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Originally posted by Beverly:
Man charged with raping girl smuggled into United States



Pascual Francisco


Posted Dec. 30, 2007
3:35 PM

Milford (AP) _ Milford police say they've charged a Maryland man with raping a girl who was among a group of illegal immigrants he was allegedly transporting across the country.

Police say Francisco Pascual, who is 25, was being held Sunday on a $1 million bond on charges of sexual assault, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, risk of injury and assault. He was arrested after a girl, whose age was not released, told officers that he had raped her in a Milford hotel room after dropping off the other illegal immigrants he was driving to various spots across the U.S.

The girl was able to escape, and officers found her lost and wandering at a Milford gas station Saturday morning after a concerned citizen called them.

Police say the girl's mother, who lives in the Boston area, told officers she had paid to have her daughter smuggled into from Mexico into the U.S. from their native El Salvador.

Immigration agents and state child-welfare officials were notified.

It was not immediately known whether the girl would be held in state custody, or allowed to stay with her mother in the Boston area while the investigation continues.

http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=7557897&nav=menu29_2[

Now she will get a greencard and her family too with the new legislation that issues greencards to undocumented if they have been victim of a crime. it is a reward for them to testify against the perpetrator. I do not understand the mentality behind it, but this is the new buzz.

If this were an American Citizen, there would be no rewards; the mother would be sentenced to a long jail term and the child placed into our dysfunctional social services system.

The mother and child should be reunited in a detention center and both should be deported along with a lifetime ban from re-entering the US, with a provision that if they are caught re-entering, they will be jailed and receive a long sentence.

Illegal aliens perpetually re-enter the US because there are very little (if any) consequences for their perpetual criminal actions. As a result, our citizens have become easy prey, our laws a laughing stock and our kindness treated as weakness. It's time to seal the borders and treat them as bad as their own governments treat them. Not until the welcome mats are rolled up, our laws are fully enforced across the US, the 14th Amendment clarified (or rescinded)to exclude illegal alien babies being given birth certificates and a lifetime of welfare benefits; will they go home and stay.

What is a U-visa?

The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 created two new nonimmigrant visas for noncitizen victims of crimes, the T-visa and the U-visa. Both visas are designed to provide immigration status to noncitizens that are assisting or are willing to assist authorities investigating crimes.

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued the U visa regulation on September 17, 2007. This law becomes effective 30 days after its approval. This law is effective beginning October 17, 2007

The U visa is designed for noncitizen crime victims who (1) have suffered substantial physical or mental abuse from criminal activity; (2) have information regarding the criminal activity; (3) assist government officials in the investigation or prosecution of such criminal activity; and (4) the criminal activity violated US law or occurred in the United States (including Indian country and military installations) or the territories and possession of the United States.

Your abuser does not need to be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident, and you do not have to have been married to the abuser to be eligible for a U visa.
You are not required to be physically present in the US to qualify for a U visa. You can apply from abroad as long as the criminal activity violated US law or occurred in US territories.

USCIS can only grant U visa status to 10,000 noncitizens in each fiscal year. This number does not include persons eligible for U visa derivatives status – e.g. spouses, children or parents of applicants.

Persons granted U visa status can remain in the United States for a period of up to 4 years, with possible extensions in certain cases (ask a lawyer if you are in need of an extension). After three years, U visa holders may apply for lawful permanent residence.
The U visa holders automatically qualify for employment authorization.

http://www.womenslaw.org/immigrantsUvisa.htm#35

thanks explora

i working on the fly and didnt have a chance to give a reference.

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and a lifetime of welfare benefits

Something about that rings a bell. Welfare benefits....hmmm.

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Originally posted by Beverly:
NEWEST WELFARE RECIPIENT BORN IN HOUSTON IN 2008 TO AN ILLEGAL WHO NEEDED A TRANSLATOR

Girl Is First Baby Born In 2008


HOUSTON - A little girl was the first baby born in Houston in 2008, KPRC Local 2 reported. Destiny Jimenez was born at Ben Taub Hospital at 12:14 a.m. She weighed in at 6 pounds 4 ounces and is almost 18 inches long.

"I can't believe it," Mayra Jimenez said through a translator. "Houston is so big. I never thought my baby would be the first."

Destiny is her Jimenez's fourth child.

She is a very calm and quiet baby," Jimenez said. "To me, she's the most beautiful baby."

Nurses gathered around to see the year's first baby and welcomed Destiny with a gift basket of pink clothes, diapers, towels and other goodies.

"I like that name," nurse Martha Varsenas said. "I don't know how they decided it, but I love that name."

Jimenez said she chose the name because her daughter is her true Destiny and will bring great happiness.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22465633/from/ET/

Hmmm.... still hear the ringing of a different welfare bell.

Hiring ILLEGALS Cost Restaurant Bankruptcy and Forfeitures

Acambaro case holds potential to pit 2 courts
MARK MINTON

Immigration authorities aren’t the only ones eyeing the assets of Acambaro Mexican restaurants in the aftermath of a raid that rounded up 19 illegal aliens, jailed their employers and froze $ 3 million in property.

Days after the Dec. 10 raid, the Northwest Arkansas restaurant chain filed for bankruptcy protection. Acambaro listed assets of $ 4. 2 million and liabilities of $ 3. 2 million.

The Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing sets up a potential legal tug-of-war: Even as Acambaro continues operating under the shelter of bankruptcy, federal prosecutors have frozen bank accounts and moved to seize key company properties, including most Acambaro locations in Northwest Arkansas.

“It’s unusual,” said John Blair, a Rogers lawyer representing Acambaro in bankruptcy court. The potential conflict between the two courts hasn’t come to a head yet, he said.

“As of this moment, the government has not done anything to attempt to close them down,” he said. “Arguably, that will be a violation of the ‘automatic stay’ which is in effect and which protects the corporation’s assets.” Would the bankruptcy court’s automatic stay, which keeps creditors at bay, have the same effect on immigration authorities ?

“As a general rule, when you file for bankruptcy, you basically trump every other kind of proceeding that’s out there — people trying to sue you, creditors trying to seize your assets, that kind of stuff,” said Thomas E. Plank, a law professor at the University of Tennessee.

But there are exceptions for criminal cases.

“O. J. Simpson can’t file for bankruptcy and stop from being prosecuted for murder,” Plank said.

Less clear is whether a bankruptcy filing would forestall a civil forfeiture action such as the one the government is using to seize Acambaro’s assets. Plank said he hadn’t researched that, but the answer might lie in the details of the case.

Blair said Acambaro filed for bankruptcy “because of the seizure.” The seizure left the Reyes family, which controls the restaurants, no way to pay its taxes or employees, Blair said.

Acambaro locations were able to reopen with replacement employees and food the company had on hand, Blair said, even though the government froze bank accounts and took away company computers.

The top creditor in the case is Arvest Bank, according to Acambaro’s petition, with $ 3. 2 million in secured claims. Arvest holds the mortgages on several restaurants and houses involved in both the bankruptcy and the immigration case, the petition shows.

Bob Balfe, U. S. attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, declined to discuss specifics of the case.

Asked about the general procedure for forfeiture and its relationship to the bankruptcy proceeding, assistant U. S. attorney Debbie Groom said the government’s position would be that it’s exempt from the automatic stay.

She said the government’s intention in the forfeiture case is to sell the properties, use the money to pay creditors and distribute remaining forfeiture funds to local governments for police operations.
http://oneoldvet.com/?p=4400#more-4400
http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/212569/

Waukegan man pleads guilty to beating death

December 15, 2007
By ART PETERSON apeterson@scn1.com

A Waukegan man charged with first-degree murder has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.

Jose Guadarrama, 24, and Jose Alejandro Sepulveda, 29, were charged with the July 4 beating death of Ricardo Osario.

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Guadarrama

Osario, 21, died from the beating. Guadarrama and Sepulveda were charged with first-degree murder.

The incident occurred in the parking lot of the Family Dollar store at Washington and Jackson streets in Waukegan.

Guadarrama pleaded guilty Friday in Lake County Circuit Court to a reduced charge of second-degree murder in exchange for truthful testimony against Sepulveda.

Judge Victoria Rossetti accepted the open plea and set a sentencing status date for Jan. 25, after Sepulveda's trial.

Guadarrama is facing a sentence of four to 20 years in prison with the possibility of day-for-day credit for good behavior. Probation is also an option.

Sepulveda, if convicted, would face a mandatory prison sentence of 20 to 60 years with no possibility of early release.

Guadarrama, a U.S. citizen but speaking through an interpreter, admitted to twice punching Osario in the face.

Prosecutor Ari Fisz said Sepulveda hit Osario in the face with a tree branch that was the size of a baseball bat. Osario died less than an hour later at Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan.

The plea was recommended by Fisz and defense attorney Barry Boches.

Fisz said Guadarrama's testimony against Sepulveda must be consistent with his videotaped statements to Waukegan police.

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/newssun/news/698565,...URDERPLEA_S1.article

By Remy Scalza : The Herald-Sun
chh@heraldsun.com
Jan 2, 2008

CHAPEL HILL -- By On the fifth floor of the N.C. Women's Hospital, high above the streets of Chapel Hill, is a window on the state's future.

Behind a thick pane of glass -- inside the nursery of the maternity ward -- sleep tomorrow's Tar Heels, wrapped in blankets and tucked safely in plastic bassinets.

And, on most days, about half of these babies are Hispanic.

North Carolina has undergone brisk demographic change in recent years. From 1990 to 2006, the Hispanic population increased from 76,726 to 597,382, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Hispanic enrollment in public schools jumped by more than 1,000 percent in that time.

But maternity wards across the state have seen some of the most dramatic changes. Hispanic births have increased 11 times over since 1990. Last year, one of every six babies born in North Carolina was Hispanic.

Women's Hospital in Chapel Hill has been an epicenter of this baby boom. With a well-developed system of obstetrical clinics in the region, the hospital absorbs births from neighboring counties with sizeable Hispanic populations. Official figures from 2005 show 37.4 percent of babies born at the hospital were Hispanic.


"It's actually more around 50 percent these days," says Carolyn Viall, director of nursing. "And that's been rising."

Behind the statistics, however, lies another story. At the same time many state agencies are working to weed out undocumented immigrants, Women's Hospital has found ways to reach -- and embrace -- a growing segment of North Carolina's population.

Across town from the hospital, Molly -- 32 and originally from Mexico -- is busy. Two months have passed since she delivered her baby at Women's Hospital, and she's back to work watching children in Chapel Hill.

Molly is in the final stages of getting a green card and asked that her last name not be used. Her 2-month-old is her second child born in the United States. She plans one more.

The recent growth in the Hispanic population only partly explains the increase in Hispanic births. The other piece of the puzzle is fertility rate, the number of live births per every 1,000 women of child-bearing age. Statewide, Hispanic mothers have a fertility rate more than double that of the general population, according to 2006 figures from the state Center for Health Statistics.

A relatively young Hispanic population, plus taboos about birth control and limited use of family-planning services, contributes to the difference, according to a report from the N.C. Office of Minority Health.


"The Latina community has a very strong orientation toward babies, toward children," explained Merry-K. Moos, a professor at UNC's School of Medicine and nurse practitioner. "It's very much a culture that reveres pregnant women."

Hispanic births have contributed to an unprecedented surge in deliveries at Women's Hospital. In 2006, 1,000 more babies were delivered than just five years before.

These extra births have stretched hospital resources, Moos explained. But Hispanics are only part of the equation, she said:

"Do we have increasing strain? Yes. Do we have increasing strain for a lot of reasons? Yes."

The general population of the state has grown dramatically, with Hispanics accounting for less than one-quarter of total growth since 1990. At the same time, Women's Hospital has been busy promoting its state-of-the-art maternity center to expectant moms.

These moves have led to growing pains at Women's Hospital. The nursery in the maternity ward, opened in 2001, is already at capacity and slated to expand from 15 cribs to 24.

Peering inside the nursery, Viall pointed to one of the new Hispanic babies. The tiny child's bassinet had been wheeled under a special colored spotlight to help with a mild case of jaundice. Glowing a deep blue, he looked more Smurf than newborn.

"The biggest adaptation for us has been understanding that Latinas don't want to stay here a long time," Viall explained. "They want to get back with the community and family resources they have."

Women's Hospital has adapted to extend its reach into that community. A system of 17 affiliated clinics in Orange and neighboring counties enables most Hispanic moms to get their prenatal care close to home.

Adriana, a Chatham County mom originally from Mexico, was treated at the Carrboro Community Health Center during her pregnancy. Prenatal patients there pay a flat fee of $30 per visit and are charged on a sliding scale for blood tests and other extras.

Because she's undocumented, Adriana -- like many Hispanic moms -- wasn't eligible for Medicaid.

Doctors diagnosed Adriana with gestational diabetes, a form of the disease that develops during pregnancy and is common in minority populations. Diet and treatment kept it in check, and last March Adriana gave birth to a healthy boy.

But things don't always go so smoothly. A week after her due date, Molly was still waiting to have her baby. Concerned, she came to Women's Hospital for a sonogram.

Molly brought her husband -- who speaks English and Spanish -- to help translate. The hospital also has more than a dozen professional interpreters on staff, with two on call at the maternity ward. Doctors and nurses have likewise appended Spanish classes to medical studies.

Molly's baby's heart was beating too slowly. Doctors said they would have to induce labor.

Once she was in labor, another problem developed: The baby was in breech position. Late that night, doctors decided to perform a Caesarean section.

In the end, she had a healthy 7-pound, 2-ounce baby girl.

After the birth of Molly's daughter, a new problem loomed: the bill.

The average cost of a Caesarean birth with complications in North Carolina is $16,651, according to an estimate from Blue Cross and Blue Shield. While Medicaid and private insurance normally cover these costs, most undocumented immigrants are uninsured.

Although Molly had paid down her prenatal bills, the cost of the delivery was out of reach.

But, like all uninsured moms who give birth in the U.S., Molly was eligible for a program known as emergency Medicaid. Coverage applies only to emergency conditions and is used in North Carolina primarily for labor and delivery costs. Emergency Medicaid is available to anyone -- regardless of immigration status -- whose income falls below state limits.

For deliveries, all families earning up to 185 percent of the federal poverty limit, which comes to around $38,000 for a family of four, are fully covered. Medicaid picked up Molly's tab.

Back in the maternity ward of Women's Hospital, another busy day was under way.

Nursing director Viall rounded a corner and stopped next to a bulletin board crowded with thank-you notes from new mothers to the hospital staff. Some were in English. Many were in Spanish.

"Thanks a lot for your atención," one note read. "God bless to everyone."
http://www.heraldsun.com/orange/10-911931.cfm?
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Illegal Aliens are identity thieves, not undocumented workers.

If you can not join us, please pray for Ramos and Compean this Sunday Morning*


'The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."


Join Ramos and Compean supporters this Sunday, January 6th at a rally in front of the Lake Forest, Saddleback Church

http://www.saddleback.com/flash/default.htm

Featured speaker at Saddleback Church this Sunday will be Chuck Colson, former White House Counsel - a key player during the Watergate scandal. Today, he is a religious talk show host and guest lecturer.

The Lake Forest Saddleback Church is one of the largest in Southern California - thousands of church goers will see the Free Ramos and Compean Rally as well as media in attendance at the Chuck Colson event.

The message FREE RAMOS and COMPEAN will be sent!

Ramos and Compean supporters will distribute flyers and educate the public on how to become an activist in the fight to free Ramos and Compean.

Bring American flags and Free Ramos and Compean signs - a limited number of signs will be available.

DATE
Sunday, January 6

TIME
8:30am - 11:00am

LOCATION
street in front of Saddleback Church
1 Saddleback Pkwy
Lake Forest, CA

Cross streets are El Toro and Portola Pkwy.

http://www.saddleback.com/flash/drivedir.html


RADIO SHOW:

Chuck Colson
http://www.wfil.com/ministryaudio/BreakPoint/
BreakPoint - Chuck Colson and Mark Earley

Terrorists, Drug Dealers and People Smugglers Welcomed into USA
Thursday, 03 January 2008
By Sher Zieve

In case you happened to miss recent news on the subject, the Democrat-run US Congress has now officially welcomed terrorists, drug and people-smugglers into the United States of America. Welcome wagons, if not the proverbial red carpets, are now being extended to non-citizen criminals—many of whom have vowed to destroy the USA and its entire people—in a heretofore unprecedented manner. Refusing to follow the dictates of those US citizens who elected them, members of these now less-than-august bodies have, instead, decided to curry favor with our country’s enemies—enemies who are currently either firmly at the gate or who have already freely entered the country.

Note: Treason is no longer an issue to the increasingly autocratic rulers who, now, repressively walk the halls of the D.C. Capitol building. It also strongly appears that the US Constitution is no longer applicable to them and is only a document that hinders their ignoble and sordid desires.

While telling the American people they would build a border fence to keep the country’s enemies at bay, with a wink and a nod members of both of these governmental branches entered into their own secret agreements to destroy any hope of said fence ever being built. The previously-given funding, via the Secure Fence Act, will now be reallocated to Senators’ and Congress persons’ pet projects. Even according to pro-illegals Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), $3 billion—previously passed by Congress to build a secure border fence—have now been stripped from the defense bill; ostensibly to be replaced by personal “pork” provisions for the Democrats. Greed and uncontrolled avarice have, once again, won out over both common sense and the fate of the country and its citizens. Graham said: “I’m incredibly disappointed. Congress would serve itself well if we funded border security as my amendment proposes, and it would help us move the immigration debate further down the road.”

No longer are our “leaders” interested in the majority—if any—of the promises of our Founders. As a refresher, the Preamble to the US Constitution reads: “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” Instead, with Congress’ overruling the American people (spec. the political imprisonment of USBP Agents Compean and Ramos and TX Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez) “establish justice” is now relegated to illegals and enemies of our country—not US citizens who attempt to protect it and its people. With the backdoor dissolution of the Secure Border Act, “provide for the common defense” and “promote the general welfare” have now been tossed into the round file. With the previous outrages perpetrated by our elected leaders, suffice it to say “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity” will no longer be possible.

As never before in our history, we stand on a precipice overlooking a seemingly bottomless chasm. We can choose to jump and be ruled and managed by those whom we actually elected or we can walk away from the edge and choose to continue self-rule and self-determination for ourselves, our country and potential future generations. One of these two solutions provides for death, the other life. Only we can decide which we want. But remember that remaining apathetic inevitably leads to both an early demise and the dissolution of any and all realistic hopes. If you choose life, select your path of resistance wisely and well. History is a good mentor and provides sound information about those who have chosen before you.

There may be one last hope. The SAVE Act (Secure America with Verification and Enforcement) is currently in play. And it may actually be our last hope. Take a look at it and get involved. It may very well be you last hope, too.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”—Plato: Greek philosopher

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”—Edmund Burke: Irish statesman/philosopher

http://hotair.com/archives/2007/11/08/democrats-yank-bo...efense-spending-bill

SAVE Act: http://www.numbersusa.com/interests/attrition.html

http://www.borderfirereport.net/sher-zieve/terrorists-d...rs-welcomed-int.html

This publication made possible by the Turner Foundation
SOURCES


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& Park, M.M. (2002). Births: Final data for 2000. National Vital Statistics Reports, 50(5) ;
and The Alan Guttmacher Institute. (2004). U.S. teenage pregnancy and statistics: Overall
trends, trends by race and ethnicity and state-by-state information. New York, NY: Author
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and Long- Term Dependency, Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public
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An Overview of Latina Teen Pregnancy

The United States has made great strides in reducing teen pregnancy and childbearing, but the success has been neither even nor uniform. Too many ***** are still becoming parents, and nowhere is the problem more acute than in the Latino community.

• 51% of Latina ***** get pregnant at least once before age 20—nearly twice the national average.1

• Latinas have had the highest teen birth rate of any major ethnic/racial minority in the country since 1995.2

• Latina teen birth rates have declined at a slower pace compared to other groups—half as fast as the overall national decline (see Figure). In fact, teen birth rates
have actually increased in 17 states.3

• The Latino population is the largest and fastest growing minority group in the United States—by 2025, 1 in every 5 ***** will be Latino.4 Clearly whatever goes on among Latino ***** not only affects the Latino
community, but also has an extraordinary impact
on the nation as a whole.

Despite having a rich culture and growing influence, the Latino community disproportionately suffers from a variety
of troubling social indicators. At present, less than 6 in 10 Latino adults living in the United States have a high school diploma5 and Latino ***** are more likely to drop
out of high school than their non-Hispanic White or Black counterparts.6

In 2005, more than 1 in 5 Latinos were living
below the poverty level compared to 8 percent of non-Hispanic Whites and 24 percent of Blacks.

7 Furthermore, 30 percent of all children living in poverty are Latino.

8 Preventing teen pregnancy and parenthood is one of the most direct and effective ways to improve these trends.

• Two-thirds of all teen moms never finish high school.9
• Half of all single mothers on welfare were teenagers
when they had their first child.10
• Children born to teen mothers are less likely to succeed
in school, are at greater risk of poverty, and are
more likely to have health problems and engage in
problem behavior.11
Hispanic/Latina
(any race)
African American
Native American
TOTAL
White (non-Hispanic)
Asian/Pacific Islander
Simply put, by continuing the progress made to date in
preventing too-early pregnancy and parenthood, more Latino
***** will have the opportunity to get an education,
participate in the workforce, and build strong families.
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3 0
50
70
9 0
110
13 0
1990
1992
1994
1996
1998
2000
2002
2004
Rates per 1,000 girls aged 15 to 19
Since 1995, Latina ***** have had the highest teen birth
rate among the major racial/ethnic groups in the U.S.1
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