Africa isn’t becoming non-black. African people don’t have a policy of mass non-black immigration and assimilation forced upon them. Asia isn’t becoming non-Asian. Asian people don’t have a policy of mass non-Asian immigration and assimilation forced upon them. Yet EVERY white country has to accept a policy of mass non-white immigration and assimilation that no one ever voted for. The anti-whites want a mixed, blended humanity for EVERY white country. They want white genocide
Without proper documentation they can’t participate fully in French society, but often they have nowhere else to go.
Their stories contain one common link – the hope that citizenship will secure the achievements and personal connections which they have worked for years to construct.
This student is in the final year of her Master’s program. She only needs an internship to complete her degree, but she can’t find an internship because she is an illegal alien.
This Moroccan man is an illegal alien who doesn’t have the right to work. But he has lived in France for 8 years, has a daughter enrolled in school and a wife with proper immigration papers.
France’s worst treatment is reserved for undocumented Roma, as the Hollande administration has not stopped the Sarkozy era’s practice of deportations and destroying their homes.
France’s immigrants are tired of being told by supposedly supportive politicians that the time just isn’t right to push for better treatment. But if this segment of society has lost faith in the new Socialist government, polls show that, in this respect, they are typically French.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will pledge to Hispanics on Monday that if elected he will fix the troubled U.S. immigration system in an appeal to a rising voter bloc that overwhelmingly favors Democratic President Barack Obama.
Romney’s immigration remarks to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce will be aimed at shoring up a weakness in his candidacy: the fact that a huge majority of Hispanics support Obama.
“Americans may disagree about how to fix our immigration system, but I think we can all agree that it is broken,” Romney will say.
In excerpts of his speech released by his campaign, Romney did not get into the specifics of how he would patch up a deep divide between Democrats and Republicans on the approach to repairing the U.S. immigration system.
After promising during his 2008 campaign to take on the immigration issue, Obama never followed through, leading to disappointment among various Hispanic groups.
Romney will point to Obama’s inability to work on the problem as a failure.
“Candidate Obama said that one of his highest priorities would be to fix immigration in his first year in office. Despite his party having majorities in both houses of Congress, the president never even offered up a bill,” Romney will say.
Romney will vow to “work with Republicans and Democrats to permanently fix our immigration system,” while stressing that any plan must first ensure the integrity of U.S. borders—a problem on which the Obama administration says it has already made progress.
“I believe we can all agree that what we need are fair and enforceable immigration laws that will stem the flow of illegal immigration, while strengthening legal immigration,” Romney will say.
“While national unemployment is 8.1 percent, Hispanic unemployment is over 10 percent. Over two million more Hispanics are living in poverty today than the day President Obama took office,” Romney will say.
On Tuesday, The Times reported on a proposal in Los Angeles to turn library cards into photo IDs that illegal immigrants could use to open bank accounts and access city services.
My first reaction to the story, I must confess, was to crack a joke. In recommending it to Facebook friends, I added the line: “Just don’t forget to return your books or your checks might bounce.”
But the photo ID library card is a serious idea with serious advantages for illegal immigrants. City Councilman Richard Alarcon, who proposed the concept, noted that in his Northeast Valley district, some immigrants end up being gouged by payday lenders or robbed if they keep large sums of cash on hand. That wouldn’t happen if they could open bank accounts.
Predictably, there is opposition to the idea. A spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform complained that the cards could be exploited by terrorists and criminals and would encourage illegal immigration. (The first assertion is debatable, the second valid only in the sense that anything that makes life easier for illegal immigrants can be said to encourage illegal immigration.)
I foresee another objection to this idea in states that have introduced photo ID requirements for voters. The assumption in the debate over such laws is that all, or virtually all, of the holders of government-issued photo IDs would be citizens and thus eligible to vote. But if a second sort of photo ID were introduced, this one for noncitizens, poll workers might be confused and allow people with the wrong form of photo ID to vote. Yes, it’s far-fetched, but so is the argument that in-person impersonation is widespread.
The real objection to library cards IDs, of course, is not that they would add to voter fraud but that they would provide another reason for illegal immigrants to stick around in hopes that their status would be normalized. Far better, in some minds (including Mitt Romney’s), for them to feel so insecure and isolated that they decide to “self-deport.”
More than 50 people protested outside the Travis County sheriff’s office on Friday, calling on Sheriff Greg Hamilton to stop participating in a program that detains and deports illegal immigrants.
The protesters were aligned with a group of Austin-bound undocumented immigrants who are riding across parts of the nation in a bus to protest deportations.
“Sheriff Hamilton claims he has no choice, but the immigration holds are voluntary,” said Sarahi Uribe with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.
Uribe criticized a program called Secure Communities, which helps the federal government identify potential deportation targets by comparing fingerprints of people who have been booked on various charges against immigration databases. Uribe said participation in the program by local law enforcement officials is voluntary, citing information released after civil rights groups sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Hamilton has said previously that participation is mandatory. Since Secure Communities was begun in Travis County in June 2009, more than 500 people have been deported. The county ranked third in May with a 41 percent deportation rate among 56 U.S. counties with at least 500 deportations through Secure Communities, according to an American-Statesman analysis.
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