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1. Stop Illegal Immigration and Deport Criminal Immigrants 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_the_United_States
http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-gives-illegal-aliens-phones-for-votes/
http://www.usillegalaliens.com/impacts_of_illegal_immigration_economic_costs.html
2. Support Kathleen Benitez Field From Being Deported
Kathleen Benitez Field is currently being charged with possessing a non-valid work permit she purchased over a decade ago, unknowing that it was a serious offence. Immigration authorities were made aware of this by her abusive ex-husband, who had previously left her with three children at seven months pregnant on the doorstep of the Salvation Army in 2007.
Since then, he has had over 50 charges of breaking his restraining order against the family, and yet, through this one calculated act, he has gained custody of the two youngest children, and Kathleen now faces deportation on September 6th. We need your help to support Kathleen in this crisis – to show that we believe more strongly in doing what is right rather than following the red tape of the system.
Other important details:
• Kathleen's two youngest children are ages 3 and 6.
• Kathleen's ex was not only abusive to Kathleen and the kids, he has two upcoming court cases: 1) for breaking his restaining order over 50 times; 2) for being the potential person who hit Kathleen's counselor with a truck (the counselor now has a 5% chance of survival after the operation being performed on the 6th). The truck has since "gone missing".
• Kathleen is a sweet soul, who is currently going to Garden City Church, a community who has welcomed her in this time.
3. Minister for Immigration You have been served
TO THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
The petition of certain representatives of a ‘minority ethnic Latin American community’
Draws to the attention of the House:
The Minister for Immigration discretionary power under s499 of the Migration Act 1958 and the Ministerial guidelines for unique and exceptional circumstances created under this section of the Act.
The community expectation that the Minister for Immigration will comply with this provision of the Migration Act 1958 without breaches to the ‘hearing rule’.
IT IS SUBMITTED that the Minister decision stating ‘it would not be in the public interest to intervene’, was derived from a ‘flawed assessment’ on the Applicant’s case (CLF2011/85543). The Minister ‘ignored’ to consider the applicant’s brother who is resident of Australia. Therefore, lack of ‘procedural fairness’ is a clear breach to the ‘hearing rule’. The decision must be declared invalid due to an ‘administrative error’.
IT IS SUBMITTED that the Judiciary system of Australia has not jurisdiction to review such decision. The Applicant’s brother and family members resulted aggrieved. The Applicant previously applied for Protection visa, if returned to Colombia his life would be in high risk of danger which will bring psychological consequences to his brother.
4. Support Australian Pharmacy Students
Recently the Department of Immigration and Citizenship have added retail and hospital pharmacists to the Skilled Occupations List. This list determines what occupations are eligible for independent or unsponsored skilled migration. Therefore this will have consequences for Australian pharmacy students in regards to employment.
There is currently a surplus of pharmacy students. In Australia there are sixteen institutions that offer pharmacy degrees. In 2007 1,427 pharmacy students graduated from Australian universities, this number is expected for years to come.
The incorporation of pharmacists to the Skilled Occupations List can only have detrimental effects for the careers of Australian pharmacists. Pharmacists are trained health professionals that ensure the public are receiving quality healthcare. Training of students in Australia is more than adequate and therefore those competent students should be rewarded with worthwhile careers. The current circumstance in Australia involves employers who offer the absolute minimum wage. This is possible because of the high number of graduates. As a result, Australian pharmacy graduates who will become skilled health professionals are being paid less than those who work at fast food outlets. The lack of a union for pharmacists who are not employers also escalates this problem.
Each Australian student puts money back into the education system through paying HECS. Hence every overseas pharmacist who takes an Australian student’s job is not only taking our career but also money from our education system.
Australian pharmacy students should have the right to a successful career.
5. Bring Martyne Payne back Home to NZ
Martyne Payne a hard working man moved to NZ in Nov 2005 with his family and worked hard to establish a business where he has hired locals and is held in high regard by his community.
He has been deported from NZ even though his family is here now and his thriving business will suffer where he has paid large taxes to the Government continually since his arrival and turned a local garage that was not thriving to one that is now successful and employing people .He is not a strain on the tax payer and we feel that on moral and compassionate grounds that the Minister allow him to return.
Semere is Eritrean young man. He sought asylum in Italy, but his wife and 2 children were in the UK. He came to the UK, so he could be with them and sought asylum here. He is about to be deported back to Italy on Wednesday 2 March 2011, despite having his 2 little children here.
He hates the idea of being removed from his children. He is a loving father and a devoted Christian. We trust God that he will be reunited with his family and the deportation will be refused on compassionate grounds.
7. Stop the deportation of Peter Gichura
Disability rights activist Peter Gichura, who has lived in Croydon, UK since 2001, has received a Removal Order from the Home Office, which will force him to return to Kenya and leave the life he has built in the UK.
Despite the difficulties Peter has faced as an asylum seeker, he has spent his time positively, successfully completing NVQ level 4 in accounting and doing voluntary work and activities with Payday men’s network, WinVisible (women with visible and invisible disabilities), Leonard Cheshire Disability, Westminster Action Network on Disability, and his local church. Peter is an active and well-respected member of his local community, with many friends and networks in the UK.
Peter was instrumental in establishing a disabled persons’ organisation in Kenya, advocating for the rights of disabled street sellers. He fled in 2001 to escape anti-Kikuyu persecution against disability activists.
Whilst in the UK, Peter has made good use of his skills, by being involved in campaigns to improve access to public services for disabled people, including London buses.
Peter has made a significant contribution to the disabled people’s movement in the UK. As an asylum seeker, he was detained in Harmondsworth in 2006, without accessible washing and toilet facilities, not given the correct medication, and subjected to painful body searches. With the support of WinVisible and Payday, Peter challenged the Home Office and Kalyx, the company that runs Harmondsworth detention centre, using the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA).
In May 2008 the Court of Appeal made a precedent ruling on his DDA case -- that all disabled people in custody before December 2006 do have the protection of anti-discrimination legislation.
During the plane journey to the UK in 2001 Peter was manhandled, causing his spinal injury to worsen. He has gone from using crutches to using a wheelchair, and relies on medical treatment without which he would die. In 2006, he applied for asylum on that basis: "As someone with spinal injury I am vulnerable to chronic kidney infection and need sanitary living conditions to survive – but there is no running water where I am from in Nyahururu, Kenya. I cannot afford medical treatment – and there is no free healthcare." Expert evidence confirmed this but was ignored, and Peter’s claim was turned down.
Removal now would put Mr Gichura’s health and life at serious and immediate risk.
Above all, Peter has built his life in the UK, has contributed to society through his active commitment to voluntary and community groups. Peter has the skills and experience that will help him to build a career, he has a job offer, and will thus be able to support himself financially if he is given leave to remain in the UK.
8. End Allen Sibanda's Detention
Allen is a 28 year old man from Zimbabwe who arrived in the UK on a visitors visa in 2001. He left Zimbabwe in order to escape forced military service under Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF regime.
Allen grew up living in government housing allocated to military, police and government officials, a situation which made avoidance of forced military obligations impossible. Upon arrival Allen made contact with his Uncle who was residing in the UK, and whom arranged for Allen’s asylum process to be dealt with by a solicitor.
On three occasions (in 2001, 2004, 2006), the solicitor returned Allen’s passport to him with stamps extending his stay. Unbeknown to Allen, these stamps turned out to be counterfeits, the scammer posing as a solicitor is currently serving a prison sentence for producing fake Home Office Documents. It was not until he was arrested for dangerous driving in 2007 that Allen realised that the stamps were fake, having used his passport for UK government correspondents in the past.
Having served half of a nine month prison sentence for the driving offence, Allen has spent the last three years in Immigration Detention Centres around the UK, his asylum application upon arrest having been rejected.
9. Allow Daniel Hernandez to come back to his home in London, Ontario
Daniel Hernandez is a unique individual. He came to Canada from Columbia for a better life.
He got a job, participated in his church and made a good life for himself here. He also just got married.
He was given the chance for a better life by being allowed to enter this country and it is a crime to take this opportunity away from him.
10. Olga Novoselova must stay!
We are extremely concerned about Miss Olga Novoselova (dob 22/07/1957) of Flat 3, 98 Wadham Road, Liverpool, L20 2DE – now detained at Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre. Olga is a talented musician and is actively involved with the Roman Catholic Church of St Anne and St. Bernard, Edge Hill, Liverpool, where Olga is the church organist and has attended regularly since October 2005.
Olga has travelled the length and breadth of the North West region involving herself in Russian cultural events all over Merseyside and as far afield as Preston, Leyland, Lancaster, Altrincham and Manchester. The news of her arrest and detention by the UK Borders Agency on January 18, 2011 for an alleged breach of UK immigration law came as a great shock to everyone who knows Olga.
Whilst it is true that Olga is still married, her husband’s whereabouts are unknown. Olga suffered domestic violence during the marriage and ever since December 2008 she has lived in Bootle with her current partner, Mr Aleksandr ("Sasha" - who is a citizen of Lithuania and therefore the EU) Charchenko and his son, Aleksandras, where the three of them have formed a cohesive and functioning family unit.
We ask you release Olga immediately so that she can be reunited with her family and friends on Merseyside.
11. Keep ROCKIN' BRUCE ELLSWORTH in OZ
Bruce Ellsworth is a fulltime professional lead singer and guitarist in Queensland. He has played with Chuck Berry, Stevie Ray Vaughn and other popular bands in the US.
His permanent resident visa application has failed due to health condition causing economic burden, despite the fact his wife is employed at a Queensland Hospital as a doctor.
12. Three Amigos Petition: Antonio Laroya, Arnisito Gaviola and Ermie Zotomayor
When Antonio Laroya, Arnisito Gaviola and Ermie Zotomayor left their families in the Philippines to escape poverty and come to Canada in 2007 they never expected they would be jailed and face deportation three years later.
The three fathers came to Canada under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) to work at a gas station in High Prairie, Alberta and were charged $3,000 each to land the minimum-wage job.
Like many other foreign workers, Antonio, Arnisito and Ermie came to this country to provide a better life and opportunity for their families.
After almost 18 months of working, Antonio, Arnisito and Ermie were laid-off from the gas station. They obtained another work permit and employment at a restaurant in Peace River, Alberta where they lived together in a mobile home. They asked their restaurant employer if they could be sponsored under Alberta’s Provincial Nominee Program but unfortunately the employer could not and the three fathers, once again, found themselves looking for another job.
After finding positions at a gas station in Thompson, Manitoba, the three packed their belongings and headed to the distant town with the promise of a new work permit and another minimum-wage job. Their new employer insisted they start working at once and promised that the work permits would soon follow. Unfortunately after waiting for three months, the employer still failed to obtain the work permits as promised. It was at this time, June 24, 2010 the trio were arrested by the Canadian Border Services Agency and jailed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for not having work permits. When they were released all their identification cards were confiscated including their Philippine passports.
Since their arrest the three have not been allowed to work and thus support their families in the Philippines. They are currently awaiting their Admissibility Hearing on February 4, 2011 in Winnipeg where they will find out if they are to be sent home to the Philippines or allowed to stay in Canada.
13. Stop Illegal Immigrants' Detention Centre Northam WA
The Federal Government, under the leadership of Julia Gillard, has decreed it will construct a $165 million illegal immigration centre to accommodate 1500 able bodied male illegal immigrants, at the disused army facility in Northam WA. This equates to $110 000 of our money per illegal immigrant and that is just for their accommodation! This decision was reached without consultation with the people of Northam or the surrounding townships or shires.
It seems incredulous that, in a State which not only suffers severe water shortages and restrictions both summer and winter, but whose population is also asked to refrain from using air conditioners and other “non essential” electrical appliances during peak summer conditions , we would be forced to accommodate this vast number of resource consumers. Miss Gillard assures us the benefits to the local communities from the increase in commercial growth this illegal immigration centre will provide, should more than compensate for the copious amount of our precious water these illegal immigrants will shower and flush away each day.
Miss Gillard also fails to mention how many of our other resources these illegal immigrants will be exploiting. Not only do these people avail themselves freely of our water and electricity, they abuse our welfare system, medical services and law enforcement facilities. They then proceed to bleed our church and welfare groups dry. Time, effort and resources which would otherwise be used to assist our own aged, needy or less fortunate citizens will now be siphoned off to the illegal immigrants.
It is even more incredulous that despite the deplorable shortage of medical and aged care facilities, not to mention law enforcement amenities within this State, the Federal Government can find the funds and inclination to complete this project within a mere eight months.
According to a media release from the AMA in November 2005, the Eastern region was promised a new 326 bed hospital in Midland. “To its credit the Government has decided to build a new hospital on the old Midland workshops site and save most of the services provided by Bentley Hospital. These decisions will ease the concerns of thousands of families living in the region. Construction on Midland Health Campus is set to start in 2012 with the new hospital scheduled to open in 2015.”
In May 1999, the Midland region was also promised a $42million Police Operations Centre. To quote the Ministerial Media Statements website “Construction on the Midland operations centre is expected to begin next year. The facility, within the Midland Workshops Precinct, will consolidate operations support functions from 11 locations into one facility to optimise operational efficiency and effectiveness.
The centre, which will accommodate police communications, forensic, traffic operations and other divisions, is due for completion in 2001-02.”
It appears the people of Western Australia can wait with baited breath for the infrastructure to sustain acceptable living standards while supplying the rest of the country with seemingly unlimited bounty from the resources boom. It is to be noted that despite her best efforts, Miss Gillard could find no suitable sites to house such vast numbers of illegal immigrants within the vicinity of Canberra.
This petition is not about racisms or xenophobia it is about protecting Western Australian culture and ensuring a sustainable future for our State. Please add your name and signature to the list to ensure the future of our State and our Australian way of life.
14. Save Our Marriage - Stop the Deportation of Henry Velandia
On August 29, Henry Velandia and Josh Vandiver were married in Montville, Connecticut. But unlike most newlyweds, Henry and Josh aren't spending the fall sending out thank you cards or taking the honeymoon of their dreams. Instead, Henry and Josh are fighting to save their marriage.
Because of the so-called “Defense of Marriage Act” (DOMA), passed by Congress in 1996, the federal government does not recognize the legal marriages of same-sex couples. As a result, Henry, who was born in Venezuela and moved to the U.S. in 2002, is facing deportation instead of settling down to build a future with his husband. If DOMA did not exist, Josh, a U.S. citizen born in Colorado, would be able to sponsor Henry for a "green card." As an American citizen, Josh is being denied the right to sponsor his spouse only because he is gay.
With Henry in deportation proceedings before an Immigration Court in New Jersey, the couple is now faced with the terrifying reality of being torn apart. Every day they fight to keep their family together, and they are not alone. Tens of thousands of gay and lesbian bi-national couples are in urgent need of assistance as they face the threat of separation, deportation or exile because of DOMA. The U.S. government discriminates against legally married same-sex couples, excluding them from more than one thousand laws, important public policies that provide protection to families including Social Security survivor benefits, provisions in the tax code, and the ability of a U.S. citizen to sponsor his/her spouse for residency. Gay and lesbian couples deserve the same protections provided for all families under federal law.
To learn more: www.stopthedeportations.com
Loving, committed, and legally married couples like Henry and Josh shouldn't have to fight against the U.S. government for the right to be together.
Tell Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to end the deportations of spouses of gay and lesbian Americans and protect married couples like Henry and Josh.
15. Endorsments supporting No deportation of the Figueroa Family
On May 5th 2010 IRB (Immigration and Refugee Board) of Canada issued a deportation order against Jose Figueroa, a father of 3 canadian born children who has lived in Canada since May 1997.
The deportation order is based on a Section 34.(1) of the IRPA which states a broad definition of terrorism and membership. This definition of terrorism has been arbitrarily applied to FMLN, the current democratically elected goverment of El Salvador with which the Canadian Government mantains diplomatic relationships.
This seems to be a clerical error made by CBSA officers who have not considered important factors from the Salvadoran reality. If this is clerical error then it should be an easy fix tending to minimize the hardship that the Figueroa family has endure for the last 13 years.
The D.R.E.A.M. Act would allow children and students who have grown up in the United States, have graduated from high school and have no criminal record, to attend and complete college or serve 2 years in the military to legalize their immigration status.
17. Help 3 American boys, live in the U.S with there Haitian parents
The earth shook once, it was 4:53 in the afternoon. It was suppose to be a regular day. I was seating in the front seat lost in my thoughts thinking about what to fix for dinner. When we started to shake the second time, I realized that something was going very wrong. In just 30 seconds, we lost the compass of our lives. We got stuck in traffic for over 4 hours. The house on our left collapsed, but this old lady didn’t have the time to escape. She spent 4 hours begging for help; my 7 year old son spent 4 hours crying and sreaming because My husband and I were among the people helping to get her out. He was scared we would die. I had a choice then: save a life or be selfish and stay by son? (or would that be selfish?) I decided to help, it would kill me if everyone had ignored my mother. I guess either way my decision would have been the wrong one at that time. While I’m preparing this petition, 8 months already past yet, the scream of that lady and the fear of loosing his parents are still vivid in my sons mind. Today, I want to take the right and the fair decision towards my boys.
My decision to start this venture came about when, these kids have been faced by yet another tragedy that no child, anywhere should experience. Now a series of kidnappings targeting kids. They break in peoples house at night, kill, rape, beat and terrorise evryone in the house hold. I know that they are a lot American kids around the world who would have loved to move with there parents to the states. But I am a mother who will not give up on the physical and emotional well being of my kids.
Thus this petition to help us bring our family in a safer environment. I need my boys to enjoy 8 hours of sleep. I want them to go to school with out worrying about how much concrete, about dying. I want them to go to a birthday party and have fun and not ask me what time is it all the time. I want them to laugh, play, relax and be kids. They are Americans; help your own.
If you are parents then you know how I feel please log on to this website and sign this petition:
They are so proud of being Americans, please help your own. Consider it as helping three American boys, not a Haitian mother.
18. MakeThe Arizona Immigration Law A Federal Law
Since the United States Department of Justice (ICE) doesn't seem to want to do their jobs, and states such as Arizona, Texas, and Oklahoma, as well as a multitude of additional states, and individual cities and towns all across America are taking into their own hands to implement laws and ordinances against illegal immigrants in the United States.
This is a federal problem, and should have been dealt with decades ago. Illegal immigrants aren't entitled to Social Security benefits, free healthcare, free rent, free this and free that. These benefits belong to the the people who were and are born here, and have got a legal right to be here, whether they have registered to be future U.S. citizens, or have already gone through the process and have been sworn in already.
Regardless, these people are here legally, and should be the ones entitled to the "freebies" doled out by the United States Government, not the illegal ones.
19. Motion to Impeach U.S. President Barack Obama
We the People of the United States of America through the authority of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution submit this petition requesting a Motion to Impeach U.S. President Barack Obama for the purpose of his removal from office.
This petition is for Michigan to get rid of Illegals. I myself am tired of paying for them.
Illegal immigrants continue to outpace the number of legal immigrants—a trend that's held steady since the 1990s. While the majority of illegal immigrants continue to concentrate in places with existing large communities of Hispanics, increasingly illegal immigrants are settling throughout the rest of the country.
An estimated 13.9 million people live in families in which the head of household or the spouse is an unauthorized immigrant. Illegal immigrants arriving in recent years tend to be better educated than those who have been in the country a decade or more. A quarter of all immigrants who have arrived in recent years have at least some college education. Nonetheless, illegal immigrants as a group tend to be less educated than other sections of the U.S. population: 49 percent haven't completed high school, compared with 9 percent of native-born Americans and 25 percent of legal immigrants.
Illegal immigrants work in many sectors of the U.S. economy. According to National Public Radio, about 3 percent work in agriculture; 33 percent have jobs in service industries; and substantial numbers can be found in construction and related occupations (16 percent), and in production, installation, and repair (17 percent). According to USA Today, about 4 percent work in farming; 21 percent have jobs in service industries; and substantial numbers can be found in construction and related occupations (19 percent), and in production, installation, and repair (15 percent), with 12% in sales, 10% in management, and 8% in transportation. Illegal immigrants have lower incomes than both legal immigrants and native-born Americans, but earnings do increase somewhat the longer an individual is in the country.
21. Migration changes and visa capping – more consideration to those affected
Note: This legislation is about to be approved. Please sign and forward this to your friends all over the world. (You will have no repercussions by signing this even if you are temporary residents)
OUR VOICES MUST BE HEARD BEFORE ANY CATASTROPHIC EVENT
There have been unprecedented changes in migration and related laws which resulted in great panic and uncertainty. We note that there are more substantial changes to come.
On 26 May the Senate has referred the “Visa Capping” Bill 2010 to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee for inquiry and report and once it moves to get passed during the winter session of the Parliament it could become a new law before the federal election.
The writer appreciates the need for change and to streamline the process, but is alarmed at the lack consideration for human life and for lack of transitionary arrangements. There has been almost no consultation with the migration advice profession regarding these changes which is highly regrettable.
The purpose of the bill is to enable the Minister to cap and terminate visas. The Minister’s powers to Cap and Cease could be applied not only to Skilled Migration visa classes, but to all classes of visas. Even the law council of Australia has opposed the bill.
This may mean for example that if the minister decides that a particular number of accountants (or cooks) are required for the year 2010(e.g. only 1000 accountants - this will be the cap), all applications lodged after reaching this limit may be ceased and application fee may be refunded.
This can have far reaching adverse effects. An example is if a permanent partner visa application were capped and ceased, an applicant’s temporary partner visa would be ineffective, thus requiring the applicant to depart Australia. The results may cause permanent separation of families.
Retrospective legislation
Retrospective laws take away the freedom of our clients and people to have chosen not to have made a decision to come to Australia or not to apply and settle down in Australia at all.
There may be circumstances when retrospective legislation is warranted. History suggests and has accepted such retrospective law particularly in war crimes where the wrongdoer has transgressed the "natural law" and in tax cases where an un-foreseen loophole needs to be closed immediately.
Deprivation of Merits Review
If the minister were to cap and terminate the applications, the applicants may only have 28 days to wind up their affairs and leave (there will be no review rights). These applicants would have been in Australia for years after lodging a valid application for PR. They may have found good jobs and well settled in Australia. Some may have married and have children, purchased property etc;
People and their families already in Australia will have to find jobs and start life again from the beginning if they are forced to go. It will take years for these adjustments and to be financially stable. Children will have difficulties getting adjusted to the new life and will have language problems and adjustment issues in their parents countries which may affect their educational advancement and the repercussions may be felt throughout their life. As such we consider certain aspects and affect of the retrospective legislation to be inhumane. Visa capping retrospectively is a crime against humanity.
No parliamentary oversight is undemocratic
The proposed amendments are a challenge to our law-making system; giving expansive, unfettered powers to the Minister for Immigration to make retrospective changes based on arbitrary criteria with no parliamentary oversight. This is both dangerous and undemocratic.
The proposed Bill may breach aspects of administrative law, by failing to afford affected visa applicants procedural fairness and allowing the Minister’s delegates to make decisions inconsistent with the legitimate expectations created by the acceptance of visa applications.
The Department of Immigration is therefore under an obligation, pursuant to established principles of administrative law. Further the General Skilled Migration pathway for students has been quite clearly flagged, by the establishment of the onshore GSM visa subclasses for which overseas students are eligible, and DIAC’s own policy, states that there are initiatives to encourage access students to permanent residency.
In overseas expos for international students the relevant government affiliated bodies in the past has clearly indicated that students will have pathways for PR once the studies are over.
We question the logic behind such a move when Australia faces its greatest skills shortage in history. We doubt that the government has undertaken any impact assessment on the effect for Australians and the Australian economy as a result of these changes.
What can be done?
We have made submissions to the senate Legal and Constitutional Committee and the last date was 18 June 2010. This legislation is about to be approved but it is still not too late.
PETITION to the Federal Parliament
OUR VOICES MUST BE HEARD BEFORE ANY CATASTROPHIC EVENT
We have created a petition which will be submitted to the Parliament. (You will have no repercussions by signing this even if you are temporary residents).
Please go to www.dlegal.com.au and sign and forward this petition to all your friends ALL OVER the world to sign.
The right of a petition to the parliament
A petition is basically a request for action. The right to petition Federal Parliament has been one of the rights of citizens since federation, and it is the only way an individual can directly place grievances before the Parliament.
The Standing Committee on Petitions has been tasked with receiving and processing petitions on behalf of the House. The Committee may choose to forward the petition to the relevant Minister. If this is the case, it is expected that the Ministers will respond within 90 days. Details of ministerial responses will be tabled in Hansard.
If I have substantial amount of signatures from all over the world it will add more power to the petition. The petition will also be submitted to the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister and to the Leader of Opposition. We will submit the same to any interested party.
Australia’s reputation as a “fair go’’ country would suffer and will badly damage our reputation overseas and call into question our moral values. Any reasonable right minded person would consider such a law to be simply unfair and inhumane.
Based on the reasoning set out above, we request that the minister and the government not to make hasty decisions that would be effective in retrospect and with complete disregard for human life.
We further urge the government to provide more generous transitional provisions than has already provided to international students who has been on a student visa at least as at 8 February 2010.
The writer Dinesh Iriyagolle Weerakkody is practicing as an Australian Solicitor & a Barrister at Oates Rennick & Associates. He was the former head of the Asia Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists facilitated by UNEP & UN-ESCAP. He has a keen interest in Social, environmental sustainable development issues. He can be contacted on dweerakkody@hotmail.com (0425725570)
22. Support Arizona's New Illegal Immigration Law
Show your support for the Arizona Immigration Law
Arizona's law is scheduled to take effect July 29th, but the Obama administration is trying to block the law. The new Arizona law orders immigrants to carry their alien registration documents at all times and allows police to question people during any lawful contact if there's reason to suspect they're in the United States illegally. The law does not allow police to round up people and check their documentation papers. The law also targets those who hire illegal immigrant laborers or knowingly transport them.
Sign the petition to let the Arizona Governor know that you support the new law and to let President Obama know that you oppose efforts to block it.
23. America for Americans in Maryland
As Americans we are tired of giving illegal immigrants our jobs, our education, our healthcare and degrading citizenship in our country.
24. Protect Our Borders - Stop the Cuts!
Due to government cutbacks the staffing levels for the London and South East Enforcement will be cut from 174 full time posts to 144.
This will remove all the Immigration Officers working at the Dover Eastern Docks, one of the busiest Ports in the UK.
25. Impeach John Morton Director of ICE
John Morton the director of ICE won't be cooperating with Local Police Departments in Arizona to deport Illegal Aliens that have been booked & determined Illegal.
The ICE Director is siding with the Obama Administration saying the New Immigration Law goes too far & deemed as Racist & Unconstitutional.
26. Idaho against Illegal Immigration
80 percent of the people agree with tougher immigration laws.
Illegal immigrant problem costs the state $200 million a year.
4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens.
397B - cost of welfare and other social services provided to ILLEGAL
Immigrants.
22.7M ILLEGALS in USA NOW.
22.2M... are MEXICAN ILLEGALS (579,000 are non-Mexican ILLEGALS).
$163.7B - cost of educated k-12 ILLEGAL Immigrant Children.
$24.3B - cost of incarceration of ILLEGALS.
11.6M - Number of skilled jobs provided to ILLEGALS.
Several thousands of senseless deaths could have been prevented if our federal, state and local law enforcement would enforce our immigration laws and secure the border.
27. Support Immigration Reform
This petition is to address the immigration problem in this country.
We firmly believe that the system is beyond repair and want to change the law in such a manner as to stop the influx of illegals and to please the Mexican president as well as our own president.
28. Multicultural Service 'Drop-In' Centre Needed
A Multicultural Service 'Drop-In' Centre is required for the inner-west suburb growing suburb of Rhodes. With major developments being constructed and the ethnic population increasing, a service is required to assist those migrating from other countries to settle into Australia and the new community.
This service can assist all ages, nationalities and abilities. There has been a 12% growth predicted by the council in the Rhodes area for the next five years and there is only one other Community Centre in Drummoyne functioning. The new residents of Rhodes may not know how to get to Drummoyne as public transport is not efficient to get from Rhodes to Drummoyne , what normally takes ten minutes by car, will take over an hour via public-transport mode.
This multi-cultural 'drop-in' centre could be situated in the Rhodes Community Centre or Concord Community Centre as these are not in use for any purpose besides for renting of their halls for functions. If this was not approved through council, we could try and find a location within the development as this would be vital to assist those who are from non-English Speaking backgrounds.
Please sign if you agree that a Multicultural 'Drop-In' Centre needs to be established.
29. Reform the Arizona Immigration Law
The new law in Arizona is very questionable. It states that: "For any lawful contact made by a law enforcement official or a law enforcement agency of this state or a law enforcement official or a law enforcement agency of a county, city, town or other political subdivision of this state where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States, a reasonable attempt shall be made, when practicable, to determine the immigration status of the person, except if the determination may hinder or obstruct an investigation."
The part about reasonable suspicion is very loose and sounds like a loop hole for racial profiling (which is illegal in the state of Arizona).
30. Prometo votar Pro-Inmigrante
Juramento de voto-pro inmigrante.
