Comments for Explore Homeland http://explorehomeland.org Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:09:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Comment on How Many Countries Offer Birthright Citizenship? by jj http://explorehomeland.org/citizenship/how-many-countries-offer-birthright-citizenship/#comment-2248 jj Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:09:17 +0000 http://explorehomeland.org/?p=11102#comment-2248 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! 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!

]]> Comment on Watch Frontline’s “Lost in Detention” on Nine PBS by cyber monday watches http://explorehomeland.org/enforcement/watch-frontlines-lost-in-detention-on-nine-pbs/#comment-2232 cyber monday watches Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:55:25 +0000 http://explorehomeland.org/?p=11410#comment-2232 What i don't realize is in fact how you're no longer really a lot more neatly-favored than you might be right now. You are so intelligent. You recognize therefore considerably relating to this subject, produced me in my view imagine it from so many varied angles. Its like men and women don't seem to be interested except it is something to accomplish with Woman gaga! Your personal stuffs excellent. Always take care of it up! What i don’t realize is in fact how you’re no longer really a lot more neatly-favored than you might be right now. You are so intelligent. You recognize therefore considerably relating to this subject, produced me in my view imagine it from so many varied angles. Its like men and women don’t seem to be interested except it is something to accomplish with Woman gaga! Your personal stuffs excellent. Always take care of it up!

]]> Comment on Legal Temporary Workforce vs. Citizenship by Byron http://explorehomeland.org/citizenship/legal-temporary-workforce-vs-citizenship/#comment-2188 Byron Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:14:19 +0000 http://explorehomeland.org/?p=11458#comment-2188 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.... 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 http://explorehomeland.org/immigration/%e2%80%98undocumented%e2%80%99-or-%e2%80%98illegal%e2%80%99-360-perspectives/#comment-2187 J Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:27:36 +0000 http://explorehomeland.org/?p=5526#comment-2187 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. 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.

]]> Comment on The 14th Amendment — Roundtable: Making Amends by felicia http://explorehomeland.org/citizenship/the-14th-amendment-%e2%80%94-roundtable-making-amends/#comment-2182 felicia Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:12:17 +0000 http://explorehomeland.org/?p=3880#comment-2182 Thank you for this article , i like it! Thank you for this article , i like it!

]]> Comment on Watch Frontline’s “Lost in Detention” on Nine PBS by Kevin D http://explorehomeland.org/enforcement/watch-frontlines-lost-in-detention-on-nine-pbs/#comment-2179 Kevin D Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:34:27 +0000 http://explorehomeland.org/?p=11410#comment-2179 The quote of the show that says it all is: MARIA HINOJOSA: [on camera] So just to be clear, Chairman, you believe that anyone who is in this country without papers, regardless of whether they’ve committed any other crime, should at some point be targeted and processed for deportation. Papers... change this word to the correct term illegal and the question turns in to an insight how the correspondent and director view illegal immigration as not a crime or breaking the law. This is one of the main issues that got us in to this quagmire. The quote to me says "If someone breaks the law why should they be punished? You are a heartless person that wants justice and a land of laws". I disagree on how this program was done so one sided. You missed a great opportunity to point out how we got to the point we are at and how to fix this. The coverage of the detention centers was good that it points out the serious issues that need to be fixed. But you condemned the wrong people. This is a breakdown of laws that citizens have allowed to happen. If you blame the government you need to blame you self for allowing it to get to this point. The points that come up from other posters are the fair treatment of detainees. This has to be done. Next is the issue of families being separated, with the point that is the case of the parent’s choices. The laws that make so children born in the US are citizens are flawed. If one or both of the parents are US citizens this is when their children should be citizens also. Next we need the people to come here and work and live and become part of our country. Open new Ellis island points and let them come in. They are needed and if allowed to come in legally is a mutual benefit. This way they can go back and forth to their home country and if they want become citizens. It’s a great win-win. On the flip side people and companies the keep hiring illegal works must have their business licenses revoked and punishments. We must as a people amend the laws we have this is the only way to fix this issue. We are stronger with legal immigration done the right way. Legal immigration is who we are. The quote of the show that says it all is:
MARIA HINOJOSA: [on camera] So just to be clear, Chairman, you believe that anyone who is in this country without papers, regardless of whether they’ve committed any other crime, should at some point be targeted and processed for deportation.

Papers… change this word to the correct term illegal and the question turns in to an insight how the correspondent and director view illegal immigration as not a crime or breaking the law. This is one of the main issues that got us in to this quagmire. The quote to me says “If someone breaks the law why should they be punished? You are a heartless person that wants justice and a land of laws”.

I disagree on how this program was done so one sided. You missed a great opportunity to point out how we got to the point we are at and how to fix this. The coverage of the detention centers was good that it points out the serious issues that need to be fixed. But you condemned the wrong people. This is a breakdown of laws that citizens have allowed to happen. If you blame the government you need to blame you self for allowing it to get to this point. The points that come up from other posters are the fair treatment of detainees. This has to be done. Next is the issue of families being separated, with the point that is the case of the parent’s choices. The laws that make so children born in the US are citizens are flawed. If one or both of the parents are US citizens this is when their children should be citizens also. Next we need the people to come here and work and live and become part of our country. Open new Ellis island points and let them come in. They are needed and if allowed to come in legally is a mutual benefit. This way they can go back and forth to their home country and if they want become citizens. It’s a great win-win. On the flip side people and companies the keep hiring illegal works must have their business licenses revoked and punishments. We must as a people amend the laws we have this is the only way to fix this issue. We are stronger with legal immigration done the right way. Legal immigration is who we are.

]]> Comment on Little Bosnia: Economic Impact by Mandy http://explorehomeland.org/refugees/little-bosnia-economic-impact/#comment-2149 Mandy Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:48:29 +0000 http://explorehomeland.org/?p=6623#comment-2149 P.S. The American government is like St. Louis weather, 'If it isn't nice now, wait awile, it will get better'. P.S. The American government is like St. Louis weather, ‘If it isn’t nice now, wait awile, it will get better’.

]]> Comment on Little Bosnia: Economic Impact by Mandy http://explorehomeland.org/refugees/little-bosnia-economic-impact/#comment-2148 Mandy Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:34:16 +0000 http://explorehomeland.org/?p=6623#comment-2148 I am a South St. Louis native. It's great to see so many businesses revitalizing the area. The problem I have is such: Bosnian immigrants disparaging the American government. This is a nation the Bosnians fled to during their war. I understand the current government is lacking, but legal, illegal, or undocumented immigrants have no right criticizing the American government, on American soil. If foreign immigrants do not approve of U.S. policies, then they should re-locate to a country they can respect. I'm just sayin'. I am a South St. Louis native. It’s great to see so many businesses revitalizing the area. The problem I have is such: Bosnian immigrants disparaging the American government. This is a nation the Bosnians fled to during their war. I understand the current government is lacking, but legal, illegal, or undocumented immigrants have no right criticizing the American government, on American soil. If foreign immigrants do not approve of U.S. policies, then they should re-locate to a country they can respect. I’m just sayin’.

]]> Comment on Reactions Pour In To Administration’s New Deportation Guidelines by James Leonard Park http://explorehomeland.org/enforcement/reactions-pour-in-to-administration%e2%80%99s-new-deportation-guidelines/#comment-2139 James Leonard Park Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:34:12 +0000 http://explorehomeland.org/?p=11232#comment-2139 Readers who want to know more about the new deportation guidelines might check out this Internet offering: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/MORTON.html This presentation of 20 factors to be considered in deciding whether or not to prosecute is called: MORTON MEMO EXPLAINED. Readers who want to know more about the new deportation guidelines might check out this Internet offering:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/MORTON.html
This presentation of 20 factors to be considered in deciding whether or not to prosecute is called:
MORTON MEMO EXPLAINED.

]]> Comment on Reactions Pour In To Administration’s New Deportation Guidelines by Fang Hsieh http://explorehomeland.org/enforcement/reactions-pour-in-to-administration%e2%80%99s-new-deportation-guidelines/#comment-2111 Fang Hsieh Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:54:08 +0000 http://explorehomeland.org/?p=11232#comment-2111 This is a very good and needed start to resolve our immigration issues. Most of these immigrants are contributing to the betterment of our country, and they are risking much to have a chance at a piece of the American dream. It's encouraging to see there are many who still believe in America's future possibilities. This is a very good and needed start to resolve our immigration issues. Most of these immigrants are contributing to the betterment of our country, and they are risking much to have a chance at a piece of the American dream. It’s encouraging to see there are many who still believe in America’s future possibilities.

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