Twelve Republican senators wrote a letter on Nov. 20 to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano telling her that legalizing undocumented workers will hurt unemployed American workers. They criticized her comment such legalization would be a “boon” to the economy.
“With all due respect, legalizing those who have no legal right to be in the United States will not be a ‘boon’ to American workers,” the letter said. “Rather, it would only exacerbate the unfair competition American workers currently face as they struggle to find jobs.”
Immigration reform opponents say they will seek to mobilize popular opinion against any effort to legalize unauthorized immigrant workers while so many Americans are out of jobs.
The Obama administration in its first year has been already dealing with various major issues – wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, health-care overhaul and the recession. However, Napolitano said, dealing with the question of what to do with immigrants who are here illegally can’t wait until everything else is out of the way.
She said in a speech last month that American workers will never be able to win the best terms for their labor as long as some employers are willing to hire the substantial part of the workforce that is illegal.
“Everybody recognizes that our current system isn’t working and that our immigration laws need to change,” Napolitano told a gathering at the Center for American Progress. “America’s businesses, workers and faith-based organizations are calling for reform.”
Amerika’nın önemli düşünce kuruluşlarından Washington’daki Alman Marshall Fonu’nda bugün düzenlenen toplantıda, Pazartesi günü Beyaz Saray’da Başkan Barack Obama’yla görüşecek olan Başbakan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’ın ziyareti esnasında öne çıkacak konular tartışıldı.
Transatlantik Akademi üyesi Nathalie Tocci, son zamanlarda Türkiye’nin dış politikasında önemli değişiklikler olduğuna dikkati çekerken, iç politikadaki gelişmelerin bu süreci etkileyecek önemli etkenlerden biri olacağını vurguladı.
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Women are likelier to be affected by and to suffer from climate change than men are, according to a United Nations Population Fund report released Wednesday.
Timothy E. Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation, said bringing women’s issues into the climate change debate is essential since women are already the greatest victims of AIDS, violence and refugee problems. “Climate change is making these problems worse and worse,” Wirth said at a press conference at the National Press Club.
Wirth noted that as the temperature of the Earth’s surface increases, food production will decline across the world, which will add enormously to the pressure on women who are responsible for sustaining their families. read more…
The greatest number of the famous Chinese terra cotta warriors ever to travel to the United States will be on display beginning Thursday at the National Geographic Museum in Washington.
Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor, includes 15 life-size terra cotta figures and 100 sets of objects from the tomb of China’s first emperor, Qin Shihuangdi.
Leaders of a Senate committee expressed disappointment and frustration Tuesday over the slow pace of distribution of the H1N1 vaccine.
Speaking at a committee hearing Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), the chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said there have been “more flu deaths than previously realized and fewer vaccine does than originally promised.” He said this created public frustration and confusion among those with the highest risk.
He cited a report last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that 22 million people have been made ill by the H1N1 virus, with 98,000 people needing hospitalization and about 4,000 people dying from the flu or from complications associated with the virus.
Federal agencies and local law enforcement departments have identified more than 111,000 criminal aliens in the first year of a joint program that checks the digital fingerprints of persons arrested and booked at the local level against immigration and FBI records.
The announcement was made by Janet Napolitano, secretary of Homeland Security, and John Morton, assistant secretary for immigration and customs enforcement, at a press conference Thursday.
“Technology is the heart of this new capability,” Morton said.
The program, known as Secure Communities, is operated jointly by the Homeland Security and Justice Departments and participating law enforcement partners. They automatically check the digital fingerprints of all individuals arrested at the local level against Homeland Security’s biometrics-based immigration records in addition to FBI databases. This allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take action to ensure that criminal aliens are not released.
Bugün NTV’ye konuk olan İran Cumhurbaşkanı Mahmud Ahmedinecad, ülkesinin nükleer programı ile ilgili önemli açıklamalarda bulundu.
“Nükleer meseleyi siyasi mesele haline getirdiler”
Batı ülkelerinin sürekli bahanelerle ortaya atıldığını, bu sefer de hedeflerinin İran olduğunu belirten Ahmedinecad, nükleer enerjinin doğal bir hak olduğunu ve yasalara ters düşmediğini, ancak konunun siyasileştirildiğini söyledi.
İran’ın ağır ambargolara maruz kaldığını belirten Ahmedinecad, baskı gördüklerini ve ülkesinin aleyhine propaganda yürütüldüğünü belirtti.
Amerika’da Sağlık ve İnsani Hizmetler Dairesi yetkilileri dün yaptıkları toplantıda domuz gribi aşısı üretiminin yetersiz kaldığı yönündeki sorular karşında zor dakikalar yaşadı.
Ülke çapında domuz gribi hakkında son gelişmeleri duyurmak için yapılan toplantıda, domuz gribi şüphesiyle hastaneye başvuranların sayısıyla çocuk ve genç yetişkinlerde görülen ölüm oranının beklenenden fazla olduğu açıklandı.
159 milyon kişinin yüksek risk altında bulunduğu ABD’de şu an sadece 32.3 milyon kullanılabilir dozun mevcut olduğunu belirten yetkililer, söz konusu durumdan kendilerinin de rahatsız olduğunu dile getirdi. Sağlık yetkilileri, üretilen aşıların yüzde yüz güvenli olamayacağını belirtirken, her aşı gibi domuz gribi aşısının da riskleri ve faydaları olduğunun altını çizdi.
Martha Coakley raised almost $2.2 million in one month in her race to replace the late Edward M. Kennedy in the U.S. Senate, much more than did the two other candidates in the Dec. 8 Democratic primary, according to each candidate’s campaign finance filing.with the Federal Election Commission.
Rep. Michael E. Capuano raised $343,000 last month and transferred $1.2 million from his U.S. House reelection account to his Senate campaign. Contributions to Capuano from individuals totaled $306,536 .96 and political action committees and party committees gave $32,500. He ended September with $1,167,906 in his campaign fund.
Alan Khazei raised $1.1 million in September without receiving any funds from political action committees, according to his report filed with the Federal Election Commission. The Khazei campaign finished the period that ended Sept, 30 with $1,040,297 in his campaign treasury.
