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IMMIGRANT'S WEEKLY FROM ILW.COM

November 26, 2007

Headlines:
1. Comment: New Immigration Backlog
2. Classifieds:
None this week
3. Items:
(a) H-2A Temporary Agricultural Visas by Gregory Siskind, Esq.
(b)Immigrant's Weekly Poll: Are You Optimistic Or Pessimistic
About The Future Of America?
(c) Immigrants Of The Week: Bijan, Jerry Yang, David Ho,
Jacqueline Murekatete, And Janusz Kaminski
(d) News Links For The Week
4. Highlight: Goldenberg Law Firm P.A. And Other Featured Law
Firms
5. Letters From:
(a) Robert Yang
(b) Robert Bettes
6. Discussions
(a) Immigration Law Wiki
(b) Illegal Mexican Exploitation
(c) HEADS UP: ILLEGAL-WORKER CRACKDOWN COMING
(d) INFOPASS question
(e) another 'honorable' mistake
(f) URGENT HELP NEEDED ---PROBLEM in GETTING BACK to m...
(g) DEPORTATION!,question,help.. urgent
(h) america is immigration
(i) I-601 and extreme hardship: strategies
(j) Not all illegals are criminals
(k) But your honor, this was an honorable mistake...

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1. COMMENT

New Immigration Backlog

New York Times reports "Immigration authorities are swamped in
new bureaucratic backlogs resulting from an unanticipated flood
last summer of applications for citizenship and for residence
visas, officials said. The surge began after Jan. 31 when the
immigration agency announced fee increases averaging 66 percent
for most applications, official figures show. In July and August
alone, the federal Citizenship and Immigration Services agency
received 2.5 million applications, including petitions for
naturalization as well as for the entire range of immigrant
visas. That was more than double the total applications it
received in the same two months in 2006... The deluge has been
so great that the agency is struggling to send out notices
acknowledging it has received the applications."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/23/us/23immig.html

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3. Items

(a) H-2A Temporary Agricultural Visas

Gregory Siskind, Esq. writes "The H-2A temporary agricultural
visa is a nonimmigrant visa which allows foreign nationals to
enter the U.S. to carry out temporary or seasonal agricultural
labor or services. Given estimates that more than half of
America's agricultural workers are undocumented immigrants, the
use of the H-2A visa is becoming more and more important."
http://www.ilw.com/articles/2007,1126-siskind.shtm
http://www.visalaw.com

(b) Immigrant's Weekly Poll: Are You Optimistic Or Pessimistic
About The Future Of America?

Make your vote count and find out what other Immigrant's Weekly
readers think.
http://www.ilw.com/articles/2007,1126-poll.shtm

(c) Immigrants Of The Week: Bijan, Jerry Yang, David Ho,
Jacqueline Murekatete, And Janusz Kaminski

Celebrate contributions of these outstanding immigrants to
America.
http://www.ilw.com/articles/2007,1126-immigrants.shtm

(d) News Links For The Week

These immigration news items are updated throughout the week.
http://discuss.ilw.com/eve/forums/a/.../m/44310079241
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5. LETTERS

(a) Dear Weekly Editor:
It's hard for any presidential candidates to tell the
inconvenient truth to their constituents. The rights to
immigrate is not the same as the rights to collect welfare and no
presidents nor politicians can exempt Americans from global
competition. Nativists want to close the border so they can
"secure" their jobs of convenience and also outlaw jobs
outsourcing for the same reasons. Protectionism and monopoly
always hurt the consumers unfairly limiting our options to shop
for the best deals for less by distorting the market. It's time
for common sense, rational and humane immigration reform. 3 and
10 years bar must be lifted if ones marry US citizens or legal
residents and pay fine and those sponsors must sign affidavit of
support for 10 years for their spouses. Foreign visitors with
past immigration violation can pay fine, show change of financial
circumstances and deposit $10,000 to secure visitor visas so they
can visit USA as tourists and spend money and go back for real
now. We need a legal temporary worker program and selecting
immigrants by using merits instead of family ties. We need to
legalize non criminal undocumented immigrants by giving them 15
years work permits without giving them rights to collect welfare,
and adjustment of status to permanent residency will be evaluate
by merits and their contributions. We will go after employers for
breaking the laws instead of building the costly Great Wall of
USA.

Robert Yang

(b) Dear Weekly Editor:
With regards to the comment, "Democrats Cowed by Anti-
Immigrationists", (IW 11/19/07), I would like to offer a
response: I'm a regular voter who grew up in New Mexico
(stated because I grew up with and respect Hispanics) and
disagree that the enormous surge in concern over illegal
immigration is caused by bigotry as the article infers. The
national outcry focused on illegal immigration is caused by a
problem, originally only in border states, that has spread
nationwide. Now that illegal immigration is a national problem,
more people are writing and calling Congress. Democrats are not
"cowed." They want to get re-elected. Frustration 1:
Americans would never have backed a Congress that authorized 3
million legal admissions per year, the effective number of both
legal and illegal immigrants over the last two decades. Congress
may have wanted more immigration but did not follow the rules.
Congress let the crisis grow (nodding and winking) until the
problem was so big (10-20 million illegal aliens) that voters
became angry. Frustration 2: Wal-Mart and China are the
only ones really benefiting from illegal immigration. The sub-
prime mortgage frenzy meant illegal aliens could buy homes. That
artificially inflated the values of all the homes, especially in
California. Wages were driven down by the huge pool of illegal
workers who could only buy cheap products at Wal-Mart. Many of
Wal-Mart's products are imported from China: China invested its
huge trade surplus into (you guessed it) American mortgage trusts
who loaned to (you guessed it) illegal aliens. America needs
to return to a higher-paid nation of do-it-yourselfers who cut
their own lawns. We can appreciate the desire of people to want
to come to America to improve their lives; but with 300+ million
people, American needs to level off in population and improve the
quality of life of its citizens first.

Robert Bettes
El Paso, TX
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6. Discussions

(a) Immigration Law Wiki
http://www.immigrationlawwiki.com

(b) Illegal Mexican Exploitation
http://discuss.ilw.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/902603441/m/2...10869241#61010869241

(c) HEADS UP: ILLEGAL-WORKER CRACKDOWN COMING
http://discuss.ilw.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/902603441/m/6...10569241#96310569241

(d) INFOPASS question
http://discuss.ilw.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/902603441/m/7...10569241#45610569241

(e) another 'honorable' mistake
http://discuss.ilw.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/902603441/m/3...10569241#42910569241

(f) URGENT HELP NEEDED ---PROBLEM in GETTING BACK to m...
http://discuss.ilw.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/902603441/m/8...10469241#56510469241

(g) DEPORTATION!,question,help.. urgent
http://discuss.ilw.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/902603441/m/8...10669241#99210669241

(h) america is immigration
http://discuss.ilw.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/902603441/m/5...10969241#65310969241

(i) I-601 and extreme hardship: strategies
http://discuss.ilw.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/902603441/m/1...10669241#76710669241

(j) Not all illegals are criminals
http://discuss.ilw.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/902603441/m/2...10469241#71510469241

(k) But your honor, this was an honorable mistake...
http://discuss.ilw.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/902603441/m/6...10669241#68210669241
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