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Immigrants To Denmark-Who Is Happy? Unhappy?
The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues | 2 hours ago by Fred Stopsky
In 2001, a Conservative-Liberal government assumed power and promised the people of Denmark it would take action to reduce immigration.In 2001, the Immigration service issued 36,000 permanent and temporary residence permits, in 2007, it issued 58,000 read more
A Response to the “Citizen of the World”
The Sisyphus Files | 18 hours ago by Sisyphus
NRO: It’s America, Obama — A modest dissent to the citizen of the world By Victor Davis Hanson With all due respect, I also don’t believe the world did anything to save Berlin, just as it did nothing to save the Rwandans or the Iraqis u read more
links for 2008-07-24
Chip's Quips | July 24th 2008 by Sterling Camden
Adam @ Dusk » Elephants All The Way Up Hadn’t seen this one before. Fascinating…Subscribed. (tags: consciousness mind) SCHOOL — 1957 vs. 2007 - iBLOGthere4iM I might not believe that everything in 1957 was as rosy and normal as read more
A Stranger in a Strange Land
Fighting Monsters | July 23rd 2008 by cb
Arriving in a new country with little notice or planning can be disorientating at best. Although some of the language may be familiar through years of study, it’s different when you hit the ground running, so to speak. And it isn’t just l read more
U.K. Marriage Visa Age Raised to Prevent Forced Marriages
Net News Publisher | July 23rd 2008 by Terry
The age at which someone can apply for a marriage visa will increase from 18 to 21 as part of a crackdown on forced marriage, the Home Office announced today. Statistics show that 30 per cent of the cases dealt with by the Government’s Forced M read more
Mike Munger the Political Scientist (not the candidate) on Immigr…
Delaware Libertarian | July 23rd 2008 by Steve Newton
A short take of Dr Michael Munger (in his capacity as Chair of Political Science at Duke University, not Libertarian candidate for Governor of North Carolina) discussing immigration and the presidential election with a colleague:Again, as I watch thi read more
Sanctuary city kills citizen
MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy | July 23rd 2008 by Beth
First the video. This will be hard, but go here and watch this: It is a woman talking about her dead family. Anthony Bolognas and his family were out for a drive. He accidentally blocked an intersection. He realized it and backed his car up to al read more
PR firm's misconduct on Essential Estrogen documented by trade ma…
Essential Estrogen | July 23rd 2008 by LW
5W Public Relations, a New York-based firm hired last month by Agriprocessors, has told PR Week that a comment left on this blog was not fraudulent, but done at the bequest of Uri L'Tzedek, an Orthodox Jewish social group to which it was attributed. read more
Democracy Now segment on the Postville immigration raids
Essential Estrogen | July 23rd 2008 by LW
Democracy Now journalist Amy Goodman interviewed court interpreter Erik Camayd-Freixas, who served at the National Cattle Congress in Waterloo during the Postville immigration raid aftermath. For those who have not already read it, Camayd-Freixas wr read more
Islam Must Be Criticized All the Time
Ironic Surrealism II | July 23rd 2008 by Velvet Hammer
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” - 1 Peter 5:8 Embedded video Islam Must Be Criticized All the Time “Lan astaslem.” I will not submit. I will not surrend read more
Islam Must Be Criticized All the Time
Scarlett Crusader | July 23rd 2008 by Velvet Hammer
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” - 1 Peter 5:8 Link @YouTube (Click link to support this brilliant video) “Lan astaslem.” I will not submit. I will not sur read more
San Francisco: Sanctuary for Murderers
Liberty Just in Case | July 23rd 2008
Lo siento mucho! I want San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to say (…and in perfect accented Spanish no less) that to the WIFE of Anthony Bologna and his two children- Matthew and Michael. Local and federal authorities in San Francisco are pointin read more
The Opposite Of Progress Is Truly Congress
EckerNet.Com | July 23rd 2008
It’s been said that the opposite of Progress is Congress, and never has that been more true that on the immigration issue. They could have easily passed legislation that secured our borders, expelled the criminals within our borders and reform read more
Business owner says illegal immigration costing local jobs
The Compass | July 22nd 2008 by Feral
I was confronted, in the past, by pro invasion supporters who used the “Buzz Line” “Without Mexican Immigrants working in our country, grapes would be $5.00 a pound” Well first of all the people over running our borders are no read more
Immigration Change for Americans
ZenKimchi - the blog of another waygook in korea | July 22nd 2008
According to this info from Ask the Consul, the U.S. Embassy Seoul site, Americans will no longer be able to use online background checks to apply for E-2 visas. Now, it’s a little vague, but it also seems to suggest that the U.S. Embassy can read more
Another Agriprocessors Worker Convicted, Awaiting Sentencing
Essential Estrogen | July 22nd 2008 by LW
A 26-year-old man from Guatemala has pleaded guilty in federal court to using fraudulent documents in order to obtain employment at Agriprocessors, Inc. in Postville. Carlos Tzirin-Rodriguez, who was not originally detained in the May 12 immigration read more
Virginia Teen Adds Her Voice to Immigration Debate
Essential Estrogen | July 22nd 2008 by LW
Suzie Eskelund, a 17-year-old from Manassas, Virginia, recently wrote a tongue-in-cheek letter to the editor in the Manassas Journal Messenger. I'm going to reprint it here (with a hat tip to Anti-BVBL) since it may be of interest to those who've bee read more
San Francisco bungles Sanctuary City law as immigrant kills after…
Orange Juice! | July 22nd 2008 by Art Pedroza
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (pictured above), a Democrat who wants to be our next Governor, may have just killed the concept of “Sanctuary Cities” for immigrants. “Authorities couldn’t fully explain Monday how an allege read more
Teaching English Language Learners: What Seems to Work in America…
Compelling Conversations in the ESL/EFL world | July 22nd 2008 by Eric18
Do English language learners, or English as a Second language students, learn better in sheltered programs? Should students receive some instruction in their native language – and if so, for how long? Are there clear differences to effectively writ read more
The Authoritarian Security State At Work
Another Point of View | July 21st 2008 by Pierre H. Vachon
From matttbastard:Homeland Insecurity in the US Dividing Refugee FamiliesReminds me of this, and that and all those other "little" things.Go read matttbastard's post.Now.Thank you. read more
Maybe next time…
Bisdak Babbles | July 21st 2008 by shiera
I came here 2 years ago with one-year work visa. So I had to go to the immigration office last year and was again given a year extension. It was about to expire so I paid the immigration office a visit two weeks ago. My Filipino colleagues were giv read more
We come from the land of the ice and snow
A Free Man: Simply Music | July 21st 2008 by Chris
Dr. O’C is the latest member of A Free Man’s household to crack the job market. After what will be nearly a year in the purgatory of stay-at-home motherhood (she would quite possibly use a different word), Dr. O’C will re-join the read more
Latham: Congressional Postville Visit Will Offer Firsthand Glimps…
Essential Estrogen | July 21st 2008 by LW
U.S. Rep. Tom Latham is hopeful that an upcoming trip by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus into Postville will allow more people to witness the aftermath of the May 12 immigration raid in the community, and allow policy makers to have a better unders read more
Six More Reasons the Economy Faces Trouble
The Survival Podcast | July 21st 2008 by Jack
In this edition of The Survival Podcast we cover six things effecting the future of our economy that are not really being talked about. We also officially announced our Listener Appreciation Contest. Today we discuss six major economic trials comin read more
British Government Under Attack Following the Decision to Scrap a…
Net News Publisher | July 21st 2008 by Terry
Britain has come under attack by international tourism watchdogs, following the government’s decision to scrap a visa waiver agreement for 11 countries (mainly in Africa), warning the move could damage trade relations and outbound tourism as well a read more
I Used to Respect Canada
LEFT is RIGHT | July 21st 2008 by Mike
Robin Long became the first U.S. war resister since the Vietnam War forced to leave Canada and turned over to the U.S. military. Even though on June 3rd 2008 Canada's House of Commons voted in favor "to allow conscientious objectors" to "remain in Ca read more
Are You An Immigrant?: Public Access Show
on the Wilder Side | July 21st 2008 by iwilder
The video below is designed to be a show-in-a-can for other public access producers to use. We put no local information or schedule information in the body of it. There is room at the beginning and end to insert your own titles. This is copy-free to read more
There is no climate crisis
pamibe | July 21st 2008 by pam
Crunchy granola church of Gaia green peeps: your god is dead. Mathematical proof that there is no “climate crisis” appears today in a major, peer-reviewed paper in Physics and Society, a learned journal of the 10,000-strong American Physical So read more
Migration and Human Rights
PAP Blog | July 21st 2008 by filip spagnoli
(source) This post is kind of a summary of the stuff I’ve written about international migration and how it is relevant to human rights. I’ve tried to put it all in a simple drawing: The darker the kind of grey, the more precarious is the read more
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