Does One Need Papers to Join the Occupy Movement ?

Have not the criminals on Wall Street and the corporate run immigration system not only raped U.S. taxpayers but raped the Mexican undocumented too?

Has not their profit programs of NAFTA and the War on Drugs coerced many Mexican undocumented to the US while simultaneously forcing them to be part of the U.S. 99% too?  

I invite all Dream Act Kids and other innocent undocumented victims of the U.S. corporate run immigration-for-greed system to protest as Wall Street occupants too. 

In fact after the world's greedy are exposed for what they really are, many of the undocumented would have the option of either becoming legal U.S. residents and/or returning to their home countries where they would be able to earn a decent, human, living wage there too.

The Occupy Wall Street movement protests all forms of corporate greed and tyranny.  It should also protest the abuse of the bi-national (U.S. / Mexico) corporate elite who not only rape the good tax paying citizens of the United States, but the good hard working people of Mexico too.  

Gall Street Occupation

Gall  = exasperation; irritation, vexation, or the cause of such vexation. 

I can't come there yet.    I would love to see a Gall Street sign before I come!

You guys are my heroes. 

What's The Matter Prez (Ciudad Juarez)

Parade on down to Texas
(Just a ) Pushin' election spiel
Pumpin' up those Latino votes
Y Los Muertos en Juarez are real

Sending all our taxes South
(Just ta) fight your narco war
Forty K assassinated
Won't ya tell us what the hell for?

What's The Matter Prez?
Can't you see the fence?
Ciudad Juarez
As bad as it gets

What's The Matter Prez?
Can't ya tell it right?
(Your a) Pushin' guns and drugs
(And ya know) It just ain't right

Los Pinos and the White House
(Just a) Coverin' each others backs
NAFTA-drugs-guns and oil
And dead Soldiers in IRAQ

Your rich men and political props
Takin' all they can steal
Our jobs and homes and the loss of life
Hasta la madre's how we feel!

What's The Matter Prez?
Can't you see the fence?
Ciudad Juarez
As bad as it gets

What's The Matter Prez?
Can't ya tell it right?
(Were a ) Pushin' guns and drugs
(And we know) It just ain't right

HR 2497 Hinder the Administration's Legalization Temptation Act

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-2497

7/12/2011--Introduced.

Hinder the Administration's Legalization Temptation Act or the HALT Act - Suspends until January 21, 2013, authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act for: (1) waiver of inadmissibility of aliens unlawfully present in the United States; (2) cancellation of removal and adjustment of status for certain non-permanent residents; (3) temporary parole into the United States, except for parole entries for humanitarian, law enforcement, or security purposes; and (4) designation of a country for temporary protected status. Revises, until January 21, 2013, the definition of "unauthorized alien" (for purposes of the unauthorized employment of aliens) to eliminate the exclusion from such definition of an alien authorized to work by the Attorney General (DOJ). Prohibits the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) from granting deferred action or extended voluntary departure to any alien until January 21, 2013, except for humanitarian, law enforcement, or security purposes. Suspends specified regulations concerning employment of aliens until January 21, 2013. Revokes, as of the date of enactment of this Act, any immigration benefit granted during the period beginning on July 12, 2011, and ending on the date of enactment of this Act under any authority suspended by this Act with respect to: (1) parole authority, (2) the definition of an unauthorized alien, (3) deferred action or extended voluntary departure, or (4) such specified regulations.

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/182043-house-republicans-introduce-bill-requiring-expedited-removal-of-illegal-aliens?page=4#comments

House Republicans introduce bill to speed up illegal-immigrant deportations

By Pete Kasperowicz - 09/16/11 12:23 PM ET

Rep. Duncan Hunter says bill is partly a response to an administration policy that focuses on deporting immigrants who are a threat.
Twenty-one House Republicans on Thursday introduced legislation that would require immigration officials to deport illegal immigrants on an expedited basis.
The bill, H.R. 2952, was planned before the Obama administration announced a new policy that focuses on deporting immigrants who pose more of a threat to the U.S., such as those who have committed crimes. But the bill's chief sponsor, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), said it is partly a response to that policy decision, which he called a "blatant disregard for the law" because it would selectively enforce U.S. immigration laws.
"Laws are meant to be followed, and not ignored for convenience or political advantage," Hunter said in late August when he said his bill was pending.

"If someone is in the U.S. illegally, then that person is subject to deportation under the law, plain and simple," he added. "What the administration is doing is sending a loud message across our borders that we are not serious about enforcing our nation's immigration laws while backdoor channels remain wide open to millions of others."Hunter's bill would require immigration officers to immediately remove immigrants who have not been continuously present in the U.S. for four years, except in some circumstances, such as when the immigrant has committed a crime or poses a threat to U.S. national security.
It would clarify the authority of officials to order the expeditious removal of criminal immigrants, and limit the ability to grant stays of removal to immigrants who have been ordered to be removed.

Immigration Propaganda – Fueled by Myopic Ignorance

Do you ever wonder why US politicians seldom if ever criticize the Mexican government for anything?   You know, that infamously corrupt Government to the south that in 2006 started a drug war that has murdered close to 50,000 of its own citizens? 

Why do we rarely hear Washington criticize the Mexican Government for its failure to adequately provide for its own Mexican citizens?  How about for its shared responsibility for the immigration nightmare that we face in the US today?

There is a reason that half of the people in Mexico are in poverty. There is a reason that the Mexican undocumented cross our border.  There is a reason that US taxpayers foot the bill for this failed immigration.  There is a reason that Washington coddles the Mexican government and turns a blind eye to the entire situation.  It is about greed.

Oil, trade, NAFTA, drug profits and cheap labor are real important to the rich on both sides of the fence.  It is so important that those rich (who run both governments) could care less about the average citizens of either country, let alone the Mexican poor or undocumented who are here in the US.  

Those very rich have us average Americans fighting about immigration and the war on drugs.  It is by design that we are fighting.  The rich are extremely happy when we fight. As long as we are at each others throats and blaming the symptoms (the undocumented and the addicted) and not the cause (their greed) nothing will ever improve.   Actually that is with the exception of their profit margins.  

They depend upon our ignorance to continue the status quo.  All that fighting and lo and behold little in Washington is ever done about it. 

This form of the raping of the US taxpayers is no different than failed mortgages, failed health care, and our failing economy.  The rich profit from these failures, and we pay the price. 

Actually it is much more insidious because it involves the greed of the elite of two nations.  It involves the raping of the good citizens of both nations.  Most insidious of all is that it involves the purposeful use of propaganda to coerce the darkest anger of our country’s victims against the equally victimized citizens of our good neighbors to the south.    

They and their propaganda have built and militarized a border wall between the good people of both countries.   It is a wall built to protect their greed and to fortify their lies.  It is wall built to keep the good people of both countries from knowing and loving each other.

This is lie that the rich hide behind.  This is what puts their cronies into office.  This is just as threatening to our country’s humanity as any terrorist’s plot.

We could bring the bi – national immigration scam to a halt if we can overcome our own ignorance.    

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-randolph/from-border-patrol-agent-to-immigration-reform-activist_b_943799.html

Former Border Patrol Agent Calls for Protest

http://www.examiner.com/immigration-in-tucson/former-border-patrol-agent-john-randolph-calls-for-protest-pt-1

On Wednesday, September 7, nearly 200 demonstrators gathered near a community college in Charlotte, NC to protest the deportation of undocumented students in this country. At the rally, at least 10 young undocumented individuals publicly announced that they were living in this country illegally, all of whom were later arrested. To many, the bold tactics of this group of protesters may have seemed exceptionally risky. However, to former Border Patrol agent turned migrant activist John Randolph, this act represents an opening step towards what he hopes will become a more widespread effort among undocumented individuals in this country to step out of the shadows and fight for reform of this country’s immigration system.
Speaking to the risk the Charlotte students took in publicly announcing their undocumented status, Randolph argues, “I don’t think the Dream Act kids are going to put up with the government again making promises and doing nothing. . . They know they can not wait twenty or thirty years until something is actually done.” And Randolph has a plan that he argues could help push the U.S. government to actually make the necessary reforms it has continuously put off making.

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John Randolph worked for twenty-six years as a Border Patrol agent in the city of El Cajon, Calif., just east of San Diego. After a career spent witnessing Border Patrol colleagues as well as their undocumented targets frequently injured and sometimes killed as a result of the agency’s pursuits, Randolph retired in frustration in 2005. Today he uses his sad, stressful, yet enlightening experiences working at the border to spread awareness of immigrant issues and the need for dramatic U.S. policy reform.
“In my mind, frustration was a big part of what we were being paid to do and accept. That was the job,” Randolph says about his work with the Border Patrol. He assumes that his colleagues in the agency largely shared this sense of frustration, but he says that they did not spend a great deal of time discussing it. “I think that we focused upon what we were doing in the moment and did not worry about the big picture,” he says. For him, if Border Patrol agents were to look too deeply at the job they were doing, their frustration would make doing the job impossible.
For Randolph, the exasperation he felt working for the Border Patrol came from what he saw as the failure of both the U.S. and Mexican governments to effectively protect their citizens. Time and again, the two countries have failed to curb Mexican immigration into the U.S. or to tackle the violence that is raging at the border. For Randolph, this failure is calculated, as both the Mexican government, overpowered by influential criminal syndicates, as well as the U.S. government, overpowered by corporate elites, profit off of this situation at the expense of human life. U.S. corporations need the cheap labor they get through undocumented migration into this country, while Mexican drug cartels profit off of drug and human trafficking .Neither of these two powerful groups stands to benefit from effectively closing off this border or attacking the criminal activity that pervades it.

Randolph argues, therefore, that it would be foolhardy to wait for either of these two countries’ governments to solve the problems at the border. For him, it is crucial that Mexican and U.S. citizens take matters into their own hands and come together to fight for change.

This is part 1 of a two part interview with John Randolph. Read part 2 here.

This is the second part in a two part interview with John Randolph. Read part 1 here.
Randolph says that the only way to put the otherwise unmotivated U.S. and Mexican governments in a position to do the right thing is for the populaces of these two nations to come together in a massive peaceful protest. He advocates for a movement in which undocumented Mexicans in the U.S. simultaneously come together to claim asylum due to the drug-related violence raging on in Mexico. On a given day, hoards of undocumented individuals, their families and supporters would gather at U.S. ports of entry, immigration offices and border patrol offices, overwhelming the asylum system and drawing international attention to these countries’ unwillingness to protect their citizens. In short, by shining the spotlight on this volatile issue, the U.S. and Mexican governments will be forced to respond.

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According to Randolph, the only reason that the U.S. people have not yet risen up against a government that only serves the country’s elite is that the citizens have thus far been brainwashed by anti-illegal immigration rhetoric and distracting voter initiatives. A massive asylum protest like the one he proposes would wake up the average U.S.-American taxpayer and lead to a more widespread commitment for true immigration reform.
For many reasons, the current moment may be the perfect one for a mass Mexican drug exodus and asylum protest. Randolph argues that such a protest is dependent on the widespread dissemination and availability of factual information on immigration and border violence, and the potential for informing the public has never been greater than it is now. The Internet, Facebook and other social media outlets today make possible a large scale call to action.
In addition, President Obama’s recent announcement regarding the Department of Homeland Security’s change in deportation policy may somewhat lessen the risk that Mexican immigrants would face in coming forward to publicly announce their undocumented status. Randolph admits that his protest proposal could potentially put some individuals at risk for arrest, imprisonment and deportation, but if the protesters are largely made up of the so-called “low priority cases,” he does not anticipate this will be the case. If huge numbers of individuals were to come together to claim asylum, the cost of detaining these immigrants, let alone prosecuting and deporting them would be tremendous. He expects that the protestors will be released from custody pending review of their petitions for asylum.
For non-immigrants who argue that this protest does not include them, Randolph argues that all U.S. citizens have a stake in fixing this problem. Besides simply doing the right thing and protecting this country’s southern neighbors who are being torn apart by violence, the U.S. populace needs to come forward to protest a policy that is directly contributing to this country being torn apart itself by a failed war against drug trafficking. For Randolph, this protest will only succeed if there is binational participation on a widespread level. The critical question, he asks, “Can both sides look beyond their fears [in order to ensure] a better future for all?”
So how would Randolph convince undocumented immigrants who might be on the fence about participating in his asylum protest to come out of the shadows? “What are their choices,” he asks, “Do they wait around to see reform while at the same time wait to be caught? Or do they take their victimization out of the equation. . . and stand up for their human and moral rights?” For him, if these individuals ask themselves this simple question, most would make the decision to come out and protest. His conclusion: “They will have to do what their hearts lead them to do.”


To read more about former Border Patrol agent turned immigration activist John Randolph, visit his blog, here.