Nothing of it in the paper today, so....
"Mass. not needed to shelter migrant children; US says crisis at border is easing" by Michael Levenson | Globe Staff August 05, 2014
Massachusetts will not need to open shelters for unaccompanied children who have fled Central America, federal officials said Tuesday, ending an emotional debate that erupted two weeks ago when Governor Deval Patrick proposed bringing 1,000 young migrants to two military bases in the state.
Related: Illegal Immigrant Kids Unwelcome in Massachusetts
UPDATE:
"More than 16,000 men and women in Massachusetts are on a wait list for adult basic education programs and English-language classes that could help them make the leap to college, a new job, or higher pay. Governor Deval Patrick’s office plans to announce Wednesday that it has chosen three local nonprofits to rapidly expand access to those programs, as part of a $15 million initiative fueled initially by outside investment."
They won't be costing you anything.
Federal officials said they would not need shelters at Camp Edwards on Cape Cod or Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee because fewer children have been caught while crossing the border illegally over the last month and the government has expanded capacity at existing shelters in other states.
In other words, they have already dispersed enough of them to states that wanted them.
In addition, the number of children released to relatives and other sponsors has increased, as immigration cases have been processed over the last several weeks.
Amazing how the wheels of this government can churn once in motion, 'eh? Makes one wonder did we get here?
The federal government said it would also suspend operations at three temporary shelters on military bases in Texas, Oklahoma, and California, which were opened in May and June to handle the influx of children crossing the US-Mexico border.
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Law? What law?
Kenneth J. Wolfe, a spokesman for the US Department of Health and Human Services, cautioned that the situation remains fluid but said the “initial signs of progress along our Southwest border” mean the Obama administration “is no longer seeking facilities for temporary shelters for unaccompanied children at this time.”
This also means the public relations went very badly for them on this agenda-pushing project so they are backing off.
Patrick, who choked up last month when he proposed opening shelters to alleviate what he called a humanitarian crisis, released a statement saying he was grateful for the show of support that residents had expressed for the young migrants.
“I have been deeply moved by the outpouring of support we have seen from across the Commonwealth, as over 1,600 of our neighbors reached out to express their support for children who are alone and thousands of miles from home,” Patrick said. “Once again the people of Massachusetts have displayed great generosity and compassion. It appears that there is not a need for Massachusetts to serve these children at this time, but I am proud of our willingness to do so.”
This guy should go to Hollywood next because he sure says good lines.
Patrick administration officials said those who called and e-mailed in hopes of helping the children would receive contact information for immigrant aid organizations.
“Should the need for additional temporary shelter space arise in the future, the Patrick administration stands ready to continue conversations with the federal government about how the Commonwealth may assist these children,” Jesse Mermell, a Patrick spokeswoman, said in a statement.
He won't be around much longer.
Local officials in Chicopee and Bourne, who had voiced strong opposition to Patrick’s plan, expressed relief at the federal government’s announcement. Although the Patrick administration had said the cost of housing, feeding, and caring for the children would be borne entirely by the federal government, many in those communities worried the children would become a drain on local school and public health resources.
First of all, I notice the word children being used over and over. When the jew$paper waves children at me now all I can think of is the woeful coverage and photos I got from Gaza. Start waving those and maybe I'll listen.
“I’m glad that the government has taken the position that they did because, in my opinion, it was not in the best interests of the town of Bourne to be supporting this effort,” said Peter J. Meier, chairman of the Board of Selectmen in Bourne, which includes part of Camp Edwards. “It’s been a very emotional, divisive issue, but we have other priorities,” such as crafting a town budget that will not burden property owners, Meier said.
Mayor Richard J. Kos of Chicopee said he was also pleased with the decision.
“It’s consistent with our position all along, that utilizing Westover Air Reserve base doesn’t make sense,” Kos said. “It did not have housing available nor did this proposal in any way address security concerns that the base would have.”
State Representative Joseph F. Wagner, a Chicopee Democrat, reflected the sentiment of many local officials, who complained that the governor had not consulted them before proposing to use military facilities in their communities.
And it's implied in the ma$$ media that you are some sort of racist if you take that position.
“Perhaps the lesson for the governor, going forward, is to not put the cart before the horse and to instead have a thoughtful dialogue with potential regions or communities of impact before making major policy pronouncements,” he said.
He's got, what, four months left? Is there something really terrible coming down the pike, like a nuclear false flag or martial law over Ebola?
Patricia Montes, executive director of Centro Presente, a Somerville-based immigration advocacy group, said that while the shelters would not be needed, she was glad the governor had offered them in a forceful speech that quoted from the Bible.
He also preached that other thing.
“It’s very important for us to know the governor was open to giving shelter, and he had a very welcoming statement a few weeks ago,” Montes said. “That statement that he made is sending a very positive message.”
I'm so sick of getting messages from the masters of illusion and imagery, the political cla$$.
At the time, Patrick was responding to an urgent request from the federal government, which was scrambling to find shelter for some of the 50,000 unaccompanied minors — most from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras — who had illegally crossed the border since last fall. The federal government expects to receive at least 60,000 such children this year, compared with fewer than 14,000 in 2012.
But in recent weeks, the number of children taken into custody has dropped. In July, the government received 5,303 unaccompanied minors, down from 10,483 in June, according to Wolfe.
That's so strange because the crisis didn't erupt until July.
“In the near term, the three temporary shelters on military bases [in Texas, Oklahoma, and California] could be reopened for a limited time if the number of children increases significantly,” Wolfe said. “The number of unaccompanied children crossing the border is still too high and thousands of children are still in our custody. We will continue to monitor the situation closely in order to make the best decisions about the resources available to take care of the children.”
Did he say children four times there? Just children? Many of them are teens, still children, but more like kids. They will soon be adults if they are not already based on experience. Not my economic and social $y$tem that got 'em on the move, and this whole issue is obfuscated by my propaganda pre$$. It's shallow and superficial coverage with a heaping helping of agenda-ladeling.
And they could be reopened any minute, meaning this article's appearance is nothing but damage control.
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I will let you be the judge of these items:
"Protests raised against Superior Court nominee; Wall confirmation hearing delayed" by Michael Levenson | Globe Staff August 05, 2014
One of Governor Deval Patrick’s nominees for a judgeship has generated an unusual level of opposition — so much so that his confirmation hearing has been postponed a month to allow more time for the public to weigh in and all the witnesses to testify.
Joshua Wall, who has been tapped for a seat on the Superior Court, has served as Parole Board chairman since February 2011. Patrick chose him to lead that panel after ousting five of its members who had voted to release a career criminal who then killed a Woburn police officer. Before that, Wall was an assistant district attorney for 18 years in Suffolk County, responsible for handling numerous homicide cases.
Defense lawyers have flooded the Governor’s Council, an obscure eight-member panel that confirms judgeships, with letters and phone calls of opposition, citing cases in which they say Wall placed his drive to win ahead of basic fairness.
The parents of David Woodman, a 22-year-old Emmanuel College student who died after being taken into police custody after a Celtics championship celebration in 2008, have also sent a letter of opposition, and are planning to testify at Wall’s confirmation hearing on Sept. 17.
That will be a night I will never forget as well, although nothing I have experienced can compare to what those parents have endured.
The hearing was initially scheduled for Aug. 13 but was postponed because councilors say they wanted to start in the morning and are expecting the hearing to last at least a full day....
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Related:
“Ralph Gants, 59, will be the first Jewish chief justice in the SJC’s 322-year history. His predecessor Roderick Ireland, also appointed by Patrick, was the first black chief. Patrick also elevated Fernande Duffly and Geraldine Hines — both women of color — to the court, and chose the first openly gay justice, Barbara Lenk. After taking the oath, Gants thanked Patrick for appointing “not only the first Jewish chief justice, but also the first chief justice to play soccer in the Over the Hill league.”
Also see: Patrick Sees a Problem With State Budget
So do I.
Overdue renovations give State House splendor
Patrick’s office is restored, but at a high price
Look who they found to do the work:
"Firms bemoan stalled changes on visa limits" by Tracy Jan | Globe Staff August 06, 2014
WASHINGTON — The stalemate in Washington over immigration policy is producing collateral damage in New England: thousands of unfilled jobs.
OMG!
Related: Homeless in Silicon Valley
I really do not know what to say anymore, sorry.
I'm sure the paper didn't intend to turn me off with the appalling choice of terminology, it's just self-internalized the militant values of its publishers.
Federal rules allowing foreign workers to come to the United States for high-skilled jobs are caught in the battle between Republicans and Democrats over border security and giving illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship. As a result, the region’s business leaders say, there are not enough skilled workers to fill essential jobs.
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You don't even need a college education.
“The industry in Boston is very innovation-driven, and technical talent is critical to fuel that innovation,” said Jeffrey Bussgang, a Boston venture capitalist who teaches entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, where he said foreign students make up about a quarter of each class. “We spend millions of dollars marketing to foreign students to come to our world-class universities, and then when they are ready to start companies here, we kick them out. It’s absurd.”
All those great universities and no Americans to pick from the crop? Then the public ejewkhazion $y$tem of indoctrination and inculcation has failed.
With Congress disbanded for its August recess without agreeing on short- or long-term plans for immigration, New England business leaders say they are frustrated that their top priority of increasing the number of visas for skilled foreign workers has been shunted aside in the partisan feud.
Which shows you that the $tatu$ quo is actually de$ired for $o many rea$ons, and is also quite a contrast when you compare the partisanship to the quick action in unanimous support of Israel by this Congre$$.
Intel, with 1,400 workers in Hudson, is lobbying the Obama administration to take executive action on several fronts, including reducing the green card backlog so that qualified candidates do not have to wait years for permanent residency.
Wait, hold those articles of impeachment for just a moment. Got another one to add.
Intel submits between 800 and 900 applications nationally for so-called H-1B visas each year for US-educated foreign-born workers, and about three-quarters are granted, said Peter Muller, Intel’s director of immigration policy who is based in Washington.
“It’s something we rely on to be able to fill jobs that we are unable to fill otherwise,” Muller said.
The i$$ue has been hijacked by fal$e debate.
US Representative Michael E. Capuano, a Massachusetts Democrat, called the current immigration policy preventing foreign graduates of American universities from working in the country “absolutely insane,” according to the State House News Service.
“If we don’t keep them, they will go home and they will open the businesses to compete against us,” Capuano said at an event at Google’s Cambridge office, State House News said.
Or the operation itself can just move there. Probably get a nice inversion, too.
Capuano has sponsored a bill that would make it easier for foreigners who have US doctorate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math to work in the United States.
Why aren't American kids getting those? Too many courses in global warming and gay? Or are they wasting it with a history degree like me?
If Congress does not take action, Bussgang said, then states must. He supports an economic development bill recently proposed by Governor Deval Patrick that would get around federal limitations and allow foreign students who want to stay in Massachusetts after college or graduate school to do so through an Entrepreneurship in Residence program. The graduates would work at local universities part time while developing start-ups.
Didn't we just have terror problems at a famous run and race recently were allegedly done by students on visa..... never mind.
Thomas Ketchell, a 25-year-old entrepreneur from Belgium whose fledging education company, Hstry, is based in the Back Bay, said the difficulty of securing an H-1B visa for himself and his English, French, Dutch, Canadian, and Chinese colleagues is costing the company thousands of dollars in legal fees and lost productivity because members of the team must leave the country every three months when their tourist visas expire.
Only two of the company’s four founders are able to remain in Boston this summer; the others had to go back to their home countries due to visa issues. When Ketchell returned to Boston in May, he was detained at Logan Airport and questioned for two hours by immigration officials who suspected him of working without a work permit. He said he was told to “watch out and get my paperwork in order.”
Little bit better treatment than early 1940s Germany, right?
He considered himself lucky because he was allowed to stay for three months.
“It’s a real shame because there are so many entrepreneurs who actually want to come here to create jobs for Americans who are not able to do so,” Ketchell said.
Business groups want to increase the number of H-1B work visas from the current 85,000 limit to as many as 180,000 a year, as a comprehensive immigration bill passed by the Senate last year would have allowed. The catch-all immigration reform measure was never taken up in the House.
New England business leaders are pushing for a stand-alone bill to raise the number of visas issued to foreign workers.
Maybe that slips through during the lame-duck session. I expect it will.
“Both the House and Senate and both parties would say that’s a no-brainer, because it’s important to the economy,” said James Brett, president and chief executive of the New England Council, an alliance of universities, hospitals, and corporations. “Unfortunately, there are members of Congress who say we need everything in the immigration bill. But I’m of the Ted Kennedy school of politics. A half a loaf is better than no loaf.”
When the latest H-1B visa lottery was announced in April, all 85,000 visas — the 65,000 allowed under the cap plus an additional 20,000 for workers with advanced degrees — were gone within five days. (During the program’s peak between 2001 and 2003, Congress raised the annual cap to 195,000 visas, but the number was never reached.)
In 2013, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services agency approved 10,882 H-1B visas for Massachusetts, according to the latest data available. Massachusetts ranks seventh in the number of such visas approved, behind California, New Jersey, Texas, New York, Illinois, and Maryland.
A national business coalition called Partnership for a New American Economy, launched in part by former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and backed by Boston’s technology companies, universities, and hospitals, released a report in June highlighting how the tech industry and the country’s economy could have grown faster amid the recession if a larger number of foreign engineers and programmers were granted work visas.
I don't know about you, but I'm tired of big-mouth billionaires blasting their message with their bundles of loot. It's a knee-jerk rejection now.
Critics, however, say that expanding the number of H-1B visas is simply a way for businesses to hire workers at a lower wage than what US workers would be paid. It is a myth that companies only hire foreign workers after considering the American talent pool, said Ron Hira, a professor of public policy at Rochester Institute of Technology.
“H-1B workers can legally be paid below market wages,” said Hira, who also testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the issue last spring. “The majority of these workers have ordinary skills and capabilities that are readily obtained in the US labor market.”
There are your two paragraphs of balanced coverage from the bastion of corporate liberali$m.
Some business coalitions have reservations about the idea of carving out a narrow visa bill instead of making it part of a broader immigration measure.
“You can’t just peel off your own little piece,” said Joe Green, president of FWD.us, an immigration reform advocacy group of technology companies founded by Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg. Green hopes that House Republicans will revisit the issue after the November midterm elections as part of a comprehensive package.
They want to have their cake and eat it, too.
“For the Republicans, the politics become even more stark after the midterms looking ahead to the presidential election,” he said. “If they don’t improve their performance among Asians and Latinos, it just makes it more difficult for them to win.”
And in doing so they lose their base.
The Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, which spearheaded a national coalition last year called “Business for Skilled Worker Immigration,” is calling upon business leaders in Republican states to step up the pressure on their congressional delegations for a deal, said Jim Klocke, executive vice president of the Greater Boston chamber.
“The issue playing out on the Texas-Mexico border is dominating every day,” he said. “We and others just need to continue stressing the importance of the visa issue.”
I'll bet that will get in under the wire and very quietly.
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Turns out the crisis emigrated:
"Migrants clash in France as camp tensions soar" by Elaine Ganley | Associated Press August 06, 2014
PARIS — Migrants flowing into Europe in unprecedented numbers are causing a tense summer in France, as clashes break out among asylum-seekers in camps and police fire tear gas to quell the chaos.
Sudanese and Eritreans battled in the sweltering heat in France’s port city of Calais, frustrations rising as the Africans jockey for space while trying to sneak into Britain.
British police were on site in Calais trying to make sure they do not cross over. French police fired tear gas Tuesday to break up the latest of three battles that left 51 injured, the Calais prefecture said.
Migrants fleeing poverty and war in Africa and the Middle East arrive in Calais with hopes of crossing the channel on a ferry or on trucks laden with cargo. Their numbers in the city at the edge of the English Channel have swelled to 1,300, overwhelming the city.
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NEXT DAY UPDATE:
"Immigrant linked to fake ID scheme sentenced
An illegal immigrant was sentenced to 14 months in prison in US District Court in Worcester Wednesday as a result of his involvement in a conspiracy to produce false identification documents, according to the office of US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz. Leonardo Burgos Espinal, 42, most recently of Springfield, was turned over to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency for deportation. In March 2013, he was charged with bribing a state Registry of Motor Vehicles employee, Ortiz’s office said. Between January 2011 and June 2012, Burgos allegedly advised individuals to present stolen Puerto Rican identification documents to his coconspirator at the Registry, who would issue driver’s licenses and other forms of identification."
Why enforce that law?
