HAZLETON, PA — Juan Miguel Contreras (24) has been charged with simple assault and endangering the welfare of a child, forgery and ID theft.
Conteras beat his 2 year old daughter with a belt on Christmas day. The beating was so severe it left a 10 inch impression of the belt on the child’s back.
The perpetrator has a history of prior felonies. His daughter just the latest victim.
In much the same way that a bad marriage is not healthy if one partner is in it for what they can get out of it, and the other is co-dependent on that partner. Illegal immigration is unhealthy for the co-dependent country involved.
Almost daily we hear how our crashing economy is causing an exodus of illegals returning to their homelands when the work, money, and handouts runs out. Many of these are represented in the media as hardship stories built to display the “poor undocumented worker”, “poor businesses”, and in some cases “poor community” who are being affected by the loss. While no one can dispute the effect this loss has on those elements, they are in essence, no different then those who are co-dependent marriage partners who suddenly find themselves struggling to learn to survive.
What needs to be understood, and understood firmly, is that illegal immigrants are not here “for better or for worse”. They will not hang around when this country struggles. They will not hang around if the country falls. Their loyalty is not to this country at all and they will return home to the place their loyalty lies, or move on to another country that has what they desire. In this case money, work, and someone to take care of them.
American citizens and many legal immigrants have a deep loyalty to the United States. No matter how hard it gets in the nation, they will hold on, they will struggle through, and they will work to improve the situation of the home they love unconditionally. “For better or for worse” is not even a thought for them, it’s a way of life.
Just as one would not support a loved on, or friend in an unhealthy relationship. America needs to not support this unhealthy relationship that’s been created by illegal immigrants and their advocates. Americans need to support and advocate for healthy relationships with Citizens and legal immigrants who had a deep unseated love for this country. Who will stick with her through thick and thin, no matter how thin it gets. It is that, and that alone that makes for a healthy relationship and a healthy nation.
As for the “woe is me” tales, well just like the co-dependent partner learns to live again. These co-dependent individuals, businesses, and communities will also learn to live again. In many cases they will learn to be stronger, stabler, and healthier then before when they were in the unhealthy relationship. In some cases they might not ever break the bonds of co-dependency but above all they will learn what the signs of co-dependency are and be able to advocate against it, while helping awake other co-dependents to be able to survive the “life without” too.
Hispanic exodus is under way
Workers leave Lee as jobs disappear
The News Press
March 9, 2008
In this case, cold, hard statistics don’t tell the story.
“I am not aware of anyone who would track that locally,” said Glen Solier, business development specialist for the Lee County Department of Economic Development.
“Those people are off the grid. Undocumented,” said Susanna Patterson, economic analyst for the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation.
But the oh-so-human snapshots of everyday living are revealing.
Like a weekend soccer league down from 32 teams to 25 because more than 100 players have had to leave.
Or a church that has cut two Sunday services to one because about 200 former members have returned to their homeland.
Or the western-wear clothier who gave up one of his three shopping center units and said business is off by 40 percent because customers are gone.
Put these and other pictures together and the collage tells the story of Hispanics who are leaving Southwest Florida to find work or to return to the support of their families back home.
“There is a loss in the number of Hispanics in our communities,” said Robert Selle, director of the Amigos Center, which aids Hispanics with immigration issues and offers other services in Lee County. “The underlying reason is economic; the same reason they came here in the first place.”
Population drainThe loss comes from a good portion of Lee County’s population. The U.S. Census Bureau listed the county’s Hispanic population at more than 90,000 - about 16 percent of Lee’s 571,000 population - in 2006.
What the statistics further show is that work is gone. Unemployment in the Fort Myers-Cape Coral region has risen this past year, from 2.7 percent to 6.3 percent.
Many of the lost jobs are in construction, which has been put on hold as the sluggish market struggles with a glut of unsold houses.
Because many Hispanic construction workers are believed to be illegal immigrants, because construction and agricultural workers are a mobile population anyway, because many are single with families back in their native lands, and because their leaving was often spur-of-the-moment, no governmental or social service agency is keeping accurate records of this exodus.
Lee County School District reported a loss of Hispanics in all grades totaling 388 pupils through January of this school year - this after growing by almost 3,000 Hispanic students a year earlier.
But the white student population dropped as well. The big difference was while dropout rates tend to increase as the year goes on in the upper grades, the Hispanic population was the only one also to lose ground in the kindergarten through fifth-grade range. It fell by 87 pupils - an indication their families moved from the district, according to Michael Smith, director of planning, growth and school capacity.
“Many workers in the construction industry and related industry are leaving the area and following the money,” said Barbara Hartman, spokeswoman for the state’s Career and Service Center in Fort Myers. “It seems to be an increasing number of people who are temporarily relocating. I wish we did track that.”
Hartman said she knows people are leaving because they tell counselors when they come in seeking work, saying they need the higher construction industry wages, which begin at $10 to $11 an hour for the most unskilled, to maintain their standard of living……..
October, 2007
CARLISLE, Pa — Two army colonels are accused of switching identities to try to fool a paternity test.
Scott Carlson (51) the assumed father, and Bruce Adkins (44), was accused of trying to switch places to tamper with the results of a paternity test.
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Spector Says Convicted Illegal Aliens Often Not Deported
U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said today that he wants to increase the number of illegal aliens deported after being convicted of crimes.
In addition, Specter said government statistics show that convicted aliens have a high recidivism rate, putting the public at risk.
“The financial burden is very substantial,” Specter said.
Addressing officials at Chester County Prison, Specter estimated the county’s cost of housing illegal aliens at $1.7 million a year. Specter’s appearance was the latest in a series of stops he had made at state and county prisons to address the issue.
The senator said he selected Chester County Prison as a site because it has “the highest number” of illegal immigrant inmates in the state. The county employs thousands of migrant workers in the mushroom industry.
A 2006 Department of Homeland Security report found that “substantial numbers” of criminal aliens are released from custody rather than deported due to inadequate resources, Specter said.
Among the difficulties, Specter cited the limited number of beds - 800 - at the federal York County Detention Center, the difficulty of obtaining accurate records, and the inability to compel the inmates’ native countries to accept their return.
Specter suggested exploring three possible fixes.
“We ought to explore all of these options,” Specter said.
He wants enforcement of a largely unused federal law that empowers the secretary of state to limit visas awarded to residents of countries that do not readily take back their citizens. He also suggested withholding foreign aid from countries that are uncooperative.
Specter said district attorneys also have the authority to include deportation language in plea bargains for inmates willing to return home.
“We have an enormously serious problem at the national level,” he said.
Specter said the average cost of housing an inmate in Chester County is $72 a day; records showed 63 inmates yesterday in the county’s prison population.
Chester County Warden D. Edward McFadden said prison statistics show that one out of 15 inmates has a charge or detainer from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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