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."...