It Figures…

New Immigration Laws:

Read to the bottom or you will miss the message…

1. There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools.
2. All ballots will be in this nation’s language.
3. All government business will be conducted in our language.
4. Non-residents will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long they are here.
5. Non-citizens will NEVER be able to hold political office.
6. Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers. No welfare, no food stamps, no health care, or other government assistance programs. Any burden will be deported.
7. Foreigners can invest in this country, but it must be an amount at least equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.
8. If foreigners come here and buy land… options will be restricted. Certain parcels including waterfront property are reserved for citizens naturally born into this country.
9. Foreigners may have no protests; no demonstrations, no waving of a foreign flag, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our president or his policies. These will lead to deportation.
10. If you do come to this country illegally, you will be actively hunted and when caught, sent to jail until your deportation can be arranged. All assets will be taken from you.

The above laws are current immigration laws of MEXICO!!

Obama’s Aunt

Interesting how the aunt of Obama, an ILLEGAL ALIEN, was able to obtain political asylum and stay in this country.  And as an Illegal Alien, she was living in public housing and probably collecting lots of other public assistance from the government….all at the taxpayers expense!!  Must be a case of  ”WHO YOU KNOW”!!!!

Obama’s aunt is granted asylum

Critics contend politics played role in decision

By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff  |  May 18, 2010

President Obama’s aunt, Zeituni Polly Onyango, an enigmatic figure who exploded onto the national scene in 2008 while living illegally in Boston, has been granted permission to stay in the United States, the immigration court said yesterday.

Judge Leonard I. Shapiro granted her asylum Friday in Boston, three months after Onyango’s lawyers said she feared violence and health risks if she were forced to return to her native Kenya. The ruling clears the way for her to apply for legal permanent residency in a year, and US citizenship after five years.

Onyango, the half-sister of the president’s late father, declined to comment.

“I’m tired,’’ Onyango, who lives in public housing in South Boston, said by telephone. She referred questions to her lawyer.

Shapiro issued the ruling after hearing hours of testimony from Onyango and two medical doctors in a closed-door hearing in February. Because asylum cases are confidential, the decision was not made public, said court spokeswoman Lauren Alder Reid.

Onyango’s lawyer, Margaret Wong, did not respond to numerous requests for an interview. Before the hearing in February, Wong told reporters that Onyango would testify that she feared tribal violence if she were forced to return home. She and Obama’s father were members of the Luo tribe, a minority in Kenya.

Asylum seekers must show that they fear persecution in their native lands based on race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a social group.

Wong said Onyango would also ask to remain in this country for health reasons. She suffers from Guillain-Barré syndrome, an autoimmune disorder.

Now, Onyango will be allowed to receive a work permit, a Social Security number, and a driver’s license or state identification card, Wong said in a statement issued yesterday.

Shapiro’s ruling caps a long, odyssey for Onyango, who first met Obama in 1988 when he visited Kenya while in his 20s. In Kenya, she was his guide and family storyteller, sharing stories of his father, who died in a 1982 car crash, and how he had helped her escape an abusive marriage when she had no money. Barack Obama Sr. was absent most of Obama’s life.

The president included Onyango in his 1995 memoir, “Dreams from My Father,’’ but has said that he was unaware of her immigration issues before the case came up.

He vowed to stay out of the case. The White House did not respond to requests for comment yesterday.

However, the decision unleashed a firestorm of criticism from those who felt Onyango received preferential treatment because of her relationship with the president.

“What just happened for her almost never happens for other illegal aliens,’’ said William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, a national organization. “The rule of law is out the door.’’

Roy Beck, president of NumbersUSA in Washington, the largest national group favoring restrictions on immigration, called it “an abuse of the asylum policy.’’

Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, called on Shapiro to release the decision publicly.

“Given Onyango’s relationship to the president, the American people have a right to know on what grounds Ms. Onyango’s asylum was granted,’’ Stein said in a statement.

But others praised Shapiro and said it seemed legitimate to consider Onyango’s case, since she had unexpectedly become a public figure who would be at greater risk if she were forced to return to Kenya.

“I’m sure she had a fair hearing, which is what our system is all about,’’ said Anthony Drago, chairman of the New England chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Asylum “is a very difficult standard to meet. If he granted the case, there was a very good reason to do it.’’

William Joyce, an immigration lawyer and former judge, said Shapiro is an independent judge with the “utmost integrity.’’

“Any notion that he was just doing what he was told is ludicrous,’’ said Joyce.

Shapiro rejected 67 percent of the asylum cases he heard from 2004-2009, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, higher than the state and national averages. Nationally, immigration judges rejected 57 percent of the cases, while Boston judges rejected about 61 percent.

Onyango, who turns 58 this month, came to the United States in 2000 seeking a better life and applied for political asylum in 2002, but was rejected in 2004 and ordered to leave the country.

Instead, she remained undetected until just before Election Day, when she was discovered living quietly in Boston. Because of the publicity, she fled to stay with relatives in Cleveland. There, she hired Wong, who filed a new petition to reopen her case. Shapiro agreed to reopen Onyango’s case in December 2008. His decision was expected by May 25.

The US government’s lawyers have 30 days to appeal the decision, according to the immigration court. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which handled the government’s case, declined to comment.

Maria Sacchetti can be reached at msacchetti@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter at @mariasacchetti.

Don’t Raise My Taxes

Sure, if I worked for an agency that got State money, or worked for a school district that got tax dollars, or worked for any government taxing body, then go ahead and raise my taxes.  It is like getting my own money back and doesn’t seem to hurt as much.

Guess that is what those people in Springfield were thinking yesterday when they were marching and asking our state legislators to raise our taxes.  Of course they said it is for the kids, the sick, the mentally ill, etc…Bull Shit, it is for them so they don’t lose their jobs.

But if you are like 99% of the working people in this state that do not earn tax dollars, then DO NOT RAISE OUR TAXES!!!  We can’t afford it.  We are already taxed to death.  Run this state like a business, not business as usual!!!!

Census and Illegal Aliens

Lots in the news lately about whether or not the Census should count Illegal Aliens.  In a word….NO, absolutely not.  Why should they be counted, why should their areas get more government money (our tax dollars!!!), why should they get local, state and federal benefits, why, why, why????  They are here illegally, they should have no rights or benefits.  And if they do, then we elected the wrong people!!  The only thing we should give them is a one-way ticket home (and they should have to pay for that too).  Show me another country that will take in illegal aliens with open arms like the good old USA does.  Time for a change, so please support politicians that will clean up this mess once and for all (if there are any with guts).

2010 Census and Waste

Ok, so how many of you received the letter this week from the United States Census??  They said on the news they mailed this out to at least 90%+ of USA addresses.  Now, do you really need this letter…a letter to tell you that in a week you will received another letter with the real Census???  Not a letter I need.  More paper for the landfills (another topic).  Perhaps the government is trying to subsidise the US Postal Service, but it seems like a complete waste to me.  Think of it, all the printing costs, envelopes, time and machines to assemble in the envelopes, the postage, the manpower.  What is wrong with you Robert M. Groves, Director, U.S. Census Bureau??  Damn it, when is the government going to stop wasting our tax dollars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!