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February 23, 2011

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2. Article: The Great I-9 Debate: Re-Designing The Most
Complicated One-Page Form In America by Josie Gonzalez
http://www.ilw.com/articles/2011,0223-gonzalez.shtm

3. Article: Keep DREAMing: The November Elections and What It
Means For Comprehensive Immigration Reform by Michael Wildes and
Leon Wildes
http://www.ilw.com/articles/2011,0223-wildes.shtm

4. Bloggings: Immigrant Of The Day: Gerda Weissman Klein -
Survivor by Greg Siskind
http://www.ilw.com/articles/2011,0223-siskind.shtm

5. Bloggings: DHS and Mentally Ill Respondents: Why Is the Fox
Guarding the Hen House? by Jason Dzubow
http://www.ilw.com/articles/2011,0223-dzubow.shtm

6. News: CRS Report On Expedited Citizenship Through Military
Service: Clurrent Law, Policy and Issues
http://www.ilw.com/immigrationdaily/news/2011,0223-crs.pdf

7. Focus: THE H-1B BOOK
THE H-1B BOOK is Edited by Karen Weinstock, and features
contributions by Prakash Khatri, Courtney Black, Mikiel J.
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I. and II. FOREWORD and INTRODUCTION
III. H-1B STEP BY STEP
First Step: Interview The Client
Second Step: Send The Client Intake Forms And Related Information
Third Step: Credentials: Verify That The Worker Has A US
Bachelor's Degree Or Equivalent
Fourth Step: Determine The Prevailing Wage
Fifth Step: Prepare And File The Labor Condition Application
(LCA)
Sixth Step: Prepare The I-129, Related Forms And Petition Letter
Seventh Step: Send All The Forms And Petition Letter To The
Client For Review & Signature
Eighth Step: Assemble The H-1B Petition And Send To The USCIS
Service Center
Ninth Step: Troubleshooting
Tenth Step: Post-Approval Case Management
IV. ADVANCED H-1B ISSUES
H-1B Degree Equivalency
Reviewing The Path To Permanent Residency
Traveling On An H-1B Visa While Petition Or Application Is
Pending
Dealing With Gaps In Employment
Temporary Visa Alternatives To The H-1B
The History And Economic Impact Of The H-1B Visa
When Are H-1B Visas Cap Exempt?
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8. Headline: DREAMact Advocate, Isabel Castillo, Turns Failure
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9. Headline: Brought To Connecticut As A Toddler, A 22-Yr-Old
Student Faces Deportation A Semester Before Graduating. Faces Of
USA http://ow.ly/41PH3
10. Headline: Iván Godinez, uses guitar to fight for his dreams
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11. Headline: "We send away the very ppl we ought 2B working to
attract." Hard 2 Believe; we're Doomed For A Labor Shortage
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12. Headline: Assemblyman Luis Alejo gets in on the Dream act in
CA http://ow.ly/41PtJ
13. Headline: College right to welcome undocumented students.
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14. Headline: Undocumented Students Deserve Equal Access to
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15. Headline: Won't The DREAM act Help Us Move Forward Instead Of
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16. Headline: Schumer Loves Border Security Millions, Opposes GOP
Cuts. http://ow.ly/41Poo
17. Headline: U.S. politician calls for immigrants to be dumped
at offices of Congressmen http://ow.ly/41Pn5
18. Headline: Former ICE intelligence chief is among immigration
agents under investigation http://ow.ly/41PlF
19. Headline: Immigration benefits arrive for same-sex couples...
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20. Headline: Local immigration activists plan march on City Hall
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21. Headline: Chipotle Says It Fired 450 Workers in Minnesota Who
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22. Headline: AZ jury condemns anti-immigration "activist" 2 die
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23. Headline: An Arizona-style immigration measure passed in
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29. Headline: RT @TucsonSentinel Arizona's English immersion
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30. Headline: RT @anjamd Undocumented immigrants laud county
college's new admissions policy http://bit.ly/he6uhL

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Comments

[Alice Hust Teague]

My father had his name legally changed from,
BELA VOJTECH HUSTOPECKY to ALBERT HUST. Is there a legal document in some archive I could find? I was born in US in 1925 and my birth certificate listed me - ALICE ANNA HUSTOPECKY.
My father arrived in USA on January 5, 1922 from Czechoslovakia. He later lived in Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio.

Many thanks for your help.
Alice Hust Teague

[Roger Algase]

Don Miller, you refer to Mexican children in American schools (many of whom are also American children under our Constitution, having been born here) as "swarming hordes of 3rd world children". I have no idea if this statement fits within the Greek notion of "tribalism", but there is no question that it falls within the definition of "racismo" - in any language.

As it happens, I spent a year going to school in Tucson myself as a very young child, some seven decades ago. I am not of Hispanic origin (unless being a Sephardic Jew counts) and I was not fortunate enough to have been in a Spanish language immersion program (and I have no idea if there was any such thing at the time), but if I had been, I would have benefited greatly from the opportunity, I am quite sure.

America is becoming a multilingual, multicultural nation, Don, like the world we are part of. This is as good a time as any to get used to it. Why not give tolerance and respect for other human beings, regardless of race, language or origin, a try? Buena suerte!

[Don Miller]

You, Algase, are a prime example of the impossibility of any rational discussion with a leftist! I'll tell you what the definition of "racist" is in English: a racist is anyone who is winning an argument with a liberal!
The appropriate response would have been some sort of comment on the quality of the instruction, the beaureaucratic inflation in the schools, PC, or something other than the usual leftist ad hominem snarl. On the chance that you have not yet completed your eight years of English immersion, I will repeat my point, slowly and as simply as possible: it is not credible to me, based on my own knowledge and experience, that it should take eight years to make young children competent in a foreign language. Again, Algase, now watch my lips, the Army and the State Department, among others. manage to accomplish this task with much older students in far less time. Now do you understand my point? Good God!

For your edification..."racism" in Spanish is "racismo" (which, given your proclivities, I'm surprised you don't already know), and while Greek doesn't really have the concept, they not being known for their political correctness, they will use the word "filetismos" which leans more to "tribalism".

And, to add to your irritation, I do not want or welcome all those Mexican kids in our schools. We have neither the talent nor the money throughout the country to correct the many problems we have educating our own kids, and maybe even you will agree, Algase, that the state of public education in the US is abysmal and embarrassing, not to mention permanently damaging to the kids and the country itself. Is this really the time to undertake the additional burden of attempting to educate swarming hordes of 3d World children whose parents dump them here? I understand perfectly that you and others like you are far more concerned with the care and welfare of Mexicans than of Americans, but that still does not change the economic reality of simply not enough money to take care of the whole world's unfortunates.

[Roger Algase]

Don Miller, I'll tell you what's up with those Mexican kids. They are biologically inferior to white children, at least according to the bigots who are hijacking Americas's immigration policy, just as black children were once considered to be biologically inferior to white children by bigots of earlier generations.

Isn't that what you are trying to say? I am not very good at languages myself (except for some basic French, Spanish and Japanese), so perhaps you can tell us: what are the Spanish and Greek words for "racist"?

[Don Miller]

Re.the article on the ELL total immersion English language program in Tucson...I cannot understand nor can I believe the statement that it "takes up to eight years" to become proficient in a foreign language. This is patently baloney or else thoise kids are truly as dumb as they are popularly portrayed. The US military and the Department of State regularly turn out personnel fluent enough in a wide variety of foreign languages to function effectively in foreign environments. I spent six months in Spanish immersion at the Defense Language Insdtitute and went immediately to assignment in Latin America where I had no trouble understanding and expressing myself. Much later (and older) I went to a Greek immersion course for eight months, went directly to Greece, where I was again able to function very effectively. Admittedly Spanish is a much easier language than English, but Greek is much more difficult, yet all of us in the two groups were able to become reasonably fluent in far less than eight years. And we were all adults, well past the optimum language-learning ages, so what's up with those Mexican kids?