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Omaha World-Herald sc
Penalties for hiring illegals advance in Legislature
A bill that would deny tax incentives to Nebraska businesses that knowingly hire [aliens] has been sent out to the full Legislature. -- The 5-2 vote from the Revenue Committee came on the same day another committee officially reported its decision to kill Gov. Dave Heineman's proposal that would have required...  |
Heritage Foundation
Illegal immigration costs demonstrated again
Slowly but surely Washington is acknowledging the high cost illegal immigration inflicts on local governments. Today the New York Times reports on a study by the University of Arizona and San Diego State University showing counties along the Mexican border spent $1.23 billion processing illegal immigrants through their justice systems between 1999 and 2006. |
Tulsa World
Group to aim at 1804 effects
A top official with Chesapeake Energy Corp. on Thursday confirmed that an effort is being organized to address the “unintended consequences” of a controversial state immigration law passed last session. -- Tom Price, Chesapeake Energy senior vice president of corporate development, said the group... |
MSNBC
'Immigrant' prostitutes: victims or criminals?
The business cards handed to men at a North Woodbridge grocery store didn't say much. Just a first name, a cellphone number and the phrase Casa de Carne, or House of Meat. -- But their simplicity made clear the illicit purpose: sex. |
Tulsa World
Catholic bishop to file brief in illegal-immigration lawsuit
Roman Catholic Bishop Edward J. Slattery has received judicial approval to file a "friend-of-the-court" brief in a case that asks a Tulsa County judge to declare Oklahoma's new immigration law unconstitutional. -- Slattery and Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Tulsa applied Thursday to submit a brief in support of the position of plaintiff Michael C. Thomas. |
Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson
Judge declares mistrial in border agent's murder trial
A federal court judge in Tucson declared a mistrial Friday afternoon in the high-profile murder trial of U.S. Border Patrol agent Nicholas Corbett. -- Jurors sent a note to U.S. District Judge David C. Bury shortly before 3 p.m., saying they were still deadlocked after more than 20 hours of deliberations. |
El Paso Times
Illegal alien hideout raided
Five undocumented immigrants on Thursday were found hiding in a Lower Valley house that neighbors suspect might have been used for illegal activity for a while. -- The immigrants were four men and a woman, all in their 20s, from the Mexican states of Zacatecas and Michoacan, said ICE officials. |
Arizona Republic -- Phoenix
Proposals for guest workers protested
Randy Parraz likened a proposed guest-worker program for Arizona to handcuffing employees to their boss. Jon Garrido sees the idea as a return to the bad old days of the bracero program. -- In the first organized response to state legislation introduced last month, some Hispanic leaders on Thursday gathered... |
Yale Daily News
State agency to come to aid of city ID program
New Haven got a boost Tuesday in its battle to keep private the personal information of Elm City Resident Card holders. -- Following a decision Tuesday by the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission that paved the way for them to intervene, the state Department of Emergency Management and... |
KRGV-TV -- Harlingen, Texas Video Included
Smugglers hiding in construction zones
Human smugglers are using construction zones to avoid detection. -- Police say they're using work trucks, like a Ford F-250, to blend in with the construction crews along Highway 83 in La Joya. -- "This vehicle blends in easily with the construction work out there," says Joe Cantu with the La Joya Police Department. |
Lexington (Kentucky) Herald-Leader Poll on Page
Rentals prompt federal charges
A father and son who own two large Lexington apartment complexes have been ordered to appear in U.S. District Court Friday to answer charges that they rented to at least 60 illegal immigrants and hired two without documentation to work for them... |
Hanover (Pennsylvania) Evening Sun
Illegal aliens found in vans
Eight illegal [aliens] were discovered in two vans during a series of traffic stops conducted by state and local police Wednesday. -- Police observed the two vans with North Carolina tags traveling together on Route 15 in Cumberland Township around 1 p.m., according to Cpl. Kenneth Hassinger of Troop-H Vice... |
Yale Daily News
Dearth of Latino faculty mirrors national trends
Even as the University continues aggressive efforts to increase diversity in its faculty ranks, Latino professors remain a visible minority on campus — and not just at Yale, but in the rest of the higher education community as well... |
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George Putnam -- NewsMax.com
Obama: Charismatic and dangerous
...The Senate is about to unveil tough new immigration bills. Senate Republicans are set to announce the hardest-hitting package of immigration enforcement measures we have seen thus far... |
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MooreIsBetter.com
Dump the Mexican Reconquista L. A. mayor
Los Angeles can and should be the envy of the world. Instead, our city is a mess, and it gets worse each month. We can't afford four more years of a mayor who spends all his time running for the next office, staging photo-ops and going on out- of- town trips. We need a competent, full-time working mayor... |
Radio Iowa
Debate over illegal immigration flares at statehouse
Democrats and Republicans at the statehouse are feuding over a bill that would penalize Iowa business owners who're caught hiring illegal immigrants. The penalty -- perjury -- carries a five-year prison sentence and a $7,500 fine. Senate Republican Leader Ron Wieck of Sioux City says once a valid I.D. system is set up... |
Treasure Coast Palm -- Ft. Pierce, Florida
Employees of illegal alien transport service facing charges
Two people who work for a van service that transports illegal immigrants across the country are facing federal charges after being arrested early Wednesday, according to court records released Thursday. -- A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent received a tip around 12:40 a.m. Wednesday that a van was... |
Jerome R. Corsi -- WorldNetDaily.com
Leaders push PR campaign for North American alliance
The controversial Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, continues closed-door meetings with business leaders while the heads of state of the U.S., Mexico and Canada now openly urge them to launch a public relations campaign to counter growing criticism of the trilateral cooperative some fear is a step toward a North American Union. |
MSNBC
5 years on, DHS strains as goals go unmet
Stumping for President Bush's ill-fated immigration overhaul in 2006, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff vowed that his department would wrest "operational control" of the nation's borders away from human and drug traffickers within five years... |
Denver Post
2 plead guilty in Jeffco to human smuggling
Two men accused of transporting 15 undocumented foreign nationals into the United States through Colorado have pleaded guilty to human smuggling. -- Exal Sanchez-Figueroa and Luis Contreras-Ferreira entered the pleas this week in Jefferson County District Court. |
Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson
Agents seize a ton of marijuana, 60 pounds of coke
Federal agents seized nearly 60 pounds of cocaine and 2,100 pounds of marijuana in separate incidents Tuesday at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 19 south of Tucson. -- The first seizure happened about 10 a.m. at the I-19 traffic checkpoint near Amado, about 45 miles south of Tucson... |
D.A. King, Terrence McNulty, Sandy Briggs, David Clarke -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Immigration: Both parties cave on this vital issue
The gleeful open-borders/amnesty coalition of big business, big religion and the radical far left ethnic lobby is virtually assured of another legalization proposal for illegal aliens —- and their employers —- from Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Teddy Kennedy and Barack Obama. We have only to wait until November to... |
Senator Robert Wicker
Wicker helps form border security and enforcement caucus
As part of his commitment to ensuring that U.S. borders are secured, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) today joined a group of his Senate colleagues in forming the Border Security and Enforcement First Caucus. In addition to Wicker, the caucus, chaired by Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), is comprised of... |
Utah Daily Chronicle
Immigration reform not sustainable, professor says
As state lawmakers passed a much-discussed immigration bill on Wednesday night, Peter Schuck, one of the world's leading experts on immigration law and policy, spoke to a local crowd about the challenges of immigration reform, calling it "the key to our destiny." |
Reuters
U.S. says may not meet timeline for border control
The United States may be unable to meet its timetable for essentially stopping illegal immigration across its border with Mexico by 2011, a Bush administration official told Congress on Thursday. -- Ralph Basham, commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said the government was working to meet the target... |
Trac Reports
Immigration raises crime rate
A new TRAC study, based on our analysis of 6.8 million Justice Department records spanning the last twenty years, shows that when immigration matters are put aside, referrals for prosecution from other federal investigative agencies in relation to population have declined. (In other words, had it not been for immigration, the crime rate would have fallen.) |
Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson
Administration set to take part of 'virtual fence' live
The Bush administration outlined plans Thursday to begin operating portions of a high-tech "virtual fence" along the Southwest border later this year and strongly disputed news reports that a 28-mile pilot project to test the technology was largely a failure. |
Austin American- Statesman
Chertoff defends immigration raids, detentions
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Wednesday defended the federal government's treatment of legal and illegal immigrants during workplace raids and at detention facilities. -- At a sometimes-contentious House hearing, Chertoff also said that the initial stage of a "virtual fence" along the U.S border... |
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