School bus attack may be racially motivated

September 15, 2009–Mondays’ Belleville, Illinois school bus attack on a 17-year-old student is allegedly over a seat on the bus.

A graph of FBI statistics can be seen below. The video can be seen on youtube with search words “Belleville bus attack.”

According to the Census Bureau whites comprise 75.1% of the nations population while blacks comprise 12.3%

The most recent FBI data of homicides by race is graphed below. The blue bar is black on white homicides and the purple bar is white on black homicides.

‘There is nothing more painful to me than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.’ – Jesse Jackson

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ACORN prostitution investigations

UPDATED September 14, 2009
Thanks to BigGovernment.com and J. O’keefe/H.Giles. FOX News seems to be the only network that picked up this story. BigGovernment.com has alot of ACORN info the media isn’t reporting.

These first videos posted on BigGovernment.com were released on Sept. 10 from a Baltimore ACORN office.

September 11 a video was released from a Washington, DC office.

September 14 a video was released from a Brooklyn, NY office.

Check out their site to see what the mainstream media isn’t reporting. It’s worth the trip to that site!

Other ACORN articles of interest:

February 23, 2009 — A Fable Unfolded: ACORN and a Foreclosure “Victim”

February 21, 2009 — Home Foreclosures in Recovery, Illegals and the Rescue Bill

July 6, 2009 – ACORN denies name change but former board members remain convinced of re-branding — Wade Rathke, who founded the organization, announced on his blog that ACORN International, one of many affiliate organizations, had officially changed its name to “Community Organizations International.” [read it at Washington Examiner]

 June 8, 2009 — Obama and ACORN officials set sights on gun owners — ACORN, the publicly funded national organization linked to voter fraud in several states, is now actively interfering with the exercise of firearm civil rights in New Jersey, and the Second Amendment Foundation is calling for an immediate federal investigation [read it at CanadaFreePress.Com]

 June 7, 2009 — Rep. Bachmann builds on-line grassroots support for new Anti-ACORN bill — Thousands of Americans are expressing support via an on-line petition for new legislation that would block taxpayer funding for organizations with a criminal history such as the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) [read it at WashingtonExaminer.Com]

June 3, 2009 — Rep. King: Probe ACORN’s Financial ‘Spiderweb’– Iowa Congressman Steve King is calling for simultaneous FBI and congressional investigations into what he calls a “spiderweb” of shadowy financial and business relationships linked to the ACORN [read it at NewsMax.Com]

May 27, 2009 –  Corporate donations to ACORN are vulnerable to misappropriation, dissident group says …read it here

May 19, 2009 — Media buries Obama-ACORN tie story …read the news

May 18, 2009 — Former organizer says ACORN will commit fraud in Census work …read the news

May 17, 2009 — RNC’s Steele Backs Bachmann’s Effort Against ACORN … read the news

May 12, 2009 — Former ACORN board members speak out …read the news

 April 15, 2009 — 2,035 country tea parties set for today

Obama and color — by the numbers

President Obama was asked to comment on the July 16 arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., who, since 1991 has been employed by Harvard and currently teaches two courses on African and African-American Studies. [see police report]

The statement President Obama made regarding the Cambridge police acting stupidly offended many people. He went on to say “What I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there is a long history in this country of African Americans and Latinos being stopped . . . disproportionately,” Obama said. “That’s just a fact.”

Here are some  “disproportionate” facts:

According to the Census Bureau whites comprise 75.1% of the nations population while blacks comprise 12.3% (which means whites outnumber blacks six times over)

Black on white homicides far outweigh white on black homicides according to the most recent FBI reports:

Year               Black on white               White on black
2000               834                                302
2001               854                                286
2002               847                                337
2003               896                                360
2004               880                                358
2005               934                                337

Whites constitute a 6:1 ratio to blacks yet blacks commit almost three times the homicides against whites.

The homicide figures are definitely disproportionate.

You’re right Mr. President, we have a disproportionate issue at hand.

‘There is nothing more painful to me than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.’ – Jesse Jackson

Obama’s had his own scrapes with Cambridge police (and statistics)

President Obama had his own scrapes with Cambridge police when he was a Harvard law student between 1988 and 1991.

According to The Somerville News, Obama had 17 outstanding traffic violations which went unpaid for nearly two decades. The citations  included failure to pay the meter, parking in a bus stop and parking in a resident permit area.

The seventeen tickets and late fees associated with them — dated from 1988 to 1990 — were paid in full on January 26, 2007.

Barack Obama announced his run for presidency on February 10, 2007.

It’s apparent that President Obama holds the nation to a higher standard of social responsibility and character then he himself holds.

President Obama was asked to comment on the July 16 arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., who, since 1991 has been employed by Harvard and currently teaches two courses on African and African-American Studies. [see police report]

The statement President Obama made regarding the Cambridge police acting stupidly offended many people. He went on to say “What I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there is a long history in this country of African Americans and Latinos being stopped . . . disproportionately,” Obama said. “That’s just a fact.”

Here are some more disproportionate facts:

According to the Census Bureau whites comprise 75.1% of the nations population while blacks comprise 12.3% (which means whites outnumber blacks six times over)

Black on white homicides far outweigh white on black homicides according to the most recent FBI reports:

Year               Black on white               White on black
2000               834                                302
2001               854                                286
2002               847                                337
2003               896                                360
2004               880                                358
2005               934                                337

Whites constitute a 6:1 ratio to blacks yet blacks commit almost three times the homicides against whites.

You’re right Mr. President, we have a disproportionate issue at hand.

‘There is nothing more painful to me than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.’ – Jesse Jackson

8 year old Phoenix child raped — parents “shamed”

A chilling police call was made when a neighbor, hearing a little girl screaming hysterically called police.

Phoenix police arrived to find what was defined as one of the worst crimes police have come across in Phoenix in quite some time.

With promises of chewing gum, four boys, ages nine to fourteen enticed the little girl to a vacant shed and while restrained, took turns raping her.

The chilling story doesn’t end there.

The parents of the little girl have disowned her for bringing shame to the family for allowing the rape to happen.

 The little girl is now in the custody of Child Protective Services.

Names and ages of all parties will be difficult, according to police, because everyone involved are African refugees from Liberia.

This  crime leaves America wondering where these little boys would came up with  such a sceme. Additionally, Americans are shocked at the parents stance.

The influx of immigrants in America has resulted in a violent collision of cultures.

A female born in some parts of Africa has a greater chance of being raped in her lifetime than learning how to read.

Liberia, according to the World Health Organization states that fourteen years of violent conflict led to massive population displacement. Noncommunicable disorders are prevalent … about two thirds of women were subjected to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV, including rape) during the conflict.

Read more about Liberia, Africa

Electrical services company employee sentenced to 20 months for conspiring to defraud the US

WASHINGTON — An employee of a Sewell, N.J., sub-contractor that provided temporary electrical services was sentenced today to serve 20 months in jail for his role in a kickback and fraud scheme at an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-designated Superfund site in New Jersey, the Department of Justice announced. The sub-contractor was also ordered to pay $154,597 in restitution to the EPA, jointly and severally with his co-conspirators.

Christopher Tranchina of Glassboro, N.J., a Service Manager for a Sewell sub-contractor, pleaded guilty on Feb. 26, 2009, in the U.S. District Court in New Jersey, to conspiring to defraud the United States. From approximately the Spring of 2001 until approximately June of 2005, Tranchina and other co-conspirators defrauded the EPA by paying approximately $138,000 in kickbacks to an employee of a prime contractor at the Federal Creosote Superfund site in Manville, N.J. In exchange for the kickbacks, Tranchina’s employer was awarded subcontracts at Federal Creosote. The kickbacks were included in the prices charged to the EPA, which partly funded the remediation of the site. Tranchina received approximately $23,000 of the kickbacks, in the form of a hot tub, an HVAC system, cash and checks.

Tranchina had pricing and bidding authority for all sub-contracts between his employer and the prime contractor at Federal Creosote during the charged period. As a result of the conspiracy and in return for Tranchina’s payment of kickbacks to the prime contractor, Tranchina’s employer received approximately $1.2 million in sub-contracts at Federal Creosote.

Anyone with information concerning bid-rigging, kickbacks or fraud relating to sub-contracts awarded at the Federal Creosote site should contact the New York Field Office of the Antitrust Division at 212-264-9308.

Source: Dept. of Justice

Customs sieze counterfeit sneakers out of China

Palm Beach, Fla. – On June 25, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers detained a shipment of sneakers in order to determine if they were counterfeit and in violation of trade mark rights.

The shipment arrived from China and was in transit to the Bahamas. Once detained, samples were forwarded to the Import Specialists Branch for review and further investigation. After a thorough review CBP import specialists made the determination that the goods were indeed counterfeit. The items were determined to have a MSRP value of $300,000 and on July 7, all were seized.

 ”The people who traffic in this type of crime not only steal from legitimate companies, but they also dupe the unknowing consumer into buying items that are substandard. In some cases a counterfeit item that does not meet the manufacturer’s specifications can even threaten the health or safety of a consumer. CBP Field Operations in Miami is committed to stopping trade in pirated and counterfeit goods,” said Director of Field Operations Harold Woodward.

Former Memphis police officer sentenced to prison term of life plus 255 years for civil rights, narcotics, robbery and firearms crimes

JULY 1, 2009 — According to the Department of Justice, Arthur Sease IV, a former Memphis Police Department officer, was sentenced today to a prison term of life plus 255 years by Chief Judge Jon P. McCalla in Memphis, Tenn. A jury convicted Sease in February 2009 of 44 counts of civil rights, narcotics, robbery, and firearms offenses.

“The peace and prosperity of our nation hinge on the integrity of our law enforcement officers,” said Loretta King, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. “We will continue to vigorously prosecute police corruption both to protect the rights of individuals and to maintain faith in our legal system.”

“Effective law enforcement begins with honest law enforcement,” said U.S. Attorney Lawrence J. Laurenzi. “We will aggressively pursue and convict those officers and agents who violate the law and the public’s trust. We have entrusted law enforcement officers with our safety and protection and we demand that they perform their duties honestly and truthfully.”

The evidence at trial showed that from November 2003 through April 2006, Sease conspired with other members of the Memphis Police Department to use their authority as law enforcement officers, to rob suspected drug dealers of cash, cocaine, and marijuana. Sease and his co-conspirators would then resell the stolen drugs for their own profit. The government proved that Sease committed or was involved in 15 separate robberies.

Five other individuals had already pleaded guilty in this case. Andrew Hunt was sentenced in February 2009 to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty in September 2006 to a federal civil rights conspiracy, robbery affecting interstate commerce and drug distribution. Former Memphis police officer Antoine Owens pleaded guilty in August 2007 and received a sentence of 63 months incarceration and three years of supervised release in March 2009. Alexander Johnson, another former Memphis police officer, pleaded guilty in April 2007 and was sentenced to 30 months in prison and two years of supervised release in March 2009. Laterrica Woods, a civilian who helped Sease and Hunt with one of their robberies, also pleaded guilty to a civil rights conspiracy in September 2007 and was sentenced to 36 months imprisonment and three years of supervised release in April 2009. Harold McCall, also a former Memphis police officer, pleaded guilty to a civil rights conspiracy in a related case in May 2007 and received a sentence o
f three years probation including one year of home confinement in June 2009.

Former water treatment plant superintendent pleads guilty to falsifying reports

June 30, 2009
According to the Department of Justice –  Herbert L. Corn, the former superintendent of the city of Rochester Wastewater Treatment Plant in Rochester, Ind., pleaded guilty June 30 in U.S. District Court in South Bend, Ind., to falsifying monthly discharge monitoring reports that concealed violations of the Clean Water Act at the Rochester plant.

Corn pleaded guilty to a five-count felony information charging him with making false statements in discharge monitoring reports submitted to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM). He admitted that from September 2004 and continuing through May 2007, he submitted at least five reports containing false data for treated water that is discharged from the Rochester plant into Mill Creek, a tributary of the Tippecanoe River.

Under the federal Clean Water Act, which is administered and enforced by IDEM as well as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), before discharging the waste water it collects to Mill Creek, the Rochester plant must treat the water to meet concentration limits on certain pollutants as set forth in its permit. Three pollutants in the permit that have concentration limits are Escherichia Coli bacteria (E. Coli), Ammonia NH3-N and Carbonaceous Biological Oxygen Demand-5 (CBOD). The discharge of pollutants above the concentration limits for these pollutants is a violation of the permit and the Clean Water Act. The Rochester plant is required to report and certify the results of its discharge sampling on a monthly basis to IDEM.

As part of the plea agreement, Corn admitted that on at least five separate occasions from September 2004 and continuing through May 2007 he reported levels in the discharge reports submitted to IDEM that indicated the levels of E. Coli, Ammonia NH3-N, and CBOD-5 were in compliance with the permit concentration limits when he knew in fact they were not.

As a result of the felony conviction, Corn could be sentenced up to two years in prison and fined up to $250,000 for each count.

New York man indicted for interference with flight crew and impersonation of a Federal Air Marshal

Press release from the Department of Justice
June 26, 2009

NEW ORLEANS, LA—PAUL HENRY BORITZER, a/k/a John I. Michaels, age 46, a resident of New York, New York, was indicted yesterday for interfering with a flight crew and impersonating a Federal Air Marshal while he was traveling from New York to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten.

According to the indictment, on February 20, 2009, BORITZER, while onboard JetBlue flight 119, created a disturbance by refusing to obey the lawful instructions of the flight attendants and the Captain. BORITZER intimidated and threatened a flight attendant after he was denied alcoholic beverages during the flight and falsely claimed he was a Federal Air Marshal to the flight crew.

If convicted, BORITZER faces a possible maximum sentence of twenty-nine (29) years imprisonment, a $1 million fine. United States Attorney Jim Letten reiterated that the superseding indictment is merely an allegation and that the guilt of the defendant must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys W. Scott Laragy and Gregory Kennedy.

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Former School official indicted in bribery conspiracy

The Department of Justice has announced an indictment charging Bradley J. Hansen, a former Grand Rapids school superintendent with conspiring with the owner of an Internet Service Provider (ISP) to sign a three-year Internet service contract with the ISP in exchange for receipt of $60,000 in free goods and services.

Valued at $1.6 million, the conspiratorial conduct began in 2001 and ran at least until June 14, 2004. Hansen is also charged with obstructing justice in September 2007 when he was interviewed regarding E-Rate Program fraud in Michigan.

E-Rate is a federally-funded program that subsidizes provision of Internet access and telecommunications services, as well as internal computer and communications networks to economically disadvantaged schools and libraries.

The conspiracy charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The obstruction of justice charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in jail and a $250,000 fine. The maximum fines may be increased to twice the gain derived from the crime or twice the loss suffered by the victims of the crime, if either amount is greater than the statutory maximum fine.

Anyone with information concerning violations of the E-Rate Program or other anticompetitive conduct is urged to call the Chicago Field Office of the Antitrust Division at 312-353-7530.

Former Nazi Death Camp Guard John Demjanjuk Deported to Germany

Department of Justice Press Release May 12, 2009

WASHINGTON – John Demjanjuk, a former Nazi death camp guard and a resident of Seven Hills, Ohio, has been removed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to Germany, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and ICE Acting Assistant Secretary John P. Torres announced today. Demjanjuk was removed through a court order of removal obtained by the Department of Justice. On March 10, 2009, a German judge issued an order directing that Demjanjuk, 89, be arrested on suspicion of assisting in the murder of at least 29,000 Jews at the Sobibor extermination center in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. In addition to serving at Sobibor, Demjanjuk served the SS as an armed guard of civilian prisoners in Germany at the Nazi-operated Flossenbürg Concentration Camp in Germany and at Majdanek concentration camp and the Trawniki training and forced labor camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Demjanjuk was first tried on allegations of participation in Nazi persecution in a civil denaturalization (citizenship revocation) case decided in 1981. Relying principally on witness testimony, a federal court found at that time that Demjanjuk was a notorious gas chamber operator at the Treblinka extermination center known to prisoners as “Ivan the Terrible.” He was extradited in 1986 to Israel, where he was tried and convicted. However, after the Israeli Supreme Court found that reasonable doubt existed as to whether Demjanjuk was Ivan the Terrible, he was released and returned to the United States in 1993.

In 1999, the Department of Justice initiated a new denaturalization case against Demjanjuk, relying in large part on captured Nazi documents that came to light following the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union. In revoking his citizenship in 2002, the district court found that, in addition to serving at Sobibor, where approximately 250,000 Jewish men, women, and children were murdered, Demjanjuk had served as an armed guard at Majdanek, a concentration camp and extermination center at which at least 170,000 victims perished. The court also found that Demjanjuk served at

Flossenbürg, where t housands of prisoners, confined solely because of their race, religion, national origin or political opinion, died as a result of the inhumane conditions , or were murdered.

The removal of Demjanjuk to Germany was effected through close cooperation between the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security and State. The Criminal Division’s Office of International Affairs provided significant assistance in this matter. Demjanjuk’s removal is part of OSI’s continuing efforts to identify, investigate and take legal action against participants in Nazi crimes of persecution who reside in the United States. Since OSI began operations in 1979, it has won cases against 107 individuals who participated in Nazi crimes of persecution. In addition, attempts to enter the United States by more than 180 individuals implicated in wartime Axis crimes have been prevented as a result of OSI’s “Watch List” program, which is enforced in cooperation with the Departments of State and Homeland Security.

“The removal to Germany of John Demjanjuk is an historic moment in the federal government’s efforts to bring Nazi war criminals to justice,” said Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer.  “Mr. Demjanjuk, a confirmed former Nazi death camp guard, denied to thousands the very freedoms he enjoyed for far too long in the United States.  Now, finally, Mr. Demjanjuk has been held accountable in one small way for his part in one of the most horrific chapters in history.”

Demjanjuk, a retired auto worker who was born in present-day Ukraine, immigrated to the United States in 1952 by concealing from U.S. immigration authorities his true whereabouts during World War II and his Nazi camp guard service. As a former Sobibor guard, Demjanjuk is only the second person to be removed from the United States after having served at one of the four Nazi camps constructed solely to murder civilians. In 2002, the U.S. District Court in Cleveland revoked Demjanjuk’s naturalized U.S. citizenship after a two-week trial prosecuted by the Criminal Division’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI). Chief Judge Paul R. Matia found that Demjanjuk participated at the Sobibor extermination center in “the process by which thousands of Jews were murdered by asphyxiation with carbon monoxide” in the camp’s gas chambers. In December 2005, then Chief Immigration Judge Michael J. Creppy ordered Demjanjuk removed from the United States to Ukraine, Germany or Poland. In May 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Demjanjuk’s petition for review.

OSI Director Eli M. Rosenbaum stated, “John Demjanjuk’s actions helped seal the fate of thousands of innocent people during the Holocaust. He has at last received his summons from history.”

“Millions have sought refuge from persecution in this country under liberty’s mantle. We will not suffer persecutors and mass murderers tarnishing her image by staking such a claim for themselves,” said John P. Torres, ICE Acting Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security.  “The U.S. government is dedicated to preventing the cynical exploitation of our nation’s immigration system by the worst of the worst. With John Demjanjuk’s removal, we reaffirm our commitment to protection of the oppressed, not the oppressor.”

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Military bribes for government contracts nets indictments

The Department of Justice has unsealed a 23-count indictment alleging that a civilian contractor, Terry Hall, 43, paid bribes from January 2004 to November 2007 to a contracting official of the United States Army stationed in Kuwait.

$2.8 million is alleged to have been paid in bribes to U.S. Army Major Eddie Pressley, 39, and his wife, Eurica Pressley, 37, both of Harvest, Ala, stationed at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.

Contracts of approximately $21 million to erect security fencing for the Department of Defense (DoD) in Kuwait and Iraq as well as delivery of bottled water were allegedly the result of the bribes.

An indictment charges Terry Hall, 43, of Snellville, Ga., with conspiracy to commit bribery, substantive bribery, honest services wire fraud, money laundering conspiracy and engaging in monetary transactions in criminal proceeds.

The Pressley’s are charged with conspiracy to commit bribery, substantive count of bribery, honest services wire fraud, money laundering conspiracy and engaging in monetary transactions in criminal proceeds.

A National Procurement Fraud Task Force was formed in October 2006 to promote early detection, identification, prevention and prosecution of procurement fraud.

An indictment is an accusation and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty at trial beyond a reasonable doubt.

Read the entire Department of Justice press release here

CBP Advises of ‘Phishing’ E-Mails Being Distributed

(04/24/2009) The US Customs and Border Protection Agency has been notified that malicious e-mails have been circulating which claim to be from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and reference a package or other items which have been intercepted by CBP. These e-mails are not authentic and have not been sent from the Department of Homeland Security or any CBP authorized system or individual.

CBP will not initiate contact to citizens by e-mail for customs declarations issues.

The e-mails which may have a subject line similar to “Parcel requires declaration” or “Your Consignment,” indicate that a parcel or other “inheritance” destined for you is being held by CBP and urges you to respond to the sender with your contact information. Other variants of these messages may include an attached file which contains a damaging computer virus. In general, the objective of this scam is to convince a victim to send some amount of money to the sender so that the supposed inheritance will be released from consignment.

If you have received a similar e-mail message do not respond to the sender or open any attachments that might be contained in the email.

Please report the occurrence to the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) on the Report Phishing page. ( US-CERT – Report Phishing )

If you believe you are the victim of this scam or other Internet crime, or if you are aware of an attempted crime, you can file a complaint with the Internet Crime Complaint Center. ( Internet Crime Complaint Center )

For more information about email security and social engineering refer to the US-CERT security publication Avoiding Social Engineering and Phishing Attacks. ( US-CERT – National Cyber Alert System )

Department of Homeland Security employee arrested and convicted

This week an employee of the Department of Homeland Security was convicted of alien harboring, taking a bribe and computer intrusion.

The 54-year-old Hasmukh Patel, who earlier worked with Citizenship and Immigration Services has been convicted of conspiring to encourage and induce aliens to come to and reside in the United States.

Patel’s position enabled him the power to decide whether some foreigners could receive the benefits of permanent residency and, ultimately, citizenship. For his own financial gain, Patel received bribe money in return for committing fraudulent statements to the US Dept. of Labor and the Dept. of Homeland Security. Authorized access on his government computer was also exceeded.

Witnesses testified that Patel, an Indian-American,  took actions to bring an Indian couple to this country based on fraudulent work visas. Patel was paid $100,000 to bring the married couple into the United States. The visa application stated the foreign national woman would work in his home – but she never did. Although Petal wrote checks to the female visa recipient she and her husband were actually working at the family convenience store in Georgia.

Witnesses from the US Consulate in Mumbai, India, testified that Patel had called, identified himself as an employee of the Dept. of Homeland Security, Citizenship and Immigration Service and vouched for the veracity of the visa application, Officials alerted investigators that he was attempting to bring in another couple.

According to evidence, his DHS computer had been accessed to see if he or a visa recipient were under investigation.

The abuse of power may yield Patel a possible maximum 49 year prison term and $1.750,000 fine. He will receive his sentence June 23. Read entire press release here.

In 2008, according to the Annual Flow Report released by the Office of Immigration Statistics more than 3.6 million foreigners came to the US on resident non-immigrant visas. Mexico topped the list with 440,099 followed by a close India with 425,826 admissions.

The leading countries of citizenship for resident non-immigrant admissions to the United States in 2008 were Mexico (12%), India (12%), Japan (7%), South Korea (5.9%), and the UK (5.9%).

These five countries accounted for more than 40% of resident non-immigrant admissions to the US.

Even though Mexico has taken the number one spot, in actual figures, there has been an increase in the number of Indians coming to the US on resident immigrant visa status.

As the US is having a tough time in filling up its annual quota of 65,000 H-1B work visas for highly skilled categories, an official report in India has said that the Indian nationals accounted for the 38% of the total H-1B visas issued by the United States last year.

To see persons obtaining legal permanent resident status by region and country of birth for years 1999 to 2008 click here.