Tuskegee Airmen Awarded Congressional Gold Medal.

Tuskegee Airmen awarded Congressional Gold Medal.Washington, D.C. gave a capitol salute to the all-Black World War II fighter pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen on 29 March 2007. In a ceremony beneath the Capitol dome, lawmakers awarded the highest civilian honor, the Congressional Gold Medal, to the Tuskege Airmen.

President George Bush, standing next to General Collin Powell, told those assembled "THe Tuskegee Airmen helped win a war, and helped change our nation for the better. On behalf of the office I hold, and a country that honors you, I salute you for the service to the United States of America".

House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi called the recognition long overdue. "With the Gold Medal today we take another in the long series of steps toward victory at home".

Louis D. Hill,90, from Los Angeles, California said that he did not mind waiting 60 for such an honor.

Hiram E. Little, 88, of Atlanta, Georgia said "I am blessed to live this long to receive a medal from the United States Congress and the President. Now there is a once-in-a-lifetime thing".

William B. Ellis, 90, whom I last saw at the Los Angeles Adventurers' Club, and who fundly refers to himself as "Wild Bill", chuckled to himself as he recalled being told that Blacks like him couldn't cut it as fighter pilots.

The first Congressional Gold Medal was awarded to George Washington by the Continental Congress in 17776. Two-thirds of the House of Representatives must co-sponsor legislation to designate recipients, and a similar proportion of the Senate must do the same before a bill can be considered.

Congressman Charles Rangel and Senator Carl Levin were the main sponsors of the Tuskegee Airmen bills.

Congressman Rangel is a veteran of the Korean War. He survived a near death experience on November 30, 1950 when his all-Black regiment was overrunn by Chinese Army Regulars who had rallied to the aid of the North Korean forces. All of the white officers had been evacuated by helicopter and had left the Black riflemen there alone to fight the Chinese. According to Congressman Rangel, by all accounts he should be dead today, but he is not. He is alive and he has written a book entitled "And I Have Not Had A Bad Day Since". He explained on the Meet The Press TV Show on April 1, 2007, that is how he chose the name for his book.


He is now the powerful chairman of The House Ways and Means Committee. He is the second congressman from Harlem to chair that committee. The first was Congressman Adam Clayton Powell. With long standing applause, Congressman Rangel told those gathered at the Capitol Rotunda "Nobody white or Black in this country can understand how God has given you so much courage from a nation that rejected you because of your color".

GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS speak from Davey Jones' Locker.

On Wednesday 21 March Coast Guard diver Steven Duque would have turned 23. He died last summer in the frozen Arctic on a routine training dive from the CGC Healy (WHEC). The Coast Guard has issued its Final Report of the facts and circumstances leading up to his death along with that of Coast Guard female officer, Lieutenant Jessica Hill. The Report might have been final enough for the Coast Guard but not for rational and intelligent Americans who expect more from the nation's primary Arctic research and operations service. The Number 23 is ominous. Numbers 23, verse 32 says "Be sure, your sin will find you out".

NUMBER 23.


Senator Maria Cantwell, the ChairPerson of the Senate Coast Guard subcommittee is conducting hearings into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the two Coast Guard divers who plunged about 200 feet deep into the frozen Locker of Davey Jones and King Neptune. Their support teams drank beer and spiked lemonade while playing football on the ice, according to a Coast Guard final report. When it was discovered that something foul was adrift, it was too late. Davey Jones had claimed his own.

In a memorandum dated Jan. 12, 2007, Adm. Thad W. Allen said an investigation into the accident "revealed failures in oversight at every level aboard Healy, as well as numerous departures from standard Coast Guard policy."

But Senator Cantwell said the incident suggested broader problems with the way the Coast Guard trained its dive units and their commanding officers.

After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., the Coast Guard's port-security responsibilities increased and the diver program expanded from six units to 17. Despite the increase in active divers, the number of diving-program supervisors remained at four.

In addition, Cantwell said, Coast Guard policy states that a dive cannot take place unless there are at least four dive-team members present. The fourth diver on board the Healy had left the ship, leaving only three divers on board.

This case highlights another problem that male officers will always have working with female officers. It is hard to stop treating the women as their daughters, or mothers, or wives, or girlfriends, or muses, or secret love interests. It is more difficult to give them an order than another man. Men are unable to hold the women to the same standard as they do the other men. When the men have a difference of opinion from the women, they are less forceful in asserting that opinion. Men relent more easily and let the women have their way. That appeared to be the case when Lieutenant Commander James Dalitch, the Operations Officer, told Lt Hill that her dive plan had been approved by Captain Douglas Russell, the Commanding Officer. He then asked Lt. Hill if all three divers, including the Supervising Diver, could be in the water at the same time under the regulations. Lt Hill replied in the affirmative and indicated that she would brief the Captain. The Ops Officer told her that he was not sure that she was correct, but that he would take her word for it. He never did verify the accuracy of Lt Hill’s statement. Even though he suspected she was not correct, he acquiesced and let her have it her way. Most male officers would rather be liked than respected. They want to impress, or they acquiesce.

Lcdr Dalitch essentially told Lt Jessica Hill, "OK, if you say so". To every female officer in the Coast Guard, that should be a RED FLAG. Whenever they hear that, that should give them reason for a giant pause. They should suspect right away that something is not quite right. In some cases those may be the last words they ever hear. Those were really the last significant words that Lt Jessica Hill ever heard from her next senior officer. Shortly thereafter she was dead. That very superficially innocent statement (OK, if you say so.) is the last major failure in leadership that resulted in the death of a female officer and her dive companion.

Could this possibly be a tempest in a tea pot? No, I do not think so. This is a big deal. Lt. Jessica Hill died because her male superior officer acquiesced to her in a matter of grave importance. Minimal supervisory authority could have save two people's lives.

Why was she allowed to risk her life on a routine non-emergency situation? If there had been an emergency, then allowing her to risk her life could be excusable, but not here. While Jessica was risking her life, everyone else was having a picnic on the ice. It was beer and football for her superior officers and the crew while Jessica and Steve risked their lives with no support. They received no "supervisory support" before the dive, no "operational support" during the dive, and now, they are receiving no moral, professional, or financial support after their tragic deaths. Shame on you Coast Guard.

This should be a lesson to all female Coast Guard officers. You are expendable. The Coast Guard will not punish anyone whose negligence or poor performance of duty leads to your injury or death. You are politically correct trophies. You are on your own out there. You cannot even count on your own superior officers to correct you when they know you are wrong. If you are pretty, what you do not know, can hurt you. It could even kill you. It may have killed Lt. Jessica Hill.


Other problems were reported in the Coast Guard's report on the incident, including inadequate equipment, misread signals from the divers and the lack of a supervisor.

Senator Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, said the number of errors suggested inadequate training of commanders of vessels with divers on board.

"It seemed to be very casual in the approval process along the way," Snowe said.

Senator Cantwell said that when her staff requested documentation of dive mishaps throughout the Coast Guard, her office received a three-page document with few specifics.

The Coast Guard has not yet requested money to make improvements or increase personnel for the diver program, Justice said. A formal report of recommended changes to the programs is to be released in June.

Well, Now It Is Official.The Coast Guard's findings and recommendations were etched in stone the last week of August 2007 in a 29-page report, known as the "final decision letter," from Vice Adm. Robert Papp Jr., the Coast Guard chief of staff. It says essentially the same things I said one year ago. I did not need an investigation and hundreds of man-hours of taking subjective statements from interested witnesses to see clearly what the facts were. I had lived it many times before along with Billy Thompson, the Dive Officer on CGC Glacier (WAGB-4). It was all too obvious what had happened and why. Now, the Coast Guard has put their official stamp of approval on it. They blamed the dead female officer for her own death. They let the dead bury the dead, while the walking dead were absolved of responsibility.
It echoes a scathing "commandant's action memo" released in Seattle in January after an administrative investigation, but includes recommendations for a Coast Guard study team determining the program's future.
The report details a chain of bad judgments that led to the deaths: safety regulations violated or non-existent, a casual atmosphere in which divers and crew members were poorly trained and lacked proper equipment, and lapses in judgment from the top echelons to the divers themselves.
The command cadre, the report said, did not properly prioritize the dive. "The dive was not operationally necessary in that it was being done for qualifications and efficiency. Getting a dive accomplished and conducting ice liberty took priority over safety," the report said.
Jessica Hill, as diving officer, was criticized for "overconfident" and "impulsive" decisions, and providing her command cadre with erroneous information about diving standards.
Jessica's family, after receiving the report last week, released a statement:
"The family's primary concern is that the tragedy of Aug. 17, 2006, never be repeated. The family appreciates any and all steps taken by the Coast Guard to assure the safety and well-being of others who may follow in Jessica's responsibilities and duties."
Just last month, a memorial to the two divers was dedicated at Coast Guard headquarters near Pier 36 in Seattle.
Lt. Collin Bronson, a spokesman for Coast Guard District 13 and a diver himself, said the memory of the two divers is being honored by making the program better.

"From a program and service standpoint, it has changed the way we do business, and the Coast Guard as a whole will change the way it will run its diving program," Bronson said,
Coast Guard diving students already have been receiving advanced training tailored to the Coast Guard mission beyond the foundational training they receive from the Navy, he said.


The CGC Healy is part of the nation's three-ship polar icebreaking fleet, based in Seattle. Without a diving unit, nevertheless it will be busier than ever now that the Russians have declared ownership of a major part of the Arctic by planting a Russian flag on the sea bed. Finland and other nations are following suit. The waters are exposing unexplored resources, and vessels could trim thousands of miles from Europe to Asia by bypassing the Panama Canal. The seasonal ebb and flow of ice levels has already opened up a slim summer window for ships.
The Russian flag was planted by Dr Anatoly Mikhailovich Sagalevitch, a member of my Los Angeles Adventurers Club. Member Number 1021 (See Comment #3 Below for Details)Anatoly will be the featured speaker at the LA Club Headquarters on September 27th 2007. Anatoly Sagalevich was the first human to visit the floor of the ocean at 14,000' at the North Pole. He will tell us what it was like. This will be a major event. As most of you know, Anatoly has led the Russian deep sea exploration program for over 25 years. He led the expeditions to the ocean floor to be the first human eyes to see Titanic, the Bismarck, and the discovery of the "black smoker" vents that proved the proposal of plate tectonics. He has made hundreds of dives to the ocean floor all over the world and has taken the Mir-1 and Mir-2 to depths reaching 20,000'. Anatoly has published a Russian book that details the evolution of deep sea submersibles and his involvement in it. The greatly anticipated English version will be coming out in 2008.



He and fellow club member Ralph White (Member Number 942)located the wreck of the Titanic. Ralph is a dive photographer for National Geographic magazine. If there are indeed oil and other valuable natural resources below the Arctic, and Global Warming allows year-round operations in the Arctic, the United States will not be fully equipped to equally participated in the rush to grab sovereign rights to those resources.
For want of senior male officer leadership, a female diver was lost, and a national dive program was disabled, America's ability to compete for the natural resources in the Arctic was dealt a death blow, and the citizens of America will not get an equal chance to claim any of the oil or gas beneath the Arctic. Russia and her former KGB leader have hinted at resuming a Cold War stance, and she has her hand on the pipeline spigot that controls all of the natural gas that flows to Western Europe.
So, clearly, what happens to female Coast Guard officers affects the future of America and the destiny of every American. Does the Coast Guard Academy really want to disproportionately populate the cadet corps and the officer corps with women that the male officers cannot correct or command?Who will plant America's flag on the Arctic seabed? Are we going to just let the Russians and other nations carve up the Arctic in a mad dash for natural resources reminiscent of the San Francisco Gold Rush? Or will we sit back, wait for other nations to claim it, extract it refine it and then offer to sell it to us like another Opec? Who will supply the gas for America's gas-gozzling SUVs?

Russia, Norway, Denmark, Canada and the United States are among countries in a race to secure rights to the Arctic that heated up last month when Russia sent two small submarines to plant its national flag under the North Pole. A U.S. study has suggested as much as 25 percent of the world's undiscovered oil and gas could be hidden in the area.

The Coast Guard final report says, however, that the way the program is set up and budgeted, despite increased demands to operate in some of the world's most isolated and hazardous places, put an "excessive burden" upon the crews.
Jessica Hill and Steve Duque died during a cold-water familiarization dive Aug. 17, 2006, that she had been eager to carry out. Jessica was the only trained dive officer. Planning to leave the service in February 2007, she was intent on advancing the program, pushing for the dive despite lacking trained divers and decent equipment, according to the report. Not one of her male superior officer exercised proper leadership. There were three levels of males officers above Jessica. Not one of them stepped up to the plate and exercised command supervisory authority. They essential were acquiescent in her negligent and reckless behavior. What they essentially said was "If you say so." They let her go to her death, and she took an innocent victum with her. Is that proper leadership? Is such dereliction of duty deserving of no more punishment than a slap on the wrist? They let Jessica go and sleep with the fishes, but they gave her a monument.

THE WAR at HOME and ABROAD.

THE ENEMY AT HOME


"The Reconquista" is happening. Millions of illegal aliens are living here illegally, not paying taxes, and sending the money out of the country. Amnesty was tried in the 80s, and we are back to square one, back to the future, only this time the consequences are far more ominous. The children of illegal aliens and millions of illegal aliens have embarked upon a program of "ethnic cleansing".


Latino thugs are indiscriminately murdering Blacks regardless of gang membership in a genocidal purge. There has been an explosion in brutal murders of Blacks by Hispanic street gangs in Los Angeles. Far from being gang on gang violence, the Latinos are targeting innocent Blacks in accordance with a concerted ethnic cleansing campaign that seeks to eradicate all Blacks from Hispanic neighborhoods.
This is part of an orchestrated ethnic cleansing program that is forcing Black people to flee Los Angeles. The culprit of the carnage is the radical Neo-Nazi liberation theology known as La Raza, which calls for the extermination of all races in America besides Latinos, and is being bankrolled by some of the biggest Globalists in the U.S.
In one instance, 21-year-old Anthony Prudhomme was shot in the face with a .25-caliber semi-automatic while lying on a futon inside his apartment, slain by a Latino gang known as the Avenues as part of a racist terror campaign in which gang members earn "stripes" for each Black person they kill.
In another case," writes journalist Brentin Mock, "Three members of the Pomona 12 attacked an African-American teenager, Kareem Williams, in his front yard in 2002. When his uncle, Roy Williams, ran to help his nephew, gang member Richard Diaz told him, "N-words have no business living in Pomona because this is 12th Street territory." According to witnesses, Diaz then told the other gang members, "Pull out the gun! Shoot the n-word! Shoot the n-word!"
The fatwah against Blacks began in the mid-nineties, with a 1995 Los Angeles Police Department report concluding that Latinos had vowed to "Eradicate Black citizens from the gang neighborhood." In a follow up report on the situation in east Los Angeles, the LAPD warned that "Local gangs will attack any Black person that comes into the city."
Much of the current outrage comes from the December 15, 2006 murder of Cheryl Green, a 14-year-old black girl who was killed simply for being present on turf claimed by hispanic gangs near her home.
The author notes that since 1990 the African-American population of Los Angeles has halved, partly as a result of rampant illegal immigration and that there are noticeably fewer Blacks walking the streets because many have been forced to relocate in fear of the racist gangs.

Despite the fact that the majority of documented hispanics oppose illegal immigration, as do the majority of Americans, Aztlan and La Raza race hate groups have become the self-appointed voice for a separatist movement that threatens a violent overthrow of the Constitutional system and a barbaric program of ethnic cleansing. This is held up by the media as 'diversity' and to vociferously oppose it is scorned as racism.


Aztlan and Mecha groups advocate killing all whites and Blacks and driving them out of the southern states by means of brutal ethnic cleansing.
The media continues to run defense for a violent militant movement that seeks nothing less than the eradication of blacks and whites through ethnic cleansing and the takeover of the southern and western states. This is a separatist junta that has over 30,000 ruthless gang members at its disposal once the call for mobilization is heard, along with millions of illegal aliens pouring across the border.

These thugs have the temerity to call Latinos, Blacks and whites who are opposed to uncontrolled illegal immigration racists when it is their own La Reconquista philosophy that has spawned target hits in Los Angeles as part of a virulently racist ethnic cleansing rampage. It's a bloodlust that can only spread to other cities.

In Los Angeles, gang violence has gotten so bad that the city council wants to raise taxes in order to fight it. Overall, the crime rate is down, but LA suffered 267 gang-related homicides in 2006 and a 14% increase in gang crime citywide. Councilwoman Janice Hahn advocates a $72 annual parcel tax to raise $50 million to fund more ineffective social intervention programs. The city already spends $82 million on touchy-feely gang outreach, with little result.


THE ENEMY ABROAD

The horrific, videotaped abductions, torturings, and beheadings of civilians and soldiers alike in Iraq have long demonstrated Islamic terrorists’ diabolical nature. The enemy – declared to be so by their actions, not by our whim – has shown again and again that they have the will to fight on, against soldiers and civilians alike, as long as it takes to wear down and defeat us. Despite the best intentions of the peace-first crowd, concessions will not work. The only currency known to our enemy is strength, and any other recourse will not be seen as an act of good faith, but as an act of supreme weakness – and will not bring about a peaceful end, but will encourage more violence on the part of those who oppose us.

Waiting for Final Judgement in Webster Smith Case.

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The final judgement in the Webster Smith case could come any day now.

It is a good thing for the United States Coast Guard that a former Coast Guard Aviator, Admiral James Van Sice, court-martialed a Black cadet. The Coast Guard was on a collision course with disaster. It needed a serious mid-course correction. The Webster Smith case provided an opportunity to slow down and take bearings. The Webster Smith case is a dead reckoning fixed point aid to navigation for the Coast Guard. If you give a small close knit group of bigots continually good press; let their ships bring home continually rich freights; let the wind and waves continually appear to be their servants and bear their ships across the bosom of the mighty ocean deep; let the weather be propitious to their search and rescue operations; let mothers and fathers continue to entrust to them their precious sons and daughters for their officer training schools; let them carve out a reputation for providing a safe environment where minority Americans can climb the ladder to success; let their senior lily-white officer corps march with swagger around the globe; let their military justice system provide the appearance of justice for whites only; let their attorney advisors give slanted and bigoted advice based on a career of insensitivity to the plight of racial minorities without any consequences for the bad advice; let them pick and choose among the presumed to be politically weak minority cadets for whomever they chose to sacrifice to further their own career enhancing ends; let them sacrifice a Black senior cadet to pave the way for a symposium on white women; let the savants and hangers-on proclaim the virtue of their swift and speedy justice in court-martialing a Black cadet on perjured testimony, gloating that they were able to send him to jail for six months; and they will become intoxicated with their power and will begin to think that they are invincible. It is time to come back to earth. When you become so vain and intoxicated with your own power and invincibility that you put your picture on the label of your own home-brewed beer, brewed with appropriated federal funds designed to alleviate the suffering of Hurricane Katrina victims, it is time to come back to earth.

The independent investigator contracted to investigate the Webster Smith Formal Complaint of Racial Discrimination finished her investigation before the end of February. The Findings of Fact have been in the hands of the Mr. Jerry Jones the Civil Rights Officer for the Coast Guard and Department of Homeland Security for several weeks. Someone is having a hard time interpreting the facts. It is a clear cut case of racial discrimination. One can only surmise that some serious negotiating is going on in the background. From personal experience, I can tell you that this is crunch time. The case has reached a fork in the road. The next step is either a directed decision by the Departmental Head or a formal hearing before a federal administrative law judge on the record. It is a public hearing where witnesses can be subpoenaed, and the production of documents can be ordered. Hypothetically, in such a case Webster Smith could subpoena James Van Sice, Douglas Wisniewski, every woman who testified at his court-martial, every woman on the Prosecutor’s witness list, every cadet ever investigated by the Coast Guard Academy for a so-called sexual violation. The list of potential witnesses could be quite exhaustive. They could all have relevant testimony to offer. Even, Van Sice’s staff legal adviser and the Article 32 Investigating Officer could be compelled to testify under oath. Such a case could take six months or more to prosecute. I know. My case took over a year.
The appeal of the criminal conviction has stalled also. The Coast Guard Court of Military Review is cogitating. Eventually all of these civil and criminal investigations are going to end up on the desk of Commandant Admiral Thad Allen, alongside the Task Force Report on the Culture at the Coast Guard Academy and the Deepwater Project. The world is waiting. The Correct Answer man, the man trained to manage situations with no precedent has his hands full. It is time to speak truth to power. Admiral Allen the buck stops with you.



Cadet Webster Smith was sentenced to 6 months in jail for what amounted to college pranks. A convicted Taliban terrorist fighter, David Hicks, held at the Guantanamo prison in Cuba was sentenced to 9 months in jail. The Hicks lenient sentence could be Quid Pro Quo for the fine hospitality that the Australian Prime Minister extended to Vice President Dick Cheney on a recent vist to Australia, and the very strong vocal endorsement for the War in Iraq that he made in the press. Further, Webster Smith received a life sentence of being required to register as a sex offender.That hardly seems fair or proportionate. Where is our sense of justice and fair play? The degree of punishment should bear some relation to the severity of the crime.


THE AMERICAN TALIBAN, JOHN WALKER LINDH





The family of John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban", is asking President Bush to excuse the remainder of his 20 year sentence.

Their attorneys argue that the length of sentence for John Walker Lindh is unfair when compared to others caught in the war on terror.

Frank Lindh, Father: "We love our son very much."

Marilyn Walker, Mother: "John has been in prison for more than five years now, and it is time for him to come home."

Marilyn Walker and Frank Lindh are asking President Bush to commute their son's 20 year prison sentence.

This after last week's ruling by an American military tribunal to sentence Australian David Hicks to nine months in prison, after he pleaded guilty to supporting terrorism.

Hicks had joined the Taliban and was captured in Afghanistan. He's been detained at Guantanamo Bay these past five years.

James Brosnahan, Lindh's Lawyer: "The Hicks result is again evidence that John's sentence should be commuted. It's a question of fairness."



John Lindh was 20-years-old when he was captured in 2001. He was sentenced the following year after pleading guilty to aiding the Taliban.

As a teenager growing up in Marin County, California across from San Francisco Lindh converted to Islam. He says he went to Afghanistan to fight in a civil war, not against America.

Brosnahan read excerpts from his client's court statement, where he disavowed terrorism.

James Brosnahan, Lindh's Lawyer: "Bin Ladin's terrorist attacks are completely against Islam. I have never supported terrorism in any form and never would."

Johnny Spann says he will fight Lindh's petition. His son Mike was a CIA agent killed in an Afghanistan prison uprising six years ago.

He believes Lindh knew his fellow Taliban prisoners were going to rebel but said nothing.

Johnny Spann, Father: "Mike begged him, literally begged him, to tell him who he was. John Walker Lindh gave up the opportunity to save Mike Spann's life by staying silent and not telling Mike who he was or what was in the plans of what was going to happen."

This is the third time Lindh's attorney has asked for a commutation. Brosnahan says the administration never responded to his prior requests.

Lindh, who is now 26, has 13 years left to serve. A spokesman for the justice department declined to comment.

The punishment awarded to Cadet Webster Smith was greater than that awarded to either Hicks or Lindh. If John Walker Lindh, an enemy combattan captured on the field of battle against American forces, could even be considered for a commutation, then Webster Smith, a loyal and true blue American officer candidate, should be given a Presidential Pardon.



Tuesday, November 10, 2009

United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces

450 E Street, Northwest

Washington, D.C. 20442-0001



SCHEDULED HEARINGS




United States v. Webster M. Smith, No. 08-0719/CG

(Appellee) (Appellant)



Counsel for Appellant: Ronald C. Machen, Esq.

Counsel for Appellee: LT Emily P. Reuter, USCG



Case Summary: GCM conviction of going from place of duty, attempting to disobey an order, sodomy, extortion, and indecent assault. Granted issue questions whether the military judge violated Appellant’s constitutional right to confront his accusers by limiting his cross-examination of [SR], the government’s only witness, on three of the five charges.



NOTE: Counsel for each side will be allotted 20 minutes to present oral argument in this case.

Judge London Steverson
London Eugene Livingston Steverson (born March 13, 1947) was one of the first two African Americans to graduate from the United States Coast Guard Academy in 1968. Later, as chief of the newly formed Minority Recruiting Section of the United States Coast Guard (USCG), he was charged with desegregating the Coast Guard Academy by recruiting minority candidates. He retired from the Coast Guard in 1988 and in 1990 was appointed to the bench as a Federal Administrative Law Judge with the Office of Hearings and Appeals, Social Security Administration.

Early Life and Education
Steverson was born and raised in Millington, Tennessee, the oldest of three children of Jerome and Ruby Steverson. At the age of 5 he was enrolled in the E. A. Harrold elementary school in a segregated school system. He later attended the all black Woodstock High School in Memphis, Tennessee, graduating valedictorian.
A Presidential Executive Order issued by President Truman had desegregated the armed forces in 1948,[1] but the service academies were lagging in officer recruiting. President Kennedy specifically challenged the United States Coast Guard Academy to tender appointments to Black high school students. London Steverson was one of the Black student to be offered such an appointment, and when he accepted the opportunity to be part of the class of 1968, he became the second African American to enter the previously all-white military academy. On June 4, 1968 Steverson graduated from the Coast Guard Academy with a BS degree in Engineering and a commission as an ensign in the U.S. Coast Guard.
In 1974, while still a member of the Coast Guard, Steverson entered The National Law Center of The George Washington University and graduated in 1977 with a Juris Doctor of Laws Degree.

USCG Assignments.
Steverson's first duty assignment out of the Academy was in Antarctic research logistical support. In July 1968 he reported aboard the Coast Guard Cutter (CGC) Glacier [2] (WAGB-4), an icebreaker operating under the control of the U.S. Navy, and served as a deck watch officer and head of the Marine Science Department. He traveled to Antarctica during two patrols from July 1968 to August 1969, supporting the research operations of the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Research Project in and around McMurdo Station. During the 1969 patrol the CGC Glacier responded to an international distress call from the Argentine icebreaker General SanMartin, which they freed.
He received another military assignment from 1970 to 1972 in Juneau, Alaska as a Search and Rescue Officer. Before being certified as an Operations Duty Officer, it was necessary to become thoroughly familiar with the geography and topography of the Alaskan remote sites. Along with his office mate, Ltjg Herbert Claiborne "Bertie" Pell, the son of Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell, Steverson was sent on a familiarization tour of Coast Guard, Navy and Air Force bases. The bases visited were Base Kodiak, Base Adak Island, and Attu Island, in the Aleutian Islands.[3]
Steverson was the Duty Officer on September 4, 1971 when an emergency call was received that an Alaska Airlines Boeing 727 airline passenger plane was overdue at Juneau airport. This was a Saturday and the weather was foggy with drizzling rain. Visibility was less than one-quarter mile. The 727 was en route to Seattle, Washington from Anchorage, Alaska with a scheduled stop in Juneau. There were 109 people on board and there were no survivors. Steverson received the initial alert message and began the coordination of the search and rescue effort. In a matter of hours the wreckage from the plane, with no survivors, was located on the side of a mountain about five miles from the airport. For several weeks the body parts were collected and reassembled in a staging area in the National Guard Armory only a few blocks from the Search and Rescue Center where Steverson first received the distress broadcast.[4]. Later a full investigation with the National Transportation Safety Board determined that the cause of the accident was equipment failure.[5]
Another noteworthy item is Steverson's involvement as an Operations Officer during the seizure of two Russian fishing vessels, the Kolevan and the Lamut for violating an international agreement prohibiting foreign vessels from fishing in United States territorial waters. The initial attempts at seizing the Russian vessels almost precipitated an international incident when the Russian vessels refused to proceed to a U. S. port, and instead sailed toward the Kamchatka Peninsula. Russian MIG fighter planes were scrambled, as well as American fighter planes from Elmendorf Air Force Base before the Russian vessels changed course and steamed back

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A Clear Case of Racial Kidnapping.

Was Captain Michael Healy really the Black Hero of the North? Was he really the first Black captain in Coast Guard history? No, it would most probably have been Joe Jones, Earl Brown or Bobbie Wilkes in about 1988, well into the later part of the 20th Century.
This was a clear case of racial kidnapping by the United States Coast Guard. The United States Coast Guard historians wanted to claim African-American "trophy" officers of high rank earlier in Coast Guard history despite the fact that discrimination in the Coast Guard and other segments of American society prevented Blacks from gaining entrance to the service. Also, the lack of educational opportunities prevented real "Blacks" from creating an impressive "resume" in the 19th century. In the 17th Century it was a crime to teach a Black man or child to read and write. The Quakers were the first to apply “non-violent direct action” in protest of these flagrantly racist laws.

Captain Michael Morris Healy's memory was recently tarnished by the United States Coast Guard, which named an Icebreaker, the U.S.C.G.C. HEALY (launched in 1997) after him. Normally, it is a great honor to have a ship named after you. It is an insult, however, when the ship is named after you so the U.S. Coast Guard can honor a "Black" hero who was really Irish-American, at least 3/4 white, and identified as both white and Irish. In this case, someone told a group of black schoolkids at Virgil Grissom Junior High School in Queens, New York that they had a "Black" hero in Captain Healy. The black kids initiated a letter-writing campaign to get the Coast Guard to name a ship after Michael Healy. Now, these kids may be flattered by the idea that a person of obvious Caucasian phenotype shares their "race," but it is in fact a racial insult they are incapable of recognizing:
The Healy family's achievements do not show what "Blacks" could do in the 19th century because they were NOT BLACK.
The overwhelmingly European ancestry of the Healy family does not "prove" the biological equality of "Blacks." People will tacitly assume (as they always have) that "superior white blood" gave them their intelligence.
This is a prime example of the "liberal racism" that condemns the Michael Healy as "Black" on the basis of the "One Drop Rule" while pretending to be anti-racist and sympathetic.

Captain Michael Healy had more in common with President John F. Kennedy (both Irish American catholics) than he did with Frederick Douglas, of Nat Turner, Denmark Vessey, or even Adam Clayton Powell.




According to the One Drop Rule Tiger Woods is Black. No one in the American sports hierarchy could accept the fact that a Black man could play golf so well as to wins the prestigious Masters Tournament back to back successive times. A young Black multi-millionaire must be classified as something else. At best, one-eighth of his gene pool comes from Caucasians (Dutch), but in the 1980's a new Racial Category was added to the Census Codes. It was multi-racial. Tiger Woods in the spirit of the times, went them one better. He classified himself. He affably refers to his ethnic make-up as Cablinasian (a portmanteau of Caucasian, Black, American-Indian, and Asian), a term he coined himself. Woods' father, Earl Woods, was a Vietnam War veteran and a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, and was of mixed African American (50 percent), Chinese (25 percent) and Native American (25 percent) ancestry. He was the chairman of his son's charitable foundation (the Tiger Woods Foundation) before his death at age 74 on May 3, 2006, following a lengthy battle with cancer. Woods' mother, Kultida Woods, is originally from Thailand, and is of mixed Thai (50 percent), Chinese (25 percent), and Dutch (25 percent) ancestry. This makes Woods himself one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Thai, one-quarter African, one-eighth Native American, and one-eighth Dutch.



"Can the Black man change his skin,
or the leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil."
— Jeremiah 13:23
No, but a Tiger can become a mixed race multi-millionaire and schmooze with The Speaker of the House, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, a grandmother of six. Pelosi was born Nancy D'Alesandro to Italian-American parents in Baltimore, Maryland.[1] The youngest of six children.
Pelosi voted for the No Child Left Behind Act in May of 2001, which instituted testing to track students' progress and authorized an increase in overall education spending.

Tiger was born Eldrick Woods in Cypress, California, he was nicknamed “Tiger”. Woods became generally known by that name and by the time he had achieved national prominence in junior and amateur golf was simply known as "Tiger Woods."


Despite the One-Drop Rule being illegal (ever since the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967 overturned the Virginia Racial Integrity Act), as recently as 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the ODR by refusing to hear a case against Louisiana’s "racial" classification criteria as applied to Susie Phipps (479 U.S. 1002). In addition, several authors and journalists have found it very profitable to "out" as black famous historical mulattoes and whites, who were regarded as white in their society, who self-identified as such, and who were culturally European-American, merely because they acknowledged having (often slight) African ancestry (Anatole Boyard, Patrick Francis Healy, Michael Morris Healy, Jr., Sir Peter Ustinov, Calvin Clark Davis, John James Audubon, Mother Henriette Delille — a Louisiana Creole).
UNIQUENESS OF THE ONE-DROP RULE.
Not only does the One-Drop Rule apply to no other group than American Blacks, but apparently the rule is unique in that it is found only in the United States and not in any other nation in the world. In fact, definitions of who is black vary quite sharply from country to country, and for this reason people in other countries often express consternation about our definition. James Baldwin relates a revealing incident that occurred in 1956 at the Conference of Negro-African Writers and Artists held in Paris. The head of the delegation of writers and artists from the United States was John Davis. The French chairperson introduced Davis and then asked him why he considered himself Negro, since he certainly did not look like one. Baldwin wrote, "He is a Negro, of course, from the remarkable legal point of view which obtains in the United States, but more importantly, as he tried to make clear to his interlocutor, he was a Negro by choice and by depth of involvement--by experience, in fact."
The phenomenon known as "passing as white" is difficult to explain in other countries or to foreign students. Typical questions are: "Shouldn't Americans say that a person who is passing as white is white, or nearly all white, and has previously been passing as black?" or "To be consistent, shouldn't you say that someone who is one-eighth white is passing as black?" or "Why is there so much concern, since the so-called blacks who pass take so little negroid ancestry with them?" Those who ask such questions need to realize that "passing" is much more a social phenomenon than a biological one, reflecting the nation's unique definition of what makes a person black. The concept of "passing" rests on the one-drop rule and on folk beliefs about race and miscegenation, not on biological or historical fact.
The black experience with passing as white in the United States contrasts with the experience of other ethnic minorities that have features that are clearly non-caucasoid. The concept of passing applies only to blacks--consistent with the nation's unique definition of the group. A person who is one-fourth or less American Indian or Korean or Filipino is not regarded as passing if he or she intermarries and joins fully the life of the dominant community, so the minority ancestry need not be hidden. It is often suggested that the key reason for this is that the physical differences between these other groups and whites are less pronounced than the physical differences between African Blacks and whites, and therefore are less threatening to whites. However, keep in mind that the one-drop rule and anxiety about passing originated during slavery and later received powerful reinforcement under the Jim Crow system.
For the physically visible groups other than blacks, miscegenation promotes assimilation, despite barriers of prejudice and discrimination during two or more generations of racial mixing. As noted above, when ancestry in one of these racial minority groups does not exceed one-fourth, a person is not defined solely as a member of that group. Masses of white European immigrants have climbed the class ladder not only through education but also with the help of close personal relationships in the dominant community, intermarriage, and ultimately full cultural and social assimilation. Young people tend to marry people they meet in the same informal social circles. For visibly non-caucasoid minorities other than blacks in the United States, this entire route to full assimilation is slow but possible.
For all persons of any known black lineage, however, assimilation is blocked and is not promoted by miscegenation. Barriers to full opportunity and participation for blacks are still formidable, and a fractionally black person cannot escape these obstacles without passing as white and cutting off all ties to the black family and community. The pain of this separation, and condemnation by the black family and community, are major reasons why many or most of those who could pass as white choose not to. Loss of security within the minority community, and fear and distrust of the white world are also factors.
It should now be apparent that the definition of a black person as one with any trace at all of black African ancestry is inextricably woven into the history of the United States. It incorporates beliefs once used to justify slavery and later used to buttress the castelike Jim Crow system of segregation. Developed in the South, the definition of "Negro" (now Black) spread and became the nation's social and legal definition. Because Blacks are defined according to the one-drop rule, they are a socially constructed category in which there is wide variation in racial traits and therefore not a race group in the scientific sense. However, because that category has a definite status position in the society it has become a self-conscious social group with an ethnic identity.
The One-Drop Rule has long been taken for granted throughout the United States by whites and Blacks alike, and the federal courts have taken "judicial notice" of it as being a matter of common knowledge. State courts have generally upheld the one-drop rule, but some have limited the definition to one thirty-second or one-sixteenth or one-eighth black ancestry, or made other limited exceptions for persons with both Indian and Black ancestry. Most Americans seem unaware that this definition of Blacks is extremely unusual in other countries, perhaps even unique to the United States, and that Americans define no other minority group in a similar way. . . .
We must first distinguish racial traits from cultural traits, since they are so often confused with each other. As defined in physical anthropology and biology, races are categories of human beings based on average differences in physical traits that are transmitted by the genes not by blood. Culture is a shared pattern of behavior and beliefs that are learned and transmitted through social communication. An ethnic group is a group with a sense of cultural identity, such as Czech or Jewish Americans, but it may also be a racially distinctive group. A group that is racially distinctive in society may be an ethnic group as well, but not necessarily. Although racially mixed, most blacks in the United States are physically distinguishable from whites, but they are also an ethnic group because of the distinctive culture they have developed within the general American framework.

GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR. Keep your criminals.

GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR. Keep your criminals.

While legal immigrants and illegal aliens come to America for an improved standard of living, those millions of foreigners are decidedly harming the quality of life for many in this nation -- from those who have been displaced in their jobs by cheap immigrant workers to taxpayers paying for endless infrastructure and services, students getting a worse education in radically "diverse" classrooms and crime victims who have suffered at the hands of criminal aliens in this country.
A November 2006 WorldNetDaily piece (ht-Jules Crittenden) reported that twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens. If those numbers are correct, it translates to 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens. That's 21,900 since Sept. 11, 2001. But the carnage wrought by illegal alien murderers represents only a fraction of the pool of blood spilled by American citizens as a result of an open border and un-enforced immigration laws.

THE ENEMY AMONG US. While the report says that 12 Americans are murdered daily by illegal aliens, it says that an additional 13 are killed by drunk illegal alien drivers each day - for another annual death toll of 4,745. That's 23,725 since Sept. 11, 2001. And while the actual number of all U.S. accidents caused by illegal aliens aren't tracked by the government, the statistical and anecdotal evidence suggests many of last year's 42,636 road deaths involved illegal aliens.
And the deaths are just the tip of the iceberg. In its Feb. 27, 07 piece titled, "More Americans killed by illegal aliens than Iraq war, study says" Family Security Matters estimates that the 267,000 illegal aliens currently incarcerated in the nation are responsible for nearly 1,300,000 crimes, ranging from drug arrests to rape and murder. So much for the claim that illegal immigration is a victimless crime.
Just as these illegal aliens shouldn't be here in the first place, and the people they killed shouldn't have died and the people the robbed or raped shouldn't have been victimized, Vicente Ignacio Beltran Moreno (or whatever his real name is) shouldn't have been here and 13-year-old Clay Moore shouldn't have been kidnapped, and wouldn't have, if the U.S. government had done its job of keeping the illegal Mexicans from crossing our borders in the first place.

ALL OUR CHILDREN ARE AT RISK ALL THE TIME. The man suspected of kidnapping a 13-year-old boy and leaving him tied to a tree in the woods in a ransom scheme reportedly is an illegal alien who had already been deported once. Doesn't belong here. Shouldn't be tying people to trees here.



Kidnapper Of 13 Year-old Florida Boy Is A Previously Deported Illegal Alien.
Of course you'd never know this from the headlines of the AP report which refers to the previously deported illegal Mexican as "Man" (ht-Dan Riehl). You have to read far down in the body of the AP article to learn that the kidnapper, 22 year-old Vicente Ignacio Beltran Moreno, is an "undocumented immigrant" (read as illegal alien, a criminal in the first instance, even prior to kidnapping a 13 year-old boy for ransom).
Beltran, a native of Mexico, had worked at the farm three years ago, but later became a laborer for an aluminum contractor. Beltran-Moreno lived with his girlfriend in a the house, which is in the 3700 block of 17th Street Court East. Authorities executed a search warrant on his home Sunday, March 4 and recovered a rough draft of a ransom note. Obtaining the warrants took longer than expected due to the suspected kidnapper's multiple aliases. Beltran-Moreno is an undocumented immigrant who at one time was deported from the United States.
"The ransom note is at least a ransom note that was prepared to be given to someone or it was a practice ransom note, but we have fitted it to this case and it absolutely pertains to the motive for the abduction of Clay Moore," said Manatee County Sheriff Charlie Wells.
Clay Moore was kidnapped at gun point from his school bus stop. Clay was abducted Friday just before 9 a.m. while he waiting for his school bus with 15 other students. The Manatee School of the Arts student was forced at gunpoint into the truck from the stop at the Kingsfield Lakes subdivision in Parrish. Authorities believe it was planned as a ransom attempt, but Moore escaped on his own. Early Friday morning, Clay was ordered to get into a red Ford Ranger, bound and taken to a wooded rural area about 20 miles away. Clay freed himself after he was left alone and then walked until he found a farm worker with a cell phone.

Authorities said Clay was chosen at random. They believe Beltran-Moreno planned to keep Clay tied up in the wooded area until the ransom was met.
Clay was waiting with about 15 other students when a man pointed a gun and forced him into an older model red pick-up truck.
The abductor drove Clay for about 20 miles to Faulkner Farms off of State Road 64 in Myakka City. He led the boy into a heavily wooded area, where he bound the boy to trees using duct tape and gagged him with one of his own socks.
The man told Clay he would return, before driving from the ranch.
Clay sat for about two hours before using a safety pin to free himself. He stumbled through the rural area until coming upon a farmworker on a tractor, who spoke little English but had a cell phone.
Clay dialed his mother at 1:30 p.m. and told her he was safe.
Deputies traced the boy's call and found him, ending the nightmarish 4½-hour ordeal.

"Obviously what threw everything into a spin was when the kid escaped," Wells said.
Wells credited the teen's keen eye for detail with breaking the case. Clay was driven to a rural area and tied to a tree, Manatee County Sheriff Charlie Wells said.
The boy used a safety pin he had hidden in his mouth to cut through duct tape and other bonds that were holding him, authorities and his parents said. (Full story)
He walked until he came upon some farm workers and was able to borrow a cell phone to call his parents.
Information that Clay gave authorities led them to issue an arrest warrant for Beltran-Moreno on charges of armed kidnapping and aggravated assault.
"He was right on the money with the information that he gave us," Wells said.
Police recovered the red pickup truck allegedly used in the kidnapping at the suspect's home in Bradenton, Florida.
During their investigation, police recovered a handwritten ransom note less than a page long, possibly intended for Clay's parents, that contained unspecified threats, Wells said.
"It was his intention, the suspect's intention, to leave Clay Moore tied in the woods until he got his money," Wells said.




Kidnapper was afraid of being locked up in a Mexican prison, so he turned himself in on the Texas side of the border.

Vicente Ignacio Beltran-Moreno, 22, turned himself over to U.S. authorities after walking across the U.S.-Mexico border at the Hidalgo County crossing, Maj. Connie Shingledecker said at a news conference.
Beltran-Moreno had fled to Sinaloa state on Mexico's Pacific coast soon after the February 23 abduction of Clay Moore, 13, Shingledecker said.
The suspect was with relatives in his native Mexico, and authorities persuaded him to turn himself in Wednesday in Texas through a series of daily phone calls, Shingledecker said.
She said arrangements were being made to extradite Beltran-Moreno from Texas.
Authorities say Beltran-Moreno abducted the boy at gunpoint from a school bus stop in Parrish, Florida, about 30 miles southeast of St. Petersburg, Florida.

The USA is not rough on illegal immigrants. If you think the USA is tough on illegals, look at how Mexico treats the undocumented. Mexican criminals would rather vacation in US maximum security prisons than spend one day in a Mexican jail. Beltran-Moreno was more than happy to be given the opportunity to surrender in Texas when he found out that the US was about to ask the Mexican authorities to detain him.

In 2005 when the US Congress talked about making the presence of illegal immigrants in the US a felony, no country cried more loudly or with more indignation than Mexico. Then-President Vincente Fox called such legislation "shameful", and siad the undocumented workers were "heroes".

In Mexico, an illegal immigrant is subject to 2 years in jail, plus a monetary fine. Anyone deported and caught reentering Mexico, faces 10 years in jail. That is Article 123 of the General Population Law.
Close estimates are that over 185,000 illegal immigrants are caught in Mexico each year. Most come from Guatemala and Honduras, and they are on their way to "El Norte", the pet term by which illegals fundly refer to the United States.

There are 48 Mexican Detention Centers in Mexico. They have no hot water and no telephones. (So, how is a guy supposed to make his one Constitutionally allowed phone call? Not in Mexico. That is when you reach El Norte.)

The Mexican commission on Human Rights have documented cases of up to 78 illegals being crammed into cells designed to hold only 4 prisoners. They are often denied food and water for the first 24 hours.

Is there any wonder that accused criminals would scramble to surrender across the Border in Texas or California than in Mexico. They might be crazy; but, they are not stupid.



Mexican President Felipe Calderon met with President Bush on 13 March 2007 in Merida, Yucatan Peninsula.

President Bush, working to rebuild strained U.S.-Mexico relations, promised he would do his best to get a deeply divided U.S. Congress to change American immigration policies that are hated south of the border.
My pledge to you and your government, but more important to the people of Mexico, is I'll work as hard as I possibly can to pass comprehensive immigration reform," Bush said during a sun-splashed arrival ceremony that opened two days of meetings with Mexican President Felipe Calderon in this Yucatan Peninsula tourist haven.

THE GREAT WALL is not The Berlin Wall.

The Berlin Wall was built to keep people in. It kept German citizens thirsting for freedom from leaving behind the Iron Curtain. If Mexico were to build a wall on the U.S. border, it would be a Berlin Wall.

On the other hand, THE GREAT WALL of China was built to keep undesirables out. Built in 220 B.C., the Great Wall succeeded in keeping out the Ghenghis Khan's Mongol hordes and the later Manchu. It was a great success and it is one of the Eight Wonders of the World today. It was a great idea.

A wall between the U.S. and Mexico would be more of a Great Wall than a Berlin Wall, Mr. President.

Relations between the two border countries have only grown worse since Bush signed a law calling for construction of more than 700 miles of new fencing along the long border the two countries share.

President Calderon has lambasted the fence — a mix of physical and high-tech barriers. He likens it to the Berlin Wall, and argues that both countries need to improve Mexico's economy to lessen the desire to seek work in the United States.

Before their talks, Calderon had a tough message for Bush: The United States must do more to solve thorny issues of drug-trafficking and immigration.

"We fully respect the right that the government and the people of the United States has to decide within its territory what will be best for their concerns and security," he said as he welcomed Bush. "But at the same time we do consider in a respectful way that" migration can't be stopped with a fence.
Calderon, a conservative who narrowly won the contested July election, is under pressure from a strong leftist opposition to alleviate poverty affecting half of Mexico's citizens, and refrain from being a subordinate to the more powerful United States. The Mexican leader has said he's not interested in being Bush's front man for battling Chavez' rising influence.

The biggest hurdle, Bush said, is figuring out what to do with the 12 million illegal immigrants already in the United States. The president has proposed a guest worker plan that would allow legal employment for foreigners and give some illegals a shot at becoming American citizens. Critics say this rewards unlawful behavior.

Administration officials, led by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, have been meeting privately for weeks with Republican senators. That expanded to a meeting in late March with key senators from both parties.

In Midwestern and Southern districts with high unemployment and job fears, especially those experiencing their first influx of foreign workers, opposition to immigrant labor remains high. Because Democrats control Congress, labor union leaders are pressing their own concerns harder, opposing expansive guest-worker programs and demanding union wage rates for legalized workers -- issues that could jeopardize crossover GOP support.

"It's going to be very, very difficult" to pass an immigration bill, Rep. John Yarmuth (Dem.-Ky.) said.

House Democratic leaders have tasked Rep. Zoe Lofgren (Calif.), who chairs the Judiciary subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, refugees and border security, with heading the chamber's effort. Lofgren insisted that support is broad for the principles of tightening border security, cracking down on employers of illegal immigrants and bringing those immigrants "out of the shadows" by offering them new avenues to live and work in the country legally. But she conceded that support in principle does not necessarily result in the passage of legislation.




THE REPUBLICAN PROPOSAL.

The Republican proposal for immigration reform would set hard triggers, or requirements, with a path to citizenship that is not just another amnesty proposal. It would boost the Border Patrol to 18,300 from 12,000. It would require the construction of 200 miles of vehicle barriers and 370 miles of fence along the Border by the year 2008. It would put an end to the "catch and release" practice and substitute a policy of detention and/or deportation of all illegals caught at the border.
The 12 million illegals already in the U.S. would be eligible for "Z" Visas that would be renewable every 3 years, requiring background checks and a fee of $3,500.00. An application for a Green Card to acquire legal status would cost $2,000.00 to apply. If approved, ten a fee of $8,000.00 would be due and payable upon receipt of the Green Card. To become a citizen they would have to learn English and leave the country and re-enter with the Z Visa. All Social Security earnings accrued while in an illegal status would be forfeit.___