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Immigrants Facing Deportation by U.S. Hospitals
Many American hospitals are taking it upon themselves to repatriate seriously injured or ill immigrants because they cannot find nursing homes willing to accept them without insurance. Medicaid does not cover long-term care for illegal immigrants, or for newly arrived legal immigrants, creating a quandary for hospitals, which are obligated [...]

Posted by bosskitty August 6th, 2008 | Tags: Health Care, Immigration | Category: Health Care, Immigration, Medical System, immigrants | Comments (2)

Smuggled Immigrants Raise U.S. Terrorism Fears Concern about a terrorist threat to the United States is growing among American intelligence officials due to a recent upsurge in the number of East Africans who have been caught trying to enter the US illegally.
Citing an “internal government assessment” that it had obtained, the Associated Press reported last [...]

Posted by bosskitty July 16th, 2008 | Tags: Africa, Border Patrol, Immigration, Mexico, smugglers, terrorists | Category: Africa, Border, Immigration, Mexico, Politics, aliens, smugglers, terrorists, threat | Comments (5)

The US State Department rejects wannabe immigrants who have gambled their lives to help Americans. The stories are endless and tragic. Americans promise the world to Iraqis and Afghanis, winning their allegiance and support. Often recruiting them for dangerous translator positions, sometimes making outrageous promises they know can’t be kept. Some [...]

Posted by bosskitty March 23rd, 2008 | Category: Green Card, Human Rights, Immigration, Mismanagement, Occupation Army, Outsource, Pentagon Corruption, Promises, Soldiers, US State Department, Ugly American, Volunteers, War Cost, contradictions, critical resources, injustice, negligence, prejudice, profiling, responsibility, translators, troops | Comments (1)

After the War, a New Battle to Become Citizens
Despite a 2002 promise from President Bush to put citizenship applications for immigrant members of the military on a fast track, some are finding themselves waiting months, or even years, because of bureaucratic backlogs. One, Sgt. Kendell K. Frederick of the Army, who had tried three [...]

Posted by bosskitty February 24th, 2008 | Category: Bush, Immigration, Iraq, Pentagon Corruption, Promises, Senator Charles E. Schumer, Soldiers, The Liar, VA, VFW, War Cost, immigrants, injustice, national security, profiling, troops, veterans | Comments (2)

Immigration Contractor Trims Wages
Workers who help process millions of visa and citizenship applications for a federal immigration agency are getting pay reductions just as the agency is facing an enormous surge in those applications.
The workers whose wage rate will be cut are contract employees in document processing centers in St. Albans, Vt., and Laguna [...]

Posted by bosskitty December 3rd, 2007 | Category: Citizenship, Contractors, Homeland Security, Illegals, Immigration, Mismanagement, Outsource, Oversight, Social Security, Tax Dollars, USCIS, aliens, immigrants, refugees, taxpayers | Comments (2)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BORDER WALL PLANS IGNORE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE RULES
In the recently released Rio Grande Valley Tactical Infrastructure Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), the Department of Homeland Security attempts to brush aside issues of environmental justice in its plans for the border wall. Although the Rio Grande Valley’s population is over 85% minority, and [...]

Posted by nytexan November 30th, 2007 | Category: Border, Border Fence, Border Patrol, Border Wall, Environment, Immigration, Mexico, Texas | Leave a comment

Naturalization paperwork jam hits Texas hard
Backlog may keep some from casting votes for president
WASHINGTON — Millions of people who applied for naturalization and other immigration benefits to beat a midsummer fee increase are caught in a paperwork pileup that threatens the chance for some to become U.S. citizens in [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 21st, 2007 | Category: America, Border, Border Wall, Citizenship, Corruption, DHS, Democracy In Action, Eddie Lucio III, Founding Fathers, HHS, Homeland Security, Human Rights, Human Traffiking, Hypocracy, Immigration, Mexican, Middle East, Narcotics, No Border Wall, Politics, Public Health, Rio Grande, Roma Texas, Tax Dollars, Texas, Texas Politics, Ugly American, aliens, arrogance, asylum, betrayal, candidates, civil liberties, consequences, contradictions, criminal, deportation, displaced persons, drug war, drugs, equality, extortion, illegal arms, immigrants, policy, poverty, prejudice, profiteers, refugees, scams, slavery, taxpayers, victims | Comments (1)

Walls are everywhere in Baghdad, put up by U.S. forces to offer a degree of security to hard-pressed residents. But do they merely perpetuate divisions? Critics argue the walls divide communities, stifle economic activity, imprison residents and only widen the sectarian rifts that remain at the root of Iraq’s political gridlock. Full Article

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Posted by bosskitty October 21st, 2007 | Category: Border, Border Wall, Bush, Contractors, Corporate Corruption, HSPD-20, Human Rights, Hypocracy, Immigration, Iraq, Legacy, Mexico, NSPD 51, Rio Grande, Tax Dollars, The Divider, War Contractors, War Cost, Waste, incompetence, national security, threat, troops | Comments (1)

Texan mayors threaten court to stop border fence By Robin Emmott

LAREDO, Texas (Reuters) – Texan mayors on the border with Mexico are threatening to take the U.S. government to court and are encouraging ranchers to do the same to block construction of a fence to keep out illegal immigrants.
Six mayors fear the planned [...]

Posted by bosskitty October 12th, 2007 | Category: Border Fence, Border Patrol, Border Wall, Immigration, Mexico, Texas Politics, United States, immigrants | Comments (41)