Globalization's Price? More Jobs, Higher Pay The article "Globalization's Gains Come With a Price" (page one, May 24) cites many positive facts, including that wages are up in Mexico and China for both skilled and unskilled workers, new colleges are opening in Mexico to help train tomorrow's skilled workers, a "vibrant" middle class has been created and the extreme poverty level in Mexico has dropped below 20%. they exported 20% of the population, so logic would conclude if the poorest people aren't there any more, there would be less poor people and with the way their population grows, it's not unlikely former residents of mexico working in the USA might be able to fund their relatives educations in mexico or be returning with their illegally earned money and going back to school.

Sen. John Kerry Intervenes on Behalf of Missing Soldier's Illegal Immigrant Wife Wednesday, June 20, 2007 by Greg Simmons WASHINGTON — Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., has asked the Department of Homeland Security not to deport the wife of an Army specialist who is missing in Iraq while the search continues for him, his office said Wednesday. Army Spec. Alex Jimenez has been missing since May 12, when his unit was ambushed by insurgents. His wife, Yaderlin, entered the country illegally in 2001, according to Kerry's office, and the two married in 2004. Procedures to deport Yaderlin Jimenez have begun, although an immigration judge has halted the proceedings while the search for her husband continues. The two live in Lawrence, Mass. "Under no condition should our country ever deport the spouse of a soldier who is currently serving in uniform abroad," Kerry said, in a statement provided to FOXNews.com. In the letter to Homeland Security Department Secretary Michael Chertoff, Kerry wrote: "I do not believe that Yaderlin should have her stress and grief compounded by additional worries about her own immigration status. I request that no further action be taken (in) Yaderlin's case while her husband is missing in action. As Yaderlin waits to hear what has happened to her husband I ask that she be allowed to stay in our country." "I believe this is a very real -*test*-('") of our government's compassion for a military family which has already made enormous sacrifices for the United States," the letter continued. Vincent Morris, a spokesman for Kerry, said the senator is also looking into whether this is a more widespread problem in the Army. A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security was not immediately available for comment. But it remains to be seen if Kerry's efforts will be enough to prevent the deportation of Yaderlin Jimenez, whose maiden name is Hiraldo. Jimenez family attorney Matthew Kolken, reached briefly at his Buffalo, N.Y., office, said the letter won't change his client's legal status, but "that letter is very good in that they (authorities) have it in their power to make a motion in her case" to reopen the proceedings. Another immigration attorney said only an act of Congress would ensure the wife's legal status in the United States. "Unless Congress passes a private bill on her behalf, she is subject to deportation," said Charles Kuck, an immigration lawyer and president-elect of the Washington, D.C.-based American Immigration Lawyers Association. The group has more than 10,000 members. Morris said Kerry's office is "taking it one step at a time," and could consider other options including a private bill, although this letter seemed to be the fas-*test*-('") method available. "The senator wanted to put up a bright red flag and say, 'hold on,' " Morris said. Kuck, speaking with FOXNews.com from his Atlanta office, said he suspects this is a widespread problem among military families. He said he believes that throughout the country, there are between 1 million and 3 million families where one spouse is not a legal resident. "I get a call like this at least two to three times today: 'What can I do to help my spouse, but he came in illegally?' " Kuck said. Boston television station WBZ-TV reported that Alex Jimenez, 25, had requested through U.S. immigration services a hardship waiver to gain legal status for his wife. "I can't imagine a bigger injustice than that, to be deporting someone's wife who is fighting and possibly dying for our country," Kolken told the station. Kuck said that immigration laws right now pose a Catch-22 for families like the Jimenezes. The process that they likely went through requires the spouse who needs the waiver to first leave the country, and then go to the U.S. consulate in his or her home country. In this case, the Dominican Republic. The waivers are rare. Kuck said only a few thousand a year are issued, and they favor Mexicans because of the volume of applications. But because Yaderlin Jimenez had been in the country illegally for longer than one year, she would be forced to stay away from the United States for 10 years once she left the United States, Kuck said. Kuck said he does not fault Immigration and Customs Services for enforcing the law, but this particular problem penalizes the legal U.S. citizen spouses of the illegal residents. He said the law should be changed so the waiver hearings can be held inside the United States. "When you're deporting the spouses of U.S. soldiers, I think the law's harsh enough," Kuck said. "Essentially we're punishing U.S. Citizens. That's why it's so essential to have comprehensive immigration reform." Alex Jimenez and Pvt. Brian Fouty, 19, of Waterford, Mich., remain missing more than a month after the attack on their 10th Mountain Division unit. Their identification cards were found in an Al Qaeda safe house near Baghdad this weekend. A video posted earlier this month by a group affiliated with the terrorist group claimed the men had been killed, but did not provide specific proof of the claim. The body of one soldier who was captured with Jimenez and Fouty has been found, and four other U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter were killed in the attack. The Associated Press contributed to this report. This is how screwed up this country is. Have a man in Iraq, he is killed/captured and they are going to send his wife home. How fucked-up can one country become? :roll:

She came here illegally. She broke the law, even if she is a soldier's wife. I'm sure that the DHS is afraid that if they grant one illegal alien amnesty, they'll have to grant any illegal alien with a big enough sob story amnesty.

It should have barely made the news after it was handled. The senator has the power in the senate to get it down, without no big fireworks show just like they sneak in all sorts of stuff we barely or never hear about because it was buried in some 10,000 page bill they passed. It's just another example of how low they will go to play their silly game of political hand granades, Kerry could care less about the woman , but Bush beat him, so he is using these people misfortune to score political points. Dominican Republic will they mail her survivors benefit check there or should we let her stay here and save some postage and figure she will spend the money here.

Whether she entered illegally or not is not the question. Our government has a policy of allowing induction of aliens to feed the meat grinder in the IRAQISTAN mess that they have gotten us embroiled with and if they come out breathing are granted citizenship. By being KIA/MIA, this AMERICAN SOLDIER should be granted immediate citizenship and if he and the girl are legally married, that citizenship should transfer to her immediately. Both have paid the price. The drug dealers and felons are the ones that need to be deported immediately, not people like these.

Our government has a policy of allowing induction of aliens to feed the meat grinder in the IRAQISTAN mess that they have gotten us embroiled with and if they come out breathing are granted citizenship. The Armed Services do not accept Illegals,just to clear that up. :wink: I can by by VT's comment she lacks the whole story. :roll:

I can by by your comment you lack the ability to type. I can by by your comment you lack the ability to read. :roll:

And let us not to forget our Black Brothers, the origional group of illegals. They have never seen a city that they won't burn down... :P Police, Officials Insist Attacks on Drivers Not Related to Juneteenth Celebrations Thursday , June 21, 2007 Police and organizers of Juneteenth events in two cities went out of their way Thursday to insist that attacks against drivers — one of which left an Austin, Texas, man dead — have nothing to do with the crowds attending the celebrations. But in both cases, electronic evidence raises questions about how the crimes were being characterized by officials. In Austin, a woman who called 911 on Tuesday night to report the brutal beating of David Rivas Morales, a 40-year-old man attacked by a crowd in a housing complex parking lot, said she struggled to the police dispatcher to understand her location, and described the scene as a gang fight involving people celebrating Juneteenth at a nearby park, according to audio files released Thursday by the city. In Milwaukee, news video clearly shows police responded in riot gear Tuesday night to disperse the crowd at that city's celebration after a man was pulled from a car and beaten and an officer was injured trying to break up a fight. In spite of the video, event organizers insisted there was no link between Juneteenth and the attack. "You just had a group of individuals that decided that they wanted to do something entirely different," said McArthur Weddle, president of Milwaukee's Juneteenth Day. "It's just sad that you have a few fools that got out of hand." The new video showed dozens of people immediately moving from the event to an attack on a car that left a 33-year-old man beaten, raising questions about Weddle's characterization of the crime. The Austin police 911 call and several radio transmissions between dispatchers and the ambulance crew also raised questions about the assault that police blame on three or four men. Although police insisted there wasn't much of a crowd around the Booker T. Washington Terraces complex on Tuesday night when Morales was assaulted after a car he was riding in hit a child, the unidentified female caller said the street was blocked and she couldn't leave a parking lot across the way. "It's really congested but the guy's bleeding from the head pretty bad, if you guys could just mow everybody down to get it through," a police dispatcher told an emergency medical services dispatcher. "We need you in there ASAP." In spite of the women's call, Austin police also insisted Morales' death was not a result of the Juneteenth celebration. "It doesn't seem to be a hate crime. It really seems to be a spontaneous act resulting from that collision with that child," said Austin Police Department Commander Harold Piatt. "We don't know if there were any words exchanged between the driver and the men to start with that escalated this to the assault." The investigation into both attacks, meanwhile, continued Thursday, with Austin officials backing off their initial descriptions of a mob beating Morales to death. Fewer than two dozen — not hundreds of — people witnessed the attack, the officials said, and police were wrong on Wednesday when they said up to 20 people may have participated in the assault. They said the crowd grew when people were drawn to see what the commotion was about. "We're looking for three or four heinous criminals," Assistant Police Chief David Carter said. "I want to bring them to justice." Authorities also released new details about the events leading up to the beating, saying the car's driver had just dropped Morales off at his sister's townhouse when he hit 2-year-old Michael Hosea Jr., who was not seriously hurt. Three or four men confronted the driver, and Morales, 40, came to help him, Carter said. The driver told police he got away in his vehicle before the beating began and didn't know his friend had been hurt, Carter added. Morales' neighbors and relatives complained on Wednesday about the time it took an ambulance crew to reach him as he lay in the parking lot, choking on his own blood. Thirteen minutes passed between the first 911 call and the crew's arrival at the lot a third of a mile away. Richard Herrington, director of Austin's EMS Department, said the crew responded as quickly as possible under the circumstances. Dispatchers told the crew to stop and wait a short distance from the scene for nearly four minutes so police could make sure the area was safe. While they waited, the police dispatcher called the EMS dispatcher to ask the crew to hurry, according to the records released Thursday. Jasper Brown, who commands the communications division for the EMS department, said he did not know why the police dispatcher did not know the crew was waiting for police clearance to move toward the scene. After the crew was cleared to move, it took them seven more minutes to get the rest of the way. Brown said the street next to the parking lot was extremely congested. Vehicles were parked on both sides of the street and both lanes were locked in bumper-to-bumper traffic, he said. Morales was in cardiac arrest when the crew found him, Herrington said. They treated him at the scene for about 12 minutes before rushing him to the hospital. The Milwaukee violence occurred around 6 p.m. as a group left the area after the festival ended. The crowd attacked at least two cars, police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz said. The driver of one sustained facial cuts and a broken tooth in the attack, police said. Police also responded to a second fight about a block away. An officer who was trying to break up a fight between groups of girls was injured when a 17-year-old girl punched the sergeant's riot helmet hard enough to shatter the shield. The officer had cuts on his face that required three stitches and had scratches on his neck. The girl was in police custody, facing possible charges of battery to an officer. Juneteenth celebrates the day Gen. Gordon Granger shared the news of the Emancipation Proclamation with the slaves of Galveston, Texas, two years after Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery in the United States. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

She came here illegally. She broke the law, even if she is a soldier's wife. I'm sure that the DHS is afraid that if they grant one illegal alien amnesty, they'll have to grant any illegal alien with a big enough sob story amnesty. Sen. John Kerry Intervenes on Behalf of Missing Soldier's Illegal Immigrant Wife His wife, Yaderlin, entered the country illegally in 2001, according to Kerry's office But because Yaderlin Jimenez had been in the country illegally for longer than one year Where exactly was I wrong?

I didn't say I agreed with what they were doing. I just pointed out why they were probably doing it. But right away, some people assumed that I was picking the side that they disagreed with and saw fit to call me names because of their misconception. :roll:

You had better pull your head out of your ass and start taking a hard look at what is going on around you. The recruitment of illegals is alive and well and has been going on for some time. Perhaps it's not me with his head up his ass. :idea: Read what you linked. :roll: I failed to see any reference to acccepting ILLEGAL Aliens. The recruitment of criminals is nothing new,it was a choice given by Judges during my youth.