Immigration

[dublinirish]

the visa overstays numbers (mainly through people flying in and not leaving) make a mockery of the border wall plans really.

 

[Irish YJ]

the visa overstays numbers (mainly through people flying in and not leaving) make a mockery of the border wall plans really.

Not really. Just because we have a visa overstay issue, doesn't mean we don't also have a border issue. And border patrol, and several places like Laredo TX would disagree. I'm not a TX to CA "wall" fan myself, but in some places it's definitely needed.

I'd also stop issuing so many damn visas. The top 4 in 2016 were Can, MX, Ven, and Brazil. Students are the biggest "group" of offenders, but generally they are from countries/regions like Can, Europe, and Asia.

 

[ickythump1225]

Legal immigration is an issue and it needs to be discussed as well.

 

[Irish YJ]

Legal immigration is an issue and it needs to be discussed as well.

The disproportionate number from MX and Asia is huge due to chain and other factors.

Here's a comparison of our immigration vs Canada's.... incredible...

The libs with all the Canada love need to think about it....

 

[Irish YJ]

 

[Irish YJ]

Deported rapist captured by Border Patrol in Arizona, agency says

Deported rapist captured by Border Patrol in Arizona, agency says | Fox News

Convicted of rape, deported, and then right back again. I hate having to pay to keep convicted illegals in US prisons, but this guy should be locked up for a long time.

 

[Irish YJ]

Man claims smugglers who got him across US-Mexico border told him to rob Florida home, police say | Fox News

 

[NorthDakota]

Deported rapist captured by Border Patrol in Arizona, agency says

Deported rapist captured by Border Patrol in Arizona, agency says | Fox News

Convicted of rape, deported, and then right back again. I hate having to pay to keep convicted illegals in US prisons, but this guy should be locked up for a long time.

That can't be right...they are NOT sending murderers and rapists across the border.

 

[Irish YJ]

That can't be right...they are NOT sending murderers and rapists across the border.

I'm sure he was only looking for a better life and better opportunity.

Probably time to extend those walls in Nogales

 

[Irish YJ]

Radical anti-tourism group in Spain storms buses filled with sightseers to protest 'mass tourism' | Fox News

And here we just want to stop illegal immigration.

 

[Legacy]

Strangers raise $43K to help migrant mothers reunite with separated children
(AzCentral)

Reunited: 3 immigrant sons meet parents after 2-month separation (also AzCentral, originally Detroit Free Press)

 

[Irish YJ]

80% Of Central American Women, Girls Are Raped Crossing Into The U.S.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/12/central-america-migrants-rape_n_5806972.html

As the number of Central American women and girls crossing into the U.S. continues to spike, so is the staggering amount of sexual violence waged against these migrants who are in search of a better life.

According to a stunning Fusion investigation, 80 percent of women and girls crossing into the U.S. by way of Mexico are raped during their journey. That’s up from a previous estimate of 60 percent, according to an Amnesty International report.

This year alone, immigration authorities expect more than 70,000 unaccompanied minors to come through the United States unlawfully, the majority of whom are from Central American countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The number of unaccompanied Central American girls caught at the Southwest border has rapidly outpaced the number boys, according to a July Pew Research study.

Through May, the number of unaccompanied girls younger than 18 caught at the US-Mexico border increased by 77 percent.

But while many of these girls are fleeing their homes because of fears of being sexually assaulted, according to the UNHCR, they are still meeting that same fate on their journey to freedom.

Rape can be perpetrated by anyone along the way, including guides, fellow migrants, bandits or government officials, according to Fusion. Sometimes sex is used as a form of payment, when women and girls don’t have money to pay bribes.

The assaults are so common that many women and girls take contraceptives beforehand as preventative measures.

What’s particularly disconcerting is that the fact that these figures may not even represent the full grim picture.

There is one unit in Mexico that is committed to investigating and prosecuting crimes against migrants, Erin Siegal McIntyre, one of the Fusion reporters who wrote the sexual violence story, told HuffPost Live.

Yet, though thousands of women are passing through Mexico, the unit reported that it’s seen only six cases of assault against migrant women this year, which includes kidnapping, rape and armed robbery.

 

[Irish YJ]

So the Dems write a bill to abolish ICE. Repubs say they will put the bill to a vote. The Dems now say it's a trap and they will vote against their own bill.

Anyone think our government is efficient?

 

[NorthDakota]

So the Dems write a bill to abolish ICE. Repubs say they will put the bill to a vote. The Dems now say it's a trap and they will vote against their own bill.

Anyone think our government is efficient?

Nope.

 

[Irish YJ]

So Seattle, a huge liberal town, who passed a driver's license change to foil ICE...... is now giving tax payer paid plane tickets to the homeless to leave town.

Wants illegal immigration, but wants to ship it's American homeless population to other states.

 

[ickythump1225]

So Seattle, a huge liberal town, who passed a driver's license change to foil ICE...... is now giving tax payer paid plane tickets to the homeless to leave town.

Wants illegal immigration, but wants to ship it's American homeless population to other states.

It's just the limousine liberal mindset applied to politics at large. Diversity and homelessness for thee, not for me.

 

[loomis41973]

They need more workers and fewer drug addicts.

 

[Irish YJ]

It's just the limousine liberal mindset applied to politics at large. Diversity and homelessness for thee, not for me.

The level of hypocrisy is mind boggling.
There's so much great material here, it just sucks that most comedians are liberals who can only joke about one side of the aisle.

They need more workers and fewer drug addicts.

The Seattle homeless are thought to be 1/3 drug addicts, 1/3 mentally ill, and 1/3 can't afford Seattle's high priced housing or those who do not wish to participate in society. Seattle now has a park where it's legal to shoot up and pass out. Also several legal "galleries" where it's legal to shoot up, and they get needles. Wonder how many of these galleries or safe places actually translate into people seeking treatment. If you are homeless and a heroin user, and have a safe place to shoot up, why would you take a plane ticket to leave? I'm surprised more heroin users don't buy plan tickets to Seattle.

I'm all for this if it leads to folks getting treatment, but I have doubts.

 

[Irish YJ]

Antifa getting arrested after clashing with ICE.
Call African American ICE agent the N word.

funny stuff on this vid... "I love you Clementine" lol

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[NorthDakota]

Antifa getting arrested after clashing with ICE.
Call African American ICE agent the N word.

funny stuff on this vid... "I love you Clementine" lol

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LMAO those were both lit af. Love the ICE guys. Love the dude asking questions, demolishing low energy. These clowns should go try that outside of an urban enclave. Would do them good to see the country.

 

[Bishop2b5]

I have a serious question. Why do the antifa people cover their faces? Most protestors or rally attendees feel no need to do so, regardless of which side of the political spectrum they're on.

 

[Irish YJ]

I have a serious question. Why do the antifa people cover their faces? Most protestors or rally attendees feel no need to do so, regardless of which side of the political spectrum they're on.

well, like the KKK who also likes to use the N word, they are cowards.
there was a small group of them in Buckhead when I was down there Christmas shopping. They loved to scream, yell, curse... but when confronted, they were little twats. A group of preppy Biffs ran 3 of them off after they screamed and threw a beer at the prepsters. It was funny AF.

 

[Legacy]

They escaped war in the Congo. Now their daughter needs help after a brutal attack. (Ft Worth Star-Telegram)

The girl’s father, Twizere Buhinja, 36, said doctors have told him that the man who strangled his daughter cut the flow of oxygen to her vital organs long enough to damage her heart and that she needs a new one. Buhinja and his wife have five sons, from four months old to 15 years. Dorika is their only daughter.

Once again, their lives have been changed, Buhinja said Friday through an interpreter. Buhinja speaks some English but his first language is Swahili.

“She will need medication for the rest of her life,” Buhinja said. “I believe she will get better but she will never have the strength that she once had.”

Dorika was walking to her school bus at Calmont Avenue and Laredo Drive in the Las Vegas Trail neighborhood of west Fort Worth when she was attacked, according to authorities.

Terry Wayne King II, 36, was arrested on July 17 by officials with the U.S. Marshal’s Service and was in Oklahoma County Jail on Friday. King has signed an extradition waiver and is awaiting transport to Tarrant County, according to the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office.

In 1996, Buhinja left the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a refugee camp in Uganda where he spent the next 16 years before traveling more than 8,000 miles with his family to Fort Worth. The family has lived in Fort Worth for less than two years.

Buhinja left the Congo because he was afraid he would be kidnapped and forced to be a soldier. Even with what has happened to his daughter, Buhinja said he is happy to be in the United States.

“I have been reassured that this man will never threaten us again,” Buhinja said.

‘I am scared ... where I live’
Catholic Charities helped the Buhinja family find a place to live when they arrived in Fort Worth, and ended up paying their rent for four months until Buhinja got a job.

Officials with Catholic Charities are now helping the family fill out forms to help pay for Dorika’s medical bills, Buhinja said.

“They are helping me find a different place to live because I am scared to stay where I live now,” Buhinja said. “Someone tried to kill my daughter. My children are very scared after what happened to my daughter.”

But the odds of dying in the Congo are far greater than the odds of being killed in the U.S., according to Dominique Diomi of Arlington, president of the Congolese Community of Dallas-Fort Worth.

The majority of the estimated 15,000 Congolese immigrants in Texas, most who live in Tarrant and Dallas counties, left the country because of war and the rumors of war, Diomi said.

“The Congo has known war for the past 20 years,” Diomi said. “”The most intense conflict was between 2001 and 2003.”

Six countries were involved in the fighting around that time and the result was an estimated 5 million deaths, according to reporting by The Washington Post. At least 4 million people were displaced, Diomi said. With the exception of Syria, it was the biggest refugee population the modern world has ever seen.

The things that people fear in the U.S. are nothing compared to the things they fear in the Congo, said Diomi, who had experienced years of fighting by the time he left in 1997.

“These kids, they don’t have a clue,” Diomi said. “It’s not like the video games. You have groups of people who come into a village and start chopping up the inhabitants with machetes.”

After Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, some in the Congolese community were afraid of what might happen to them in America, but others have counseled them not to worry. They are told that the best thing to do is obey the law, Diomi said. Congolese immigrants have also reported experiencing racism in North Texas, Diomi said.

“We come from a country where we’ve seen a lot worse,” Diomi said. “What we’ve experienced in America pales in comparison to what we’ve experienced in the past.”

Some in the North Texas Congolese community have said that the April 19 attack against Buhinga’s daughter was racist in nature, even though police said they have not been able to find a motive.

“What else could it have been?” Diomi asked. “But I was not there. How could I possibly know?”

‘I am very happy to be here’
On July 10, Dorika celebrated her 13th birthday in the hospital surrounded by her brothers, parents and a birthday cake, all while she was connected to the various machines that were helping to keep her alive.

Every night Buhinja is at the hospital and every Friday he has a meeting with her doctors to discuss her progress.

“I told her there is a machine to help her heart and they inserted it inside her body,” Buhinja said. “I told her she is on a waiting list to get a new heart because this one must be replaced.”

Dorika replied that if a new heart will help her return to her family and school that ‘will be nice,’” Buhinja said.

Buhinja’s mother, father and brother, who still live in the DRC, along with children and staff from the school Dorika attended, have encouraged the family to remain hopeful. Family and friends tell Buhinja they are praying for Dorika’s speedy recovery and have contributed to the family’s well-being.

Al-Atrash established a victim’s assistance fund for the family three months ago that quickly raised nearly $10,500. The funding goal was $10,000 and all told, more than $12,000 was donated to the family, Al-Atrash said. But that was before the full extent of Dorika’s injuries were known, Al-Atrash said.

Another GoFundMe page was established Friday to defray medical and other expenses the family will incur, with a goal of $25,000.

The faculty, children and staff at the Academy banded together to get supplies for the family, which receives food assistance from the federal government but does not for diapers for their 4-month-old boy, or cleaning supplies or personal items, Al-Atrash said.

Buhinja works as a cellphone packager, and barely makes more than minimum wage, Al-Atrash said.

When Buhinja walked into Al-Atrash’s office and saw it filled with the diapers, wet wipes, shampoo and other items the family needed, he said he cried.

“I thought when I came to America, I did not have any family,” Buhinja said. “I thought I was all alone. Now I know that I have a huge family in America, made up of all of you. And I am very happy to be here.”

 

[Legacy]

Mexican journalist freed by ICE, joins University of Michigan as fellow (mlive)

Mexican reporter and son released from immigration detention in Texas (Texas Tribune)

Emilio Gutiérrez Soto and his son Oscar spent seven months in federal detention. Their release comes a day before a court-ordered deadline for federal officials to turn over emails about why the two were detained.

EL PASO — A Mexican reporter and his son — who are seeking asylum in the United States — were released Thursday after spending seven months in federal detention in El Paso.

Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, 55, and his son Oscar, 25, fled the border state of Chihuahua in 2008 when Emilio Gutiérrez’s reporting on government and military corruption there led to death threats.

After living and working legally in the United States for almost a decade, the two were arrested and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in December during what their attorney said should have been a regular check-in with authorities.

Their release Thursday comes a day before a court-ordered deadline for Department of Homeland Security officials to turn over to a federal judge in El Paso emails and other correspondence detailing why the Gutiérrezes were placed on a “non-detained target list” created by ICE officials shortly after President Donald Trump took office.

 

[IrishLax]

South Korea is Going Crazy over a Handful of Refugees

Worth a read on how refugees/immigration is viewed elsewhere developed world. It never strikes me as weird that there is an expectation (and always has been) that the United States and Europe take in as many asylum seekers and refugees as possible, but Japan and Korea take in effectively zero people.

It's not politically correct to talk about racism in Asian communities and countries, but that's exactly what all of this is rooted in.

 

[Irish YJ]

South Korea is Going Crazy over a Handful of Refugees

Worth a read on how refugees/immigration is viewed elsewhere developed world. It never strikes me as weird that there is an expectation (and always has been) that the United States and Europe take in as many asylum seekers and refugees as possible, but Japan and Korea take in effectively zero people.

It's not politically correct to talk about racism in Asian communities and countries, but that's exactly what all of this is rooted in.

Yup. Also, many eastern European countries have negative attitudes toward immigration/refugees,,,, and/or said no thank you. Croatia, Estonia, Czech Rep, Latvia, Slovakia, Serbia, Hungrary, Montenegro, and Macedonia are all in the bottom 10 (of 138) countries per Gallup's Migrant Acceptance Index. Sweden and Ireland are the only Euro countries to make the top 10 in terms of friendly attitue. And Ireland even though it's refugee friendly, has one of highest negative migrant rates (overall population decreased 140k 2007-2012) in the world.

Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Rep have taken most of the heat from the EU over closed borders.

Found this interesting on Japan....

In 2007, minister Taro Aso described Japan as unique in being "one nation, one civilization, one language, one culture and one race".[10] In 2013, Japan accepted only six of 3,777 persons who applied for refugee status

Poland said something like, we will always take in orphans, but young men need to stay and fight for the freedom of their country... IIRC

IMO, while not popular in today's world, Poland has a point. If everyone just leaves, who will create change. And while Japan's view is IMO too cut and dry, there are many countries with dramatic negative impacts due to immigration. In short, everyone loves to pump sunshine up asses about how great it is, but there are a lot of very legitimate issues that are never discussed in the open. It's not all about racism.

My biggest trigger is when politicians pump sunshine about Canada, and how they are so accepting, and take in more per capita...... Well they are one of least dense in countries in the world by population, and their immigration policies are much more geared to skills.

The below says it all...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/world-welcoming-migrant-countries-least-most-uk-refugee-crisis-us-australia-eastern-europe-a7908766.html

 

[Wild Bill]

South Korea is Going Crazy over a Handful of Refugees

Worth a read on how refugees/immigration is viewed elsewhere developed world. It never strikes me as weird that there is an expectation (and always has been) that the United States and Europe take in as many asylum seekers and refugees as possible, but Japan and Korea take in effectively zero people.

It's not politically correct to talk about racism in Asian communities and countries, but that's exactly what all of this is rooted in.

They are loyal to their own people and want to protect their homeland. Historically speaking, this is normal and not unique to Asians. Believing in their own race or preferring their own race doesn't necessarily mean they are racist, that they want to harm me, or any other race of people. We can live in peace and respect each other while we live in separate nations.

 

[Irish YJ]

They are loyal to their own people and want to protect their homeland. Historically speaking, this is normal and not unique to Asians. Believing in their own race or preferring their own race doesn't necessarily mean they are racist, that they want to harm me, or any other race of people. We can live in peace and respect each other while we live in separate nations.

I do think Japan takes it a little far, but I don't have issue with countries trying to preserve their culture/identity, or for putting their people first. Everybody has priorities. For instance most of us would easily prioritize helping our families over anyone else in general. That doesn't make a person bad. Growing up in tight knit but poor inner city ethnic Catholic parish, we were family first, followed by friends/parishioners/neighbors, country, then all the rest.... And to take that a step farther, 99.9% of people would not open their homes to an unknown variable. But, the open border folks are happy to open the country's door and hang the bills on the taxpayer.

I do believe in assisting with true refugees, but the term "refugee" has been bastardized and now includes many that just want a job or higher income. 90% of CA and MX would be here based on that definition. I'm all for charity. But it should be individually elected, not government mandated charity.

 

[Bishop2b5]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...missing-iowa-woman/ar-BBMdWjx?ocid=spartanntp

Mollie Tibbetts murder suspect ID'd as Cristhian Rivera, 24, living in US illegally | Fox News

The body of Mollie Tibbets, the missing Iowa student, was found earlier today. A man from Mexico, living in the US illegally, confessed to abducting and killing her, and led police to where he'd dumped her body.

 

[loomis41973]

Sickening that anyone could support an open border policy or be against securing our borders.

Not sure if it's TDS or pure stupidity.