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Amid Oil Spill Crisis, U.S. Authorities Search for Undocumented Immigrant Clean Up Workers

Fri, 06/04/2010 - 11:11

From the Restore Fairness blog.

Talk about misplaced priorities. In the midst of a national crisis over the gargantuan BP oil spill that is destroying the water, marine eco-systems, and coastal livelihoods along the Gulf Coast, Federal immigration officials have decided to focus their resources on checking the immigration status of the people that BP has finally employed to begin cleaning up the massive destruction that the oil is causing along the coast.


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Cao (LA-02) Faces Recall. That was quick.

Thu, 02/19/2009 - 18:57
cao_img1 Wow, everyone knew that Joseph Cao (LA-02) would have a tough time getting re-elected as a Republican in a district that is D+28. Well, Cao may not even get that far. After being for the stimulus, before he was against it, a group of local ministers have decided to launch a recall effort of the first Vietnamese American Congressman. People are pissed:
One elected official, State Representative Juan A. LaFonta, Democrat of District 96 told Bayoubuzz that he does not know about the existence of the petition but that he would sign it. … “People are starving and Cao needs to represent the people of the district”, LaFonta said.

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Bobby Jindal, Welfare Queen, Wants Stimulus Funds

Tue, 02/17/2009 - 07:58
bobby_jindal As one of the leading voices in the Republican party these days, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal found himself in a difficult spot. The Republican members of Congress were leaning hard on all their members to bring down the whole economic stimulus package. (Of course they were just taking their marching orders from their actual leader, Rush Limbaugh.) Joining his Republican brethrens in Congress, the Governor had no problem talking smack about the stimulus package:
I do worry about the debt being created. I worry about the fact that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay back this debt. And I worry that many of the programs that are being called temporary aren't really temporary at all," he said.
The problem is his state, you know, the one hit by Hurricane Katrina, sorely needs the infrastructure support. (Got levees, anyone?) Anyway, what's a poor old Republican Governor to do?

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