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Milenio (Mexico City) 1/26/10

The Africanization of Mexico

[Portions of an op/col. by Ricardo Monreal Avila, titled as above]

The country that most Mexicans (31 out of every 100) want to be like is the United States, followed distantly by China and Canada (6 and 5 of every 100, respectively) (Nexos, Consulta Mitofsky, January 2010) [“Consulta Mitofsky” is an often cited Mexican public opinion organization.] Granted that the highest percentage in this study is from those who wanted to be like “none of the above” (34 of every 100), without specifying the motive for this “none” (outdated nationalism? ignorance or lack of interest?) the desirable model for almost one third of the Mexican population is clear. Surely, it is that same third of the Mexican population about which, four years ago, the Pew Hispanic Center warned that, if they had the opportunity, these fellow countrymen would move to the United States, or would vote without a second thought so that Mexico would become the 51st state of the United States, causing alarm in Bush’s government and hastening the building of the border fence.

That third of Mexicans who hold the United States as a model, don’t they believe in their country? “I do believe in Mexico….. it’s Mexico that doesn’t believe in me,” a Zacatecan friend, small business owner, made clear to me two decades ago, and who left fleeing from the economic crisis of 1988 to settle in Chicago.

Nevertheless, the collective tragedy that we currently suffer alike, those Mexicans who dream of being like another country as well as those of us who answer “none,” is because during the last decade, the governing political and economic elite, far from reaching the aspirations of looking like our neighbors to the north, has taken us in the opposite direction and too far: to the Africanization of our economy, government, life style, laws, education, ecology and family income.

In effect, we are ever closer to sub-Saharan Africa and farther from the United States. We have the same number of dead out on the street as Rwanda, and as many journalists assassinated as in Somalia. Our level of migrant workers is Nigerian, and the level of learning and educational skills of our children is at the level of Tunisia. Our economic competitiveness is below Botswana’s, while Morocco had more tourists than Mexico last year. The levels of corruption are root-like Algerian, while the inequalities in the salary scales are like those of Ethiopia. The influenza virus made us brother-like to the Congo as far as sanitary risks, while the loss or contamination of environmental resources per resident is similar to Namibia’s. Since the geologic times of Pangea, this territory called Mexico had not been as close to the African continent, as it has in the lost decade that we are enduring. This reality takes anyone’s sleep away. It is the insomnia of those who yearn for the American life style and, perhaps because of that, decide to emigrate. But for the rest of the Mexicans, including the “none of the above”, it is the nightmare of every day.

http://impreso.milenio.com/node/8709154

ICE plans expansion of immigration database program

Washington Examiner

By: David Sherfinski
Examiner Staff Writer

January 28, 2010 The federal government is planning to expand nationwide an immigration records sharing program used in the District, Fairfax County and Prince William County.

Under the program, known as Secure Communities, local jails check arrestees’ fingerprints against biometrics-based immigration records held by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as well as criminal records held by the FBI.

The government plans to introduce the system in “literally every single city and county in the United States,” said John Morton, assistant secretary for ICE. The agency expects Secure Communities to be expanded nationwide by 2013, according to ICE.

The fact that ICE does the legwork in processing cases is one reason that the program is working well in Fairfax, said Sheriff Stan Barry. Fairfax entered into the partnership, which does not require additional funds from the county, in March.

Prince William and Loudoun counties participate in a program that deputizes local law enforcement officials to enforce certain federal immigration laws. Critics of the program, known as 287(g), argue that it can lead to racial profiling, and that the introduction of Secure Communities could make it redundant.

But Morton did not see it that way.

Secure Communities is only a way to identify criminals, he said, and delegating detention authority to state and local governments through programs like 287(g) is a way to “augment the resources that we have.”

In Maryland, Montgomery County, which does not participate in the 287(g) program, reports illegal immigrants to ICE only if they are arrested for violent or handgun-related crimes. The Montgomery County attorney recently backed the policy over complaints from the police union that the mandate is unconstitutional.

Arthur Wallenstein, director of the county’s Adult Detention Center, did not take a position on the Secure Communities program.

“There is no work for us to do, and no decisions to make regarding any individual arrestee” under Secure Communities, he said. “The policy decision on whether to do it rests with the executive.”

A county spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.

dsherfinski@washingtonexaminer.com

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Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader

Harboring illegal aliens gets roofing company owner 3 years on probation

The owner of a Springfield roofing company was sentenced in federal court Tuesday for harboring illegal aliens. — Hilario Perez-Cereceres, 44, of Springfield, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard E. Dorr to three years of probation. Perez-Cereceres, a native of Mexico, is a permanent lawful resident of the U.S.

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Las Vegas Review-Journal

$2-Million a Month: More illegals getting emergency treatment at UMC

There are now four more of them regularly making their way to the emergency room at University Medical Center. And doctors say the illegal [aliens] coming in for dialysis treatment at University Medical Center are sicker than they were before, making their care even more expensive…

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Marietta Daily Journal

D.A. King: Enforcing immigration laws can create jobs

by D.A. King

Guest columnist
January 26, 2010

While we read the headlines about the Georgia unemployment rate going up and the budget being cut, a respectful request to the Georgia General Assembly from someone who studies the consequences of the crimes of illegal immigration, illegal employment and illegal administration of public benefits: Consider reducing the size of Georgia’s “undocumented worker” population, thereby creating jobs for American workers and redirecting benefits and services to eligible recipients.

An undeniable fact: People who are in violation of American immigration laws migrate out of every area in which the law is actually enforced. Simply put, again, enforcement works.

As this longtime American has written many times, in 2006 Georgia passed a law that says Georgians – including local governments and state agencies – must obey federal immigration, employment and benefits laws. Like many immigration laws that do not directly benefit the illegal aliens or the Americans who have created an industry out of using and rewarding them, the law was treated as an option by virtually all local governments in Georgia.

In 2009 another law, with an effective date of Jan. 1, 2010, was passed to strengthen the original law.

We now have a law that says we must obey the law that says we must obey the law. It, too, is widely ignored.

To date, of the 159 counties and 535 municipalities in Georgia, 47 are authorized to use a federal database (the SAVE system) to verify eligibility of applicants for public benefits as mandated in Georgia law. Another 214 have pending applications to use the program.

No one in state government seems to have a count of the other various official agencies that administer public benefits. We cannot change what we cannot measure.

Like all laws, the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act must be enforced.

Imagine the headlines if the laws that grant taxpayer funded education, health care, Medicaid and translation services to illegal aliens and their children were to be violated. Or the Governor’s Super Speeder law.

Speaking of recent headlines, here are just three: “Decade ahead will be severe for the unemployed,” “Jobless payouts a strain on the state” and “Summit addresses Georgia’s job crisis.”

And here is a suggestion: Protect the American worker by mandating use of the federal E-Verify employment eligibility system for all employers in the state to check newly hired employees for eligibility, using citizenship and immigration status. It’s a no-brainer.

The highly accurate and successful E-Verify system happens to have been designed for exactly that purpose. Do we really want to struggle to create jobs and then sit back and ignore no-cost tools that would prevent Georgia workers from competing for those jobs with people who escaped capture at our borders?

Heads up: Expect vehement opposition to use of the E-Verify employment verification system from a coalition of the ACLU, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and the rabid ethnic-based anti-enforcement lobby.

Protecting American workers is not job-one for everyone.

Another headline: “College applicants face tough competition for enrollments.” Since taxpayer-funded postsecondary education is a public benefit for which illegal aliens are not eligible under both federal and state law, it follows that use of the SAVE system to ensure compliance with those laws will open up seats for students who are here lawfully. And who will be eligible to work upon graduation.

How many tax dollars can Georgia save if we move to stop allowing the hiring of black-market labor and reduce the number of illegals who access services and benefits? Good question.

A 2008 study by the Washington-based Federation for American Immigration Reform put the annual Georgia tab for K-12 education, public health care and incarceration of criminals at $1.6 billion to provide these services to illegals and their dependents.

In California, where illegal immigration was ignored for decades, just one county, San Bernardino, reports spending nearly $64 million in state and federal money last year alone to provide welfare benefits to just the American-born children of illegal aliens.

Some California lawmakers say it’s an expense the state can’t afford as it struggles to close a nearly $20 billion budget gap.

“This is a huge burden on our state,” said Assemblyman Steve Knight.”

Besides the courageous exceptions, we hear from too few Georgia legislators on the obvious illegal immigration connection with our jobs and budget crisis.

Another headline; “Lawmakers out of ways to cut spending in ’10.”

Not true.

D.A. King is a nationally recognized authority on illegal immigration and president of the Cobb-based Dustin Inman Society, which advocates for the enforcement of immigration laws. He lobbied in favor of the Georgia immigration laws. On the Web: www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org
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New York Times

In Arizona, a stream of illegal aliens From China

Tucson — The unforgiving terrain of the Sonoran Desert, south of here, whose searing summers and frigid winters claim hundreds of lives each year, has long been a favored avenue of entry for illegal immigrants from Mexico and other Latin American countries. But in the last year, the authorities say, smugglers have increasingly capitalized on a much more lucrative business…

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Border Patrol Agents were able to capture more than half a million illegal aliens crossing into th USA illegally in fiscal year 2009!

The official optimistic estimate is that they apprehend one of four of five uninspected, illegal crossers – who come from all over the world…DO THE MATH!

More HERE

The new “fence” is a hushed-up hoax! HERE from Glenn Spencer’s American Patrol

Wanna see what the open borders lobby is talking about on amnesty in 2010?

Amnesty, illegal immigratin and the Massachusetts election discussed by the now somewhat nervous open borders/anti-enforcement lobby. This is posted on the GALEO site. Thanks Jerry!

Cecilia Munoz is a former La Raza goonette and now works in the Obama administration.

NiLP ( National Institute for Latino Policy) FYI:
Cecilia Muñoz Tells It Like It Is on Immigration Reform Prospects?
Found in NiLP newsletter
Written by Angelo Falcon
01-22 – 2010

Note: As everyone is scrambling to regroup after the Note: Note: After the Massachusetts electoral debacle this week, many advocates are doing their best to parse statements from the White House for what is going to happen next on health insurance reform and other issues. Below is an interesting attempt to do so regarding the prospects of comprehensive immigration reform based on remarks by Cecilia Muñoz, the White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, during a White House teleconference. We thought you would find it of interest.
—Angelo Falcón

Cecilia Muñoz Tells It Like It Is — If You Listen Closely
By Tom Barry
Border Lines Blog (January 20, 2010)

In a “tele-townhall” sponsored by the Reform Immigration FOR America campaign – a project of the National Immigration Forum – top White House aide Cecilia Muñoz (and former National Council of La Raza point person on immigration reform) tried simultaneously:

1) to assure immigration-reform advocates that the Obama administration is deeply committed to reform, and

2) to caution about countervailing anti-reform forces and factors that may obstruct CIR the third time around.

Hard to say what other listeners thought, but these were my conclusions:

Administration is NOT willing to risk any political capital on supporting comprehensive immigration reform by assuming a leadership position.

CIR is worse than dead in the water; its introduction in Senate will unleash a firestorm of populist backlash ( Note from D.A. – she means those pesky Americans) that will further unite Republicans and further divide Republicans.

Administration is not backing away from its “nation of laws” framing of immigrant crackdown. Indeed, it is saying its tough-on-immigration, strong-on-border security practices ( Note from D.A. – HA! )will prove critically important in winning the CIR campaign.

Muñoz cautions:

“It’s important to understand,” she warns, “that those folks voted before, remember those bills and process, know that Senate debate may not be different than in 06 or 07.”

Referring to the opposition that the planned introduction of a CIR bill in the Senate will unleash, Muñoz cautions:

“Important to be honest about that.” And because of the previous efforts and the likely opposition this time around, she indicated that the Schumer-Graham bill will probably be even tougher, more compromised than in the final 2007 CIR bill.

Political rationale for Continuing Harsh Enforcement and Border Security Build-up:

Muñoz says that one of the main reasons that CIR was defeated in 2006 and 2007 was the argument that comprehensive enforcement and border control should be the prerequisite for new legalized flows or legalization. “We are making good progress” on border security and smart interior enforcement ( Note from D.A. – HA! AGAIN), she said, repeating the argument of DHS Secretary Napolitano in her speech at the Center for American Progress that strong enforcement makes reform possible. “Many of the congressional benchmarks [whose benchmarks? Where is this list?] have been met,” thus “gives us some optimism, more attainable now than in the past.”

She said that because of the administration’s immigration enforcement and border security credentials CIR is “more digestible” now for Congress.

Obama’s Back-Up Role:

“It will take a lot more than the president’s commitment to accomplish this objective [CIR].” According to Muñoz, Obama understands the issue well, wants reform for all the right reasons, has a good track record from years in legislature, in Congress, during campaign, and in first year: “That kind of leadership is at the ready.”

But she made it clear that the administration wasn’t going to take the initiative, that Obama wasn’t going to use the bully pulpit of the presidency to persuade voters that reform was good for them.

Instead she pointed to Congress, and she placed the onus on the grassroots and NGOs (as if they hadn’t been working their hardest for this issue and for Obama) to establish the political space, to educate about the merits of CIR, and to build the support to “take it across the finish line.” She advised that the grassroots campaign this time needs to be “better coordinated and prepared,” and this “will take a lot of commitment around the country.”

Asked about the retroactive aggravated felon policies that routinely result in the deportation of legal immigrants, Muñoz pleaded ignorance whether these mean-spirited policies would be addressed in a CIR proposal, but “I can say this is part of the immigration system that is broken.

But again success in fixing depends on “our collective ability, the work that everybody does,” and part of the problem is that there isn’t enough political space to do as much as we like – so up to advocates to create this space.

She assured participants in the conference call that “we are going to continue press forward…as long as factors favor it.”

Who’s the administration point person on CIR reform? Well that would be its chief enforcer of the “broken immigration system” and chief proponent of border security: DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano. “She will lead the charge” for CIR, says Muñoz.

For those listening closely and critically, Muñoz did not offer any false hope – something that candidate Obama, the president, and the leading DC advocacy groups have been culpable.

It was clear that Obama, personally and his administration, while deeply sympathetic aren’t committed enough to immigration reform to lead the way, to frame the issue, to spread the vision of an immigration policy that would indeed fix the broken system.

It was equally clear that the administration is not considering backing away from the “enforcement-first” framework that the administration has inherited and embraced as its own.

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs057/1101040629095/archive/1102958124251.html

The Dustin Inman Society

Photos from the January 20, 2010 GALEO rally for amnesty
GALEO – a Sam Zamarripa founded Georgia pro-open borders/illegal alien lobbying corporation – organized a January rally for amnesty-again at the state Capitol here in Georgia. It wasn’t exactly a huge success. — Because DIS president D.A. King is in the Capitol nearly every day during the legislative session…

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