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Date Posted: 15:30:05 12/09/07 Sun
Author: JMR
Subject: All sorts of good things here

Wanted: Green card marriage, no sex, $15K

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. Immigration officials arrested a Russian national living in Los Angeles for placing an online ad soliciting a green card marriage in exchange for $15,000. "Green Card Marriage -- Will pay $300/month. Total $15,000," the ad placed by Yuliya Kalinina said. "This is strictly platonic business offer, sex not involved." Officials arrested Kalinina, 24, and Benjamin Adams, 30, at separate residences following a year of marriage, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. "I'd say it's a fairly blatant example of marriage fraud," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Curtis Kin.

Immigrant's fight spurs questions
Did Gjystina Hines' marriage to a U.S. citizen, having a son with him and being pregnant with their second child count for anything when she faced deportation? Or what about that the 23-year-old Howell woman was holding a regular job, paying taxes and appearing for her regular appointments with the U.S. Immigra-tion and Customs Enforcement office in Detroit? The answer is "no," according to U.S. immigration officials... Although Gjystina Hines' marriage will help her gain legal status in the U.S., immigration spokesman Greg Palmore said Hines was deported for one issue.

Mexico asks consuls to 'neutralize' attitudes
MEXICO CITY -- President Felipe Calderon on Friday told Mexican consuls to the U.S. and Canada that they must work to "neutralize" anti-immigrant attitudes north of the border. Calderon's instructions came two days after he accused U.S. presidential candidates of "swaggering, macho and anti-Mexican" posturing. He also warned the U.S. Congress not to impose conditions on a $1.4 billion anti-drug aid package. On Friday, the Mexican leader asked his diplomatic representatives in the U.S. to participate in the public debate on immigration by appearing at public events, talking more to the media and working with nonprofit groups to promote Mexican immigrants' role in supporting the U.S. economy.

Mike Huckabee Unveils New Nine-Point Immigration Enforcement Plan
Overview: Implement a broad-based strategy that commits the resources of the federal government to the enforcement of our immigration laws and results in the attrition of the illegal immigrant population... Policies that promote or tolerate amnesty will be rejected. Propose to provide all illegal immigrants a 120-day window to register with the Citizenship and Immigration Services and leave the country... Inform foreign governments when their former citizens become naturalized U.S. citizens. Impose civil and/or criminal penalties on American citizens who illegitimately use their dual status (e.g., using a foreign passport, voting in elections in both a foreign country and the U.S.)... Eliminate the visa lottery system and the admission category for adult brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens. Increase visas for highly-skilled and highly-educated applicants. Expedite processing for those who serve honorably in the U.S. Armed Forces...
Temp Agency Co-Owners Plead Guilty in Immigration Case
BALTIMORE - The co-owners of an employment agency that allegedly provided illegal alien workers to employers, including the port of Baltimore and sportswear maker Under Armour Inc., pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy charges. Michael Morgan, 41, of Timonium, and Robert Lanahan, 43, of Towson, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to harbor aliens, U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein announced. Morgan and Lanahan also agreed to forfeit their interests in Jones Industrial Network, which placed the workers with companies in the Baltimore area, and MOJO Holdings, LLC, which owns the Baltimore building in which the employment agency was located.

ACLU's War On US Immigration Law
While President George W. Bush, ICE, and Congress act as if the U.S. had no immigration laws and no borders, some heroic local officials and private organizations have nevertheless sought, against all odds, to enforce and uphold immigration law. And every time they have done so, the ACLU has been there to fight them, on behalf of the criminals invading America. A study of the tactics of local ACLU chapters across the country and the national ACLU reveals a distinct, coordinated strategy of six components: 1. Abusing the English language, by referring to illegal immigrants as "immigrants" and "undocumented workers," in order to make it seem as if illegal immigrants, all of whom are criminals (and in the case of those who have previously been deported, felons), were law-abiding, legal residents; 2. Misrepresenting immigration law, to make it appear as though law enforcement officials were harassing non-criminals;...

ICE arrests 15 illegal immigrants in Milford
MILFORD - Federal Immigration Customs Enforcement officers arrested 15 illegal immigrants here Friday, including a roofer from Ecuador who will face a U.S. District Court judge on criminal charges, authorities said today. Agents arrested 14 of the immigrants on civil charges for violating immigration laws after an early-morning sting targeting Daniel Tacuri's 21 Jefferson St. home and his 44 Main St. roofing business, ICE spokesman Paula Grenier said today.

Autopsy: Illegal Alien Burglary Suspects Shot In Back
HOUSTON - An autopsy showed two burglary suspects were shot in the back allegedly by a Pasadena neighbor who witnessed their crime, KPRC Local 2 reported Friday. The suspects were also in this country illegally, according to authorities. Pasadena police said suspects Diego Ortiz and Hernando Torres should not have been in the United States. Police said they made the discovery while investigating the fatal shootings of the two men from Colombia using multiple names. Pasadena police spokesman Capt. Bud Corbett said, "We understand that one of the suspects originally identified as DeJesus, later identified as Hermano Torres, was incidentally deported in 1999 back to Colombia."

Report criticizes care of illegals with AIDS
LOS ANGELES -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security provides inadequate care for illegal immigrant detainees with HIV or AIDS, according to a new report by a civil rights group. Human Rights Watch issued the report to encourage the government to improve its screening and treatment of infected detainees at government or privately contracted facilities that house about 30,000 immigrants daily. The survey was prompted by the July death of a transgender inmate at a San Pedro facility. "We found the medical care in three types of facilities, representing nine states, was delayed, interrupted or inconsistent," said Megan McLemore, who authored the report.

Entrant who aided boy gets Grijalva's help
An illegal border crosser whom officials credit with saving the life of a 9-year-old boy he encountered in the desert on Thanksgiving night has been given a chance -- albeit with long odds -- to obtain a green card. Rep. Rául Grijalva, D-Ariz., submitted a private bill Thursday asking Congress to approve a green card for Manuel Jesus Córdova Soberanes, 26, of Magdalena de Kino, Sonora. If approved, it would make Córdova eligible to become a legal permanent resident, and that could eventually lead to citizenship. The bill would specifically exclude Córdova's parents and siblings from becoming eligible for green cards if he is granted a green card.

ICE arrests 22 sex offenders in New York City
NEW YORK, NY - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the New York City Department of Probation today announced the arrests of 22 child predators and criminal alien sex offenders in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Manhattan. Today's initiative is a part of the on-going Operation Predator initiative and a national priority for ICE. All of those arrested today were on probation in New York City for prior felony or misdemeanor convictions for sex crimes including rape, sexual abuse, sexual misconduct, endangering the welfare of a child, sodomy and promoting prostitution. The youngest victim was a six year old girl and one of the victims was a 15 year old boy.

Judge throws out AZ sanctions lawsuit
A federal judge tonight threw out a lawsuit challenging the state's new employer sanctions law, apparently clearing the way for the law to take effect Jan. 1. In his 25-page ruling, Judge Neil V. Wake essentially said the plaintiffs -- a broad coalition of business and immigrant rights groups -- were suing the wrong people. "This action must be dismissed without prejudice...there being no justiciable case or controversy against the defendants," the judge wrote. He suggested that a suit brought against a county attorney, the office with primary responsibility for enforcement, might be more appropriate.

NC: 12 Illegal Immigrants Arrested in Human Trafficking Case
ALAMANCE COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) -- Investigators said a routine traffic stop in Alamance County may have slowed down an illegal human smuggling operation. Sheriff's investigators say one of their deputies was on routine patrol about 10 p.m. Thursday when he noticed a van driving erratically on Interstate 40/85. The driver, Wilibando Landero Guitierez was charged with not having a driver's license. It was later determined Guitierez and eleven passengers are illegal immigrants.

ICE lifts hold on teacher accused of sex assault
BRIGHTON -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted the hold Friday it had put on a teacher accused of sexually assaulting a student. Ralph Kelly, a 34-year-old Social Studies and German teacher at Brighton Collegiate School, is now able to bond out of jail. He was arrested early Thursday morning on the charge of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position in trust. Kelly is from Ireland and ICE had asked that he stay in custody while they investigate his background.

Is a solution illegal, too?
GEORGIA IS SETTING a record that most legal residents would rather not see etched in stone, but in reality it already has been. The state has one of the fastest growing illegal alien populations in the United States; it has tripled in slightly more than a decade. According to U.S. Census Bureau figures reported by Cox News Service, the immigrant population has grown from an estimated 268,000 in 1995 to 378,000 in 2000 to 953,000 in 2007. Of those 953,000 Hispanics -- from Mexico, Central America and South America -- who call Georgia home, some 53 percent of them, or 504,000 people, are here illegally. Only Arizona and North Carolina have a higher proportion of illegal aliens in their populations.

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