green card

An email from David Byrne:

The Tennessee Democratic Party accuses a state Senate candidate of having it both ways on an issue that the state legislature will not ultimately have much say over:

On his website (under “Beliefs”), Republican State Senate candidate Mike Niederhauser writes on illegal immigration, “First, secure our borders with a fence and deport every illegal immigrant with any criminal violations.

If someone had’ve told me nine years ago that I would be married, living and working in America, and owning my own home, I would have smacked them in the mouth and told them to stop talking nonsense. However, life is prone to strange twists and turns, and I wouldn’t change it for anything.

A laptop computer belonging to Verified Identity Pass Inc., the company that runs the Clear program for the TSA (Transportation Security Agency) was stolen from the San Francisco airport. On it was the personal information for 33,000 persons who had applied for the Clear access pass, which allows you to go through security lines faster than a speeding, uh, 3 oz. tube of gel.

None of the news sources I’ve read will verify whether or not Jesus Humberto Canales has a green card, but I’m going to make an unfair assumption here and see how the fuzzy dice land on this one. If you happen to see Jesus driving around in his bronze minivan, do humanity a favor and shoot him on sight.

When those workers are in the US on an H-2A guest worker program.

Except this time, the non-immigrant workers are fighting back.

I don’t talk about the whole “illegal immigration” thing here much, mostly because I think it’s a tad bit silly.  But now I’ve got my own immigration story.

800 miles ($100 in fuel and two days of driving) to Memphis and back

$400 (paid before the price was increased) fee to fill out a lot of paperwork