Virginia Commission on Immigration Meeting Tomorrow - UPDATED
By Greg L | 21 May 2008 | Illegal Aliens, Virginia Politics | 24 Comments
The Virginia Commission on Immigration will hold five community meetings across the state, the first of which will be tomorrow, May 22 at the Johnson Center Cinema [map] at George Mason University in Fairfax County. The university is at 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, Virginia 22030. If you would like to speak to the commission for three minutes, and I would encourage everyone to do so, you’ll need to sign up at 1:00 PM for either of the two sessions which will be held from 2:00 to 5:00 PM, and 6:00 to 9:00 PM.
This commission was established by the only immigration-related bill to pass the General Assembly during the 2007 session. Members of the commission were selected from the Virginia House of Delegates and the Senate of Virginia, as well as a number of members appointed by Governor Kaine. The recommendations from this commission will be considered by the General Assembly at some point, and potentially become legislative initiatives that will either help to reduce the number of illegal aliens that unlawfully reside in Virginia, or further encourage their unlawful presence. The illegal alien lobby is strongly pushing their people to attend this meeting, and unless we want to encourage illegal-alien friendly policies in the General Assembly, we need to be there.
I hope you can attend.
UPDATE: I’ve been told that you can also sign up to speak at 5:00PM for the evening session.
UPDATE 2: I went to the afternoon session, and was fascinated to learn that while students and faculty could avail themselves of free parking, residents of the community had to pay for their parking in order to exercise their privilege of speaking to this government body at their only appearance in Northern Virginia. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the speakers largely represented a wide and diverse array of open borders academics and students who shockingly had pretty much the same thing to say. Of the few actual citizens, one standout was a Native American, who after telling the commission that his ancestors would have had a lot to say on the subject of illegal immigration, gave an impassioned speech in support of the rule of law and an orderly society.
Maybe the evening session will actually allow some diversity of opinion other than being a forum for the open borders lobby to beg for amnesty.
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I’m not sure why the illegal alien lobby is strongly pushing their people to attend this meeting. Illegal immigration is not the area being examined. Here is an exerpt from this article a couple of weeks ago:
http://www.insidenova.com/isn/news/local/article/immigration_commission_
to_meet_in_fairfax/15111/
….the commission will be examining all facets of immigration, unlike the Illegal Immigration Task Force which recently looked at illegal immigration and crime.
“This commission will be looking at everything else,” Gross said.
“Really a large part of the immigrant population is here legally,” he said. “They still create new challenges that the commonwealth has to face regardless of their legal status. We would like to focus on immigration as a whole.”
Who are the members?
Committee Members: On the committee’s web site, the members are identified in a word file included with materials from its September 2007 meeting. I did not find a more recent member list.
http://www.hhr.virginia.gov/Initiatives/ImmigrationCommission/Immigration%20member%20listing.doc
Does it conflict with American Idol? I’m asking for Dolph, who’s watching a tape of last night’s episode.
Lefty, you idiot! American Idol is on tonight. Maybe you should watch it might help you chill.
Silly me! I should have known.
G Man:
The Immigration Commission’s website has a link to the law that created it, and that law defines immigrant as:
G. As used in this article:
“Immigrant” means any individual not a citizen or national of the United States, whether or not lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States.
[end of quote]
So I believe the commission’s purpose is to study and report on the effects of both legal and illegal immigration. Assuming I am correct, remarks concerning illegal immigration would be appropriate.
If you can’t make it to GMU tomorrow night. Perhaps, you could attend the Gainesville District Town Hall Meeting at Stonewall Middle School, at 7:30 pm.
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Gainesville town hall meeting scheduled
Gainesville District Supervisor John T. Stirrup will hold his next Gainesville District Quarterly Town Hall Meeting on Thursday from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the auditorium at Stonewall Middle School, 10100 Lomond Drive in Manassas.
Stirrup will be joined by representatives from Prince William County Neighborhood Services, Prince William County Police Neighborhood Watch and Prince William County Clean Community Council.
Each representative will speak on the services they provide and join in a question and answer session. The award winning Stonewall Middle School Dance Team is scheduled to perform.
A clean up day is scheduled for June 7. Residents are invited to rid their homes and properties of items that are unwanted or cannot be stored properly. Dumpsters will be available at Sudley Elementary School from 8 a.m. until noon on June 7. Other dates for subsequent clean ups around the County are listed at http://www.pwcgov.org/junk or call 703-792-7018.
Stirrup holds Quarterly Town Hall Meetings to provide an opportunity for Gainesville District residents to receive updated information and have their questions answered. For more information, call 703-792-6195.
Three Down, One to Go!
Keep the Calls Coming!
May 21, 2008
Last night, Democratic Leadership partially capitulated and agreed to strip three of the four immigration amendments from the Iraq War Funding Bill that is on the Senate floor this week.
The move came when Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) made a point of order under Senate Rule 16, which prohibits legislating policy on an appropriations bill. The parliamentarian agreed, and stripped the following amendments:
The AgJobs Amendment that would have granted amnesty to 1.35 million agricultural workers and their families;
The Murray-Gregg Amendment that would have made approximately 218,000 more green cards available for multinational executives and so-called “highly skilled workers” by “recapturing” visas from as far back as 1994; and
The Leahy Amendment that would have extended for 5-years a program that helps wealthy investors get green cards.
However, Senate sources tell us that the Mikulski H-2B amendment - an amendment that could lead to hundreds of thousands of new unskilled H-2B guest workers flooding the labor market in only a few years - is still in the Iraq War Funding Bill. This is because the Iraq War Funding Bill is being considered in two parts and point of order raised by Senator Menendez only applied to the first part. The H-2B provision is in the second.
Please keep calling your Senators until Democratic Leadership strips this final special-interest immigration amendment from the Iraq War Funding Bill! Tell them that you oppose importing tens of thousands of new unskilled (H-2B) guest workers to appease corporate interests—and especially when the economy is struggling.
We heard throughout the day that your calls put intense pressure on Senators across the country. One staffer told us that the phones were “lighting up like a Christmas tree.” Please help us make sure Congress looks out for the American people and not special interests.
To find your Senators’ phone numbers, click here.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)
DC Office (202) 224-3542
District Office (702) 388-5020
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
DC Office (202) 224-2541
District Office (502) 582-6304
I don’t know if the links will work but google your state senators name for the numbers to find if this link doesn’t work
Lefty said on 21 May 2008 at 2:51 pm:
Does it conflict with American Idol? I’m asking for Dolph, who’s watching a tape of last night’s episode.
Bring back the GONG SHOW!
Sign up for public comment will be onsite at 1:00 p.m. Written comments can also be submitted in advance for Commission review prior to the meeting via email at immigration.commission@governor.virginia.gov, or by mail to:
Virginia Commission on Immigration
c/o Matt Gross
7 North Eight Street, 6th Floor
Richmond, VA 23219
Anonymous, it probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to bring it back. I can name a few supervisors who could easily star. Hmmm…Chuck Barris from the dais? Who shall I nominate?
Yup, I like American Idol. I enjoy seeing talent. Certainly you don’t think I would see it on a blog do you? However, I don’t vote. Does that make me a bad person? (sarcasm button off)
Anita Break said on 21 May 2008 at 3:00 pm:
Lefty, you idiot! American Idol is on tonight. Maybe you should watch it might help you chill.
Who’s the idiot? It was on last night as well. My niece watches it.
AI said on 21 May 2008 at 10:06 pm:
David Cook is the 2008 American Idol
I hope Dolph is happy.
Both are very talented contestants. I didn’t care who won.
Don’t forget that more people vote for the American Idol than in a general election. Something to think about. I guess it was all about Davids this year.
More people vote in american idol because you can vote as many times as they want and you can do it from home.
great way to limit public comments; sign up at 1:00 PM for either of the two sessions which will be held from 2:00 to 5:00 PM, and 6:00 to 9:00 PM. Hmmmm, a cynic would say that working class cotizen comments aren’t wanted.
Of course, working class citizens’ comments are not desired. We are the ones getting screwed in this whole [illegal] immigration process. The fat cats get fatter on slave labor. The Repukicans get more campaign contributions. The Pervocrats get more voters. The stay at home moms get maids and gardeners for slave wages. And we po’ working class folk end up paying for the increased social infrastructure. The illegals destroy our neighborhoods; degrade our schools; take our kids’ summer jobs; kill and maim us on our roads with no license or insurance; rape our children; wreck our wage structure; and send what they earn back to Felipe. And if we complain one wee little bit, we get branded as racists, nativists, whackos, etc.
I’m not going to this thing. I will send an e-mail telling them I’m sick and tired of the whole mess, and that I’m not going to wait until they’re up for re-election to do something about it.
Do your homework on how the candidates who will be running for a Senate
this fall. check out your prospective senators whether or not they will uphold the rule of law on immigration. I believe you Virginia need to find a candidate that will stand on the side of the American Citizen
John Warners’ time is up . I will look for a suitable candidate and post it if I can find it.
Jeff Sessions, Alabama
Ted Stevens, Alaska
Mark Pryor, Arkansas
Wayne Allard, Colorado
Saxby Chambliss, Georgia
Larry Craig, Idaho
Dick Durbin, Illinois
Tom Harkin, Iowa
Pat Roberts, Kansas
Mitch McConnell, Kentucky
Mary Landrieu, Louisiana
Susan Collins, Maine
John Kerry, Massachusetts
Carl Levin, Michigan
Norm Coleman, Minnesota
Thad Cochran, Mississippi
Jim Talent, Missouri
Max Baucus, Montana
Chuck Hagel, Nebraska
John Sununu, New Hampshire
Frank Lautenberg, New Jersey
Pete Domenici, New Mexico *already announced retirement
Elizabeth Dole, North Carolina
James Inhofe, Oklahoma
Gordon Smith, Oregon
John Reed, Rhode Island
Lindsay Graham, South Carolina
Tim Johnson, South Dakota
Lamar Alexander, Tennessee
John Cornyn, Texas
John Warner, Virginia *********************************
John Rockefeller, West Virginia (and also west va.) **************
Michael Enzi, Wyoming
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I think Anita Break might be my ex.
Lefty said on 22 May 2008 at 2:24 pm:
I think Anita Break might be my ex.
My, my….you poor thing - I feel sorry for you.
Please see link and excerpt below from an article which ran in several papers on Sunday. It sheds light on crimes against women that are happening not only in Mexico, but here as well. Please read and pass along.
Link to full text of “Nowhere to Turn”, Detroit Free Press 5/18/08:
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080518/NEWS07/805180603
Excerpt:
“Six out of 10 Mexican women have suffered some form of violence inflicted by their spouses or partners, according to government studies. In 2006, more than 80% of women who were killed were slain in their own homes.
The National Institute for Women in Mexico reports that twice as many Mexican women suffer abuse than the worldwide average.Domestic abuse a major problem
Six out of 10 Mexican women have suffered some form of violence inflicted by their spouses or partners, according to government studies. In 2006, more than 80% of women who were killed were slain in their own homes.
The National Institute for Women in Mexico reports that twice as many Mexican women suffer abuse than the worldwide average.
“The problem is violence against women is ingrained in our culture,” said Liliana Rojero Luevano, the institute’s executive secretary. “It’s considered natural.”
(See link above for full text.)
Mexico has a very high rate of social pathology. Violence against women is one of many problems there.
Just remember, though, Jorge Bush said that family values don’t stop at the Rio Grande. So they’ll continue to smack their women around here just as they did there.
http://www.qcsr.uq.edu.au/template/Context/Societal%20Organisation/Social%20Pathology_Intro.htm