Thread: Can an illegal immigrant become a lawyer?

While you were getting groped at the airport, the TSA approved flight training for 25 illegal aliens
By Doug Powers • July 19, 2012 01:09 PM

Bonus points: The flight school was also owned by an illegal alien.

From CNS News: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/tsa-...-illegal-alien

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) approved flight training for 25 illegal aliens at a Boston-area flight school that was owned by yet another illegal alien, according to the Government Accountability Office.

The illegal-alien flight-school attendees included eight who had entered the country illegally and 17 who had overstayed their allowed period of admission into the United States, according to an audit by the GAO.

Six of the illegal aliens were actually able to get pilot’s licenses.

Discovery of the trouble at the flight school began when local police–not federal authorities–pulled over the owner of the school on a traffic violation and were able to determine that he was an illegal alien.
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Stephen Lord, who is the GAO’s director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues, testified about the matter Wednesday in Rogers’ subcommittee. Rogers asked him: “Isn’t it true that, based on your report, the Transportation Security Administration cannot assure the American people that foreign terrorists are not in this country learning how to fly airplanes, yes or no?”

Lord responded: “At this time, no.”

CNS notes that the TSA’s program for foreign flight students does not check for immigration status. Well that’s stupid… how else is the administration supposed to know who needs a waiver? http://michellemalkin.com/2012/06/15...ation-waivers/

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The GAO’s Stephen Lord, in his prepared remarks, told lawmakers that the TSA does not screen new and existing FAA pilot license holders against the Terrorist Screening Database until after the foreign national has completed flight training. “Thus, foreign nationals obtaining flight training with the intent to do harm, such as three of the pilots and leaders of the September 11 terrorist attacks, could have already obtained the training needed to operate an aircraft before they received any type of vetting,” warned the GAO.

The obligatory accompaniment to any air insecurity post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHZIS...layer_embedded


**Written by Doug Powers http://michellemalkin.com/2012/07/19...ight-training/

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Note that the local police uncovered this. If you are in AZ, the DHS and the DOJ would not report back that he was illegal.

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The GAO’s Stephen Lord, in his prepared remarks, told lawmakers that the TSA does not screen new and existing FAA pilot license holders against the Terrorist Screening Database until after the foreign national has completed flight training.

That’s because it’s illegal to fly jetliners into buildings without a license!

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And just think it was Boston’s Logan airport where some of the 9/11 hijackers, who just happen to overstay their visas and attend flight training school, boarded a plane on that day of infamy.

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Just another gov success story. Another example of how “we didn’t get there on our own”. That’s because we would never have been so stupid as to invent totally useless policies and procedures to be implemented by people stupid enough to do those jobs. Those civil service exams are geared at screening out smart people so they won’t become whistle blowers later. Why are we even bothering to have TSA when the gov is filled with islamic sympathizers and communists? The TSA was created so unions had more members and had nothing to do with airport security.

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So how long do you think it will be until someone in the adminstration or some liberal group (I know pretty redundant)cries racial profiling?

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My wife and I travelled to San Francisco in June. The TSA gauntlet was not too bad, although my wife was pulled aside and swabbed for explosives and I got run through the high-tech spectrograph popo checker on the return trip.

What struck me was the arrogance of one TSA screener who gave my wife the stink-eye when she would not stand directly in front of his podium and scolded her when she did not “get it”. He then proceeded to look around casually and listen to neighboring conversations before rubbing a magic marker across her boarding pass and waving her through dismissively. The knots of several young TSA clerks, nattily attired in their uniforms and joking together, also got my attention.

Originally Posted by Jolie Rouge

Jose Manuel Godinez-Samperio at Capitol Hill on April 19. He is an undocumented immigrant, brought to the U.S. from Mexico as a child, who is seeking his law license in Florida in what appears to be a landmark case.

By Miranda Leitsinger, msnbc.com

Jose Manuel Godinez-Samperio was brought to the United States from Mexico by his parents when he was nine years old. Sixteen years later, he had graduated from his Florida high school as class valedictorian, become an Eagle Scout, completed college and law school, and passed the state bar exam.

But one big accomplishment eluded him: citizenship. Godinez-Samperio is in the country illegally, which could keep him from achieving another part of his American dream: becoming a lawyer.

In what appears to be a landmark case, the Florida Supreme Court is going to consider whether Godinez-Samperio has the right to practice the law -- a decision that could impact others who hope to follow in his footsteps. “It makes me feel that we’re living in a … historical moment. I really think the last time something like this happened was when African Americans and women were admitted to the bar,” he told msnbc.com. “I think if we win this, it’ll be another historical civil rights mark.”

Godinez-Samperio is pressing his case as the national debate over illegal immigration heats up. On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of Arizona’s strict anti-illegal immigration law. And last week, Godinez-Samperio was in the nation’s capitol to lobby for the Dream Act, which would provide a path to legal status to some adults who came to America illegally as children. Supporters are making a renewed push for the legislation after it failed in the U.S. Senate in 2010.

Some 11.5 million “unauthorized immigrants,” as the Department of Homeland Security calls them, lived in the United States as of January 2011. Of that, 6.8 million were from Mexico, like Godinez-Samperio, according to the department’s Office of Immigration Statistics.

Godinez-Samperio’s journey to the law began when he and his parents left their home in Pachuca, Mexico. They came on tourist visas, which they overstayed. He didn’t know English and it was a few years before he began to realize what his immigration status was and what it meant for his future.

He couldn’t get a social security number or a driver’s license, he didn’t have access to most financial aid, he couldn’t work for compensation and has been ineligible for most internships and awards, according to an essay he submitted for his law school application.

But he said he managed to get private scholarships to help pay for his education, and volunteered where he could -- such as helping domestic violence victims obtain immigration relief. “For me, it’s very important to show that I have been a contributing member of society (the) entire time I have lived in this country,” he said. “ … there’s no reason why I shouldn’t be allowed to contribute even more … with a green card.”

When Godinez-Samperio applied to take the bar exam last year, he sought a waiver because he didn’t have proof of his immigration status, which is required by the Florida Board of Bar Examiners who administer the test. States set their own requirements for those seeking to become a lawyer.

His request was granted. Godinez-Samperio took the bar exam in July and found out in September that he had passed. He was ecstatic, until he learned in November that the board was going to seek an advisory opinion from the state supreme court on whether undocumented immigrants are eligible for admission to the Florida Bar.

Cesar Vargas at Capitol Hill on April 19 to launch a Dream Act-related campaign. He is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, brought to the U.S. as a child, who is pushing for immigration law reform. “I had mixed feelings,” he said. “I knew that it was going to be an interesting trajectory that I was about to begin.”

That journey has included a number of filings from the board and his attorney, Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte, as well as a few friend-of-the-court submissions from groups supporting his application, including three past presidents of the American Bar Association.

“It’s the first time it’s ever been addressed in Florida, and I think it’s probably the first time it’s been before a supreme court anywhere in the country,” said Thomas Arthur Pobjecky, the board’s general counsel.

The board determined it was “a really serious matter” and decided to seek out the court’s guidance in these types of cases, which they expect to see more of in the future. “If the law says you cannot employ -- or it’s against the law to employ -- somebody who is not legally in this country, then when we say … here is a license to practice law in this country, are they not also implying that you can hire this person and go ahead and pay him and everything else? So there is a concern,” Pobjecky said. “Once the Florida Supreme Court licenses somebody to be a lawyer, they’re putting their stamp of approval on that person.”

But D’Alemberte questioned why the board would let his client sit the exam if they did not intend to give him a license. “It just seems to us fundamentally unfair after he’s complied with every valid rule not to just go ahead and admit him to the bar and leave to the immigration service whether he is complying with immigration,” he said.

The possibility that undocumented immigrants could receive law licenses doesn’t sit well with some. “I know what the policy ought to be, which is that … someone who doesn’t have the right to be in the United States shouldn’t be admitted to the bar, period,” said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington think tank that supports tighter immigration controls.

“This is trying to steal a base. In other words, they’re trying to skip over the debate over whether people in his situation should get legalized,” he added. “It’s one more way of trying to create a de facto legalization.”

Cesar Vargas, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who has passed the bar exam and is in the process of applying for his law license in New York, has started a group, the Dream Bar Association, to advocate for people in his position. Membership numbers about two dozen, and includes those interested in going to law school to those who have passed the bar. “We’re basically throwing the judicial branch into the immigration debate … through our cases,” he said.

In California, Sergio Garcia, 35, an illegal immigrant, has been awaiting a decision since he passed the bar exam in 2009. Because the admissions process is confidential, neither Garcia nor the bar could speak about his application, though a bar spokeswoman said the application for admission doesn't require citizenship.

Thomas Fitton, of conservative Washington watchdog Judicial Watch, said the idea of an undocumented immigrant working as a lawyer in the U.S. was “preposterous.”

“These are kind of, in some ways, public relations stunts, but you know, we’ll see what happens … the whole notion of it is at odds with the rule of law and undermines federal immigration law,” he said. “I think those who’ve passed the bar should focus on making themselves legal as opposed to bypassing the law.”

But others feel that admission should be done on a case-by-case basis, taking into account whether a specific applicant has met the moral character test of the application, said Stephen N. Zack, a former ABA president who has filed a brief in support of Godinez-Samperio. “You can’t take one finite point and say that that is an absolute determination of a person’s character,” he said. “You have to look in a holistic way at the person’s life story and here, you have an exceptional person.”

He also noted that bar candidates like Godinez-Samperio could offer some unique services, with the nation heading to a “majority minority” status in the decades to come.

“We need people who can reach out and provide access to communities that … have historically not had access, and this is the kind of person that is ideal to provide that to the future generations,” he said.

Godinez-Samperio, who would like to work in immigration law, continues to research his case and to work on promoting the Dream Act. “This is a huge fight for me and for a lot of people,” he said.

Despite the challenges and the uncertainty, he doesn’t regret going public before a Florida legislative committee in April 2011 with his status, which few were aware of before. “I decided to come out with my story because I’m undocumented, unapologetic and unafraid,” he said. “In telling the truth, I am risking my liberty, but that’s what a lawyer is about, is about telling the truth … so I’m being as honest as I can possibly get, even to the point of risking my liberty.”

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20...-a-lawyer?lite

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Courts mull whether illegal immigrants can be licensed to practice law
By Mary Slosson | Reuters – 2 hrs 40 mins ago.

Courts mull whether illegal immigrants can be licensed to practice law
By Mary Slosson | Reuters – 2 hrs 40 mins ago.

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SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - A law school graduate seeking to join the California bar despite his status as an illegal immigrant may soon become a test case for other young and undocumented professionals as the state's highest court weighs whether he can be admitted to practice law.

The state Supreme Court is mulling the case of 35-year-old Sergio Garcia, who has already found strong support both from California's attorney general and the state bar association. The court has requested guidance from the U.S. Justice Department on the matter that could come as early as Wednesday.

The case is the latest battleground in the nation's immigration wars that have seen the Obama administration grant leniency to some young illegal immigrants brought to the country as children even as a number of states have sought to crack down on illegal immigrants within their borders.

Garcia, who passed the bar exam, was brought to the United States when he was 17 months old by his parents. They left to return to their native Mexico when Garcia was eight or nine, only to return to the United States again when he was 17.

His father was a U.S. permanent resident at the time, and later became a citizen. In 1994, he filed a petition for his son to be granted an immigrant visa. Approved in 1995, Garcia has been waiting 17 years for a visa that will allow him to become a lawful permanent resident and, eventually, a citizen.

The Justice Department declined to comment on the case, but could soon weigh in after requesting in mid-July that it be granted an extension to August 1 to file a brief with its views on the matter. That opinion will carry weight for similar cases in Florida and New York.

"I am very hopeful and confident that they will weigh in my favor," Garcia told Reuters, declining to comment further.

Garcia has already won support from state Attorney General Kamala Harris, who wrote an amicus brief to the state Supreme Court urging that he be admitted to the bar and describing him as "a model of the self-reliant and self-sufficient immigrant."

Critics, however, say that allowing immigrants who are in the country illegally to become lawyers undermines the justice system, and that they should become legal immigrants first.

"Mr. Garcia is not qualified to practice law because he continually violates federal law by his presence in the United States," retired prosecutor for the state bar of California, Larry DeSha, wrote in an opposition brief.

The California Supreme Court has not given any indication of how long it might take to make a decision on Garcia's case after it receives guidance from the U.S. Department of Justice.

LIKEWISE IN FLORIDA, NEW YORK

Whatever the guidance, it could impact the cases of other young law school graduates in other states who find themselves in similar circumstances including a case that is making its way through Florida's legal system.

A 26-year-old Eagle Scout who has the backing of his former law professors at the Florida State University College of Law to enter the legal profession, Jose Manuel Godinez-Samperio arrived in the United States at the age of nine, when his parents illegally carried him across the border from Mexico.

The Florida Board of Bar Examiners asked that state's Supreme Court for guidance on whether Godinez-Samperio and others like him could be admitted to the state bar association as full-fledged lawyers. The court has yet to issue an opinion.

In New York, immigrant rights activist Cesar Vargas finds himself in a similar position. A law school graduate, he passed the bar exam and will face the same issues when he applies to be admitted to the bar as a lawyer.

Vargas was brought to the United States from Mexico when he was five years old. He put himself through college and then law school thanks to private scholarships and community support.

"My graduation was bittersweet, since I was accomplishing something that made my family proud, but knew I wasn't going to be a lawyer because of my status," Vargas told Reuters.

The Obama administration announced in June that hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants brought into the United States as children will be able to avoid deportation and get work permits.

That move was a nod to supporters of the DREAM Act, legislation that would allow certain children of illegal immigrants to stay in the United States to pursue college education and jobs and put them on a path to citizenship.

http://news.yahoo.com/courts-mull-wh...74.html?_esi=1

TSA: Training Sky-bound Illegal Aliens
By Michelle Malkin • July 20, 2012 08:22 AM




When it comes to soldiers, breast-feeding moms, toddlers and grannies, the Transportation Security Administration is not just hands-on, it’s hands-all-over. But when it comes to illegal alien pilot trainees, our homeland security bureaucracy’s policy is still stuck in pre-9/11 mode: Hands off, blinders on.

This week, the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report (PDF) on the airline security agency’s “process for ensuring (that) foreign flight students do not pose a security risk.” http://www.gao.gov/assets/600/592598.pdf In short, there isn’t much of a “process” at all when it comes to checking the immigration status of flight school students. While the GAO report may be new, the documented lapses are part of the same old, same old refusal to profile foreign flight risks for fear of offending and inconveniencing politically correct special interests.

In November 2010, my column, “No Illegal Alien Pilot Left Behind,” spotlighted a shady flight school outside Boston that had provided single-engine pilot lessons to more than two dozen illegal immigrants from Brazil. Clear counter-terror rules banned illegal aliens from enrolling in U.S. flight schools. Clear counter-terror regulations required TSA to run foreign flight students’ names against a plethora of terrorism, criminal and immigration databases. Yet dozens of these illegal alien students eluded our homeland security radar screen.

What’s changed since that illegal alien flight school first came to light? The new GAO audit, first reported on by CNSNews.com on Wednesday, disclosed fresh details about the Boston area flight school racket:

– “Eight of the 25 foreign nationals who received approval by TSA to begin flight training were in ‘entry without inspection’ status, meaning they had entered the country illegally. Three of these had obtained FAA airman certificates: Two held FAA private pilot certificates, and one held an FAA commercial pilot certificate.”

– “Seventeen of the 25 foreign nationals who received approval by the TSA to begin flight training were in ‘overstay’ status, meaning they had overstayed their authorized period of admission into the United States.”

– “In addition, the flight school owner held two FAA airman certificates. Specifically, he was a certified Airline Transport Pilot (cargo pilot) and a Certified Flight Instructor. However, he had never received a TSA security threat assessment or been approved by TSA to obtain flight training.”

The GAO report pointed out that over the past two years, TSA and Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security have supposedly been working on a pilot program to vet names of foreign students against immigration databases — “but have not specified desired outcomes and time frames, or assigned individuals with responsibility for fully instituting the program.”

The Obama administration promises to have a “plan” in place by December 2012 to “assess” the legal status of foreign pilot trainees. Meantime, election-year amnesty and intransigent apathy reign.

For more than decade, I’ve reported on the failure of the federal government to build a comprehensive foreign visitor entry-exit tracking system. Visa overstayers constitute 40 percent of the entire illegal alien population — and have been major beneficiaries of both Bush and Obama illegal alien waiver programs and deportation freezes.

On the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks last year, GOP House Homeland Security Chairwoman Candice Miller reported on the federal backlog of more than 750,000 unvetted visa overstay records: “If we are serious about controlling who comes into the nation and preventing another 9/11 attack, we need to get serious about an exit program,” she testified. “The (Department of Homeland Security) has yet to articulate a plan to move forward with a comprehensive exit plan in the air environment or elsewhere.”

Open-borders lobbyists, the travel industry, civil-rights absolutists and ethnic-grievance groups have lobbied hard to stymie full implementation of coordinated databases to identify, locate and remove illegal overstayers. The systemic, bipartisan refusal to crack down on short-term tourist, business and student visa holders is a clear and present security danger.

Don’t take my word for it.

In 2010, President Obama’s own Homeland Security Department Inspector General Richard Skinner testified before Congress: “Overstays perpetuate the illegal immigration problem by using the visa process to break the law to remain in the United States. Moreover, some overstays represent a very real national security risk to the nation.”

Need a reminder? The Nationwide Visa Overstayers Club includes dozens of jihadists, including Mohamed Atta and four other 9/11 hijackers; 1997 New York subway bomber Lafi Khalil; four of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers; 1993 New York landmark-bombing conspirator Fadil Abdelgani; convicted Times Square bomb plotter Faisal Shahzad; and U.S. Capitol bomb plotter Amine El Khalifi, whose visa expired in 1999 and escaped homeland security notice for 12 years before he was arrested this February just blocks from the Capitol building donning what he thought was a suicide bomb vest.

For the willfully dense: The salient homeland security point here isn’t that every overstayer is a jihadi. The point is that the nation’s massive, untouched illegal alien overstayer population allows nefarious malefactors from all over the world to blend in and operate with impunity.

Evil never rests. Washington bureaucrats, on the other, are engaged in an endless, reckless game of Kick the Can.

http://michellemalkin.com/2012/07/20...llegal-aliens/

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Obama's immigration power play: 4 takeaways
By The Week's Editorial Staff | The Week – 5 hrs ago.

Young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children are now eligible for President Obama's temporary program offering them deportation deferrals and work permits

Tens of thousands of young immigrants who arrived in the U.S. illegally as children are lining up to fill out paperwork that could let them live and work legally in the U.S., under an initiative by President Obama that took effect on Wednesday. The program offers fewer benefits than the Dream Act, which Congress rejected in 2010, as it doesn't offer applicants a path to citizenship. Still, GOP critics say it's a backdoor amnesty for the estimated 1.2 million people expected to apply for the renewable, two-year deportation deferments, and a naked ploy for Hispanic votes. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R), who gained national prominence after signing Arizona's hard-line immigration law in 2010, issued her own executive order barring state agencies from giving driver's licenses or benefits to the estimated 80,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona who qualify for Obama's program. How has the new initiative changed the immigration debate? Here, four takeaways:

1. Obama is making people's lives better: "Unlike most of what happens in an election year," says Ezra Klein at The Washington Post, "this policy is actually changing... lives." For the illegal immigrants it affects, the initiative makes life "genuinely different." For those it doesn't affect, it at least sends the message that Obama "actually is interested in figuring out solutions for them." And that could make a huge difference in November. "These immigrants, of course, can’t vote. But they have friends, family, and are part of communities that can."

2. The president just made true immigration reform harder: "The U.S. immigration system is broken and in dire need of reform," says Jessica Zuckerman at The Heritage Foundation. Instead of uniting the nation with reasonable bipartisan reform, Obama chose to "undercut the legislative process and abuse the latitude the president has under existing law," by imposing part of a plan Congress has already rejected. That might impress Obama's fans, but all it really does is "poison the well looking at collaborative solutions for the way forward."

3. Some eligible people will be scared to apply: Not everyone who stands to benefit from Obama's program will rush to sign up, says Jens Erik Gould at TIME. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services says it will weed out people who have been convicted of a felony or "significant" misdemeanor, or who pose some kind of "threat" — without explaining what they "mean by 'significant' and a 'threat.'" That will scare some people away, as will the fear that "misinformed" or dishonest attorneys or notaries will use this as an opportunity to cheat them out of their money.

4. States won't necessarily go along: In theory, this is a big break for eligible immigrants, says Franco Ordonez at McClatchy Newspapers. But many states "forbid undocumented immigrants to get driver's licenses or require them to pay out-of-state tuition at public universities," and it's unclear whether Obama's policy overrides those policies. Obama can defer deportations for people who qualify, but "it will be up to the states" to decide how many privileges they'll enjoy when they come out of the shadows.

http://news.yahoo.com/obamas-immigra...134000170.html

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These immigrants, of course, can’t vote.

Says WHO ??

That is what Obama and the Dems are COUNTING on ..

With a green card they will go right away to the MVA to get a DL and then sign their MOTOR VOTER application to vote for Obama on 11-6. That is why Gov Brewer is not going to let that happen.

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The way I see it, is that during a time when job's are scarce, he increased everyone's competition by 2 million people. He spit in the faces of everyone who has come here legally and through the proper channels. And is pretty much buying his vote with the welfare of a nation.

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IF Obama did this out of the kindness of his heart and not for the election, why did he wait until now when he had close to 4 years to do it?

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Why do we, legal citizens of the U.S., need to pay for benefits to be extended to folks who are here illegally? Obama is pandering to the illegals and their relatives, some of whom may be here legally, at the expense of those of us who pay his salary (and have always paid his salary, since he has never been anything other than a government flack).

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These "children" have gotten a free ride illegally for years due to their parents. I think, humbly, that some of that should be paid back. Whatever that is, make them pay it like the courts force people to pay child support. Weekly, monthly, whatever, just pay SOMETHING into this country, the one that your parents have robbed of so much.. THAT would show some reasonable desire to be American.

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If the illegals are given a free ride then I think pot smokers should all get a free ride too. How is breaking one law different from breaking another law, but one is done by legal citizens the other is done by people that should not be here at all. There are many people trying to come to this country legaly and this is not fair to them at all..

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So how can they plan their lives around this beneift? What if Romney is elected? will he honor this decree? What if Obama changes his mind? What happens to them after the two years passes? IMHO, this move not only defies the constitution in that Obama does not have power to make such an edict, but also throws so much fudd into the issue that these people will not be able to properly prepare for their uncertain futures.

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Young emigrants that were brought here need to have some help, it was not their idea to come here, they deserve some lea-way. The gop thinks they should be sent "back" to a country they know very little about, the only country most have ever known is the USA. Why can't the repubs have a little compassion? ~ "James"

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There are lots of people suffering in the world. Millions and millions. Let's have them all come over to the USA and stay at James's house at his expense. He's compassionate after all.

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Uh - these poverty stricken 'immigrants' who were earning Mexcian minimum wage of $5 US per day and paid their coyotes $3,000 per head to bring them here, obviously had a source of income other than the Mexican minimum wage job, so their need for income is apparently no more than a cover for the profits they are capable of accessing through obvious contraband smuggling-- poor poor things.

BUSTED: Illegal Alien Wins Jackpot at Arizona Casino, Then Deported to Mexico
By John Hill on January 4, 2013

An illegal alien was busted after winning the slots jackpot at a Tuscon casino – and then deported. Mirna Valenzuela – a Mexican illegal who had been previously deported multiple times - won $1,200 last month at Casino del Sol Resort. But when going to collect her slot-machine winnings, Valenzuela was busted and then deported back to Mexico – and didn’t take a penny of her jackpot with her.

Federal law requires casinos to ask for identification for tax purposes whenever someone wins a jackpot of $1,200 or more. Casino officials questioned the ID that Valenzuela showed them on Dec. 3 as potentially fraudulent. Because the casino is on tribal land, officials called Pascua Yaqui police, who determined that Valenzuela and her daughter Zamira Osorio were illegal aliens from Mexico. So, they turned both over to the U.S. Border Patrol, which deported Valenzuela.

The daughter Osorio was released thanks to Barack Obama’s “deferred-action” amnesty program – which he has enacted via executive order in violation of Federal law – because she apparently entered the U.S. as a minor more than 5 years ago. http://standwitharizona.com/blog/201...against-fraud/

And, as we have come to expect, Osorio is as arrogant as most such “Dreamers”, who routinely demand that their repeated law breaking be ignored and that any enforcement against them or their families is “racism”:

“If they don’t want anybody illegally there, they should put up a sign that says that they don’t want anybody who’s illegal, you know, playing at the casino,” Osorio said, adding, “This is really unfair. We feel really discriminated (against). … This is the first time I got arrested in my whole entire life.”

You can’t make this stuff up: the casino should put up a sign saying they don’t want to serve law-breakers? Classic illegal alien arrogance.

The casino, being located near Tuscon – the most lax enforcer of S.B. 1070 in Arizona – was quick to backtrack, almost pathetically apologizing for the incident:

“It’s not our policy to report people unless they’ve committed a serious crime,” said Wendell Long, chief executive officer of Casino del Sol Resort. “A large portion of our business is Mexican-Americans and Mexicans from Sonora….We’re not here to deport people.”

Fortunately Tribal authorities didn’t have the same contempt for S.B. 1070 and Federal immigration laws and immediately called Border Patrol, who did their job well and deported Valenzuela back to the only place she legally belongs – Mexico

Valenzuela’s winnings, meanwhile, are still at the casino. She’ll have to claim them in person with a valid ID, Long said.

Here is the full video news report. The arrogant daughter’s full comments have to be seen to be believed, but are becoming all too common in the lawless Obama Era… http://bcove.me/sshoq8rz

http://standwitharizona.com/blog/201...ted-to-mexico/

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She committed a felony when she provided a fraudulent ID.. yet the daughter says they didn't do anything illegally. Amazing.

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a Mexican illegal who had been previously deported multiple times ... cries :

“This is really unfair. We feel really discriminated (against). … This is the first time I got arrested in my whole entire life.”

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ok so she presented a fake id... and got caught .. Let me get this straight the daughter thinks the mom that was here illegally is allowed to be here ,, and present a Fake ID and its ok........ ask any parent of any teenager fake IDs are illeagal .. I personally think the daughter hiding behind a dream provision ,, not a law just an implemented obama rule should have been deported as well anytime you win a jack pot you have to offer a valid ID ....... this isnt the same as voting,,, LOL

Federal law: You must have a valid social security number to claim any winnings (no matter the size) of any lottery or casino in the country especially the reservations. All of our casinos here are owned by the indians as well and that is a federal law not state law. The reason? in case you owe child support or alimony or taxes or any other reason 'the government deems necessary.' There was a case a few years ago (which falls under the same state statute listed above) in Phoenix where a company of 60 employees bought a ticket won a 2 million dollar jackpot. they elected one person to collect. he went down to lottery headquarters to claim his prize. One of the questions on the form is your social. they use it to see if you owe any 'debts to the government'. This man owed for 3 months of back child support and the lottery officials took the check, gave it to the state and the winners ended up with nothing. the case is is searchable online and is still pending in Maricopa Superior Court.

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The rest of the story is available only to Time subscribers, but a "Behind the Cover" piece shed some additonal light on its contents:


In Spring 2010, four undocumented students trekked 1,500 miles from Miami to Washington to press passage of the Dream Act, a bill that would offer a path to permanent residency for immigrants who came to the country as minors and achieved certain educational accomplishments. Moved by their courage, Jose Antonio Vargas, a journalist who was part of the Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize winning team for their coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting, revealed that he, too, was an undocumented immigrant in an essay published by the New York Times Magazine last June.

Today was a day that SHOULD live in infamy, as Jose Antonio Vargas, an illegal alien and former reporter, scolded a Senate panel, saying that he should not be called “illegal”, and saying it is an insult to his family who brought him here.

“When you inaccurately call me illegal, you not only dehumanize me, you’re offending them,” he said. “No human being is illegal.”

But Vargas IS an illegal, and also a criminal FELON, having committed multiple Federal felonies, which would put anyone else in prison and deny them citizenship. Yet here he was arrogantly lecturing elected U.S. Senators. SHAME ON THE SENATE for permitting an illegal alien criminal to disgrace the People's House.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/...call-him-ille/

Jose Antonio Vargas, an illegal alien and former reporter, scolded a Senate panel on Wednesday, saying that he should not be called “illegal”, and saying it is an insult to his family who brought him here.

“When you inaccurately call me illegal, you not only dehumanize me, you’re offending them,” he said. “No human being is illegal.”

Sure, we’ve heard all that and more from the La Raza crowd for years, as well as a long-running campaign and website called Drop The I-Word (illegal), as we have pointed out to our activists in the past. http://colorlines.com/droptheiword/

However to hear it in this context – the halls of the U.S. Senate - by an illegal alien himself in person, and with such arrogance and sense of entitlement, was truly revolting. And this was also from an illegal alien who has admitted to multiple Federal felonies, yet was disgracefully allowed to lecture elected U.S. Senators today.

Vargas is no ordinary illegal alien. He is the poster boy for the open-borders crowd and its lapdog media. Vargas was chosen for this role by the media to put an emotional, sympathetic face to the drive for amnesty for 20+ million illegals. The New York Times even arranged an Op-Ed piece by Vargas to be published on the same day as his testimony, for maximum effect. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/op...f=opinion&_r=0

In that piece, and other writings, Vargas portrays himself as a hapless victim, whose uncle, grandmother and aunt were legal aliens and/or immigrants from the Philippines, but he was sent here, alone, on a plane at age 12 by his mother to live with his grandparents and obtain citizenship via marriage – but because he came out as gay, this could not be an option.

But Vargas was not a victim.

He has admitted to multiple felonies in order to maintain his presence here and evade responsibility (and deportation) for years via massive document fraud and false claims on Federal forms. Once he was aware of his illegal status, Vargas could have returned to his native country and and applied for a visa based on his existing citizen family members – and would very likely have gotten one in short order, based on officials we contacted. But Vargas did not want to own up to his lies to his friends and colleagues, and disturb the elaborate fiction he has constructed, which was producing a budding journalistic career.

Vargas is indeed an “illegal alien”. And a criminal felon.

Remember he said by calling him “illegal” was an “insult” to those that sent him here. Well let’s first look at the first member of his family who sent him: his mother. She put 12-year-old Vargas on a plane to the U.S., in the company of a coyote (at the rate of $4,500) under a fake name and fake passport. I’m so sorry for the “insult”, Mama Vargas, but that was ILLEGAL.

Michelle Malkin detailed the subsequent chronology of Vargas’ crimes in a 2011 piece:

The Times featured full-color photos of Vargas’ fake document trove — including a a fake passport with a fake name, a fake green card and a Social Security card his grandfather doctored for him at a Kinko’s. He committed perjury repeatedly on federal I-9 employment eligibility forms. In 2002, while pursuing his journalism career goals, an immigration lawyer told him he needed to accept the consequences of his law-breaking and return to his native Philippines.

Following the rules would have meant a 10-year bar to reentry into America. Making false claims of citizenship is a felony offense. Document fraud is a felony offense.

Vargas…freely chose instead to secure yet more dummy documents. He used a friend’s address to obtain an Oregon driver’s license under false pretenses. It gave him an eight-year golden ticket to travel by car, board trains and airplanes, work at prestigious newspapers, and even gain access to the White House — where crack Secret Service agents allowed him to attend a state dinner using his bogus Social Security number.

Blogger Anthony Wells details the specific felonies to which Vargas has admitted (there are likely many more):
http://exmaninblues.wordpress.com/20...g-to-see-here/

8 USC 1325(a)(3) – Illegal entry under false information.

Vargas was too young and unaware of the conspiracy to illegally enter the country. However, this does not change the fact that he has enjoyed the benefits of the illegal activity. Once he learned of his status he began participating in furthering the crime, a crime which has been ongoing for 20 years.

8 USC 1182(a)(6)(A)(i) – Illegal alien ineligible for visa or admission.

Under this statute, if Vargas and the millions of other illegal aliens are living here without permission, they would not be able to apply for a visa or admission. But, Obama and others in Government wish to give a free pass, which the law simply does not allow. That is unless you subvert the law.

8 USC 1182(a)(6)(C)(ii)(I) and 18 USC 911– Misrepresenting/falsifying citizenship.

A person misrepresenting or falsifying their citizenship are not eligible for a visa or admission. Vargas clearly admits to violating this law in his article.

8 USC 1324c(a)(1) and 18 USC 1028(a) – Forged, counterfeit, alter documents.

The last felony included using forged documents to enter the White House in 2010 – a separate felony in and of itself.

Once again, as he was told in 2002, he could have at any time owned up to his crimes, and corrected his mother’s original fraud to obtain legal immigration. But he did not. He remains illegal, and a felon. And his presence in the halls of Congress was a disgrace – to the Senate, and to the House Speaker John Boehner, who commands the Sergeant of Arms, and could have ordered Vargas (and the 5 illegals who attended the State of the Union http://standwitharizona.com/blog/201...-union-speech/ ) to be denied entry, as Congressional rules demand.

To make the situation today even more disturbing, Mr. Vargas testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee alongside Chris Crane — a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and president of the ICE agents’ union. Crane is a senior ICE agent, but is unable to arrest him under the administration’s new non-deportation policies. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013...ate-committee/

The nation is teetering on a dangerous precipice. That of complete lawlessness. If 20+ million illegal aliens are once again – as in 1986, and despite its disastrous lessons – granted full amnesty for their lawbreaking, then the Constitution has utterly no meaning, and we are indeed living, as Mark Levin has termed it, a “post-Constitutional America”. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vid...l_america.html

Americans must either stand, fight and defeat this amnesty – or see our rule of law corrupted by arrogant, egotistical criminals like Jose Antonio Vargas.

http://standwitharizona.com/blog/201...ll-me-illegal/

Posted on January 16, 2012 Mark Levin:
We're In A "Post-Constitutional America"

Author and radio talk show host on his new book Ameritopia.

“We’re already in a post-Constitutional America. In so many respects, we’ve distanced ourselves from our founding, and my big fear is so many people don’t understand what our founding is all about," Mark Levin said on FOX News today.

He discussed Obama’s policies, calling the president a Marxist, and said, “He’s the President of the United States. I looked at the Constitution before coming over here, and it doesn’t say anything about him leveling playing fields, and it doesn’t say anything about him transforming America.”

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vid...l_america.html

Did you hear that the US Department of Agriculture instructs employees to refer to the Pilgrims as “illegal aliens”…?

Judicial Watch Breaks USDA Training Video Labeling Pilgrims 'Illegal Aliens'
by Breitbart News14 Feb 2013

Wednesday night on The O’Reilly Factor, Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, broke a series of previously unreleased US Department of Agriculture Videos featuring required “Cultural Sensitivity Training.” The program required employees to chant, “The pilgrims were illegal aliens,” never to use the word “minorities” and to replace it instead with “emerging majorities,” and other similarly leftist tripe.

The sensitivity training sessions taped here were held on USDA premises, and is part of what Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack termed the department’s “new era of Civil Rights” and “broader effort towards cultural transformation at USDA.” The training sessions were created by diversity awareness trainer Samuel Betances at a cost of approximately $200,000.

The video highlights include: http://landing.newsinc.com/shared/vi...e&VID=24404071

•Betances explaining to USDA employees that “If you take a look at all of you here and you think about your salaries and your benefits and what you have left undone – plus my fee – plus the expense of the team that putting the video together, this is a huge expense.”

•Betances urging to repeat the leftist version of American history: “I want you to say that America was founded by outsiders – say that – who are today’s insiders, who are very nervous about today’s outsiders. I want you to say, ‘The pilgrims were illegal aliens.’ Say, ‘The pilgrims never gave their passports to the Indians.”

•Betances stating, “By the way, I don’t like the word ‘minorities.’ How about ‘emerging majorities’?”

http://landing.newsinc.com/shared/vi...e&VID=24404103

The complete video is available through the Judicial Watch website. https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/multimedia/


Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, told Breitbart News, “This was a pretty straightforward attempt at psychological reconditioning. Underlying the whole program is the theory that white males especially are inherently racist, sexist, or homophobic. It’s a huge waste of taxpayer dollars.

“This is as objectionable or as significant as the GSA Las Vegas scandal. This is a program blessed at the highest levels of the USDA. We found out about it because of a whistleblower who was forced to undergo this type of training. They’ve obviously selling this left-wing diversity cult,” said Fitton.


http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...ial-Watch-USDA

What I would like to know is who checked all the Indian's immigration files? You mean none of the pilgrims applied for citizenship, visas, green cards and such? Who was the head of immigration at that time?

What asses.

The rest of the story is available only to Time subscribers, but a "Behind the Cover" piece shed some additonal light on its contents:

In Spring 2010, four undocumented students trekked 1,500 miles from Miami to Washington to press passage of the Dream Act, a bill that would offer a path to permanent residency for immigrants who came to the country as minors and achieved certain educational accomplishments. Moved by their courage, Jose Antonio Vargas, a journalist who was part of the Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize winning team for their coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting, revealed that he, too, was an undocumented immigrant in an essay published by the New York Times Magazine last June.

Today was a day that SHOULD live in infamy, as Jose Antonio Vargas, an illegal alien and former reporter, scolded a Senate panel, saying that he should not be called “illegal”, and saying it is an insult to his family who brought him here.

“When you inaccurately call me illegal, you not only dehumanize me, you’re offending them,” he said. “No human being is illegal.”

But Vargas IS an illegal, and also a criminal FELON, having committed multiple Federal felonies, which would put anyone else in prison and deny them citizenship. Yet here he was arrogantly lecturing elected U.S. Senators. SHAME ON THE SENATE for permitting an illegal alien criminal to disgrace the People's House.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/...call-him-ille/

Jose Antonio Vargas, an illegal alien and former reporter, scolded a Senate panel on Wednesday, saying that he should not be called “illegal”, and saying it is an insult to his family who brought him here.

“When you inaccurately call me illegal, you not only dehumanize me, you’re offending them,” he said. “No human being is illegal.”

Sure, we’ve heard all that and more from the La Raza crowd for years, as well as a long-running campaign and website called Drop The I-Word (illegal), as we have pointed out to our activists in the past. http://colorlines.com/droptheiword/

However to hear it in this context – the halls of the U.S. Senate - by an illegal alien himself in person, and with such arrogance and sense of entitlement, was truly revolting. And this was also from an illegal alien who has admitted to multiple Federal felonies, yet was disgracefully allowed to lecture elected U.S. Senators today.

Vargas is no ordinary illegal alien. He is the poster boy for the open-borders crowd and its lapdog media. Vargas was chosen for this role by the media to put an emotional, sympathetic face to the drive for amnesty for 20+ million illegals. The New York Times even arranged an Op-Ed piece by Vargas to be published on the same day as his testimony, for maximum effect. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/op...f=opinion&_r=0

In that piece, and other writings, Vargas portrays himself as a hapless victim, whose uncle, grandmother and aunt were legal aliens and/or immigrants from the Philippines, but he was sent here, alone, on a plane at age 12 by his mother to live with his grandparents and obtain citizenship via marriage – but because he came out as gay, this could not be an option.

But Vargas was not a victim.

He has admitted to multiple felonies in order to maintain his presence here and evade responsibility (and deportation) for years via massive document fraud and false claims on Federal forms. Once he was aware of his illegal status, Vargas could have returned to his native country and and applied for a visa based on his existing citizen family members – and would very likely have gotten one in short order, based on officials we contacted. But Vargas did not want to own up to his lies to his friends and colleagues, and disturb the elaborate fiction he has constructed, which was producing a budding journalistic career.

Vargas is indeed an “illegal alien”. And a criminal felon.

Remember he said by calling him “illegal” was an “insult” to those that sent him here. Well let’s first look at the first member of his family who sent him: his mother. She put 12-year-old Vargas on a plane to the U.S., in the company of a coyote (at the rate of $4,500) under a fake name and fake passport. I’m so sorry for the “insult”, Mama Vargas, but that was ILLEGAL.

Michelle Malkin detailed the subsequent chronology of Vargas’ crimes in a 2011 piece:

The Times featured full-color photos of Vargas’ fake document trove — including a a fake passport with a fake name, a fake green card and a Social Security card his grandfather doctored for him at a Kinko’s. He committed perjury repeatedly on federal I-9 employment eligibility forms. In 2002, while pursuing his journalism career goals, an immigration lawyer told him he needed to accept the consequences of his law-breaking and return to his native Philippines.

Following the rules would have meant a 10-year bar to reentry into America. Making false claims of citizenship is a felony offense. Document fraud is a felony offense.

Vargas…freely chose instead to secure yet more dummy documents. He used a friend’s address to obtain an Oregon driver’s license under false pretenses. It gave him an eight-year golden ticket to travel by car, board trains and airplanes, work at prestigious newspapers, and even gain access to the White House — where crack Secret Service agents allowed him to attend a state dinner using his bogus Social Security number.

Blogger Anthony Wells details the specific felonies to which Vargas has admitted (there are likely many more):
http://exmaninblues.wordpress.com/20...g-to-see-here/

8 USC 1325(a)(3) – Illegal entry under false information.

Vargas was too young and unaware of the conspiracy to illegally enter the country. However, this does not change the fact that he has enjoyed the benefits of the illegal activity. Once he learned of his status he began participating in furthering the crime, a crime which has been ongoing for 20 years.

8 USC 1182(a)(6)(A)(i) – Illegal alien ineligible for visa or admission.

Under this statute, if Vargas and the millions of other illegal aliens are living here without permission, they would not be able to apply for a visa or admission. But, Obama and others in Government wish to give a free pass, which the law simply does not allow. That is unless you subvert the law.

8 USC 1182(a)(6)(C)(ii)(I) and 18 USC 911– Misrepresenting/falsifying citizenship.

A person misrepresenting or falsifying their citizenship are not eligible for a visa or admission. Vargas clearly admits to violating this law in his article.

8 USC 1324c(a)(1) and 18 USC 1028(a) – Forged, counterfeit, alter documents.

The last felony included using forged documents to enter the White House in 2010 – a separate felony in and of itself.

Once again, as he was told in 2002, he could have at any time owned up to his crimes, and corrected his mother’s original fraud to obtain legal immigration. But he did not. He remains illegal, and a felon. And his presence in the halls of Congress was a disgrace – to the Senate, and to the House Speaker John Boehner, who commands the Sergeant of Arms, and could have ordered Vargas (and the 5 illegals who attended the State of the Union http://standwitharizona.com/blog/201...-union-speech/ ) to be denied entry, as Congressional rules demand.

To make the situation today even more disturbing, Mr. Vargas testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee alongside Chris Crane — a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and president of the ICE agents’ union. Crane is a senior ICE agent, but is unable to arrest him under the administration’s new non-deportation policies. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013...ate-committee/

The nation is teetering on a dangerous precipice. That of complete lawlessness. If 20+ million illegal aliens are once again – as in 1986, and despite its disastrous lessons – granted full amnesty for their lawbreaking, then the Constitution has utterly no meaning, and we are indeed living, as Mark Levin has termed it, a “post-Constitutional America”. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vid...l_america.html

Americans must either stand, fight and defeat this amnesty – or see our rule of law corrupted by arrogant, egotistical criminals like Jose Antonio Vargas.

http://standwitharizona.com/blog/201...ll-me-illegal/

‘Immigration isn’t a TV contest:’ CNN’s shameless amnesty bait sickens viewers
Posted at 9:44 pm on June 29, 2014

CNN ✔ @CNN

Do you think Jose should be deported? Answer with JOSESTAY or JOSEGO using #Documented



8:10 PM - 29 Jun 2014

Yes, this is CNN. Tonight, the “news” network broadcast the pro-illegal alien amnesty documentary, “Documented,” on the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning, document-faking, law-breaking, deportation-evading journalist-turned-activist Jose Antonio Vargas.



No Shame ...

http://twitchy.com/2014/06/29/immigr...ckens-viewers/