“In a constituent meeting gone awry that was captured on shaky, amateur video, embattled Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) berated a group of local activists who oppose amnesty legislation, suggesting they were racist and saying they didn’t have ‘any damn facts,'” Breitbart News<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n “‘You’re telling me what people have told you? You don’t have any damn facts!’ Ellmers exploded at one of the activists when he said that employers \u2013 who often claim a labor shortage to argue for amnesty \u2013 frequently don’t post job openings in that region.”<\/p>\n “In a case that highlighted the growing problem of so-called “visa mills,” a federal jury on Monday convicted the founder and president of Tri-Valley University of dozens of fraud charges related to a multimillion dollar scheme to illegally provide immigration status to foreign nationals,” the San Jose Mercury News<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n “After two days of deliberations, the jury convicted Susan Su of 31 counts, ranging from conspiracy to commit visa fraud to money laundering to alien harboring in connection with allegations she ran a scam school in Pleasanton from 2008 until her arrest in 2011.”<\/p>\n “Refugee resettlement was once the calling of true sacrificial charity and the work of private sponsors who invested their own resources. Today, it is the work of federal contractors who have no responsibility a mere 3-4 months after the refugee has arrived,” says Don Barnett in the Wyoming Star Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Traditional sponsor duties have been replaced by access to all forms of welfare upon arrival for refugees and an opaque stream of grant money from seemingly every government agency except NASA.”<\/p>\n “An advocacy group co-founded by Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg is using the story of labor organizer Cesar Chavez to help revive momentum behind an immigration overhaul in Congress,” says Fusion.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n “The advocacy group FWD.us is teaming up with the United Farmworkers of America (UFW), which Chavez founded in the 1960s, to hold screenings of a new film about his life this week in four cities across the U.S.”<\/p>\n “Organizers said they hope the screenings show that a broad coalition from different backgrounds remains united behind an urging Congress to pass a major immigration overhaul. Such a stance could be necessary at a time when the push for legislation has become stalled and some activists have shifted their focus toward pressuring President Obama to act.”<\/p>\n Diploma Mill Head Convicted in Visa Case<\/span><\/h3>\n
Refugee Program Doesn’t Serve America’s Interests<\/span><\/h3>\n
Chavez Movie Another Attempt to Push Amnesty<\/span><\/h3>\n