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Comment on “Undocumented” or “Illegal”?; 360 Perspectives by Roni Belko

Roni Belko — Tue, 08 May 2012 04:23:17 +0000

When entering a county illegally, such as entering under the cover of night, entering without a passport or papers authorizing the entry, “Sneaking In” the individual is an Illegal Alien. They entered Illegally, breaking a law, and since they are not a citizen of the country they have entered they are alien. Therefore Illegal Alien is the correct term to describe said individual.

Comment on Homeland Series by Lessons Learned with Frank Popper | Passerby

Lessons Learned with Frank Popper | Passerby — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:22:06 +0000

[...] [working title]: Immigration in America. Homeland is a three-hour documentary series, set to air on PBS later this year, which tells the contemporary [...]

Comment on Promises Kept and Unkept—President Barack Obama and Immigration by Mary Pegler

Mary Pegler — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 05:56:28 +0000

Please read this story on the link. http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-the-deportation-of-ricardo-cote-a-030670545
This man is in deportation proceedings after a lifetime here.

Comment on My Name Is Mr. Ramirez, and I’m Facing Deportation by Jim

Jim — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:46:25 +0000

Stop referring to him and others as undocumented immigrants. He is not an immigrant. He is here illegally, and did not follow immigration laws. He has taken the place of those who are awaiting legal immigration opportunity. He should be sent back immediately, and fined. His employers should also be fined. He is an illegal. This web page fails to acknowledge the truth.

Comment on The First Homeland Documentary Preview is Here – Take a Look by Gramos Osmani

Gramos Osmani — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:41:40 +0000

Nice to hear that are such nice persons who help the emigrants

Comment on How Many Countries Offer Birthright Citizenship? by jj

jj — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:09:17 +0000

It is not disgracfull its true this system is letting people become citzens and use the tax money of us citzens while there families dont even pay taxes. Does that seem right to you? I think not!

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Comment on Immigrants and the U.S. Military by Blog 4: The Importance of Public Media « Missouri Communication

Blog 4: The Importance of Public Media « Missouri Communication — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:55:15 +0000

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Comment on Legal Temporary Workforce vs. Citizenship by Byron

Byron — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:14:19 +0000

My preliminary feeling is that a visa system for legal temporary workforce would be fine but not as a replacement for more comprehensive legislation which including a reasonable amnesty plan….

Comment on “Undocumented” or “Illegal”?; 360 Perspectives by J

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:27:36 +0000

Illegal is when you are undocumented AND you have actually committed a crime.
Undocumented is when you’re here legally but it takes ICE eighteen months to process your paperwork and you’re picked up in that time for NOT having those papers. Undocumented is when a piece of paper gets lost or filed in the wrong folder, and when they go to check to see if you’re legal they ASSUME since that paper is not where it should be you ARE illegal. Undocumented is when you can be deported for someone else’s clerical error.
Right after my parents died and I graduated high school, I found out I was illegal beause Mom and Dad adopted me from overseas s an infant (something they NEVER TOLD ME) and ICE had lost my adoption paper and were therefore going to deport me.
After spending three years in ICE prisons and a deportation camp, I got out and tried to find work. Because of that ‘former illegal’ tag, I was now ineligible for any local,state, and federal job. I was on welfare and food stamps when the Census Bureau came through the welfare office hiring people to go door-to-door, and I got in line with everyone else…and was then rejected because I was formerly in trouble with ICE.
Every employer I apply with from now till the end of my life has to be told I have an ICE file. My background check will come up clean, no arrests, no speeding tickets, not even a parking ticket, but it will show that I have a three-year prison record. When I try to explain that to an employer it takes me an hour to get the whole story out and many won’t hire me after that because they don’t want to have to deal with ICE in any way, shape or form–ICE is a career death sentence.
I found a job with my current employer by coming in as a temp; when they hired me they sat through the whole hour-long explanation and then said, ‘why is ICE penalizing you for them losing your paperwork?’
I didn’t have an answer for that because I don’t know either.