Stopping Illegal Immigration

It has been said that the United States is a nation of immigrants. I agree with that. Unless you are of Native American ancestry, your forefathers came to these shores from some other part of the world. We have a rich history of ethic diversity and cultural influences. It is one of the things that has made us unique in the world. However, it is important to separate those who immigrate here from other countries through legal channels from those who attempt to by-pass our laws and sneak in illegally. We are a nation of laws and illegal/criminal activity runs contrary to that principle...

Eight Men Charged in Kidnapping, Assault of Mother (Columbus, Ohio - December 24, 2009)

COLUMBUS, Ohio—A Franklin County grand jury has indicted eight men on kidnapping and assault charges after a central Ohio mother and daughter were kidnapped at gunpoint from their car...

Obama Positioning for Immigration Reform

WASHINGTON — With the health-care battle still unfinished, the Obama administration has been laying plans to take up an issue that could prove even more divisive — a major overhaul of the nation's immigration system.

Senior White House aides privately have assured Latino activists that the president will back legislation next year to provide a path to citizenship for the estimated 12 million undocumented workers now living in the United States.

In addition to the citizenship provision, the emerging plan will stress efforts to secure U.S. borders against those trying to cross illegally. But that two-track approach was rejected repeatedly in the past by Republicans and other critics who insist a border crackdown must demonstrate its effectiveness before any action on citizenship is considered...

Greyhound Lines Inc. Accused of Racial Profiling

Traveling home for the holidays might not be as cheerful as you may think if you plan on taking a Greyhound bus. According to a recent article in the Contra Costa Times, an immigrant rights group in San Bernardino, CA, is accusing Greyhound Lines, Inc. of racially profiling their Latino customers. The rights group, Immigration Raids Response Network, alleges that Greyhound Lines Inc. targets Latino riders by allowing Border Patrol agents -- along with Greyhound employees -- to "conduct immigration checks of passengers upon their arrival at the San Bernardino Greyhound bus station." The rights group is now urging Latinos not to ride Greyhound buses nationwide...

It's Time for Real Immigration Reform

Congress should move quickly from health care to immigration reform. But to succeed, it will have to beat back specious anti-immigrant claims.

On Dec.15, Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., introduced the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity Act. The bill is the first effort to pass federal immigration reform under the Obama administration and a Democratic-controlled Congress after several failed attempts during the Bush era...

A National Campaign for Immigration Reform Heats Up in Ohio (Cleveland, Ohio - December 22, 2009)

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- With health-care reform nearing reality, some Ohio activists think the Buckeye State and America are ready for another big, important, emotionally charged debate.

They are calling for immigration law reform. They aim to re-launch a crusade that failed twice in recent years but that candidate Barack Obama promised to make a national priority...

Town Divides Over Law Aimed at Day Laborers

FIRST came the anti-loitering decrees, then legislation to punish employers and landlords who hire or house immigrants. Now, this Nassau County town of 300,000 people has passed perhaps the most stringent of ordinances attempting to control immigrant day laborers: a law that makes even waving one’s hand punishable by a $250 fine...

Grinch Stole Reform

SAN DIEGO — Just in time for Christmas, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has given Latino voters a valuable gift: clarity.

So much of politics is masked in smoke and mirrors. If you convince Latino constituents that the other party is out to get them, you'll become their BAF — best amigo forever. And so it is that most Latinos I know have been led to believe that on immigration reform, Republicans are inherently bad and Democrats are intrinsically good...

Illegal Aliens Can't Dodge Theft Charges in Utah

Utah’s identify fraud law has been specifically designed to protect the victims of identity theft who suffer real harm when their Social Security numbers are used by illegal aliens to obtain jobs and benefits reserved for American citizens and legal residents...

Teen Suspect's Residnecy Status Eluded Feds

LAKELAND | Through nine arrests, no one questioned whether 14-year-old Noel Cruz-Diego was in the U.S. legally until he was charged with burglary, robbery and stabbing a Lakeland man 43 times last month...

We Need a Tough Immigration Policy (Chillicothe, Ohio)

Without a doubt, we currently face an illegal immigration crisis in our country. Millions of people have broken our laws by crossing our borders illegally.

Illegal immigration has a huge, negative impact on the local economy, where cheap or under-the-table labor drives down wages and prevents Ohioans from finding employment. Many in my district who are already fighting to find or to keep jobs know all too well that additional competition only makes it harder to put food on the table and to support their families...

Latinos Scramble to Ensure a Ride After Licenses Canceled (Columbus, Ohio - December 21, 2009)

The signs are popping up at Latino markets throughout Columbus.

"Necesitas ride?" one asks in a mix of English and Spanish. "I'll take you wherever you want."

For a fee, the impromptu taxi services offer transportation to undocumented immigrants who were forced to park their cars because they could not prove legal U.S. residency...

Man Sentenced for Sexual Assault of Seven-Year-Old

Adelaido Mendez Juan, 25, an undocumented alien and deserter from the Mexican Army, was sentenced last week by Judge Jeffrey Thompson to 11 and a quarter years in prison for an August 2008 incident in which he broke into a home and sexually assaulted a seven-year-old girl...

"You Lie" Is Quote of the Year

We have our own quote of the year!
The Washington Times reports that Rep. Joe Wilson's shout of "You lie!" when Barack Obama said the health care bill would not cover illegal aliens is the quote of the year...

Undocumented Immigrants Pose Threat on Roads

Drivers beware: There's a woman driving a stretch of Interstate 90 between Sparta and Tomah—without a license or any training about Wisconsin's traffic laws.

Her name is Victoria. She's a 23-year-old undocumented immigrant from Mexico who works on a Tomah dairy farm with other undocumented immigrants whom, she says, "all understand our boss through signals" because of language barriers...

Illegal Aliens Arrested While Working at New York Airport

Eight years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the pre-Olympic, Salt Lake City Airport raid which resulted in 69 illegal aliens being indicted for document fraud and identity theft, illegal aliens continue to work at American airports...

Benefits Law Nets Illegal Immigrant Suspects

Only weeks after a new state law went into effect, the Department of Economic Security has provided federal authorities with nearly 800 names of people who tried to obtain public benefits but are believed to be illegal immigrants

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Elderly Woman's Throat Slashed

Slidell police arrested an illegal Mexican immigrant Wednesday night on charges of attempted first-degree homicide and armed robbery after he allegedly slashed the throat of an 84-year-old woman during a robbery in her home...

Illegal Immigrant Driver in Hit-and-Run that Killed Todler Gets 17-Month Prison Term

SALEM, Ore. (AP) - An illegal immigrant who drove away after hitting a toddler in a Salem parking lot has been sentenced to one year and five months in prison...

Deputies Detain Suspected Illegal Immigrants

The Ohio County Sheriff's Department on Thursday detained seven people suspected of being in the country illegally.

Sgt. Doug Ernest said he was traveling east on Interstate 70 Thursday afternoon when he stopped a vehicle with no registration at the weigh station just west of the Elm Grove exit.

"Inside, there were seven subjects, two female and five male," Ernest said. "All of them are here illegally."...

Target Requires Employees to Provide Legal Papers - 40 Quit

When a Target store in Walnut Creek, California requested employees to present their legal documentation in order to keep their jobs, they were surprised to receive resignations instead of proper paperwork...

Illegal Aliens Busted at Airport for Phony Docs

NEWBURGH—A dozen individuals, said to be illegal immigrants, were arrested early Thursday morning at Stewart Airport in Newburgh and charged with first degree falsifying business records and first degree offering a false instrument for filing....

AP Impact: US Program Does Little to Prevent Billions in Drug Cash from Heading South

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Every day, criminals shove proceeds from U.S. drug sales in their shoes, tape it to their torsos, stash it under dashboards — or just wire it electronically to Mexico. It all adds up to $25 billion a year...

Identity Crisis (Columbus, Ohio - December 16, 2009)

More than half of the 42,000 vehicle registrations canceled by the BMV last week were in Central Ohio. By following new ID laws, however, the BMV may have stirred up a hornet’s nest of illegal immigration issues...

A Dozen Charged in Immigration Sting at Stewart Airport

NEWBURGH — A dozen employees of Empire Warehouse Solutions at Stewart Airport were charged on Thursday morning with felonies for faking their immigration records.

Police credit an alert airport employee, who question suspicious documents. The employees used forged social security and resident alien cards to gain employment and access to the airport operations area, authorities say...

Investigation: Illegal Workers on Elmendorf AFB

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTVA-CBS 11 News) A contractor hired for a major construction project on Elmendorf Air Force Base broke both state and federal law.

At issue: the illegal immigrants that were granted access to the base to help construct the Air Force's new F-22 hangars.

This summer the Air Force started a multi-million dollar effort to build new F-22 hangars on Elmendorf Air Force Base. The contractor hired for the steel work was Steel System Erectors out of California.

An investigation has reviled the company employed undocumented workers and allowed them access to a national security site...

More Details Emerge on Target's Probe of Immigrant Workers

WALNUT CREEK — Almost a month after an internal probe pushed 50 immigrant workers out of their jobs at a downtown Target store, interviews with former and current store employees portray a mass firing that was selective, planned in advance and confusing to many of those forced out...

Paying Off 'La Raza'

If you were president of the United States, would you hire an alleged former spy for Fidel Castro to be ambassador to El Salvador, a country teetering on the brink of hard-core socialism?

President Obama just did.

On Dec. 9, Obama nominated Mari Del Carmen Aponte to be ambassador to El Salvador, despite the fact that in the late 1990s, the FBI discovered that she was working with Cuban intelligence officers. According to Insight Magazine, "When the FBI eventually questioned her about her involvement with Cuban intelligence, she reportedly refused to cooperate."...

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Summary of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and
Prosperity Act of 2009 (CIR ASAP)

http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/docs/CIR_ASAP_2009_Summary.pdf

This summary highlights key provisions of the CIR ASAP Act and will be supplemented in the coming weeks as the IPC conducts deeper analysis of the proposals contained in the Act...

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Brown, Sherrod- (D - OH)
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Austria, Steve (R) OH 7th (NEW) - replaced retired Hobson, David (R)
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House Starts Immigration Reform Push

President Obama may be occupied with trying to salvage health reform today, but Brooklyn Rep. Yvette Clarke and other members of Congress are reminding him about another promise he made: finally securing immigration reform.

Clarke, along with Reps. Nydia Velazquez, Mike Honda, Luis Gutierrez and Lynn Woolsey are introducing today their bill entitled “Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity,” or CIR A.S.A.P., as they’ve dubbed it.

“What we intend to accomplish with this is to make good on the President’s and (Homeland) Secretary (Janet) Napolitano’s statement to take up comprehensive immigration reform in this Congress,” Clarke told The Mouth.

She is quite aware that Congress and the White House are focused on health care, but like many progressives, for her, there’s no time like the present. Especially since the political scene is all but certain to change next year.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/2009/12/house-starts-immigration-refor.html#ixzz0Zn9FK0TK

Bill Would Give Undocumented Legal Status

WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawmakers pushing for immigration reform say job losses and a sluggish economy should not deter legislation legalizing illegal immigrants.

A coalition of Democrats say fixing the immigration system can help American workers as well.

Black, Hispanic, Asian, progressive and other Democrats unveiled the kind of immigration reform they want at a Capitol Hill news conference Tuesday.

They are proposing that illegal immigrants register with the government, pay a $500 fine for each adult, learn English, pass background checks and meet other requirements. They then are eligible for a six-year visa and when that is done a green card.

Immigration Bill Backers Try Again Despite Jobless Rate

Democrats on Tuesday begin their new push for an immigration bill, hamstrung by the image of legalizing millions of illegal immigrant workers at a time when the unemployment rate stands at 10 percent -- more than twice what it was the last time Congress tried to act...

Comprehensive Immigration Bill to be Introduced on Dec. 15

Though there’s been lots of talk so far about comprehensive immigration reform from advocates, a handful of lawmakers, and even President Obama when he addresses Latino groups, no one has yet introduced a bill in Congress.

That’s expected to change on Tuesday, Dec. 15, when Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) is expected to introduce the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act of 2009 (CIR ASAP), along with members of the Congressional Hispanic, Black, Asian Pacific American, and Progressive Caucuses...

An Insult to the Citizens and Legal Residents of New Jersey

In yet another direct insult to law-abiding and taxpaying citizens and legal residents of New Jersey, immigrant’s rights advocates are demanding that the New Jersey state government pass a bill to permit all New Jersey residents to pay in-state college tuition, regardless of immigration status...

Man Charged in Delray Beach Drivers License Scam; 5 Others Believed Involved

WEST PALM BEACH — Authorities continue to round up the conspirators they say paid off at least seven examiners from the state license bureau in Delray Beach to get drivers licenses to more than 1,500 illegal immigrants...

Hispanics Claim Racial Profiling by Officers (Toledo, Ohio - December 11, 2009)

Three times in two months, Jose Calderon and Belinda Vega were stopped by a police officer and an immigration officer in Plymouth, Ohio, and their identities questioned - each time with their two young children present and each time with no ticket or citation given...

Dallas Police Arrest 2 Men in Rape of SMU Student

DALLAS — Detectives from the Dallas Police Department's Sexual Assault Unit charged two men late Wednesday night in the kidnapping and rape of an SMU student athlete...

Workers Fired From Walnut Creek Target Store Cry Foul

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. -- A dozen men and women who worked at the Walnut Creek Target store claim they were unfairly fired last month and they want their jobs back.

The former Target employees told KTVU a total of 45 people -- all Latino -- were let go...

Feds: Couple Ran Fake ID Mill Out of Home

Federal authorities have arrested a Laurel couple accused of running an operation out of their home that produced fake identification for illegal immigrants, according to court documents.

Husband and wife Ruben Grajales-Nuricumbo and Yamily Grajales were charged late last month with conspiracy to create fake Social Security cards and immigration documents. The arrests came as a result of a nearly three-year investigation...

Courts Back BMV's Plan to Revoke Car Registrations (Columbus, Ohio - December 8, 2009)

Today will be the last "legal" day behind the wheel for tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants whose license plates are being revoked by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles...

Target Workers in Walnut Creek Quit After Questions About Immigration Status

WALNUT CREEK — More than 40 employees at the downtown Target store quit their jobs after an internal probe raised suspicions about their immigration status, according to lawyers who have met with the workers...

11 Face Sham-Marriages (Columbus, Ohio - December 9, 2009)

Non-citizens sought improved immigrant status, agents say

A group of central Ohioans arranged sham marriages for Eastern European immigrants attempting to evade U.S. immigration laws, according to a federal indictment unsealed yesterday.

Agents have arrested nine people accused of taking part in the scheme. Two others remained at large last night.

The conspirators allegedly charged about $17,000 for each arranged marriage, recruiting citizens willing to take a cut to marry non-citizens, prosecutors said...

Homeland Security Chief Grilled Over Fired ICE Agent

The case of a Denver Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent dismissed by the agency after a jury cleared him of accusations he improperly accessed a federal database has reached Congress, and it now could play a role in the questioning of President Obama's nominee for U.S. attorney in Colorado, Stephanie Villafuerte...

Gonzalez Pleads Guilty

HATTIESBURG — The former human resources manager for Howard Industries, Inc. pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to hire illegal immigrants Wednesday in the United States Federal Courthouse in Hattiesburg...

Congress Cuts Subsidy to States for Jailing Illegal Immigrants

WASHINGTON — California and other financially strapped states will lose tens of millions of federal dollars that they spend to jail illegal immigrants charged with crimes, under Congress' latest spending bill...

Boyton Beach Girl: Hit-Run Driver Stopped to Scold Us as My Sister Lay Dying

WEST PALM BEACH — The surviving girl of a hit-and-run crash says that before the driver took off, she stopped, got out of her SUV and admonished her and her sister — as one lay dying — for playing in the road.

Police later caught up with Leticia Flores, 28, who they say was driving without a license Sunday when she plowed into the pair, killing 10-year-old Darness Brown and injuring her older sister Darneisha Ellis, 13, as they rode a motor scooter...

Want to Sneak into U.S.? There's an App for That
American college prof develops cell-phone tool to help illegals cross border

Illegal aliens crossing the U.S.-Mexico border now have a cell-phone tool to chart the best route, find food and locate people who will help them enter the country – courtesy of a professor at a state-funded university...

Are Children of Illegal Aliens Bankrupting Maryland

Maryland’s foreign-born population has grown by 34.6 percent while its native-born population has increased by 3.3 percent. .Public school enrollment of students who require special instruction in English has soared even more, rising by 93.5 percent from 2000 to 2008 while overall enrollment declined slightly.

A pair of recently released documents on illegal aliens in Maryland discuss the effect the spending has had on the state treasury. Both agree the cash-strapped state is spending at least $448 million on children of undocumented aliens per year and more than $100 million on health care costs...

Illegals Giving Rise to Fake IDs

Fake IDs aren’t just for buying booze or sneaking into clubs.

The falsified documents can mask illegal immigrants, providing them with birth certificates, Social Security cards and driver licenses, said Marge Howell, spokeswoman for the Department of Motor Vehicles...

The No-Jobs Summits: Pro-Amnesty Movement Thinks Americans DESERVE to be Unemployed

Wonder why Washington politicians gathering in Jobs Summits on Thursday show NO interest in pushing illegal aliens out of their jobs in order to put millions of unemployed Americans back to work? A major pro-amnesty coalition has just provided one answer.

An article promoted on its website says that illegal aliens are better workers than Americans. If somebody has to be unemployed, it should be the less-desirable American workers who don't have jobs, the article says...

Illegal Alien Charged with Molesting 13-Year-Old Girl

Gabriel Alfonso Gil-Tzun, 23, has been charged by police in Novato, Calif., with lewd and lascivious acts on a minor. He is also facing multiple charges, as he allegedly molested the 13-year-old girl on several occasions...

Teen Pleads Guilty in Border Patrol Agent's Murder

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A 17-year-old Mexican immigrant has pleaded guilty in San Diego to murdering a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times in July...

Union: Hire Local Carpenters for Project

PHILIPSBURG - The Greater Pennsylvania Regional Council of Carpenters is not happy with Lezzer Lumber Co., due to a building project at Windy Hill Village in Philipsburg.

The carpenters union members said R.S. Mowery is the general contractor and there was a contractor that was subcontracting the work for him, using "illegal immigrants."...

Illegal Aliens Cost Taxpayers Billions

As the Obamacare debate begins in full stride, it’s important to look ahead. Whether any bill at all passes both houses and is signed by the president is in serious doubt. No matter what the outcome, it is important to look ahead to the great debate in this country pertaining to ILLEGAL immigration...

Sheriffs Deny Hunting Illegal Aliens
(Geneva, Ohio - December 2, 2009)

GENEVA — “A law is a law, and we want it enforced.”

That was the message the Grassroots Rally Team of Ohio took to a forum on illegal immigration held Tuesday evening at the Geneva Veterans of Foreign Wars meeting room. The forum was in response to media coverage of incidents involving regional law enforcement and illegal aliens who ended up being deported to Mexico as a result of the aliens having been reported to federal immigration authorities...

Health Care Provisions Still Soft on Illegal Aliens

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 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 and the bill now being debated in the Senate, HR 3590. The report concludes that the bills, in their current form, would indeed give illegal aliens access to taxpayer-funded health care well beyond emergency medical treatment...

Northeast Ohio Sheriffs Answer Questions About Illegal Immigration Concens
(Geneva, Ohio - December 2, 2009)

GENEVA, Ohio -- Some residents at a meeting Tuesday indicated that law enforcement should take a tougher stance on illegal immigration.

"Illegal immigrants complain they are treated like criminals," said resident Angela Gervais."Well, guess what, they are."...

2 Sentenced for Smuggling Immigrants to NW

MEDFORD, Ore. -- A Los Angeles couple have been sentenced to more than a year in federal prison after pleading guilty to transporting illegal immigrants up the Interstate 5 corridor to the Northwest...

61 Percent of Republicans and Republican Leaning Independents Say GOP Puts 'Too Little' Emphasis on Illegal Immigration, Says Washington Post Poll

Sixty-one percent of Republicans and independents who say they lean towards the Republican Party say they think the Republican Party puts “too little” emphasis on the issue of illegal immigration, according to a new Washington Post poll...

Unemployed U.S.-Born Workers Seek Day Labor Jobs

Growing ranks of U.S. citizens are heading to street corners and home improvement store parking lots to find day-labor work usually done by illegal immigrants.

The trend is most pronounced in regions where hot construction markets have collapsed, says Abel Valenzuela Jr., a professor of urban planning at the University of California-Los Angeles.

"You had many, many unemployed construction workers who found themselves without any permanent or stable work," he says. "Some of them have gone on to seek employment by standing on street corners alongside immigrant workers."...

Health Bills Fail to Block Illegals from Coverage

Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants could receive health care coverage from their employers under the bills winding their way through Congress, despite President Obama's explicit pledge that illegal immigrants would not benefit...

18 Indicted in Fake Driver's License Scheme That Involved Parma Bureau
(Cleveland, Ohio - November 24, 2009)

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Federal prosecutors indicted eighteen people Monday for conspiracy to traffic in fake driver's licenses and identification cards...

NC Busts Reveal Fake IDs Production Booming

RALEIGH, N.C. Makers of counterfeit identification cards are growing more common and sophisticated as it becomes more difficult to live without the government-issued IDs, North Carolina officials said...

NC Sheriffs Still Reporting Illegals

Despite recent efforts by the federal government to restrain local law enforcement from using the 287 (g) program to identify illegal aliens for deportation, North Carolina sheriffs are still reporting the presence of illegal aliens who are booked in their jail. The program was created under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and provides state and local law enforcements with training on how to identify, process, and when appropriate, detain immigration offenders they encounter during their regular, daily law-enforcement activity...

Six of Seven Illegal Immigrants Who Worked on CVS Project Out

CHEMUNG — The Morning Times has learned that six of the seven illegal immigrants who worked on the construction of the $90 million CVS distribution center project on White Wagon Road have been released on bond...

9 Arrested in Fake-Document Investigation

FORT WORTH — Nine men, all thought to be illegal immigrants, were arrested last week after a six-month investigation into an operation that made fake government documents, a police spokesman said Monday...

Accused, Wrong-Way, Illegal, Drunk Driver to Stand Trial

CONROE - An illegal alien and repeat driving while intoxicated offender was indicted last Thursday in connection with a fatal crash that occurred on Sept. 19 in South Montgomery County...

Illegal Alien Burns Elderly Woman Alive, Now Gets Life
After 'sadisistic' murder, killer declared, 'May God Forgive Me for What I Did'

An illegal alien has been sentenced to life in prison for breaking into an 83-year-old woman's home, grabbing her by the throat, smashing her head into furniture, saturating her with gasoline and setting her body on fire while she was still alive – all to cover up his check-fraud scam after she hired him to cut her lawn...

What the...? Lou Dobbs Wants to Legalize Illegals
Ex-CNN anchor suddenly champions amnesty, ripped as 'pathetic sellout'

Former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, the illegal immigration opponent with possible presidential aspirations, is stunning many today as he recasts himself as a champion of Hispanic immigrants, now looking to legalize millions of illegal aliens in the United States.

Despite his long-held opposition to "amnesty," Dobbs now actually supports a plan to legalize undocumented workers...

Latino Group Sues to Stop State from Canceling Vehicle Registrations

A Latino group is asking a judge to prevent state officials from canceling the registrations of more than 40,000 vehicles apparently driven by undocumented immigrants...

Ohio Senator Says No to Workers
(Columbus, Ohio - November 24, 2009)

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- 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...

Hiring Illegals; More Burden Put on Employers

Last month, 1,200 illegal immigrants working as janitors in Minnesota were fired after a government-prompted review of their paperwork raised questions about their status.

In September, American Apparel, a Los Angeles clothing maker fired about 1,800 immigrant workers — more than a quarter of its work force — after a government audit found problems with documentation meant to verify their legal status...

Whose Responsibility is the Health Care of Illegal Immigrants?

Fifty-one people -- nearly all illegal immigrants -- are facing a "life-or-death limbo" after a cash-strapped Atlanta charity hospital decided it must stop providing them free kidney dialysis treatments that were costing the hospital (or rather taxpayers) $50,000 per year.

That's according to a heart-rending article in Saturday's New York Times about the “excruciating choices” faced by Atlanta's Grady hospital upon closing its outpatient dialysis unit. Over the years, the unit has been overrun by illegal immigrants, and it has thus become a major financial drain on the “taxpayer-supported safety-net hospital,” the Times explained in its lengthy article: "The Breaking Point: Hospital Falters as Refuge for Illegal Immigrants."

Who is to blame for this heart breaking situation?...

More Employers Face Immigration Audits

About 1,000 U.S. employers will be audited for immigration violations as the federal government escalates pressure on business owners to resist hiring illegal immigrants.

Authorities said Thursday it was the largest employer crackdown ever; the government in July announced audits of 654 businesses.

Targeted firms will get a notice that federal agents intend to audit compliance with immigration laws and check the eligibility of workers. Violations could lead to fines, as well as civil or criminal charges...

Immigration Officials to Audit 1,000 More Companies

WASHINGTON — Immigration enforcement officials said Thursday that they were expanding a program for auditing companies that might have hired illegal immigrants and had notified 1,000 companies this week that they would have to undergo such a review...

Work Site Arrests of Illegals Falls Dramatically

Republican sees hit to Americans' jobs

Arrests of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday.

Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009...

Illegal Immigrants Detained in Separate Traffic Stops: Richmond Heights Police Blotter (Richmond Heights, Ohio - November 19, 2009)

ILLEGAL ALIENS, RICHMOND ROAD: An officer on patrol at 8 p.m. Friday, saw a trailer being pulled by a truck. The trailer had no lights and the truck was stopped.

The truck’s driver had only a Mexican driver’s license. When asked, he admitted he was in the country illegally. The passenger had an Ohio ID, but also admitted to be in the country illegally. The truck is owned by a Richmond Heights man.

Police contacted immigration officials who spoke to the men via telephone, then arranged to pick them up at the police station.

ILLEGAL ALIENS, RICHMOND ROAD: An officer on patrol at 1:25 a.m. Monday, noticed a car driving slowly and holding up traffic. The officer followed the car as it continued to be driven slowly, with its brakes intermittently applied. The officer activated his overhead lights and the car turned off into the Richmond Town Square lot.

Two men were in the car and neither spoke English. The officer attempted to speak to the men in Spanish. The men were drinking and the car contained several empty containers of beer. The men were arrested and immigration authorities contacted.

It was found that the passenger in the car is a felon as he was already removed from the country once.

Dairy State Encourages Illegal Immigration Despite

Overhearing an ABC Nightline Show a couple of years ago, I listened about a state that was encouraging illegal immigration to fill a need for cheap and reliable dairy labor. What I heard caught my attention, so I took a seat in front of the tube to watch "A Different Side of the Illegal Immigration Debate" a story about Wisconsin and its dairy industry. My interest in the news story was its relation to growing incidences of identity theft...

Foreigners on the Farm: Vt.'s Reliance on Immigrant Workers

Mexican labor on Vermont farms has been a not-so-secret secret for several years. It's estimated there are more than 2,000 illegal workers here. Farmers say even in this economy they cannot find Vermonters willing to do farm work and the hours required-- and that they need illegal labor to survive. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, has been working for years to get a program that would allow dairy workers to come in, stay for two or three years, and then go home so farmers won't have to break the law...

Immigration Officials Investigating Vt. Dairy Farms

(Host) Federal immigration officials are investigating whether Vermont dairy farmers are employing illegal foreign workers.

Many Vermont dairy farms hire Mexican farmworkers to help with milking and other chores...

Obama Encourages Illegals

If we were to listen to the complaints about the Obama administration by advocates of amnesty for illegal immigrants, you might think our nation's immigration laws were actually being enforced. To the contrary, the administration has systematically taken steps to weaken enforcement and encourage even more illegal immigration. The amnesty advocates should be happy...

Immigration Reform Conference Call Draws Thousands

NORTHGLENN, Colo. - Thousands across Colorado came together for 22 parties Wednesday night where the focus was on a single phone call.

Families, activists and politicians gathered to show support for comprehensive immigration reform.

It was part of a national effort to hear plans from congressional leaders about passing legislation affecting 12-million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., including about 265,000 in Colorado...

Police Search for Alleged Child Rapist

The search is on in Boynton Beach for a man police desperately want to find.

They say he's a danger to the community, especially to children.

He's accused of disgusting crimes against children, committing them over and over again for the past three years...

Illegal Alien Amnesty Thugs Attack Tea Party Protesters in Ft. Lauderdale

The attack against Tea Party activists in the video below is a direct result of the concerted campaign by the corporate media — in particular Chris Matthews — to portray Tea Party activists and supporters as racist. It’s an example of pro-Obama brown-shirt thuggery...

Americans Rally Against Amnesty Across the Country

On a Friday afternoon when Americans were reeling from a terrorist massacre in Fort Hood, learning the mastermind of 9/11 will be tried in federal court like any other common criminal, the Obama Administration dusted off the 2007 immigration reform plan to resuscitate amnesty...

Environmental Laws Put Gaps in Mexico Border Security

In the battle on the U.S.-Mexico border, the fight against illegal immigration often loses out to environmental laws that have blocked construction of parts of the "virtual fence" and that threaten to create places where agents can't easily track illegal immigrants...

Latino' Object to Tag Scrutiny

Leaders in Hamilton's Hispanic community call it an insult to basic human rights.

Butler County's top law enforcement official says it closes a loophole that saw people coming to Ohio from other states to register their vehicles with no proof of identification and no clue about the rules of the road...

Gutierrez Insists on Health Care Coverage for Illegals

According to the Washington Post, Democrat Rep. Luis Gutierrez won't vote for any health care bill coming out of conference committee if it doesn't include health care coverage for individuals living illegally in the U.S., which could include not only illegal aliens, but terrorists as well. From the Washington Post:

"I am not going to vote for a health-care bill that includes provisions that exclude people using their own money to go to the exchange regardless of their immigration status," said Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.). "It is silly and stupid."...

Illgal Workers Arrested at CVS Construction Site

The arrest Thursday night of seven undocumented Mexicans who were working illegally on the CVS construction site in Chemung has led to a stop work order being issued for the entire project...

Response to "1,200 Illegal Workers Fired in Minnesota"

The news article I have attached below appears on the website of Numbers USA and is important to consider for a number of reasons.

First of all, it is clear that illegal aliens are, indeed, doing the work Americans and lawful immigrants very much want to do. The fact that when 1,200 illegal aliens were fired as a result of a field investigation conducted by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) all of those jobs were quickly filled, presumably by United States citizens and lawful immigrants. This makes it abundantly clear that as I noted in a recent commentary, "A job freed up by removing an illegal foreign worker creates a job for an American worker."...

Rally to Focus on Illegal Immigration (Painesville, Ohio)

Members of the Grassroots Rally Team of Ohio will gather in Painesville Saturday to bring attention to what they feel will be the next big national issue, immigration reform...

Rocky River Police Blotter (Rocky River, Ohio - November 12, 2009)

FALSE INFORMATION, HILLIARD BOULEVARD: Police stopped a car at about 9 a.m. Saturday and found both occupants were illegal Guatemalan immigrants. Officers found that the driver, a 38-year-old Cleveland man, had an invalid California identification card, expired Guatemalan identification and a fictitious operator license. The passenger presented a fake Social Security card. Both men are in jail waiting for immigration enforcement.

Secure-Border Advocate Praises Tunnel Discovery

The chief of the Minuteman Project says reports that Mexican soldiers uncovered a smuggling tunnel under a building in the border city of Tijuana is a good step.

But Jim Gilchrist warns the war over illegals entering the United States is far from over.

"This could mean that it's an effort by (Mexico President Felipe) Calderon's government to make us think they're taking drug and illegal smuggling seriously. If it happens that it's all for show, I'll be very disappointed," he said...

Consuls from Latin America Will Help with the Census

In an effort to allay any fears between the immigrant community and federal authorities, officials with the 2010 Census met with consuls of several Latin American countries to ask for support in their communities to spread the word about the importance of being counted...

Several Immigrants Apprehended Throughout Area

DOUGLAS — A pair of illegal male immigrants from Mexico were found to have significant arrest records when apprehended by Douglas station Border Patrol agents over the weekend.

On Friday, an illegal immigrant in his 40s was found to have been arrested on charges of criminal sexual penetration in New Mexico, Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokeswoman Colleen Agle said Monday...

Undocumented Students Mobilize to Win Legal Status

WASHINGTON — As her fellow college graduates busy themselves with spamming every available e-mail inbox with resumes, 25-year-old Lizbeth Mateo keeps to the same Los Angeles coffee shop she's worked in for the past five years...

Rapist Says He Thought Girl, 12, Was a Prostitute

ORANGE COUNTY -- Two men accused of kidnapping and raping a then 11-year-old girl in the Orlando area have been found guilty.

An Orange County jury convicted Juan Hernandez-Monzalvo and Richard Morales-Marin on all counts including kidnapping and sexual battery Friday...

Illegal Alien Arrested in MB Sentenced for Illegal Weapon

COLUMBIA, SC (WMBF) - An Israeli immigrant living in Myrtle Beach was sentenced Monday to eight months in prison and deportation for possession of a firearm by an illegal alien.

Investigators say Oren Ayash, 34, is an Isreali citizen who illegally re-entered the U.S. after being removed in July 2004. Ayash was arrested and his residence searched in April 2009. Authorities seized a 9mm Glock pistol and ammunition...

100 Workers at Duval Courthouse Site Give Fake ID

More than a quarter of the workers at the new Duval County Courthouse construction site provided false identification documents to the city, authorities said.

Federal officials discovered about 100 fake documents after looking at the paperwork the city started collecting three weeks ago to crack down on arrests of undocumented workers...

1, 200 Janitors Fired in 'Quiet' Immigration Raid

Minneapolis — One of the largest immigration crackdowns under the Obama administration to date took place in the Twin Cities last month, when 1,200 undocumented janitors were fired from their jobs, according to immigration lawyers...

The DREAM Must Die

The subsequent lobbying for the DREAM Act taking place around college campuses (including ASU) calls for an examination of this proposed legislation.

What many are not being told about the DREAM Act is that, in many ways, it is amnesty extended to illegal immigrants who entered the United States before the age of 16. Through the stipulations found within the DREAM Act, an illegal immigrant who meets the criteria is rewarded a “conditional” permanent resident status...

Protests Against Illegal Alien Amnesty Bill in Over 50 Cities on November 14

(MMD Newswire) November 9, 2009 - - This Saturday November 14, 2009 promises to be a historic day as Americans of every race, political party, and religious denomination unify behind Tea Parties Against Amnesty & Illegal Immigration that have quickly formed in over 50 cities in reaction to the news Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) plans to introduce Comprehensive Amnesty legislation by the end of November...

Rally in Painesville on November 14th

WHO:
THE GRASSROOTS RALLY TEAM OF OHIO
CLEVELAND TEA PARTY PATRIOTS
GEAUGA COUNTY TEA PARTY PATRIOTS

WHAT:
JOIN OTHER GROUPS ACROSS THE NATION WHO WILL
RALLY AGAINST AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

WHEN:
SATURDAY, NOV. 14 FROM NOON TO 2 PM

WHERE:
PAINESVILLE CITY SQUARE

WHY:
BECAUSE THE NEXT PUSH AFTER HEALTH CARE WILL BE
AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS!!

SEE YOU THERE!!!

President Lies And Pelosi Swears To It. Illegal Aliens Get Benefits In Healthcare Bill

...It is also worth noting that in its preliminary score of H.R. 3200, CBO found that in 2019 there would be “about 17 million nonelderly residents uninsured (nearly half of whom would be unauthorized immigrants).” In other words, the number of projected uninsured who are also illegal immigrants declined from about 8 million under H.R. 3200 to 6 million under H.R. 3962. Many may question what changes in the Pelosi legislation resulted in 2 million illegal immigrants suddenly obtaining health coverage...

Developer Hired Illegal Workers (Bexley, Ohio - November 6, 2009)

A local developer pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to hiring undocumented workers at many of his company's properties.

Larry Gunsorek, 63, of 233 S. Dawson Ave. in Bexley, could be sentenced to five years in prison and fined $250,000. He is free pending sentencing by Magistrate Judge Terence P. Kemp of U.S. District Court...

OK - Uninsured Illegal Immigrant Drivers

Illegal immigrants are driving without insurance, and it could cost you thousands of dollars. A Sapulpa mother was driving two children in the backseat, when another car slammed into her car, totalling her car. The other driver was an illegal immigrant. He didn't have insurance, he was drunk, and he had done this before...

Immigration Advisor Charged With Fraud

NEW YORK - Clover Perez was indicted on charges related to presenting false applications for lawful United States residence status to immigration authorities. Perez was arrested Thursday morning at her home in Elmont, New York, by ICE agents...

6 Accused Of Identity Theft

...• Ma Lopez-Oseguera, 46, of Franklin is suspected of using the Social Security number of a Florida resident to gain employment at two restaurants in Franklin. She was arrested Monday and is charged with identity theft. She is suspected of being in the country illegally and is being held for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

• Maria Godoy-Hernandez, 28, of Nashville is accused of using an Illinois resident's Social Security number to gain employment at a Franklin business. The victim received notification from the IRS that taxes were owed based on earnings from the employer, police said. Godoy-Hernandez was arrested Tuesday. She is charged with identity theft and is also suspected of being in the country illegally. She is being held for Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

No. Of Illegal Aliens On Welfare Doubles In Nevada

A relatively new federal program that allows illegal immigrants to use their American-born anchor babies to collect welfare for the entire family has expanded nationwide and nearly doubled in a western state that already spends hundreds of millions of dollars to provide undocumented residents with public services...

Salvadoran Gangs Targeted NYC Agents

NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Salvadoran MS-13 gang members hatched a brazen plot to assassinate the U.S. immigration official in charge of a New York crackdown, documents indicate...

Democrats House Healthcare Bill Will Cover Illegal Immigrants

It turns out Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) was right after all. The health care bills before Congress do open federal health care programs to illegal programs. In fact, the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 already accomplished this...

Democrats Block Census Bureau From Excluding Illegal Immigrants

In a blatant betrayal of their actual constituents, Democrats have forced the U.S. Census Bureau to include illegal immigrants when determining the number of congressional representatives in each state. In other words, states with dense populations of illegal immigrants (Democrat voters) will get additional representatives in Congress that they shouldn't have...

He Lies! Obamacare DOES Cover Illegal Aliens

Two months ago, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) spoke truth to power when he yelled “You Lie!” as President Obama asserted "There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false. The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally."[Transcript]

Wilson was right. Obama was indeed lying...

Matricula Consular Action Alert

What is the Matricula Consular Card?

The Matricula Consular de Alta Seguridad (MCAS) (Consular Matriculation of High Security) is an identification card issued by the Government of Mexico through its consulate offices to Mexican nationals residing outside of Mexico regardless of their emigration status.[1] Also known as the Mexican CID card, it has been issued since 1871,[2] and cardholders could be either legal or illegal aliens in the foreign country they are residing in.[3] The official purpose of the card is to demonstrate that the bearer is a Mexican national living outside of Mexico. It includes an official Government of Mexico issued ID number and bears a photograph and address of the Mexican National to whom it is issued.

Use of the MCAS cards by illegal aliens weakens the measures established by the U.S. Congress after "9/11 to safeguard American businesses and financial institutions against fraud and abuse".[4] U.S. law enforcement officials also cite that Matricula Consular cards are issued by Mexican Consulate without checking the authenticity of the applicant's supporting documentation.

In a letter to the Homeland Security Secretary, the U.S. House Chairmen of the Homeland Security Committee, the Judiciary Committee, the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, and the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, & Intellectual Property wrote, that the Matricula Consular "can be a perfect breeder document for establishing a false identity". They warned that criminals could exploit the cards to conceal their identity as well as launder money and write fraudulent checks. They went on to point out that any acceptance of the cards by the Federal government "compromises our homeland security" by providing an opportunity for terrorists to freely move about the U.S., board planes and transfer funds for terrorist activities.[5] (for more info check Wikipedia. .matricula consular card)

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2005 LAKE CTY MATRICULA CONSULAR CARD RESOLUTION

Commissioners' Office, Lake County
Painesville, OH, October 13, 2005
Commissioner Troy presented the following resolution and moved its adoption.
RESOLUTION ENDORSING USE OF THE MATRICULA CONSULAR ISSUED BY THE MEXICAN CONSULATE FOR IDENTIFICATION PURPOSES
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners hereby finds and determines that all formal actions relative to the adoption of this resolution were taken in an open meeting of this Board of County Commissioners, and that all the deliberations of this Board of County Commissioners and of its committees, if any, which resulted in formal actions, were taken in meetings open to the public, in full compliance with applicable legal requirements, including Section 121.22 of the Revised Code, and
WHEREAS, The Matrícula Consular or Consular ID Card is the official record issued by the Mexican Government to any Mexican individual living abroad. The High Security Consular Registration Document is issued to the petitioner as a proof of citizenship; and
WHEREAS, the purpose of consular registration is to enable consular officers to provide protection and access to consular services, as well as to help relatives and authorities locate Mexican nationals abroad. Consular registration is recognized by international law and consular posts of every country around the world exercise the service to enable consular and diplomatic officers to furnish inherent rights and privileges of citizenship, and
WHEREAS, throughout the country, the consular ID has gained recognition by government and law enforcement officials for the visitors and residents working in its communities.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of County Commissioners, in and for Lake County, Ohio, hereby endorses the benefits to be derived to Mexican nationals of obtaining and using the Matrícula Consular.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Clerk of the Board is hereby directed to forward certified copies of this resolution to the Lake County Auditor; Lake County Sheriff Daniel A. Dunlap; and to Oscar Antonio de la Torre Amezcua, Consulate of Mexico, 645 Griswold Ave., Suite 830, Detroit, MI 48226.
Commissioner Sines seconded the resolution and the roll being called upon its adoption, the vote resulted as follows:
"AYES": Commissioners: Aufuldish, Sines and Troy
"NAYS": None
Resolution adopted,
Amy Elszasz, Clerk
CLERK'S CERTIFICATION
I, Amy Elszasz, duly appointed Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners, do hereby certify that this is a true and accurate copy of a resolution adopted by said Board on October 13, 2005 and recorded in the Commissioners' Journal, Volume 2005.
WITNESS my hand this thirteenth of October, 2005, in Painesville, Ohio.
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Amy Elszasz, Clerk
Board of Commissioners, in and
for Lake County, Ohio

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SEND THIS LETTER TO YOUR LAKE CTY COMMISSIONERS!!

Commissioner Robert Aufuldish-raufuldish@lakecountyohio.gov

Commissioner Daniel Troy-dtroy@lakecountyohio.gov

Commissioner Ray Sines - rsines@lakecountyohio.gov

RE: 10/13/05 RESOLUTION

Dear Commissioners:

It has come to my attention that the Board of Lake County Commissioners unanimously adopted a Resolution "endorsing use of the Matricula Consular Issued by the Mexican Consulate for identification purposes" on the date referenced above.

I know that this card is not a valid ID and is not accepted by the Lake County Sheriff or the Painesville Police Chief as verifiable identity. I also know that your resolution is in direct conflict with federal law. Those are just some of the objections to the Matricula Card, and you have been apprized of those objections by several citizens of Lake County. Nonetheless, you have failed to withdraw the offensive resolution.

I am a citizen of Lake County, and I am now urging you to immediately withdraw that resolution.

Respectfully,

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