That is p < 0.001.
Posted on 05/06/2010 4:10:38 AM PDT by Libloather
Immigration suddenly a hot issue in Mass. politics
By Steve LeBlanc
Associated Press Writer / May 2, 2010
BOSTON—Massachusetts' most contentious border may be the one it shares with anti-tax New Hampshire, but that hasn't stopped the question of illegal immigration from catapulting to the front burner of state politics.
In just the past several months, Massachusetts has seen Republican Scott Brown elected to the U.S. Senate in part by opposing driver's licenses for illegal immigrants, while Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick was forced to concede defeat on a bill to give undocumented students the same in-state tuition rates as legal residents.
Then this past week, the Democrat-controlled Massachusetts House came within a hair's breadth of passing a bill that would have required the state to use a new identification system to deny illegal immigrants access to taxpayer-funded benefits from public housing to food stamps.
**SNIP**
Yet another twist in the illegal immigration debate in Massachusetts has centered on the fate of President Barack Obama's African aunt and Kenyan native Zeituni Onyango.
Onyango, the half-sister of Obama's late father, moved to the United States in 2000. Her first asylum request was rejected, and she was ordered deported in 2004. But she didn't leave the country and continued to live in public housing in Boston.
In a November interview with The Associated Press, Onyango said she never asked Obama to intervene in her case and didn't tell him about her immigration difficulties.
A February immigration hearing ended without an immediate decision in her second asylum bid.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Bizarro world.
Well, I guess she’s actually not “gaming the system.” The system seems to be working just fine for Zeituni, no need for “gaming” it.
LLS
That is p < 0.001.
A 10 year run ain’t too shabby. We can thank the Chappaquidick kid for changing immigration laws to let this stuff happen in the first place.
“There are no statistics that there are any attempts by undocumented immigrants to game the system,”
Translation to English:
“We don’t want to collect these statistics, since they would be damning.”
“suddenly”??? Really??
In better times, when government officials and others COULD and DID routinely squander tax dollars with impunity, no one challenged the arrogantly overt and gratuitous overspending* on unofficial and illegitimate projects… not the least of which was a calculated, gargantuan and very sly largesse for undocumented people.
Politicians and others smuggled this calculation into the American budget and disbursed sums and benefits with a knowing wink!!
Who would notice or care if people with NO claim to services and benefits were rapaciously siphoning American resources and enjoying a style and quality of life they did NOTHING to cultivate or enrich?
Well, N O W people care!!!…or I should say, FINALLY some people care –that is, the people we elected to watchdog our interests!!!!!!
* BTW-Any spending on ‘unofficial’ projects is ‘OVERSPENDING”!!!!
I’ve decided this is the way the US went
Monarchy, theocracy, democracy, oligarchy, and now we’re in the thugocracy stage. Next is dictatorship.
Roger the thugology!
LLS
thugocracy.. But thanks for the BZ
thugocracies need thugologists. ;-) You are 100% dead on target!
LLS
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