Are more employers using e-verify? Does this mean it is working?

Are more employers using e-verify? Does this mean it is working?
More employers turning to the federal program they hope will help them avoid hiring illegal immigrants. By Franco Ordoñez fordonez@charlotteobserver.com Posted: Wednesday, May. 13, 2009 Mandi Bickes of ResourceMFG interviews a client. The company has enrolled in E-Verify. T. ORTEGA GAINES – OGAINES@CHARLOTTEOBSERVER.COM More Information This Land: Which companies are checking? A worn red, white and blue sign taped to the front door of ResourceMFG warns potential hires that the recruiter uses a federal program to root out illegal immigrants. Branch manager Tamara Mantooth put the sign up about two months ago when she noticed that nearly half the company's applicants presented questionable IDs. “It was interesting,” she said. “After we put the sign up, some people would come up to the door, look at the sign and then turn away.” Her company is one of a growing number in North Carolina and across the country enrolling in E-Verify, a once-obscure program run by the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration. Critics say it's a flawed and expensive program that doesn't deter illegal immigration. But as the Obama administration warns that it will focus on employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants, N.C. firms are choosing the free and voluntary program in record numbers. In the past two years, the number of enrolled N.C. companies has increased by more than 700percent to 2,567. Local participants include Bank of America, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, and the Ballantyne Hotel & Lodge. Last year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, made more than 6,000 workplace arrests; 135 were employers and managers. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a Senate hearing last week that ICE can do better. “Active enforcement of our immigration laws must address not just the illegal workers themselves,” she said, “but also the employers who hire illegal labor and fuel the phenomenon of illegal immigration into the United States.” Worried about raids Gilberto Bergman, president of Bergman Brothers Staffing of Charlotte, says companies can no longer claim they didn't know they hired workers using fake IDs. He said companies are using E-Verify to protect themselves in the event of raids or investigations. Bergman cited an October raid of an N.C.-based House of Raeford Farms plant in Greenville, S.C. More than 300 workers were detained. The plant manager, the human resource manager and about a dozen supervisors were arrested on immigration charges.“When you actually hear that they're going to go ahead and prosecute, take to court the people who actually did the hiring, that's a big concern for HR people,” he said. “Employers are paying a lot more attention to who they are hiring, especially here in the Carolinas,” A 2006 Observer investigation found illegal immigrants working for major N.C. road-building companies using Social Security numbers that were fake, stolen or belonging to dead people. Using payroll records from contractors, including Rea Contracting of Charlotte, the newspaper found questionable Social Security numbers for a third of 85 workers. Rea is now using E-Verify, according to ICE. Advocates, critics E-Verify was first tested in 1997 so employers could compare employment forms to Social Security and immigration records. Participation nationally has been expanding at a rate of about 1,000 new employers a week, Napolitano said. More than 122,000 employers are enrolled, nearly five times more than in 2007. Last year, President Bush signed an order requiring companies that do business with the federal government to use E-Verify. South Carolina, Arizona and Mississippi require all employers to use E-Verify, according to the National Immigration Law Center. North Carolina passed a law in 2006 requiring that all state employees, including those at universities, be vetted by E-Verify. Opponents claim the program does not effectively reduce illegal immigrants. The Immigration Policy Center, a pro-immigrant research group, says E-Verify ensnares American job seekers in database errors, adds to employers' costs and “does not actually prevent undocumented immigrants from getting jobs.” The Congressional Budget Office estimated that expanding the federal verification program could cost $17billion over the next 10 years. But Napolitano endorses E-Verify, saying ICE has fixed many of its shortcomings. Mantooth said using the program is a business advantage. Companies don't want to risk paying for expensive training only to find out the worker is in the country illegally. “I don't understand why anyone would not take advantage of this,” she said. “We don't want a reputation as a company that would place workers who were not eligible to work in the United States.” http://www.charlotteobserver.com/597/story/721012.html _________________
Immigration - 7 Answers
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this is great news. my uncle and his family live in N.C he sid it was imposable to find a job because of the illegals. i was going to move there until he told me this. and becareful what you type. people are reporting again.
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NO! the employers of coarse have cover their butts now that Obama announced that he wants to crack down on employers. We won't hear complaining until US Citizens are denied the jobs because of the flawed system, or even worst put on an immigration hold. It wont' be long till we hear about the first one. Employers are using it, but what has been fixed since the last standard test? http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2007/11/26/report-everify-database-fails-standard-test.aspx Report: E-verify database fails standard test The E-Verify program uses a database that does not meet accuracy standards set by Congress, according to a new report from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. "Most importantly, the database used for verification is still not sufficiently up to date to meet the [Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996] requirement for accurate verification, especially for naturalized citizens," the report said.
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A few months back an I.C.E. Raid apprehended a large group of illegals working in some plant. They detained them and later released them only to return to work with temporary work status and documentation in hands. As long as events such as that take place, it doesn't matter if e-verify is working or not. Just as people like you and I are adamantly opposed to available work going to illegal immigrants, there is an equally sized group of Americans, organizations and employers who have no problem with it. Had parents continued as in my day to raise children with values and strong work ethics, instead of ones with socially dependent entitlement mentalities, this problem wouldn't be so out of control. Nowadays kids expect to go directly from high school into a $30,000 a year career position. Hardly anyone is willing to begin at the bottom. Most all find themselves above it. The provided links outline there's as much a problem with opposing views as there is a problem with illegal immigration. http://www.wyff4.com/news/17641906/detai... http://neighbors.denverpost.com/viewtopi...
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I have not researched this in detail but from the limited literature I have read, it seems to be working or at least in the right direction.
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They used it on me. Of course - I also had to show my original birth certificate.
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Pro lawbreakers don't like the system because it works. The program has a 96% accuracy rate.Several local employers said E-Verify was quick and efficient. Stronghold Engineering, a government contractor in Riverside that does construction projects for the Defense Department, started using E-Verify about a year ago to check the employment status of new hires. "You always want to make sure you are hiring someone who is authorized to work in the United States," said human resources manager Angela Rayfield. "This program is very user-friendly." Employment service AppleOne Inc., which places workers at a variety of businesses, started using E-Verify at all of its California branches in 2007. Human resources manager Linda Madigan said it shifted the burden of validating documents from the company to the government. "The E-Verify program is one of the best things we did," Madigan said. "The [branches] don't have to look at the documents anymore and decide if it looks right or not." At AppleOne's downtown Los Angeles branch on a recent day, office coordinator Mayela Solorio ran an applicant's personal information through the system and within seconds received a response from the government: "Employment Authorized." "He's good to go," she said.
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With the latest figures being a 98% accuracy rate it just works. Add in the fact that the majority of false negative results are due to the actions of the employees themselves (mainly failure to file the paperwork that gives them the right to work in the US) and time is given to correct the problem we have a good system in place! TONY: that study was done in 2007 and was throw out after such things as the rejection of dead people and 6 year olds was found to be the largest percentage of people rejected! In this country dead people are NOT allowed to work! And 6 year olds will have to prove they can.

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Are more employers using e-verify? Does this mean it is working?

Are more employers using e-verify? Does this mean it is working?
More employers turning to the federal program they hope will help them avoid hiring illegal immigrants. By Franco Ordoñez fordonez@charlotteobserver.com Posted: Wednesday, May. 13, 2009 Mandi Bickes of ResourceMFG interviews a client. The company has enrolled in E-Verify. T. ORTEGA GAINES – OGAINES@CHARLOTTEOBSERVER.COM More Information This Land: Which companies are checking? A worn red, white and blue sign taped to the front door of ResourceMFG warns potential hires that the recruiter uses a federal program to root out illegal immigrants. Branch manager Tamara Mantooth put the sign up about two months ago when she noticed that nearly half the company's applicants presented questionable IDs. “It was interesting,” she said. “After we put the sign up, some people would come up to the door, look at the sign and then turn away.” Her company is one of a growing number in North Carolina and across the country enrolling in E-Verify, a once-obscure program run by the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration. Critics say it's a flawed and expensive program that doesn't deter illegal immigration. But as the Obama administration warns that it will focus on employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants, N.C. firms are choosing the free and voluntary program in record numbers. In the past two years, the number of enrolled N.C. companies has increased by more than 700percent to 2,567. Local participants include Bank of America, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, and the Ballantyne Hotel & Lodge. Last year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, made more than 6,000 workplace arrests; 135 were employers and managers. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a Senate hearing last week that ICE can do better. “Active enforcement of our immigration laws must address not just the illegal workers themselves,” she said, “but also the employers who hire illegal labor and fuel the phenomenon of illegal immigration into the United States.” Worried about raids Gilberto Bergman, president of Bergman Brothers Staffing of Charlotte, says companies can no longer claim they didn't know they hired workers using fake IDs. He said companies are using E-Verify to protect themselves in the event of raids or investigations. Bergman cited an October raid of an N.C.-based House of Raeford Farms plant in Greenville, S.C. More than 300 workers were detained. The plant manager, the human resource manager and about a dozen supervisors were arrested on immigration charges.“When you actually hear that they're going to go ahead and prosecute, take to court the people who actually did the hiring, that's a big concern for HR people,” he said. “Employers are paying a lot more attention to who they are hiring, especially here in the Carolinas,” A 2006 Observer investigation found illegal immigrants working for major N.C. road-building companies using Social Security numbers that were fake, stolen or belonging to dead people. Using payroll records from contractors, including Rea Contracting of Charlotte, the newspaper found questionable Social Security numbers for a third of 85 workers. Rea is now using E-Verify, according to ICE. Advocates, critics E-Verify was first tested in 1997 so employers could compare employment forms to Social Security and immigration records. Participation nationally has been expanding at a rate of about 1,000 new employers a week, Napolitano said. More than 122,000 employers are enrolled, nearly five times more than in 2007. Last year, President Bush signed an order requiring companies that do business with the federal government to use E-Verify. South Carolina, Arizona and Mississippi require all employers to use E-Verify, according to the National Immigration Law Center. North Carolina passed a law in 2006 requiring that all state employees, including those at universities, be vetted by E-Verify. Opponents claim the program does not effectively reduce illegal immigrants. The Immigration Policy Center, a pro-immigrant research group, says E-Verify ensnares American job seekers in database errors, adds to employers' costs and “does not actually prevent undocumented immigrants from getting jobs.” The Congressional Budget Office estimated that expanding the federal verification program could cost $17billion over the next 10 years. But Napolitano endorses E-Verify, saying ICE has fixed many of its shortcomings. Mantooth said using the program is a business advantage. Companies don't want to risk paying for expensive training only to find out the worker is in the country illegally. “I don't understand why anyone would not take advantage of this,” she said. “We don't want a reputation as a company that would place workers who were not eligible to work in the United States.” http://www.charlotteobserver.com/597/story/721012.html _________________
Immigration - 7 Answers
Random Answers, Critics, Comments, Opinions :
1 :
this is great news. my uncle and his family live in N.C he sid it was imposable to find a job because of the illegals. i was going to move there until he told me this. and becareful what you type. people are reporting again.
2 :
NO! the employers of coarse have cover their butts now that Obama announced that he wants to crack down on employers. We won't hear complaining until US Citizens are denied the jobs because of the flawed system, or even worst put on an immigration hold. It wont' be long till we hear about the first one. Employers are using it, but what has been fixed since the last standard test? http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2007/11/26/report-everify-database-fails-standard-test.aspx Report: E-verify database fails standard test The E-Verify program uses a database that does not meet accuracy standards set by Congress, according to a new report from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. "Most importantly, the database used for verification is still not sufficiently up to date to meet the [Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996] requirement for accurate verification, especially for naturalized citizens," the report said.
3 :
A few months back an I.C.E. Raid apprehended a large group of illegals working in some plant. They detained them and later released them only to return to work with temporary work status and documentation in hands. As long as events such as that take place, it doesn't matter if e-verify is working or not. Just as people like you and I are adamantly opposed to available work going to illegal immigrants, there is an equally sized group of Americans, organizations and employers who have no problem with it. Had parents continued as in my day to raise children with values and strong work ethics, instead of ones with socially dependent entitlement mentalities, this problem wouldn't be so out of control. Nowadays kids expect to go directly from high school into a $30,000 a year career position. Hardly anyone is willing to begin at the bottom. Most all find themselves above it. The provided links outline there's as much a problem with opposing views as there is a problem with illegal immigration. http://www.wyff4.com/news/17641906/detai... http://neighbors.denverpost.com/viewtopi...
4 :
I have not researched this in detail but from the limited literature I have read, it seems to be working or at least in the right direction.
5 :
They used it on me. Of course - I also had to show my original birth certificate.
6 :
Pro lawbreakers don't like the system because it works. The program has a 96% accuracy rate.Several local employers said E-Verify was quick and efficient. Stronghold Engineering, a government contractor in Riverside that does construction projects for the Defense Department, started using E-Verify about a year ago to check the employment status of new hires. "You always want to make sure you are hiring someone who is authorized to work in the United States," said human resources manager Angela Rayfield. "This program is very user-friendly." Employment service AppleOne Inc., which places workers at a variety of businesses, started using E-Verify at all of its California branches in 2007. Human resources manager Linda Madigan said it shifted the burden of validating documents from the company to the government. "The E-Verify program is one of the best things we did," Madigan said. "The [branches] don't have to look at the documents anymore and decide if it looks right or not." At AppleOne's downtown Los Angeles branch on a recent day, office coordinator Mayela Solorio ran an applicant's personal information through the system and within seconds received a response from the government: "Employment Authorized." "He's good to go," she said.
7 :
With the latest figures being a 98% accuracy rate it just works. Add in the fact that the majority of false negative results are due to the actions of the employees themselves (mainly failure to file the paperwork that gives them the right to work in the US) and time is given to correct the problem we have a good system in place! TONY: that study was done in 2007 and was throw out after such things as the rejection of dead people and 6 year olds was found to be the largest percentage of people rejected! In this country dead people are NOT allowed to work! And 6 year olds will have to prove they can.

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Should the Mexico Consular Card Be Considered Legal ID For Drivers Licenses Bank Accounts Credit Cards?

Should the Mexico Consular Card Be Considered Legal ID For Drivers Licenses Bank Accounts Credit Cards?
If the Durham, North Carolina city council follows through with their plan to accept the controversial Mexican Matricula Consular cards as a legal form of identification. The government of Mexico through its consulates, distributes the cards throughout the United States, mostly to those living in the country illegally. The Durham City Attorney issued the following statement on the matter: "The official purpose of the card is to demonstrate that the holder is a Mexican citizen living outside of Mexico. It includes an official Government of Mexico issued ID number and bears a photograph and address of the Mexican National to whom it is issued." Since the announcement, the city council has received dozens of complaints from citizens, many worried that the cards will lead to illegal aliens voting in elections. Mitch Kokai with the John Locke Foundation told WTDV: “It really doesn't tell you anything about the legal or illegal status of the person being in the United States.” Kokai continued: “That could be the path that leads from this card to the official document - to being able to vote - and I think for voter integrity that's a concern a lot of folks should have.” The move will make Durham the only city in the nation to accept the cards for conducting business with city agencies. It would also serve as acceptable identification with the police. In September, the staff of the Mexican Consulate in Raleigh came to Charlotte’s Concord High School to sign up thousands of Mexican nationals for Matricula Consular cards and passports. While Mexican officials made the ridiculous claim that they are distributing the documents so that the illegal aliens can safely return home, the real motivation is to assist Charlotte’s large illegal population in obtaining driver’s licenses. According to the NCDOT website, the North Carolina DMV accepts “Matricula Consular cards issued by the Mexican consulate FOR North Carolina.” Also needed for a license is “Proof of Identity Documents,” and any “Valid, unexpired Passport from any nation” will fulfill that requirement. Another reason for the distribution of the Matricula Consular cards is to help Mexican illegal aliens secure bank accounts, credit cards, and loans in this country. Of course, we all know that on October 26, 2001, President Bush signed the USA Patriot Act. However, I would wager to say that almost no one knows that contained in section 326(b) of the USA Patriot Act is a provision that allows US banks to accept Mexican Matricula Consular cards as a valid form of ID for opening bank accounts. It should be noted that while our President and Congress ordered American banks to recognize these Mexican-issued cards, there is not one Mexican bank which accepts their own government’s Matricula Consular card as a valid form of ID, because the bearer’s identity is basically untraceable. So, beware North Carolina…if the national pattern holds true--in the coming months you can expect to see an increase in DUI accidents thanks to the pending driver’s license distribution, not to mention illegal aliens voting in future elections…courtesy of Mexico. http://www.examiner.com/immigration-reform-in-national/north-carolina-town-now-plans-to-accept-mexican-ids
Immigration - 3 Answers
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Yes, but only in Mexico.
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First of all, a Matricula Consular card is tantamont to holding a huge sign over your head and saying "I am an illegal alien. What are you gonna do about it?". What the hell is wrong with these stupid liberals. We should be forcing them to breed elsewhere, not making it easier to set up and swarm an area
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I had basically the same question a while ago. Play it safe by click on www.lawyersearchcentral.tk

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Need some SERIOUS help on picking between colleges

Need some SERIOUS help on picking between colleges.?
OK, so I am a rising senior at a high school on the outskirts of North Carolina. I have awesome grades, and I have applied to another of schools. While I'm not Ivy League material, I have some good options. I got accepted into UNC and Duke. But, here's the thing. There is a small college called Wingate University that's near Charlotte. I received a full four year ride there for winning their annual Shakespeare recitation competition, including room and board, books, and a meal card. So, my parents are giving me the choice. I'll get ten grand a year from them no matter what. So, I can spend that ten grand plus take loans out every year and attend UNC. So, by the end of college, I'll be forty thousand dollars in debt. Or, I can just buy a new car with the money and also have some spending cash, but have to go to Wingate. I don't know if this changes anything, but I want to be a lawyer. Also, I want to be close to home, but not too close, and UNC and Wingate are the same distance away from me. Im not sure if I want a big college or a small one. But here is the main decision. Choose the expensive better college, or the free, smaller college.
Higher Education (University +) - 5 Answers
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I would say go to the smaller college. law school is ridiculously expensive, and forty thousand dollars saved is forty thousand dollars you don't have to pile onto law school debt. OR, you could transfer after going to Wingate to save ten thousand - twenty thousand dollars to UNC to have that nice name on your degree and look better in law school admission eyes.
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Take the free, see how you like it for you can always transfer after taking some basic courses. Anywhere you go you still need math, English and some pre-law. You will appreciate the free later on.
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You'll probably have a much better experience at UNC or Duke than the smaller school, you don't want to be spending 4 years of your life at a place you settled for just because of the money because you will be miserable. It's not worth it, plus almost every has debt from college, it's not uncommon and you'll be able to pay it off. You'll have a much better chance of getting into a good law school from a better college and with law, it's all about where you went. Good luck.
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There are a few things to kick around here, Jake.. The conventional wisdom says to go to the larger, big-name school as a likely better springboard for graduate school and your career in law.. those things matter because people believe that they matter, they use the university's screening process as a de facto screening process for you throughout your life.. but, that's primarily a perceptual issue and if the educational resources are similar at both schools, you do have an important determination to make.. The truth is, though, that you need to know some things about yourself, perhaps not yet in evidence.. which environment will you enjoy more and thrive in? Answer, probably both.. remember that the main thing that you have going for you on the path that you're on is that you're the one on that path, and can change direction if need be.. Here's one perspective: put the debt and other financial considerations aside for a moment and consider this a long-term decision.. if the financial aspects were exactly the same, which would you choose? that's where you should strongly consider going.. Have you visited the campuses? if not, do so.. sit in on a class.. talk to the students.. eat the food.. check out the talent, whatever, but get a feeling for the places.. and trust your feelings.. Bottom line, please yourself.. you're the one that's going to have to "walk the walk" of this decision.. But the reality is, that while very different, the choice here isn't between poison and food, it's between two different alternative paths with a bunch of positives going for each one.. Good luck Forrest Gump. Life may be like a box of chocolates, but you do get to choose which ones you actually bite into.. And one more thing. The world isn't just hoping that you figure out this dilemma and many more along your path to becoming a productive member of society and making the world a little better place every day.. it's counting on it.. good luck, Jake.. this may feel like an awkward decision with lots of implications that you'll be living with, and it is, but it's part of one the best times of your life.. how exciting!
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There are many online websites that offer you a list of colleges and universities, but most of them are paid. Here is one site that offer you to browse schools around the world for totally free . Just complete their questions and they will accept you. Enter: http://EducationFindr.com Hope that will help you 

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Has anyone else posted this??? "The cost of human LIFE is too high to pay for cheap labor"!!!?

Has anyone else posted this??? "The cost of human LIFE is too high to pay for cheap labor"!!!?
editor Discuss This Article AP Headlines Recent Commuter Jet Crashes in U.S. Lone Comair Survivor Pulled From Plane Almanac Predicts an Extra Cold Winter Sports Taveras Runs Hitting Streak to 30 Games U.S. Smothers Australia 113-73 at Worlds France Advances to the Quarterfinals Strange News 128 Students Suspended at Ind. School Father-Son Team Set Watermelon Records Chinese Sex Toys Confiscated in Vietnam Officials say locals swamped by illegals Most at hearing say feds ignore immigration By Tim Whitmire Associated Press Gastonia | A federal effort to enlist local law enforcement officers to help identify and deport criminal illegal immigrants is a mere stopgap in the face of a much bigger problem, officials told a congressional panel Friday. "I and many others strongly disagree with President Bush's policy, or lack of, on illegal immigration," Mecklenburg County Sheriff Jim Pendergraph told four House members at a hearing on empowering local law enforcement to combat illegal immigration. "The Congress of the United States has let us down by the lack of action on the illegal immigration issue for decades," Pendergraph told the panel that included North Carolina Republican Reps. Virginia Foxx, Patrick McHenry and Sue Myrick. Rep. Mark Souder, R-Ind., chairman of the subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Reform, also attended the hearing at Myrick's Gastonia office. Pendergraph's department last winter signed a memorandum of understanding with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The agreement allowed 12 deputies to be trained to screen the immigration status of people arrested in Mecklenburg, home to North Carolina's largest city, Charlotte. The 287(g) program, as it is known, gives local officers access to ICE's database of fingerprints and photographs, which Pendergraph and others say is the only reliable way to identify the immigration status of an arrested person. Since screening began May 1, Pendergraph said, his department has found that most of the immigrants who pass through his jail are here illegally. "So many illegal immigrant criminals have been identified through my 287(g) program, it is causing me a jail space problem," Pendergraph said. Pendergraph's department is one of only seven departments in five states with such agreements and access to ICE's database. Gaston County Sheriff Alan Cloninger told the panel his department received approval Thursday to join the program, but Pendergraph said many other law enforcement leaders who have tried repeatedly to participate in it tell him they have been turned down or ignored. An estimated 405,000 illegal immigrants live in North Carolina, McHenry said. Michael Lands, district attorney for Gaston County, said the federal government doesn't have enough agents to handle an illegal immigrant population of that size. "Ultimately, and I mean no disrespect, this is a federal government problem that you need to address," he told the panel. The government's approach to illegal immigrants, Lands said, has been "to wait until they commit a state crime and then determine if it's serious enough to deport them." Souder responded that federal, state and local governments will have to cooperate to improve the system. "Somehow we've got to figure out how to do this together," he said. The mother of a Gaston County teacher who died in a July 2005 hit-and-run crash in Brunswick County caused by an illegal immigrant pleaded with the panel for a solution. Scott Gardner was on vacation with his family when their car was struck by a truck driven by Ramiro Gallegos, who was intoxicated and had a history of drunken driving arrests. Wife Tina Gardner remains in a vegetative state at a nursing home, her mother-in-law Emily Moose said Friday. The couple's two young children are effectively orphaned. "I believe the cost of human life is too high to pay for cheap labor," Moose said, near tears. Gallegos was sentenced earlier this year to 14 to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to a charge of second-degree murder. "If you break the law to get here, you're not going to respect the law once you're here," McHenry said. That comment, plus a statement by Moose that "millions" of lives have been lost to illegal immigration and a complaint by Foxx that the media obsesses about the number of U.S. deaths in Iraq while saying little "about the people being killed by illegal immigrants every day," appeared to motivate Lands to interject. "I think it needs to be said - and you all know - illegals aren't the only ones out there committing crime," he said. "There's plenty of crime by American-born citizens."
Immigration - 7 Answers
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Yeah, lol. As far as the last quote...hahahaha. I know their are people born and raised here that commit crime. There is no doubt about that, however, do we need the added extra from people who are not supposed to be here anyway!!! Oh, I see, lets accept crime from illegal immigrants because American legal citizens commit crime too. LOL That is like when a little kid is caught doing something naughty..."Mommy, bobby sneaked a cookie too." Well...now its justified!LOL LOL Bunch of freakin babies...no wonder we are in the state of affairs that we are!
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Aren't you tired of the argument that American's commit crimes, too? Please! How lame! All that blither aside, the illegals have no business and no right to be here. End of discussion.
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Bush and all the politic whore DONT care what happening with this country just thinking how to get vote money and power and remember he need support his brother got vote from anchor babies, they give it away America and just wanna destroy only take couple years. most mexicans do much more criminal look in AZ,CA ,NM,TXjail always full, after they do crime just run to mexico and back couple days with different name , AT LEAST if citizen do crime police easy catch them because they are legal. In their mind all the politics traitor just Fuc k America we dont need more criminal in here include illegal bring it on
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law breaking disrespectful run away cowardly illegal criminals don't care about things. neither do their lovers. deport all illegals. they do enough crime here. after their gone will work on the rest.
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doesn't matter the race everyone commit crime
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I FEEL LIKE SINGING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IN ENGLISH!!!!!!!
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Yes, all people commit crimes. But people who are legal members of a society with a trail of records that help identify them tend to get caught when they do so they're less likely to try. And illeagal aliens committed a crime when they remained in the US illeagally, all of them wheather they shoot someone or rob someone or work hard and support a family, they're all in violation of the law.

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Am I making a mistake leaving one college after 2 years, then trying next year for a better school?

Am I making a mistake leaving one college after 2 years, then trying next year for a better school?
I go to Johnson and Wales in charlotte right now, its horrible and I hate everything about it, I know if I graduate Im never gonna get a good job and Ill be stuck in that satanic institution Bank Of America in this hell hole of North Carolina, and I'm constantly embarassed whenever someone asks me where I go to college, Ive actually started to lie and say I go to a local community college So Im about to finish my 2nd year with a 3.25 GPA and an Associates Degree in accounting, they don't off calculus and I failed the course at CPCC (Community College) so I can't transfer in next year, I plan to use next year to retake Calculus and some other courses and then try to transfer into NC State as a junior in 2009-2010. to get my bachelors in accounting. am I making a mistake. I would want more then anything to go to NC state and see what a real college is like, I absolutely hate Johnson and Wales. but I don't know what i'm gonna do If I don't get into state my dad is giving me this one year provided I pay for all my CC courses myself, and If I don't get back into a 4 year university then I'm out of the house. Can I really get into state with the Associates in Accounting from Johnson and Wales (They are accredited) and some other courses from a Community College (Im only gonna take enough to be a full time student and all of them will be for transferring into NC STATE). please help me
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I say go for it. If you don't apply, you definitely won't get it :) Best of luck!!!!!
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Your associates from J&W is not useless. You can use it to transfer to a strong university, and your GPA is good. But you must apply to more than just NC State. I do not think you're making a mistake by retaking calculus, and by taking any other classes required by NC State for transfer students. I do not think you're making a mistake by finishing your associates at J&W, and then transferring to a different, stronger college to get your bachelors. In fact, once you have your bachelors, no one will care where you got your associates (you can even leave it off your resume if you want to.) However, you must apply to more colleges than just NC State. You must have some backups that you like. I want you to go to a good school in a year, but there is no guarantee that it'll be NC State. Have some backups. NC State is an extremely competitive college to get into. They let in less than half of the transfer applicants who apply. The average GPA of its admitted students is higher than your current GPA. I believe that you should apply, no question, but you must have some back up schools. When you do apply to schools, I recommend you follow this pattern: - NC State and, if you want, one other somewhat reach school - A couple schools that fit your GPA quite well - A couple schools where your GPA makes you pretty darn sure you'd get in - One super back up school, which you really, really think you'll get into. And make *all* those schools be academically respectable colleges that fit that "real college" criteria you've set. An aside: when you retake calculus, ask for tutoring immediately. Do not wait until you're having trouble - you already know you've failed this course once. Ask for tutoring in the first week or so. The cc will have a tutoring center, or ask your academic advisor to help hook you up with a tutor.

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What are my chances with these colleges?

What are my chances with these colleges?
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All the ones in Florida your in. Straight C students can get in there. I'm not saying it's a bad school.. I'm considering going there if UT at Austin doesn't work out. Anyways, I think you have a good chance at getting into all of those schools. Good luck!

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