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...