From over the transom:

Dear President Obama (and John McCain and Lindsey Graham):

I’m planning to move my family and extended family into Mexico and I’d like your assistance.

We’re planning to simply walk across the border from the U.S. into Mexico and we’ll need your help to make a few
arrangements.

We plan to skip all the legal stuff like passports, immigration quotas and laws.

I’m sure they handle those things the same way you do here. So would you mind telling your buddy, President Calderon, that I’m on my way?

Please let him know that I’ll expect the following:

1. Free medical care for my entire family.

2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might need, whether I use them or not.

3. Please print all Mexican government forms in English.

4. I want my grandkids to be taught Spanish by English-speaking (bi-lingual) teachers.

5. Tell their schools they need to include classes on American culture and history.

6. I want my grandkids to see the American flag on one of the flag poles at their school.

7. Please plan to feed my grandkids at school for both breakfast and lunch.

8. I’ll need a local Mexican driver’s license so I can get easy access to government services.

9. I do plan to get a car and drive in Mexico but I don’t plan to purchase car insurance, and I probably won’t make any special effort to learn local traffic laws.

10. In case one of the Mexican police officers does not get the memo from their president to leave me alone, please be sure that every patrol car has at least one English-speaking officer.

11. I plan to fly the U.S. Flag from my house top, put U.S. Flag decals on my car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4th. I don’t want any complaints or negative comments from the locals.

12. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, or have any labor or tax laws enforced on any business I may start.

13. Please have the president tell all the Mexican people to be extremely nice and never say critical things about me or my family, or about the strain we might place on their economy.

14. I want to receive free food stamps.

15. Naturally I’ll expect free rent subsidies.

16. I’ll need Income tax credits so although I don’t pay Mexican Taxes, I’ll receive money from the government.

17. Please arrange it so that the Mexican Gov’t pays $4,500 to help me buy a new car.

18. Oh yes, I almost forgot, please enroll me free into the Mexican Social Security program so that I’ll get a monthly income in retirement.

I know this is an easy request because you already do all these things for all his people who walk over to the U.S. From Mexico. I’m sure President Calderon won’t mind returning the favor if you ask him nicely.

Thank you so much for your kind help.

If this is yours and you want credit and a link, let me know.

NumbersUSA: While nearly 3 million Americans lost their jobs in 2009, the federal government issued more than 1 million new Green Cards over the same period of time. According to a new DHS report, 1,130,818 new Green Cards were issued to legal immigrants last year – the highest single-year number since 2006 and the fourth highest in history.

Of the new Green Cards issued, 47,879 new arrivals won their Green Cards through the Visa Lottery. The lottery awards new Green Cards without consideration of an individual’s financial or social situation. Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) has offered H.R.2305, which would eliminate the Visa Lottery and is one of NumbersUSA’s 5 Great Immigration-Reduction Bills.

Nearly 750,000 of the new Green Cards were issued to family members of U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents. Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) has offered H.R.878, which would eliminate certain categories of the family sponsored visas and is also one of NumbersUSA’s 5 Great Bills. The bill would reduce the total number of extended family-based Green Cards by more than 100,000.

Read the whole thing….

NumbersUSA has been urging Congress to do something about the runaway importation of foreign workers. As part of the effort they asked members of the House to join a “Reclaim America Jobs Caucus.”

Here’s a list of the 27 members who joined:

Joined the Reclaim America Jobs Caucus

(AL) Bachus
(AR) Boozman
(CA) Bilbray
(CA) Gallegly
(CA) Rohrabacher
(CA) Hunter
(CA) McKeon
(CA) Miller
(CA) Royce
(GA) Gingrey
(GA) Kingston
(IN) Burton
(IA) King
(KS) Tiahrt
(LA) Alexander
(MO) Akin
(NC) McHenry
(NC) McIntyre
(NC) Myrick
(TN) Roe
(TX) Carter
(TX) Conaway
(TX) Marchant
(TX) McCaul
(TX) Smith
(UT) Chaffetz
(WV) Capito

Still think Congress is interested in your pursuit of happiness?

Roy Beck @ NumbersUSA has posted a long list of groups advocating “immigration reform.” Of course we know that “immigration reform” (from the Left) is an euphemism for open borders and more cheap H1b visa workers to take American jobs.

Here’s an excerpt from Roy’s post:

With 10.2% Unemployment, These Groups Are Lobbying For More Foreign Workers (give them a call)

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LOBBYING FOR MORE FOREIGN WORKERS

Every one of these large organization is pushing Congress to pass “comprehensive immigration reform” that would increase the number of foreign workers to take jobs from Americans:

Examples from the list (the usual suspects):
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
- AFL-CIO
- Anti-Defamation League
- Chamber of Commerce (U.S.)
- Change To Win (union)
- Democratic National Committee (DNC)

But the most infuriating names on the list are the hypocritical bastards that head up American religious groups, such as: American Jewish Committee, Catholics, evangelicals, Protestants, et al. All entries at NumbersUSA have contact info: phone numbers, email addresses.

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At DHS, dysfunctionality is bipartisan:

N.C. native wrongly deported to Mexico
Federal investigators ignored evidence the man is a U.S. citizen, documents show.

The U.S. government admitted in April that it had wrongly deported an N.C. native, but newly released documents show that federal investigators ignored FBI records and other evidence showing that the man was a United States citizen.

At the time of Mark Lyttle’s deportation, immigration officials had criminal record checks that said he was a U.S. citizen. They had his Social Security number and the names of his parents. They had Lyttle’s own sworn statement that he had been born in Rowan County [NC].

None of this stopped them from leaving Lyttle, a mentally ill American who speaks no Spanish, alone and penniless in Mexico, where he has no ties.

Lyttle’s 350-page Department of Homeland Security file, released to The (Raleigh) News & Observer, shows that the government deported him based entirely on some of his own conflicting statements, even though agents knew that Lyttle is bipolar and has a learning disability.

“I tried to tell them I was a U.S. citizen born right here in Rowan County,” Lyttle says now. “But no one believed me.”

Lyttle is one of a growing number of people who have been swept up in the federal immigration detention system since 2001, when terrorist attacks prompted an unprecedented effort to find and deport illegal immigrants. The U.S. government deported 350,000 people in the fiscal year that ended in October 2008.

When The N&O first reported on Lyttle’s case in April, officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, said that Lyttle had caused the mistake by declaring that he was from Mexico. They maintain that position now.

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Lyttle swore to immigration agents on two occasions that he was Mexican, but he also swore that he was a U.S. citizen born in Rowan County. His Homeland Security file does not reflect any attempt by ICE officials to confirm Lyttle’s citizenship claims.

The agent who took Lyttle’s statement that he was born in North Carolina dismissed it, saying in a report that Lyttle “does not possess any documentation to support his claim.”

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The ICE file states that Lyttle’s Mexican citizenship “was established based on interview results and numerous background system checks.” But repeated background checks, from an FBI fingerprint database and the National Crime Information Center, showed he was an American citizen.

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The inconsistencies in his case were not discussed when Lyttle appeared before an Atlanta immigration judge and was ordered deported on Dec.9. On Dec. 18, he was loaded onto a plane and left at an airport just across the border from Hidalgo, Texas.

On Dec. 29, he returned to the U.S. border threatening to hurt himself and the border patrol agents. “Subject appears to be mentally unstable,” the report notes.

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Lyttle again told immigration agents he had been born in Rowan County. This time the file shows that they checked for his birth certificate there. They didn’t find it because Lyttle is adopted. In cases of adoption, birth certificates are stored in Raleigh, said Shirley Stiller, the deputy register of deeds in Rowan County.

Lyttle was deported a second time, within hours. With no documents to prove legal residency in any country, he soon found himself on an international odyssey.

Mexican authorities sent him to Honduras, where he was imprisoned before being sent to Guatemala.

In late April, he found the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City. Within a day, officials there contacted Lyttle’s brother at the military base where Lyttle told them he was serving, got copies of his adoption papers and issued him a U.S. passport.

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“This is not rocket science,” said Jacqueline Stevens, a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara who brought Lyttle’s case to light on her blog and is now writing a book about it. “It took someone in Guatemala one day to prove he was a [U.S.] citizen.”

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He [Lyttle] says he figured he would take a free trip to Mexico.

It worked really well. He not only got free trips to Mexico, he got side trips to Honduras and Guatemala as well.

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Phyllis Schlafly at Eagle Forum

How Young Engineers and Our Economy Are Betrayed

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The Americans hardest hit by H-1B visas, according to these researchers, are recent college graduates and those who want to change jobs. One of the reasons why big corporations prefer to hire H-1Bers is that foreign workers are restrained, almost like indentured servants, from changing jobs and competing with their original employer.

Americans used indentured services in the 1600s when plantation workers were brought to Virginia to work for seven years in exchange for a free voyage to the New World. Later, this practice was supplanted by African slavery.

That’s certainly not a model to imitate today. H-1B visas disrupt the free enterprise system that has yielded tremendous wealth to America and the world.

It is estimated that more than 400,000 foreigners are working in our country on H-1Bs, because there is no accountability for the requirement to seek U.S. workers first, and thousands of H-1B workers are exempt from the so-called cap. At least 100,000 American programmers are unemployed, and it is probable that many times that number are underemployed (driving trucks or bagging groceries) rather than using their technical skills.

Read more….

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Roy Beck, NumbersUSA:

663,000 U.S. Jobs Lost in March — 138,000 More Foreign Workers Given Work Permits — White House & Media Noticing?

The March unemployment news is shocking — just like it has been every month for the last year.

• The official unemployment rate jumped from 8.1% to 8.5%!
• 663,000 U.S. jobs were eliminated.
• There are now 13.2 million Americans looking for a job who can’t find even a part-time job.
• Yet, many of the nation’s richest foundations, most prestigious newspapers and top elected officials continue to call for an increase in foreign workers.

NumbersUSA believes that beating the proposed increases isn’t nearly enough. We continue to call for a suspension of most immigration during this jobs crisis.

Our calculations based on the most recent government data estimate that the feds gave out 138,000 permanent work permits (green cards for immigrants) and new temporary work permits (for temporary workers) to foreigners during March. That makes around 400,000 foreign workers during this new year of the new Administration and new Congress, which are acting just like the last Administration in callousness. You would think we had a jobs surplus and a worker shortage in this country with the way the feds behave.

Continued….

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UPDATED

CBS/ AP:

4 Shot In N.Y. Hostage Standoff

A gunman entered an immigration services center in downtown Binghamton on Friday, shot at least four people and took as many as 41 hostage, according to media reports.

Mayor Matthew Ryan told the Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin that there was a hostage situation involving a gunman with a high-powered rifle.

The condition of the victims wasn’t immediately clear. A Binghamton police dispatcher who spoke to The Associated Press wouldn’t confirm a number of people shot or injured.

The newspaper reported 41 hostages in the building of the American Civic Association and said apartments were being evacuated.

Continued….

UPDATE (1:55 pm et):
Fox News is reporting that 13 have been killed and 26 wounded. The gunman is still inside the building with hostages.

UPDATE II (2:05 pm et):
Fox News has reverted to the earlier count of 4 “confirmed” killed. FNC is also reporting that 2 “apparent” suspects have been taken from the building.

UPDATE III (2:19 pm et):
Fox News has upped the number killed to 15 but that seems unconfirmed.

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NY Daily News: “The American Civics Association assists immigrants and refugees with a variety of services, from translators to counseling to earning citizenship.”

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