Comments for Project Economic Refugee

Comment on The Obamas Book Reveals Friction Between Michelle Obama & Rahm Emanuel on Immigration by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:56:00 +0000

To answer your question, the proposed waiver pre-approval policy will not apply to parents of U.S. citizens. The policy does not create a new waiver, it would simply create a new pre-approval process for the existing I-601 waiver. An I-601 waiver must be approved to overcome the 10-year bar to return that is triggered when a person leaves the U.S. after having accrued more than one year of unlawful presence. With the waiver approved, a person with an current approved family-sponsored petition can enter the U.S. as a permanent resident. The existing waiver is not available to parents of U.S. citizens, only to spouses and children of citizens and permanent residents. The proposed waiver pre-approval process is further limited to spouses and children of U.S. citizens. It is a far more limited remedy than people have been led to understand, but will still benefit many thousands of people.

The other point to make is that an applicant for the waiver would still be required to leave the U.S. to finish processing the visa. After leaving, there is no guarantee the applicant wouldn’t be stuck outside the U.S. for some reason unrelated to the unlawful presence bar, such as having previously been deported or convicted of certain crimes. Many applicants will not understand these complexities and will be stuck outside the U.S.

Comment on Also in the next chapter for Occupy LA: Occupy ICE by Reg

Reg — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:26:00 +0000

ICE is already deporting people in record numbers, never before seen: http://www.economicrefugee.net/president-obama-tries-to-appease-latinos-on-dream-act/

Comment on Also in the next chapter for Occupy LA: Occupy ICE by Christine Snake Dizard

Christine Snake Dizard — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:17:00 +0000

they need to demand that ICE start enforcing federal immigration law.

Comment on About by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:59:00 +0000

Keep up the great work you are doing. I believe we need to work on a lot of spiritual-psyche issues within us to strengthen ourselves for the storms to come. Namaste!

Comment on The Year We Realized We Are All Economic Refugees by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:56:00 +0000

I appreciate your article above. It covers a lot of ground. I have done some work with immigrant rights and consider myself a Chicano de Aztlan. Now more than ever we need to go beyond group thinking ~be it a racial-ethnic group or what have your ~and strive together towards a Global Revolution without compromising our core humane principles. Venceremos! @Peta_de_Aztlan:twitter

Comment on Why did MySpace fail? by Are minorities being left behind in the Google+ migration? | Political News and Opinion from a Multicultural Point of View

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:35:55 +0000

[...] users. But those who stayed, did so by choice. As one blogger on the Project Economic Refugee pointed out, what Latinos loved about MySpace was the freedom to be creative, everything Facebook isn’t and [...]

Comment on Q’orianka Kilcher: Enviro Youth Leader Rock Star? by Only1tonali

Only1tonali — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:41:00 +0000

She’s amazing! Ms. Kilcher is a rarity in the entertainment industry. There are many actresses/actors that have voice those issues dear to their hearts and conscience, Ms. Kilcher is one of the few that actually does anything about it.

Ms. Kilcher is in a position of influencing a vast amount of people. She has decided to use this great responsibility to inform the public and address issues related to human and environmental rights. I want everyone to watch her arrest on YouTube protesting Peru’s president Alan Garcia and his so call “Socialist Capitalism”, which affects the indigenous people of Peru and their land.
-Tonali (Hip-Hop artist)

Comment on What are economic refugees? by Reg

Reg — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:21:00 +0000

I disagree with in most everything you say because you’re dismissing the human aspect of this whole debate, not to mention, yes, the economic factor of this issue. Until we don’t dare to go beyond notions of “legality”, we will never solve this problem. Since you mention the role of big corporations, yes, note the role trade deals like NAFTA have played into this issue, check out this other post where that’s talked about:

http://www.economicrefugee.net/from-wisconsin-to-arizona-an-assault-on-american-freedom/

Comment on What are economic refugees? by Jeff Gonzales

Jeff Gonzales — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:49:00 +0000

What, specifically, do you disagree with? I was merely discussing definitions of terms.

Check out some of these definitions:

http://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?typed=alien&type=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/illegal+alien
http://definitions.uslegal.com/i/illegal-immigrant/

Whether you like it or not, the terms “alien,” “immigrant,” “illegal alien,” and “illegal immigrant” are long-established LEGAL terms. They may not make you feel all fuzzy and warm inside, but they are not meant to. The term “economic refugee” is just a distracting, politically correct attempt to morally justify something that the laws of most countries forbid. Whether it’s Guatemalans sneaking into Mexico, Burmese working in China without permits, or Americans overstaying their tourist visas in Thailand, they are still considered illegal aliens. It doesn’t matter if they are doing it for “economic purposes” or otherwise.

The link you supplied seems to be discussing “misconceptions” regarding people who enter a country illegally. Seems like a different discussion to me, perhaps one that would be the successor to this one. But since you brought it up, maybe I should go comment over there about how it doesn’t matter why they are breaking the law, it is still breaking the law. It’s like going to traffic court for a speeding ticket and telling the judge, “I’m guilty with an explanation, your honor.” I guess it’s up to the judge to decide if doing 100 mph on the freeway because you were late to work and didn’t want to get fired is just cause or not.

Speaking of which, most illegal aliens who are arrested do get their day in court.

This whole website seems like it is aimed at protecting the rights of the “poor” and “underprivileged” from Latino nations who feel justified in coming to America without going through the established methods every other immigrant the world around does. Some would call this “cutting in line” or being a “queue jumper,” which is grossly unfair to everyone else who wants to legally immigrate to the US.

I bet the creators of this site would be completely against tax cuts for “the rich” or “big, evil corporations” offshoring jobs to China. Aren’t these also attempts at seeking “economic refuge” as well?

Comment on What are economic refugees? by Reg

Reg — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:25:00 +0000

Well, I obviously disagree with you; here’s why: http://www.economicrefugee.net/zeitgeist/