Politics Securing The Border With A Wall, Duh

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  1. Lanny

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    That was not my point.
     
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    sorry that I mis- interpreted Lanny!
    I'm just frustrated with how this whole immigration reform deal and how those that have been deported by whoever get back in and murder. Its tough enough to clean up crime in our own country and communities.
    Seems nobody from the progressive left never comments that when criminals and doesn't matter what race come hear and break our laws they don't say much about it?
    And with all the homeless in LA & SF out of control creating decease and such with filth, where are the environmentalist that want to clean up the climate?
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Crime is actually down.
    Homelessness is more a creation of our economy than anything else. The wealth disparity and income disparity have had a lot to do with it.
     
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    I don't agree with the wealth disparity. I have grandkids and know many young people that don't live in the streets because they don't make a ton of money. If they were dependent on drugs or had mental issues, yes.
    Its sad, but you don't see it like that everywhere. I traveled North America for 40 years and its worse in LA & SF than anywhere else.
    Its drugs and alcohol thats also creates the mental issues, its also that in many of the west coast cities there are big numbers of young people that refuse to work but would rather get high, drink, and stand around and do nothing. When young people or anyone for that matter are idle all the time with no drive to get going, that sets them up for trouble.
    WE should set up camps in each state where we can help these people get over their issues and also ask them to contribute by working civic type jobs.
    Don't they still have the job core...I knew a number of guys and gals when I was younger that were helped tremendously from the job core. Im just rambling, sorry bud.
     
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    You're not starting out in life.
    You're also looking at individuals that you know and not seeing the big picture which would necessarily involve statistics. The wealth disparity is growing at an alarming pace. This means more and more at the bottom not even the middle.
     
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    She sure says some absurdly irrelevant politibabble.
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    I'm not surprised at all that it would come across that way to you.
     
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    Arizona official charged with human smuggling after bringing more than 40 pregnant women to the US
    By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News

    An Arizona elected official is facing dozens of charges in three states in connection with a multimillion-dollar adoption scheme in which he allegedly smuggled more than 40 women into the U.S. from the Marshall Islands, promising them money in exchange for their babies.

    Authorities believe Paul Peterson, an adoption lawyer and Maricopa County Assessor was the head of a smuggling ring that allegedly recruited Marshallese women "and offered a significant amount of money to place their babies for adoption in Utah," state Attorney General Sean Reyes told reporters Wednesday.

    Peterson is charged with 11 second and third-degree felonies in Utah, including human smuggling, sale of a child, communications fraud and pattern of unlawful activity, Reyes said.

    "The commercialization of children is illegal and the commoditization of children is simply evil," Reyes said.

    Reyes said his office's investigation began after investigators got a call to a human-trafficking tip line in October 2017. Staff at several hospitals in the Salt Lake City area would eventually report an "influx" of women from the Marshall Islands giving birth and putting their babies up for adoption, often accompanied by the same woman.


    In Arizona, Peterson was indicted on 32 charges including theft, fraud and forgery. Prosecutors there say the scheme defrauded Arizona's Medicaid system of $800,000 because the women had no intention of remaining in the state when they applied for benefits.

    The Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) said it received a tip in December of 2018 from a person who had been interested in adopting through Peterson's firm but became suspicious of his practices, court documents state.

    Prosecutors say Petersen used associates in the Marshall Islands, where he had served a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to recruit pregnant women by offering many of them $10,000 each to give up their babies for adoption. Petersen would pay for the women to travel to the U.S. days or months before giving birth and live in a home that he owned until delivering the baby, according to the court records.

    Petersen charged families $25,000-$40,000 per adoption and brought about $2.7 million into a bank account for adoption fees in less than two years, according to court documents.


    Under a compact between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Marshallese citizens can enter the U.S. and work without a visa, unless they're traveling for the purpose of adoption, authorities said.

    Separately, federal prosecutors in Arkansas announced that Peterson had been arrested Wednesday and unsealed an indictment charging him with crimes including conspiracy, mail fraud, and wire fraud.

    The Arizona Department of Public Safety, Homeland Security Investigations and the Utah Attorney General's Office were involved in the arrest, officials said.

    Authorities in all three states said that the birth mothers and the adoptive families did not commit any crimes and would not be facing charges. No completed adoptions will be undone because authorities do not believe the women were misled into believing their children might be returned at some point.


    Petersen is being held on a $500,000 bond and is due in court on Oct. 15.

    The Associated Press contributed to this report.
     
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    What gives? Peterson isn't even a Hispanic name.
     
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    ICE: Illegal immigrant targeted alleged rape victim again after release
    By Louis Casiano | Fox News

    An undocumented immigrant targeted a woman he previously raped once he was released from custody in Oklahoma after authorities failed to honor an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer request, immigration officials said.

    Antonio Ulises Perez, 38, a native of El Salvador, was arrested on Sept. 30 for alleged first-degree rape by the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office, ICE said in a statement. Officials said the agency asked the sheriff's department on Tuesday to transfer custody of Perez to deportation officers in the event he was scheduled to be released.

    They refused and Perez was released Wednesday morning, according to ICE.

    “Within a few hours of being released, this illegal alien was back at the home of the rape victim where he was free to re-victimize her and harm other members of the community,” said Marc Moore, director of ICE’s Dallas field office.


    Deportation officers were able to track Perez down and arrested him later that day, Moore said. He remains in custody pending deportation proceedings.

    "Unfortunately, this is not an isolated event," the ICE statement read. "Over the past few months ago, Oklahoma County has routinely failed to honor ICE detainers by releasing criminal aliens back into the local community before ICE has the opportunity to take custody."

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    Antonio Ulises Perez, an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, targeted the same victim he is accused of raping hours after he was released from police custody Wednesday, authorities said. (Oklahoma County Jail)

    “It is unconscionable that someone who is sworn to uphold the law would find it acceptable to release an alleged rapist who is illegally present in the U.S. back into the community when there are other options available under federal immigration law,” Moore said.
     
  12. The Professional Fan

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    For those of you that live in the pdx metro area, you might find this interesting. I keep seeing more and more of these Muchas Gracias restaurants popping up pretty much everywhere. I had never eaten at one until just this week. It was better than I had expected. Maybe because my expectations were so low I don’t know. But it did pique my curiosity as to where these restaurants originated from and how they’re popping up everywhere in pdx metro suburbia. Found this article from 2007. Quite interesting. And remember, only the worst kind of people are crossing our southern border
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    VANCOUVER — Rodolfo Sanchez seems to be modeling his company's expansion after the quick service of his Muchas Gracias restaurants.

    The ingredients?

    "Determination and hard work," said Sanchez, through his Spanish language interpreter and consultant, Cefar Chavez.



    An amiable businessman with a warm smile, Sanchez, 43, apologized for his limited English skills. He's still mastering the language, Chavez said. However, Sanchez understands the business philosophy of establishing market dominance through expansion.

    Based in Vancouver since 1997, Muchas Gracias Mexican Food has grown from a single fast-food restaurant to a chain of more than 40 franchised branches throughout Washington and Oregon.

    "We expect to open 10 more places in the two states within four months," Sanchez said.

    The startups in newer retail developments represent a turning point for his business, said Sanchez, who founded his first Muchas Gracias in a defunct Taco Time restaurant in 1993 in St. Helens, Ore. He moved the concept and headquarters north to Vancouver in 1997, transforming a former Fourth Plain Boulevard Taco Bell, a Hazel Dell A&W, and downtown Vancouver's former Spic'n Span drive-up into Muchas Gracias restaurants. Taking over vacant stand-alone sites helped keep start-up costs low, Sanchez said.

    "As we've been growing, we have been accepted in other areas, including shopping centers," he said. Franchise owners, who pay a $100,000 fee, determine where they'll locate. Launching the new franchise from a vacated restaurant can cost between $70,000 and $80,000, Chavez said.

    Sanchez said he spent the past two years converting Muchas Gracias to the franchise model and is now set for exponential growth. The eatery's San Diego influenced menu features meat-stuffed burritos, chimichangas and fish tacos.

    The Muchas Gracias fast-service concept, in which counter workers relay orders in rapid-fire Spanish, "is very successful in the Anglo community," Sanchez said.

    While franchise opportunities are open to everyone, Sanchez said all new Muchas Gracias owners are of Latino descent.

    "Most are Mexican-American, but some are from Central, South and Latin America," he said.

    The company is fielding requests for information from other ethnic groups.







    "However, the ones that are opening new stores are already in, and now they've decided to invest in getting other places," he said.

    Experts say franchising will minimize risks to new business owners, especially inexperienced restaurateurs.

    "They receive a pre-written business plan, which makes it easier," said James Steiner, a business development specialist with the U.S. Small Business Administration's Portland office. "What you're paying for is branding, logos, uniforms and designs — everything is pre-made. It's also easier to get a small business loan."

    Sanchez said he hopes to help new entrepreneurs while expanding to other regions.

    "We're looking into Idaho, Colorado, Phoenix and California," said Sanchez, who arrived in San Diego from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, in 1980.


    He dreams of opening a restaurant in San Diego, the Californian coastal city where he spent six fearful years living as an illegal immigrant.

    He secured his status as a permanent resident in 1986, when President Ronald Reagan enacted the Immigration Reform and Control Act.

    By then, Sanchez had been working four years at Alberto's, a San Diego taco stand where he acquired a 40 percent stake in the company. He sold his share in 1993, bringing the basic concept and menu northward.

    Sanchez said he's seen no signs of discrimination during his tenure as a businessman in Oregon and Washington. Going forward, Steiner said maintaining standards will be crucial to Muchas Gracias' success, as proven by chains like McDonald's.

    "It's all about keeping on top of those standards," he said. "We all know what their (McDonald's) milk shakes taste like. You've got to have confidence the quality is kept constant."

    Franchising can also mean a substantial boost in the parent company's revenue, Steiner said. "There's quite a bit of profit in selling your name and idea."

    Sanchez, who would not discuss company earnings or percentages, said Muchas Gracias employment has grown from 400 people to 500 since 2005. He still owns the chain's four original sites, and while some franchise owners are opening in spaces vacated by larger, sit-down-style restaurants, Sanchez said smaller sites best fit the Muchas Gracias concept.

    "Our food is fast food," he said. "That means you can have a full house one moment and it's empty the next."


    https://tdn.com/business/muchas-mom...cle_0ca1783d-11d2-5c49-aa78-f5fafc1a3f14.html
     
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    This is an interesting article of a small start becoming a success. I tried Muchas Gracias once and got sick (Im not sure if it was them or not), but is has mentally blocked me from wanting to go back. That said I enjoyed the article and hope they can continue their success.
     
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    ICE: Man accused of shooting transgender woman was previously deported

    A Mexican citizen who allegedly shot a transgender Dallas woman last month was living in the United States illegally and is now a fugitive, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials said.

    Domingo Ramirez-Cayente, 29, deported in 2010, was arrested Sept. 24 and charged with aggravated assault, The Dallas Morning News reported. He reportedly admitted to shooting Daniela Calderon, 35, six times in the chest, stomach and hip.

    Calderon told the newspaper Ramirez-Cayente yelled homophobic and transphobic slurs during the attack.

    ICE: ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT TARGETED ALLEGED RAPE VICTIM AGAIN AFTER RELEASE

    Instead of being held in police custody, Ramirez-Cayente posted a $25,000 bond and hasn't been seen since. It was unclear if he remains in the area. Dallas County prosecutors wanted him to be fitted with an ankle monitor, but the terms of his bond were set before they could intervene.

    “The magistrate set the bond at $25,000 with no ELM (electronic leg monitor). As soon as the D.A.'s Office was made of aware of the low bond, we moved to amend the conditions of bond to include a monitoring device; unfortunately, the defendant had already fled,” Kimberlee Leach, a spokeswoman for the Dallas County District Attorney's office, told the news outlet.

    Back in March 2010, Ramirez-Cayente was taken into custody by ICE agents near Brackettville, Texas, after entering the U.S. illegally, the agency said.
    Ramirez-Cayente was processed as an expedited removal and removed to Mexico on March 27, 2010. ICE has not encountered Ramirez-Cavente since his 2010 removal," said an agency spokesperson.

    Anyone caught reentering the U.S. illegally can be charged with a felony. It was unclear if the Dallas Police Department flagged Ramirez-Cayente as an undocumented immigrant charged with a crime.
     
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    Fun fact: Muchas Gracias means Thank You Very Much in Spanish.
     
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    How are their chips and salsa?
    I judge a Mexican restaurant:
    1. Their red salsa, must use the best fresh ingredients;
    2. Their chips must be fresh, thin and very warm;
    3. They must serve Mexican beer;
    4. They must make a great Margarita;
    5. A great cheese enchilada is a plus;
    6. A great steak fajita is a big plus with moist and warm fajita wraps. Must have red bell pepper slices and really should be served while still sizzling on a metal hot plate;
    7. A really good chile relleno is another good plus;
    8. If they can make that sweet corn mush that Chevy's use to serve, that pretty well tops off a great meal.

    Oh, and it must be clean.
    Mexican background music with Mexican artifacts and decor helps.
    Some nice guacamole would be nice as would some decent refried beans.
     
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    Mexico halts caravan of 2,000 migrants bound for US; critics call roundup a 'human hunt'
    By Bradford Betz | Fox News

    A caravan of roughly 2,000 migrants bound for the United States early Saturday was halted by Mexican authorities only a few hours into their journey, according to officials.

    The caravan, which consisted of migrants from Africa, the Caribbean, and Central America, left before dawn from Tapachula, a town in southern Mexico near the Guatemalan border, Reuters reported.

    Many of the migrants who departed from Tapachula early in the morning had been held up there for weeks or months, awaiting residency or transit papers from Mexican authorities.

    About 24 miles into their journey, federal police and national guardsmen blocked their path. Most of the group was detained and put on a bus back to Tapachula, while about 150 migrants returned by foot, witnesses said.
    The abrupt halt of the caravan stood in stark contrast to last year when waves of U.S.-bound caravans – including one of at least 7,000 people – drew widespread media coverage while immigration officials on both sides of the border struggled to stem the flow.

    Under pressure from Washington, the government has been taking a tougher stance in dealing with migrants, and many Mexicans are being less welcoming.

    President Trump, who frequently described the caravans an “invasion,” brokered a deal with Mexico in June, promising to avert tariffs on imports if Mexico clamped down on U.S.-bound migration.

    Salva Lacruz, from the Fray Matías de Córdova Human Rights Center in Tapachula, called the roundup on Sunday a "human hunt" and noted officials waited until the migrants had tired out before forcing them into vans.

    Sending the migrants back south was an "exercise in cruelty," Lacruz said, saying the migrants have come to Mexico because "they need international protection."

    Mexico's export-driven economy is highly dependent on commerce with the U.S., and the government has become far less hospitable to migrants.

    Mexico has offered refugees the possibility of obtaining work and residency permits to stay in southern Mexico, far from the U.S. border.
     
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    when are they going to start building new parts of the wall and when will Mexico pay for it? So far just replacing old sections. Also, looks like your boy got shut down from stealing money from other departments. :biglaugh:
     
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    This was taken from a Reuters report.
    I'd prefer that you go to the first hand witnesses, in this case Reuters, rather than a second hand Fox News report which is all too often the source of misleading information.
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...igrant-caravan-on-its-way-to-us-idUSKBN1WR0MP
     
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    Yes, just when is the money for the Wall going to start flowing in to our coffers? Huh? Any day now?
     

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