September 2010
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FOXNews.com - ICE Proposes New Policy That Would...
Illegal immigrants who get pulled over by police for traffic-related offenses will be set free if a proposed change in Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy is approved. The proposal has come under fire by county sheriffs near the Arizona-Mexico border — including some who spoke out against SB 1070, the controversial Arizona law that directs law enforcement officials to question people...
L.A. County welfare to children of illegal...
Welfare payments to children of illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County increased in July to $52 million, prompting renewed calls from one county supervisor to rein in public benefits to such families. The payments, made to illegal immigrants for their U.S. citizen children, included $30 million in food stamps and $22 million from the CalWorks welfare program, according to county figures...
CNSNews.com - ‘Fugitive Backlog’ of Illegal Aliens...
(CNSNews.com) – As of Sunday, Sept. 5, the Department of Homeland Security had a backlog of fugitive illegal aliens totaling 506,232 people — slightly more than the population of Sacramento, California, which currently numbers 486,189. Fugitive illegal aliens are individuals who were apprehended by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for being in the United States illegally...
Missouri now 'destination state' for immigrants
Cherokee Street in south St. Louis is the site of a concentration of businesses catering to Mexican immigrants: restaurants, law offices, ice cream parlors, health care centers, convenience stores. Some bear signs: “Mexico vive aqui,” or “Mexico lives here.” One storefront features a list — in English — of legal services such as traffic tickets, DWI and...
Signs in Arizona warn of smuggler dangers -...
The federal government has posted signs along a major interstate highway in Arizona, more than 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, warning travelers the area is unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers, and a local sheriff says Mexican drug cartels now control some parts of the state. The signs were posted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) along a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 8...
August 2010
14 posts
Bullets Rain Down on El Paso from Mexico
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The first bullets struck El Paso’s city hall at the end of a work day. The next ones hit a university building and closed a major highway. Shootouts in the drug war along the U.S.-Mexico border are sending bullets whizzing across the Rio Grande into one of the nation’s safest cities, where authorities worry it’s only a matter of time before...
Obama Amnesty Is Here | Politics and Economics
Concerned about the Obama administration’s plan to grant amnesty to illegal aliens? Guess what. It’s already happening. According to The Houston Chronicle: The Department of Homeland Security is systematically reviewing thousands of pending immigration cases and moving to dismiss those filed against suspected illegal immigrants who have no serious criminal records, according to...
Plan to release illegal immigrants on path to...
The Obama administration is moving to release thousands of illegal immigrants detained at facilities across the country if the immigrants have a potential path to legal residency. This Story Pushing for immigrant law and citizen status Plan to release illegal immigrants on path to residency comes amid ICE push to deport criminals Immigration policies sparking tensions within ICE Record...
Non-felon illegal immigrants going unprosecuted as...
The Department of Homeland Security is reviewing thousands of pending immigration cases and moving to dismiss those filed against suspected illegal immigrants who have no serious criminal records, according to sources familiar with the efforts. Culling the immigration court system dockets of immigrants who aren’t believed to be dangerous started in earnest in Houston about a month ago and...
Mexico Gun Battle Spurs U.S. Warning - WSJ.com
MEXICO CITY—The U.S. consulate in Monterrey warned local U.S. citizens that Friday’s shootout in front of the prestigious American School Foundation stemmed from a failed kidnapping, and advised personnel to keep their children out of school—stoking fears authorities have lost control of the city to drug traffickers, kidnappers and other criminals. “At this point it appears that...
Texas officials estimate at least $250 million...
AUSTIN – Texas taxpayers spent at least $250 million last year in state prison and health care costs for illegal immigrants, but figuring out the precise cost will be difficult, state officials testified on Wednesday. Also Online More immigration news ...
Unguarded border bridges could be route into US -...
ACALA, Texas – On each side of a towering West Texas stretch of the $2.4 billion border fence designed to block people from illegally entering the country, there are two metal footbridges, clear paths into the United States from Mexico. The footpaths that could easily guide illegal immigrants and smugglers across the Rio Grande without getting wet seem to be there because of what amounts to...
Educating illegal immigrants is costly | ajc.com
No one can deny that increasing numbers of children of illegal immigrants attend public schools in the United States and that U.S. taxpayers pay the costs. Those sympathetic to illegal immigration tend to remain silent about these costs, while illegal-immigration opponents often fall short on specifics. In the interest of more informed discourse, here are the numbers. According to a study...
At least 60,000 babies born each year to illegal...
As the debate over birthright citizenship rages across the United States, a statistic has surfaced that is sure to add fuel to the birthright fire in Texas: 60,000 to 65,000 babies automatically gain U.S. citizenship each year when they’re born to the estimated 1.5 million illegal immigrants who live in the Lone Star State. That figure, reported by the Dallas Morning News, comes from...
“Anchor babies”: fanning the flames of immigration...
A legal reinterpretation of the 14th Amendment that would deny birthright citizenship to offspring of illegal immigrants is an idea gaining momentum among top Senate Republicans, and is being utilized as a political tool on an electoral year. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham who in the past has expressed support for immigration overhaul, has also voiced intentions to introduce a constitutional...
ICE chiefs slammed with "no confidence" vote from...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents overwhelmingly say that their department’s leadership has become politicized to the point of affecting the effectiveness of ICE. ICE agents through their union claim their leaders have little regard for the safety of American people. Their union has released a letter announcing its recent unanimous “vote of no confidence” in ICE agency...
Republicans want review of birthright citizenship...
WASHINGTON – Leading Republicans are joining a push to reconsider the constitutional amendment that grants automatic citizenship to people born in the United States. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Tuesday he supports holding hearings on the 14th Amendment right, although he emphasized that Washington’s immigration focus should remain on border security. His...
Drunk illegal alien, awaiting deportation kills...
On Sunday, Prince William County police arrested Carlos A. Martinelly Montano, 23, after he slammed head on into a car in which three Benedictine nuns were traveling. Sister Denise Mosier was killed instantly, her two companions were taken by helicopter to the hospital where they both remain in critical condition. Montano was charged with DUI and involuntary manslaughter. This is...
Mexican Drug Cartel Allegedly Puts a Price on...
PHOENIX - He’s been at the center of the discussions and controversies surrounding illegal immigration enforcement in Arizona for quite a while. On the day parts of Arizona’s immigration law, SB 1070, went into effect, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is in the news for another reason: there’s a price on his head - allegedly offered by a Mexican drug cartel. The audio message...
July 2010
20 posts
Memo outlines backdoor 'amnesty' plan - Washington...
With Congress gridlocked on an immigration bill, the Obama administration is considering using a back door to stop deporting many illegal immigrants - what a draft government memo said could be “a non-legislative version of amnesty.” The memo, addressed to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas and written by four agency staffers, lists tools it says...
Arizona can prevail on immigration law - CNN.com
Washington (CNN) — A district judge on Wednesday preliminarily barred the enforcement of two sections and two subsections of Arizona’s new immigration law, SB 1070. As was the case with the public reaction after Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed the law on April 23, we are again seeing wild claims about the matter — in this case, about Judge Susan Bolton’s order....
Immigration protests: Hundreds protest Arizona...
Reporting from Phoenix — Hundreds of demonstrators opposed to Arizona’s hard-line stance on illegal immigration took to the streets, denouncing the state’s controversial immigration law as racist and engaging in acts of civil disobedience. Hundreds of demonstrators opposed to Arizona’s hard-line stance on illegal immigration took to the streets here on Thursday,...
Mexico: Prison guards let killers out, lent guns
MEXICO CITY – Guards and officials at a prison in northern Mexico allegedly let inmates out, lent them guns and allowed them to use official vehicles to carry out drug-related killings, including the massacre of 17 people last week, prosecutors said Sunday. After carrying out the killings the inmates would return to their cells, the Attorney General’s Office said in a revelation that was...
Migrants sell up and flee Arizona ahead of...
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Nicaraguan mother Lorena Aguilar hawks a television set and a few clothes on the baking sidewalk outside her west Phoenix apartment block. A few paces up the street, her undocumented Mexican neighbor Wendi Villasenor touts a kitchen table, some chairs and a few dishes as her family scrambles to get out of Arizona ahead of a looming crackdown on illegal immigrants. ...
Erbe: The perils of giving illegal immigrants...
Under the Obama administration’s health care reform, Medicaid eligibility is expanded to allow more Americans onto the program. There has been much written about how requiring the uninsured to become insured and covering everyone will cause the federal budget and deficit to balloon over time. What is less known is the impact on the budget and on taxpayers of granting a path to...
Illegal Aliens Caught on Hidden Cameras Entering...
Hidden cameras reveal U.S. Government’s lax attitude towards illegal aliens, including drug smugglers, crossing into U.S. through federal wilderness areas in Arizona While the Obama administration is currently suing the state of Arizona over Arizona’s new illegal immigration law, a powerful documentary made by the Center for Immigration Studies using hidden cameras captures illegal...
Ariz. judge raises the realities of porous border...
PHOENIX – The judge who will decide whether Arizona’s new immigration law is constitutional hasn’t indicated whether she’ll put the statute on hold before it takes effect next week and had some pointed questions Thursday for challengers at two court hearings. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton also went beyond dry legal analysis to point out some of the everyday realities of...
Fun with Food
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Even Illegal Alien Grandmas Get In on the...
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A path to citizenship already exists for...
I am compelled to challenge the assertions in the second-to-last paragraph of USA TODAY’s editorial on Arizona’s illegal immigration law. The editorial claims that most Americans support a balanced approach that includes a path to legal status for illegal immigrants. Show me the data that support this statement (“Suing Arizona hurts chances for immigration overhaul,” Our...
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: REID BELIEVES THERE IS NO...
NEVADA – In apparent denial to a Las Vegas reporter concerning the illegal immigration workforce which dwells in Nevada, U.S. Senator Harry Reid said, “That may be some place, but it’s not here in Nevada.” Facts are that Nevada has the highest percentage of illegal immigrants in its workforce compared to the rest of the country, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan...
Let Arizona carry out its immigration laws
The July 7 editorial “Suing Arizona” included the same flaw as the federal lawsuit it supported: It confused the constitutional “preemption” standard for laws targeting legal immigration with those targeting illegal immigrants. Justice William J. Brennan Jr. led the Supreme Court in three cases in the 1970s and 1980s (and still good law today) that established a lower...
Only 1-in-3 Americans supports Obama's immigration...
With less than four months before his first midterm election, President Obama’s lawsuit against Arizona’s new illegal immigrant law is running against a strong tide of American support for the measure. Acting through the Justice Department, the Democrat administration seeks an injunction to stop the state law, S.B. 1070, from taking effect on July 29 and allowing Arizona officials...
Study: Illegal immigration costs $113 billion per...
According to a new study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), illegal immigration is costing the Federal Government $29 billion annually and state and local governments $84.2 billion per year…for a total of $113 billion, every single year. This means that the average American household has to pay $1,117 per year for millions of uneducated poor people to illegally break...
Obama's America is Mexico's de facto penal colony
On the day following the holiday weekend on which Americans celebrated their nation’s independence from a foreign country, Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the State of Arizona for daring to pass a law that protects innocent people from criminal aliens, terrorists and other malefactors who violate U.S. immigration laws and live in Arizona...
NorthJersey.com: Should U.S. birth mean automatic...
Should U.S. birth mean automatic citizenship? Sunday, July 4, 2010 BY ELIZABETH LLORENTE The Record STAFF WRITER The Arizona legislator who authored the nation’s toughest immigration bill now wants to go a step further: denying automatic U.S. citizenship to...
Danaher: Fixing immigration - Boulder Daily Camera
M uch of the immigration debate can be resolved if we came to agree on a few basic ideas. I suggest: 1. A sovereign nation has the right to determine who enters it. Why do we fail so miserably at performing such a basic function, fundamental to maintaining a country? 2. It`s absolutely reasonable to expect that those who enter the United States are not wanted in another country for a crime....
21 dead in Mexican gang gun battle near US border...
HERMOSILLO, Mexico (AP) — Twenty-one people are dead in Mexico following a massive gun battle between rival drug and migrant-trafficking gangs near the U.S. border. Prosecutors in northern Sonora state say the gun battle occurred in a sparsely populated area about 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the Arizona border. The state Attorney General’s Office said in a statement that nine people...
June 2010
17 posts
Obama Threatens to Enact Amnesty Via Executive...
According to published reports, if President Obama fails to secure 60 votes in the Senate in favor of his amnesty plan for illegal aliens, then he will bypass the legislative branch altogether and issue an executive order doing just that. Reportedly, the order that is being drafted by the White House would empower Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to extend what...
Teen shot by Border Patrol had smuggling arrests :...
A 15-year-old Mexican boy shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent was among El Paso’s most wanted juvenile immigrant smugglers, according to federal arrest records reviewed by The Associated Press. The records show Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereca had been arrested at least four times since 2008 and twice in the same week in February 2009 on suspicion of smuggling illegal immigrants...
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Mexico Teams with U.S. to sue Arizona
The government of Mexico today formally joined a lawsuit in federal court challenging Arizona’s new immigration law, saying that the highest levels of the Mexican government have grave concerns about it. “Each day, approximately 65,000 Mexicans are admitted into Arizona; and each day they spend an average of $7.35 million in its stores, restaurants, and other businesses,”...
The Associated Press: Immigrant families leave...
PHOENIX — “Cinco dolares,” Silvia Arias says when asked the price of car polish at a garage sale that she and two close friends, Minerva Ruiz and Claudia Suriano, are holding. “Five dollars.” Another sale is made. The three women planned the sale to raise money to leave Arizona. Though all are longtime residents, viewed as pillars of parental support at the neighborhood...
Nebraska Town Votes to Banish Illegal Immigrants -...
CHICAGO — Residents of a small city in eastern Nebraska voted Monday to banish illegal immigrants from jobs and rental homes, defying an earlier decision by the city’s leaders and setting off what is all but certain to be a costly and closely watched legal challenge. In Fremont , a meat-packing town of about 25,000 people, unofficial results from The Associated Press late Monday showed...
Border Patrol Officer's Letter to Senator Frist
here is a letter written by a retired border patrol officer to a former U.S. Senator, pertaining to this issue, that you might want to consider. Dear Senator Frist: There is a huge amount of propaganda and myths circulating about illegal aliens, particularly illegal Mexican, Salvadorian, Guatemalan and Honduran aliens. #1. Illegal aliens generally do NOT want US citizenship. Americans...
Arizona's Next Immigration Target: Children of...
“Anchor babies” isn’t a very endearing term, but in Arizona those are the words being used to tag children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants. While not new, the term is increasingly part of the local vernacular because the primary authors of the nation’s toughest and most controversial immigration law are targeting these tots - the legal weights that anchor many...
What is a Woman
A real woman is a man’s best friend. She will never stand him up and never let him down. She will reassure him when he feels insecure and comfort him after a bad day. She will inspire him to do things he never thought he could do; to live without fear and forget regret. She will enable him to express his deepest emotions and give in to his most intimate desires. She will...
Hispanics flee Arizona ahead of immigration law -...
By Alan Gomez, USA TODAY Arizona’s tough new immigration enforcement law is fueling an exodus of Hispanics from the state seven weeks before it goes into effect, according to officials and residents in the state. Though no one has precise figures, reports from school officials, businesses and individuals indicate worried Hispanics — both legal and illegal — are leaving the state in...
Tracy resolution on illegal immigration passes on...
Murfreesboro, TN - A resolution, sponsored by Senator Jim Tracy commending the state leadership of Arizona on their tough new immigration law, passed the Tennessee Senate late Friday night in the final days of the 2010 regular session of the 106th General Assembly. The measure passed the Senate with a majority vote of 17-7. “This new Arizona law just mirrors federal law, which already...