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Deportation reaches all-time high

"The pace of deportations of illegal immigrants from the Pacific Northwest has reached an all-time high. U.S. Immigration... more

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Dominicans lost at sea ate corpse to survive, official says - Houston Chronicle

Five migrants rescued after 15 days lost at sea ate a dead comrade to stay alive, a Dominican official said Sunday. One of the... more

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An ICE Morning in LA

In pre-dawn hours, Fugitive Operations teams from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) fan out across Los Angeles County in... more

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New Fence Will Split a Border Park

IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif. — At a time of tumult over immigration, with illegal workers routed from businesses, record levels of... more

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Immigrant Nation

This show takes an in depth look at illegal immigration and the power of the (legal) Latino vote in the 2008 election. In this... more

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Illegal immigration declines as economy falters

Make room for Dada! Is it my imagination or are we experiencing the most surreal headlines in the history of media? Read... more

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Child Labor Charges Filed Agains Meat Plant in Iowa

Des Moines, Iowa - The owner and managers of the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant were charged Tuesday with more... more

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The REAL American Dream

Illegal Immigration. What is it? The term wasn't necessarily heard of before this century, or at least it wasn't... more

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Mexicans deported from US face shattered lives

The towering black gate opens silently to an alley with walls of corrugated metal. Scrawled in large white letters on one wall is: "The End."

For those deported from the United States, the words are an unnecessary reminder. Nearly every hour of the day, guards unlock this gate that leads back into Mexico, clicking open the padlocks hung on each side, in each nation.

Every time the gate slams shut, it wipes out a dream, divides a family, ends a life lived in the shadows of the law.

On average, 700 Mexicans expelled from the United States walk through this gate daily, according to Mexican government figures. They include farmers, construction workers, prisoners, nannies, children, entire families.

U.S. deportations have jumped by more than 60 percent over the past five years. Mexicans accounted for nearly two-thirds of those deportees, helping to roll back one of the biggest migrations of recent history. All along the border, shelters once full of people trying to cross into the United States are now home to thousands of deportees who sleep on mattresses strewn inches apart on cement floors.

In a week spent at the Tijuana gate, The Associated Press watched busload after busload of deportees arrive, some in a daze, still stunned over their sudden expulsion. Many stumbled over the Mexican official's question, "Where are you from?" after spending decades in the United States.

The faces of those who stream through reflect how tough and far-reaching the U.S. crackdown on illegal immigration has become.

Among them are young people. There were more than 18,000 repatriations of children under 18 to Mexico this year, and in more than 10,000 cases they were alone, according to the Mexican government.

There are also criminals. The U.S. does not break down figures by country, but it has deported about 55,000 prisoners so far this year. One man walked through the gate in slippers with 80 cents in his pocket, after being picked up by police during a violent fight with his wife in their backyard.

And there are women, with more than 40,000 repatriations since January — about 13 percent of all cases, according to the Mexican government. Sometimes the women are dropped off alone, at night. The U.S. Border Patrol in Washington says the safe repatriation of women is a major concern, but acknowledges there is no overall policy along the 2,000-mile border.

Mexico must now deal with a population that it has long ignored. And those returning must deal with Mexico, a land that for many now seems foreign. The challenge starts the day they walk through the gate the U.S. Border Patrol calls Whiskey II, military code for west of the port of entry.The towering black gate opens silently to an alley with walls of corrugated metal. Scrawled in large white letters on one wall is:... more

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The main reasons why the Mexican cross the U.S border illegaly.

Unfortunately the economic situacion what the illegal immigrants have from their home countries takes them to cross the U.S. border illegaly,thinking for their "American Dream" and to improve their families situation regardles how are they going to be treat by reaching their goal.

The reasons why the Mexican people cross the border are as the following:

1.- This situation is due to the Mexican government and the police enforcement corruption and the way they handle and steal their taxes, they just care about their personal interests.

2.- Lack of information about the U.S country and their politic with the immigrant people specially for Mexicans.

3.- The EDUCATION from their home countries, Almost all illegal immigrants could not reach the grade 12 of Highschool.

4.- The DISCRIMINATION to get a job in Mexico based on age, sexual orientation, ethnicy and sometimes religion but the main reasons are the age and ethnicy.

Examples: If someone look for an Office Position and he/she belongs from an indigenist group the employer won't hire him/her and they do not even look at him/her face so that's why they ask for his/her picture by filling out the job application.

And if someone is a woman, married and over 30 yrs old the employer won't hire her and if someone is a man the age limit to get a job is 35.

For those 4 main reasons the illegal immigrant think that they do not have any choise to cross the U.S border because they need to survive.

The International Amnesty MUST pay attention and must put pressure on the Mexican government to improve the situation and set up laws to avoid the discrimination mentioned above to avoid the illegal immigration in the U.S.

There is not excuse for the Mexican government, Mexico shouldn't ever live a poor economic situation because that country has everything such as Petroleum, natural resources, nice weather, archeology, beaches etc . . . On the other hand the illegal immigrant should open their eyes and help to put pressure on the Mexican government to stop stealing the taxes (15%) and start improving their life styles.

How many Mexican has been killed in the U.S because of Racism? How many Mexican died by crossing the border?Unfortunately the economic situacion what the illegal immigrants have from their home countries takes them to cross the U.S.... more

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Legal, born in the U.S. residents denied citizenship!!

WESLACO, Texas -- In the archives of local institutions, Juan Aranda's life is firmly rooted in this small south Texas town.

His birth certificate says he was delivered unto Weslaco 38 years ago, and church records say he was baptized here soon after. School files list him as a student in the local district from kindergarten through high school, and voter rolls show he votes for president here.

But to the U.S. State Department, all that black and white looks a lot like gray. It recently refused to issue Mr. Aranda a passport; the government isn't sure he's an American.

"I never imagined my U.S. citizenship would be questioned," says the manager at a water company. "I've lived here since the day I was born."

The problem is that Mr. Aranda was delivered by a midwife at a private home. Parteras, Spanish for midwives, have been part of life in Hidalgo and Cameron counties along the border with Mexico from the time of the Texas Republic and before. But in the early 1990s, dozens of midwives were convicted of forging U.S. birth certificates for about 15,000 children born in Mexico as far back as the 1960s.

As a result, the U.S. government no longer trusts that anyone in this region delivered by a midwife is an American citizen. In those cases, the government demands additional proof -- a demand that has applicants scouring school warehouses and church offices to document their pasts.

That has caused a panic in south Texas, where locals need a valid passport more than ever. A new law that goes into effect next year requires Americans to use a passport, rather than just a birth certificate or driver's license, to visit Mexico and Canada. The situation threatens to isolate thousands of people in the Rio Grande Valley who regularly travel back and forth to Mexico for work or family reasons.

"Usually a state-issued birth certificate is sufficient to establish U.S. nationality," says Michael Kirby, a senior official for consular affairs at the State Department. But, given the fraud committed by some south Texas midwives, "we want to be careful that we issue passports to everybody who is eligible and not to anyone who isn't," he says, acknowledging that thousands of passport applicants could be affected.

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Spaceships Over Portland

And the fight against the evil flying saucers goes on. A probe into immigration and aliens, illegal and otherwise. Spaceships Over... more

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"Please Deport Me Plan"

ICE's latest "solution" Over the past several months, both DHS (the Department of Homeland Security) and ICE... more

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Inquiry finds under-age workers at meat plant

tate labor investigators have identified 57 under-age workers who were employed at a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa,... more

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Illegal residents decline

"The number of illegal immigrants in the USA has fallen sharply as state and federal officials intensify a crackdown on undocumented migrants and jobs grow scarce in the faltering economy, according to a report Wednesday by a group that advocates reduced immigration.

Using Census data, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) estimates that the illegal immigrant population dropped by 10% to 11.2 million from August 2007 through May.

"Illegal immigrants are responding to changing conditions and leaving the country in significant numbers," says Steven Camarota, director of research at CIS.

His study found that the number of legal immigrants rose from 26.6 million to 27.6 million over the same period.

"It doesn't seem like America is more unpleasant for immigrants," he says. "It seems more unpleasant for illegal immigrants."

Camarota acknowledges that the study has limitations. The Census may undercount immigrants, he says, and his estimate of illegal immigrants calculates that 80% of those people counted by the Census as foreign-born Hispanics ages 18 through 40 with a high school education or less are in the USA illegally.

Jeffrey Passel, a demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center, uses the same Census data in his work. Camarota's analysis "makes a lot of assumptions from what he's actually measuring to what he's concluding," Passel says. "I don't know if it's right or not."

The study says stepped-up enforcement is the primary reason for the exodus.

Pat Reilly, spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, cites her agency's workplace raids, deportations and efforts to track down illegal immigrants with criminal records. Tougher enforcement "has made entering and staying in the United States illegally less attractive as the probability of being arrested and detained is greater than ever before," she says.

Groups that advocate for immigrants dispute the study's findings.

Angela Kelley, director of the Immigration Policy Center in Washington, D.C., says the illegal immigrant population is "nearly impossible" to measure. She faults the study for ignoring non-Hispanics.

She questions whether immigrants are leaving the USA or just moving from one place to another within the country to find work.

"Once folks have their roots here, it's very difficult to just go all the way back to their country," she says.""The number of illegal immigrants in the USA has fallen sharply as state and federal officials intensify a crackdown on... more

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Wisconsin Pod #5 :) "The Vital Obligation of Our Times."

This is Voice of The Revolution. Now one might ask, who are we to interfere with the workings of politics, and just for a moment one might agree. if for that moment we have forgotten what is truly at stake --just the future of this place that we call home. And when we comprehend the vast scale of change that is needed, and the very brief timeframe in which it must occur, and that OUR failure to do it means an endless and irreversible struggle for our descendents, and into this equation comes the realization that government, education, the media and even religion have all chosen to turn AWAY from reforms that can actually address all these bad things that we see overtaking America. Through these factors we are led directly to the comprehension that a reordering of our political society is the vital obligation of our times.

Let me leave you with this final thought; In 1776, the idea of "liberty", that we could govern ourselves was only theoretical. Today the idea that we can save ourselves has also become only theoretical.

To me, in my own heart and my own mind the future of America will be DECIDED by science, and by logic and by patriotism and finally, by LOVE for those American who must inherit what we leave behind. It's time to do what the founding fathers did --not what today's politicians do.

A single generation of transformation under our control can prevent a thousand years of ruin. I invite you to be part of that generation of transformation, no more dead zone, no more sitting inside the house --watching the world end.

I don't merely exist in your conscience. I'm right here in your city. Until next time dream big. Think boldly. Let us meet again soon. My name is Darrel Hudson and THIS --is Voice of The Revolution~!

Featuring four notorious TV Commercials "of the revolution!"
(COMMERCIAL 1) "All Bottle up inside? Know the true enemy... SLS and RTA"
(COMMERCIAL 2) "This is forever, for everyone, who will ever be born on this Earth. Welcome to the revolution"
(COMMERCIAL 3) "The politicians and corporations who are crippling us today, don't even have to know one another to conspire to destroy the future. They only need you and I to continue to make excuses for them. The Revolution asks YOU to help build a government worth saving. Support the Separation of Lobbyist and State. It's time to create an economy in step with our times.
Common Sense asks you to Support the Revenue Tap Act. Protect the future from corporations who would use lawyers to destroy it. Support The Litigation Shield Act. Turn a Crisis in America Into a Renaissance in the Developing World. Support The Export Freedom Initiatives. Ensure the next generation can hear YOUR voice. Demand The National Language Act. Help rebuild the pieces of our shattered moral compass. It probably upsets you nearly every day. Demand The Media Restoration Act. Saving the future of our world will be EXPENSIVE. Help cover the costs with The Revenue Tap Act. --THE MILLENNIUM MANDATE. Create a future worth saving"
(COMMERCIAL 4) "All those slogans. 'Peace on Earth.' 'Feed The Poor.' 'Care For The Planet." Suddenly they're taking on a whole new meaning. And all that talk about 'the revolution', what's that all about? Well... Think about your great-grandchildren. Are their lives worth 38 minutes of your time? Yes? Come and attend the MISSION: Global Survival Public Awareness Campaign. If you haven't already be sure to attend a live script reading with vivid multimedia presentation. Just call for dates and times. --Those 38 minutes will be time well spent. And... your great-grandchildren will thank you."
This is Voice of The Revolution. Now one might ask, who are we to interfere with the workings of politics, and just for a moment... more

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Wisconsin Pod #4 :) "The Un-Declared State of Emergency."

This is Voice of The Revolution. Thank you for joining me. We, all of us, Wisconsin, America, the world are facing a global and national upheaval and our media won't talk about it and our politicians have no plan of action. Perhaps this is a contributor to why 30 percent of Americans find themselves unable to sleep through the night. It is now anticipated that 40 percent of you will be under the care of a doctor for depression or anxiety.

The high hopes we placed on the internet as some sort of tool to change the world have gone unrealized. All those hours spent on line have have had NO observable or measurable EFFECT on revitalizing Wisconsin's ABSENT self-rule.

The openly acknowledged "brain-drain" occurring in Wisconsin should be treated like a state of emergency because what is left behind is NEED-LESS-LY diminished. And this causes a MORAL disaster. Because when your most ambitious, and creative, and inspired individuals move out of your state at the first opportunity the effect is draining. Especially on the children. Because Instead of having the stimulation of unconventional and inspired conjecture all around them, the young people INSTEAD face an ocean of corporate advertisers more than happy to fill the void.

For the first time in our nations history, the media and schools have decided to simply ignore the reality of our times. I am telling this to you to INFORM the NICE people with whom I now live, that there is a time to be nice and a time to be tough. Our history, and our citizenship and our love for our children makes it so. A fresh objective look at the state of the planet and the state of this nation connects us with the reality that we have to get TOUGH with the government that we have allowed to run amok.

Featuring four notorious TV Commercials "of the revolution!"
(COMMERCIAL 1) "Three Steps to Environmental Survival. Three Steps to Restoring America. A Leadership Organization in Three Parts. Common Sense of America. Custom Built to Save The Future"
(COMMERCIAL 2) "Figured it out yet? Unless you're prepared to GIVE your kids a better life, they're probably NOT going to have one. Don't be political Be Revolutionary. You get more."
(COMMERCIAL 3) "How do you erase the Honor and Virtue from a whole generation of Americans? It's simple.(up) Just fake those things to sell products. Support~ The Media Restoration Act ~ "
(COMMERCIAL 4) "So what's it going to be ... a new renaissance. or new dark age ...choice is yours"
This is Voice of The Revolution. Thank you for joining me. We, all of us, Wisconsin, America, the world are facing a global and... more

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Wisconsin Pod #3 :) "An Island of Justice, in An Ocean of Lies."

This is Voice of The Revolution. This is not about race, and it is not even about immigration believe it or not. America is on the receiving end of a criminal insurgency, and it will soon hit Wisconsin like a sledge hammer. As it has every state from California to Florida and every medium and large city in America. As it did my home town of Los Angeles. Did you know that L.A. has equalized with Calcutta India in "economic disparity"? Did you know that Southern California is now officially categorized as a THIRD WORLD REGION? And REMEMBER my promise to say only what can be proved scientifically. (COMMERCIAL 2)

And that trend or illegal resettlement is expanding at breathtaking speed. And we sit here defenseless. I can tell you from experience, as an eye witness when it hits this city the warmth, and friendliness, and generosity, and courtesy will vanish.

we have CHOSEN to be peasants, and in that choice we leave our children powerless against ANOTHER social catastrophe that is hard to fathom, if you have not lived outside of Wisconsin. There is a new wave of racism in America that is directed against Caucasian peoples and is thriving. It is empowered in your children's classroom, and justified in the media. (COMMERCIAL 3)

If you don't believe these things just go visit L.A. It's a heartbreaking realization and it causes questions to swirl in the mind about how this "disappearance of our citizenship" could even happen in the first place. And that's a fairly simple equation. It's about influence. Who... is influencing our kids? Other than parents and grandparents?

Featuring four notorious TV Commercials "of the revolution!"
(COMMERCIAL 1) "STOLEN UN-FAIR AND SQUARE! From a free-thinking, racial composite, speaking a single language --to a racism-obsessed, financially crunched fractured society speaking upwards of 160 NEW languages. All in just 30 short years. Your nation is slipping away. Take her back! Support the The Export Freedom Initiatives. Introducing: The Export Freedom Administration. The richest government department next to the Pentagon. And every penny is reserved for YOU"
(COMMERCIAL 2) "Your Taxes Pay for Your Political Government. Your Political Government is Knowingly Neglecting Your Borders. Therefore... Your Taxes Are Paying for The Illegal Resettlement of Your Nation. The Awakening... When your OWN government supports national re-colonization it's time to re-colonize your government. Introducing: The Export Freedom Administration. The richest government department next to the Pentagon. And every penny is reserved for YOU."
(COMMERCIAL 3) "Every Day: 10,000 NEW Illegal Aliens. Every Day: 2400 NEW Acres of URBAN SPRAWL. If we must have it,
we should at least have it in Our own language? Support the The National Language Act."
(COMMERCIAL 4) "As it now stands this is our gift to the future (ravaged planet shown) Saving planet earth is not a speech, Saving planet earth is not a piece of legislation. Saving planet earth is not slogans, special light bulbs or electric cars. Saving planet earth is a revolution." This is Voice of The Revolution. This is not about race, and it is not even about immigration believe it or not. America is on the... more

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Wisconsin Pod #2 :) "The Vital Obligation of Our Times."

This is Voice of The Revolution. The leading minds of our age are unequivocal. America and the world are in the opening stages of a long and uncomfortable "global fade-out". and at the very same moment we have let our politicians, the people who are supposed to be looking out for the wellbeing of our children simply go to work for corporations who are raking in vast fortunes from the very factors that are stealing the future.

As for the rest of us sitting here waiting for someone else to come along and fix it for us, we will be remembered as the worst generation of voters in American history. Why? To allow this state to become a political "dead-zone" as a mass extinction is beginning is indefensible.

And now here we are; Companies can raise prices of food and gas as they wish. The bank waits like a vulture to take your home. Advertisers prey upon your children like so many lab rats. The commercialized media has capitalized on our silence, and now. anyone who wants to reside illegally in your nation has a free pass to do so. Be advised, that the population of people who have done so is now estimated at 100 million and with "the machinery of self-rule" "DISABLED" your children will be powerless to do anything about it as those are joined by 100 million more, in deliberate disrespect of American law, in the next 30 years.

Featuring four notorious TV Commercials "of the revolution!"
(COMMERCIAL 1) Saying to us; "Trying to be a good parent? Looking at your children and thinking about their health, security, education and economic mobility is getting harder and harder as you realize that BOTH political parties have sold them out utterly. The morning, or week, or year after the next election and you realize that you have been conned yet again the Revolution is here for you."
(COMMERCIAL 2) "Why Revolution? We should all pose for a picture --waving through the camera to the people of the future. In the caption we could write: "Greetings from the moment of decision." We were all sitting around enjoying this (patriotic footage), and then we went to the polls and voted --and left you this (dead planet) "
(COMMERCIAL 3) "THE CONSTITUTION was designed to be used TO PRESERVE THE FUTURE OF THE NATION FOR YOU. Instead it has been USED TO TAKE IT FROM YOU. If the founding fathers came to us today... they would call on all Americans to galvanize into a movement to recover our quality of life and prepare for the coming storm. If the founding fathers came to us today... they would go door to door in legal US communities, not to take your guns -- but to make sure you still HAD them. If the founding fathers came to us today...they would immediately identify the crime wave surging into the country. Then without hesitation they would begin organizing militias. If the founding fathers came to us today... they would understand that we must update the constitution or see it shatter in the coming storm. ."
(COMMERCIAL 4) "STOLEN UN-FAIR AND SQUARE! From a free-thinking, racial composite, speaking a single language --to a racism-obsessed, financially crunched fractured society speaking upwards of 160 NEW languages. All in just 30 short years. Your nation is slipping away. Take her back! Support the The Export Freedom Initiatives. Introducing: The Export Freedom Administration. The richest government department next to the Pentagon. And every penny is reserved for YOU."

This is Voice of The Revolution. The leading minds of our age are unequivocal. America and the world are in the opening stages of... more