DHS warned not to use Wikipedia in immigration cases [Immigration] (3)
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The Department of Homeland Security used Wikipedia in its effort to reject an application for asylum by Ethiopian woman Lamilem Badasa. Badasa had presented a "laissez-passer" travel document as a form of identification, and the DHS used the Wikipedia page in its successful petition to deport the woman. The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that "Wikipedia is not a sufficiently reliable source" to make such decisions, and handed the case back to the ...
currently on the table: a guest towel visa program | passive-aggressive (and just plain aggressive) notes (3)
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our anonymous submitter says his coworkers were taking stacks of paper towels from the bathroom and putting them in kitchen. “HR evidently does not agree with this practice and decided to enact a one-towel play in the break-room kitchen,” he says. (the office billing manager added the follow-up on the towels’ behalf.) related: this is not positive communication
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Why Morocco? Much of the African continent is getting in boats again, this time heading north instead of west. At unprecedented rates, Africans are immigrating to European Union countries—many chief perpetrators in the slave trade centuries ago. Economic opportunity abroad and a lack of it at home is pushing Africans from their native lands, causing them to consider “what is worse, the risk (of the journey northward) or a life similar to death?” Brutal civil ...
John McCain, friend of Labor (4)
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John McCain owns more homes than he can remember. John McCain pays at least 3 times as much per year for the salaries of household servants as the average American household earns. And John McCain thinks Americans are too lazy to do strenuous work for $50 an hour. In April 2006, John McCain taunted workers at an AFL-CIO meeting who were concerned that immigration tends to depress wages in the US. Here's a transcript of ...
John McCain, friend of Labor (1)
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John McCain owns more homes than he can remember. John McCain pays at least 3 times as much per year for the salaries of household servants as the average American household earns. And John McCain thinks Americans are too lazy to do strenuous work for $50 an hour. In April 2006, John McCain taunted workers at an AFL-CIO meeting who were concerned that immigration tends to depress wages in the US. Here's a transcript of ...
LPGA to golfers: Speak English (1)
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McCain’s GOP platform contains ‘caveats about the uncertainty’ of climate science. (3)
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The Washington Times reports today that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) will “run on the final version” of the Republican Party’s election platform, a draft of which the GOP’s 112-delegate platform committee is debating today and tomorrow. The staff-written draft contains a number of hard line conservative positions with which McCain supposedly disagrees: - “The platform draft calls for constitutional bans on abortion and gay marriage, two steps McCain does not support.” - Despite McCain’s claims ...
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The Unlimited Sun (1)
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IT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT and the simplest things we forget. So much energy poured away, or stones carried far and then dropped down in our own path and with our own hands. When I look at the world and the trouble in the world and this governments responses to trouble and too many parents’ responses to their childrens’ challenges, the criminal justice system and the razor rifts in our relationships, the rising hate crimes the ...
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It bothers me that the children of immigrants can so blatantly show disrespect to present day immigrants. Let me give a little backdrop. I was in a car once with a group of young women, and one of them said, “I have very strong views on immigration.” I said, “I do, too.” (wink) She went on to talk about immigrants as if they’re that much different from us. Another young lady went on to talk ...
Study: Goodling’s partisan immigration judges more frequently rule against asylum-seekers. (2)
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A new analysis of immigration judges shows that those appointed through the illegal, partisan process created by Monica Goodling and Kyle Sampson have "ruled against asylum-seekers significantly more often than colleagues who were appointed, as the law requires, under politically neutral rules." Thirty-one judges were appointed under the illegal vetting ...
How To Legally Immigrate to the United States (1)
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Feds make I-9 verification easier (1)
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the new U.S. passport card may be used as a valid “List A” document to complete Form I-9 during the employment eligibility verification process. Here’s how employees can get the card. Some facts about the card: The U.S. Department of State began producing passport cards on July 14, 2008, and has already received more than 350,000 applications. The passport card carries the same rights and privileges of ...
Why we still need immigration (1)
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Following my last post on immigration, some people have written to me with comments on this topic, and based on some of those exchanges I wanted to add a post-script on this topic. One correspondent suggested that immigration was no longer right during an economic downturn: there would be no jobs to come to, or if there were they would be given at the expense of the indigenous population, who would see this happening and ...
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Here's a piece from today's Democracy Now! about the case of Hiu Lui Ng, an immigrant from Hong Kong who died earlier this month after being detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for a year. According to an interview with Ng's (who also went by Jason Ng) lawyer Joshua Bardavid, Ng was a "healthy, robust" man before being jailed. Here's an excerpt from the interview: AMY GOODMAN: Well, let's talk about what ...
PETA does it again (1)
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Ann mentioned this in her last PETA WTF? post, but I decided it needed more attention. Just when you think PETA couldn't get any worse, they take their ad campaigns to another level. Apparently PETA is petitioning to buy ad space on the fences that are being constructed along the US/Mexico border to display these racist and offensive ads. From PETA: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals plans today to announce an unusual marketing ...
States get tough on immigration (1)
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Many state governments continue to push for the use of the feds’ new E-Verify system. The latest state to pass a law requiring employers to use E-Verify is South Carolina. The new law requires all companies in the state to participate in the program and use the system to verify new hire eligibility, or only hire employees with valid driver’s licenses or state ID cards. Employers with 100 or more employees must comply with the ...
Meet Henry Cejudo. American. Gold Medalist. (1)
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This is a great Olympics story:Henry Cejudo called it the American dream.The son of undocumented Mexican immigrants who had to work two jobs to keep food on the table, Cejudo gave the U.S. its first Olympic gold medal in freestyle wrestling in Beijing with a stunning win Tuesday over Japan's Tomohiro Matsunaga in the 55-kilogram (121 pounds) final."I'm living the American dream right now, man," Cejudo, wrapped in an American flag, said moments after his ...
Olympic Gold Medalist … And The Son Of Undocumented Workers (1)
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Henry Cejudo (right) vs. Azerbaijan's Namig Sevdimov [Courtesy L.A. Times] Whatever you do, don't let Michelle Malkin and her horde of flying wingnut monkeys hear about Henry Cejudo: Henry Cejudo, the 21-year-old wrestling prodigy who had wrestled in only one world-level senior tournament before Beijing, has won the Olympic gold medal in men's freestyle 55-kilogram wrestling. Cejudo, the son of undocumented Mexican aliens who bypassed a college career to try to become an Olympian, assures ...
Court says Second Amendment doesn't apply to illegal aliens (1)
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A federal magistrate judge in Florida has ruled that the Second Amendment doesn't apply to illegal aliens:That common law right [to keep and bear arms, secured by the Second Amendment,] was held only by citizens and those who swore allegiance to the Government; it did not include everyone present on American soil.... For instance, Samuel Adams and other delegates urged the Massachusetts ratifying convention to recommend barring Congress from “prevent[ing] the people of the United ...
Arrivals - the continuing story of immigration (1)
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This morning I was standing in the arrivals hall in Dublin airport, waiting for a friend who is visiting from the United States. It was the usual Dublin airport experience - big crowds, lots of commotion, a sense of excitement and occasionally of tension. My visitor’s flight was slightly delayed, and so I passed the time watching my fellow arrivals-waiters; and suddenly I realised that, at least where I was standing, almost nobody around me ...
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In one easy to navigate flow chart!Fun fact: unskilled immigrants have virtually no chance of being approved, even though America needs unskilled labor! But they should "wait their turn" anyway. Fair is fair.Shared by danweasel (10)Contribute comment
