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What would Jesus do about illegal immigration?
BY WILLIAM DOUGLAS
MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS Via Miami Herald: Politics AP
WASHINGTON — Religious leaders and lawmakers traded Scripture passages Wednesday at a congressional hearing on whether there's an ethical imperative to overhaul the nation's immigration laws.
Arguing for a comprehensive immigration package with a guest-worker program, Richard Land, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, quoted from Matthew, Leviticus and Micah in pressing for action on the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants currently living in the U.S.
Southern Baptists respect and strongly support upholding America's laws, he said, but they "also recognize a biblical mandate to care for 'the least of these among us' (Matthew 25:34-40), to care for the 'strangers' who reside in our land (Leviticus 19:34; Hebrews 13:2) and to act justly and mercifully (Micah 6:8)," Land told the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law.
Opponents of a comprehensive immigration overhaul came to the hearing with biblical passages of their own.
Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, read a quote from Romans 13:1-7 that crystallized the argument for enhanced border security and strict enforcement of existing federal immigration laws: "Let every person be subject to governing authorities."
Read more: [Illegal Immigration]
Posted By; Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS Via Miami Herald: Politics AP
WASHINGTON — Religious leaders and lawmakers traded Scripture passages Wednesday at a congressional hearing on whether there's an ethical imperative to overhaul the nation's immigration laws.
Arguing for a comprehensive immigration package with a guest-worker program, Richard Land, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, quoted from Matthew, Leviticus and Micah in pressing for action on the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants currently living in the U.S.
Southern Baptists respect and strongly support upholding America's laws, he said, but they "also recognize a biblical mandate to care for 'the least of these among us' (Matthew 25:34-40), to care for the 'strangers' who reside in our land (Leviticus 19:34; Hebrews 13:2) and to act justly and mercifully (Micah 6:8)," Land told the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law.
Opponents of a comprehensive immigration overhaul came to the hearing with biblical passages of their own.
Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, read a quote from Romans 13:1-7 that crystallized the argument for enhanced border security and strict enforcement of existing federal immigration laws: "Let every person be subject to governing authorities."
Read more: [Illegal Immigration]
Posted By; Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
Rick Scott and Bill McCollum want to turn Miami into an immigration prison
By Luther Campbell
Thursday, Aug 5 2010
The Democratic Party is out of sight and out of mind in the race for Florida's next governor. And that is messed up because the two Republicans running for the state's top political post look and act like grand wizards in the Ku Klux Klan.
Multimillionaire Rick Scott, who owned a company involved in the largest Medicare fraud case in our nation's history, promises to pass an immigration law similar to Arizona's controversial legislation. His opponent Bill McCollum, lagging behind in the polls and campaign cash, hints he would do the same, even writing a legal brief in support of the Arizona law. Neither one of them is good for Florida. But Democratic candidate and state CFO Alex Sink hasn't done much to raise her profile. No one outside Tallahassee knows who the hell she is.
See More @: [Miami becoming into a Jail]
Posted By: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
Thursday, Aug 5 2010
The Democratic Party is out of sight and out of mind in the race for Florida's next governor. And that is messed up because the two Republicans running for the state's top political post look and act like grand wizards in the Ku Klux Klan.
Multimillionaire Rick Scott, who owned a company involved in the largest Medicare fraud case in our nation's history, promises to pass an immigration law similar to Arizona's controversial legislation. His opponent Bill McCollum, lagging behind in the polls and campaign cash, hints he would do the same, even writing a legal brief in support of the Arizona law. Neither one of them is good for Florida. But Democratic candidate and state CFO Alex Sink hasn't done much to raise her profile. No one outside Tallahassee knows who the hell she is.
See More @: [Miami becoming into a Jail]
Posted By: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
Miami ICE office gets new deportations chief: A new deportations chief has taken over at the Miami office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
BY ALFONSO CHARDY, ACHARDY@ELNUEVOHERALD.COM
It was an ad in a Texas newspaper that set Marc Moore on the path to a long career in immigration enforcement that started out in El Paso and has now brought him to South Florida.
Moore, who joined the Border Patrol in 1991 to monitor the Mexican border, is now the new field office director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Miami field office for enforcement and removal operations. As such, Moore, 49, will oversee local enforcement of perhaps one of the most controversial aspects of immigration work: detention and deportation of foreign nationals.
Moore has taken charge at a particularly tense time, as immigrant rights and immigration control activists step up the fierce debate over whether undocumented immigrants should be legalized or forced to leave.
Moore, for his part, takes the view that immigration has been perennially controversial and that he intends to enforce laws the way the Obama administration wants them enforced.
See More @: [ICE in Miami Area]
Posted by: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
It was an ad in a Texas newspaper that set Marc Moore on the path to a long career in immigration enforcement that started out in El Paso and has now brought him to South Florida.
Moore, who joined the Border Patrol in 1991 to monitor the Mexican border, is now the new field office director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Miami field office for enforcement and removal operations. As such, Moore, 49, will oversee local enforcement of perhaps one of the most controversial aspects of immigration work: detention and deportation of foreign nationals.
Moore has taken charge at a particularly tense time, as immigrant rights and immigration control activists step up the fierce debate over whether undocumented immigrants should be legalized or forced to leave.
Moore, for his part, takes the view that immigration has been perennially controversial and that he intends to enforce laws the way the Obama administration wants them enforced.
See More @: [ICE in Miami Area]
Posted by: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
Deportation of 'criminal aliens' on the rise A record number of immigrants, most with records, are removed in the Houston Area
By. SUSAN CARROLL, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Nearly eight in 10 illegal immigrants removed from southeast Texas since the start of the fiscal year had criminal records, authorities said, underscoring the Obama administration's commitment to focus its immigration enforcement strategy on so-called "criminal aliens."
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from the Houston field office, which covers the southeastern portion of the state, have removed a record-setting 13,790 illegal immigrants with criminal records since the start of the fiscal year Oct. 1.
That number is slightly higher than the 13,662 removed in all of last year, the previous record.
Ken Landgrebe, head of ICE's Detention and Removal Operations in Houston, said the increase was due in part to ICE's partnerships with state and local law enforcement agencies, which have signed on to help the overburdened agency identify illegal immigrants in prisons and jails.
See More @ [Houston Area]
Posted by: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
Nearly eight in 10 illegal immigrants removed from southeast Texas since the start of the fiscal year had criminal records, authorities said, underscoring the Obama administration's commitment to focus its immigration enforcement strategy on so-called "criminal aliens."
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from the Houston field office, which covers the southeastern portion of the state, have removed a record-setting 13,790 illegal immigrants with criminal records since the start of the fiscal year Oct. 1.
That number is slightly higher than the 13,662 removed in all of last year, the previous record.
Ken Landgrebe, head of ICE's Detention and Removal Operations in Houston, said the increase was due in part to ICE's partnerships with state and local law enforcement agencies, which have signed on to help the overburdened agency identify illegal immigrants in prisons and jails.
See More @ [Houston Area]
Posted by: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
Illegal immigration grenade: 60K Texas anchor babies get U.S. citizenship every year
By: Devonia Smith, August 8: Dallas Political Buzz Examiner
DALLAS __"They're pulling the pin on the immigration grenade,"says Rep. Rafael AnchÃa, D-Dallas, speaking of Republicans who are pushing for changes to the 14th Amendment that provides automatic citizenship to any baby born in America.
Shocking Texas statistics:
A population of an estimated 1.5 million illegal immigrants
60 - 65,000 babies born each year in Texas are given automatic birthright citizenship
Based on those statistics, the explosion that rocks the American immigration debate may originate from Dallas, Texas, home to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Anchor babies overwhelming Dallas:
"Last year at Parkland, 11,071 babies were born to women who were noncitizens - about 74 percent of total deliveries. Most of these women are believed to be in the country illegally." The Dallas Morning News
"In 2004, according to the article, the cost was $70.7 million. Also needless to say, the impact of the birth by illegal alien mothers at such high levels year after year is having a dramatic impact on the demography of Dallas. It is radically increasing income disparity, representing a rising danger to social order, as well as contributing to rapidly rising welfare costs." (Source: Center for Immigration Studies)
See More @: [Texas View On Immigration]
Posted by: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
DALLAS __"They're pulling the pin on the immigration grenade,"says Rep. Rafael AnchÃa, D-Dallas, speaking of Republicans who are pushing for changes to the 14th Amendment that provides automatic citizenship to any baby born in America.
Shocking Texas statistics:
A population of an estimated 1.5 million illegal immigrants
60 - 65,000 babies born each year in Texas are given automatic birthright citizenship
Based on those statistics, the explosion that rocks the American immigration debate may originate from Dallas, Texas, home to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Anchor babies overwhelming Dallas:
"Last year at Parkland, 11,071 babies were born to women who were noncitizens - about 74 percent of total deliveries. Most of these women are believed to be in the country illegally." The Dallas Morning News
"In 2004, according to the article, the cost was $70.7 million. Also needless to say, the impact of the birth by illegal alien mothers at such high levels year after year is having a dramatic impact on the demography of Dallas. It is radically increasing income disparity, representing a rising danger to social order, as well as contributing to rapidly rising welfare costs." (Source: Center for Immigration Studies)
See More @: [Texas View On Immigration]
Posted by: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
Ron Paul: Arrest and Deport Illegal Immigrants
No Amnesty. Enforce the Borders. End Birthright Citizenship. Learn English.
by: Jake Morphonios
Congressman Ron Paul of Texas doesn't mince words. On the subject of illegal immigration he said emphatically, "One important solution is better enforcement of the laws we've got - which plainly call for illegal immigrants to be arrested and deported."
He makes clear his position that the responsibility of immigration enforcement is the job of the President, not the Congress. In 2005, Paul wrote:
"The ultimate responsibility for our immigration mess, therefore, lies squarely with successive presidents, not Congress. For decades our chief executives simply have lacked the political will, the manpower, or the desire to police our borders and deport lawbreakers. It's been nearly impossible politically for presidents or candidates to suggest the obvious, namely that illegal immigration mocks the rule of law and creates huge social and economic problems. But the tide is turning, and a majority of Americans will demand real action on immigration by the next administration."
See More @ [Texas on Immigration]
Posted by: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
by: Jake Morphonios
Congressman Ron Paul of Texas doesn't mince words. On the subject of illegal immigration he said emphatically, "One important solution is better enforcement of the laws we've got - which plainly call for illegal immigrants to be arrested and deported."
He makes clear his position that the responsibility of immigration enforcement is the job of the President, not the Congress. In 2005, Paul wrote:
"The ultimate responsibility for our immigration mess, therefore, lies squarely with successive presidents, not Congress. For decades our chief executives simply have lacked the political will, the manpower, or the desire to police our borders and deport lawbreakers. It's been nearly impossible politically for presidents or candidates to suggest the obvious, namely that illegal immigration mocks the rule of law and creates huge social and economic problems. But the tide is turning, and a majority of Americans will demand real action on immigration by the next administration."
See More @ [Texas on Immigration]
Posted by: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
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