Thread: OBL forms to fight anti-immigrant groups

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Posted on Wed, Jan. 31, 2007

Coalition forms to fight anti-immigrant groups

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Groups in Kansas and Missouri have formed a coalition to combat what they call the bigotry of anti-immigrant groups.

The Missouri-Kansas Coalition Against Racism, Anti-Semitism and Bigotry was announced Tuesday by its organizers. It includes civil rights advocates, union members, immigration lawyers and religious leaders.

Organizers said 700 people in Kansas and Missouri have signed a coalition statement "rejecting the politics of fear, hatred and armed vigilantism."

Angela Ferguson, an immigration lawyer who organized the coalition, said the group opposes what they called anti-immigration groups such as the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, which patrols the border and reports illegal immigrants to authorities.

The coalition plans to train speakers to share its opposition to racism and bigotry.

Ferguson said enforcing immigration law is up to the government. Being in the United States without proper documentation is a civil violation, not technically a crime, she said.

She said private groups or individuals who try to enforce federal immigration law often are motivated by a false sense of patriotism.

Minuteman meetings she has attended included "ridiculous characterizations" that immigrants carry dangerous diseases and have a cultural predisposition to drive drunk, she said.

Ed Hayes, of Overland Park, the Kansas director for the Minuteman organization, said his group is motivated by a desire to see immigration laws enforced.

The group is not against immigrants, Hayes said, but is against illegal immigration.

"We are against people breaking the law to come into our country, and we want politicians to enforce the law," he said.


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Minuteman meetings she has attended included "ridiculous characterizations" that immigrants carry dangerous diseases and have a cultural predisposition to drive drunk, she said.

Not ridiculous characterizations...FACT!!!!!!

This lady needs to educate herself before she speaks.

We are forever going to be labeled racists it seems.

Angela J. Ferguson
Austin & Ferguson, LLC
4240 Blue Ridge Boulevard, Suite 315 - Kansas City, MO
Phone: 816-356-7100
Fax: 816-356-7110
E-mail: Click here
Areas of Practice: Asylum, Business Immigration, Consular Processing, Criminal & Deportation Defense, Detention, Domestic Violence Issues, Federal Litigation, Family Immigration, General Immigration, HIV Waivers, Naturalization


Let her know what you think

Oops, what's that email? All it says is, "click here."

the email address is. .

E-mail: angela@austinferguson.com

They're firing the big guns - the race card. H-1Bs of the http://www.immigrationvoice.com have been learning from the illegals, and labeling anyone who opposes [their job destruction] as racists.

Coto have you seen the posts by 'Vicky'?

Originally Posted by BetsyRoss

Coto have you seen the posts by 'Vicky'?

Betsy Ross, I think Vicky was spreading propaganda, I'll bet she is doing this on other threads to,trying to make us believe in the H1B and H2B visa are good for America, if there is people like this out there like her we have to work even harder. She was also rude and spiteful.
Could you believe what she said about us comming here and killing all the Native Indians because Europe was not enough for the white people.

Everybody should go and read her posts!!
Betsy did you read the last post to vicky by pinestraw--LOL

Ferguson said enforcing immigration law is up to the government. Being in the United States without proper documentation is a civil violation, not technically a crime, she said.

She said private groups or individuals who try to enforce federal immigration law often are motivated by a false sense of patriotism.

What a load of donkey doo!

Originally Posted by Coto

They're firing the big guns - the race card. H-1Bs of the http://www.immigrationvoice.com have been learning from the illegals, and labeling anyone who opposes [their job destruction] as racists.

Coto:

There are H1-Bs all over the city of Detroit! I cannot get any interviews with any of the firms that hire H1-Bs because they flat out will not hire American citizens!

Read some of these comments:

http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3084

"Now, since our dear desi employers are known to be greedy and also known to be comfortable in bending, breaking or ignoring the law, once they file for your H4 to H1 transfer, they would want you to start working right away. Forget about waiting for H1 approval notice, they are unlikely to wait even for the receipt notice. It would be illegal to work on H4 even if you have the receipt notice in your hands for H4 to H1 transfer.

However, they would want you to work, so that you can start generating the revenue for the company. (hey, it costs money to do your transfer and money doesnt grow on trees). And who's gonna know. Once you are a willing participant in this, you are not going to report it, they are not going to report it and the client (your project location) would not even know the difference between H1 and H4. And ICE has its hands full in busting illegals working in meat packing plants.

Now, that is not all. In order to cover up the fact that you were working (and on their payroll) while in H4 without waiting for H1 approval, they may pay you in checks other than payroll checks. Either as an expense check or something else(cash, money order etc). There is another law they are breaking in the process of covering up the immigration law violation. The tax laws. By not paying you on a regular payroll, they cannot deduct your income tax and the employer's payroll tax. So it would be "Off the books"."

That figures...