Archive for August, 2007
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
I just wanted to thank uncle Sam and ICE specifically for ensuring that the U.S. workforce is protected once again and that our children are safe from the terror posed by evil Mexican workers at the Smithfield Foods Plant in North Carolina.
Today the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents swooped ...
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
If we continue our current immigration policies, United States will become less competitive and will no longer be viewed as a haven for innovation, success and political freedom. In our blind efforts to “protect” jobs we will drive out those who have the entrepreneurial capacity and will end up losing ...
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Immigration: The Human Cost
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
USCIS announced a proposal today to require nearly 750,000 lawful permanent residents carrying green cards without expiration date to replace their cards. The reasoning behind this proposal is that USCIS wants to issue these new cards because they want to issue more secure permanent resident cards, update cardholders' information, conduct ...
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
USCIS has released a list of “successful” worksite enforcement operations. The list of companies affected by the increase in enforcement intensity includes companies in diverse fields and with different undocumented worker contingents. The companies that were caught breaking immigration laws faced stiff penalties and some of their executives as well ...
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
New York Times reported on Saturday that USCIS received about 300,000 applications for high-skilled employment visas since July 1. This is twice the annual limit of 140,000 employment visas. Additionally, USCIS reported that they received an average of 54,700 green card applications a month in the three months preceding July. ...
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
On a more informal note and more in the direction of entrepreneurship, I have been reading the Warren Buffett Way and have learned some very valuable lessons about investing. The book mostly analyzes Buffett's investment strategy which basically consists of buying good companies' stocks while they are selling for ...
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Business Week published a story today to reflect the sentiments of some small business owners and other readers who wrote to the weekly about their feelings on the current immigration situation. Specifically the readers wrote in after reading an article in the paper about the role of business in resolving ...
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich argues in her article What America Owes its "Illegals" that it is not the United States that should levy a $5000 fee from undocumented immigrants, instead in developing any new immigration reform bills we should look into compensating these immigrants for the services and money they have paid ...
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Friday, August 17th, 2007
Various newspapers have been reporting that employers that are highly dependant on undocumented immigrants for their workforce are increasingly worried about the effects of the newly enacted “no-match” regulations. Ohio Farmer, for example, reports that fruit producers are bracing for the crackdown. They also report that the measure ...
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