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Wal Mart goes Racist

Posted in Illegal Immigration News by thewatchdogii on March 14, 2009

Wal Mart perpetuates racism and stereotyping by giving people of Hispanic decent their own stores. It feeds balkanization and non-assimilation. Is this a purely business based practice? Not if one considers where the development will come from. The President of Wal Mart Stores, Eduardo Castro-Wright, in the US is also a member of National Council of La Raza and LULAC and a former college member of MeCha. All three are ethnic nationalist socialist groups who believe in ethnic special interests and the administration of special government treatment for people of Hispanic descent. La Raza means the race in reference to elevating Hispanics to the status of master race.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bd371350-0f2c-11de-ba10-0000779fd2ac.html

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Wal-Mart looks to Hispanic market

By Jonathan Birchall

Published: March 12 2009 18:03 | Last updated: March 12 2009 18:03

Wal-Mart plans to open its first Hispanic-focused supermarkets this summer in Arizona and Texas as the largest US retailer continues its drive to expand its dominance of the US grocery business.

The pilot stores, named Supermercado de Walmart, will open in Phoenix and Houston in remodelled 39,000 sq ft locations occupied previously by two of Wal-Mart’s Neighborhood Market stores.

The retailer said that the stores were in “strongly Hispanic neighbourhoods” and would feature a “new lay-out, signing and product assortment designed to make them even more relevant to local Hispanic customers”. The staff will also be bilingual.

Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club warehouse store also plans to open a 143,000 sq ft Hispanic-focused store called Más Club in Houston this year.

Several leading regional US supermarket chains already operate Hispanic store brands, including Publix in Florida, which operates three Publix Sabor markets, and HEB in Texas, which opened a Mi Tienda store in Houston in 2006.

The markets include elements such as cafés serving Latino pastries and coffee, and full service meat and fish counters.

Leading retailers are also pursuing Hispanic consumers online, with Best Buy and Home Depot having launched Spanish-language versions of their e-commerce sites in recent months.

Eduardo Castro-Wright, the head of Wal-Mart’s US stores since 2005, has also been an advocate of testing new smaller, more focused formats, and raised the idea of turning the Neighbourhood Market into a Hispanic-style bodega concept several years ago.

He has also developed Wal-Mart’s efforts…
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Home Depot Controlled by Illegal Aliens.

Posted in Illegal Immigration News by thewatchdogii on March 12, 2009

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2009/03/08/a1a_homedepot_0309.html?imw=Y

Home Depot at standoff with laborers who swarm customers in bid for work

By ANDREW MARRA

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Sunday, March 08, 2009

Mustachioed and graying, dressed in the uniform of a full-time job he once had, Gonzalo Garcia is out in front of The Home Depot on Lake Worth Road most mornings, and it doesn’t take much to catch his eye.

In recent years, the Hispanic day laborers have become as much a part of the scenery at The Home Depot west of Lake Worth as the fence and hedges.

A braking pickup or the wave of a driver’s hand will send him and several other Hispanic day laborers rushing to the departing vehicle, their eyes bright with the possibility of a day’s work.

Garcia, at 49 a father of four, says he tends to hang back as the younger workers push forward. But his counterparts often run, hoping to be chosen to paint, rip out drywall or lay bricks.

The onslaught, a symptom of the voracious competition for dwindling numbers of day jobs, can be surprising to the unsuspecting, and even frightening.

In recent years, the Hispanic day laborers have become as much a part of the scenery at The Home Depot west of Lake Worth as the fence and hedges, and as more lose full-time jobs in construction or landscaping, their numbers seem to have grown.

The Home Depot is not pleased. Blaming the job seekers for causing accidents and driving away customers, the world’s largest home improvement retailer has been working to discourage them from rushing vehicles in the driveways and trespassing in the parking lot.

But the need for work keeps pushing the men forward, and the result has been an entrenched standoff.

Garcia, an undocumented Guatemalan national who had a regular job in construction until being laid off late last year, said he and the others only want to work and have no other way to find steady pay.

“We’re not here because we want to be here,” he said in Spanish. “We need to be.”

After repeated warnings, meetings and occasional trespassing arrests, the sheriff’s office has resorted in recent months to undercover stings to try to keep the laborers in place.

The workers are allowed to stand on the sidewalk or along the shoulder in front of the store, which is considered public property. But sheriff’s officials say they get into trouble when they block the entrance or wander past the hedges into the…
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Houston Illegal Alien Shot Police Officer in Face. Deported 5 times

Posted in Illegal Immigration News by thewatchdogii on March 12, 2009

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/090310_ice_shooting_suspect_illegal

Police: Cop Shooting
Suspect Is Illegal

Last Edited: Tuesday, 10 Mar 2009, 6:09 PM CDT
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* ISIAH CAREY

HOUSTON – Rodney Johnson was killed 3 years ago. The shooter: a man in the country illegally. Last week, Officer Rick Slater was shot in the face while serving a warrant. Police say the shooter was in this country illegally.

Now Houston city leaders are at a tipping point–they’ve had enough.

“The federal government has let us down,” Mayor Bill White said.

White is sending a 6-point letter to the Department of Homeland Security. It’s demanding more federal dollars and aid in dealing with illegal immigrants who are deported and return to Houston and later commit crimes.

“A local law enforcement agency under the law we can not deport people that is the…
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Ninth Circuit Court Actually Upholds the Law

Posted in Illegal Immigration News by thewatchdogii on March 11, 2009

http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2009/03/09/daily34.html

Ninth Circuit upholds Arizona employer sanctions law
Phoenix Business Journal – by Mike Sunnucks

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A federal appeals court backed up an Arizona law to punish employers that hire illegal immigrants.

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed lower court rulings that kept the Legal Arizona Workers Act in place. Business groups and Hispanic activists had challenged the law in court saying it lacks due process provisions and puts the state and county prosecutors in the federal role of enforcing immigration laws.

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Nancy Pelosi does not support the Rule of Law…

Posted in Illegal Immigration News by thewatchdogii on March 11, 2009

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/07/BAHJ16BE8V.DTL

Pelosi: End raids splitting immigrant families

Kelly Zito, Chronicle Staff Writer

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined hundreds of families Saturday evening at a church in San Francisco’s Mission District demanding an end to the immigration raids and deportations that separate parents from children across the United States.
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Pelosi, who has said securing U.S. borders is a top priority, used the forum to call for a comprehensive immigration program that recognizes the broad contributions immigrants have made to the fabric of the country.

“Our future is about our children,” Pelosi told a crowd of mostly Latino families at St. Anthony’s Church.

No matter if those families arrived two days ago or centuries ago, Pelosi said “that opportunity, that determination, that hope has made American more American.”

She said, “Taking parents from their children … that’s un-American.”

Pelosi’s comments came during the San Francisco stop of a 17-city national “Family Unity” tour led by leaders of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Members of the caucus expect to meet with President Obama in two weeks to discuss the nation’s immigration policies.

“No city in American has been spared the devastating effects of our broken system,” said Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez, a Democrat who is leading the five-week tour. “We cannot wait any longer for fair and just immigration reform.”

Under the Bush administration’s Operation Return to Sender, tens of thousands of people have been arrested nationwide, including at least 1,800 in Northern and Central California.

While the raids have drawn protests across the region, anti-immigrant groups such as the Northern California chapter of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps have defended the actions.

In a state whose population is expected to rocket to 54 million by 2040 – including a Latino population of 27 million compared with 16 million whites and 7 million of Asian descent – immigration will be a critical issue for decades.

Organizers of Saturday evening’s event said raids…
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Illegal immigrants might get stimulus jobs, experts say…

Posted in Illegal Immigration News by thewatchdogii on March 10, 2009

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/employment/2009-03-08-immigrant-jobs_N.htm

Illegal immigrants might get stimulus jobs, experts say

A road construction crew works on a widening project in February in Florida City, Fla. The stimulus law calls for infrastructure projects to help spark the economy.
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A road construction crew works on a widening project in February in Florida City, Fla. The stimulus law calls for infrastructure projects to help spark the economy.
By William M. Welch, USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES — Tens of thousands of jobs created by the economic stimulus law could end up filled by illegal immigrants, particularly in big states such as California where undocumented workers are heavily represented in construction, experts on both sides of the issue say.

Studies by two conservative think tanks estimate immigrants in the United States illegally could take 300,000 construction jobs, or 15% of the 2 million jobs that new taxpayer-financed projects are predicted to create.

They fault Congress for failing to require that employers certify legal immigration status of workers before hiring by using a Department of Homeland Security program called E-Verify. The program allows employers to check the validity of Social Security numbers provided by new hires. It is available to employers on a voluntary basis.

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“They could have deterred this, but they chose not to,” said Steven Camarota, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies.

He said a federal requirement that employers use E-Verify would have reduced, if not eliminated, the hiring of immigrants in this country illegally.

An advocacy group for immigrants, illegal and legal, did not disagree with the 300,000 estimate. Camarota says the estimate is based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey and other independent findings that 15% of all construction workers in the USA are either illegal immigrants or lack the status of legal immigrant authorized to work.

But Jorge-Mario Cabrera, director of education for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, said it is impossible to predict with certainty because it is unknown how many jobless immigrant construction workers may leave the U.S., frustrated by the economic recession, before the new spending produces jobs.

He questioned the Center for Immigration Studies’ motives.

“Those are fear tactics. … ‘The immigrants are here to take your job,’ ” Cabrera said. “I think that we really should be focusing on economic progress for all.”

The center is a Washington policy organization that, its website says, “seeks fewer immigrants but a warmer welcome for those admitted.” Cabrera says his group believes unauthorized immigrants working in this country contribute to the economy.

A similar hiring estimate was produced in a report in February by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Senior research fellow Robert Rector wrote, “Without specific mechanisms to ensure that workers are U.S. citizens or legal immigrants authorized to work, it is likely that 15%…
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Illegal Aliens Threaten to Murder New York Assemblyman.

Posted in Illegal Immigration News by thewatchdogii on March 10, 2009

Illegal Immigrants Threaten New York State Assemblyman!

These of course are the folks doing the job Americans won’t do. They placed a dead goat at his house with a threatening note. This is good insight into the mentality and character of the open borders advocates. They seem to say: “Either you allow us to break the rule of law, or we will kill you…”

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU39-KaJvPM

Welcome to the mind of the Illegal Alien.

Congressman Luis Gutierrez Travels on National Amnesty Tour While U.S. Workers Stand in Unemployment Lines

Posted in Illegal Immigration News by thewatchdogii on March 10, 2009

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=prnw.20090305.DC79571&show_article=1

Congressman Luis Gutierrez Travels on National Amnesty Tour While U.S. Workers Stand in Unemployment Lines
Mar 5 01:10 PM US/Eastern

WASHINGTON, March 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Amidst a backdrop of rising unemployment, mounting economic turmoil, and increased costs of illegal immigration, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) is spending the next five weeks visiting 16 American cities promoting blanket amnesty for millions of illegal aliens and the dismantling of immigration law enforcement programs. Rep. Gutierrez describes the “Family Unity Immigration Outreach Tour” as an effort to “document the harm caused to citizens across our nation in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform.”

What is notably missing in Rep. Gutierrez’s tour is any mention of the harm caused to citizens and legal immigrants by illegal immigration or the permanent damage that would be done by enacting amnesty for an estimated 12 million illegal aliens now in the U.S. With an unemployment rate of 7.6% and getting worse – the White House announced recently it is forecasting an increase to 8.1% – over 11 million Americans are scrambling for jobs. Yet according to the Pew Hispanic Center, an estimated 7.7 million jobs, desperately needed by U.S. workers, are held by illegal aliens. To be sure, unless worksite enforcement is continued, E-Verify reauthorized, and laws enforced, Americans will continue to compete against illegal aliens in ever greater numbers. An amnesty initiative would simply reward those who have broken the law, encourage more illegal immigration, and exacerbate a labor market already in distress.

“Lawmakers should be evaluating our immigration policy for its impact on the growing number of Americans out of work, not parading around the country trying to lay the groundwork for mass amnesty,” stated Dan Stein, President of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). “We cannot ignore the impact illegal immigration has on the job market – not in good times and certainly not now. It is a fiscal necessity and moral imperative to protect the American worker.”

“While millions of Americans are spending their time diligently looking for work, Rep. Gutierrez is trekking across the country peddling a special interest driven amnesty plan and calling for an end to ICE enforcement,…CONT

Colorado Police Agencies Finally Turn Over Illegal Information To ICE

Posted in Illegal Immigration News by thewatchdogii on March 9, 2009

http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_11857158

Immigrants put on ICE
State sees jump in suspects’ names referred to federal enforcement agency
By Burt Hubbard
The Denver Post
Posted: 03/07/2009 12:30:00 AM MST
Updated: 03/07/2009 02:05:14 AM MST

Police agencies in Colorado turned over to federal immigration agents the names of more than 20,000 suspected illegal immigrants they arrested or cited last year.

That’s up about 11 percent from the previous year.

Some credit the rise to publicity over tragedies involving illegal immigrants, such as the death of a toddler at an ice-cream store last year, while others credit increased police awareness of the 2-year-old law requiring referrals of arrestees.

“We’re doing a better job, and as a result we are going to see higher numbers,” said Cmdr. Brad Shannon of the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office.

However, the increase was not uniform. Denver, frequently criticized by immigration watchdogs as a “sanctuary city” because police do not actively try to identify illegal immigrants, registered an 11 percent drop in the number of referrals to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Jefferson County reported 22 percent fewer names to ICE than it did in 2007.

Officials in those two jurisdictions said they have done nothing different in enforcing the law and are not sure why the number of people they reported to ICE fell.

“I really don’t have an explanation why our numbers would be down,” Denver Undersheriff William Lovingier said.

A state law passed in 2006 requires all police agencies to report by March 1 how many people they referred to ICE for possible deportation during the previous year. It came at a time when immigration emerged as a top issue in Colorado and the rest of the U.S., with many states passing laws to crack down on illegal immigrants.

A Denver Post review of the reports submitted so far found that 21,816 names had been forwarded to ICE in 2008 compared with 19,633 in 2007 by the same agencies. Not all police agencies in Colorado had filed reports by the March deadline.

Aurora referrals highest

Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said about two-thirds or more of the state-highest 3,143 referrals in his city come from the city’s jail, which forwards the name of anyone arrested who was not born in the U.S., allowing ICE to sort out citizens and legal residents from those here illegally.

“It is impossible for a local police officer to determine the immigration status of someone,” Oates said. “So if someone says they were born in a foreign country, the jail reports them.CONT

13+ Million Illegals in the United States!

Posted in Illegal Immigration News by thewatchdogii on March 9, 2009

http://www.rightsidenews.com/200903083916/border-and-sovereignty/13-million-illegal-immigrants-living-in-the-united-states.html

13 Million Illegal Immigrants Living in the United States

March 8, 2009
FAIRUS.org
How Many Illegal Immigrants?

Illegal Immigrant Problems & Statistics

FAIR estimates that in 2007 the illegal immigrant population is above 13 million persons. Government and academic estimates indicate that as of 2006 there were 11 to 12 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. The Center for Immigration Studies estimated the illegal immigrant population at 10 million as of November 2004.

It is difficult to have an exact figure because the illegal nature of their presence prevents any enumeration, but the U.S. Census Bureau estimated 8.7 million illegal immigrants were here in 2000, and immigration officials estimate that the illegal immigrant population grows by as many as 500,000 every year.
Estimated Distribution of the Illegal Immigrant Population

The nationalities of the illegal immigrant population in the Census Bureau estimate and INS estimate for 2000 are as follow:
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fairus

The estimate by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) issued in February 2003 put the number of resident illega immigrants at seven million (as of Jan. 2000), 4.8 million of whom were Mexican and 2.2 million of whom resided in California. That estimate included the annual rate of increase in the illegal immigrant population — 350,000 with 73,200 (31.6%) of that annual increase taking up residence in California. So, by 2003, the illegal immigrant population would have increased to over eight million.

The method by which the INS arrived at this estimate was based on data collected as a result of the 1986 amnesty and then relied on Census data and INS legal immigration data and airline arrival/departure records for updating the estimate.
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