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Indentured Foreign Teachers in Maryland Public Schools

I recently ran across a June 2009 report by the American Federation of Teachers spotlighting a troubling increase in the hiring of exploitable foreign teachers, primarily from the Philippines, to work in the most dysfunctional public schools in Baltimore.

 

According to the AFT report, “Importing Educators,” in 2005 Baltimore City Public Schools recruited 108 teachers from the Philippines to help meet staffing shortages in schools labeled “persistently dangerous” by the state of Maryland.

   

By 2009, more than 600 Filipino teachers, or ten percent of the city’s entire teaching force, are working in Baltimore. 

 

The recruitment process is designed to make it easy to avoid recruiting U.S. citizens for these jobs. Rather than attending job fairs throughout the Mid-Atlantic, trying to persuade American teachers and recent education school graduates to accept positions in troubled inner-city schools, Baltimore officials can “meet all their hiring needs in one trip.” The recruitment agency paid for multiple junkets by Baltimore Schools HR officials to Manila, a locale known for its sex tourism, staying in luxury hotels.  

 

Such arrangements violate many international standards for ethical recruiting and create powerful incentives for school officials to rely foreign body shops for filling positions.  Each foreign teacher recruit must pay between five and eight thousand dollar “placement fees” to a body shop contracting with the Maryland school district. In the past year, two of the Filipino teachers working in Baltimore have committed suicide, raising alarm bells about the conditions under which they work and are housed.

 

The problem is spreading rapidly to other counties in Maryland which have adopted similar hiring practices.  By summer 2009 more than 1,200 Filipino teachers alone were estimated to be working in taxpayer-funded teaching jobs state-wide.

 

One Baltimore official was quoted as saying that recruiting domestically is “almost a waste of time.”

Obama and the Revolution in France

My friend Rob Sanchez, the patriotic web warrior and author of the online Job Destruction Newsletter, uses the example of post-modern France to show how uncontrolled immigration promotes national suicide.

In France, Muslims from North Africa were imported for several generations by using a temporary guest worker program. These cheap laborers were in theory temporary, but in practice most of them stayed on, either legally or illegally. France gave most of the early guest workers citizenship and welcomed their families also.

 

It was the French version of Comprehensive Immigration Reform. The French government vowed to make sure that all of the new immigrants would go through secular assimilation programs, but for many that never happened.

 

The French government didn't follow through on their costly promises, and the truth is that many of the Muslims had no intention of changing their loyalty to France.

 

 

Instead of assimilating, the immigrant laborers were isolated in public housing ghettos on the outskirts of major cities such as Paris. With extremely high birthrates and European social welfare benefits, the population of angry Muslims began to swell.

 

In addition to the guest workers there was a growing flow of illegal immigrants from Arab countries into France. Unemployment rose most dramatically among the youngest age groups, who were typically second or third generation French citizens. It was a perfect formula for social unrest: Mexifornia + Islamism on steroids.

The result: riots broke out in 2005. Sporadic violence has continued ever since. One of the main factors driving the civil unrest is youth unemployment, which surpassed the 20% level in 2005.

 

If unemployment was a major factor in the riots in France, then we had better prepare for the same thing here. The U.S. unemployment rate of young American minorities is rising far above the levels that sparked violence in France. To see just how dire the situation is, here, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are the stats on U.S. non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rates, by age range and year:           ......

For Juneteenth: 'Cheap Labor' by Frederick Douglass

“How vast and bottomless is the abyss of meanness, cruelty, and crime sometimes concealed under fair-seeming phrases.... Ostensibly the demand for cheap labor is made in the interest of improvement and general civilization. It tells of increased wealth and of marvelous transformations of the old and the worthless into the new and valuable. It speaks of splendid cities built, and flourishing towns multiplied; of rich mines developed, of amply cultivated fields at home; in a word, it speaks of national prosperity.

 

 

Alas! however, this is but the outside of the cup and the platter--the beautiful marble without, with its dead men's bones within. Cheap Labor, is a phrase that has no cheering music for the masses. Those who demand it, and seek to acquire it, have but little sympathy with common humanity. It is the cry of the few against the many.

 

A moment's thought will show that cheap labor in the mouths of those who seek it, means not cheap labor, but the opposite.

 

 

It means not cheap labor, but dear labor. Not abundant labor, but scarce labor; not more work, but more workmen.

 

It means that condition of things in which the laborers shall be so largely in excess of the work needed to be done, that the capitalist shall be able to command all the laborers he wants, at prices only enough to keep the laborer above the point of starvation.

 

The former slave owners of the South want cheap labor; they want it from Germany and from Ireland; they want it from China and Japan; they want it from anywhere in the world, but from Africa. They want to be independent of their former slaves, and bring their noses to the grindstone. The African slave trade with all its train of horrors, was instituted and carried on to supply the landholding inhabitants of this country with cheap labor; and the same lust for gain, which originated that infernal traffic, discloses itself in the modern cry for cheap labor and the fair-seeming schemes for supplying the demand. So rapidly does one evil succeed another.

 

Last week we took occasion to say a word of the 'Coolie Trade' now prosecuted in the interest of cheap labor, and as kindred in character and results to the African slave trade of other days. Our reading shows the points of resemblance between the two schemes to be more striking than they at that time appeared, and the coolie trade but little behind its predecessor in every species of baseness and cruelty.

 

 

The trade of the slave-trader across the sea was a track of blood. The slaves were literally stowed between decks, without regard to health, comfort, or decency. The great thought of captains, owners, consignees, and others, was to make the most money they could in the shortest possible time.

 

 

Human nature is the same now as then. The rights of a Coolie in California, in Peru, in Jamaica, in Trinidad, are scarcely more guarded than were those of the Negro slaves brought to our shores a century ago. The sufferings of these people are almost as heart-rending as any that attended the African slave trade.”

 

 

Excerpted from Frederick Douglass, Cheap Labor, The National Era, August 17, 1871.

Montgomery County: Alien Criminal Gang Haven

Faced with updated crime stats, Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger admits there has been an increase in gang violence from Hispanic gangs like MS-13 and the Latin Kings. A great majority of these gang members are illegal aliens.  See the Center for Immigration Studies report, “Taking Back the Streets.”

Chief Manger reports that incidences of murder, rape, assault, burglary, and robbery increased in Maryland in 2008, much of it attributable to gangs.

The FBI believes that gangs are responsible for up to 80 percent of all U.S. crime. Aaron Escorza, chief of the FBI’s MS-13 National Gang Task Force, says that gangs “know what law enforcement is doing. Word of mouth spreads quickly.” Criminal alien gangs are clearly spreading the word that Maryland is becoming part of the “wild wild East,” like Mexico, and El Salvador.

Maryland’s gang violence should not be surprising. Virginia has been cracking down on illegal alien gangs – and illegal immigration in general – since 9/11. New anti-gang legislation, increased police cooperation with federal immigration authorities, and tightening of drivers license policies, for example, have made Virginia less welcoming for violent criminal aliens.

Maryland on the other hand is one of the most corrupt states in the nation regarding immigration law compliance. Maryland’s sanctuary cities, taxpayer-subsidized day labor centers, support for non-citizen voting, and lax drivers license laws are a magnet for illegal immigration and immigrant gangs. Virginia’s immigrant gangs have naturally begun relocating here.

Maryland’s status as a neo-confederate sanctuary bastion is simply not sustainable. Maryland legislators have a choice – be part of the solution by following Virginia’s lead, or answer to the citizens for the increased crime, corruption, and suffering caused by kowtowing to apologists for violent criminal aliens.

Adapted from Maryland: Gang Haven, by Jon Feere of the Center for Immigration Studies, www.cis.org.

PG County Police Go PC, Shrug Off Illegal Alien Homicide Wave

NBC4 reported today that Prince George's County saw a sharp spike in homicides involving "Hispanics."  From mid-March to mid-May, "Hispanics" counted for ten of the County's 24 homicides, even though "Hispanics" account for only 12 percent of the population, according to 2006 Census estimates, the most recent figures available.

This year 21 percent of homicides have involved Hispanics, up from a 13 percent average over the past five years, according to NBC4. Most of the slayings occured -- surprise-- in and around Langely Park.

For local crime statistics, "Hispanic" is an official euphemism for illegal aliens from Latin America. The majority of "Hispanic" county residents are in illegal immigration status, although large numbers receive TPS or other amnesty benefits.

Prince George's County States Attorney Glenn F. Ivey confirmed the trend, telling NBC4 its "definitely a problem." However, Mr. Ivey's candor brought an immediate attempt at spin from County Police spokeswoman Sharon Taylor, who warned against "drawing generalizations" from the illegal alien murder wave. Taylor told NBC4 that the killings could just have easily occured among another group.

Sure. And is it equally unfair to point out that her big boss, County Executive Jack "Slumlord" Johnson, has mantained a radical santuary policy throughout his term in office that prohibits County police and officials from reporting illegal aliens discovered during normal police activity to federal immigration authorities?

It should come as no suprise that criminal alien activity is growing dangerously in the County, even as illegal aliens are "self-deporting" from law-abiding jurisdictions in Northern Virginia and northern Maryland.

BBC: Langley Park Home to 'Worlds' Most Dangerous Gang'

A new international report by the British Broadcasting Corporation on “the world’s most dangerous gang” comes from – surprise – Langley Park, Maryland.

BBC News foreign correspondent Piers Schofield writes that “the suburbs of the US are no longer the same as those immortalised in 1950s movies, with white families living in big houses and the father driving off to work in his Buick, past manicured lawns. These days, it is more likely that English will not even be the first language you hear on the streets.” Schofield is reporting from Prince George’s County.

“In Langley Park, Maryland, the kiosks sell Spanish-language newspapers; supermarket shelves are stocked with tortillas and beans. Mexican music plays in the background while the tannoy blares out announcements in Spanish. Outside, groups of men hang out on the street corners and their Spanish is accented - Nicaraguan, Honduran and, most often, Salvadoran. They wait, hoping to be picked up for a day's labouring in the houses and gardens of Washington DC's middle class. But among the day laborers lurks a darker shadow."

The BBC report goes on to describe violent crimes committed by Mara-13. According to U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein, the MS-13 gang operations model is “rape, kill, control."

The BBC went to the Steny Hoyer U.S. Courthouse in Greenbelt, where a home video made by the maras in a Salvadoran prison was presented as evidence of the links between immigrants in Prince George’s County and their even more depraved and vicious ‘hermanos’ in El Salvador. In it, maras send greetings to their "homies" in Maryland. They talk of killing and controlling others and display their full-body tattoos in a show of allegiance to MS-13.

Schofield interviewed Aaron Escorza, head of  the FBI National Gang Task Force. Escorz told the BBC that the gangs move freely around the region. "They don't recognise borders," Escorza explained. "They commit crimes in El Salvador and flee to the US, and you have MS-ers who are committing crimes in the US and fleeing down to El Salvador to evade arrest."

In the capital, San Salvador, entire swathes of the city are now virtually under the control of MS-13 and its rival, Mara 18. Local police patrol warily, tending when possible to avoid those parts of the city. The region's homicide rates are among the highest in the world - 58 per 100,000 of population in El Salvador. 

This crime wave was 100% preventable. Most Salvadorans in PG County are illegal aliens, most without papers, but some on a special TPS program that allows them to stay, work and get welfare while still being classified as illegals. Jack Johnson’s sanctuary policy ties the hands of the police, while Jorge Bushs’ pro-amnesty policies have allowed bung-holes like El Salvador to export poverty and mayhem to suburban Mary land, where the taxpayers get to foot the bill and suffer the consequences.

Edited from the April 3rd BBC online report.

Vallario Lauded as "Hero" by Illegal Alien Extremists

The Friend of the Drunk Driver in Annapolis, our shameless Delegate and Judiary Committee Chairman Joe Vallario, boasts in this video of his contempt for the rule of law and support for the employment of illegal aliens, taxpayer benefits for illegal aliens, drivers licenses for illegal aliens, and voting rights for illegal aliens over American citizens:

A little perspective makes this pandering to lawbreakers smell even worse. Remember, Vallario had just voted to raise your taxes across the board in the December 2007 special session, to patch up a frightening structural deficit in the state budget. (Meaning: Nanny-state Maryland could not pay its existing obligations to citizens.)

Then, at the same time that Vallario was whoring around Annapolis in February to get his illegal alien "constituents" more benefits and illegal job opportunities, paid for from your new "emergency" tax bill, he introduced HB 927, to strip away citizen's rights to appeal zoning decisions of the County Council.

Prince George's law was reformed many years ago so that political deals between unscrupulous developers and the District Council would have to stand up in court. Vallario snuck HB 927 into the House agenda on February 8, 2008. Fortunately, it was killed in committee after the Friends of Croom and other citizen watchdog groups in the South County area smelled a rat and raised a stink with the County Delegation.

Immigration Fuels U.S. Population Bomb

Last month the Pew Research Center released a study which projects that U.S. population will grow by 48 percent between 2005 and 2050, and that 82 percent of this growth will come from immigration — both legal and illegal — to the United States. The report, authored by Jeffery S. Passel and D'Vera Cohn of the Pew Research Center, predicts that the population of the United States, which was 296 million in 2005, will be 438 million by 2050 if current trends continue.

Of these 142 million additional people, 67 million will be immigrants and 50 million will represent the children or the grandchildren of these immigrants. (Pew Research Center, U.S. Population Projections: 2005-2050, February 11, 2008) The findings of the Pew Research Study are similar to that of a 2006 FAIR study which found the U.S. population in 2050 would be a minimum of 445 million. 

Between 2005 and 2050, the foreign-born population will more than double from 36 million to 81 million. As a result, the foreign-born share of the population will rise from 12 percent of the population in 2005 to nearly 19 percent of the population in 2050. Pew Research also estimates that sometime between 2020 and 2025, the foreign-born percentage of the population will exceed its historic peak of 14.8 percent reached in 1890.

Commenting on these findings, Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies stated, "we need to ask ourselves if we want the 100 million more people immigration will bring. Do you want 80 million more cars on the road, or 40 million homes occupying what's now open space?" (Washington Post, February 12, 2008).

In Metro Washington and Prince George's County in particular, the growth rates of the foreign born will be even higher, and the damage caused by the population bomb will be much worse.  All of the efforts by well-meaning "progressives" to control growth and protect the environment will be literally steamrolled by waves of humanity who never knew what a sustainable environment or culture was like.  Without restriction of immigration, the rich and the poor will crowd out the middle class, along with the unique American environment and quality of life that the American middle class created on this planet. 

The foolish global warming globalists and the Ayn Rand libertarians will be stopped -- if not by prudent immigration controls, then by "100% natural" rises in human misery and death control.

Crime Victims of Illegal Aliens from You Tube

A supporter sent me this disturbing video.

The lost lives of Americans, all unique and different human beings, but all sharing the common thread of being fellow citizens who were murdered or drunkenly snuffed by illegal aliens.

The statistic of 48,000 persons killed by illegal aliens on the video has no source.  In any case, tens of thousands of victims are too great an order of magnitude for the average person like myself to comprehend.  We can begin to understand the extent of the tragedy when we compare it with other losses:  The number of Americans killed by illegal aliens since 9/11 is far greater than the number of Americans killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined, and is certainly far, far greater than the number of aliens who have died along the southern border while invading the United States.

Revenge is not the point. Hatred is not the point. The immorality and bloodshed that results when Americans fail to take responsibility for our own sovereignty is the point. 

Carroll County Takes Local Immigration Reform Action

MARYLAND: Carroll County tells vendors to comply with immigration laws

WESTMINSTER (Associated Press Feb. 8, 2008)— The Carroll County commissioners are requiring that businesses that supply goods and services to the county government comply with federal immigration laws. Failure to comply could result in termination of their contracts.  County Attorney Kim Millender says if a county agency is notified of possible noncompliance, the agency would have to investigate the situation.  Commissioner Michael Zimmer says the resolution is an incentive for vendors who don't win county contracts to monitor their competitor's business practices.