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Federal Candidates in six states join call to oppose Amnesty for illegal immigrants - News Wire

Today ALIPAC is endorsing Congressional candidates who include Lee Byberg of Minnesota...

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> http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/09/04/1666674/green-card-inquiries-could-result.html
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> Green card inquiries could result in fines
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> WASHINGTON Employers who hire illegal immigrants can be fined, but the Obama administration warned this week that they also can be fined for asking legal immigrants to show a green card before hiring them.
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> The Justice Department's civil rights division sued the Maricopa County Community Colleges in Arizona, seeking damages from schools for having "intentionally committed document abuse discrimination."
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> Prior to this year, the local colleges in the Phoenix area asked job applicants who were not U.S. citizens to show a driver's license, a Social Security card and their "permanent resident card," commonly called a green card.
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> The Justice Department said a valid driver's license and a Social Security card are usually sufficient to show a person is authorized to work. Requesting a green card amounts to "immigration-related employment discrimination," said Thomas Perez, the assistant attorney general for civil rights.
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> Federal law forbids treating "authorized workers differently during the hiring process based on their citizenship status," Perez said.
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> He said the department's Office of Special Counsel will bring legal actions against employers who impose "unnecessary and discriminatory hurdles to employment for work-authorized non-citizens."
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> Despite the fierce controversy over immigration, the Obama administration has launched three lawsuits this summer to protect the rights of Latinos and legal immigrants - all three targeting Arizona.
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> In July, it successfully blocked Arizona's law that authorized state and local police to check the immigration status of persons who were arrested. On Thursday, it sued Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio seeking documents that could show he has illegally targeted Latinos in the course of his immigration sweeps.
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> The suit against the Maricopa community colleges was announced Monday and could impact employers across the nation.

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Charges dropped for sick illegal immigrant

AJC Exclusive: Inmate's medical bill reaches $400,000 while in Douglas County custody

An illegal immigrant charged with trafficking cocaine worth millions of dollars suffered a massive stroke in the Douglas County jail earlier this year and ran up $400,000 in medical bills that were charged to the county.

Authorities in Douglas decided to dismiss the charges against Luis Luna Baro, 71 -- in large part because the county didn't want to cover his bills anymore, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned.

"He was an illegal alien," District Attorney David McDade said. "He did not have legal status to be in the United States, and the taxpayers were going to be asked to pay for his care. Is justice served by dismissing charges when the man has basically been sentenced by God? ... I think so."

Baro's case is an extreme example, but city and county jails all over metro Atlanta face the same challenge: paying medical expenses for illegal immigrants who happen to be lodged in the jail when they get sick, or who bring chronic illnesses to jail with them. Local law enforcement officials say Douglas County did the right thing and saved its taxpayers a whopping bill.

Contacted by the AJC, immigration attorneys, however, have questioned whether county officials bent the law to save money and abandoned an inmate who the lawyers said was the county's responsibility.

These issues elicit strong opinions across metro Atlanta.

"We are paying too much for exactly this kind of thing," said Don Nash, 54, of Canton, who works in home improvement. "They just keep coming. ... We end up paying for it."

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From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA

Date: Sunday 5SEP 2010 7:30 p.m. EDT

THE TRUE LABOR DAY HEROES

50 Best DEFENDERS of Jobless Workers
From Unfair Foreign-Worker Competition

In the best spirit of Labor Day, these 50 Members have spent the last two years standing up for the most vulnerable of all American workers the unemployed.

Click here to see the full list.

These 50 not only resisted major pressures to increase the flow of foreign labor, they also attempted to reduce immigration quotas (75,000 working-age immigrants every MONTH).

And they repeatedly tried to eliminate the job magnet for illegal immigration and to push the 7 million non-agricultural illegal workers out of their jobs to make room for some of the 22 million Americans who want a job but can't find one.

A lot of politicians will stand up on Labor Day and claim they are the friends of jobless Americans. But most of them have supported policies that give out more work permits to foreign workers each month than the economy is creating new jobs.

THE 50 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ON THIS LIST ARE DIFFERENT

They put jobless Americans and their suffering families ahead of the demands of corporate lobbyists seeking cheap labor for their unpatriotic clients.

Is one of your 3 Members of Congress on this list?

You may notice that the list is missing a few of our best friends who are retiring or are Senators who aren't up for election this year.

I decided to fill the list only with people who are asking voters to re-elect them in November.

For the next two months, it is important that we focus on the elections -- either using the occasion to persuade incumbents to improve their records and promises before the elections OR working to defeat the incumbents who consistently act against the interests of unemployed Americans.

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FBI Uncovers Largest Human-Trafficking Case in U.S. History

On September 2, a federal grand jury indicted six alleged smugglers in what the FBI has called the largest human-trafficking case in U.S. history. (Associated Press, September 2, 2010). In the indictment, the government alleges that the defendants, four of whom are employees of the Los Angeles-based labor recruiting firm, Global Horizons Manpower Inc., conspired and devised a scheme to obtain the labor of approximately 400 Thai nationals by enticing them to come to the United States through the H-2A agricultural guest worker program during 2004 and 2005 with false promises of lucrative jobs. (FBI Press Release, September 2, 2010).

According to the government, the defendants then charged the Thai workers high recruitment fees, which were financed by debts secured with the workers' family property and homes. However, once the workers arrived in the U.S., the labor recruiters confiscated their passports and placed them on various farms throughout the country, where they were forced to work in substandard conditions. (Id.) Attorneys for some of the workers say that Global Horizons Manpower sent them to farms in more than a dozen states, including Hawaii, Washington, California, Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Utah. (USA Today, September 3, 2010).

FBI Special Agent Tom Simon described the actions of the recruiting firm as a "classic bait-and-switch." (Herald Sun, September 3, 2010). "They were telling the Thai workers one thing to lure them here. Then when they got here, their passports were taken away, and they were held in forced servitude working in these farms." (Id.) As further alleged in the indictment, "[t]he object of the conspiracy was to obtain cheap, compliant labor," and that once the workers were "indebted by the defendants' recruitment fees," they were compelled to work as a result of economic coercion and threats of incarceration and deportation. (Id.)

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"At the root of any modern nation-state lies the belief that because a given population shares, or can be made to share, certain identifiable characteristics—religion, language, shared history, and so on—it merits an independent existence," wrote historian James L. Gelvin.Some 500 years of history, tracing back to the Protestant Reformation, anchor the development of the concept of nation-state, which became the preeminent political organizing structure worldwide by the 19th century.

Sovereignty and recognizable borders are among the most prominent characteristics of the nation-state. For the United States, its borders have evolved through the last 200 years and the push of Manifest Destiny, ultimately taking our current 50-state form.

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