Governments Most Likely to Hire Non-Authorized Legal Aliens August 23, 2007
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If President Bush is serious about getting tough on U.S. employers who hire illegal aliens, he can start with his own administration, which employs thousands of unauthorized workers, says the top Republican on the House immigration subcommittee.
A 2006 audit showed federal, state and local governments are among the biggest employers of the half-million persons in the U.S. illegally using “non-work” Social Security numbers — numbers issued legally, but with specific instructions that the holders are not authorized to work in the U.S.
“Let’s clean up our own house, let’s especially clean up the federal employment of all those working for the federal government,” said Rep. Steve King, Iowa Republican and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee’s immigration subcommittee.
The Social Security Administration used to, but no longer does, issue non-work numbers to legal aliens who were not authorized to work but needed a number to obtain a federal or state benefit or service. Still, hundreds of thousands of those immigrants used the numbers to get a job.
According to the 2006 audit by the Social Security inspector general, 17 of the 100 worst employers using employees with non-work numbers were government agencies: seven federal agencies, seven state agencies and three local governments. That means the government knows who those employees are, but usually does not go after them.
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Black Supervisor in New York State DFS Office Not Fired In Spite of Anti-White Racial Slurs August 23, 2007
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Buffalo News:
Mark Pasternak said he lost his state job helping troubled youths because he couldn’t stand working under a black boss who called him racist names like “cracker,” “polack” and “stupid white boy.”
Pasternak was dismissed from his position as a youth worker with the state Office of Children and Family Services in 1999. But today, he feels some relief and vindication.
After a rare reverse racial discrimination trial in Buffalo’s federal court, a jury Tuesday awarded Pasternak $150,000. Jurors found that his former boss, Tommy E. Baines, discriminated against him racially and created a hostile working environment.
Federal court officials said they could not recall any reverse discrimination case in Buffalo resulting in a larger monetary verdict. Most such cases wind up being settled or dismissed before they ever go to trial.
“I’m elated and overwhelmed,” the 48-year-old South Buffalo man said in an interview Wednesday. “I feel like I’ve been to hell and back. . . . After all these years, the best feeling is, the jury heard his story and mine, and they believed me.”
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Pasternak was subjected to three years of cruel abuse from Baines, a veteran supervisor with the agency formerly known as the state Division for Youth, according to Pasternak’s attorney, David J. Seeger.
The abuse came in the form of race-based slurs, job sabotage and crude insults that Baines made about Pasternak in front of co-workers, according to court papers and testimony.
“You’re a white boy, and I don’t like white boys,” Pasternak quoted Baines as telling him. “Handle it.”
“He said that to me more than once, and he said many other things like that over the years I worked for him,” Pasternak told The Buffalo News. “He called me cracker, polack, Paster-rat and stupid white boy. . . . I was sick to my stomach.”
Pasternak said his boss also harassed him by removing documents from his desk and changing the locks on doors and filing cabinets that Pasternak needed access to.
The state conducted an internal investigation into Pasternak’s allegations in 1998, court records show, and the investigation resulted in a $2,000 fine against Baines. But he was allowed to continue working as a supervisor.
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Pasternak has since obtained a railroad job, but “working with troubled youths was his passion,” Seeger said.
While I am glad for Mr. Pasternak, and for the greater cause for which this verdict stands, anyone whose passion is working with “troubled youths” (i.e. black juvenile members of the FFA, the Future Felons of America), such that he would take a job with a state agency, being mindful of the fact that many governmental offices and departments are nothing more than affirmative action hiring agencies, with affirmative action in promotions on top of that, one can’t help but think that he brought a slight bit of the bigotry directed at him from his affirmative action supervisor on himself. Put another way, anyone whose “passion” is “troubled youths” probably wouldn’t vote for Theodore Bilbo versus your typical New York State liberal Democrat or Rockefeller Republican.
Otherwise, the real scandal here is not the bigoted harassment on the part of the black boss, it’s the fact that he wasn’t fired for it. A white boss that would call a black worker over which he had supervisory authority even one racial slur would have been dismissed instantly.
The Zimbabwe Dollar Today August 23, 2007
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Today: 254,786
Yesterday: 255,290
Where’s Ours? August 23, 2007
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AP:
RENO, Nev. - GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney took a strong states’ rights stance Wednesday on Western issues of water, mining and public lands, saying he’s against “heavy-handed” intrusion by the federal government.
States’ rights also take precedence in the abortion debate for Romney, a conservative and a Mormon who’s against abortion and would like to see the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling overturned. He said in an interview with The Associated Press that states should “fashion their own laws with regard to abortion. That’s what I think the next step should be.”
Romney listed education as an area in which states should have a strong voice. Discussing the federal No Child Left Behind Act, he said he supports the act’s role in spotting “failing” schools — but wants “greater state flexibility in the (student) testing process.”
“We’ve suffered too many years of Washington politicians thinking they know the best for people of other states,” he told the AP.
“I’m a governor,” the former Massachusetts governor said. “I come with the perspective of the states. I’m not a lifelong senator or congressman who has been imbued with the false reality that Washington knows best.”
Where’s such a speech by Romney in Mississippi or Alabama about states’ rights and issues of race, civil rights, voting integrity and law enforcement?
Two Percent Means Several Things August 23, 2007
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That’s the portion of the Border Fencing mandated and funded by the Secure Fence Act of 2006 that has been built, and the approval rating of the President that is confounding its completion.
Violent Left-Wing Extremist Hate Criminal to be Paroled from Prison August 23, 2007
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Arthur Bremer, who was convicted of shooting then-Alabama Governor and serious Presidential candidate George Wallace and three others in May 1972 in Laurel, Maryland, will likely be paroled from state prison later this year, after having served 35 years of a 53-year sentence.
From his writings before the crimes, and his testimony at past parole hearings, we know that Bremer tried to assassinate Gov. Wallce for his conservative views on race, and set out before the heart of the 1972 campaign season to assassinate either Wallace or then-President Richard Nixon. Curiously, he did not cite any liberal Democrats running for President that year, such as eventual Democratic nominee George McGovern, as a target.
Remember, Matt Hale was sentenced to thirty years in Federal prison for making a statement to an FBI informant that was construed by Federal prosecutors and interpreted by twelve jurors as an order to assassinate the late Federal District Court Judge Joan Lefkow, as she ruled against him in a trademark dispute. She was eventually murdered, but by a losing party in another (and unrelated to Hale’s) case whose proceedings she presided over. If Hale serves all thirty years, he will have served almost as long as someone who actually did try to kill a serious Presidential candidate, and shot an Alabama State Trooper and a U.S. Secret Service Agent in the process.
Also curious is why Federal law enforcement never bothered to pursue every conspiracy theory involving the attempted assassination of Wallace vis-a-vis the political left, like they did the MLK assassination and the (baseless) theories involving someone on the right plotting it.
