...Prosecutors (click title to entry - thank you) say the company based in the Los Angeles suburb of Azusa paid more than $5 million to an intermediary that was used to buy a Mexican official a yacht called the Dream Seeker for $1.8 million and a Ferrari for nearly $300,000....
The Middle Class of the USA isn't receiving much regard from Wall Street Speculators, so the President is seeking ways to improve their incomes. Bringing illegal immigration under control is one way of supporting the minimum wage. When the minimum wage has strength in the market place wages at other levels tighten as well. That is a fact, not a myth. Does Wall Street and Republicans actually care about the 'integrity' of the minimum wage? No. Therefore, they don't care about the poor or Middle Class.
The Middle Class of the USA isn't receiving much regard from Wall Street Speculators, so the President is seeking ways to improve their incomes. Bringing illegal immigration under control is one way of supporting the minimum wage. When the minimum wage has strength in the market place wages at other levels tighten as well. That is a fact, not a myth. Does Wall Street and Republicans actually care about the 'integrity' of the minimum wage? No. Therefore, they don't care about the poor or Middle Class.
At southern border, Obama calls immigration reform an 'economic imperative' (click here)
May 10, 2011, 12:59 p.m.
...In a speech at the Chamizal National Memorial, Obama also sought to link the challenge of illegal immigration with another major political concern: economic anxiety. He said immigration reform "is an economic imperative."
"Over the past decade, even before the recession, middle-class families were struggling to get by as costs went up but incomes didn't. We're seeing this again with gas prices," he said. "Well, one way to strengthen the middle class is to reform our immigration system, so that there is no longer a massive underground economy that exploits a cheap source of labor while depressing wages for everyone else."...
There must be xome success in stopping southern border crossing, otherwise, we would not be seeing this level of desperation.
Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, says the immigrants are still in custody....
"Over the past decade, even before the recession, middle-class families were struggling to get by as costs went up but incomes didn't. We're seeing this again with gas prices," he said. "Well, one way to strengthen the middle class is to reform our immigration system, so that there is no longer a massive underground economy that exploits a cheap source of labor while depressing wages for everyone else."...
There must be xome success in stopping southern border crossing, otherwise, we would not be seeing this level of desperation.
4 men charged in SoCal sea smuggling bust (click here)
Posted: 05/02/2011 05:18:12 PM PDT
Updated: 05/02/2011 07:19:22 PM PDT
SANTA ANA, Calif.—Four men have been arrested and charged with leading a smuggling ring that ferried illegal immigrants by sea from Mexico to Southern California. Federal authorities announced Monday that the arrests came after the discovery of an abandoned boat near a San Diego County beach on Friday. Agents tracked the suspects to an apartment in Anaheim. There, they found nine illegal immigrants from Mexico whose clothes were still wet and caked with sand from the boat landing.
Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, says the immigrants are still in custody....
