Lawsuit Against San Francisco for Wrongful Death by Illegal Immigrant

Lawsuit Against San Fransisco for Wrongful Death by Illegal Immigrant | Say NO to Illegal Immigration:

There is a great lawsuit being filed against the sanctuary city of San Fransisco by the Balogna family. In June 2008, Tony Balogna and his two sons were murdered allegedly by an illegal immigrant named Edwin Ramos. This illegal immigrant was protected by the city of San Fransisco.

Edwin Ramos has a long criminal history. At the age of 17 he commited two violent felonies, one was gang related and the other was an attempted robbery of a pregnant woman. He is a member of the gang MS-13 that targeted Hispanic people just because they weren’t in the gang. Edwin’s latest arrest was on March 30, 2008 for gang and weapons charges, but San Fransisco refused to file charges against him. He was released from jail on April 2nd, and then just two months later allegedly commited a triple murder.

San Fransisco knew Edwin Ramos was an illegal immigrant, he was convicted of two violent felonies, and they did nothing. They arrested him again and refused to file charges, doing nothing. Nothing. The sanctuary city may have to wake up and get with the real world.

Unfortunately, the city of San Fransisco has absolute immunity from lawsuits that challenge its ordinances. What a crazy loophole, how can the city have absolute immunity? They violated federal law!

The only chance for this illegal immigrant lawsuit to get through, is for it to go in front of a jury. The jury can nullify the stupid San Fransisco loophole and allow the wrongful death lawsuit against San Fransisco. The best outcome would be for San Fransisco to have to pay millions and millions, realize they need to take responsibility for the illegal immigrants in their city, and Mayor Gavin Newsom would have to pay at least $100,000 from his personal bank account because of his responsibility (or lack of responsibility) which resulted in the death of the Balonga family. It is a true shame that San Frasisco could be so irresponsible for so long, that it took the death of three good Americans for people to wake up and realize how wrong San Fransisco is.

Catch and Release:"I'll probably be back"

FOXNews.com - Deportation Increase in U.S., 350,000 Illegal Immigrants Sent Home in 2008 - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News:

"CHICAGO — Just after dawn, Gerardo Lopez Arellano shuffles along in a line of 51 other shackled men on an isolated tarmac where a white, unmarked federal jet is waiting to take them to the U.S.-Mexico border.

The 24-year-old construction worker who grew up near the Texas border was deported twice before this year, but he is indifferent on this cool morning at O'Hare International Airport.

'I'll probably be back,' he told The Associated Press."

And you thought Immigration Scams Were Bad in the US

Techie fraudsters helped scam immigration tests - The INQUIRER:

LONDON: "Basically the scamsters used a small camera, a microphone and a small earpiece, the whole los probably cost around £20 from their local electronics shop.

Steve Lee, 36, and Rong Yang, 28, from Redhill were convicted of helped immigrants to answer the questions, telling them which boxes to tick on the test.

What’s even more amazing is not the fact that the authorities don’t test for equipment such as this, but that this wasn’t even what got Lee and Yang caught out – it was the surveillance van outside the test building."

Immigration Chronicles: Reasons why illegal immigration is being ignored

Immigration Chronicles: Reasons why illegal immigration is being ignored:

"Reasons why illegal immigration is being ignored

In our most recent post, we called out the presidential candidates for not going there on illegal immigration. We're not hearing anything on the issue from the men and women seeking to take residence in the White House next year.

Well, we need to offer the other side of this equation. A CCN/Opinion Research poll released today sheds some insight on why John McCain and Barack Obama might not be so excited to debate immigration.

The poll, conducted Sept. 5-7, asked 1,022 Americans which issue will be most important when they decide how to vote for president.

Unsurprisingly, the no. 1 issue was the economy for 56 percent of Americans.
The war in Iraq was second at 13 percent; health care was 12 percent; terrorism was 11 percent.

And rounding out the top five issues? You guessed it: illegal immigration. Only 6 percent of Americans named it their most important issue."

Obama ad: McCain would help corporations - Yahoo! News

Like a good little liberal, Obama is foisting the same-old on voters. This time, it says that the big, bad McCain is supporting Corporations! The gall!

Well, I hope someone is. The US government says this about Corporations:

"Large businesses are important to the overall economy because they tend to have more financial resources than small firms to conduct research and develop new goods. And they generally offer more varied job opportunities and greater job stability, higher wages, and better health and retirement benefits."

Anyone who's worked for small business knows that, while they can be flexible and more personal, they don't offer nearly the same security nor wages as working for one of the big companies. And a lot of people - like, millions in the US, find employment here.

The problems with Obama's policies are that,

1. Every time a tax is levied on a corporation, it makes it that much harder for the people employed in that company to get ahead. Corporations are required to answer to shareholders about profit and loss, and the higher the taxes, the harder it is to achieve a profit.
2. Obama seems to think that Corporations are like the government - that they can print money, or just wave their hand (like through a new tax act), and get ready cash. It ain't so. Businesses, large and small, have finite pots of money with which to work, and that's that.
3. Following Obama's ideas on dealing with corporations will again, as all Democrats seem to do, put corporations behind the eight-ball. Other countries (our most aggressive trade competitors such as Japan and China, for example) don't tax corporations, but support them with subsidies. In the US, we don't give subsidies, but rather remove the tax load through things like what McCain wants to do.

Hard to believe from someone with Obama's education and background, but he's just plain wrong, wrong wrong.

On the other hand, perhaps Obama is right - not about taxes, but that saying these things will get him elected. Americans seem to not understand this either, so maybe he's just preaching to the audience.

In the 1960s, Adlai Stevenson was running for Vice President. Stevenson was known for being a deep-thinking intellectual, and could alwasy give we-ll thought-out and deeply logical explanations for his ideas. One voter came to hime and said, "Every intelligent American should voter for you," to which he replied, "yes, but I need a majority to win."


Obama ad: McCain would help corporations - Yahoo! News:

"SCRIPT: Announcer: 'Can we really afford more of the same? John McCain's tax plan: For big corporations — $200 billion in new tax breaks. Oil companies — $4 billion. Companies shipping jobs overseas — keep their tax giveaways while 100 million Americans get no tax relief at all. For the change we need, Barack Obama. A plan that cuts taxes for middle-class families three times as much as John McCain would. Barack Obama. President.'

Obama: 'I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message.'

KEY IMAGES: A man in his 60s looks gravely at the camera. Clips of McCain at a podium followed by a generic corporate board meeting, image of gas prices rising and an abandoned factory. A man in his 30s looks into the camera. A clip of McCain followed by film of Obama with a factory worker.

ANALYSIS: By airing in eight battleground states, this ad broadens Obama's anti-McCain message and puts both presidential candidates in an all-out slugfest of critical ads. While Obama is running a positive message about himself during national broadcasts of the Olympics, he's hammering McCain with economy-centered ads in states that could determine the election in November. The ads suggest that the campaign is seeking to re-establish Obama as a voice for working people after setting domestic issues aside during his wid"

Orwell as applied to Today's Candidates

So to whom does this apply, McCain or Obama?

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
- George Orwell"

The real costs of immigration

Taken from the comments section of Immigration Chronicles, Posted by: zeezil at August 16, 2008 09:28 PM

http://blogs.chron.com/immigration/archives/2008/08/post_151.html

After careful review, anyone with a even a modicum of logic can come to no other conclusion: illegal immigration must be halted, illegal immigrants here now must be deported and legal immigration needs decreased from the approx. 2 million allowed in per year currently.

Please review the following report on the FISCAL COST OF IMMIGRATION by economist Edwin Rubenstein released in April 2008:
http://www.esrresearch.com/Rubensteinreport.pdf

A partial summary of the report:

The impact on 15 Federal Departments surveyed was: $346 billion in fiscal related costs in FY 2007.

Each immigrant cost taxpayers more than $9,000 per year.

An immigrant household (2 adults, 2 children) cost taxpayers $36,000 per year.

Legal immigrants were not separated out from illegal immigrants for the fiscal impact study, but if they had been, the fiscal cost per ILLEGAL immigrant would be even more shocking than the figures quoted above.

The most extensive and authoritative study, prior to economist Edwin Rubenstein's "The Fiscal Impact of Immigration" (April 2008) , is the National Research Council (NRC)'s The New Americans: Economic, Demographic and Fiscal Effects of Immigration (1997).

The NRC staff analyzed federal, state, and local government expenditures on programs such as Medicaid, AFDC (now TANF), and SSI, as well as the cost of educating immigrants' foreign- and native-born children.

NRC found that the average immigrant household receives $13,326 in federal annual expenditures and pays $10,664 in federal taxes--that is, they generate a fiscal deficit of $2,682 (1996 dollars)per household.

In 2007 dollars this is a deficit of $3,408 per immigrant household.

With 9 million households currently headed by immigrants, more than $30 billion ($3,408 x 9 million) of the federal deficit represents money transferred from native taxpayers to immigrants.

Our national immigration policies have to work for the United States. While improving the plight of the world's poor is a laudable goal, the finite resources we have available to fulfill that goal would be swamped if there wasn't some orderly and manageable system in place to limit entry into the United States to what this nation can actually support. The more illegal aliens that are permitted to subvert the immigration system, the fewer immigrants we can accommodate who might actually produce a positive benefit for our country.

The more we become a nation of illegal immigrants, the deeper we fall into anarchy.

ICE's "Duh" Moment

FOXNews.com - Just 6 Illegal Immigrants Sign Up for Self-Deportation in First Week - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News:

"Federal officials say only six illegal immigrants volunteered to leave the United States in the first week of a pilot program inviting nearly a half-million people to self-deport."

Illegal Immigrant Bond Fund Kicks Off Fundraising Campaign

FOXNews.com - Illegal Immigrant Bond Fund Kicks Off Fundraising Campaign:
"SILVER SPRING, Md. — Illegal immigrants arrested in workplace raids can now access a fund to help them post bond.

The National Immigrant Bond Fund launched its national debut and fundraising campaign on Monday. Founder Bob Hildreth said Monday the goal is to raise $500,000.

Through the fund, illegal immigrants arrested in raids who do not have any outstanding criminal violations can apply for financial assistance. Churches, legal organizations or community groups help facilitate their requests. The fund provides half the bail money and immigrants must pony up the rest.

The fund has already been tapped into following a few raids, including one in Annapolis on June 30.

The fund was formalized three months ago. Hildreth says it's helped bail out about 100 people so far, and all of those cases are pending."

Democrats on illegal immigration?

Immigration Chronicles: Will wave of Democrats turn tide on illegal immigration?:
An interesting comment was posted in response to this article. When clarified, it pointed out:

"In most free countries in this world they replace there [sic] government when it not working . But in the most free country in the world it looks like the government is trying to replace it's citizens."

Continue to vote for democrats, and that's what you'll get - not the will of the people, but the will of the politician.

Mexican Soldiers Enter Arizona, Briefly Detain Border Agent

FOXNews.com - Mexican Soldiers Enter Arizona, Briefly Detain Border Agent:
"TUCSON, Ariz. — Four Mexican soldiers crossed into Arizona and held a U.S. Border Patrol agent at gunpoint before realizing where they were and returning to Mexico, federal authorities said Wednesday."

FDA finds salmonella strain at second Mexican farm - Yahoo! News

FDA finds salmonella strain at second Mexican farm - Yahoo! News: "WASHINGTON - The salmonella strain linked to a nationwide outbreak has been found in irrigation water and a serrano pepper at a Mexican farm, federal health officials said Wednesday.
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Dr. David Acheson, the Food and Drug Administration's food safety chief, called the finding a key breakthrough in the case, as did another health official.

'We have a smoking gun, it appears,' said Dr. Lonnie King who directs the center for foodborne illnesses at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Acheson said the farm is in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Previously, the FDA had traced a contaminated jalapeno pepper to a farm in another part of Mexico.

Acheson and other officials were grilled at a congressional hearing about why the investigation originally focused on tomatoes.

The officials insisted that tomatoes still cannot be ruled out and that it is quite possible that the outbreak was caused by several different kinds of contaminated produce.

The outbreak has sickened more than 1,300 people since April.

Tomatoes had been the prime suspect in the nationwide outbreak for weeks. But last week, the FDA said only jalapeno peppers grown in Mexico were implicated in the nationwide salmonella outbreak. The FDA said then it had found the same strain of salmonell"

Widow Wants San Francisco Sanctuary Law Changed After Illegal Charged With Murder - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News

FOXNews.com - Widow Wants San Francisco Sanctuary Law Changed After Illegal Charged With Murder - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News:
"A San Francisco woman whose husband and two sons were gunned down last month — allegedly by an illegal immigrant who remained in the city despite previous crimes — is demanding the city do something about its sanctuary law.

Danielle Bologna was widowed on June 22 when Edwin Ramos, 21, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, allegedly gunned down her husband, Anthony, and two sons, Matthew and Michael, in a road rage incident when her family was returning from a picnic.

Ramos has been charged with three counts of murder in the case, according to the San Francisco Chronicle."

Rising health care costs put focus on illegal immigrants - USATODAY.com

Rising health care costs put focus on illegal immigrants - USATODAY.com:
"Data on health care costs for illegal immigrants are sketchy because hospitals and community health centers don't ask about patients' legal status. In California, a 2004 study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform put the state's annual cost at $1.4 billion.

But while they account for less than 2% of national medical spending, their growing presence is a problem in places such as eastern North Carolina, one of the nation's poorest areas.

Statewide, illegal immigrants accounted for one in four new residents from 1990 to 2004, according to a University of North Carolina study. The state ranks ninth in the nation for illegal immigrants with more than 300,000, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.

For hospitals, "the burden of the uninsured immigrant is huge," says Jeff Spade, vice president of the North Carolina Hospital Association. "It's exploded the amount of work that they have to do."

Steven Camarota of the conservative Center for Immigration Studies says offering non-emergency Medicaid to illegal immigrants would be more expensive than leaving them uninsured and in need of occasional hospital care. In those cases, hospitals lose money, and taxpayers pick up the tab.

"Either you enforce the law and don't have so many illegals, or you shut up about the cost," he says."

San Francisco goes further, adding adults at local expense. Some cities, including New York, encourage illegal immigrants to use public services such as health clinics without risking deportation.

At Duplin General Hospital, the challenge is staying afloat. Because so many patients are seniors on Medicare, low-income residents on Medicaid or uninsured people who can't pay their bills, it's difficult to turn a profit. "We're living off reserves," CEO Harvey Case says.