In addition, many lawmakers fear that revealing the possible presence of aliens living amongst normal American citizens might create a panic of monumental proportions, and no reasonable Congressman wants that to happen either.
Nevertheless, the growing body of evidence to the contrary indicates that the time has come to recognize the truth and take proactive steps to address the situation rather than just twiddle the nation's collective thumbs in hopes that the problem is not real or that it will go away on its own -- because it will not. Eyewitness after eyewitness has confirmed that they have actually seen aliens living in the United States and many of these eyewitnesses have impeccable credentials. It is difficult if not impossible to discount the testimony of government or law enforcement officials who are trained to be reliable and accurate observers and to the extent that the government does so is likely…...
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Cole, David. (2002). "Enemy Aliens." Stanford Law Review 54(5): 953-954.
Minerd, Jeff. (2000, May). "Aliens: A Social Phenomenon." The Futurist 34(3): 16.
Waterhouse, Rosie. (2003, September 15). "When the Mind Plays Tricks." New Statesman
Moreover, the construction of the Giza pyramids was solid enough to withstand the test of time due to the "attention to precision," (Guardian's Egypt). One of the core reasons for suggesting alien intervention in the construction of the pyramids is that it is difficult to imagine human beings from that long ago -- who had no electricity -- being capable of an engineering marvel as amazing as the pyramids. There are no existing architectural blueprints; plus, the only indication that a mason might have made a mark is in a lone inscription on one stone (Guardian's Egypt).
Moreover, recent evidence shows that slave labor was most likely not used in the construction of the pyramids ("Egypt: Secrets of an Ancient orld"). ithout slave labor or imported labor, a massive number of local workers would have been used and it is difficult to imagine organizing and coordinating a labor force of that…...
2 million of the 2.5 million wage-earning farm-workers live here illegally (Murphy 2004). That accounts for a lot of cheap labor, and many claim that without it fruit and vegetables would rot in the fields, toddlers would be without nannies, linens at hotels would go unlaundered, commuters would be stranded as taxis sat driverless, and construction would come to a halt (Murphy 2004). However, Borjas claims that this ripple effect would not last long, noting that in states such as Iowa, where foreign-born residents are rare, there are people working in hotels, restaurants, and all the other jobs that supporters claim can only be filled with illegal aliens (Murphy 2004). In fact, according to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 87% of illegal immigrant live in just 15 states (Murphy 2004). Borjas points out that if there were no illegal aliens to tend the gardens, Californians who wanted nice lawns would…...
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Dwyer, James. (2004 January 01). Illegal immigrants, health care, and social responsibility. The Hastings Center Report. Retrieved November 18, 2006 from HighBeam Research Library.
Edwards, James R. Jr. (1999 March 20). What Rights For Illegal Aliens? The Washington Post. Retrieved November 18, 2006 from HighBeam Research Library.
Murphy, Dean E. (2004 February 23). Imagining America without illegal immigrants: the millions of immigrants living illegally in the U.S. have long been a source of controversy. But what would life be like without them? New York Times Upfront. Retrieved November 18, 2006 from HighBeam Research Library.
Pinney, Marcus. (2004 March 22). A constitutional dilemma: the conflict of the Title VII alien exemption clause with the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Houston Journal of International Law. Retrieved November 18, 2006 from HighBeam Research Library.
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The status of aliens in a Contracting State is one in which the EU has spent much time and energy attempting to clarify. At the root of the issue is the question of whether the State has sovereignty (and can thus determine for itself what services aliens are provided) or whether the EU holds sovereignty over the State (thus granting rights to aliens within the State). Yet in spite of all the clarifications issued by the ECH, the issue is far from settled. Indeed, recent court case suggest as much. As Freeman, Hawkes and Bennett (2014) indicate, the "Court's approach in N. v United Kingdom undermines the level of protection that the ECH may afford "aliens without a right to stay" in the field of health care" (p. 158). This undermining is a direct result of the conflict between member States of the EU and the ruling members of…...
Individuals who are arrested for a deortable offense can be held under mandatory detention by the U.S. Immigration Services until the immigration roceeding takes lace, even though their only crime may be that they entered the U.S. without a visa or stayed without a visa (Steadman ). Aliens in such roceeding may get a lawyer, but unlike in criminal cases, the government is under no obligation to rovide one for them (Steadman ).
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Antoniolli, Luisa. "Taking legal luralism seriously: the Alien Tort Claims Act and the role of international law before U.S. Federal Courts." Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies. June 22, 2005. Retrieved October 28, 2005 from HighBeam Research Library Web site.
International Justice. Retrieved October 28, 2005 at htt://www.humanrightsfirst.org/international_justice/w_context/w_cont_12.htm
Kurlantzick, Joshua. "Taking multinationals to court: how the alien tort act romotes human rights." World Policy Journal. March 22, 2004. Retrieved October 28, 2005 from HighBeam Research Library Web site.
Ochoa, Christiana.…...
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pluralism and the Alien Tort Claims Act." Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies. June 22, 2005. Retrieved October 28, 2005 from HighBeam Research Library Web site.
Steadman, Tom. "Immigrant Rights at Issue." The News & Record (Piedmont Triad,
NC). October 06, 2002. Retrieved October 28, 2005 from HighBeam Research Library Web site.
Stylistically, the combination of documentary and what Spielberg was used to seeing in war films gives the picture a sark look -- not beautiful, not inviting, but touching nonetheless. Filmworkers, though, are now so used to filming in color that the production designer had to redo the sets to make them darker or lighter in contrast to the actors. The costumes, as well, had to be of a different color and texture than the sets and the actors (Schindler's List - Behind the Scenes Production Notes, 2010)
Music- the music is one of the more powerful elements in the picture. Since there is little color, it is the music that provides the sense of emotion and evolution of character within the film. In a characteristic interplay between Spielberg favorite John Williams, Williams remarked that the film needed a more classically oriented composer for this score. Spielberg replied, "Yes, John, you're right,…...
Contact With a Sentient Extraterrestrial Alien Species
I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. -- U.S. President onald, Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, 42nd General Assembly, September 21, 1987
As the epigraph above indicates, even national leaders recognize the potential for first contact with a sentient extraterrestrial alien species and its implications for humankind. In fact, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute has been actively scanning the heavens for the past 3 decades and many scientists and even theologians believe that it is only a matter of time before humanity finally establishes contact with a sentient extraterrestrial alien species. Whether this first contact is in the form of a beamed message or a so-called "close encounter" where humans actually encounter aliens, this historic event will fundamentally transform humanity's views about the appropriateness of the…...
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References
Brin, David, "The Dangers of First Contact: The Moral Nature of Extraterrestrial Intelligence and a Contrarian Perspective on Altruism," Skseptic, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 28-31.
Buzan, Barry & Richard Little, The Logic of Anarchy: Neorealism to Structural Realism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
Clunan, Anne L. & Harold A. Trunkunas, Ungoverned Spaces: Alternatives to State Authority in an Era of Softened Sovereignty, Stanford, CA: Stanford Security Studies, 2010.
Frieden, Jeffry A., David A. Lake & Kenneth A. Schultz, World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions / Edition 3, Chicago: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Officials in border states see the matter as far more than a scholarly legal debate. Pam Slater, a San Diego County supervisor, called the current system "a travesty" that is bankrupting state and local governments. Educating 355,000 citizen-children of illegal aliens cost California taxpayers $1.7 billion in fiscal 1995-96, for example.
An offer of financial support to children born in the United States is far too great a lure," she said. "This loophole must be closed (p. 5)."
Educating illegal immigrants' children is reflected in the test scores of the border state public schools, and other school systems with a large population of illegal immigrants. While federal and state law prohibits the collecting of information that would specifically target Hispanic children as the problem behind low test scores, one might conclude that for some school districts the language barrier might contribute to those low test scores.
However, while we cannot pin point language…...
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Kalmar, T.M. (2000). Illegal Alphabets and Adult Biliteracy: Latino Migrants Crossing the Linguistic Border. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Retrieved March 14, 2008, from Questia database: http://www.questiaschool.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5001985430http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=106216448
States Pay $7.4 Billion to Educate Illegals; Report Notes Drain on U.S. Children. (2003, August 21). The Washington Times, p. A04. Retrieved March 13, 2008, from Questia database: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5001985430
'We Are Overwhelmed'; Caring for Illegal Immigrants Taxes Facilities in Border States. (2002, September 24). The Washington Times, p. A01. Retrieved March 13, 2008, from Questia database: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5000828657
Therefore, the claim asserted by espondents and sustained by the court below would, in practical effect, amount to a right not to be tried at all for an offense against the U.S. armed forces. 339 U.S. 763, 782 (1950).
The Court examined the issue of whether the military authorities had jurisdiction to try the offenders. It reasoned that military authorities have had a historical right, during and after hostilities, to punish those who have violated the laws of war, and this history predates the existence of the United States, and therefore, the existence of the Constitution. espondents' convictions were the result of a military commission exercising this historic right, and it was the military commission's sole ability to determine whether the laws of war applied to espondents and whether espondents had violated those laws. There is nothing in the Constitution giving the Court appellate jurisdiction over these types of military…...
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Johnson v. Eisentrager, 339 U.S. 763 (1950). Retrieved October 5, 2011 from Findlaw website:
These measures included laws, which denied services to undocumented residents, alerted police to assume ICE functions, penalized for employers who hired the aliens, and made English the official language. In Arizona, ordinary citizens were encouraged to report businesses, which hired suspicious foreign-looking persons. Hispanics were the major targets of this xenophobia because they were believed to be the major law violators. Statistics showed that there were approximately 12 million undocumented immigrants, most of them Latinos or Hispanics, in the U.S. The national bias against them showed up in studies, which considered only them in determining how much they were costing the country in services. ut did they really drain the economy? A spokesman for the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission did not think so. A 2004 study on "foreign-born" citizens of Virginia alone concluded that Asians outnumbered Hispanics. The Commission found that these "foreign-born" citizens were not a…...
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Galuszka, P. (2008). Hispanics bearing the brunt of xenophobia. Diverse Issues in Higher
ICE (2008). About ICE. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://www.ice.gov/about/index.htm
Marcucci, M.R. (2007). Marchers call for immigration reform. Oakland Tribune: ANG
Siegel's 1956 film version of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers uses a number of realistic techniques like undistorted camera angles, and shots of mundane activities and locations to establish the rationality and logic of the daytime world of small-town California. As the movie begins to shift into the nightmarish world of the alien invasion, the shots become increasingly distorted, dark and gloomy, showing the slip into the subconscious, emotional existence. Here, the movie begins to adopt a moral stance, as we see that the main characters are truly at their most human as they live through the overt terror and emotion of the night time distortions of logic and reality. It is in the daytime world of logic that they can explain away the loss of their humanity to the aliens, but in the nighttime their humanity is revealed as the emotional, subconscious mess that defines them. As…...
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers. 1956. Director: Don Siegel. Producer: Walter Wanger.
Starring: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, and Larry
S., and that the world is moving rapidly in the direction of a world community, a global community, and a global economic system. This is an argument separate and apart from the issue at hand, but is peripheral to it in that in order for the world community to grow and to develop an economic that facilitates the population in the world, that it becomes necessary for borders to become invisible and for individuals to have free and unhindered access to other regions of the world. Thomas C. Fischer, in his book, the United States, the European Union, and "Globalization" of World Trade: Allies or Adversaries (2000), discusses borders in relationship to globalization, and helps put into perspective the concept of open borders and globalization.
In conclusion, there is a need to be cautious about the borders as a result of economic and social conditions that exist south of the American…...
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Fischer, T.C. (2000). The United States, the European Union, and the "Globalization" of World Trade: Allies or Adversaries?. Westport, CT: Quorum Books. Retrieved November 28, 2007, from Questia database:
ealization equirement
What is ealization equirement? To what extent, if any, does this differ from Gross eceipts equirement?
ealization is a generator for scheming income taxation. Under the decisive case in the field of tax law, this can be classified as one of the principles, which are three. In such a case, the Supreme Court judged that income traced from purposes of Federal income tax defined as undisputable consents to wealth, without a doubt realized, and complete dominion is in the hands of the taxpayers. In another definition, the court stated it as the gain realization is not necessary for it to be in cash consequential from asset sale.
Property exchange might be the cause of outcome for gain, the indebtedness of the taxpayers for payment, liability relief, and other profits that are realized when a transaction is completed. This checklist includes all the generators of types of realization, as a demonstration from…...
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Patterson, D.M., & Blackwell Reference Online (Online service). (2010). A companion to philosophy of law and legal theory. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell.
Norton, L. (2013). How to be a global nonprofit: Legal and practical guidance for international activities. Hoboken, N.J: John Wiley & Sons
Undocumented tudents Equity to in-tate Tuition:
Reducing The Barriers
There exist policy ambiguities and variations at federal, state, and institutional levels related to undocumented student access to and success in higher education and this has created problems for these students. This study investigated specific policies and procedures to provide the resources and capital to assist undocumented students as well as reviewed key elements of showing the correlation of these difficulties with ethnic identity in access and equity to higher education that would help eliminate student's frustration. The study also illustrated that there is no accountability system surrounding the success of undocumented student's postsecondary education divide significant structure. Three research questions guided the study; a) Without the fundamental requirements met how will undocumented students achieve their goal to attain a degree, and seek a rewarding career? b) Is it unjust to extradite an illegal alien who has been living a constructive life and…...
Spickard, P. (2007). Almost all aliens: Immigration, race, and colonialism in American history and identity. New York, NY: Routledge.
Taylor, E. (2009). The foundations of critical race theory in education: An introduction. In E. Taylor, D. Gillborn & G. Ladson-Billings (Eds.), Foundations of critical race theory in education (pp. 1-13). New York, NY: Routledge.
While people often lump the American colonies together, there were significant differences between the New England colonies, Middle colonies, and Southern colonies. These differences were not only geographical, but also based in who had the grants for the colonies, their favor in the British government, and who eventually settled in the lands. These differences initially impacted how successful the American colonies were and how prosperous they would become. They eventually impacted industrialization and, in many ways, could be cited as one of the root causes of the eventual American Civil War and even some of....
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