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One in every 11 people born in Mexico and still alive is a U.S. resident, and about half of these immigrants crossed the border illegally, according to a comprehensive report released Tuesday. In the Pew Hispanic Center study of immigration trends, analysts estimated that in March 2004 about 10.3 million immigrants from around the world were living in the United States without legal documents to be here — some 24 percent of them in California. About 10.6 million people born in Mexico live in the U.S. — about 5.9 million of them illegally.

‘The approach has been to try and make life … possible for them so they don’t go home,’ said Jeffery Passel, the study’s author. ‘This (study) shows that not only are they not going home, but more are coming. (more…)

January 17, 2006 - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice announced plans to strengthen security at U.S. borders while ‘keeping the welcome mat out for those who want to come from overseas’ at an event held at the Department of State. The joint agenda for securing borders and opening doors to those who lawfully cross our borders to work, learn, and visit includes the increased use of modern technology to establish a comprehensive enrollment network for registered, trusted travelers to the United States.

‘To strike the right balance between security and facilitation, we have to incorporate 21st century technology and innovation,’ said Secretary Chertoff in announcing plans for a new, inexpensive secure travel card for land border crossings. (more…)

Most Americans are very upset with the illegal immigration issues in our country. Yet everyone knows that many jobs need to be filled that Americans are not filling. Today we have such low unemployment that businesses struggle to get all the work done. Many industries are in crisis due to this problem such as the restaurant, landscaping, car washes, construction and agriculture trades. But they are only a subset of the problems with labor.

One major problem in the future with truck washing companies is going to be that when the Department of Homeland Security tightens down on illegal immigration, we will see labor supply issues, as most of the tuck washing companies are hiring Hispanic Labor and often they are illegal aliens. (more…)

Many who are against the tightening of our borders and against the enforcement of our current immigration laws say that we are unfairly attacking the Mexican Minority, which is coming here to build a better life for themselves and their families. These anti-enforcement of our Immigration Law folks decry the concept of a special ID program or the REAL ID Act and state; “I’m afraid that the REAL ID will not provide a Mexican immigrant worker that helps provide the entire East Coast with tomatoes with the ability to legally drive a car.”

Those who are pro-REAL ID Act challenge those against it and say; “Why foreign nationals come here and use their International Driver’s Licenses? Those who visit our country do the same. Your comment is kind of silly isn’t it? You are speaking total liberal academia and you deny what is happening out there.” (more…)

Washington – Two top U.S. officials January 17 presented a broad strategy for ensuring security at the nation’s borders and at the same time welcoming travelers, students and businesspeople into the United States. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff brought together an audience of business people, educators and other interested parties to explain a three-part strategy designed to maintain the right balance between strong security and smooth travel in the information age.

“We seek to use new information technology to renew America’s welcome,” said Rice, “making it as easy as possible for foreign visitors to travel to the United States and to do so securely and safely.” (more…)

NEW YORK, NY - Every month, José Valencia sends between $300 and $400 to his sisters and other relatives in Ecuador from the Delgado Travel office in Queens, N.Y. ‘We never cease to do that,’ says Mr. Valencia, who heads the New York Association for New Americans, an immigrant advocacy group. ‘We are always going to send money home.’ Delgado Travel, a family-owned business with 35 locations in New York, New Jersey, and Illinois, serves between 8,000 and 11,000 customers a day.

But Valencia is considering switching to Citibank. ‘They are the biggest bank in the whole world,’ he says. ‘With a lot of these small companies, you don’t know whether the money is going to get there. (more…)

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Each day Cesar Negrete drives to work, it’s with a nagging fear that comes from not having a driver’s license. Negrete doesn’t have one because he’s an illegal alien. But that doesn’t stop him from going to his maintenance and landscaping jobs. For him, it’s more about feeding his wife and two children than following the letter of the law.

‘Even though I don’t have papers to work here, I’m taking a job that is needed. If I’m paying taxes and I need to drive to work, they need to give me the opportunity to do it legally,’ said Negrete, who came from Mexico three years ago. (more…)

WASHINGTON, DC - As the U.S. Senate gears up to deal with immigration reform, hundreds of thousands of immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua are facing a deadline that could lead to a sharp deterioration of their condition here. About 300,000 Central Americans, most of them Salvadorans, are allowed to stay in this country legally under a special ‘Temporary Protected Status’ negotiated between the United States and their home governments. They were here without documents when Honduras and Nicaragua were struck by major hurricanes in 1998 and when El Salvador was hit by a devastating earthquake in 2001. The Temporary Protected Status (TPS) has been renewed several times..

If it were to end and the persons covered by it were deported, El Salvador especially would not be able to deal with the sudden addition of 220,000 people to its labor force, in a country of only 6,900,000 inhabitants. (more…)

DETROIT, MI - Robert Johnson was down on his luck and short on cash last month when a man named Hunt offered him $800 to smuggle two Chinese immigrants in the trunk of his car into the United States through the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel. But what looked like easy money quickly turned into a legal nightmare for the laid-off Windsor auto mechanic, 29, who joined the growing ranks of Canadian and U.S. citizens arrested at the border recently, accused of smuggling Chinese and other Asian immigrants into the United States.

Since May, about a dozen otherwise law-abiding citizens, including a Wayne County juvenile detention officer, have been arrested at the tunnel or Ambassador Bridge and charged with smuggling Asian nationals into the country. (more…)

It is unavoidable that you have to visit your friends or relative in urgent without much time for planning. But your only problem seems to be how you have to do you’re your pet. You can either leave it at your home or bring him with you. Traveling with your pet is easier than you think.

You can bring your pet with you by using air travel services. These services fall into two categories, in-cabin and cargo. In-cabin pets must be small enough to fit into a carrier that will slide under the seat in front of you. (more…)

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