More immigration-Occupy synergy as ‘Occupy ICE’ comes to L.A.

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A sign at the Occupy L.A. camp, October 2011

Several posts lately have explored the immigrant rights component of the Occupy movement, at least in California, where Occupy protesters in Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego have counted immigration among the many issues they’ve taken up.

Last month, protesters in San Diego mounted an “Occupy ICE” rally organized by the local janitors’ union. The Service Employees International Union has joined with with other labor, civil and immigrant rights groups to do the same in Los Angeles today, with a march to the downtown federal building, which houses a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office.

In spite of recent immigration-related Occupy protests in New York and Alabama, perhaps nowhere has the Occupy movement – initially accused of being too white – been as involved with immigrant rights activism as in California. Late last month, as police prepared to remove the protesters’ camp outside City Hall, Occupy Los Angeles leaders put together and posted a list of “grievances not addressed” that included this request:

Los Angeles to be declared a sanctuary city for the undocumented, deportations to be discontinued and cooperation with immigration authorities be ended – including the turning in of arrestees’ names to immigration authorities.

In the Bay Area, some protesters became involved in a “Free Pancho” movement after the arrest in Oakland of Mexican-born protester and former graduate student Francisco “Pancho Ramos-Stierle, which landed him in the custody of immigration officials. Ramos-Stierle was eventually released pending a deportation hearing.

According to the Occupy Los Angeles website, protesters today are rallying “to help end the targeting of immigrant workers and their families, who have struggled to make poverty jobs, into good jobs!” (That’s their exclamation point.)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-A-Randolph/1072710600 John A Randolph

    American voters must be among the most ignorant voters in the world.
    They keep voting in Republicans or Democrats who are bank rolled by the
    same elite who have been tag-team raping them for years.

    They can’t see that the same 1% who rape them are the same 1% who rape the undocument­ed.

    Failed immigratio­n is created and designed by the elite who run both government­s.
    This is no different than failed mortgages, failed health care, loss
    of jobs, and our failing economy. This insidious 1% causes these
    failures because they profit at the expense of both the US taxpayers and
    the Mexican undocument­ed.

    Are American voters really so propagandi­zed that they can’t figure
    out why not one single U.S. politician criticizes the Mexican
    government for anything? The undocument­ed would not come or stay
    here if that filthy, corrupt co-trading partner of the American elite
    would take care of its own citizens. The majority of undocument­ed
    care deeply about their families and would stay at home if they could
    make a decent living wage working with their families.

    Its about bi-nationa­l drug profits, trade, oil, remittance­s, the privatizat­ion
    of prisons, cheap labor, weapons profit, NAFTA, and a 40 year long
    political platform that only sways back and forth, and never forward.

    I invite OWS to embrace the undocument­ed who are protesting­. Shame on both these pitiful government­s who fail to address the immigratio­n nightmare that they profit from.http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2011/11/american-voters-most-ignorant-in-world.html

  • Dave Francis

    ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, FINANCIAL COSTS AND ITS ISSUES?

    Wouldn’t it be a novelty if the U.S. government worked for the major majority
    of the American people? Instead they have cultivated a relationship with
    Communist founded (ACLU), American Civil Liberties Union and the (SPLC)
    Southern Poverty Law Center, now being sued for slander, libel and
    defamation by Richard Mack, former sheriff of Graham County, Arizona, and
    founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association. Even
    Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been verbally assassinated for carrying out his duties. The
    Liberal media has perpetuated this issue, as they cannot disguise their heavily
    pro-illegal alien stance. But the Obama Administration seemed to be adverse
    against laws, which constitute the removal by deportation of illegal migrants
    and immigrants. At a steady pace Obama’s Department of Justice was asserting
    its power earlier the administration to do exactly that, but then the president
    exercised his authority by executive order, without too much notice cut back on
    apprehensions of foreign nationals within the 50 states. Since his advancement
    of a second term in the Oval office, he seems to be genuflecting to the largest
    block of all, the Hispanic population. He has had a failing grade by illegal
    and legal immigrants, and now to curry favor has directed ICE agents not to
    apprehend illegal aliens who have minor criminal records or not at all.

     

    While patriotic Americans, the TEA PARTY are resolutely against this sudden
    outrageous act, with a stroke of Obama’s pen. The ‘Rule of Law’ handed down to
    us from the 1986 Immigration Control and Reform bill has additionally been
    subverted to gain an advantage with the millions of foreigners who have illegal
    settled here. Today our enforcement laws are a ‘Lost Cause” as the border
    fence is a poor example of what the perimeter is supposed to be on our Southern
    Border. The fence that remains incomplete is still easily skirted by drug
    cartel gangsters and the smuggling of human cargo into our cities. The
    Americans who along the border region, still live in fear of hostile invasion
    of persons, cutting cattle fences, leaving piles of garbage and some who even
    violate their homes. I have heard that the numbers of migrants arrested have
    dropped, but what about the 20 million plus already here, what about the 8 or 9
    million who have jobs, that if displaced would soon be occupied by citizen and
    permanent residents. Even today the private business sector still believe they
    are above the law, but even the slowdown of immigration audits have a very
    different opinion as business that hire foreigners are on the federal court
    dockets.

     

    Even so Mayors like Antonio Villaraigosa thinks enforcement laws, don’t apply to them. The
    spendthrifts in Washington has never owned up to the ongoing expenditures for
    the illegal alien assault? Although highly studied by the Heritage Foundation projects
    costs of $113 billion dollars annually. Then the godfather Sanctuary city of Los
    Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich claimed the “total cost for
    illegal immigrants to county taxpayers” was more than $1.6 billion in 2010.

     

    SO WHAT IS THE COSTS
    TO SUPPORT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS (MIGRANTS) IN YOUR STATE?  BOTH PARTIES CAN
    BE ACCUSED OF THIS TRAVESTY?  THAT
    INCLUDES NOT ENACTING A BILL EVER, THAT ENTRY SHOULD BE CLARIFIED AS A FELONY.
    DELIBERATE UNDERMINING LAWS TO ENCOURAGE ILLEGAL PERSONS TO COME HERE AS LOW
    PRICED LABOR AND FOR DEMOCRATS MILLIONS OF VOTES. THE TEA PARTY VITAL
    INITIATIVE IS TO GET RID OF—ALL—INCUMBENTS, “WHILE WE STILL CAN”.

     

     

    After Newt Gingrich speech
    that people who have been here for 25 years, should be at least be able to
    stay. However this would be an impossible task, as everyone who have overstayed
    are guilty of a—FELONY. To Work, to get a job they are culpable by ID theft. They
    must have fraudulent ID to be hired and further to obtain other official
    documents.

     

     

    This Los Angeles Mayor has corresponded with ICE, because he
    doesn’t want to impose ‘Secure Communities, on the gigantic illegal alien neighborhoods,
    especially when Secure Communities roots out the invaders through fingerprints
    sent from local police to ICE.  However,
    what makes his county or city any different from the rest of the country? Then
    Mayors, chief of police and other elected officials also think their exempt, by
    enacting ordinances to adopt Sanctuary Cities. Similar event is occurring in
    New Haven Connecticut where this mindless Major DeStefano wants illegal
    aliens the right to vote and is going to lobby the state legislature to allow
    the communities immigrants, including non-citizens, to vote in local elections.
    A new Pew Research Center poll for 2012 elections has indicated that incensed members
    of the public are going unseat incumbents throwing them out of office. Perhaps
    while the American electorate are in this angry mood they should add Governors,
    Mayors and city Councilors to the list. Head the list with Mayor DeStefano, as
    Non-citizens means illegal immigrants can vote in local elections to
    assure the mayor cannot lose the next election as he almost did in the past
    election. Add Mayor Villaraigosa, as he desires to undermine what little
    enforcement ICE has the authority to impose. Illegal Immigration is riding high
    with the economy and jobs.

     

     

    All are connected by the thread of financial instability?
    Americans seem to underestimate the cost for subsidizing illegal parents with
    their children. Smuggled into the United States through international airline
    terminals a immigration official is unable to determine if a women is pregnant
    and coming here to relive Americans of their welfare and public assistance
    programs. This is not confined to just airlines as any entry port along the
    border, is just as open to a female carrying a fetus. It is estimated that
    300.000 women enter America under force deception, solely to gain free health
    care for their unborn child; others simply reach America through the thousands
    of miles of undefended border. The United States has an antiquated system of
    entry, without any means of tracking the individual once inside our borders.
    But however charitable our country is, we just cannot continue on this path.
    Costs are just gargantuan, which is further attenuated by the unsympathetic
    judicial systems that have forced taxpayers to carry the outrageous burden of
    the payee for everything financial? By law taxpayers are extorted of through
    taxes for illegal children to k-12, with free breakfast and lunches.

     

    Under the present law must pay for food stamps, low income
    housing; just to name a few. No state is exempt from the 14th
    Amendment law, to supply free welfare to any child born within the USA.
    Currently there is a bill in passage with 80 sponsors to stop this travesty of
    our laws. Rep. Steve King’s (R-IA) Birthright
    Citizenship Act of 2011, which would stop the misinterpreted practice of
    instant citizenship to children of illegal alien parents, unless one parent is
    either a citizen or naturalized citizen. Change is needed and only voters
    harassing their US and state lawmakers, will bring some sanity to this
    notorious law. Change also is required to stop nationwide businesses hiring
    illegal workers. Every American has heard of the Mandatory E-Verify law that has
    now 72 sponsors. With only 28 co-sponsors to go forward, the E-Verify, ‘THE
    LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT’ can and will punish employers who hire unauthorized
    workers. Again American voter’s participation can make the difference by
    pressing Congressional members in the House to pass this bill. The ‘Legal
    Workforce Act’ is massively beneficial to jobless people, who quickly see an
    opportunity when work is scarce. Commit yourself to contact your
    Representatives and insist they sponsor ‘The Legal Workforce Act’ The bill will
    have the advantage of not only penalizing inveterate business owners, but this
    potential law will send illegal aliens scurrying home, as with no work
    available that is their only option, taking family members with them.

     

     

    This will bring to a halt
    of intimidation by the Department of Justice on states that has found it
    impossible to keep financially supporting millions of invaders who arrived and
    stayed, by whatever means. This is all complicated by the attachment of faith
    groups, the radical open border nuts and the special interest lobby, who think
    we own the world a living. THEN ALABAMA FOR INSTANCE HAS SEEN A CONSIDERABLE
    DROP IN UNEMPLOYMENT, SINCE THE ENACTMENT OF IMMIGRATION POLICING LAWS. Just
    remember that most business owners have no conscious, just the thought of cheap
    labor adding to the additional profits; or the Democratic side perpetually
    looking for more voters, no matter the consequence to the working population.
    We saw this materialize in previous elections with the ACORN organization
    registering non-citizens to vote. There have been eleven State attorney General
    prosecuting these people, but there already setting up the canvassers under a
    different name. Our voting system has been compromised, so we must demand
    everybody who votes possess some kind of official picture ID.

     

     

    Either party seems to
    ignore the fact that taxpayers must bear the cost of carrying people from other
    countries and this is entirely wrong. Our country is being vigorously reset by
    the Liberal extremists and progressives and radical environmentalists. The
    latter would have all on bicycles than exploit the huge mineral and oil
    resources that lay beneath the earth. We have a massive abundance of oil
    deposits, natural gas, clean coal that can power our country for generations.
    Doesn’t mean we cannot tap the wind, geothermal a solar energy, but not rides
    into it blindly as President Obama and others have tried to do. Recognize that
    the TEA PARTY are the only sane party (The American physical Conservatives) and
    Independents for avoiding deficit spending, reduction of overall  government spending, national debt reduction,
    free trade, deregulation and of ultimate importance lower taxes. This includes
    rigid enforcement of all laws and no amnesty for persons who trespass in our
    country.

     

     

    As a voter its imperative you call Washington at
    202-224-3121, or you can read about this indignation at NumbersUSA website.
    America does and always has welcomed—LEGAL IMMIGRANTS—and always will. The 50
    states also welcome highly skilled workers who are educated in the Sciences,
    Engineering and technology. These Immigrants will never end up in the welfare
    lines. This country must inhibit the poverty from other countries, as we cannot
    even look after our own people who are in dire need of food and a decent life.

     

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