By manojkakkar
Please help me to find how to calculate the number of TPS supported by any solaris server for example one server with below configuration .
Sun Blade X6270 with two 4-core processors
2 x 300 GB internal disk drives
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at The UNIX and Linux Forums
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY
SUBJECT: Deferred Enforced Departure for Liberians
Since 1991, the United States has provided safe haven for Liberians who were forced to flee their country as a result of armed conflict and widespread civil strife, in part through granting Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The armed conflict ended in 2003 and conditions improved such that TPS ended effective October 1, 2007. President Bush then deferred the enforced departure of the Liberians originally granted TPS. I extended that grant of Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) to March 31, 2013. I have determined that there are compelling foreign policy reasons to again extend DED to those Liberians presently residing in the United States under the existing grant of DED.
Pursuant to my constitutional authority to conduct the foreign relations of the United States, I have determined that it is in the foreign policy interest of the United States to defer for 18 months the removal of any Liberian national, or person without nationality who last habitually resided in Liberia, who is present in the United States and who is under a grant of DED as of September 30, 2011. The grant of DED only applies to an individual who has continuously resided in the United States since October 1, 2002, except for Liberian nationals, or persons without nationality who last habitually resided in Liberia:
(1) who are ineligible for TPS for the reasons provided in section 244(c)(2)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1254a(c)(2)(B);
(2) whose removal you determine is in the interest of the United States;
(3) whose presence or activities in the United States the Secretary of State has reasonable grounds to believe would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States;
(4) who have voluntarily returned to Liberia or his or her country of last habitual residence outside the United States;
(5) who were deported, excluded, or removed prior to the date of this memorandum; or
(6) who are subject to extradition.
Accordingly, I direct you to take the necessary steps to implement for eligible Liberians:
(1) a deferral of enforced departure from the United States for 18 months from March 31, 2013; and
(2) authorization for employment for 18 months from March 31, 2013.
BARACK OBAMA
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Source: White House Press Office
By Reuters
Filed under: Job Market, Unemployment, Economy, People
By Alistair Bell
WASHINGTON — As Congress delves deeper into the immigration debate, members of both parties agree that an unloved system that gives temporary residence to nearly 300,000 foreigners in the U.S. is broken.
The program was introduced in 1990 to aid countries facing war or natural disaster, but immigrants who won the temporary status end up staying long after the crisis at home ends by rolling over their visas every 18 months.
Lawmakers and presidents have turned a blind eye to the loophole over the years so as not to lose Latino votes but they can no longer ignore it.
A congressional aide said a bipartisan group of senators is now studying changes to the Temporary Protected Status system, as it draws up legislation for a wider immigration reform sought by President Barack Obama.
Working out what to do with the mostly Central American temporary residents illustrates the breadth of the challenge in reshaping U.S. immigration law, a complex web of regulations and exceptions that has not been overhauled since 1986.
“We have people who have been on temporary status for 20 years,” said Zoe Lofgren, the ranking Democrat on the House of Representatives Immigration Sub-Committee.
She favors finding a way for the temporary immigrants to eventually become U.S. citizens. “Their life is here now and better we should regularize that,” she said.
But opponents of heavy immigration, many of them Republicans, want to limit the number of times a foreigner may renew a temporary visa.
On a better footing than the 11 million undocumented foreigners, the holders of temporary permits nevertheless struggle to hold down long-term jobs, face travel restrictions and live in fear of deportation.
Employers often balk at hiring an immigrant whose status — at least on paper — is temporary.
Stumbling Block
Victor Martell, a Salvadorean businessman in Chicago, says he lost the chance at a $120,000-a-year job because of his TPS visa, which he has held for 12 years.
Trained in SAP business software, Martell passed rigorous interviews at a well-known company and met with its management twice to explain an inventory management project he developed.
“I already had a start date and I went into HR to sign the documents and presented my TPS,” he said. The next day, the company told him by email that he did not get the job, without an explanation. “It was very obvious to me that after they saw a TPS, they killed it.”
Groups of lawmakers in both the Senate and House are struggling to agree on larger immigration issues including whether to legalize the status of illegal immigrants and how to …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance
As you complete your next TPS report and wallow in the stifling bureaucratic swamp of typical business life, you think… how did it get this way? How did we lose sight of the customer? How did a previously innovative organization succumb to the same evil forces it once fought so hard against? …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest
