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Drug war sends bullets whizzing across the border

Cindy — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:28:07 +0000

EL PASO, Texas – 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 [...]

Company Audits Up, Illegal Worker Arrests Way Down Since 2008

Cindy — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:25:10 +0000

The Obama administration said it would focus its enforcement of illegal immigration laws by targeting workplace activities, but a recent report shows that while audits of employers are slightly up over the Bush administration, worker arrests are down drastically since the end of 2008.

Under Obama, employer audits are up 50 percent, fines have tripled to almost [...]

Feds moving to dismiss some deportation cases – Critics assail the plan as a bid to create a kind of backdoor ‘amnesty’

Cindy — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:19:38 +0000

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 several sources familiar with the efforts.

Culling the immigration court system dockets of noncriminals started in earnest in Houston about a month ago and [...]

Immigration Agency Ends Some Deportations

Cindy — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:16:20 +0000

Immigration enforcement officials have started to cancel the deportations of thousands of immigrants they have detained, a policy they said would pare huge case backlogs in the immigration courts. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said the new approach was part of a broad shift in priorities at the agency, to focus [...]

Lawmakers Consider Ending Citizenship for Children of Illegal Immigrants

Cindy — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:52:35 +0000

Lawmakers since last year have been kicking around a proposal to bar U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants from becoming U.S. citizens. Such a move, which has been ridiculed by legal scholars, would be a drastic reinterpretation of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment.

But those supporting the move say it removes a key incentive luring illegal immigrants over [...]

GOP wants Obama to visit border

Cindy — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:42:24 +0000

Republicans greeted President Barack Obama’s call to arms on immigration reform Thursday with a demand of their own: that Obama visit the troubled U.S.-Mexico border and see for himself why it must be secured.

Illegal Immigration Costs Us Net $100 Billion

Cindy — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:10:29 +0000

The debate over illegal immigration often is clouded with the question of whether illegal immigrants are a net economic benefit or cost to society. This is often amplified by the leftist when he says “these people do the jobs Americans won’t do,” which has often struck me as rather demeaning of both the immigrant and the [...]

The Government is here to help…

Cindy — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:29:11 +0000

Any UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS can get help from our U.S. GOVERNMENT for unfair wages!!!

Click here to watch video from Secretary of Labor, [...]

Democrats unveil immigration-reform proposal

Cindy — Thu, 06 May 2010 02:33:37 +0000

Senate Democrats officially unveiled a proposal to reform America’s immigration system on Thursday, looking past the fact that no Republican has offered support for the effort and President Obama a day earlier played down the chances of legislation passing this year.

HOW ARIZONA BECAME CENTER OF IMMIGRATION DEBATE

Cindy — Sat, 01 May 2010 01:26:03 +0000

The frustration had been building for years in Arizona with every drug-related kidnapping, every home invasion, every “safe house” discovered crammed with illegal immigrants from Mexico. The tensions finally spilled over this month with passage of the nation’s toughest law against illegal immigration, a measure that has put Arizona at the center of the heated debate [...]