Friday February 1, 2008
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By Emmanuel T. Erediano
Variety News Staff
THE U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources yesterday endorsed the passage of the CNMI federalization bill which is expected to be passed by the full Senate in a few weeks.
The measure, H.R. 3079, and several other House bills have been incorporated in S. 2483.
According to the committee, S. 2483, is “a broadly bipartisan collection of some 60 individual bills which Senate Majority Leader (Harry) Reid, D-Nev., plans to call up on the Senate floor soon.”
The bill will extend federal immigration law to the Northern Marianas and create a CNMI delegate seat in the U.S. Congress.
The measure will no longer grant nonimmigrant status to qualified guest workers who have been here legally for at least five years.
Stephen Woodruf, a local attorney who supports an improved immigration status for long-term guest workers in the CNMI, said the bill is “going to pass one way or another by unanimous consent.”
The Bush administration, through the Department of the Interior, has expressed support for the bill.
Congresswoman Donna Christensen, D-Virgin Islands and one of the House sponsors of the bill, on Wednesday criticized the opponents of the legislation for conducting a “misinformation campaign.”
“They fail to recognize the current system is flawed. This bill will not only provide for CNMI representation in the U.S. House of Representatives but also a stable framework for a more prosperous CNMI,” she said.
Wendy Doromal, a former Rota teacher who has been helping guest workers improve their immigration status, accused certain CNMI officials of “deliberately misleading the people through a campaign of deception and lies.”
She said these people are deliberately misrepresenting H.R. 3079 as harmful to the CNMI and to its guest workers
Federal officials, she added, have corrected the “misinformation but those against the legislation continue with their harmful propaganda.”
Doromal also criticized these officials for lauding the “faulty new labor reform law — Public Law 15-108.”
Now, she said, “these people are attempting to spread their campaign to Washington, D.C. through a letter sent by Taotao Tano president Greg Cruz urging people to fax letters to U.S. senators.”
Doromal said she doubts whether U.S. senators can be fooled by this “nonsense.”
“The CNMI government should stop resisting the inevitable and work with the federal government to improve the conditions in the CNMI for t residents and nonresidents alike,” she said.
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TAOTAO TANO HAD SPOKEN
- A direct impediment to the human right to self-determination
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- 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
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
US Senate panel OKs federalization bill
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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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