February 21, 2008, - 2:00 pm

Et Tu, Rick Springfield?: ’80s Pop Star’s “CoExisting” Dearbornistan Visit; Does “Jesse’s Girl” Wear a Hijab?

By Debbie Schlussel
Ever since 9/11, I’ve been annoyed by airhead celebs wearing those “CoExist” t-shirts with the Cross, Jewish Star/Star of David, and Islamic Crescent on them. They don’t want to “CoExist” with us as evidenced by their planes in buildings, their flying Imams, their women who want walls dividing men and women at gyms, etc., etc., etc.
Well, this weekend, ’80s pop star Rick Springfield performs in Dearbornistan. To advertise his appearance, he donned one of those dumb t-shirts. He thinks that’s a way to please the Islamofascists that increasingly populate the correspondingly-declining city. The problem is, he doesn’t understand that Muslims–when they reach critical mass, as they have in Dearbornistan–don’t believe in “coexistence.”
Springfield’s “coexistence” t-shirt didn’t go over too well, and the facility in which he’s performing this weekend–the Henry Ford Community & Performing Arts Center–had to resort to using a new photo of him in a suit jacket, this week, to advertise his performance there.

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I admit that I was one of those swooning girls who loved Springfield in the ’80s. He was hot. I had his posters on my wall and still work out to the tune the great Sammy Hagar wrote for him, “I’ve Done Everything For You” (and some of Springfield’s other ’80s hits, which have a good tempo and pace for my workout routine). And I met (and found him to be very nice and charming, if somewhat gaunt) and interviewed Springfield for an article I wrote for The Detroit Newsistan before one of his Detroit-area concerts about a decade ago.
But I think he should stick to what all professional vocalists should do, “SHUT UP AND SING.” Stay out of politics. Muslims couldn’t care less about your “coexistence” message. They laugh at it.
But one thing is certain: Hagar’s “I’ve Done Everything For You” song sung by Springfield should be America’s anthem about Islam and Muslims.
We’ve done everything for them. They’ve done nothing for us.
Hey, Rick Springfield, Here’s How Dearbornistan “CoExists”:
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Rick Springfield: That Was Then . . .
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This is Now . . .
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February 21, 2008, - 1:00 pm

Video of the Day: Obama Theme Song? – The Cult of Hussein-ality, er . . .Personality; Plus Other Videos of the Day

By Debbie Schlussel
Reader “samurai” suggested that one of my favorite rock songs, Living Colour’s “Cult of Personality,” describes Obama. He’s right on target. Read the lyrics, below, from Lyrics Mania–it’s Barack Hussein Obama in a nutshell.
Love the vocals (by Corey Glover), guitar, and drums on the song. I work out to that song, and that of another of rock’s talented Black lead rock singers, LaJon Witherspoon of Sevendust, whose “Black” is below (the live video–which is one of the best live videos I’ve seen–the studio version which sounds better, the very cool unplugged version, and the great cover by the Disturbed and its awesome Israeli lead singer, David Draiman). I used to use that as bumper music for my Detroit-based then-radio show. I saw Sevendust in concert in Detroit and met LaJon and the gang–nice guys.

I know your anger, I know your dreams
I’ve been everything you want to be

I’m the Cult of Personality
Like Mussolini and Kennedy
I’m the Cult of Personality
Cult of Personality
Cult of Personality
Neon lights, A Nobel Price
The mirror speaks, the reflection lies
You don’t have to follow me
Only you can set me free
I sell the things you need to be
I’m the smiling face on your T.V.
I’m the Cult of Personality
I exploit, you still you love me
I tell you one and one makes three
I’m the Cult of Personality
Like Joseph Stalin and Gandhi
I’m the Cult of Personality
Cult of Personality
Cult of Personality
Neon lights a Nobel Prize
A leader speaks, that leader dies
You don’t have to follow me
Only you can set you free
You gave me fortune
You gave me fame
You gave me power in your God’s name
I’m every person you need to be
I’m the Cult of Personality

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Sevendust’s “Black,” Studio Version:


Sevendust’s “Black,” Live Version:

“Black,” Unplugged:

“Angel’s Son,” a great, softer selection from Sevendust’s LaJon Witherspoon in Straight Up (also part of my workout routine). You might recognize the lead singer from Sugar Ray in this vid:

Disturbed Covers “Black” (NOT safe for work):

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February 21, 2008, - 11:35 am

NIGHTMARE: ICE Agents Worry McCain Will Keep ICE Mob Princess; Many Will Vote 4 Dem Nominee to Rid Her

By Debbie Schlussel
Uh-oh. Will incompetent, Islamo-pandering, Blackface-loving chieftess of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Julie L. Myers a/k/a “The ICE Princess,” stay on in a John McCain Presidency?
That’s the fear of–and rumor circulating among–several thousand agents and other employeed of ICE, who near-unanimously despise the ICE Mafia Princess from the Myers-Wood-Chertoff “Gambino” family of DHS Nostra.
Many ICE agents are telling me that they’ll be voting for the Democratic nominee–no matter whether it’s Hillary Rodham Cankles Clinton or Barack Hussein Obama–so that they can finally get rid of this woman. They say that no matter whom a Democrat President appoints to run their currenty-rudderless agency, it will be better than The ICE Princess, Myers. This is especially significant because ICE agents tend to be conservative and more likely to vote Republican.

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And John McCain has done little to dispel this myth. He shares the same “comprehensive immigration reform” views as Myers and Bush. Sources say there are few takers to head up ICE in a future McCain Administration because things are so bad there now and hard to change. They say that they hear McCain may be inclined to keep The ICE Princess on.
I hope John McCain will address this and let us know who would head of the Department of Homeland Security and some of its sub-agencies, like ICE, in a McCain White House. He could assuage the concerns of many dedicated federal agents who do important work and are extremely demoralized, by saying he will let go of Ms. Blackface, come January of next year.
McCain would also go far by saying he intends to appoint strictly those with long careers in law enforcement to head up DHS, ICE, CBP, etc.
Stay tuned. Let’s hope that in 2009, I won’t have to say again, “She’s BAAAACK.” Let’s also hope that B(Hussein)O and Cankles aren’t Prez. OY.

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February 21, 2008, - 10:11 am

NIU Killer Liked HAMAS, Spoke Arabic, Says Extremist Muslim Friend; Was He a Muslim Convert?

By Debbie Schlussel
**** SCROLL DOWN FOR IMPORTANT UPDATE: Kazmierczak’s Muslim friend and other Scary Islamist Ties****
After my crime of posting anti-Cankles and anti-B(Hussein)O candy hearts on this site, I’m sure this, too, will attract the ire of my friends at the Nazi-funded Media Matters for America gang.
After all, how dare I repeat the words of a Muslim reporter in the Chicago Sun-Times who was friends with Northern Illinois University killer Steven Kazmierczak, and said he was a good guy because he spoke Muslim phrases in Arabic with a phony Arabic accent and liked HAMAS? The nerve of me to report that Muslim former Northern Star reporter Rasmieyh Abdelnabi says Kazmierczak was “nice, smart” because he liked HAMAS.
I mean, I’m sure this is just a coincidence–him liking HAMAS and then rampaging HAMAS-style, murdering multiple innocent people on the NIU campus:

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NIU Killer Steven Kazmierczak:

Was Arabic-Speaking, HAMAS-fan a Muslim Convert?

I met Steve Kazmierczak in an introductory political science class in 2002 as a freshman in college. He was inquisitive, smart, respectful and nice. . . . We would also see each other on campus during the semesters we didn’t have any classes together and catch up.
Our topics of choice: foreign policy and the Middle East. He would especially enjoy practicing his Arabic on me. In 2004, NIU decided to offer a year’s worth of Arabic classes. Steve took both classes without hesitation, excited as could be.
“Assalamo Alikum,” he would say to me, which means “peace be with you” in Arabic. [DS: That is a Muslim greeting. Christians, generally, do not use it.] He would proceed to ask me how I was doing and what I was up to, all in Arabic with a thick accent and a huge, excited smile.
Sometimes I was his walking dictionary and he would ask me, “What does this word mean in English?” or “What is this word in Arabic?” . . .
Once we took a course called “The Politics of the Middle East.” At the beginning of the course, our instructor informed us a research paper would be due by the end of the semester. Steve decided on Hamas, which is known mainly to the world as being a Palestinian terrorist group, which was the first thing that interested Steve about the group. But he also heard Hamas funded many social services, which also interested him. How could one group be put into two completely different categories, Steve would ask.
Unlike most of us, Steve started his research from day one, reading every book he could find on Hamas. He’d give me a status report when we saw each other in class. Steve said that his perception of Hamas changed with all the research he did.
Aside from politics, we sometimes touched on personal discussions about our lives. His was not an easy one. We connected over our difficult upbringings.
Steve told me after high school he left home and had to fend for himself.
Before coming to NIU, Steve was homeless. It was through a great deal of effort that Steve came to NIU because he had to do it all on his own, he said.
He was proud of getting into NIU, excited to learn and do something with his life. At first he was interested in international affairs, but then developed a serious and deep longing to study criminal justice. Steve told me he would need to stay longer in school to get his degree in criminal justice, but it was worth it.
I don’t know the Steve who killed five innocent students who were doing precisely what he valued: learning.

Yup, this guy spoke Muslim phrases in Arabic with an accent and liked HAMAS. Therefore, he could nevah evah be a killer of innocent people. Capiche?
Good thing he’s gone. Very sad he took five innocent people with him and injured countless others. But, hey, he liked HAMAS. So he had “redeeming” qualities.
Nauseating.
Exit question: Since it has all the hallmarks–a loser and loner who felt worthless until college, who was taking Arabic and speaking in an Arabic accent uttering Muslim phrases, who learned to love HAMAS–was NIU killer Steven Kazmierczak converting to Islam or did he already? Just a coinky-dink, right? Or as the French would say, “Quelle Coincidence.” Whatta coincidence!
Just asking.
Thanks to reader Brian for the tip.
**** UPDATE: The plot thickens. Brian Keegan of Muslim Watcher writes:

Debbie. The Muslim woman reporter that the NIU shooter talked Arabic to, about Hamas, is a radical Muslim. Just take a look at my blog where she, Rasmieyh Abdelnabi, is mentioned a lot. She wrote radical Muslim pro-Palestinian articles at NIU, and she spearheaded the wearing of the hijab at NIU. She was a leader in the Muslim Student Union, a Saudi Wahabi outfit.
Interestingly, Derrick Shareef, the would-be Cherry Valley terrorist lived in Rockford but went to mosque in DeKalb, just down the block from where the shooting occurred. Shareef also, according to court documents, said he contemplated shooting Jews at the synagogue just down the block from the NIU masjid (mosque). All that’s at my blog.
Ironically, Rasmieyh did a story on Shareef’s plot, and she attended the same NIU mosque as he did, probably in the same time period. Shareef and she probably met, just like the NIU shooter and her met.

He’s definitely on to something very scary. A shame that the MSM doesn’t take his lead.

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February 20, 2008, - 10:28 pm

Obamboozled: Did B Hussein O Steal Speeches From Racist Spike Lee Movies?

By Debbie Schlussel
It sure looks like it. Do you really want a Prez whose ideas for this country are stolen from racist, anti-Semitic Spike Lee’s movies glorifying Nation of Islam leaders? (Thanks to reader David for the tip!)


Watch the whole video. It’s well done to the end. Do you really want this apparent imitator of Denzel Washington imitating Malcolm X?
So let me get this straight, the man who wants to be leader of the free world claims he doesn’t like the Nation of Islam. But he likes to imitate its leaders as portrayed in movies?!
G-d help us.
Can you really afford to have this phony as the next President of the United States?
NO, YOU CAN’T.
Ya been Bamboozled. Ya been hoodwinked.
–“Barack Hussein Obama: There Will Be Bamboozling.”
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Barack Hussein Obama Playing Denzel Washington Playing Malcolm X:

Is This the Next Prez?

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February 20, 2008, - 4:37 pm

Yet Another Muslim with a Knife Hidden in Book Tries to Board Plane

By Debbie Schlussel
Remember Mohammed Ghanem, the Muslim man who tried to get through security at Detroit Metro Airport with a knife hidden inside a Koran? Well, as Gomer Pyle would say, Surprahz! Surprahz! Yet another Muslim was caught with a knife (technically, a boxcutter) hidden inside a book, while trying to get through Tampa International Airport security (thanks to South Florida investigator Bill Warner for the tip):

TAMPA — A 21-year-old Clearwater man was arrested at Tampa International Airport this weekend after security personnel found a box cutter in a hollowed-out book, authorities said.

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About 7:30 a.m. Sunday, airport security ran Benjamin Baines Jr.’s backpack through an X-ray machine and saw the image of a box cutter, according to a report from the Transportation Security Administration.
When searching the backpack, a security officer found a book titled “Fear Itself.” The book was hollowed out, and the box cutter was inside.
After Baines was read his rights, he said his cousin had cut away the pages to make the hollow section in the book. Later, reports state, he said he had hollowed it out himself to hide money and marijuana from his roommates.
Baines told officers he was moving to Las Vegas and forgot the cutter was in the book.
Officers found books in the backpack titled “Muhammad in the Bible,” “The Prophet’s Prayer” and “The Noble Qur’an.” He also had a copy of the Quran and the Bible.
Several sheets of paper in the backpack included rap lyrics that referred to police, narcotics, weapons and killing. Baines told officers he is a rapper who writes his own lyrics and that rap music writers need to “play the part,” the report states.
Officers performed a background check and found no record of crimes or active warrants.
He was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, a misdemeanor, and booked into Orient Road Jail. At his first appearance in court Monday, Baines pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 days in jail, according to an employee with the Hillsborough County clerk of court. He is in Orient Road Jail today.

“Religion of Pieces.”

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February 20, 2008, - 4:11 pm

Nightmare @ The Big Box: Don’t Pay for Fake Shoplifting Charges

By Debbie Schlussel
No, I’m not one of those anti-corporate liberals who rails against Wal-Mart just ‘cuz. But I am against certain practices of the big box stores, whether its pandering to extremist Muslims who won’t ring up pork, or selling clothing made in Syria (both of these are done by Target).
Still, this story makes you want to think twice about foregoing your local “mom and pop” store for the big boxes, and it’s not really about ideology. This nightmare could happen to you, regardless of your station on the political spectrum.
So, you bought an $8 item at your local Home Depot. They accuse you of shoplifting. But you show them your receipt. End of story, right? Wrong:

After Miami handyman Glenn Rudge was accused of shoplifting an $8 set of drill bits at Home Depot, he thought he’d settled the matter when he showed his receipt to prosecutors and they dropped the charge.

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But a few weeks later, a law firm hired by Home Depot began sending him letters demanding first $3,000, then a total of $6,000, implying he’d be sued if he didn’t pay it.
In an escalating battle against theft, retailers are going after anyone suspected of shoplifting, turning over their names to lawyers and collection firms, who pursue the suspects for stiff penalties and split the take with the retailer.
There is little oversight of a system retailers call “civil recovery,” created by special laws passed in all 50 states. With no proof of theft, the retailers demand money — often $200 but sometimes far more — and promise to avoid suing if it is paid quickly. Laws vary by state, but in general, retailers can demand these sums even if the item at issue was worth far less and was quickly recovered and put back on the shelf.
The laws are meant to help compensate retailers for money they must spend to secure their stores against crime and recoup part of losses when thieves are not caught, says Neal Tenen, a founder of Civil Demand Associates, a firm specializing in civil recovery. U.S. retailers lost more than $40 billion to theft in 2006, which equaled 1.6% of retail sales and was up $3 billion from 2005, according to the National Retail Federation, a trade group.
But people targeted describe a humiliating and intimidating process, with no way to resist short of hiring a lawyer, a costly step few are able to take. Once a person’s name is turned over to a collection firm, he or she is dunned with letters and often phone calls, which refer to lawsuits and sheriff’s visits and sometimes multiply the penalty by demanding “pre-litigation” legal fees. . . .
In the Home Depot case, Mr. Rudge, the handyman, had a set of drill bits poking out of his shirt pocket when he went through the checkout line at a Miami store in December 2002, according to a suit he later filed against Home Depot. After he paid $66 for his purchases, a security guard stopped him on his way out and asked him about the drill bits.
Mr. Rudge said he had carried them in, having bought them on an earlier trip to the store. After he kept insisting he was innocent, the guard handcuffed him, walked him to an interrogation room in back and took the drill bits. Mr. Rudge asked to call home to have his wife bring in the receipt but the store wouldn’t let him, he said in a 2003 suit in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court, since settled. Home Depot declined to discuss specifics of his account.
Prosecutors charged the handyman with shoplifting, then dropped the charge in February 2003 when he showed them a receipt for the drill bits. But about a month later, according to his suit, he got a letter from the Palmer Reifler law firm demanding he pay a little over $3,000 within 20 days.
He ignored the demand. Then he got a letter demanding an additional $3,000, as “pre-litigation” attorney’s fees, for a total of just over $6,000. If he didn’t pay, one letter said, the sheriff’s office would be called to notify him if a lawsuit was filed.
Mr. Rudge was doing some handyman work for a lawyer and showed her the letters. “I took one look and said, ‘This is outrageous,’ ” says the lawyer, Alison Harke. “These letters are designed to make people settle because they believe they are going to jail.” She filed a suit against the retailer, the settlement of which is confidential.
Home Depot said Mr. Rudge was pursued for such a large sum because of a data-entry mistake that recorded the price of a $8.09 drill-bit set as $1,008.09. The law firm then tripled that, which the Florida statute permits in certain cases. The retailer said it now has extra processes to make sure it seeks correct penalties.
Home Depot’s spokesman, Ron DeFeo, defended going after Mr. Rudge even though prosecutors dropped charges when he showed a receipt. “In Florida, no criminal conviction is needed to pursue civil demand,” Mr. DeFeo noted.

What they did to this man is ridiculous. And I would bet that this case is an extreme exception, but the article claims otherwise. In any event, unless a judge orders you to pay an amount to a company, don’t do it. This is NOT legal advice. Just common sense. Just because someone with a law degree says you must do something for them, it ain’t always so.
In general, I shop at Lowe’s, which I like far better than Home Depot. When I’ve brought tools from home, they’ve never stopped me for shoplifting . . . or even to see my receipt.
Apparently, this happens at Lord & Taylor, Saks Fifth Avenue (owned in significant part by Saudi Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal) and other retail chains identified in the story.

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February 20, 2008, - 1:01 pm

HOprah Watch: This Smut Replaced the ABC After School Special?

By Debbie Schlussel
I remember the good old days, when I came home after school and watched re-runs of “Lost in Space,” “The Partridge Family,” and “The Monkees.” (Okay, so the latter two were cheesy. But “Lost in Space” is timeless.) I also watched the risque-for-the-time “ABC After School Special.” With topics like steroids, pre-marital sex, and the promotion of Communism (that Communists are nice, persecuted people in America was, indeed, a topic of one), it wasn’t exactly good fare for America’s kids. But I only saw that stuff when I wasn’t at tennis practice, tap and jazz classes, ice skating, and track and cross country running.
But that was then. This is now. And “now” makes that stuff look like Shakespeare. “Now” is Oprah doing her embarrassing imitation of having multiple orgasms. Yup, that’s what she did on her show, yesterday. And yes, kids watch that show after school. Oh, and Oprah, Meg Ryan called, she wants her scene from “When Harry Met Sally” back.
I’m just wondering: Isn’t this the same person who is going around the country for B(Hussein)O’s Presidential campaign?

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Yup, the same one. The same one who, yesterday, on her show had viewers and audience members ask Dr. Mehmet Oz about their health problems. And the “health problem” that inspired Oprah’s acting job about what she supposedly experiences with Gail King went like this:

Oprah: Well, we already had our world records show, but you have a health problem. What did you want to say?
Audience Member: Oprah and Dr. Oz, I have like 18 multiple orgasms when I have sex, and we want to know if this is hereditary because my mom and sister have the same thing?

Okay, stop right there. These Oprah watching women discuss how many orgasms they have with their mothers and sisters? Classy bunch.
The woman continues:

Audience Member: My husband says to stop having so many because we need to save some so that we can have more sex soon after. And I want to know is this like a record? 18? Is there a way to find out how many I can have?

Yes, this is what passes for the “health problems” they discuss on Oprah. Doesn’t this belong in the Playboy Forum, instead of on after school TV? Ditto for Oprah acting out having orgasms? Is she auditioning for chubby chaser porn flicks?
Disgusting. And this woman and her viewers are the Barack Hussein Obama electorate. Um, as for Michelle Hussein Obama’s comments about not being proud of America, watching this show was one of those times for me.
What was that Obama keeps saying about hope? Forget about it. With an uber-glut of crap like this on mainstream television in the middle of the day, there’s no hope left for our country.
I really wish I could post the video of this, but I don’t yet have the capability. Believe me, it is worth seeing–and not in a good way.

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February 20, 2008, - 10:42 am

A Passage From India: The Aftermath of H1-B Visas and Julie Myers

By Debbie Schlussel
This site proudly has many Indian Hindu and Sikh readers who have seen what Islam–and its 150 million adherents–are doing to their country. (Many Sikhs valiantly fought Muslims in India.) Many of those readers live here in America and are sad to see that our country has no limits on the number of members of the moongod cult it admits for “visits” and citizenship.
This post is not against or even about those readers. Indians in America tend to be educated, skilled, patriotic, and do not impose their culture or religion (unless they are Muslim) on you or me–unlike other alien groups. They are among the hardest working and entrepreneurial, working very hard to make a go of small businesses.
Again, this post is not about them.

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But a story in the San Jose Mercury News about an estimated 400,000 Indian natives who are here in violated of their H-1B visas is important. As I noted earlier today, ICE has not made visa overstay investigations a serious priority, preferring to mug in front of meat factories for the cameras. And that’s why out of the estimated 400,000 who are no longer working as required under their H-1B visas, fewer than 500 are deported.
So, since they are not largely criminals, why is this a problem?
Well, for one thing, many H-1B visa-holders are here legally to legally take the jobs of the many American citizens who are out-of-work skilled technology workers and computer programmers. That’s been well documented by many of them. And many of those Indians that come here on H-1B visas are not the preferred Hindus. They are Muslims with an agenda (repetitive phrase).
It’s a problem. But like I said–and the appallingly low deportation numbers bear out–ICE just doesn’t care about enforcement of visas and pursuit of violators:

The Bay Area has a piece of the nation’s fastest growing group of illegal immigrants. But don’t assume you know who they are.
Turning stereotypes on their head, a recent federal analysis of unauthorized immigration says the most rapidly growing source of illegal immigration is India – the same country whose engineers and programmers help power Google and other Silicon Valley companies, whose doctors heal the Bay Area’s sick, and whose entrepreneurs and venture capitalists have become a force on both sides of the international date line.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security estimates that there are 270,000 unauthorized Indian natives in the United States – a 125 percent jump since 2000, the largest percentage increase of any nation with more than 100,000 illegal immigrants in the United States.
The number of undocumented Indians is dwarfed by the estimated 6.6 million illegal residents from Mexico, according to the estimates from homeland security’s Office of Immigration Statistics. Yet, considering the high level of education of many Indians, immigration experts say the federal report hints at a new phenomenon: a high-skilled undocumented workforce to go along with the nation’s sizable numbers of low-skilled illegal workers.
If trends continue, within three years India would trail only Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala as a source of illegal immigration. Another national immigration expert, Jeffrey S. Passel of the Pew Hispanic Center, estimates that the number of illegal Indians is even higher, at 400,000 people.
Virtually all entered the United States legally but violated the terms of their visas, say experts who study the nation’s much maligned immigration system.
“How do you get in? You come across the border, or you arrive here with a visa,” said Lindsay Lowell, policy director for the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University. “Indians aren’t going to be walking across the border like Mexicans.” . . .
It is certainly a minority of the local Indian community, however, and probably a very small one. Half the people of Indian ancestry living in Santa Clara County are already U.S. citizens, either by birth or naturalization, according to census data. Thousands of others are legal permanent residents, or they are here legally on student, tourist or work visas.
Local immigration lawyers say that particularly among Indians, the ups and downs of Silicon Valley’s economy since 2001 are one reason why Indians have fallen out of legal status. . . .
“They come here as professionals, most often in the H-1B program, and given the fluctuations of Silicon Valley, the business climate, these guys lose their jobs. They get laid off or they wager their hands on a start-up coming in,” Jack said. “The problem with the H-1B program is, you can’t have any significant time between jobs” without falling out of legal status.
Indians made up 44 percent of H-1B applicants in the 2005-06 fiscal year, five times the number from second-place China, according to federal data.
Because an immigrant’s status can be dependent on the status of a spouse, the break-up of a marriage can also create an illegal immigrant.
Among Indians in the United States, “there has been a rapid increase in the divorce rate. If they are on an H-1 . . .” said Navneet Chugh, an immigration lawyer whose firm is based in Silicon Valley and Los Angeles. . . .
The United States has deported slightly less than 500 Indians a year in recent years. In the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, “we have substantially expanded our effort to find visa violators,” said Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. [DS: That’s a big lie.] The government, she said, pursues cases based on public safety, rather than focusing on a specific country of origin. [DS: Another big lie and not logical–public safety is often dependent on deporting immigrants from Muslim nations. Get a clue, ICE.]
Silicon Valley companies such as Google say they need to recruit the world’s best talent to compete – and about one in 12 of Google’s U.S. employees, roughly 900 people, are H-1B visa holders. “We have not seen major problems with prospective candidates being out of status,” said Adam Kovacevich, a Google spokesman. . . .
Unless Congress reforms the immigration system, “we are going to see this high-skilled, illegal workforce emerging,” said Frank D. Bean, director of the Immigration Research Center at the University of California-Irvine. “From a narrow economic point of view, it might work. From a social justice, fairness point of view, it’s a time bomb.”

If ICE actually pursuit a significant number of Muslim visa violators and criminal illegal aliens, I’d say, look the other way on these Indians. Priorities must be set in immigration policy.
The problem is that their really aren’t any serious priorities at ICE (other than manufactured, good PR for Julie Myers), and it is ICE that is largely looking the other way on ALL visa violators.
Our country is sliding every further and more speedily down the bottomless slope.

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February 20, 2008, - 9:54 am

Homeland Security’s Phony Fingerprint Crackdown: Princess’ ICE Not Following Through

By Debbie Schlussel
Over the last few days, the Department of Homeland Security churned out a lot of press releases and got quite a few gushing stories about its new scanners and its decision to now collect all ten fingerprints from international visitors coming into the U.S. In the past, only two fingerprints were taken, so it was less reliable.
But the story is a not-so-cheap charade, since the American taxpayes paid millions to upgrade these machines.
Why is it a charade? Well, for one thing, under Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) chieftess Julie L. Myers a/k/a “The ICE Princess'” “leadership,” she and her chosen ICE Director of Investigations, Marcy M. Forman-Friedman a/k/a “Peppermint Patty,” made “worksite enforcement” the priority.

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Muslim Visa Overstay Thanks The ICE Princess

for Her “Worksite Enforcement” Emphasis

They aren’t focusing much at all on the primary national security problem they face–visa overstays and violations. That’s how most terrorists get and stay here. Remember a guy named Abouhalima? One of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, he was here driving a cab on a visa for agricultural workers. Sorry, but nothing grows on the streets of New York. Nothing that needs picking, anyway.
Many ICE agents have told me that they’re worried that show-raids for the cameras have replaced legitimate investigation of immigration fraud rings, sham marriages, and visa violators. Instead of investigating the whereabouts of these people and who is helping them–remember they are paid $100,000 for their investigation skilss–they are instead extras, playing wranglers on the set of The ICE Princess’ endless meaningless show-raid rodeo for the cameras.
And they’ve told me about the scary ranking system that Myers and Forman have put in place regarding investigations of visa violators and overstays. Agents tell me that Myers and Forman give rankings to all ICE offices nationwide, ranking them NOT on how many visa violators they locate or whose cases they resolve, but on how many of such cases are which are opened, are then closed. Cases can be–and frequently are–closed without being resolved, and this system encourages that, while discouraging serious inquiry into the whereabouts of these aliens. And there’s a venal aspect to it: Since Forman and her Special Agents in Charge and their minions get bonuses based on those rankings (and other questionable criteria), agents below them are pressured to close visa violator cases without any real resolution. That gets bonuses, NOT catching the actual visa violator.
This means that many illegal aliens are loose in the Great American Abyss simply since many of their files were quickly closed, and they are off the radar screen indefinitely.
So why are we taking 10 fingerprints or even two or any at all? If The ICE Princess is concentrating on getting FOX News and The New York Times to watch her arrest the far lower security threat illegal aliens who are working on farms, in hotels, and factories, and doesn’t give a damn about the whereabouts of those who gave their prints at the airport, why did you–the American taxpayer–spend the money for these brand spankin’ new machines?
For PR purposes only. It’s just a formality. Like I said, she’s too busy raiding Burger King and McDonald’s and releasing the arrested illegals once the CNN cameras leave to focus on the real national security risk that doesn’t get her face time for her next stepping stone in her career path of incompetence and disaster.
The press releases about the new scanners sound nice, but that’s the point. They want you to think that Michael “Serpenthead” is actually doing something to make you safer, when actually, his girlfriend running ICE is making you less safe, while she smiles for the cameras repeatedly saying how she’s sending a message to illegal aliens that they can no longer remain here unhindered.
Um, they’re getting the message. Just not the one she’s selling. And maybe they can use her well-fertilized message to make something grow on the streets of Manhattan, while they’re plotting their “agricultural work” or “university courseload” for killing more Americans.
10 fingerprints, 2 fingerprints, 23 fingerprints–it doesn’t matter how many are in our databases, if ICE won’t make the search for these aliens a priority, once they are missing/in violation of their visas. There weren’t any fingerprints left when smoke and dust settled on 3,000 murdered Americans, perpetrated by aliens who worked the inept system to do their deeds.
What a waste. All hail immigration “enforcement” under the dual terror of The ICE Princess and Peppermint Patty.
It’s not exactly an argument for women atop law enforcement. Is it?

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