Sabrina Steele is accusing Pope's Plant Farm in Greenback, Tenn. of discouraging her from taking a job so the farm could hire foreign workers. Pope's Plant Farm to the Department of Labor in November of 2007 for 75 foreign worker visas. The foreign workers would work 40 hour work weeks for $8.65 an hour.
The U.S. government will collect DNA samples from people arrested and detained for suspected immigration violations, despite concerns that the move violates their privacy rights.
A proposal, developed by Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger, asks for the approval to question suspects, arrested of violent crimes and weapons offenses, about their immigration status, a complete reversal in a county where government officials, for years, refused to do so even when neighboring jurisdictions adopted the practice. http://www.thesentinel.com/338110898600552.php
By Joe Slaninka - Montgomery (Md.) County Sentinel
The Bush Administration has denied temporary protected status to Haitians already living in the United States illegally while the nation recovers from tropical storms. The request for temporary protected status came from Haitian President René Préval to allow tens of thousands of Haitians already in the United State illegally to stay until the island recovers.
The U.S. economy lost 2.589 million jobs in 2008 under Bush's watch. But he still can't see that his vision of open borders is incompatible with middle class jobs for American workers. Here's his latest: "We should be open-minded about big issues like immigration reform, because if we’re viewed as anti-somebody — in other words, if the party is viewed as anti-immigrant — then another fellow may say, well, if they’re against the immigrant, they may be against me."
