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12/30/09 Obama Quietly Changes U.S. Immigration Policy The Obama administration quietly announced last week that it would overturn one of the harsh immigration enforcement measures enacted by the Bush administration following the 9/11 terrorist attacks

12/30/09 Bill to grant in-state tuition to illegal immigrants with 3 years of Colo. high school on hold until 2011 A bill to allow illegal immigrants to receive in-state tuition won't go forward in the 2010 session, says the lawmaker who planned to sponsor the legislation

12/27/09 Immigration activists seek quicker access to Medicaid Immigrants rights groups are seeking to change federal law so that legal immigrants won't have to wait five years before becoming eligible for Medicaid.

12/24/09 Feds Report 10 Year High In Immigration Arrests Federal officials say the number of cases filed in Northern California against illegal immigrants with criminal records is at a 10-year high.

12/22/09 Arizona Prisons Plan to Transfer Illegal Immigrants to Federal Custody Desperate to save money, Arizona will transfer illegal immigrants who have been convicted of nonviolent crimes to federal custody for the last three months of their sentences.

12/22/09 Amnesty push coming again — be ready Will this be the year of “amnesty?” Our community organizer is pledging to make amnesty a priority for the coming year when he says: “I think we can get it done.”

12/18/09 More Health Care Pages The Senate health care bill includes a well-known "employer mandate" provision that would require employers to either offer a "qualified" health plan and pay 60 percent of the premium or pay an annual tax penalty of $750 per full-time employee.

12/17/09 House Dems Offer Legal Status to Undocumented in Immigration Bill Lawmakers pushing for immigration reform say job losses and a sluggish economy should not deter legislation legalizing illegal immigrants.

12/14/09 Border patrol sued, accused of profiling, harassment A class-action lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Toledo alleges U.S. Border Control agents at the Sandusky station and police officers in Norwalk, Plymouth and Attica engaged in discriminatory and illegal racial profiling.

12/14/09 280 illegal immigrants in California arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Immigration agents arrested 280 people in California in their biggest push yet to round up suspected illegal immigrants with criminal records in local communities, authorities said Friday.

12/10/09 SF Law On Illegal Immigrant Youth To Take Effect A controversial measure that dictates how San Francisco police deal with underage illegal immigrants goes into effect on Thursday.

12/10/09 Illegal Immigrant In Nebraska Gets Workers’ Comp Nebraska has joined a growing number of states in which courts have decided illegal immigrants hurt on the job are eligible for workers’ compensation benefits.

12/07/09 CA In-state tuition rates for illegal immigrants questioned At a time of unprecedented peril for the state's education system, a growing number of school districts are going the extra mile to promote a law that allows illegal immigrant students to receive subsidized tuition at California colleges and universities.

12/07/09 High Unemployment Reframes Immigration Debate The Obama administration has promised action on immigration reform in 2010, but the issue of illegal immigration was notably absent from the president's job summit this week. Rising unemployment could impact the debate over illegal immigration.

12/04/09 Mexican Immigration Has Tripled in U.S. In the past 30 years, the number of Mexicans migrating every year to the United States has more than tripled, reports La Raza.

12/03/09 Health Care Provisions Still Soft on Illegal Aliens Assurances that the two health-care reform bills would not benefit illegal aliens are not accurate. A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies examines in detail the immigration-related provisions of both the House-passed HR 3962

12/01/09 The warring mind-sets on U.S. immigration Over dinner with a consultant friend recently, our conversation drifted to U.S. immigration when she said, "I'm worried about our future." We did not go any further on the subject, but the late-afternoon news flash had said the Obama administration would take up immigration reform next year,

11/28/09 Smart phone application helps illegal immigrants navigate safely across border - A San Diego research team is close to releasing a smart phone application to help illegal immigrants navigate safely across the border. The 'Transborder Immigrant tool' is a humanitarian tool designed to save lives

11/26/09 Feds scrutinize dairy farms in sweep for illegal aliens Dozens of Vermont dairy farmers found themselves in the crosshairs of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Thursday when the agency rolled out its largest ever audit of employers in a crackdown on businesses shirking laws about employing foreign workers

11/25/09 Ex-CNN anchor Lou Dobbs will try to mend fences with Latinos; White House bid 'way down the road' Former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs declared Monday he's trying to mend fences with Latinos as he weighs a future in national politics.

11/25/09 Ohio senator says no to workers comp for illegals A Republican state senator in Ohio wants to prohibit the nation's largest state-run injured worker insurance program from providing benefits to illegal immigrants, a change he said should lower business premiums

11/22/09 Immigration Officials to Audit 1,000 More Companies Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the move was part of the administration’s plan to penalize companies that hire illegal immigrants.

11/19/09 Ariz. prosecutor files 1st case under law that prohibits knowingly hiring illegal immigrants An Arizona prosecutor says his office has filed the first civil complaint against a business under a 22-month-old state law that prohibits employers from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.

11/19/09 FL Illegal aliens found working on new courthouse A federal investigation uncovers 100 illegal aliens working to build the new courthouse in Downtown Jacksonville

Below is  a two-part investigation on the Department of Homeland Security's "Operation Stonegarden" grant program from the Arizona Daily Star: (if it asks you to register first, it is FREE)

Part 2 11/16/09 US border-security cash leaves towns on the hook 

Part 1 11/15/09  Border program has vague goals, little oversight

11/17/09 AZ Arpaio launches crime, immigration sweep Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced today he plans to conduct a countywide crime-suppression and illegal-immigration sweep beginning this evening. It would be the second such operation since the federal government stripped Arpaio of...

11/16/09 White House adviser says immigration reform advancing Democrats and Republicans in Congress are working together to craft an immigration reform bill that could become law as early as next year, a senior White House adviser said on Sunday.

11/13/09 Secure Communities identifies more than 24,000 criminal illegal immigrants in Arizona Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Secretary John Morton today announced that ICE's Secure Communities initiative-a partnership with local law enforcement agencies that uses biometrics to identify and remove criminal illegal immigrants-identified more than 111,000 criminal illegal immigrants in ...

11/13/09 Census Bureau asks for full participation, even illegal immigrants The U.S. Census Bureau is calling for all Mower County and Minnesota residents to participate in the 2010 census, even undocumented immigrants.

11/11/09 Potential San Francisco Showdown Over Immigration The mayor and the board of supervisors disagreed on when juvenile offenders should be turned over to the immigration authorities.

11/10/09 llegal immigrants divide discussions on health care reform Immigration advocates shouted support for health care reform Monday afternoon as Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison was ushered away from the airport during a campaign stop in the Rio Grande Valley. As health care reform takes center stage in the...

1/06/09 Health care reform bills fail to prevent illegal immigrants from accessing taxpayer funded health benefits:  Current versions of both the House and Senate health care reform bills contain inadequate verification measures that will fail to prevent millions of illegal aliens from accessing taxpayer funded health benefits, charges the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). And in a radical change from current law,

11/04/09 Immigration teams arrest more criminal offenders Immigration agents assigned to track down people who have ignored deportation orders have increasingly arrested immigrants with criminal records over the last year. Data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement show a shift from the prior three years

11/02/09 TX Perry's letter urges feds to halt immigrant deportations to Texas Gov. Rick Perry has sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano urging the federal government to stop its plans to transport illegal aliens from other states into

11/02/09 Ariz. sheriff's safety reviewed after Dobbs scare The security of an Arizona sheriff who has aggressively cracked down on illegal immigration is under review after a shooting scare involving CNN commentator Lou Dobbs. A bullet struck Dobbs' New Jersey home

10/29/09 LAPD chief: Keep police out of immigration battle Police should stay out of the business of combatting illegal immigration, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton says in a Los Angeles Times opinion piece posted today. Bratton says dumping immigration policing on city police will destroy relationships between officers and many residents, in cluding legal ones.

10/26/09 Impact of Illegal Alien Crime Worse Than Expected, Says Utah AG Utah's Attorney General said the impact of violent and financial crime committed by illegal aliens is even more serious than they first thought. A new strike force keeps the office of the Attorney General, Mike Shurtleff, busy with undocumented immigrant crime cases. FOX 13's Scott Mckane has the results of the crackdown from Salt Lake City.

10/24/09 Border agents discover smuggling tunnel near Nogales -- U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Nogales Station discovered an intricate smuggling tunnel passing under the international border yesterday, the first such tunnel found in recent months. The tunnel was discovered approximately 150 yards east of the DeConcini Port of Entry. On the Mexican side of the border it is supported with shoring and is three feet wide by three feet tall

10/24/09 Drug Raids Targeting Mexico Cartel Nab 300 Arrests of La Familia Members in 38 Cities Represent Largest Single Strike at a Mexican Cartel Operating in U.S.

10/22/09 San Francisco supervisors vote to overturn policy on illegal immigrants Law enforcement would be barred from handing juvenile illegal immigrants to U.S. officials unless they had been convicted of a felony. 

10/22/09 AZ,Crowd Rallies Against Illegal Immigration The Arizona Legislature's main champion of legislation to combat illegal immigration is planning a triple-barreled attack on the issue early in the 2010 session.

10/22/09 Controversey arises over 'illegal alien' Halloween costume Immigrant advocates are urging retailers to pull a Halloween costume depicting a space creature in orange prison garb emblazoned with the words “illegal alien,” while a group that supports strict immigration laws says such a...

10/17/09 ICE-local immigration partnership to remain But federal authorities promise more oversight of the 287(g) program, and less authority for Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona -- its most controversial participant. Despite continuing criticism about the program,

10/17/09 Amnesty Assured To Create Added Illegal Immigration A recent Zogby International discovered that, “…people in Mexico think that granting legal status to illegal immigrants would encourage more illegal immigration to the United States.

10/15/09 AR Attorney General Certifies Illegal Immigration Ballot Proposal The Arkansas attorney general Wednesday certified the name and ballot title of a proposed constitutional amendment that would make it difficult for illegal immigrants to receive public benefits in the state

10/14/09 Ariz. Sheriff Vows to Continue Immigration Sweeps A firebrand Arizona sheriff known for his hard-line immigration enforcement is vowing to press ahead with an illegal immigrant sweep Friday, defying a revised Department of Homeland Security policy that takes away his federal authority to make such arrests.

10/14/09 Congressman to present immigration reform bill House lawmakers announced Tuesday a new push for immigration reform to deal with the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.

10/10/09 Changes In Store For U.S. Immigration Detention The secretary of homeland security says immigrants detained by the federal government for breaking civil immigration laws will now be treated more humanely. Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that fewer illegal immigrants will be locked up in jails and prisons, and more will be detained in places like former hotels and nursing homes.

10/10/09 ICE plan to increase deputies' immigration role is criticized Merrick Bobb, supervisors' counsel, says the proposal would make the Sheriff's Department the 'primary enforcer of federal immigration law.' Los Angeles County sheriff's personnel would assume a greater role in the processing and deportation of illegal immigrants identified in the jails under a newly proposed agreement with the federal government, placing an "inordinate strain" on the departmentd

10/07/09 Feds strip Arpaio of immigration authority The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has stripped Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio of his authority to arrest suspected illegal immigrants based solely on their immigration status. But Arpaio said Tuesday he plans to continue his controversial “crime suppression operations." Reasonable Doubt: A Pulitzer Prize-winning special report

10/06/09 Verification of illegal immigrants is scrutinized amid healthcare debate L.A. County officials question cost-effectiveness of rules aimed at screening those trying to get public health services. Los Angeles County health worker Leonardo Rincon lifts the birth certificate up to the light and expertly scrutinizes it. Do faint watermarks show up? Yes. He rubs his thumb over the official seal to see if it is raised. It is

10/03/09 Sheriff Arpaio may lose some immigrant authority Without an agreement deputies will need probable cause to detain a suspected illegal immigrant

10/03/09 Census gets needed help on Latino count Nationwide initiative urges Hispanics to fill out 2010 forms The census can be a hard sell in some Hispanic communities.

10/01/09  Task force advises limiting federal immigration arrest program A U.S. government task force recommended Wednesday that the federal Department of Homeland Security scale back an initiative that allows local authorities to enforce the country’s immigration law. The so-called 287(g) program — named

09/30/09 NY Times and both parties are wrong on amnesty In a September 22nd editorial, The New York Times renewed its opposition to the construction of a fence to deter illegal crossings from Mexico to the United States.

9/29/09 Census Forms Now Available In Spanish For the first time, the decennial census will be distributed in the two languages to 13.5 million households in predominantly Spanish-speaking neighborhoods.

09/28/09 Does 'not my job' mentality play a role in immigration enforcement? The death of a woman in La Marque has raised questions over the role local police departments play in immigration enforcement.

09/28/09 Alleged skyscraper plot highlights problems of keeping tabs on immigrants The tension between security and civil liberties, between surveillance and privacy, has simmered for eight years. The plot exposed last week in Dallas by the FBI - a Jordanian teenager allegedly hoping to level a skyscraper - provides the latest fuel.

09/24/09 Police: Agents felt trapped in border shooting (AP) - Federalagents felt trapped when they opened fire on the driver of one of two vans packed with suspected illegal immigrants that barreled toward them at the nation's busiest border crossing, an official said Wednesday.

09/22/09  Border Fantasies The Southwest border fence project is over budget and behind schedule, and won’t absolve Congress of its responsibility to reform immigration laws.

09/21/09 Activist mounts campaign against CNN's Lou Dobbs A Miami-based Hispanic group is mounting a national campaign against conservative CNN talk-show host Lou Dobbs, urging the network to restrain what they call ``his disparaging and inaccurate'' remarks about Hispanic immigrants.

09/19/09 Senior Democrat turns healthcare debate into fight over illegal immigration Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) is putting Democrats in a bind by seeking to let illegal immigrants benefit from the healthcare overhaul. Read more...

09/18/09  Activists Organize Around The Overlap Between Health Reform And Illegal Immigration Issues Illegal immigration becomes a focus of health care debate as activists on both sides organize efforts. 

09/17/09 Napolitano says immigration reform on back burner for now - While the federal government is "zooming along" on efforts to reduce the illegal drug trade and secure the border, immigration reform is on the back burner, at least for now, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a crowd here Wednesday night.

9/15/09  LA, Counting illegal aliens will skew reapportionment and hurt Louisiana, demographer warns Next year's census will include counting illegal aliens among the total residents of the United States, a U.S. Census Bureau employee said.

09/14/09 Health care bill: Senators focus on illegal immigration Senators closing in on a comprehensive health , e bill have whittled away all but the most contentious issues and one of those loomed large Friday: coverage for illegal immigrants.

09/12/09 Senate committee tackles illegal-immigrant healthcare concerns Drafters of overhaul plans had been considering the issue for months, and it gained new attention during Obama's healthcare speech to Congress. But enforcement is fraught with its own problems. Key members of the Senate Finance Committee moved Friday to quell the latest furor over President Obama's healthcare overhaul, discussing added identification and enforcement requirements intended to ...

09/11/09 Would plan insure illegal immigrants? Who’s telling the truth? U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, the Lexington County Republican, who created a stir when he yelled, “You lie!” at President Barack Obama?

09/10/09 Obama Heckled During Health Care Reform Speech President Obama addressed Congress Wednesday night, explaing how he would like to see America's health care system changed.

09/10/09 Martinez exits Senate -- with some regrets  Sen. Mel Martinez, the nation's first Cuban-American senator, left office Wednesday with pride, a ``heavy heart'' and a lingering regret that Congress has been unable to reach agreement on revamping the nation's immigration laws

09/09/09 Immigration activists urge census boycott A small but vocal group of advocates is urging illegal immigrants and their supporters nationwide to boycott the 2010 Census to protest the government’s inaction on immigration legislation, a move that, if successful, could cost Massachusetts and other states millions of dollars.

09/08/09 Obama's Health Bill Could Benefit 6.6 Million Illegals As President Obama addresses the nation on health care reform, a new analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that 6.6 million uninsured illegal immigrants could receive benefits under the House health reform bill (H.R. 3200).

09/05/09 State of Texas Cracking Down on Big Rig Drivers Who Transport Illegal Aliens Texas is cracking down on drivers who transport illegal aliens. Starting September 1st, the State will take away a person's Commerical Drivers License for life if they are caught transporting or hiding aliens in a vehicle.

09/04/09 American Apparel says it will lose 1,500 workers over immigration dispute Clothing company American Apparel Inc. said Thursday it is terminating about 1,500 employees at its Los Angeles operations after a government investigation into workers' immigration status

09/03/09 Feds talking to illegal immigrants in sheriff’s office probe The U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights investigation into Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s immigration policies has included interviews with illegal immigrants, some of whom were deported and returned to the U.S.

09/03/09 Mayor: Deportations harm Juarez, United States The deportations of thousands of Mexicans who have served time in U.S. jails into Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are adding a deadly ingredient to an already volatile state of security, Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said.

8/31/09 500 groups urge Obama to halt immigration police program  A letter to the president says local enforcement of federal immigration laws has led to racial profiling and civil rights violations. A coalition of advocacy groups sent a letter to President Obama last week demanding that the administration end a program that allows local police to enforce federal immigration law

08/31/09 Fingerprint checkup toughened in fighting against illegal immigration In a bid to stem the flow of illegal immigrants, law enforcement agencies will toughen the checkup of fingerprints of people arrested in Los Angeles, it was announced on Thursday.

08/29/09 Homeland secretary calls immigration policy overhaul 'a priority' Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday that she was optimistic that a bipartisan immigration-policy overhaul would, at some point, get through Congress.

08/29/09 Illegal aliens to benefit from health care reform bill: Congressional Research Service Tuesday, the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the "research arm" for the United States Congress, issued a report validating an analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), that illegal aliens would be able to receive benefits under the House health care reform bill, America's Affordable Health Care Act of 2009

08/26/09 US resumes flying illegal immigrants to Mexico Immigration authorities are flying illegal immigrants deep into their native Mexico from Southern Arizona to discourage dangerous crossings in triple-digit desert heat.

08/26/09 CA L.A. County may require contractors to E-Verify their workers The system uses federal databases to check employees' legal status and work eligibility. Some states have required it, but so far it is voluntary for California businesses. Los Angeles County is exploring the possibility of requiring future contractors to participate in a federal program that checks whether employees are legal residents authorized to work in the United States.

08/25/09 Feds sought to deport 13K inmates from NYC jails Associated Press - August 25, 2009 12:45 AM ET NEW YORK (AP) - Immigration authorities have begun deportation proceedings against an estimated 13,000 inmates held at the Rikers Island penal...

08/24/09 Reform bars coverage of illegals, but enforcement is lacking Would President Barack Obama's proposed health care reform require taxpayer-funded coverage for illegal aliens? No, but... And that makes the matter both contentious and confusing. There is nothing in any of the current drafts of the 1,018-page bill that expressly calls for government-funded insurance of illegal aliens. In fact, Section 246 of the House bill, titled, "No federal payments for

08/24/09 U.S. Immigration Battle Heats Up With Congress set to consider bills that deal with illegal immigrants and H-1B visa abuse, President Obama may find immigration reform a tough promise to keep

08/21/09 On talk radio, Obama stands by health care plan President Barack Obama guaranteed Thursday that his health care overhaul will win approval and said any bill he signs will have to reduce rapidly rising costs, protect consumers from insurance abuses and provide affordable choices to the uninsured — while not adding to the federal deficit.

08/21/09 PA Immigrant Advocates Ask Phila. to Stop Acting for ICE Some members of Philadelphia City Council and the Pennsylvania legislature have joined Philadelphia community leaders in calling for an end to a controversial new program in which police officers target illegal aliens.

08/20/09 New Border Patrol Tools Protect Our Valley; Curb Illegal Immigration Through the end of July, around 28,000 illegal immigrants were captured by the El Centro Border Patrol sector alone. That sector has also increased its drug seizures by 150%, thanks in part to its Defense in Depth program, which places checkpoints strategically throughout the region.

08/20/09 Fresh fight looms over immigration With President Obama putting off the immigration reform debate until next year, immigrant rights groups are pushing the administration to suspend tough enforcement practices so illegal immigrants aren't punished under the current system. While acknowledging the need for an overhaul, Mr. Obama last week acknowledged during a visit to Mexico that his agenda is too full and said a solution will ...

08/19/09 SF Supes Propose Strengthening Sanctuary Law San Francisco supervisors are introducing a measure that would keep undocumented immigrant minors suspected of a felony from being handed over to immigration authorities until they've been proven guilty. The measure introduced by San Francisco supervisors Tuesday would reverse a position implemented last year by Mayor Gavin Newsom, which allowed underage illegal immigrants suspected of a crime

08/18/09  Illegal Immigration Among Debate In Healthcare Reform The illegal immigration issue has become a key component of the debate over healthcare reform. There is an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country and half of them do not have health care.

08/17/09 NV Immigrant care drives Vegas hospital into debt A Las Vegas hospital providing emergency dialysis services to 80 illegal immigrants says that accounts for much of its operating deficit

08/14/09 Arizona sheriff raids firm seeking illegal workers An Arizona sheriff who has aggressively cracked down on illegal immigration sent deputies into a Phoenix paper plant where they arrested 44 employees suspected of identity theft or immigration violations.

08/13/09 Napolitano Focuses on Immigration Enforcement   secretary of homeland security played down the need for reform in a speech in El Paso on Tuesday and took a tough stance on enforcing current immigration laws.

08/13/09 PA Specter to oppose health reform covering illegal immigration  During a town hall meeting Tuesday on health care reform, Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) stated his opposition to legislation that would cover illegal aliens. Specter has been a long-time champion of amnesty for illegal aliens, he was the author of the 2006 amnesty bill (S. 2611) that was widely rejected by the American people.

08/12/09 Demographer expects Louisiana to lose congressional seat if illegal aliens counted in census Demographer Elliott Stonecipher of Shreveport is threatening a lawsuit over the U.S. census if the government doesn't change its plans to count illegal aliens at citizens in next year's head count.   If the Census Bureau counts those who are in the country illegally, it will send more members of Congress and money to states like New York, California and Texas, Stonecipher said.   Stonecipher ...

08/11/09 In Mexico, Obama Says Immigration Reform Effort to Begin This Year President Obama, attending a North American summit with the leaders of Mexico and Canada, vowed Monday to pursue comprehensive U.S. immigration reform later this year with a view to enacting legislation in 2010 that would provide a "pathway to citizenship" for millions of illegal immigrants

08/11/09 Janet Napolitano on border, immigration and more The Homeland Security secretary talks about immigration reform, changing Bush administration policies and changes in detention policy

08/09/09 Billions on border: Security, drug war to be debated at conference Congressional leaders traveled the nation, hosting hearings and ginning up political furor over illegal immigration, lax security on the southern border and drug violence in Mexico.

08/08/09 TX Company That Harbored Illegal Immigrants Is Fined A Texas bakery supply company that pleaded guilty to harboring illegal immigrants will pay a criminal fine of $250,000 and forfeit $1.3 million to federal immigration authorities.

08/08/08 Sen. Mel Martinez making an early exit Sen. Mel Martinez's decision Friday to cut his term short by 17 months caps a historic though unfulfilled career for the first Cuban-American senator, while handing Gov. Charlie Crist a unique opportunity to choose a temporary successor as he runs for the job himself.

08/07/09 Obama aims to overhaul immigration jail system The reforms would send detainees without criminal records to less-restrictive sites that would be under more federal oversight. Pledging more oversight and accountability, the Obama administration announced plans Thursday to transform the nation's immigration detention system from one reliant on a scattered network of local jails and private prisons to a centralized one designed specifically for ...

08/06/09 Police chief Bratton shocks LA with resignation, decision to join private security firm by adopting "sanctuary city policies" and "catch and release policies" for illegal aliens. Nice job! No wonder the gangs of LA are … read more stronger than ever and growing by leap and bounds. Mission Accomplished!!

08/06/09  RI State Police to enforce immigration law State police detectives will function as federal agents with the power to arrest immigration violators under an agreement that's part of Gov. Don Carcieri's crackdown on illegal immigrants.

08/05/09 Hostage house in Compton an example of the increasing dangers for illegal immigrants Residents on Dern Avenue become witnesses to the outrage of human trafficking. The route northward passes through El Naranjo, a Guatemala jungle town where I rode in a little boat that puttered along the flat water of the Umacinta river, past tall ceiba trees and the largely apathetic Mexican border patrol.

08/04/09 Immigration Reform And Guest Workers: "We Wanted Workers; We Got People"  A thought provoking essay in the Washington Post by Ruben Navarrette, Jr. spreads the blame across the aisles for the lack of progress on immigration reform. The conventional wisdom, particularly among pro-immigrant reformers, is that Republican restrictionists are responsible for the hold-up

08/04/09 Obama continues Bush measures against illegal immigrants After early pledges by President Barack Obama that he would moderate the Bush administration's tough policy on immigration enforcement, his administration is pursuing an aggressive strategy for an illegal-immigration crackdown that relies significantly on programs started by his predecessor

08/03/09 S.C. restrictions leave illegal immigrants’ futures uncertain The chances for illegal immigrants to prosper in South Carolina may be dwindling as state lawmakers clamp down on college admissions and the hiring requirements for employers

08/01/09 WV Space Amendment: No Health Care Benefits for Illegal Aliens U.S. Rep. Zack Space has added a proposal to the public health care debate that would bar illegal immigrants from receiving government-funded health benefits.

07/31/09 Study: Illegal Immigration Declining Illegal immigrants are leaving Arizona and returning home because of a dismal job market and stricter enforcement of immigration laws.

07/31/09 Obama loses immigration allies Three years after President Obama marched alongside Hispanic and immigrant rights activists, they took to the streets Wednesday to march against him, saying he has betrayed them by embracing George W. Bush administration efforts to stem illegal immigration.

07/30/09 CA 5 arrested for illegal sale of immigration documents Five Southern Californians, including the former Armenian consul of Los Angeles, have been arrested for allegedly selling immigration documents to those looking to avoid deportation. 

07/29/09 Authorities: Suspects in Shooting Death of US Border Patrol Agent Tied To Illegal Immigration Ring The handful of people arrested in connection with last week's fatal shooting of U.S. Border Patrol agent Robert Rosas are also suspected of running an illegal immigration smuggling operation, authorities say

07/29/09 U.S. Chamber targets employer sanctions law The nation's largest business group is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to quash Arizona's employer sanctions law, at least in part to prevent the idea from spreading

07/27/09 U.S. Border Patrol agent killed in Calif. Border Patrol agents in the Southwest are taking extra steps to stay safe as  authorities continue to search for at least one gunman who shot and killed another agent Thursday.

07/27/09 Obama setting the priorities on immigration While Congress moves slowly on reform, the administration is making policy changes primarily aimed at illegal immigrants with criminal records and employers who hire undocumented workers. As Congress moves slowly on immigration reform, President Obama is making numerous policy changes in enforcement and other areas that are designed to shift priorities and boost confidence in the administration

07/25/09 IL Immigration officials arrest suspected gang members Federal Immigration officials have arrested 19 immigrants who are suspected gang members in a two-day operation in the Chicago area. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says 18 of those arrested are illegal immigrants and nearly all are from Mexico, according the Associated Press . One is a permanent U.S. resident from Mexico

07/24/09 Feds shift gears on illegal immigration The Department of Homeland Security is changing the way it tackles illegal immigration, in many cases remaking or rescinding Bush administration policies

07/24/09 MercuryNews: Recession blocks illegal immigration Their job prospects battered by a deep recession, fewer immigrants are being caught trying to cross illegally into the United States than at any time since the 1970s

07/22/09 Employers beware of ICE's I-9 campaign In the spring of 2009, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that it would begin focusing its interior immigration enforcement efforts on targeting employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens.

07/22/09 Deal to close Calif. deficit shapes up as a temporary fix, unlikely to solve fiscal crisis Cut, Cut, Cut Illegal Aliens off the Dole! No Amesty or taxpayer paid benfits for illegal aiens and save $$Billions annually! SACRAMENTO, Calif.

07/21/09 Lawyer Leads Local Fight Against Illegal Immigration A Dallas lawyer’s campaign to fight illegal immigration is fueled by an insurgency by cities and states fed up with what they see as federal failures on immigration 

7/20/09 Colorado to get access to immigration data  Colorado wants its local police officers to have access to federal immigration and criminal databases to identify illegal immigrants more quickly during jail bookings - a plan advocacy groups say could trigger racial profiling.

07/18/09 As U.S. Tightens Mexico Border, Smugglers Are Taking to the Sea Authorities said the shift demonstrated the resolve of smugglers, the difficulty in monitoring the sea, and the desperation of migrants willing to risk crossing it.

07/17/09 Calif treasurer warns that budget stalemate threatens ability to build schools, roads the state's already struggling K-12 education system spends approximately $7.7 billion a year to school the children of illegal aliens who … read more now constitute 15 percent of the student body.

07/16/09 ACLU wants details on federal immigration changes The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a public records request asking the Obama administration to make public changes it is making to a federal immigration enforcement program that allows local police to arrest and process illegal immigrants.

07/15/09 A look at the House Democrats' health bill Details on the health care overhaul bill introduced Tuesday by Democrats in the House:

07/15/09 L.A. mayor's chief counsel tapped to lead MALDEF Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's chief counsel, Thomas Saenz, has been tapped to become president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund

07/15/09 CA Calif. measure aimed at illegals' benefit  Organizers for a California ballot measure that would deny benefits to illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children say they are launching a petition drive.

07/14/09  California could lose a House seat after 2010 census Experts think the size of the state's delegation will probably remain unchanged, but even that would break a historical pattern. The

07/11/09 Arpaio: New rules meant to end crime sweeps The Department of Homeland Security is slapping new restrictions on local police agencies that have authority to enforce immigration law

07/11/09 A More Narrow Focus for Enforcement Program The Obama administration will expand a program that extends federal immigration enforcement authority to state and local police, but will focus it more sharply on capturing illegal immigrants who committed serious crimes

07/10/09 CA Deficit may trigger anti-illegal immigration ballot measure To save money, activists may try to cut aid for U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants. As California lawmakers struggle with a budget gap now grown to $26.3 billion, one of the hottest topics for many taxpayers is the cost to the state of illegal immigrants.

07/09/09 AZ, Arpaio Denies Being Hypocritical Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio does not believe he is being hypocritical by refusing to cooperate with an investigation by the Department of Justice, despite demanding cooperation from people he is investigating.

07/08/09 IN Forum encourages making illegals legal - Indiana's senior senator wants to help illegal aliens become documented. Aides to Sen. Richard Lugar will conduct a forum in Evansville on July 22 on legislation to help young, undocumented immigrants earn legal status by obtaining

07/08/09 Krispy Kreme fined for hiring illegal workers Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc has reached a $40,000 fine settlement for violating immigration laws by hiring illegal immigrants, U.S. immigration police said Tuesday.

07/07/09 Hispanics have vested interest in 2010 Census Latino groups aren't waiting for the U.S. Census Bureau to start mailing out questionnaires in March to encourage Spanish-speaking people to participate in next year's nationwide population count.

07/07/09 AZ Hispanic males are majority in county jails The population of White male inmates, after growing steadily for more than a decade, has dropped in the past five years, while the population of Hispanic male inmates has increased to the point that they make up the ethnic majority, according Sheriff's Office data.

07/06/09 TX How do You think Employers Should be Prosecuted for Hiring Illegal Aliens? East Texans say how they think employes in this country should be treated if they're caught hiring illegal immigrants. read more

07/04/09 Obama changing approach to illegal immigration in contrast to the high-profile raids that marked the enforcement approach of the Bush administration, no federal agents with criminal warrants stormed the company’s factories and rounded up employees. Instead, the federal immigration agency sent American Apparel a written notice that it faced civil fines

07/03/09 American Apparel Investigated for Hiring Illegal Workers American Apparel, a clothing company that prides itself on its made-in-America label, is under investigation by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Services for hiring illegal workers.

07/02/09 Feds begin immigration crackdown at 625 companies The Obama administration launched investigations of hundreds of businesses around the country Wednesday as part of its strategy to focus immigration enforcement on the employers who hire illegal workers.

07/1/09 Feds aim to reduce gun smuggling Two federal agencies criticized in the past for failing to work together to stop the flow of smuggled firearms from the United States to Mexico have agreed to boost their cooperation.

06/30/09 Democrats play word games on immigration People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens, and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who entered the United States legally," Schumer said.

06/29/09 Our view- Recession freezes immigration debate Our view on Coming to America: Recession freezes immigration debate but points to answers With jobs gone, number of illegal immigrants drops, but few leave. Not all that long ago, immigration was the nation's hottest political topic. Then the economy...

06/29/09 Border residents, DHS officials hold dialogue Alan Bersin, the Obama administration’s border czar, said Thursday the key to achieving comprehensive immigration reform rests with a secure border.

06/29/09 Immigration enforcement in Arizona could toughen As America’s busiest immigrant smuggling hub, Arizona has earned the distinction as a place that’s tough on people who sneak across the border.

06/28/09 California, here we come! In just a few weeks time, California hits the wall. And Americans should

06/26/09 Obama jump starts immigration reform debate President Barack Obama says his administration is committed to working with Congress to pass a comprehensive immigration reform.

06/25/09 Key senator says immigration revamp possible A senator leading the Democrats' push to revise the nation's immigration laws this year said Wednesday it can be done if his party and immigration advocates get tough on illegal immigration.

06/25/09 Obama Set for First, Tentative Step Today on Immigration Overhaul On the eve of the White House's long-delayed bipartisan meeting Thursday to kick off its drive to revamp U.S. immigration policy,

06/24/09 CA Illegal immigrant drug offenders were allowed in S.F.’s Back on Track Allowing illegal immigrants to expunge their felony records through a re-entry program that puts first-time drug offenders through job training was a “loophole in the design,” District Attorney Kamala Harris said Tuesday.

06/24/09 Homeland Security chief: We will enforce immigration laws Addressing hundreds of the nation's sheriffs in Fort Lauderdale, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that her department would work to secure the nation's border and enforce immigration laws.

06/22/09 California to turn immigrant inmates over to the feds Calif. - With California slipping into a financial sinkhole, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to save more than $180 million by cutting short the sentences of thousands of immigrants in the state's prisons and turning them over to federal authorities for deportation.

06/21/09 Obama says immigration overhaul is essential President Barack Obama said Friday he is committed to a comprehensive immigration overhaul that includes a way for illegal immigrants to become U.S. citizens.

06/19/09 Feds blasted for immigration raids A national commission blasted the federal government for its tactics in a series of workplace immigration raids, saying in a report released Thursday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had violated workers' rights and traumatized communities.

06/18/09 Immigration Agents to Get Expanded Powers In an expansion of its crackdown on drug cartels, the Obama administration plans to announce that it will give Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents the authority to investigate drug crimes.

06/17/09 Parents Blame Lax Immigration Enforcement for Son's Death There are many definitions across the U.S. of "immigration reform."  As Billy and Kathy Inman define it, praying at the grave of their 16 year old son Tuesday night, he would be alive if the U.S. had enforced laws already on the books.

06/17/09 Third year of fewer illegal immigrants caught The number of Border Patrol apprehensions nationwide has dropped for a third consecutive year, according to new government data.The Department of Homeland Security's Office of Immigration Statistics reports that the U.S. Border Patrol

06/16/09 Worker ID cards expected to stir up immigration debate Sen. Charles Schumer supports a worker ID card for all Americans. Business groups warm up to the idea, but labor activists and the ACLU have concerns.

06/16/09 Ariz. Senate OKs immigration enforcement bill The Arizona Senate's approved a bill to enable state and local police officers to help enforce immigration laws and to make it a crime for illegal immigrants to be in the state.

06/14/09 WI, Special driver cards intended to improve safety on roadways A plan to offer special cards that would allow undocumented immigrants a legal means to drive vehicles in the state survived the Assembly’s budget vote early Saturday.

06/13/09 San Francisco at a Crossroads on Immigration The city is deeply conflicted over how to cope with the fallout of illegal immigration and its sanctuary policy.

06/13/09 White House postpones immigration meeting A White House meeting on U.S. immigration policy, already postponed once, has been put off again, with no new date set.

06/12/09 OH, Driver's License Office Closed For Fraud Ohio is shutting down a driver licensing office that processed bogus identification cards for illegal immigrants.

06/11/09 Border Patrol: Driver tried to smuggle 73 into US The U.S. Border Patrol says a truck driver was arrested at a checkpoint in California after 73 illegal immigrants from Mexico...

06/10/09  NY Police: Drunk illegal drove into mom, girl The man who police say was driving drunk when he struck and killed a mother and her daughter Monday was in the U.S. illegally and didn't have a driver's license.

06/10/09 AZ State panel endorses controversial immigration bill A proposal that would draw local police officers deeper into the fight against illegal immigration cleared its first hurdle Tuesday at the Arizona Legislature.

06/09/09 Colorado lawmakers told they can do little to crack down on illegal immigration State lawmakers are finding out their options to crack down on illegal immigrants is limited.

06/08/09 'Blood wires' over the Mexican border Wire transfers keep crime cartels and human smugglers in the money, officials say. Arizona's attorney general wants Western Union to cooperate more fully with investigations.

06/06/09 Schwarzenegger: Don't blame state budget deficit on illegal immigrants Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday disputed claims that illegal immigrants caused California's $24.3 billion deficit, while he praised their economic contributions and said he is "happy" they have access to services.

06/06/09 Fewer illegal border crossings mean fewer Goldwater Range interruptions A dwindling number of illegal border crossings in Southwestern Arizona is translating into fewer interrupted missions for Marine pilots who have to abort or alter practice bombing runs when migrants enter their training range.

06/05/09 Obama Administration Abandons American Workers, Refuses to Implement E-Verify Requirement Billions of dollars in stimulus aid can be used by federal contractors to hire illegal workers because of the Obama administration's cancellation of a requirement that they use the E-Verify system. As unemployment soars in the U.S., taxpayer-funded assistance will be used to hire illegal aliens, according to Californians for Population Stabilization 

06/05/09 House panel rejects Obama plan to eliminate subsidies for jailing criminal aliens Defying President Barack Obama, lawmakers on Thursday saved a program that helps states with the cost of incarcerating criminal illegal immigrants as the House began the annual process of crafting the legislation to fund the government.

06/03/09 Arizona sheriff under civil rights investigation requests probe of investigators A lawyer for an Arizona sheriff who has aggressively cracked down on illegal immigration has asked for a probe of federal officials who are investigating the sheriff's office for alleged discrimination and unconstitutional searches.

06/02/09 CA Appeals court upholds dismissal of civil rights lawsuit  An appellate court on Monday upheld a federal judge's dismissal of a civil-rights lawsuit filed after an Ontario boy fatally shot himself following discipline for ditching school to attend an immigration rights march in 2006.

06/02/09 Border traffic moves easily with stricter identification code Traffic generally moved smoothly across the northern and southern borders Monday, the first day of stricter identification requirements for Americans re-entering the country from Canada or Mexico.

06/01/09 Sotomayor-La Raza link questions spread Questions over the fact that President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, claims membership in La Raza, which has promoted driver's licenses for illegal aliens, amnesty programs and no immigration law enforcement

06/01/09 US-Cuba talks on immigration to resume Cuba has agreed to resume talks with the Obama administration on legal immigration of Cubans to the United States and direct mail service between the two countries in a move welcomed by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

05/30/09 Arizona Sheriff Arpaio Says Politics Are Behind Federal Probes of His Office The lawyers representing a controversial Arizona sheriff who is under investigation for his treatment of Latino residents accused officials in the Justice and Homeland Security departments yesterday of political motivations in pursuing probes against their client.

05/29/09 Oklahoma lawmakers vote to deport illegal aliens from state prisons Legislation that authorizes state prisons to send illegal alien inmates to federal immigration officials for deportation has passed the state House.

05/29/09 What will America stand for in 2050? President Obama has encouraged Americans to start laying a new foundation for the country – on a number of fronts. He has stressed that we'll need to have the courage to make some hard choices. One of those hard choices is how to handle immigration. The US must get serious about the tide of legal and illegal immigrants, above all from Latin America.

05/28/09 Supreme Court pick seen as tied to immigration issue Democrats on Capitol Hill know that passing an immigration reform bill this year is unlikely now that they are already bogged down with energy and health care reform, two of President Barack Obama’s top agenda items.

05/27/09 Texas at forefront in screening inmates for immigration status Texas prisons are test-driving the Obama administration’s planned nationwide immigration screening and are relaying for the first time the digital fingerprints of roughly 1,500 arriving inmates each week to the Department of Homeland Security.

05/27/09 Iowa,ICE: Alleged killer is 'illegal' Local authorities are working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement or "ICE" on the South Sioux murder case since the alleged killer is illegal. Local officers with Immigration

05/27/09 CA Fast-track screening for illegal immigrants launched The Sheriff's Department will be the first law enforcement agency in California to use a comprehensive system designed to streamline the identification and deportation of criminal illegal immigrants, officials announced Tuesday.

05/26/09 Open borders and amnesty - again: A solution to illegal immigration? former Mexican President Vicente Fox at Georgia’s Kennesaw State University promoting the agenda of expanding NAFTA to include the free flow of people, May 12.

05/25/09 Assistance isn't going to those who need it Can a financially troubled country spend its way back into prosperity? Economists are divided over the answer to this question. But the Obama administration is convinced that massive government spending is the solution to our economic woes.

05/23/09 Cuba is asked to resume talks on legal immigration to U.S. In a new overture to Cuba, the Obama administration asked the island's communist government on Friday to resume talks on legal immigration of Cubans to the United States suspended by former President George W. Bush.

05/23/09 The ACLU: America's Taliban Almost every day I receive several newsletters from Christian, humanitarian, charitable or conservative political groups protesting the active, aggressive and increasingly unconstitutional opposition tactics – and sometimes outright persecution – by the ironically named "American Civil Liberties Union."

05/22/09 Senator says health insurance plan won't cover illegal immigrants - Health care reforms aiming for universal coverage won't provide insurance for illegal immigrants and may not address the cost to state and local governments for providing medical care to this large group of the uninsured, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said Thursday.

05/22/09 Arizona official wants stricter immigration law enforcement One of Arizona's staunchest critics of illegal immigration says politicians who don't aggressively enforce immigration laws should be removed from office.

05/21/09 New reason for Mexican immigration to U.S.: Drug violence Mexican immigration to the United States has been almost entirely an economic issue for the past few decades. Politicians have fine-tuned their positions around what to do about illegal immigrants who supposedly take jobs from Americans.

05/21/09 Don’t bail-out California California is completely, totally, irreparably hosed, says Megan McArdle . It will go bankrupt -- and we should let it happen

05/21/09 Little New in Immigration Policy Although President Obama has spent much of his time in office moving away from the policies of his predecessor, on immigration enforcement, he has embraced several Bush administration initiatives,

05/20/09 Immigration Enforcement Targets Employers The Obama Administration plans to intensify efforts begun under the Bush Administration to crack down on companies that knowingly hire illegal immigrants , according to Janet Napolitano, the new head of the of Homeland Security Dept.

05/19/09 Death count rises with border restrictions llegal border crossers face a deadlier trek than ever across Arizona's desert.The risk of dying is 1.5 times higher today compared with five years ago and 17 times greater than in 1998, the Arizona Daily Star's border-death database shows 

05/19/09 U.S. to Check Immigration Status of People in Local Jails The Obama administration is expanding a program initiated by President George W. Bush aimed at checking the immigration status of virtually every person booked into local jails. In four years, the measure could result in a tenfold increase in illegal immigrants who have been convicted of crimes

05/17/09 FBI nabs 14 alleged Barrio Aztecas on cocaine, money laundering charges-Fourteen alleged associates of Barrio Azteca, an El Paso-based gang known for money laundering, drug trafficking and violence, have been arrested on charges of trafficking cocaine

05/16/09 Killings of San Diego-area victims in Tijuana sow fear The slayings of four young Americans in Tijuana sowed fear in Southern California on Friday as Mexican prosecutors tried to determine whether the youths were involved in the country's violent drug trade or innocent victims of a brutal crime.

05/15/09 3 California counties will check immigration status as inmates enter jail The effort is part of a national program to run the inmates' fingerprints through federal databases. Illegal immigrants may then be deported after being convicted and serving their sentences. Los Angeles, Ventura and San Diego will become the first counties in California to begin checking the immigration status

05/15/09 MN Fake immigrant papers are genuine growth industry Illegal immigrants seeking work don't get far without documents, and counterfeiters are getting rich through underground operations.

05/15/09 AZ Miles from Mexico, deputies fight border crime Pinal County Sheriff's Deputies are miles from the border, but they still fight illegal immigration each and every day. In the cover of darkness, they use night vision technologies to patrol, always with the threat of drug smugglers attacking.

05/13/09 CA Political aspirations of Latinos and Asians clash in congressional race Analysts are watching to see how ethnicity will play in the campaign of Judy Chu and Gil Cedillo, the best known of the candidates battling in the heavily Latino district once represented by Hilda Sol A ferociously contested congressional race in the San Gabriel Valley has emerged as a classic test of the power of ethnic politics in the aftermath of Barack Obama's racial breakthrough in the ...

05/12/09 Family members of slain youth sue L.A. County Relatives of a 17-year-old youth slain by an illegal alien -- sparking an unsuccessful drive to put what became known as "Jamiel's Law" on the city ballot -- have sued the county for wrongful death.

05/12/09 CA, Orange County may lose millions for jailing illegal immigrants President Barack Obama's plan to redirect federal funds to the southwest border could mean Orange County stands to lose nearly $6.5 million in funds to house illegal immigrants with criminal convictions

05/11/09 Illegal immigration bills going nowhere ... fast In Washington and in many statehouses in the nation, few issues generate the type of passionate debate illegal immigration does. But it appears at least for this legislative session winding down in Austin, state lawmakers won't have to tackle this hot potato.

05/09/09 Study: Illegal immigrants having more kids in U.S. Growing numbers of children of illegal immigrants are being born in this country, and they are nearly twice as likely to live in poverty than those with American-born parents, a report says.

05/07/09 Guess how DHS defines who is a terrorist now Two weeks before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security penned its controversial report warning against "right-wing extremists" in the United States, it generated a memo defining dozens of additional groups

05/07/09 Tancredo: Obama 'truly a cult leader' Former Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado disagrees: "The problem is you cannot necessarily contain it but what you're trying to do is minimize the impact, of course, and reduce the number of people coming into the country with it."

05/06/09 Sinaloa cartel may resort to deadly force in U.S. Authorities say Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, the reputed leader of the Mexican cartel, has given his associates the OK, if necessary, to open fire across the border. The reputed head of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel is threatening a more aggressive stance against competitors and law enforcement north of the border, instructing associates to use deadly force, if needed, to protect increasingly ...

05/05/09 Supreme Court: Use of phony info by illegal immigrants not ID theft A unanimous Supreme Court said Monday that undocumented workers who use phony IDs can't be considered identity thieves without proof they knew they were stealing real people's Social...

05/05/09 Arizona activist wants to dethrone McCain Many Arizona conservatives would like nothing more than to see Sen. John McCain knocked off in a Republican primary. 

05/04/09 US Army extends immigrant recruiting Pilot program seeks to boost the ranks of language and healthcare specialists by offering citizenship

05/02/09 Immigrants? Rallies Draw Small Crowds in Flu Scare May Day marchers pointed to uneasiness about the flu scare and job worries in the recession to explain why many people stayed home.

05/01/09 U.S.Senate panel pushes immigration reform The new chairman of the Senate immigration subcommittee vowed Thursday to take on comprehensive immigration reform in this session of Congress, despite warnings that it is "bad politics" to tackle the thorny issue in the midst of a recession.

05/01/09 Greenspan Says Illegal Immigration Adds to U.S. Economic Growth Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that illegal immigration makes a “significant” contribution to economic growth by providing a flexible workforce.

04/30/09 Immigration debate a new symptom of swine flu outbreak the first U.S. death from the swine flu outbreak was of a Mexican toddler being treated in a Houston children's hospital, the baffling illness began bleeding over into the fevered ...

04/30/09 Illegal Aliens Cost Floirda Hospitals $100 Million There are between 12 and 20 million illegal aliens in the United States. No one has a hard number on how many illegal's are in the country but the Florida Hospital Association says the cost to hospital is staggering and everyone is paying for it. 

04/29/09 Some push to close U.S.-Mexico border to keep out swine flu Wanting to take every precaution to stem the spread of swine flu, at least two members of Congress are calling on the government to close the U.S.-Mexico border.

04/29/09 Latinos plan rally for immigration reform Utah Latinos plan to rally for immigration reform at Liberty Park Friday evening. With SB81, a new Utah immigration law, taking effect in July, Latinos are looking to the federal government for immigration reform

04/28/09 Drug violence spillover more hype than reality If you're not a criminal, you don't need to worry about the much-discussed spillover of violent crime from Mexico's drug wars.That's the unanimous opinion of 10 Southern Arizona law-enforcement officials interviewed by the Arizona Daily Star in the last two weeks. 

04/28/09 Illegal immigrants take resources from citizens When the speaker of the house says “no one is illegal,” the short-sighted views of those in government are sadly made clear. Every year, thousands of Americans aspire to receive higher education from their respective state’s public schooling system.

04/27/09 Study: Illegal immigration costs Texas billions A new study by the Austin-based Immigration Reform Coalition of Texas estimates that illegal immigration costs the state $4.5 billion to $6 billion a year, an amount mostly spent on educating their children

04/27/09 California counties cut healthcare to illegal immigrants With budget problems afflicting counties across the state, some have begun eliminating healthcare to illegal immigrants

04/24/09 DC, Illegal immigrant charged with child rape had been released a year earlier after assault arrest A year before Prince William County police say he raped an 8-year-old girl, court documents show an illegal immigrant from Honduras was released by Montgomery County police after being arrested for second-degree assault.

04/24/09 Missouri House bans illegal immigrants from college Illegal immigrants would be barred from attending Missouri public colleges under a bill that has cleared the state House. 

04/24/09 NH Man Deported 3 Times Nabbed Again In NH Authorities said a Canadian national who has been kicked out of the United States three times has been sentenced to nine months in jail for having come back yet again

04/24/09 OH Sheriff’s office: Illegal immigrant sold fake IDs The sheriff’s office said Efren Morales-Reynoso, 23, of Mexico, sold undercover agents a Social Security card and Permanent Resident Card — or green card — both of which were fake.

04/23/09 TX Illegal immigrant will plead guilty in beating of FBI agents An Anapra, Mexico, man who was part of a group that brutally beat two FBI agents in 2002 will plead guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor assault, his lawyer said.

04/23/09 CA ACLU raps SoCal city's license checkpoints  The American Civil Liberties Union says a Southern California city's traffic checkpoints are really aimed at rounding up illegal immigrants  

04/22/09 IL Federal immigration officals arrest 17 with alleged gang ties. Federal immigration agents in Chicago say they've arrested 17 immigrant men in a two-day operation focusing on gangs in the suburbs

04/22/09 UT The high cost of illegal immigration The Salt Lake City chief of police, Utah Attorney General and numerous other senior law enforcement officials throughout Utah are determined to maintain good relations with Utah's rapidly growing illegal alien community.

04/22/09 Colleges push tuition aid for illegal immigrants Wading into the politically charged immigration debate, a group of colleges and universities is urging Congress to give illegal immigrants tuition aid and a path to citizenship in light of efforts in several states to block them.

04/21/09 UT New Utah immigration law could affect health services An immigration law that takes effect on July 1 could limit some health-care services for illegal immigrants.

04/21/09 Are you an 'extremist'? While the rest of us may be worried about violent Mexican drug gangs on our border, or about terrorists who are going to be released from Guantanmo, the director of homeland security is worried about "right-wing extremists."

04/21/09AZ Apartment tenants held hostage, robbed by 4 illegals During the robbery, police say one victim was sexually assaulted and a 14-year-old girl was sexually abused

04/20/09 Senate committee to hear testimony on border violence. the committee, says smugglers have made the border unsafe and that the U.S. needs to act quickly to secure the border.

04/19/09 CA Husband of USC hit-run suspect arrested at Mexican border The man who allegedly pulled the crumpled body of an injured USC student off the hood of his wife's car, and left him bleeding in the street, was arrested at the Mexican border, and bailed out of jail today

04/18/09 GA Illegal immigration targeted Georgia's crackdown on illegal immigration will continue if Gov. Sonny Perdue signs into law a measure approved by the General Assembly requiring more jail checks that could lead to deportation.

04/17/09 CA Initiative targets U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants A California  statewide initiative now being circulated would create two kinds of birth certificates: one for the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants and one for everyone else.

04/17/09 Illegal-immigration prosecutor picked for border-czar job A former U.S. attorney who oversaw a crackdown on illegal immigration on the California-Mexico border a decade ago will be appointed the Southwestern border czar by the Obama administration, according to a Department of Homeland Security official.

04/17/09 NC UNC Protesters Shut Down Illegal-Immigration Event A speech against illegal immigrants by a former Colorado congressman, Tom Tancredo, ended in chaos at the University of North Carolina after raucous protests led campus police to shut down the event, the News & Observer reports. One protester pounded so hard on a window that it shattered.

04/16/09 Napolitano to name a 'border czar' Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is naming a former federal prosecutor to the new post of ``border czar'' to oversee efforts to end drug-cartel violence along the U.S.-Mexico border

04/16/09 AZ Sheriff says suspected illegal immigrant paid $85K a year  Two men have been arrested at a Scottsdale business in a case related to the state's employer sanctions law.

04/15/09 Mexico police seize anti-aircraft weapon near US border Police seized an anti-aircraft machine gun mounted on a van and other heavy weapons at a house in northern Mexico near the US border, an official said Tuesday.

04/15/09 Hispanics Make Up About Three-Quarters of U.S. Illegal Immigrants, Study Says  About three-quarters of the illegal immigrants in the United States are Hispanics, with the majority of their population coming from Mexico, a study released Tuesday by the Pew Hispanic Center said

 04/14/09 NC Congressman Walter Jones Introduces Illegal Alien Crime Reporting Act Representative Walter B. Jones (R-NC) has introduced H.R. 150, the Illegal Alien Crime Reporting Act, legislation that would require states to submit in-depth statistics on illegal alien criminal activity

04/14/09 NJ Split at top on illegal immigrants on a warm August night in a Newark schoolyard, four black college students were lined up against a wall and shot. Three died on the spot.

04/13/09 Illegal migrants' children targeted A conservative group is hoping to bring the issue of illegal immigration back to the front burner of California politics with a ballot measure that would create a new caste of birth certificates for children of the undocumented

04/13/09 Jailing illegal immigrants costs us now - and later Last month, the Allen County Jail contained 19 prisoners who admitted to being in the United States illegally. Fifteen of them had been charged with misdemeanors, the other four with more-serious felonies. Similar numbers were recorded in previous months.

04/13/09 California seeks more federal aid for keeping illegal inmates As crackdowns on illegal immigration are mounting, California is seeking more federal aid for cost of keeping illegal immigrant inmates, it was reported on Saturday.

04/12/09 Obama faces balancing act in visit to Mexico For Mexican officials, President Barack Obama's visit to Mexico on Thursday and Friday offers the hope of a new beginning after the missed opportunity of George W. Bush's presidency.

04/11/09 CA Family Sues San Francisco For Sanctuary Policy Protecting Illegal Immigrants The family of three men who were murdered in June is suing the City of San Francisco for creating a sanctuary policy that prohibited local police from turning over illegal immigrants to federal authorities -- even when they have a criminal record.

04/11/09 AZ Drugs, human smuggling present big challenge for police Arizona law enforcement officers are dealing with an unprecedented challenge -- an upswing in violence connected to the Mexican drug wars. 

04/10/09 Big Bend border patrol agent said variety of tactics needed to maintain security By increasing border security, the Marfa sector chief patrol agent said Wednesday, officials are able to focus on individuals crossing into the United States who have potential to do harm and are not coming to Texas in search of a job.

04/09/09 Obama to tackle immigration reform this year - Report Obama to tackle immigration reform this year - ReportObama to tackle immigration reform this year - Report

04/09/09 Illegal immigrant voting a reality in some states While voting rights for non-citizens sparks controversy here, other states allow residents without U.S. citizenship a chance to vote in some elections

04/08/09 Sharpton demands  Sheriff Arpaio to resign  Sharpton called alleged civil and human rights violations a modern "reign of terror" carried out by Arpaio for his illegal immigration enforcement

04/08/09 2 Mexican Federal Police Agents Deported  Two Mexican federal police agents who pleaded no contest in a Los Angeles County drug case have been deported. U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement officials say Victor Juarez and Carlos Filippini were escorted Tuesday to the San Ysidro border crossing and turned over to officers from the Mexican attorney general's office

04/07/09 Advocates Want Halt on Immigration Raids to Ensure Accurate Census U.S. Rep. William Clay says he'll ask the Obama administration to suspend immigration raids over the next year, so illegal immigrants don't worry that sharing accurate information with Census workers could somehow expose them to punishment

04/06/09 NJ Panel urges driving rights for N.J. illegal immigrants Alejandro Chavez, an undocumented immigrant from Puebla, Mexico, worked in the apple orchards of Washington state for years, driving to and from work with a valid state motor vehicle license

04/06/08 AZ Ranchers- Put agents on border A group of Cochise County ranchers had a message for two federal government representatives on Saturday: Border Patrol agents need to be on the border, not miles away from it.

04/04/09 The Phoenix Sheriffs dept. Fights Back,They tell Phoenix mayor Phil Gordon to "Shut Up"!!!! Video

04/04/09 Mexico & U.S. form working group. Mexico and the United States have formed a high-level, joint working group to make immigration safer and more orderly, Mexican officials announced Friday.

04/03/09 Maricopa County halts immigration funds for Arpaio - The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday voted to postpone the acceptance of $1.6 million from the state to help pay for illegal immigration enforcement by Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

04/03/09 U.S. immigration officials sued for abusing civil rights Civil rights groups announced on Thursday they have sued the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency in federal district court for detaining immigrants in egregious and unsanitary conditions in Los Angeles. The lawsuit filed on April 1 said detainees at the Los Angeles facility have no soap, drinking water, toothpaste, toothbrushes, sanitary napkins, changes of clothing or showers. ...

04/02/09 Illegal Immegration is a threat to American security. A congressional report revealed that in 2005, border patrol agents apprehended 650 illegal immigrants from "special interest countries" 

04/02/09 Illegals want amnesty before the U.S. census. Saying traditional census outreach will not be enough, Hispanic groups on Wednesday urged the Obama administration to follow through now on its pledge to pass immigration reform or risk an undercount of millions of people.

04/02/09 illegal immigrants must be arrested. It sounds to me like Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon is the one trying to incite racial tensions! How does one racially profile a criminal?

04/02/09 Remittances to Mexico fall 3% in February The money Mexicans living abroad sent home fell three percent in February compared to the same month last year, the central bank’s president said Wednesday

03/31/09 A Pinoy at the US-Mexican border The Customs and Border Protection official at the San Ysidro station near the Mexican border asked an Asian wanting to enter the United States what was his nationality. When the Asian seemed perplexed, he modified his question: What’s your country?

03/31/09 Chicago immigration march set for May 1 March in Chicago Loop is set for May 1 and advocates seek legislation In what has become an annual rite of spring, immigrant advocates announced plans Tuesday for another march through downtown Chicago on May 1 to push for federal reforms on behalf of those in the country illegally

03/30/09 Md. drivers license bill riles foes! The Maryland House of Delegates struck an uneasy compromise last week on a bill that would, in effect, allow thousands of illegal immigrants to renew their driver's licenses but require proof of legal status to obtain a new license beginning next month.

03/30/09  Phoenix city council members are not unified in backing the mayor against Sheriff Joe!  There is no unity on the Phoenix City Council when it comes to Sheriff Joe Arpaio's illegal immigration sweeps.

03/30/09 Central America to U.S.,"Slow Deportations"  Central American leaders will push the U.S. to slow a flood of deportations when Vice President Joe Biden meets with them Monday, promising a "new day for relations" with a region that has felt ignored.

03/29/09 TX DPS License supervisor arrested in document scheme. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Document and Benefit Fraud Task Force led the investigation, with assistance from DPS.

03/29/09 AZ 30 years in jail for man who shot at Phoenix Police Officer. A bullet proof vest saved Officer Bret Glidewell's life in October 2007. The then 22-year-old was shot during a traffic stop by Jose Cabrera, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador.

03/28/09 U.S deters hiring of foreign workers. As more Americans lose their jobs, the U.S. government is actively discouraging the recruitment of foreign workers, from dude ranchers and fruit pickers to lifeguards and computer programmers.

03/27/09 Letter un American,Pelosi should look in the mirror. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent comment stating that the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement are “un-American” is ludicrous and unacceptable.

03/27/09 Dallas police identify illegal alien in two child rapes Dallas police today released the identity of the man believed to be responsible for raping two children in northeast Dallas.He was identified as Jose Rico, 33, an illegal immigrant, police said.Rico was being held in the Dallas County jail on charges of aggravated sexual assault and burglary of a habitation.

03/26/09 IL Congressman Gutierrez to promote illegal Alien Amnesty.During Detroit Visit  Amidst a backdrop of rising unemployment and increased costs of illegal immigration, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) has been on a five week tour visiting 16 American cities -- including Detroit, MI this Friday -- promoting amnesty for millions of illegal aliens and the dismantling of immigration law enforcement programs

03/26/09 PA Proposed illegal Immigrant Benifits Ban. The Pennsylvania Senate will soon vote on a bill to keep illegal aliens living in the state from getting public benefits, like Medicaid, welfare and in-state college tuition.

3/26/09 Local& State health depts. forced to cut services to illegals For many states, budget cuts often mean reduced funding for programs for uninsured residents, many of whom are low-income and undocumented immigrants

03/25/09 Obama steps up anti-cartel fight on the border Hundreds of federal agents, along with high-tech surveillance gear and drug-sniffing dogs, are headed to the Southwest to help Mexico fight drug cartels and keep violence from spilling across the U.S.-Mexico border, Obama administration officials said Tuesday.

03/25/09 Md. School board rejects illegal immigration.The Maryland State Board of Education has blocked an effort to make Frederick County public school administrators count the number of illegal immigrant students.

03/25/09 MI, llegals concern sheriff. After just 80 days in office, the Huron County Sheriff is already wrestling with the issue of illegal immigrants in Huron County

03/24/09 Obama Flinches on Immigration The suffering that illegal immigrants endure is a civil-rights crisis that cannot be left to fester while we wait for the big immigration bill that may or may not arrive under this president.

03/24/09 Pelosi's 'patriotic' illegal aliens As if voicing support for the sentiments of Margaret Sanger (the progenitor of Planned Parenthood) wasn't enough, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is now calling it "un-American" to enforce immigration laws, and calling illegal alien criminals "heroes" and pledging to protect their "right to work" in our country.

03/22/09 Border guards optomistic on future after release from prision. Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos began their "supervised release" Friday after President Bush commuted their sentences in January for convictions related to the shooting of a Mexican drug smuggler

03/22/09 MA Police chief blasted over immigration stance Fitchburg Police Chief Robert DeMoura has drawn fire over recent public comment in support of giving illegal immigrants access to drivers' licenses.

03/22/09 AZ The "Witch Hunt" For Sheriff Joe will fail There it was on Friday the 13th, E.J. Montini's column, "Arpaio a victim of a witch hunt." This unlucky day will be remembered by our pro-illegal-immigration Washington lobbyists, Mayor Phil Gordon and county Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox as the day they pushed all their chips into the pot with the losing hand.

03/21/09 Mo. Town outraged over killings by illegal immigrant.  A Hannibal police officer was finishing up mundane paperwork on a quiet Saturday morning when Manuel Cazares walked into the station, blood splattered on his hands and shoes. Cazares put his hands out, crossed them, and told the officer to arrest him.

03/21/09 68% of Arizonans favor Sheriff who gets tough on immigration  Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Arizona voters have a favorable view of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose aggressive enforcement of laws against illegal immigration have triggered an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. 

3/20/09 Border drain open for hours before 8 entered it  A storm drain in front of the nation's busiest border crossing had been left open for hours by U.S. authorities before eight Mexicans used it to try to enter the U.S. illegally

03/19/09 College students opt for spring break cleaning. Lesley Vertrees and Bol Bulabek could have been relaxing or partying on Monday during their spring break, but instead they were cleaning up illegal immigrant trash.

03/18/09 Smugglers using Fake company vans Authorities say smugglers are now using company logos to sneak people into the United States. Border patrol agents said they saw a copy-cat DHL delivery van on Buckman Springs Road in Campo on Saturday.  

03/18/09 Illegal Aliens using Wisconsin State Capitol to Demand Rights Illegal alien advocates are planning a day of lobbying and training on the grounds of the Wisconsin State Capitol on Wednesday, March 18. A coalition of law-abiding, taxpaying Wisconsiners, led by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), will be on-hand at the Capitol to express their outrage over this inappropriate use of state facilities.

03/17/09 Border fences grow, as does debate that rages over them Three men prop a ladder on top of a tree branch and lean it against a 15-foot border fence made of steel tubes so close together a man can't fit his head through.

03/17/09 Latino groups lobby for in-state tuition in Colorado Latino groups supporting a proposal to allow illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition

03/17/09 Hot-button issues for 2010 Census: Big numbers of immigrants, fears of federal snooping What seems like a simple question — How many Hispanics are living in the United States? — has become surprisingly complex as the 2010 Census approaches.

03/16/09 CA, Recession cuts illegal immigrants’ health care (WOW IT IS SO DRASTIC!! CUTTING NON EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICES TO ILLEGALS. what a bunch of idiots reporting ) Bowing to recession-related budget pressures, Sacramento County recently took the drastic step of cutting non-emergency health services for illegal aliens.

03/14/09 Sexual predator illegal returns to U.S. after being deported. On Tuesday, March 10, officials arrested a convicted sexual predator who had reentered the United States illegally after being deported. The 28-year-old Nicaraguan man was encountered during an enforcement operation being conducted at several warehouses.

03/14/09 Nevadans say illegal aliens hurt the state's budget  A majority of Nevadans think illegal immigration is having a negative effect on the state's budget, according to a Zogby poll released last week.

03/14/09 Illegal immigrant kills Indiana man while high on pot.  A 17-year-old boy from Milwaukee is accused of killing a Delavan man. Prosecutors say Donovan Espinosa was driving high on marijuana and is an illegal immigrant.

03/14/09 An analysis of the 14th Ammendment. Section one of the Fourteenth Amendment was designed to serve one purpose: Put an end to denial of those fundamental rights that belong to all citizens by virtue of citizenship under Article IV, Sec. II of the U.S. Constitution

03/13/09 Napolitano: U.S. agents to increase on border The U.S. will soon send a large contingent of federal agents to its southern border to help stem recent violence in northern Mexico, the nation's Homeland Security chief said Thursday

03/13/09 Mexican drug war is escalating Concern about a potential failed state - not Pakistan, not Somalia, but neighboring Mexico - is mounting in Washington as an all-out war involving 45,000 Mexican military personnel fails to quell rising drug violence that is spilling from such Mexican cities as Tijuana into the United States.

03/12/09 Ex-US immigration official sentenced to prison A former senior immigration official has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for taking bribes in exchange for favors that included the release of illegal immigrants from detention. A federal judge on Monday sentenced Roy Bailey to 37 months in prison and fined him $30,000. Prosecutors say the 55-year-old Romulus man accepted money and gifts in exchange for ...

03/11/09 Illegals may get a slice of stimulus money pie Millions of federal stimulus dollars will be flowing into Tennessee as road and bridge projects begin. But one group feels illegal immigrants hired by those construction companies will benefit from your money more than you.

03/11/09 CA Recent sweep of day laborers reopens hot debate about day labor centers For years, some community activists in Riverside's Casa Blanca neighborhood have been pushing for construction of a hiring center for the day laborers who congregate along Madison Street. After Riverside police swept through the area Jan. 29 and detained 12 people for trespassing and other infractions, they repeated those calls, arguing that a center would have prevented problems. Photo Gallery:

03/10/09 Ex-US immigration official sentenced to prison A former senior immigration official has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for taking bribes in exchange for favors that included the release of illegal immigrants from detention.

03/09/09 Numbers of illegals crossing mexican border drop sharply.As fewer illegal immigrants cross the U.S.-Mexico border, arrests in the last five months are down 24 percent from the same period last year, a newspaper report said on Sunday.  

03/08/09 Arpio will keep aresting illegals.  The sheriff's department in Arizona's most populated county will continue to arrest illegal immigrants even if it drops out of a federal program that lets local police enforce federal immigration laws, the sheriff said.

03/08/09 Border Patrol Pursuit ends in crash  Two people face prosecution for alien smuggling after leading Border Patrol agents on a nearly 15-mile chase through Orange County that ended in a collision with other motorists

03/07/09 Senate will vote on E-Verify  Sen. Jeff Sessions' amendment to extend E-Verify for another five years has made the cut of amendments that will be voted on before a final vote on the Omnibus Appropriations bil

03/06/09 Feds, others criticize immigration deputizing effort A controversial program that deputizes local police as federal immigration-enforcement agents will be revised, after a government report issued this week criticized the plan as lacking key controls.

03/06/09 Hispanic enrollment in schools, colleges rising Roughly one-fourth of the nation’s kindergartners are Hispanic, evidence of an accelerating trend that now will see minority children become the majority by 2023.

03/05/09 Hispanic growth in school enrollment points to rapid US diversification, surge in population  Roughly one-fourth of the nation's kindergartners are Hispanic, evidence of an accelerating trend that now will see minority children become the majority by 2023.

03/05/09 Report Questions Immigration Program That Uses Local Police The program was supposed to root out violent felons by deputizing police officers as immigration agents. But the government report says some agencies used it differently

03/04/09 Obama enviromental policies could impact border work. Environmentalists are welcoming the Obama administration’s efforts to expand regulations for endangered animals that were loosened by the Bush White House.

03/03/09 System that checks status of workers set to expire Congress is expected to extend the life of E-Verify this week, but long-term questions remain about the future of the federal system, which Arizona and other states require employers to use to screen out illegal workers.

03/03/09 Attention U.S. citizen, do not defend yourself I magine you live in a small border town in southern Arizona. Every day on the news, you hear reports of murders and drug violence in the area, and the body count is alarmingly high.

03/02/09 Marchers protest illegal immigration policies A few thousand people marched Saturday in downtown Phoenix to protest Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's illegal-immigration policies. Authorities say the "March to Stop the Hate" was peaceful with no major incidents reported.

03/01/09 Activists protest immigration raids in Phoenix Thousands of people protesting a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigrants by an Arizona sheriff marched through Phoenix on Saturday, toting placards reading "We Are Human" and "Stop the Raids."

02/28/09 AL. Illegal immigrant held in rape of girl Fort Payne Police DepartmentJuan Francisco Santiago FORT PAYNE - A $20,000 bond has been set for an illegal immigrant arrested for allegedly raping a girl under 16

02/27/09 The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)- Illegal  Illegal immigration is a crime. Learn about illegal immigrant laws by joining FAIR today. ... Apologists for illegal immigration try to paint it as a ...

02/27/09  Our Opinion- Immigration slows, border violence worsening The number of U.S. residents here illegally has declined, a rare occurrence that the Department of Homeland Security links to rising unemployment and more rigorous border enforcement.

02/26/09 Illegals targeted sheriff as part of gang initiation The attempted assassination of a South Carolina deputy sheriff was a gang initiation carried out by three illegal immigrants including a 15-year-old boy who was supposed to "kill a cop" in order to be admitted as a member, according to a confidential Department of Homeland Security advisory.

02/26/09 Napolitano confronted with immigration reform Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will have her first private meeting with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on Thursday, a number...

02/25/09 Arizona Lawmakers Target Border-Related Crime  Arizona legislators are moving to toughen and broaden state laws against border-related crimes such as human smuggling and trafficking. 

02/35/09 Violence sends Mexicans to U.S. for 'asylum' Mexicans desperately fleeing from drug violence in their own country are seeking asylum in the United States – and their numbers have nearly doubled in recent years.

02/24/09 Wave of Drug Violence Is Creeping Into Arizona From Mexico, Officials Say The raging drug war among cartels in Mexico and their push to expand operations in the United States has led to a wave of kidnappings, shootings and home invasions in Arizona, state and federal officials said at a legislative hearing on Monday

02/23/09 Supreme Court hears immigrant's ID theft case  Ignacio Carlos Flores-Figueroa, an undocumented worker from Mexico, made a curious and undeniably bad decision. After working under an assumed name for six years, he decided to use his real name and exchanged one set of phony identification numbers for another

02/22/09 Illegal immigrant charged in girl's abduction An illegal immigrant accused of abducting and molesting a 4-year-old girl at a northeast Harris County apartment complex is facing a kidnapping charge, authorities say.

02/21/09 Border Patrol shoots suspected smuggler in NM U.S. Border Patrol agents shot a suspected drug smuggler in the New Mexico desert after the man ran over an officer with a pickup truck, officials said Friday.

02/20/09 Hispanic Parents appeal Wichita school's 'English only' policy Hispanic parents are appealing a federal judge's ruling upholding a Catholic school's policy requiring students to speak only English while in school.

02/20/09 Mexico: Exodus of migrants falls by more than half Migration from Mexico, mainly to the United States, has fallen dramatically as fewer Mexicans leave their country to look for work abroad amid a global economic downturn, the government said Thursday.

02/19/09 Jury rules rancher didn't violate migrants' rights A federal jury found Tuesday that a southern Arizona rancher didn't violate the civil rights of a group of illegal immigrants who claimed that he detained them at gunpoint in 2004.

02/18/09 U.S. jury finds rancher liable in vigilante trial A U.S. federal jury awarded more than $70,000 in damages to a group of illegal immigrants who claimed they were held at gunpoint by an Arizona rancher after slipping over the border from Mexico five years ago.

02/18/09 Ramos, Compean freed from prisonCongressman calls for probe of prosecutor, role of Mexico  Convicted former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were released from federal prison this morning and are en route to join their families in El Paso, Texas

02/18/09 Temp agency chief made $12M from illegal immigrants A 50-year-old Danville man was sentenced Tuesday to five years in federal prison for operating a temporary employment agency with illegal immigrants that generated $12 million in revenue between 2002 and 2007.

02/17/09 Advocates for immigrants urge ‘reform, not raids' Two weeks ago, in a move that incensed civil rights groups, Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio paraded 220 chained illegal immigrants in front of cameras down a Phoenix street.

02/15/09 Immigration Reform Advocates Ready to Try Again  This time around the circumstances are more favorable for passing reform legislation

02/14/09 4 US Reps request civil rights probe of Ariz. sheriff's accused of racial profiling for going after Illegal aliens Four members of Congress have asked the Justice Department to conduct a civil rights investigation into immigration and crime sweeps conducted by an Arizona sheriff's office.

02/14/09 Democratic Leadership Requires Stimulus Job Access for Illegal Aliens -- Secret Negotiations House Speaker Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Reid and the Obama White House were absolutely certain about one thing for the House/Senate negotiating committee on the Stimulus Bill:  There was to be no special restriction to keep illegal aliens from getting new jobs created by the bill at a cost of $250,000 to $500,000 each.  

02/13/09 AZ, 60 Illegal Aliens Suspected of ID Theft One by one, workers at a Phoenix business were led away in handcuffs after Maricopa County Sheriff deputies served a search warrant on the premises of Handyman Maintenance Incorporated near 19th Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road.

02/12/09 AZ, Sheriff Arpaio responds to immigration raid criticism Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies arrested 60 illegal immigrants during a raid on a south Phoenix business Wednesday, the culmination of a four-month investigation.

02/12/09 Bill to deny bail to illegal immigrants proposed in N.C. House Illegal immigrants charged with a number of offenses, including traffic violations, would be denied bail under a bill filed by two freshmen Republican lawmakers. "For me, it's about trying to keep our communities safe," said Rep. Pearl Burris-Floyd,

02/12/09 Twice deported illegal immigrant convicted of kidnapping  Ismael Mayorquin, 47, has been convicted of kidnapping after he pulled a 12-year-old girl into an alley against her will in October 2007. He faces 10-24 years in prison without the possibility of early release. 

2/12/09 8 House Dems ask for border fence halt Eight Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives are asking for a halt to new border fence construction.

02/11/09 States, cities revisiting immigration ordinances In Texas, Alabama and elsewhere, lawmakers have repealed or modified measures that cracked down on illegal immigrants or made English the official language. In Iowa and Utah, legislators are proposing similar reversals

02/11/09 Midwife births raise questions about citizenship The citizenship of hundreds, possibly thousands, of people who insist they are Americans is being called into question because they were delivered by midwives near the U.S.-Mexico border.

02/10/09 Napolitano: As Recession Deepens, Illegal Immigration From Mexico Declines Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the department has seen a "significant decrease" in the number of illegal immigrants crossing over from Mexico because there are fewer available jobs in the United States. 

02/10/09 Boeing not sure to get 'virtual fence' work beyond 2009 The new director of Homeland Security's "virtual fence" project said Friday that Boeing Co. is not a lock to continue working on it past 2009.

02/10/09 First Immigration Bill of 2009 Proposed in U.S. Senate The first immigration reform bill of 2009 was proposed by a group of U.S. senators on January 6, 2009. All of the sponsoring senators are members of the Democratic Party. Senate Bill 9, also called

02/10/09 New 'virtual fence' on verge of going up Construction set to begin next month on maligned project to secure border

02/09/09 16 illegals sue Arizona rancher  An Arizona man who has waged a 10  year campaign to stop a flood of illegal immigrants from crossing his property is being sued by 16 Mexican nationals who accuse him of conspiring to violate their civil rights when he stopped them at gunpoint on his ranch on the U.S.-Mexico border.

02/09/09 Government aims to charge more illegal crossers  Eliminating voluntary returns in the Southwest border's busiest sector is still a long way off, despite the U.S. Border Patrol's intentions.

02/06/09 WA sheriff, Border Patrol at odds over immigration A sheriff on northwest Washington's Olympic Peninsula - the site of recent increased immigration enforcement by the U.S. Border Patrol - has decided not to seek federal money offered under a program that requires applicants to accept Border Patrol terminology that describes illegal immigrants as "criminal aliens."

02/06/09 Contractors Beware Under Immigration Bill A contractor who employs illegal immigrants could lose his license under a bill filed Thursday in the Legislature.

02/05/09 Border Patrol Deploys New Mobile Surveillance System In New Mexico The Border Patrol has a new tool to keep the border safe, and make agents more effective at what they do.

02/05/08 As illegal immigrant stands trial in fatal stabbing, victim's dad wants to know why authorities didn't detain suspect until after the killing  Danny Bridges stood near the back of the courtroom before the opening of the murder trial, glowering at the man accused of stabbing his daughter 11 times.

02/05/09 Border-Fence Project Hits a Snag Construction of the final stretch of a 670-mile security fence along the southern U.S. border has hit a series of legal, political and engineering obstacles that are slowing completion of the yearlong project.

02/04/09 CA, Illegal at UCLA wants your money!  An admitted illegal alien who has been accepted to UCLA is said to be distraught by her inability to collect state and federal financial aid. The Los Angeles Times glamorized Karina De La Cruz' story in a lengthy article today .

02/04/09 AZ, Arpaio moving Illegal immigrants to Tent City The Maricopa County Sheriff's Department plans to move hundreds of illegal immigrants to a segregated area of the Tent City complex to serve the rest of their sentences, Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced Tuesday afternoon.

02/04/09 CO, Bill wants to let illegal immigrants pay in-state tuition If passed by the state legislature, a new law would mean illegal immigrants in Colorado would be able to go to college and pay in-state tuition.

02/03/09 'Catch-and-release' is reality for now Eliminating voluntary returns in the Southwest border's busiest sector is still a long way off, despite the U.S. Border Patrol's intentions.

02/03/09 Immigration detention center considered for L.A. area Contractors are sought as Immigration and Customs Enforcement explores the project's feasibility. A Homeland Security notice says the center would be privately owned and operated. The federal government is looking for contractors to build a possible detention center in the Los Angeles area that would hold up to 2,200 illegal immigrants and others suspected of violating immigration laws. 

02/02/09 SoCal border agents complain of quotas U.S. Border Patrol agents working about 100 miles north of the Mexican border say they have been given arrest quotas at odds with agency practices and threatened with punishment if they fail to meet the number.

02/01/09 Mexico’s Border Crackdown A Lesson For U.S. IF YOU THINK the bad economy has “solved” America’s immigration problems, welcome to your end-of-the-year reality check. It’s certainly true illegal crossings from the south are down and that many foreign workers are returning to their native lands as work dries up. But border chaos, haphazard enforcement, massive backlogs and deportation negligence remain the order of the day.

January 2009

• 01/31/09 Napolitano wants criminal aliens out of US If you're a criminal and you're not entitled to be in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wants you out of the country. 

  01/31/09 Groups aim to protect U.S. jobs in stimulus bill Anti-illegal-immigration groups declare victory when the House's economic package passes with a provision to require employee verification. Anti-illegal-immigration groups launched a campaign late last year to ensure that any jobs created by the economic stimulus package go to Americans and not to illegal immigrants.

  01/30/09 Stimul us seeks to bar illegals from tax credit Illegal immigrants without Social Security numbers could not get tax credits under the $800 billion-plus economic stimulus package making its way through Congress.

  01/29/09 Egyptian Engineers  travel to US-Mexico border A delegation of Egyptian engineers has traveled to the American border with Mexico to learn techniques used by the US military to detect and destroy smuggling tunnels,

  01/29/09 Border Security Agency announces plans to fill 11,000 jobs in 2009 U.S. Customs and Border Protection will kick-off National Career Day around the U.S. to announce CBP's goal for hiring approximately 11,000 frontline and mission and operations support positions in 2009.

  01/28/09 01/28/09 El Paso stretch of fence nearly done The controversial U.S.-Mexico border fence could be finished in the El Paso region in about two weeks as construction nears its national goal, officials said.

  01/27/09 Border cameras cost $2 million, led to 3 arrests Texas officials are criticizing a $2 million security program aiming surveillance cameras at the Mexico-U.S. border as “a waste of time and money” after a six-month progress report recorded just three arrests – or nearly 1,200 fewer than supporters had predicted.

• 01/26/09 Napolitano lists Canadian border a top security priority Vulnerabilities along the Canadian border are one of more than a half-dozen priorities identified by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano during her first week.

  01/26/09 Better defense against illegal aliens needed Illegal immigration is a problem that affects the United States and its citizens negatively. It also affects the economy, as well as politics. In order to figure out the problems that illegal immigration causes, we must first look into the causal factors for the illegal migration of people from Mexico into the U.

  01/25/09 E-Verify Amendments Added to House Appropriations Stimulus Bill The House Appropriations Committee approved a stimulus bill on Thursday with two key amendments. Rep. Ken Calvert successfully added an amendment that would extend E-Verify for four years. Rep. Jack Kingston successfully added another amendment that would require any contractors awarded work through stimulus money to verify the employment eligibility of their workers through E-Verify.

  01/24/09 Two Sides of a Border: One Violent, One Peaceful  Every day, as she gets off a bus in Mexico and crosses the border to go to work in downtown El Paso, Edith Escobedo says she feels a sense of relief

  01/24/09 Immigrant Rights Activists March on ICE on Day After Inauguration Immigrant advocates wasted no time in pressing their agenda of reform, organizing a march the day after President Obama's inauguration.

  01/22/09 Obama to stop ousting illegals? A former illegal alien who sought sanctuary in a Chicago church in 2006 before being deported back to Mexico has written a letter to President Barack Obama, asking him to issue an executive order to stop sending illegals home.

  01/21/09 Opponents of the Border Fence Look to Obama The new President will face tough decisions on what to do about the controversial barrier to illegal immigrants

  01/20/09 Bush commutes sentences of former US border agents In his final acts of clemency, President George W. Bush on Monday granted early prison releases to two former U.S. Border Patrol agents whose convictions for shooting a Mexican drug dealer fueled the national debate over illegal immigration.

  01/20/09 Obama poised to give insurance to illegals Shortly after taking office, President Obama is expected to sign a bill that could give health insurance to illegal aliens and children from middle-class families that make more than $61,000 per year. 

  01/19/09 Selling out our country to illegals  San Francisco politicians have no connection to reality. In the midst of huge financial struggles for the city, the Board of Supervisors began issuing municipal identification cards last week to anyone who provides an ID and a utility bill with a local address or evidence of a child in local public schools.

  01/19/09 US lawyer: Court ruling won't affect executions  The International Court of Justice is due to rule Monday on a complaint that the United States defied the court when it executed a Mexican convicted rapist and murderer last year.

  01/19/09 ANDY COMER: What if Mexico's government fell apart? I remember being worried about living so close to Mexico when I first moved to the Rio Grande Valley. Mexico seemed like an untamed, violent and dangerous place to a guy from Ohio

  01/18/09 Immigrants sentenced to 26 years for human smuggling Two illegal immigrants have been sentenced to 26 years in prison for their roles in operating a Phoenix drop house.

  01/17/09 Latinos look to Obama's presidency with hope Barack Obama's historic presidency is being viewed by some in the Latino community with optimism and hope; others say they remain skeptical about whether the nation's first black president shares their aspirations.

  01/16/09 Homeland Security pick vows immigration crack down Janet Napolitano, named to run the Homeland Security Department, pledged today to crack down on illegal immigration by targeting companies that hire undocumented workers.

  01/16/09 Warning to Marines: Stay Out of Mexico! A new U.S. Marine Corps policy is in effect restricting travel south of the border without prior approval. Officials with the U.S. Marine Corps said with the escalating violence in Mexico it's just too dangerous for Marines.
  

  01/16/09 U.S. anti-drug information leaked to Mexico cartels Corrupt officials inside Mexico's security forces have leaked U.S. anti-drugs intelligence directly to drug traffickers to help them escape raids, a senior U.S. law enforcement agent said

  01/15/09 Recession Unlikely to Drive Away Illegal Immigrants, Report Finds Although the U.S. economy's nosedive has probably contributed to a substantial drop in the number of illegal immigrants coming into the United States, those already here will be less motivated to return home, according to a report released yesterday.

  01/15/09 Immigration reform coming, still problems Given last year’s election results, major immigration reform ought to pass in 2009 — but first, the incoming Obama administration has to decide what to do about some draconian policies put into place by the Bush administration.

  01/15/09 AZ congressman wants illegals deported for DUI  Congressman Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., plans to introduce a bill that would make a third drunken driving offense by an illegal immigrant grounds for deportation.

  01/15/09 Court: Those who hire human smugglers can be prosecuted  A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit which challenged Maricopa County's position that people who hire human smugglers, as well as the smugglers themselves, can be prosecuted under Arizona's human smuggling law.

  01/14/09 Immigration Cases Soar, Represent Half of All Federal Prosecutions Immigration prosecutions have soared during the Bush administration, representing more than half of all federal prosecutions, up from 18 percent in the first fiscal year of Bush's presidency,

  01/14/09 California Dreamin' Over- Record Number of Residents Moving California lost a net total of 144,000 people during that period — more than any other state, according to census estimates. That is about equal to the population of Syracuse, N.Y.

  01/13/09 Immigration Cases Drive Federal Prosecutions to New High in FY 2008 An unusually large surge in immigration prosecutions in the last months of FY 2008 means that the annual count of such filings more than quadrupled during the Bush Administration, according the latest available data

  01/13/09 Effects of Mexico's drug war hit El Paso  Touted as one of the safest cities of its size in the nation, El Paso is awakening to its southern neighbor’s bloody nightmare.

  01/12/09 Obama to discuss trade, drug war with Calderon U.S. President-elect Barack Obama will discuss the drug war and trade issues with Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Monday, in Obama's first meeting with a foreign leader since his November election.

  01/11/09 Loophole Angers Illegal Immigration Foes A loophole in federal law is enabling hundreds of illegal immigrants to live in homes subsidized by U.S. taxpayers, while thousands of others linger on waiting

  01/11/09 Matthew Harwood- TV show Homeland Security USA is propaganda, not reality During the premier of the new television programme Homeland Security USA on ABC this week, border officers flung open doors, responded to radiation alerts, drew their weapons, questioned suspects, tracked illegal immigrants through the desert, confiscated various illicit drugs and narcotics, and on and on and on. It's all very disorienting, and at times the pace is so frantic as the ...

  01/10/09 AZ, Sheriff plans immigration sweep west of Phoenix Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio plans the latest in a series of "crime suppression" sweeps on Friday in a rural area west of Phoenix.

  01/10/09 U.S. ready for Mexico violence  If Mexico's vicious drug war ever spills into El Paso, the United States has several response plans, one

  01/10/08 Symbolic park makes way for new fences on US-Mexico border Friendship Park, between Imperial Beach in California and Tijuana in Mexico, was dedicated by Patricia Nixon, then first lady, in the early 1970s, and has long been a popular meeting and picnic spot.

  01/09/09 Border Patrol, Government Sued for Millions Over Shooting of Immigrant After two federal trials resulting in hung juries, the parents of Francisco Javier Dominguez-Rivera have filed a $7.5 million wrongful-death lawsuit against Border Patrol Agent Nicholas W. Corbett, and the government, for a fatal shooting that witnesses say could have been avoided.
  

  01/09/09 Obama to meet with Mexico's Calderon on Monday U.S. President-elect Barack Obama plans to meet with Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Monday, according to the Mexican Embassy and a source familiar with the planning for the meeting.

  01/08/09 U.S. plans border 'surge' against any Mexican drug wars The soaring level of violence in Mexico resulting from the drug wars has led the United States to develop a contingency plan to prevent spillover across the border.

  01/07/09 Who's Lobbying on Immigration and Why? New Report Details Extensive Corporate Lobbying for Increased Immigration A new report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) finds that over the past three years dozens of well-known American corporations, representing virtually every sector of the economy, have committed extensive resources lobbying for increased immigration,

  01/06/09 Texas Legislators Will Tighten Illegal Immigration Laws Some state lawmakers want to revive immigration discussions by proposing more than a dozen bills that among other things would punish employers for hiring unauthorized workers, challenge the U.S. citizenship...

  01/06/09 AZ,Mexican immigrant will swear in Arpaio for fifth term Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has chosen a native of Mexico City, who became a U.S. citizen just last month, to perform the oath of office for the sheriff's fifth term.

  01/05/09 Coloradans divided over impact of immigration on state  Immigration remains a polarizing issue, with Coloradans split over whether it helps or hurts the state, a new poll finds. Just ask suburbanites Melissa Schluessler and Malcolm Stevenson. Schluessler said it is costing Colorado money in services, while Stevenson supports amnesty for workers not here legally.

  01/05/09 Kidnappings in Mexico Send Shivers Across Border The relatives of Mexicans in the United States have become a new profit center for Mexico’s crime industry,” said Rodolfo García Zamora, a professor at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas who studies migration trends.

  01/04/09 High hopes for immigration reform in the year ahead- Immigrants and their advocates look forward to 2009 as a year that will bring change to the country's immigration mess, yet they don't have high hopes.

  01/03/09 Mexico migrant remittances fall in Nov Mexicans living abroad sent less money home in November compared with the same month a year ago, the central bank said on Friday.

  01/03/09 University of Ark. to start immigration clinic Being an illegal immigrant doesn't make someone a criminal that's a distinction the director of the University of Arkansas' new immigration law clinic hopes to hammer home to the state's residents.

  01/03/09 Border Patrol shifting from voluntary return policy  The Border Patrol experienced a turning-point year in Arizona in 2008, with increased manpower, resources and technology bringing dramatic drops in illegal immigrant arrests, top officials say. 

  01/03/09 U.S. smooths away an illegal border crossing wrinkle A massive earth-moving project are transforming Smuggler's Gulch near San Diego from a narrow free-flowing canyon for cattle thieves, bandits and illegal immigrants into a plugged breach. Smuggler's Gulch lived up to its infamous name.

  01/02/09 Thousands  of illegal immigrants living in public housing Untold thousands of illegal immigrants live in public housing at a time when hundreds of thousands of citizens and legal residents are stuck waiting years for a spot.

  01/02/09 Washington state mulls deporting jailed illegal aliens Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire wants illegal immigrants serving time in state jails deported, a move intended to save the state more than $9 million in the next two-year budget.

  01/02/09 Mexico deports more Guatemalans than U.S.     In 2007, Mexico deported 49,475 Guatemalans and U.S. deported 23,062 

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