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| Immigration: USCIS OVERWHELMED While President and Congress Turns a Blind Eye |
| 2007-06-18 |
| *The backlog of 600,000-plus fugitive deportee cases. *The backlog of 4 million immigration applications of all kinds. *The backlog of an estimated 100,000 FBI background checks for legal immigrant applicants. *The disappearance of 111,000 citizenship applications. The Washington Post reports today that those mounds of unprocessed paperwork continue to grow. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came here legally are waiting for FBI background checks that must be obtained before they can become naturalized... |
| Posted by:Dopey Clating8616 |
| #14 This really borders on the need for regime change in the US. How about some smart one of us determining how to recall or impeach just one of these gutless, self-serving senators from a Republican state? The single issue behind the recall would just be the senators inability to actually represent his constituents. Further, we really need to make even clearer the costs that the illegal immigrants will create, backrupting the social services like medicare and Social Security, and having greater priviledges than ordinary citizens. For instance, think about them getting -in-state tuition, no requirement to register for the selective service like US kids, forgiveness of back taxes, absolution from a criminal record (remember, they are illegal, and have either failed to file or files false tax returns). The calculations for immigrant costs almost certainly did not factor in the enormous amount of their meager disposable income that goes as remitances to Mexico (over 20 billion in last count annually). In California alone over 25% of the inmates of state prison system are foreign born, and most are illegal, each costing $38,000 a year to maintain) their kids cost 7-9,000 a yer each in school costs, not to mention all the additional programs like school lunches, food stamps, and a host of medical services free by camping out in emergency rooms. Add 30 million of these blood suckers allowed to fully surface and the country will go bankrupt. Or more likely, will tell me that a "mean-test" has determined that I don't need my SS or pension since I have enough, and it needs to go to some thief who stole his way in here and got voted in by politicians cravenly hoping to get his newly minted vote. This shit has got to STOP! |
| Posted by: JustAboutEnough 2007-06-18 23:55 |
| #13 Just think Blondie - some illegal lawbreaker (and possible felon, murderer, drug-dealer, and child molester) will get their Pisses me of! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2007-06-18 23:18 |
| #12 #10 Blondie - e-mail me |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-06-18 22:45 |
| #11 I don't want a fence, I want a wall. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2007-06-18 22:36 |
| #10 *The backlog of an estimated 100,000 FBI background checks for legal immigrant applicants. Great, just lovely. Me & the Tsar have been waiting since September 2005 for the FBI to get the background check done. Anyone here know a decent Florida-based immigration lawyer? |
| Posted by: Swamp Blondie 2007-06-18 22:21 |
#9 Then there's this from Jerry Pournelle:There are those who want to control other people, and persuade themselves that they are doing a "service" when they do so. In the old days aristocrats were supposed to have a modicum of good sense and judgment, and the oath of fealty ran both ways, down as well as up; the lord was supposed to bear true faith to his subjects. Of course heredity was not a reliable way to select those with such awesome powers, and was replaced by counting noses to select the top people, who then select those they think fit to be the lords. So long as those on top did not stay there, and were as subject to the laws and restrictions as any others, this worked passable well, since those in charge did not have a great incentive to expand the command powers: after all, they too would be subject to them at some point. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-06-18 15:39 |
| #8 JohnQC, the US ruling elite are behind this whole immigration scam. Maybe Mexico needs a regime change, but so does the USA need to get rid of a ruling class that doesn't believe in national sovereignty, but only in huge financial benefits for themselves. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-06-18 15:33 |
| #7 Immigration has to become Mexico's problem. They have made it our problem for too many years. The ruling elite in Washington need to protect the borders first and stop coming up with really expensive cockamayme ineffectual self-serving legislation. The donks are in (immigration law) it for the votes. Can't figure out why the trunks are in it unless they want to destroy the Republican Party. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-06-18 13:31 |
| #6 When you get the surveys and pledge cards, use the return envelope postage free to send them a little note explaining what they MUST do to get any more money. Don't be afraid to use the F word. I've read that the support staffs of some senators, especially the local people are very depressed and some are ready to exit. To further complicate matters, I personally am now in the Iraq is lost colume. After reading an excellent article by Col. Snodgrass in saneworks.us, I believe Bush has screwed up by failing to identify the enemy, failing to use overwhelming force, and failing to combat enemy motivation, especially motivational support from the west. At this point, withdraw to Kurdistan and let the sunni/shia wars commence, and stop treating Israel like a sock puppet. I remain a republican, but I will not tolorate RINOs ever again. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2007-06-18 10:59 |
| #5 I still get the surveys and pledge cards. They're getting desperate though, since the last few have been coming from Laura. I've said the same thing in every fax, phone call and letter. Unfortunately, my Senators are Nelson and Martinez, and you know they are unmovable. My wife is a legal immigrant and that took 2 years just to get a green card (post 9/11) and she is a professional, Euorpean stock, independently financially secure, etc. She is more burned about this bill than I am. I think both the Dems and Repubs are in trouble here. I can't believe McCain won the NewsMax poll - jamming and spamming votes online doesnot a candidate make. Whoever runs with a realistic immigration policy (secure borders, strengthen existing laws, increase workplace enforcement, enlarge immigration courts, increase criminal deportation, etc.) has the best chance of winning. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2007-06-18 10:22 |
| #4 I was getting a whole bunch of surveys and pledge cards from the Republican Party. I kept sending them back filled out that border security was my first priority and they wouldn't get a dime until they did it. After the 2006 rout, I sent them a coupon for an Arizona building materials wholesaler that offered %10 off along with a letter stating that now maybe they would listen and since they were going to be going broke soon the enclosed coupon was my donation. I haven't received any letters from them since then. I think I pissed somebody off.... |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-06-18 09:37 |
| #3 bobby, If I remember correctly, Z-visas are auto-awarded after 24 hours, which means the requirement, given the current situation, is guaranteed to "fail" in the Illegal's favor. I think Zenster's got the right of it: They're virtually an aristocracy, supported by aristocrats here in the United States. Usually, they are at each others throats, but I've heard from Dr. Francisco Gil-White that the first law of class warfard is that aristocrats must band together to keep the lower classes from getting rebellious. So far, the United States citizenry are not rebellious, altough I am leaning toward "broken glass petitions": bricks bearing notes tossed through plate glass windows of senators, representatives, and government officies, at night. |
| Posted by: ptah 2007-06-18 08:36 |
| #2 How many Z-visas are estimated? How long would that backlog take? How about - in addition to controlling our borders and enforcing existing laws - we also catch up on our late paperwork? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-06-18 06:12 |
| #1 While a border fence will help, I'm beginning to think that the only real solution is regime change in Mexico. The Mexican ruling elite are effectively using America as a dumping ground for their politically and economically disaffected masses. We need those people rising up against the Mexican oligarchy instead of screwing up our economy. Foreign remittances sent back home represent the second largest source of money in Mexico's economy. Think how much it would benefit America if all that cash was being spent or invested here instead. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-06-18 00:44 |