The recent case where parents with a child having Down’s Syndrome were excluded from migrating permanently to Australia has aroused much emotion. It is widely seen as discrimination against disabled people. It is nothing of the sort. It is discrimination against immigration applicants who may not provide net economic benefits to Australia if they are awarded migrant status.
GILA BEND, Ariz. — Soon after Antonio Torres, a husky 19-year-old farmworker, suffered catastrophic injuries in a car accident last June, a Phoenix hospital began making plans for his repatriation to Mexico.
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According to an article published on nbc4.com Prince William County police (in Virginia) have been targeting undocumented immigrants at an alarming rate. I had no idea there were even enough undocumented immigrants in Virginia to allow for police to “target” them. But leave it to the bigots and racists in Virginia to find em and “target” them. Turns out less than 2 percent of people actually charged with a crime are actual undocumented immigrants. So… it seems to me that since 98% of the criminals charged, are either documented immigrants or citizens… the police are “targeting” the wrong people. Why focus on the portion of the population that gets charged 2% of the time, when there is a segment of the population that makes up 98% of the charges that are levied.
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# The first step to gaining permanent residence for any foreign relative of a U.S. citizen is to file a petition for an alien fiancé/relative to USCIS.
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Another example of the rampant racism that exists in our country.
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An article from the Immigration Policy Center points out what could happen when police try to enforce the ridiculous immigration laws in the United States. According to a report published by the Immigration Policy Center and written by the East Valley Tribune the rusults of this (obviously racist) policy change are laughable. Everything from arrest rates falling, response times rising. Read the article, it’s sad… that’s what they get.
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A Chicago hospital is preparing to send a 30-year-old patient back to Mexico. Francisco Pantaleon, who is in this country illegally, had a brain hemorrhage last month and is in a coma at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago.
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In the archives of local institutions, Juan Aranda’s life is firmly rooted in this small south Texas town. His birth certificate says he was delivered unto Weslaco 38 years ago, and church records say he was baptized here soon after. School files list him as a student in the local district from kindergarten through high school, and voter rolls show he votes for president here.
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Wasn’t this a skit on Saturday Night live?
“According to NPR this week, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have begun offering illegal immigrants the chance to turn themselves in and in return will be allowed to negotiate their own deportation.
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