-off politicians will offer you nothing but propaganda, to stifle any truth. The momentum is building to push for anther AMNESTY. Not only will taxpayers be carrying the out-of-shadows new immigrants, because most have only a 7th grade education and will not find work–while 10 million US workers are jobless. Billions of dollars sent back to other countries. Not forgetting the sponsoring of immediate family members, who will be even a larger burden of American taxpayers. Then their are millions more, impoverished, uneducated waiting for a 3rd AMNESTY to rush the undermanned border. Read undisclosed facts at: VDARE, FAIRUS, JUDICIALWATCH, NUMBERSUSA, AMERICANPATROL, CAPSWEB.ALIPAC.