The immigration thread: American Melting Pot or Get off my Lawn

[Fergasun]

Everyone knows what good immigration reform looks like. 

 

Legalize the DACA kids plus all law-abiding (save immigration law) people in America -- I would set the timeframe as 10 years (2012).    Mandatory e-verify.  Funding for "border security" -- since that is what the GOP want. Make it easier for immigrants to get legal status / increase legal immigration.  I am sure there is also some framework to crackdown on Visa abuse by US corporations.  I always thought some public notice / "here's a job we want an immigrant can do but we will allow a legal resident a shot" is reasonable to prevent the "they took our jobs" folks from having a fair point.

 

"Only 20 percent of the GOP support Trump"?  I think you have your percentages reversed.  

[Larry]

1 hour ago, tomwvr said:

And if you look only about 20 percent of the members of the gop support him. 

 

They set a new turnout record to vote for him. 
 

But let me guess. They did that because the Dem nominee was the furthest left wing extremist in history. (Just like the last 10 have been.)

[Ball Security]

1 hour ago, tomwvr said:

Disagree

the trump supporters are for this. And if you look only about 20 percent of the members of the gop support him. 
 

you need to understand that trump is not a Republican- he is a populist that used the republican party for his own wants.

 

kind of like how bernie has used the democrat party in the same way. 

 

The other 80% of Republicans let Trump grab them in their ****.

[Captain Wiggles]

2 hours ago, tomwvr said:

you need to understand that trump is not a Republican- he is a populist that used the republican party for his own wants.

 

 

Yes Trump is a self serving ignoramus. He most certainly is a Republican. Trumps two oldest political advisors were/are Roy Cohn n Roger Stone. Not a Republican tho. 🙄

[Cooked Crack]

 

 

[The Evil Genius]

How would they've known that they were undocumented migrants? This is likely a hate crime and should be treated as such. Two Latino men killed because they were Latino. 

Edited September 30, 2022 by The Evil Genius

[Cooked Crack]

Quote

Until now, little has been known about the woman whom migrants said identified herself only by her first name, “Perla,” when she solicited them to join the flights. A person briefed on the San Antonio sheriff’s office investigation into the matter told The New York Times that the person being looked at in connection with the operation is a woman named Perla Huerta. 

 

Ms. Huerta, a former combat medic and counterintelligence agent, was discharged last month after two decades in the U.S. Army that included several deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, according to military records. 

 

A Venezuelan migrant who was working with Ms. Huerta to recruit migrants confirmed her identity, and a migrant in San Antonio whom Ms. Huerta had unsuccessfully sought to sign up identified a photo of her in an interview with The Times. Several of the migrants on Martha’s Vineyard photographed her during the recruitment process in San Antonio, according to Rachel Self, a lawyer representing the migrants. Lawyers working with them were able to match those photos with others online and in social media belonging to a woman named Perla Huerta.

 

[China]

Local jail warden, twin brother, arrested and accused of shooting migrants in Texas, killing one

 

A local jail warden and his twin brother have been arrested and charged with manslaughter after being accused of opening fire on a group of migrants in west Texas, killing one and wounding another.

 

In a statement, provided to Insider, the Texas Department of Public Safety said that a preliminary investigation had found that a truck with two men inside had "pulled over and shot at" a group of immigrants who were "standing alongside the road getting water." One man was shot and killed. A woman "was also shot and is now recovering at Del Sol Hospital in El Paso," the department said.

 

Citing court documents, The New York Times reported that two brothers, Michael and Mark Sheppard, were arrested Wednesday.

 

Michael Sheppard was, until this week, a warden at the West Texas Detention Center in Sierra Blanca, Texas, according to the San Antonio Express-News. The detention center is a privately run, federal facility for detained immigrants.

 

In a statement to the Express-News, a spokesperson for LaSalle Corrections, which runs the detention center, said Michael Sheppard had been fired "due to an off-duty incident unrelated to his employment."

 

Click on the link for the full article

[China]

If she didn't do anything wrong, why has she gone into hiding?

 

Reward offered for information on woman accused of luring migrants to Martha's Vineyard

 

There's now a reward to track down the woman accused of luring migrants onto a flight to Martha's Vineyard.

 

The woman who allegedly helped arrange migrant flights from Texas to Martha's Vineyard has been identified by CNN and the New York Times as Perla Huerta.  

 

However, no one seems to know where she is. 

 

On Wednesday, the League of United Latin American Citizens increased its reward to $10,000 in hopes that someone will help track her down.

 

CNN and the Times reported that Huerta is a combat medic and a counterintelligence agent who was discharged last month after serving 20 years in the U.S. Army.

 

She was allegedly sent from Tampa to Texas in order to fill the planes. One migrant said she offered him clothes, food and money to go find passengers.

 

The group offering the reward is also asking the Justice Department to investigate Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over this incident.

[China]

Undaunted by DeSantis, immigrant workers are heading to Florida to help with hurricane cleanup

 

Just weeks after Ron DeSantis made a very public display of his efforts to keep migrants from coming to Florida, Hurricane Ian’s destruction is drawing a growing number of immigrants to the Republican governor’s state.

 

“They’re arriving from New York, from Louisiana, from Houston and Dallas,” says Saket Soni, executive director of the nonprofit Resilience Force, which advocates for thousands of disaster response workers. The group is made up largely of immigrants, many of whom are undocumented, Soni says. Much like migrant workers who follow harvest seasons and travel from farm to farm, Soni says these workers crisscross the US to help clean up and rebuild when disaster strikes.

 

To describe their work, he likes to use a metaphor he says a Mexican roofer once shared with him.

 

“What you have now is basically immigrants who are sort of traveling white blood cells of America, who congregate after hurricanes to heal a place, and then move on to heal the next place,” Soni says.

 

Already, Soni says his team has been in the Fort Myers area with hundreds of immigrant workers – about half of whom came from out of state. And he says more will arrive in the coming weeks.

 

Click on the link for the full article

[The Evil Genius]

Even more damning is that the immigrants were in Texas legally. 

[China]

 

[Tundra scout]

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was made aware the horseback Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio Sector did not whip illegal immigrants prior to making an appearance at a White House press briefing where he continued to slander their actions. Yet they are still under investigation. What a great administration 

 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2022/10/12/mayorkas-scandal-over-handling-of-whipping-hoax-just-got-bigger-n2614401

Edited October 12, 2022 by Tundra scout

[Larry]

Uh, wasn't there video of them doing it?  

[Tundra scout]

“Kamala [Harris] accuses Republicans of ‘dereliction of duty’ on the border that she hasn’t even visited as the actual BORDER CZAR. This is like OJ calling you a bad husband.” —Jimmy Failla

34 minutes ago, Larry said:

Uh, wasn't there video of them doing it?  

Maybe read the article 

[Jabbyrwock]

1 hour ago, Larry said:

Uh, wasn't there video of them doing it?  

Here is the cbp investigation results.

 

https://www.cbp.gov/document/report/cbp-office-professional-responsibility-del-rio-horse-patrol-unit-investigation

[China]

Transported migrants may be on a path to citizenship because of DeSantis flights

 

When nearly 50 Venezuelan migrants were left stranded in Martha’s Vineyard last month after Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis flew them to the island from Texas, they had no employment, housing or clear pathway to citizenship.

 

But this week, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, which oversees the San Antonio area and previously opened an investigation into the flights, agreed to certify that the migrants had sufficiently cooperated with its investigation and are now eligible to apply for “U” visas, a kind of immigration status for victims of certain crimes that occur on U.S. soil.

 

The visas require that a law enforcement officer sign the application before it can be sent to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

 

Rachel Self, a Martha’s Vineyard-based attorney who has been coordinating the migrants’ immigration cases, said Wednesday that she flew to San Antonio to obtain the required signatures from the sheriff’s office.

 

“I now hold in my hand certifications for every one of Perla’s victims,” Self wrote in a statement, referring to Perla Huerta, the woman believed to be responsible for recruiting migrants in San Antonio on behalf of DeSantis.

 

Click on the link for the full article

[Larry]

Here’s the Very Simple Way to End the Chaos at the Border
 

Quote

 

Although Trump ran on building the wall to reduce the chaos, his main immigration achievement was reducing legal immigration, evenbefore the COVID-19 pandemic hit and his administration shut the system down. Ironically, reducing legal immigration just laid the groundwork for more future illegal immigration.
 

...

 

U.S. firms and consumers demand immigrant labor, but the legal immigration system doesn’t allow them to hire legally. The predictable results are large numbers of illegal border crossers—and the subsequent chaos

 

.

 

[Cooked Crack]

 

[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

 

[China]

Documents show top DeSantis officials were personally involved in Martha's Vineyard flights

 

Newly released documents show that top staffers for Gov. Ron DeSantis — including his chief of staff — were directly involved in the state’s program to send migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard.

 

In the two weeks leading up to the Sept. 14 transport of almost 50 Venezuelan migrants to the island, DeSantis’ chief of staff, James Uthmeier, sent text messages and had phone calls with Larry Keefe, a former Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney who is now DeSantis’ hand-picked public safety czar. The messages make clear that Keefe was in Texas helping coordinate the flights and had the full support of the governor’s chief of staff, according to records released by the governor’s administration late Friday.

 

Click on the link for the full article

[Larry]

1 hour ago, China said:

 

Documents show top DeSantis officials were personally involved in Martha's Vineyard flights

 

Which would be really important, if DeSantis were claiming to not be involved. 
 

But he's not claiming that. He's proudly taking credit for it. To cheering mobs who think it's The Greatest Thing. 

[Cooked Crack]

 

[skinsmarydu]

What a ****in dick. 

[China]

Top Border Official Says He Was Asked to Resign

 

The Customs and Border Protection commissioner said Friday that he had been asked to step down but was refusing to do so, in what appears to be the Biden administration’s first attempted shake-up after the midterm elections.

 

The commissioner, Chris Magnus, said both Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, and the department’s deputy secretary asked him to resign or face being the first political appointee to be fired by President Biden. Mr. Magnus has been in the position for less than a year.

 

“I want to make this clear: I have no plans to resign as C.B.P. commissioner,” Mr. Magnus, the head of the agency, said in a statement shared with The New York Times. He said the Department of Homeland Security cut off his access to his Customs and Border Protection Twitter account. Mr. Magnus, 62, said he intends to go to work on Monday.

 

As commissioner of the agency, Mr. Magnus oversees border policies ranging from illegal crossings to legitimate customs and trade. He also oversees the U.S. Border Patrol, which has a union that has been outspoken in its dislike of the Biden administration, the Homeland Security secretary and Mr. Magnus, over border security management.

 

Mr. Magnus said Mr. Mayorkas told him earlier this week that he needed to resign because he had lost confidence in him, in part because he was making things difficult for Raul Ortiz, the chief of the Border Patrol.

 

Click on the link for the full article