ShareThisCan you believe this Border Patrol agents dont have the responsibility of apprehending illegal immigrants ?
Border Patrol agents dont have the responsibility of apprehending illegal immigrants, Carlos X. Carrillo, chief patrol agent for the Laredo sector, said at a town hall meeting Wednesday."The Border Patrol is not equipped to stop illegal immigrants," Carrillo said, noting that illegal narcotics are also not on the agents priority list.
"The Border Patrol mission is not to do any of those things," he emphasized.
The Border Patrols mission is to keep the country safe from terrorist and terrorist weapons, he said. Carrillo added that when and if terrorists come into the country, the agents will be ready.
During a presentation to about 50 people, he also explained the different deployment tactics agents use to identify who crosses the border.
A hot issue during the meeting was the construction of a fence along the Rio Grande.
Carrillo said the Carrizo cane along the river is an environmental challenge. He said that before enforcing any type of fence, the Carrizo canes need to be addressed, allowing agents to patrol and spot traffic in the river.
Mayor Raul Salinas spoke to the audience about using taxpayer money to build a fence.
"I want a secure border, but I want more common sense," Salinas said, adding that the fence would affect relations with Mexico.
A concerned citizen asked about deterrence.
Carrillo said deterrence comes from working with the community. He added that having a certain number of agents working an area indicates to the community their presence in the area.
A concerned citizen, who lives on property about 34 miles out of Laredo on Interstate 35, said she has seen from 20 to 50 illegal immigrants daily. She said agents have addressed the situation before, but they can only do so much and the situation continues.
Carrillo responded that the Border Patrol will look into the issue.
To report any suspicious activity, Carrillo said, residents should contact Immigration and Customs Enforcement at (800) 973-2867.http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18710877&BRD=2290&PAG=461&dept_id=569392&rfi=6
The Border Patrols mission is to keep the country safe from terrorist and terrorist weapons, he said. Carrillo added that when and if terrorists come into the country, the agents will be ready.
And if Muslim terrorists posing as Hispanics come traipsing over the border…?
How do businesses account for hiring illegal immigrants?
Hi all,
I’m doing a research project and was hoping for some help with information. I’m mainly interested in how businesses (construction, etc *if you know of types of businesses that hire, it would be more than appreciated) account for hiring illegal immigrants.
For example…they could pay them under the table so as to not account for them on their tax records. But how would they cover those expenditures on their taxes (if that makes sense). Or do a lot of illegals carry some form of fake ID, so that business owners knowingly pay out just as normal, only hoping that the IRS doesn’t compare validity of those ID’s.
If you have any information regarding the above question, it would really help out. At the same time, if you have any additional insight related to this, I’d be more than grateful if you added it.
Thank you very much!
Do you think the Las Alamos nuclear lab might be a job illegal immigrants would be advised NOT to work at?
http://www.lcsun-news.com/latest/ci_6884618
"LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Three illegal immigrants who used fake documents to try to get badges that would let them work on a construction job at Los Alamos National Laboratory have been turned over to federal immigrant agents.
Security officers were suspicious of documents presented to the lab’s badge office Wednesday by the three men from Mexico, and faxed the documents to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Albuquerque.
ICE officials confirmed that the documents presented by the men were false. Lab security officers contacted local police, who escorted the trio off lab property and held them for immigration authorities.
Police said it’s a federal offense to falsify identity to federal agencies."
What do you think?
sorry – Los Alamos
What is your opinion Council member pleads guilty construction company used 31 illegals all Mexican nationals?
A Fort Wright City Council member has pleaded guilty to federal charges that he and his construction company used subcontractors that employed illegal immigrants.According to court documents, Jeff Wolnitzek and his company, Erlanger-based Spectrum Interiors, will be sentenced on Feb. 29 on charges the company used illegal workers between August 2002 and Nov. 28, 2006, the day agents from the Immigration and Custom Enforcement arrested 31 men and one woman, all Mexican nationals.Many of those arrested were working on the Ascent at Roebling’s Bridge, a 21-story condominium project being built near the foot of the Suspension Bridge in Covington.The statement said the company would forfeit million in earnings from employing illegal immigrants as part of the plea deal.
http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071130/NEWS02/711300362
Is this a good sign Turned away by struggling U.S., Mexican immigrants building businesses at home?
Second of two parts
LEON, MEXICO— For generations, people of this central Mexican state have trekked to the U.S. and labored on farms and ranches, in factories and construction.
But now this traditional exodus is reversing itself in ways that could profoundly impact both Mexico and America: Immigrants returning to their native lands are starting industries and businesses so they can stay home.
By many measures and anecdotal evidence, waves of illegal immigrants are leaving the U.S. and returning to countries such as Mexico because of the tough economy and immigration enforcement. To respond to this trend, the Mexican government in recent years has increased funding for projects run by immigrants who have returned.
In Guanajuato, a variety of industries have started: a women’s cooperative producing restaurant tablecloths, a tequila distillery and a factory to assemble tote bags for California wineries.
Susana Guerra, director of migrant affairs for Guanajuato state, said immigrants who return home usually have some money set aside and want to use it to start a business. “So we are working … to have projects for them to have an opportunity for them to be a businessman in the community,” she said.
One of the ventures in Guanajuato is the Nuevo Lindero Dairy Society,a dairy cooperative founded by former immigrants on the outskirts of Leon that provides employment for 45 families. Many of the farmers are immigrants who have returned from the U.S. or are relatives of immigrants still working there.
“Here, almost 50 percent of the population goes to the United States. When they reach 18, they say, ‘See you later,’” explained Jesus Ramirez, a former illegal immigrant who is president of the Nuevo Lindero Dairy Society. “With this source of jobs, we hope our children will stay.”
The cooperative produces an average of 4,000 liters of milk daily from a herd of 250 cows. By offering the raw product collectively to wholesalers, they were able to command a higher price. To do that, the cooperative installeda distribution center next to the highway with a 9,000-liter stainless storage tank.
Way more @ http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/6349206.html
What is your opinion Blunt sets state on trail of illegal immigrants?
O’FALLON, Mo. — Random state inspections of some construction sites to look for illegal immigrant workers and routine checks of the residency status of people arrested by the Missouri Highway Patrol are part of new initiatives launched by Gov. Matt Blunt.
"Illegal immigrants are openly breaking our laws," Blunt said at a news conference Tuesday at O’Fallon City Hall. "Because Washington has failed to deal with this issue, states must do even more."
The worksite inspections, by the state Department of Economic Development, will be limited to privately developed projects benefiting from state tax credits or other economic incentive programs.
Blunt said his directive also demands that such companies recertify in writing within the next 30 days that they, their contractors and subcontractors do not employ illegal immigrants. Any company discovered to be using illegal immigrants will be banned for at least five years from getting such state aid. That’s the maximum penalty allowed by state law, he said.
"With this measure and others, we will help to ensure that Missouri taxpayers are not somehow subsidizing illegal immigration," Blunt said.
Blunt came to O’Fallon to announce the economic agency’s new effort because the city has had two controversies involving allegations of illegal immigrant workers at construction projects aided by state and local bonds.
On Monday, the governor issued his separate order on arrests by the Highway Patrol. That order also applies to the Missouri Water Patrol and the state Capitol police.
Officers with those agencies have begun verifying the immigration status of every person they arrest.
Blunt also has told the three state agencies to work out an agreement with the federal government to allow officers to be deputized to directly enforce federal immigration laws and to get special training. Only six other states have such an arrangement, Blunt said.
Blunt added that he’s asking federal officials for "expedited approval" of the agreement, which would allow more than 1,000 state officers to take illegal immigrants to federal detention centers instead of having to wait for federal authorities to do so.
"This is a significant force multiplier for enforcing our immigration laws," Blunt said, noting that the state has only about 50 federal agents available for such duty.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stcharles/story/743587BA403936F186257346000EC189?OpenDocument
Are Americans doing anything to stop the increase of rhetoric in the immigration debate?
Especially on internet blogs? How do we know what’s fact, and what’s false? with so many extremist taking over the internet. What can we do to stop or even limit it?
Leave Hateful Rhetoric Out of Immigration Discussion
The Houston Chronicle made some important discoveries with its recent series by Susan Carroll on the failure of law enforcement officials to deport or keep in jail illegal immigrants who commit crimes.
What concerns us at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is despite Carroll’s attempts to reach readers with the results of research that "found that recent immigrants are far less likely than their U.S.-born counterparts to commit crimes and end up in prison," anti-immigrant bigots seized on parts of her series to insult, stereotype, and even advocate violence against immigrants and others they perceived to be immigrants, especially Hispanics.
Here are some examples of the comments from Chronicle blogs:
• "This is a no-brainer to me. Start with the jails and get all those people deported, then construction companies, garbage companies, landscape companies, restaurants and must I go on?"
• "All of our grandchildren’s children are going to live in a third world country."
• "We the taxpayers are footing the bill for these society leeches.The people from Katrina were bad enough. Our crime rate is still high."
• "I got a great idea — just shoot them on the spot if they commit a serious crime in Texas."
ADL has noticed an increase in such rhetoric among extremist groups in recent years, coupled with a marked increase in hate incidents and hate crimes against Latinos and those perceived to be Latinos. Further, the FBI has documented a disturbing four-year trend in the increase of hate crimes against Latinos from 475 in 2005 to 595 in 2007 nationally.
We need to read such articles thoroughly and thoughtfully. If the bloggers quoted above had done so, perhaps they wouldn’t be so quick to paint all immigrants with a broad brush. We should ask our elected representatives, law enforcement officials and media to avoid demonizing immigrants and to work together with us to solve real problems and promote understanding.
Shane, about your source ALIPAC.
White Supremacists Promote ALIPAC and Take Action on its Behalf
http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/White+Supremacists+Promote+ALIPAC.htm
How do you feel Mexico is ready to file a complaint with the International fences damage environment?
Mexico has urged the US to alter its plans for expanded fences along their shared border, saying they would damage the environment and harm wildlife.
The fences threaten unique ecosystems, Mexican environment officials warned.
Mexico was ready to file a complaint with the International Court of Justice over the matter if the US did not respond, the environment minister said.
The planned barriers aim to curb illegal immigration, a highly divisive and controversial issue in the US.
The fences, planned along a possible 700 miles (1,125km) of the border, are to be equipped with hi-tech surveillance equipment, including sensors and strong lights.
"The eventual construction of this barrier would place at risk the various ecosystems that we share," Mexico’s Environment Minister Juan Rafael Elvira told a news conference.
Those areas include Baja California, Sonora and Arizona, home to one of the world’s most important desert ecosystems – the Sonora Desert.
Cactus fences
Officials said Mexico was prepared to file a complaint with the International Court of Justice but wanted to explore alternatives first.
US Army personnel install sections of the US-Mexico border fence July 2007 near Puerto Palomas Mexico. Most of the illegal immigrants enter the US via the Mexico border
A report prepared for the Mexican government by experts and environmental activists from Mexico and the US said the barriers could isolate border animals into smaller groups, affecting their genetic diversity.
These include jaguars, Mexican black bears and the endangered antelope-like Sonora Pronghorn.
The use of intense lights and radar could also affect nocturnal species, they said.
The report suggested ways of minimising environmental damage, including "green corridors" of wilderness without roads.
These would allow wildlife to remain connected but not provide an easy route for people trying to cross.
Another proposal was "live" fences of cactuses, or permeable barriers to allow water, insects and pollen to cross the border.
The US Homeland Security Secretary, Michael Chertoff, has said that the fencing is needed. He has rejected arguments that the Rio Grande provides an adequate barrier as water levels in the river often drop, allowing people to wade across.
An estimated 12 million illegal immigrants are in the US, where attempts at a comprehensive overhaul of immigration law have repeatedly stalled in Congress.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6924475.stm
I’m sure the animals will adjust. The birds can fly over, the rodents and lizards can burrow under, and the rest of them will just have to make do with whatever piece of that desert they find themselves in after the fence is finished. They make it sound as if the poor things will need conjugal visits.
The fences threaten unique ecosystems,
Right. The mexican raw sewage deoes not “threaten unique ecosystems”
The hundreds of mexican trash piles in national forests located on the mexican border does not threaten unique ecosystems.
The foot trails that go through restricted wildlife areas do not threaten unique ecosystems
The border industries that have little to no pollution control do not threaten unique ecosystems.
I bet our fellow Americans can post photos of various Mexican items not threatening unique ecosystems.
But, of course, a stainless steel/galvanized steel professionally installed fencing system will cause immediate, extensive, catastrophic, irreversible harm to those very same unique ecosystems
It couldn’t be as harmful as hundreds of thousands of people throwing trash everywhere and stomping down fragile vegetation.
Dear friends how do you like this good news Illegal aliens plead guilty to using counterfeit alien ?
Seven undocumented illegal immigrants pleaded guilty to possession of counterfeit alien registration cards in federal court in Columbia this week.
They are: Simon Cruz-Gomex, 23, Gerardo Reyes-Bautista, 23, Jorge Vaxquez-Alvarado, 24, Antonio Noyoloa-Mariano, 28, Ismael Ibarra-Marichi, 27, all of Mexico, and Francis Alfredo Tabora-Lara, 27, and Karin Eduardo Martinez-Sibrian, 28, both of Honduras.
On July 18 and 19, the defendants attempted to enter the Fort Jackson army base to go to a construction site. When military personnel questioned their documentation, they admitted that they were in the United States illegally. They were taken into custory and have been in jail since.
They were sentenced to time served and ordered that they be immediately deported
http://www.islandpacket.com/front/story/6664375p-5939185c.html
Your reaction Unemployed U.S.-born workers seek day-labor jobs?
Growing ranks of U.S. citizens are heading to street corners and home improvement store parking lots to find day-labor work usually done by illegal immigrants.
The trend is most pronounced in regions where hot construction markets have collapsed, says Abel Valenzuela Jr., a professor of urban planning at the University of California-Los Angeles.
"You had many, many unemployed construction workers who found themselves without any permanent or stable work," he says. "Some of them have gone on to seek employment by standing on street corners alongside immigrant workers."
Day laborers gather at high-traffic spots such as busy intersections and home improvement stores, looking for pick-up work such as painting, laying bricks or landscaping. Contractors and homeowners describe the jobs and negotiate pay on the spot.
Valenzuela estimates the proportion of U.S.-born day laborers has at least doubled since he released a report in 2006, when his research showed they made up 7% of the day-labor workforce. At that time, Valenzuela estimated 117,600 people were looking for or doing day-labor jobs on any given day. Illegal immigrants were 75% of the day-labor workforce; the rest were legal immigrants.
"It’s becoming more ethnically diverse. On the corners, I’ve seen white people, I’ve seen African Americans and a lot of Mexican Americans," says Pablo Alvarado, executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. "When unemployment benefits run out, I expect to see more."
Among the communities seeing an increase in U.S.-citizen day laborers:
• Tucson. Staff members at Southside Presbyterian Church, which runs a center where workers can connect with people offering work, have been seeing more U.S.-born people looking for jobs in 2008, says church elder Josefina Ahumada."We would say, ‘Hi, how are you?’ and we would learn that this is somebody who just got laid off."
• Arlington, Va. Construction workers recently laid off are showing up at the day-labor hiring site run by the Shirlington Employment and Education Center, says executive director Andres Tobar: "We’re seeing people who hadn’t come to our center before who are legally here and U.S. citizens, and who are skilled workers and can’t find work."
• Los Angeles. Citizens are replacing immigrant day laborers who had trouble finding work and returned to their home countries, says Antonio Bernabe, senior organizer of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.
"These are people who used to have permanent positions," he says. "It’s happening everywhere."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-11-29-citizen-day-laborers_N.htm
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