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March 21, 2009
Marietta (Georgia) Daily Journal
A Third-World country
The entrance to Marietta for drivers headed north on Powder Springs Street to the Square is not an attractive one. City Councilman Grif Chalfant described the intersection of Powder Springs and Sandtown Road as looking “like a Third-World country.”
Transients, and traffic
Dunaway says demographics and traffic are two major causes of the thoroughfare’s decline.
“Retail reflects your demographics. You can’t build a nice store and then have good people move into the neighborhood. The chicken has to definitely come before the egg is laid,” Dunaway said.
As for the day laborers, they “are a recent phenomenon,” the mayor said. “We did not have a Hispanic or day laborer problem in Marietta until 2000.”
He believes a day-laborer ordinance the city adopted a few years back has cut down on loitering.
According to the ordinance, “It is unlawful for any person or organization to pick up or hire day laborers or for any person or organization to solicit temporary employment as a day laborer except as otherwise permitted by law, on the streets, sidewalks, parking lots, public property or public rights of way within the city limits … It shall also be unlawful for any person to seek temporary employment as a day laborer except as permitted by law on the streets, sidewalks, parking lots, public property or public rights of way within the City of Marietta.” Marietta Police Chief Dan Flynn said he drives through the area every day and agrees improvements are needed.
“There’s no doubt the area is a lower, socio-economic area than most of the city. There has been a heavy concentration of day laborers,” Flynn said. … MORE TRUTH HERE
March 20, 2009
Fox News
Tancredo chats with Cavuto about screwball Pelosi’s disgusting behavior
Tom Tancredo talks about the Pelosi speech to illegal aliens in a San Francisco church on March 14, 2009, part of the Nancy Pelosi – Luis Gutierrez “excellent adventure” across the US, promoting amnesty. Thanks to ‘StephenLone Wolf’ for uploading the video to YouTube
THANKS TO OUR PALS AT AMERICANPATROL.com
VIDEO HERE
Fox News
Firms line up to hire foreigners as US economy tanks
At a time when high-tech corporations like Microsoft, Cisco and IBM are laying off American workers by the thousands, some of those very same companies will begin applying for the right to hire foreign workers on April 1. — The Washington Alliance of Technology Workers — the IT arm of the Communications Workers of America — has expressed outrage…
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Jay Ambrose — Washington Examiner
Too many jobs going to illegals
A janitor’s job opened up at an elementary school in Ohio, and within a week there were 839 applications. If that doesn’t tell our policy makers anything about a way to address the nation’s unemployment problems, I’ll help them out…
Hundreds of thousands of people are desperate for work at the moment. Many will do almost anything honest. Though this job paid $15 an hour, they’ll work for less than that if they have to.
But if menial positions don’t scare them away, something else sideswipes their hopes – illegal aliens who have already stolen work they’d like to have, who keep wages lower than they would otherwise be and who are themselves frequently exploited, sometimes sweating for less than the minimum wage.
One answer is to send the illegals packing, thus eventually freeing up millions of jobs, and here is another: Change immigration laws to favor the skilled and educated, thus boosting the economy and helping it grow.
Please, please, skip the argument that American citizens won’t do the work – they already constitute the vast majority of workers in virtually every field employing illegals – and cut out the blather that enforcement of our immigration laws would be either impossible or cruel or that only a bigot would worry more about the welfare of citizens than taking care of residents breaking the law.
Hardly anyone is suggesting a massive, national sweep of the illegal aliens. The need is for an insistent crackdown on employers who have first been equipped by the federal government with reliable methods of figuring out who is legal and who isn’t
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March 19, 2009
Lawmaker Opens Door For English-Only At Work
Written by wsbtv.com
Posted on 2009-03-19
Lawmaker Opens Door For English-Only At Work
ATLANTA — A Georgia congressman is pushing a hot-button issue — an English-only law.
Representative Tom Price introduced his “Common Sense English Act,” which would allow employers the freedom to make employees speak only English at work.
Right now, business owners are required by federal law to be open to employees who speak all languages. But Price wants to give business owners the right to mandate English-only inside their doors.
“I mean, you’re in the United States. If you’re going to live over here, learn the language, that’s the language,” employee Denard Luster told Channel 2 Action News reporter John Bachman.
Price called his proposed legislation the “Common Sense English Act.” He is in Washington D.C. and was not available to comment for an interview with Channel 2 Action News, but he did release a statement that read in part, “A single, shared language on the job is critical to avoiding misunderstandings. It is troubling some would deny employers the freedom to establish English as the common language in the workplace.”
“I work with a whole crew of guys that work in the back in the kitchen and stuff. They don’t speak any English, and it’s hard when you try to relay a message to them, you can’t,” said Luster.
Jerry Gonzalez, with the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, called the proposal un-American and anti-free speech.
“I think it’s anything but common sense. I think Congressman Price hasn’t gotten the memo that we’re in a recession,” said Gonzalez.
Gonzalez said he’s headed to Washington D.C. Thursday and plans to visit Price.
“Instead of doing this, I think he should focus on making sure we can focus on the economic recovery of this country, rather than demonizing people that don’t speak English,” said Gonzalez.
Price’s statement also said employers should not be barred from setting common sense policies to encourage productivity.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/18966140/detail.html
HERE from GALEO
March 18, 2009
Legislative News from FAIR
California Legislators Seek Statewide Recognition of Mexican Consular ID
While federal and state governments are working to enact stronger enforcement and verification laws, two California legislators are attempting to take California further in the opposite direction by enacting legislation officially sanctioning the matricula consular, a Mexican identification card that raises questions over national security issues and which would allow thousands of illegal aliens to access state services and benefits.
In late February, California State Senator Lou Correa (D-Santa Ana) introduced Senate Bill 461, which calls for permitting state-licensed notaries to accept the matricula consular to execute property transfers and perform other legal transactions. Correa, who is “confident” about the card’s security features, insists that his bill is intended to promote commerce and parallels recent decisions by several national bank chains to accept the card as proof of identification. Meanwhile, California Assemblyman Juan Arambula (D-Fresno) has introduced Assembly Bill 442, which is almost identical to Senate Bill 461. Arambula justifies recognition of the matricula consular on the basis that it is “a very difficult document to obtain,” is a more secure form of identification than the California driver’s license, and is currently already accepted at the county level in California. (Orange County Register, March 2, 2009).
Despite Correa and Arambula’s claims of reliability, evidence from federal law enforcement indicates that the matricula consular is actually vulnerable to fraud and misuse, and could lead to national security breaches. In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Steve McCraw, former assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Office of Intelligence (FBI), testified that the Mexican government’s matricula consular issuance process is decentralized, uncontrolled, and standardless. McCraw further stated that the ease with which the cards can be forged and obtained renders them ideal tools for potential terrorists, who could use them to move undetected and open bank and credit card accounts without raising red flags. (Steve McCraw, testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Border Security, and Claims on Consular Identification Cards, June 26, 2003). The FBI’s criticism of the matricula consular mirrors some of the concerns of the 9/11 Commission, which recommended that the federal, state, and local governments move toward a process of accepting more secure — not less secure — forms of identification. (9/11 Commission Report, p. 390).
Washington Post
Experts say Mexican organized crime a threat to U.S. citizens
U.S. efforts to help the Mexican government battle powerful organized crime networks are falling short, and a recent sharp spike in violence south of the border poses a growing threat to U.S. citizens, Senate lawmakers and independent experts told officials from three federal agencies today on Capitol Hill…
“Mexican drug cartels . . . pose a direct threat to Americans,” said Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), the subcommittee chairman, noting that they now operate in at least 230 U.S. cities, up from about 50 in 2006. HERE
March 17, 2009
Associated Press
Immigration fears muddle census
What seems like a simple question – How many Hispanics are living in the United States? – has become surprisingly complex as the 2010 census approaches. — Hispanics and other minorities have historically been undercounted in the once-a-decade survey… HERE
March 16, 2009
CNSNews.com
287(g) program nets 79,000 illegals since 2006
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fact sheet reveals that 67 state and local law enforcement agencies in 23 states have signed an agreement with DHS to enforce federal immigration laws. The program allows local law enforcement, with federal training and authorization, to apprehend, arrest and imprison illegal aliens…
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