THE House of Representatives adopted a resolution yesterday expressing support for Guam Legislature’s Resolution 80 which strongly opposes the two pending CNMI federalization bills in the U.S. Congress.Evelyn Fleming, House clerk, said House Joint Resolution 15-38 was adopted via a voice vote with only a few nay votes.“I heard some nays,” she said.Except for House Floor Leader Florencio T. Deleon Guerrero, D-Saipan, all members of the House were present yesterday.Offered by Rep. Absalon Waki Jr., Covenant-Saipan, H.J.R. 15-38 echoes the anti-federalization position of the Fitial administration.HJR 15-38 calls on the U.S. Congress to order a “careful and professional study of the commonwealth before the enactment of legislation such as H.R. 3079 (and S. 1634) to provide current and reliable information” about the current state of the economy, workforce, changing population and labor and immigration programs.The House resolution said the study should assess too the economic, political and social consequences of pre-empting CNMI immigration and labor laws and substituting a federally managed guest worker program in the commonwealth.The U.S. Congress instructed the Government Accountability Office to conduct the study following the hearings on S. 1634, the Northern Mariana Islands Covenant Implementation Act, and H.R. 3079, the Northern Mariana Islands Immigration, Security and Labor Act.Guam’s 15 senators sponsored Resolution 80 and subsequently adopted it on Oct. 10.The Guam senators said they fear the influx of more migrants from the CNMI to the territory.H.R. 3079 and S. 1634 will grant long-time guest workers a one-time nonimmigrant status privilege that will allow them to freely travel, work and study anywhere in the United States and its possessions.Guam senators said the economic development to come along with the planned military buildup on their island will likely attract migrants from the CNMI to their territory.The U.S. military estimates Guam will need at least 15,000 more skilled workers for the construction of facilities to house the 8,000 U.S. Marines and their 9,000 dependents who will be relocated to the island from Okinawa, Japan, starting 2012.But the Guam senators said the relocation of more outsiders to their island will have a negative impact on their resources.“The increase in U.S. armed services, combined with the need for temporary labor to support such increases and the granting of nonimmigrant status to temporary workers in the commonwealth for general admission to the United States, including Guam, will further significantly impact the demography of the island of Guam” and place stress on Guam’s social and natural environment, Resolution 80 states.The Guam senators asked their delegate to the U.S. Congress, Madeleine Z. Bordallo, “to actively oppose the passage of H.R. 3079 and S.1634 or any other similar measure” that may be introduced in the U.S. Congress.Additionally, they are asking the U.S. Mission to the United Nations to advise the U.N. Committee on Decolonization of their position on the issue.“The sentiments expressed by the Guam Legislature are in harmony with the feelings of the CNMI Legislature,” said Waki.The CNMI and Guam’s resolutions will be forwarded to President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, members of the U.S. Congress, U.S. military officials and the U.N.
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TAOTAO TANO HAD SPOKEN
- A direct impediment to the human right to self-determination
- 12808 st - Taotao Tano rebuts Pete A. in interview with KSPN 2 News
- TAOTAO TANO CNMI sents letters to the community
- 011608 st - SEND THEM HOME
- 011608 mv - Guest worker faces deportation
- 011608 mv - TAOTAO TANO SLAMS FEDERAL LABOR OMBUDSMAN
- 121407 mv - Trampled by foreigners
- 121407 mv - The despair of the indigenous people
- 121407 st - Familiarity breeds contempt
- 121407 st - 'Be selective on who to bring in'
- 121407 st - This land belongs to the indigenous
- 121407 st - To the people of Precinct 1
- 121407 mv - Think again
UPDATES by links
- 020808 mv - Fitial ready to testify in DC vs federalization, wage hike
- 020108 mv - US Senate panel OKs federalization bill
- HOUSE APPROVED 3079
- 121407 mv -Fitial says feds applying ‘socialism’ to NMI
- 120707 mv - Bingaman answers Fitial
- 120307 mv - US House may vote on NMI federalization
- 110607 mv - Cohen: Fitial administration ‘misinterpreted’ nonimmigrant provision
- 110207 mv -Guest workers brace for final version of federalization bill
- 110207 mv -Gov’t to recalculate numbers of migrants before year ends
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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OUR FALLEN HEROES
SAME THING WILL HAPPEN HERE - JUST CHANGE THE NUMBERS
JUST CHANGE THE NUMBERS TO CNMI NUMBERS AND
THE COHEN PLAN WILL HARM THE CNMI IN THE SAME WAY
CURRENT IMMIGRATION POLICIES WILL DAMAGE THE USA.
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