California GOP hires potentially illegal alien as a top ofiicial

[AnaAndDaniel 0]

You can read the details here (SFGate article: no regs required).

{from the article}

Court documents and records show that Kamburowski, an Australian citizen , arrived in the United States on a pleasure trip on Jan. 23, 1995, and took up residence in Arlington, Va.

Two years later, in February 1997, Kamburowski married an American woman. After their wedding, his new wife filed an I-130 form for "Petition for Alien Relative" along with an "Application of Adjustment of Status" with the then-Immigration and Naturalization Service, according to the lawsuit.

The marriage broke up after a year, and in April 1998 Kamburowski moved to Washington, D.C., according to court documents.

Kamburowski's resume states that he worked from November 1995 until December 2000 on a series of projects for Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform -- including lobbying on issues of immigration reform and H1B visas, and tort reform. News stories from 1999 cite his work at the Norquist group with Nehring to push for "paycheck protection" measures that would bar the collection of union dues for political purposes.

For three years, from 1997 until 2000, Kamburowski said he was executive director of the Norquist-affiliated Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, which aimed to name major monuments after the late president in all 50 states.

But Kamburowski eventually left Norquist's group and ran afoul of immigration officials. His lawsuit indicates that the INS began deportation proceedings against him and sent him a notice to appear in court in January 2001.

Kamburowski's lawsuit claims that he notified immigration officials of his new addresses, but never received official notice of his coming deportation, which he said was returned unopened to the post office.

When the INS sent another surrender notice to a different address, Kamburowski again said it was returned to the post office and he never saw the notice, according to the court documents.

By May 31, 2001, officials at the Executive Office for Immigration Review in Arlington decided to get tough; an immigration judge there conducted a removal hearing with Kamburowski not present, and ordered him deported from the United States, the documents show. But Kamburowski, according to documents, said he was never notified of the hearing.

Two weeks later, in June 2001, Kamburowski married another American woman, the court documents state.

Within a year, his new wife had filed again to get him a green card through the I-130 form for "Petition for Alien Relative" along with the "Application of Adjustment of Status" with the INS, court records show.

On Jan. 22, 2004, Kamburowski was scheduled for an immigration hearing -- called an "adjustment of status interview" -- at the Department of Homeland Security's Long Island office when officers informed him of the standing deportation order filed years before, court documents show.

He was immediately arrested and jailed at the Wackenhut Correctional Facility in Jamaica, N.Y., the documents state. Kamburowski, while in jail, filed a motion to reopen his removal order, according to the court documents.

Nearly a month later -- despite the protests of Homeland Security officials who opposed his release on grounds that he posed a flight risk -- an immigration judge freed Kamburowski on a $7,500 bond, the documents state. He was released from custody on Feb. 22, 2004.

Kamburowski filed a $5 million lawsuit in December 2005, charging that the Department of Homeland Security had illegally imprisoned him, and that as a result, he suffered "severe emotional stress and embarrassment" as well as "significant financial hardship'' which caused him to lose a job -- charges immigration officials deny in court documents.

This reads like VJ drama. Anywhos, on a serious note, I can imagine the decent GOP faithful just groaning in disgut with their political leaders' actions.

Daniel

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[Ban Hammer 13,332]

even more surprising is the dems haven't hired him based on his "resume"

[trueimage 0]

even more surprising is the dems haven't hired him based on his "resume"

haha...good one!

[AnaAndDaniel 0]

even more surprising is the dems haven't hired him based on his "resume"

insinuate all you want. fact is, the GOP hired him. the irony is thick. i guess i shouldn't be surprised. i am familiar with California's GOP history. The rank and file are good folks; the leadership leans heavily toward the clusterf#ck side.

Daniel

:energetic:

[one...two...tree 2,762]

even more surprising is the dems haven't hired him based on his "resume"

insinuate all you want. fact is, the GOP hired him. the irony is thick. i guess i shouldn't be surprised. i am familiar with California's GOP history. The rank and file are good folks; the leadership leans heavily toward the clusterf#ck side.

Daniel

:energetic:

[Ban Hammer 13,332]

even more surprising is the dems haven't hired him based on his "resume"

insinuate all you want. fact is, the GOP hired him. the irony is thick. i guess i shouldn't be surprised. i am familiar with California's GOP history. The rank and file are good folks; the leadership leans heavily toward the clusterf#ck side.

Daniel

:energetic:

ah yes, only you can insinuate if the dems had would you have posted this?

[Portlander 0]

Norquist is dirty dirty dirty. Being in bed with Jack Abramoff is only the tip of the iceberg for the guy. Money laundering and suspicious and significant financial dealings with Oil rich Arabs with their own criminal histories also add to the list. There is no reason to think that he follows laws because they are right and just. He and a lot of other folks just do things because they can. Laws are for OTHER people, not for him.

This is the tendency of moral crusaders, though : many of them are as hypocritical as they come. Bush's point man for his no-condom Abstinence program caught using prostitutes. Anti-Gay preachers with male prostitutes (only getting massages, of cuorse) and the like. It should be no surprise!

[Caladan 19]

Easiest way to find a closet gay man is to find a minister spewing hatred of gays. Gonna be pretty funny if the party of fences and deportation ends up needing illegals to sign the deportation order...

[peejay 327]

Easiest way to find a closet gay man is to find a minister spewing hatred of gays. Gonna be pretty funny if the party of fences and deportation ends up needing illegals to sign the deportation order...

I wish it really was the party of fences and deportation.

Unfortunately that bobblehead Bush shoots that theory down. He is the President of, by, and for illegal aliens (especially Mexicans). He's thrown open the backdoor welcome mat to them all during his Presidency.

No wonder the popularity of the "amnesty" President and the "amnesty" Senate continue to plummet. What you sow is what you reap (with the American people).

[Dan J 277]

Lets see here, a lawsuit against a department that did its job in this case, by an official of a party who says that said department is not doing its job? Its that just a bit contradictory?

If the GOP wants to avoid damaging their message, they should see this guy home to Australia where he can serve his 10 year ban, just like everybody else they want to deport.

[Dan J 277]

I just found this: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1855534/posts

The conservative Free Republic is even blasting this guy. I have a feeling he wont stay around much longer.

[Portlander 0]

Easiest way to find a closet gay man is to find a minister spewing hatred of gays. Gonna be pretty funny if the party of fences and deportation ends up needing illegals to sign the deportation order...

I wish it really was the party of fences and deportation.

Unfortunately that bobblehead Bush shoots that theory down. He is the President of, by, and for illegal aliens (especially Mexicans). He's thrown open the backdoor welcome mat to them all during his Presidency.

No wonder the popularity of the "amnesty" President and the "amnesty" Senate continue to plummet. What you sow is what you reap (with the American people).

Bush doesn't give a sh!t about illegal aliens. Its the big companies he cares about, and they want cheap labor.

The conservative Free Republic is even blasting this guy. I have a feeling he wont stay around much longer.

Gonzales is still around, isn't he? Rumsfeld's still around too. They brought him back as an advisor a few weeks later. (And you wander why Cheney classifies who is working on his staff!) Norquist's ties with Rove go back several decades, and he interned with George H.W. Bush. He's not going anywhere is he doesn't want to. And if he does go, he will be right back in through another door or will get a cushy job that pays him to sit in the Carribean all day. Its not like these guys have much to lose. Worst case scenario is they get a pardon from Bush.

[peejay 327]

Bush doesn't give a sh!t about illegal aliens. Its the big companies he cares about, and they want cheap labor.

I agree. Repeatedly I have read these stories of Bush's so-called "roots" of being raised in west Texas among Mexican laborers employed by Bush senior and being raised by his Mexican nanny is the reason he is soft on rampant Mexican illegal immigration. That is a load of hogwash and nothing more than pro-amnesty tear jerker propaganda to hide the real truth.

The Bush family is pure East Coast Ivy League Big Business Conservatives from way back. Why anyone believes he is some sort of Texas cowboy is beyond my comprehension. Nothing could be further from the truth. I guess it makes it easier for the liberal Left to hate him if he is stereotyped as some sort of Southern redneck cowboy.

Bush's Presidency has been all about Big Business, Corporate America, and Multinational Globalism. There's not much there for the little guy from America, much less illegal aliens. That is not what Bush and his cronies are about.

The illegal alien welcome mat is all about guys like Vincente Fox and his cronies than it is about the illiterate melon picker.

[Dan J 277]

Bush doesn't give a sh!t about illegal aliens. Its the big companies he cares about, and they want cheap labor.

I agree. Repeatedly I have read these stories of Bush's so-called "roots" of being raised in west Texas among Mexican laborers employed by Bush senior and being raised by his Mexican nanny is the reason he is soft on rampant Mexican illegal immigration. That is a load of hogwash and nothing more than pro-amnesty tear jerker propaganda to hide the real truth.

The Bush family is pure East Coast Ivy League Big Business Conservatives from way back. Why anyone believes he is some sort of Texas cowboy is beyond my comprehension. Nothing could be further from the truth. I guess it makes it easier for the liberal Left to hate him if he is stereotyped as some sort of Southern redneck cowboy.

Bush's Presidency has been all about Big Business, Corporate America, and Multinational Globalism. There's not much there for the little guy from America, much less illegal aliens. That is not what Bush and his cronies are about.

The illegal alien welcome mat is all about guys like Vincente Fox and his cronies than it is about the illiterate melon picker.

While removing all illegal immigrants will directly effect big business. It will be the consumers who will be paying through the products they buy for rising labor costs. When your grocery bill increases 25-50% due to rising labor costs, will you still feel the same?

[natty bumppo 297]

Bush doesn't give a sh!t about illegal aliens. Its the big companies he cares about, and they want cheap labor.

I agree. Repeatedly I have read these stories of Bush's so-called "roots" of being raised in west Texas among Mexican laborers employed by Bush senior and being raised by his Mexican nanny is the reason he is soft on rampant Mexican illegal immigration. That is a load of hogwash and nothing more than pro-amnesty tear jerker propaganda to hide the real truth.

The Bush family is pure East Coast Ivy League Big Business Conservatives from way back. Why anyone believes he is some sort of Texas cowboy is beyond my comprehension. Nothing could be further from the truth. I guess it makes it easier for the liberal Left to hate him if he is stereotyped as some sort of Southern redneck cowboy.

Bush's Presidency has been all about Big Business, Corporate America, and Multinational Globalism. There's not much there for the little guy from America, much less illegal aliens. That is not what Bush and his cronies are about.

The illegal alien welcome mat is all about guys like Vincente Fox and his cronies than it is about the illiterate melon picker.

While removing all illegal immigrants will directly effect big business. It will be the consumers who will be paying through the products they buy for rising labor costs. When your grocery bill increases 25-50% due to rising labor costs, will you still feel the same?

fact ... or speculation ?