Why we need immigation!

Immigration affects use in every way. What we eat, how we talk, what we wear, and where we go. If it weren’t for immigration we wouldn’t be eating Chinese take out, or be listening to Natasha Bedingfield! Of course there are down sides to immigration, but mostly good sides.

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Un nuevo Plan Anti-imigrante

Noticia de La Opinion Digital  

Un grupo de senadores republicanos intentan impulsar paquete de más de 12 proyectos.  Para ellos se necesita un paquete de medidas migratorias de mano dura y enfocadas  en segurida. Lo hicieron, según ellos, “porque no podemos seguir esperando.”   más

 

Immigration Misfire

Source The Wall Street

By Rosa Rosales

Political pundits used to maintain that the American electorate was galvanized around the issue of illegal immigration. Voters, they claimed, would punish any candidate who failed to take a tough stance on immigrants and did not adamantly oppose the “A” word — Amnesty — in all its tortured definitions. More

 

Immigration in the 2008 elections

Interesting article from The New York Times ”The Border and the Ballot Box”

By DAVID LEONHARDT

On June 7 of last year, a bill to overhaul the nation’s immigration system — a bill supported by President Bush and the Democratic leaders of Congress — died in the Senate. It died mostly because of grass-roots opposition, and its downfall appeared to serve as an announcement of the issue’s new political potency. For much of 2007, immigration seemed certain to play a dominant role in the 2008 presidential campaign.

After the bill failed, Senator John McCain, the early Republican front-runner whose championing of the bill had made him look soft on illegal immigration, faded in the polls. The new Republican front-runners, Rudolph W. Giuliani and Mitt Romney, were trading accusations over who had been nicer to illegal immigrants in the past. “It’s been wonderful,” Representative Tom Tancredo, the most emphatically anti-immigration candidate, said during a Republican debate in November, “because all I’ve heard is people trying to out-Tancredo Tancredo.”

The backlash even had a familiar feel to it. In the last few decades, the country has experienced its fourth great immigration wave. Each of the other three — in the 1850s, 1880s and early 1900s — also caused a political reaction, the first and most famous being the rise of the Know Nothing movement. History looked as if it would repeat itself, albeit in a milder form, this year.

And so it has. It’s just that the lessons of the past aren’t quite what they first appeared to be. More

 

Highway safety signs along San Diego

Highway safety sign becomes running story on immigration

Source The San Diego Union Tribune

Perhaps nowhere else could such a road sign have been born.

A ghostly silhouette of a mother, father and little girl running, their bodies leaning forward as if into the wind. The child’s pigtails fly behind her as the family dashes across a stark yellow background, accompanied by one word: CAUTION.

Caltrans posted several of these signs along San Diego freeways beginning in 1990, when the city was a funnel for undocumented immigrants headed north. The signs were intended to warn drivers they might encounter people frantically darting across lanes of traffic as they tried to evade border security.

Dozens of immigrants were struck and killed from the mid-1980s to early 1990s, some in front of horrified family members, as stunned drivers failed to stop in time.

The freeway deaths ended long ago, but the signs remain. And, in the intervening years, the silhouetted image has quietly taken on a life of its own. more

 

Are you an Immigrant

Most people think that immigration has nothing to do with them if they aren’t an immigrant themselves.  However, when you travel, even if it is in the United States, you are immigrating. Do you think it is true?

Say how so you feel out this? Speak out and write in the comments

 

New Laws

There is a new law that states that If an immigrant passses the finger print test, he or she can get their Green Card. But in order to get the citizenship you have to pass the finger print test and the name test. They passed this law because they had a back law, to many people needed the green card, and the name test took too long to do.  

 

New poll on Ohioans and illegal immigrants

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Government health benefits, schooling and driving privileges should not be given to illegal immigrants, a majority of Ohio voters said in a poll released Tuesday.

 

More than eight in 10 favored tougher penalties for illegal immigrants, opposed them having driver’s licenses and were against them receiving government health and welfare benefits, according to the Quinnipiac University survey.

 

Sixty-one percent said the children of illegal immigrants should not be allowed to attend public schools, and about the same percentage said a wall should be built between the U.S. and Mexico.

 

The poll questioned 1,231 Ohio voters by telephone between Nov. 6 and Sunday and has an overall margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

 

Three-quarters of Ohioans surveyed said that legal immigrants do more to help than hurt the country, while 67 percent said immigrants in the country illegally are hurting it.Fifty-five percent said illegal immigrants should be able to work to apply for legal status, while 38 percent said they should be deported.

 

Please read the whole article in  The Cincinnati Enquirer>

 

Conversation is needed on immigrants

Bridges for a Just Community and local Hispanic community leaders are very supportive of The Enquirer and appreciative of the resources they’re devoting to educating the community about the Hispanic immigrants living among us.

While the plight of Mexican and other Hispanic immigrants is heart-wrenching, it’s so valuable for local residents who may be questioning the role these individuals play in our community to be reminded that this wave of 21st century immigrants is not unlike so many other ethnic and racial groups who have come to America in search of opportunity and freedom.

As a community, we clearly need a stronger dose of the balanced approach provided by responsible journalists like Eileen Kelley and the project team. We are encouraged by The Enquirer’s plans to provide ongoing coverage and insight on the issue as an important first step.

Our hope is that additional pieces will continue to raise awareness and educate readers on the local contributions of Hispanics in our community, including local efforts by individuals and organizations such as Su Casa, Centro de Amistad, the Northern Kentucky University Latino/Multicultural Center and others, to educate and support new immigrants so they can succeed and become contributing members of the community.

This is an important step toward an open community dialogue on an incredibly difficult issue – most agree that the need for immigration reform is imminent.

While The Enquirer’s Web site hosted community conversation that was very aggressive toward “illegal immigrants,” we are encouraged by The Enquirer’s intention to explore this very controversial issue.

The best we can do is to weigh in by adding our comments to the blog.We are hopeful that a balanced and fair approach to this challenging issue will continue to open the hearts and minds of all those who want Cincinnati to be a welcoming community.Harrod is president and chief executive officer of Bridges for a Just Community.

Article from The Cincinnati Enquirer

 

How to Solve Illegal Immigration

 Illegal Immigration is one of the most divisive issues in America today