Wizbang: Immigration Archives

What we leave behind

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: May 14, 2008 · Comments (5)

A family immigrating to Canada from the Philippines, leaves their 23-month-old son behind at Vancouver Airport. VANCOUVER, British Columbia - An immigrant family accidentally left a 23-month boy in the Vancouver airport and learned he was missing only when contacted during the next leg of the trip. Jun Parreno, the... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (6 votes cast)

The check is not in the mail

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: May 10, 2008 · Comments (9)

Some of us have begun receiving those tax rebate or economic stimulus checks. A certain group of married US citizens won't be getting their share. From the San Jose Mercury-News When Congress passed an economic-stimulus package giving hefty rebates to most taxpayers, it tried to make sure that illegal immigrants... [Full Story]

Rating: 2.5/5 (8 votes cast)

Dragging the Old Ball & Chain

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: May 9, 2008 · Comments (4)

Check this out: Federal sting nets 83 arrests in suspected marriage-for-citizenship scam A federal sting in Florida of four companies accused of arranging fraudulent marriages for U.S. citizenship, complete with faux wedding photos of brides in gowns and elaborate fake cakes, has netted more than 80 arrests, authorities said Friday.... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (4 votes cast)

Business News & Review

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: May 8, 2008 · Comments (0)

Click the below link for synopses of the year's most noteworthy business stories to date: GDP growth, immigration reform and border control, the job markets, income growth and inflation, the stock and bond markets, Visa's IPO, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department, Bear Stearns, the oil and gold markets,... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (9 votes cast)

The Border

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 30, 2008 · Comments (7)

Here's a link to an outstanding article -- especially by media standards -- regarding the interrelated topics of immigration reform, border control, the war on terror, public policies, labor economics and partisan politics. As they say, read the whole thing. The entire article is a fountain of information and is... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (10 votes cast)

The Sheriff

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 25, 2008 · Comments (52)

Arizona residents, long-time conservatives, and other law & order mavens, certainly know the tall tales of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. For those not in the know Arpaio -- the "toughest sheriff in America" -- has for almost 20 years been titillating law enforcement hawks and angering and dispiriting liberal... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (23 votes cast)

Business/Immigration Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 25, 2008 · Comments (2)

Click the below link for snippets about (1) a key immigration enforcement measure and its potential costs to employers, and (2) the government's quest to hire more prosecutors to handle criminal cases -- including alien smuggling -- along the Southern border. ... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.7/5 (6 votes cast)

Eminent Domain

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 11, 2008 · Comments (5)

Check this out: A federal judge has ordered a Texas woman to allow the government to survey her land in connection with the ongoing construction of the Southern border security fence, the latest victory for the Department of Homeland Security in a series of legal skirmishes arising from construction of... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (15 votes cast)

Student attacked for anti-illegal immigration stance

Posted by Cassy Fiano · Published: April 9, 2008 · Comments (48)

Usually, when teachers assign politically charged homework, students are supposed to rigidly toe the liberal line. I guess Melanie Bowers didn't get the message, because she decided to do her project on anti-illegal immigration. Her poster said, "If you love our nation, stop illegal immigration." A group of latino... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (31 votes cast)

Absolut®-ly nuts

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 5, 2008 · Comments (19)

A controversy has erupted over an Absolut® vodka ad campaign in Mexico which depicts the US-Mexican border as it was in the early 1800s - with Mexico controlling California and much of the Southwest, report Deborah Bonello and Reed Johnson for The Los Angeles Times: The colorful ad, created by... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (17 votes cast)

Take my wife, please.

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: April 3, 2008 · Comments (4)

Canada has its share of immigration insanity. Take this story for instance. Ricardo Manalang thought his financial, emotional and psychological nightmare was over when the woman who duped him into marrying her and bringing her to Canada was ordered deported. Federal courts issued an order demanding the woman be returned... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (5 votes cast)

Teaching kids to lose weight... en Espanol!

Posted by Cassy Fiano · Published: March 24, 2008 · Comments (26)

Check out this ad I saw on TV for childhood obesity prevention, sponsored by the U.S. Government: Yep. All in Spanish. Here in the United States. My blood boiled when I saw it. It brought to mind a particular quote (emphasis mine): In the first place we should insist that... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (20 votes cast)

The Knucklehead of the Day award

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 24, 2008 · Comments (10)

Today's winner is CIS or Citizenship and Immigration Services. They get the award for the following. During his nearly four years as a translator for U.S. forces in Iraq, Saman Kareem Ahmad was known for his bravery and hard work. "Sam put his life on the line with, and for,... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (19 votes cast)

The Knucklehead of the Day award

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 16, 2008 · Comments (8)

Today's winner is ICE aka Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They get the award for the following. In a stinging ruling, a Los Angeles federal judge said immigration officials' alleged decision to withhold a critical medical test and other treatment from a detainee who later died of cancer was "beyond cruel... [Full Story]

Rating: 3/5 (4 votes cast)

Let's get it done, people

Posted by Cassy Fiano · Published: March 5, 2008 · Comments (15)

It looks like Republicans in the Senate are finally getting it. Jim DeMint, who was a hero in fighting the shamnesty movement last year, has introduced legislation to finally get the damn fence finished. Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) introduced the "Complete the Fence Act" that will require... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (17 votes cast)

They deserve better

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 3, 2008 · Comments (5)

That's US legal aliens who have served in our military and then wait lengthy periods of time to get US citizenship. About 7,200 service members or people who have been recently discharged have citizenship applications pending, but neither the Department of Defense nor Citizenship and Immigration Services keeps track of... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.9/5 (11 votes cast)

Conversions- The story of Issa Fazli

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: February 29, 2008 · Comments (3)

In 1999 Fareeha Fazli was a Pakistani Muslim woman studying in the United States. She had permanent residency. In 2000 Issa Fazli got married. Fareeha converting to christianity, besides having female to male gender reassignment surgery. Things got interesting when the couple went back to Pakistan in 2001. Both families... [Full Story]

Rating: 2.2/5 (4 votes cast)

"I want to serve this country because this country returned to me my life,"

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: February 25, 2008 · Comments (3)

Safaa Wadi not long ago worked as an interpreter for the US Army. Because of his work, the US allowed Wadi to immigrate to the US. Now Safaa is saying thanks by joining the US Army. He hopes to return to Iraq one day as a soldier. I don't have... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (20 votes cast)

The Politics of Illegal Immigration

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: February 24, 2008 · Comments (6)

Click the below link for some very interesting info derived from exit polling of several key Republican primary contests. ... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (8 votes cast)

Doing the jobs Brits won't do?

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: February 11, 2008 · Comments (1)

How many unemployed in England would have liked a shot at those 11,000 security guard jobs? From ITN- Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was forced to admit that more than 11,000 illegal workers may have been cleared to get jobs as security guards two months ago The latest security blunder to... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (9 votes cast)

Law & Order Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: February 8, 2008 · Comments (0)

In this update we've got musings on DNA technology and parole policies, a state supreme court decision regarding capital punishment, a major worksite immigraton raid, along with a veritable pot luck of recent news items on the immigration enforcement front. Click the below link if you'd like to read more.... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (3 votes cast)

War widow won't be deported, gets permanent residency

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: February 7, 2008 · Comments (6)

Dahianna Heard was given permanent residency. Now she can raise her son Bryan Harley in the country Jeffrey Heard gave his life for. Here's the press release. If Mrs. Heard won her fight, the legal battle against The Widow Penalty continues. These women and men, who were trying to legally... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (10 votes cast)

Judge Upholds Arizona's Strict Anti-Illegal Immigrant Hiring Law

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: February 7, 2008 · Comments (7)

A federal judge on Thursday for the second time upheld a law that prohibits businesses knowingly from hiring illegal immigrants and pulls the business licenses of those which do so. U.S. District Judge Neil Wake dismissed a lawsuit filed by business groups that sought to invalidate the law. The business... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (7 votes cast)

She wants to set the record straight

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: February 7, 2008 · Comments (2)

Convicted felon Andrea Schwartz thinks her conviction is all based on a misunderstanding. A midtown madam being sentenced on drug and prostitution charges Wednesday told a Manhattan judge she lost everything because she was wrongly portrayed as a lesbian. "I am not a lesbian; I never in my life had... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (2 votes cast)

Immigration Update: Contracts Bill Passes Miss. State Senate

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: February 1, 2008 · Comments (0)

The Mississippi state senate by a 46-5 margin passed a bill on Friday that would require companies with state or local government contracts to verify that all their employees legally are in the country. The bill envisions businesses utilizing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's e-Verify database to check the... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (4 votes cast)

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