Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Ohio county has seen explosion in illegal alien crime
(Columbus, Ohio - December 27, 2010)

Examiner.com

In 2002, the number of illegal aliens transferred from the Franklin County Jail into the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement was only 17, last year that number had increased to 799. Those transferred were arrested for other crimes and discovered to be in the country illegally.

What follows is the number of illegal alien transfers over the last eight years (Source: Franklin County Jail records):

2002: 17

2003: 19

2004: 15

2005: 27

2006: 39

2007: 48

2008: 628

2009: 799

What was once a problem largely confined to the American Southwest has spread across the entire nation, and though Franklin County, Ohio is 1,500 miles from the Mexican border, they are also being subjected to the perils of illegal immigration.

It should also be noted that according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Franklin County has an unemployment rate of 8.4 percent. One has to wonder what that number would be without the influx of illegal aliens into the county.


Monday, December 27, 2010

Deported illegal immigrants return repeatedly
(Columbus, Ohio - December 27, 2010)

Federal agents took an illegal immigrant to Grant Medical Center in October 2009 to collect proof of his ties to a Mexican-based drug ring.

During his two-day hospital stay, Jose Aranda-Mora supplied the needed evidence - 92 balloons of heroin that he had swallowed before a traffic stop in Richland County.

Three months earlier, immigration agents had deported Mora to his homeland of Mexico. But the free ride home served as no deterrent. Since 2000, Mora has been deported four times, only to return time and again - most recently to Ohio.

A Dispatch investigation revealed that it is common for deported immigrants to return to the United States despite the threat of felony charges...

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10 suspected illegal immigrants held after Turnpike stop

State police stopped a van around 9:30 this morning for having a broken windshield on the Pennsylvania Turnpike and have since turned over all of the 10 men inside to immigration authorities for not having documents proving they can legally work in the United States...

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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Racist Comments From Dream Amnesty Supporters Replace Whites



Illegal aliens given Dream Amnesty to replace whites? As the US Senate hangs within a few votes of passing Dream Act Amnesty for illegal aliens any day before Christmas 2010, Dream Amnesty supporters make and cheer racist comments against white Americans!

On December 13, at the Levitt Pavilion in the historic MacCarthur Park, UCLA's Kent Wong gave another exhilarating speech at "The DREAM Act is alive" vigil held where he expressed his admiration to DREAMers, their evolution of this country and generation, and how will go on to do many great things with their lives and for this country.

"I'm proud of the DREAMers who have changed the course of this country," Wong said. "I am so proud of the DREAMers who have take over the chambers of the US senate, who have taken over the office of John McCain... Who have marked on foot from Florida to Washington, DC."

"We will win the dream act soon -- very soon," he exclaimed. "When that day comes, we will celebrate with millions and millions of people of people across this country who are standing with you tonight. Who stand for justice, who stand for democracy and equal opportunities for all."

"When that day happens, the young people of the DREAM Act movement, will go on to accomplish and do great things with your lives," he said. "You will go on to become lawyers, teachers, doctors and members of the US congress to replace those old white men... You are the hope and future of this country. You are hope and future of your generation."

If Dream Act Amnesty passes, millions of Americans will be DISPLACED and REPLACED in their jobs, seats in college, and elections.

According to Dr. Wong, that replacement will be racially motivated and targeted.

Learn more and fight back against Dream Amnesty with Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) at http://www.alipac.us

DREAM act: Bad legislation

Gary A. Seaton, Minot

The so-called "DREAM Act" is bad legislation, rewarding illegal aliens' children with amnesty and an easy, front-of-the-line path to citizenship. I note that the "cost" of this legislation is billions of dollars per year, so maybe we're paying their way through college? Just how disconnected from real life can our Congress in Washington, D.C., get?

When will our federal government get serious about illegal immigration? Forget the tired old argument of "we need the labor." Not with nearly 10 percent unemployment nationwide. And with sensible legislation we would have no trouble filling the jobs we in fact need through legal work permits. Furthermore, illegal aliens mushroom the load on our health-care, education, and safety net programs, driving a number of states to bankruptcy...

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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Ex-FBI agent gets probation for hiring illegals

DALLAS (AP) - A former FBI agent has been sentenced to two years' probation and fined $18,000 for employing illegal immigrants at a fast-food restaurant she once owned.

Ann Cox was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater in Dallas on Wednesday. She pleaded guilty in September to the misdemeanor of employing six undocumented workers at a sandwich shop in the Dallas suburb of Rockwall from 1997 to 2008...

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Man Pleads Guilty to Hiring Illegal Immigrants at Dunkin' Donuts



53-year-old George Valvanis of New Hampshire is facing jail time for employing illegal immigrants at Dunkin' Donuts shops across the Portland area...

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

19 arrested in Tampa in illegal immigration sting

Nineteen people in Tampa, along with 74 others throughout Florida, were arrested last week in a federal sting targeting illegal immigrants with violent criminal records.

During the sting, two other people were arrested on charges of illegally reentering the country after deportation. One of those arrests was in Tampa, the other in Fort Myers, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said...

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Sunday, December 5, 2010

27 accused of falsely using IDs to get jobs
Workers in country illegally, federal officials say.

More than two dozen Pflugerville nursing home workers have been accused of misusing Social Security numbers to obtain employment in one of the biggest immigration-related workplace busts in Central Texas in recent years...

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Teddy Bear & Grenade: Dream Act Amnesty to Displace and Replace Americans



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz0qjxFNpbA

ALIPAC1 | November 30, 2010

The Nightmarish Dream Act Amnesty is a political 'Teddy Bear with a hand grenade in it" to those that understand the bill would eventually lead to millions of innocent Americans being DISPLACED AND REPLACED in our colleges, in our jobs, and in our ballot boxes and elections.

The Democratic leadership in Washington is seeking a few Republicans to support this Amnesty legislation that would grant citizenship rights to 2-3 million, then eventually 12-20 million illegal aliens in America.

The Democrats plan to pass this Amnesty, which most Americans of every race oppose, over Christmas just like the Healthcare bill.

As ALIPAC's President, William Gheen, explains on Fox News the passage of the dream act would DISPLACE AN REPLACE the political influence of the Tea Party Movement, the Fox News viewing audience, and the vast majority of Americans that support the enforcement of America's existing immigration and border laws instead of any form of Dream or Comprehensive Amnesty.

Illegal alien pleads guilty to molesting 5-year-old girl in Minnesota

Tomas Lopez
Photo: booking photo

Last week, Tomas Hernandez Lopez, 41, accepted a plea deal for sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl he was babysitting. The multiple assaults took place 10 years ago. He had been living as a fugitive until his luck ran out in September.

Had he stood trial, Lopez ran the risk of several first degree sexual assault convictions, and a much longer sentence.

According to court documents, police were told in 2000, that Lopez had assaulted the little girl on multiple occasions in the apartment where she lived with her mother. An arrest warrant was issued, but the Mexican national would elude the police for the next 10 years...

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DREAM Act Will Cost Taxpayers $6.2 Billion

Act Likely to Adversely Affect American College Students

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies examines the costs and likely impact of the DREAM Act currently being considered by Congress. The act offers permanent legal status to illegal immigrants up to age 35, who arrived in the United States before age 16, provided they complete two years of college. Under the act, beneficiaries would receive in-state tuition. Given the low income of illegal immigrants, most can be expected to attend state schools, with a cost to taxpayers in the billions of dollars. As both funds and slots are limited at state universities and community colleges, the act may reduce the educational opportunities available to U.S. citizens.

The Memorandum is available online at http://cis.org/dream-act-costs. Among the findings...

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UPDATE: Manslaughter suspect ordered held without bond

An illegal immigrant charged with manslaughter in connection with a weekend crash in Ashland was ordered held without bond after a hearing this morning in Hanover General District Court.

Feliciano Aguas-Suarez spoke in Spanish through an interpreter in a video appearance from the Pamunkey Regional Jail. A lawyer was appointed for Aguas-Suarez after he said he could not afford counsel.

Hanover County Commonwealth's Attorney Trip Chalkley, in arguing that no bond be set, told General District Judge Peter L. Trible that Aguas-Suarez, 29, has used at least two other aliases and is wanted in Caroline County and Prince George's County, Md., for failure to appear on various driving-related offenses.

After the hearing, Chalkley said that he wasn't convinced that Aguas-Suarez was giving his actual name, and that he was awaiting the results of further investigation, including fingerprint examination, to confirm the suspect's identification...

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Administration Shields Sexually Deviant Illegals and Supports DREAM Act

Victor Nunez is an illegal alien from Mexico. Two years after arriving in the United States, he was convicted of petty theft for shoplifting. Then, he was convicted of a much more serious crime: He exposed himself in public. But even that wasn’t enough to have him removed from the country.
After a decade of his illegal presence, the Department of Homeland Security finally brought immigration charges to remove him from the United States. Crimes of “moral turpitude,” like exposing your genitals to children, are supposed to result in certain deportation...
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Illegal immigrant charged in fatal crash

A King William County man died Friday night when his vehicle was struck by another near Ashland, and an illegal immigrant was charged, authorities say.

The Hanover County Sheriff's Office identified the victim as Casey Ryan Bohr, 23, of the 7900 block of Dabney Mill Road in King William County.

Sheriff's officials charged Feliciano Aquas Suarez, 39, with driving under the influence and driving without a license. Suarez said he was from Mexico, and investigators were working yesterday to determine his U.S. address...

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Oakland soon will issue municipal ID cards

OAKLAND -- Oakland will soon be following in San Francisco's footsteps by offering a new municipal identification card to homeless people, immigrants and other residents who might have trouble obtaining a state identification card.

But Oakland's ID card will double as an ATM debit card, the first of its kind in the country. The ATM debit card can be used to buy groceries or goods and services wherever ATM cards are welcome, allowing people without bank accounts to avoid high check-cashing fees or walking around with large amounts of cash...

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Rep. King: Torpedo DREAM Act to Avoid Flood of Illegals

Defeating the so-called DREAM Act must be a top priority before it provides an uncontrollable citizenship path to thousands of illegal immigrants, says Republican U.S. Rep. Steve King.

On the surface, the act would provide a road to citizenship for students who are illegal immigrants. But the Iowa Republican also noted that it would allow students to sponsor their extended families on that path.

“We calculated that a single individual could bring in 357 people on a family reunification plan before we ran out of room on our spreadsheet,” King says...

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Tennessee judge places blame for man killed by drunk illegal alien at Obama's feet

On November 5, Mexican national, Ramon Neri, 23, admitted to driving drunk and causing the crash that took the life of a father of five, Tika Koirala, on Christmas morning last year.

Neri had a Blood Alcohol Concentration of .16 at the time of the accident.

Neri tried to play upon the court’s sympathies, saying that he first walked across the border when he was only 15, ending up in New York in order to help his family. Through an interpreter, he said: “I was the one that was helping them stay afloat financially.”

Over the next several years, he went back to Mexico, only to return to this country again. During that time, he was arrested multiple times in both New York and Nashville. Among the arrests, there were several for driving without a license.

The widow of the man he killed, Bhima Koirala, was also in court and told her own story of hardship. She and her husband came to the United States with their five children a year ago from Lilai, a small island near Indonesia. They came here in search of a better life, she said.

Koirala told Judge Mark Fishburn: “Who is going to look after my family and my children? I'm ill-equipped. After my husband's death, I've got so much trouble.”

Looking directly at the illegal alien, Koirala said: “I want him punished.”...

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Illegal alien charged with murdering classmate, burning his body

Hermilo Moralez
Photo: Brazoria County Sheriff's Office

Last week, Hermilo Moralez, 19, was arrested for the murder of 18-year-old Josh Wilkerson, his charred remains were found in a field in Fort Bend County, Texas. The two attended Pearland High School together.

Moralez, who is from Belize, is charged with murder, failure to identify himself by giving false information to an officer, attempting to take a weapon from an officer and tampering with physical evidence...

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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Arpaio Gives Broad Powers to Volunteer Deputy Squad

PHOENIX -- Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has recruited 56 volunteers who he says will be assisting his department in fighting illegal immigration, reports Maritza Lizeth Félix for Prensa Hispana. The volunteer squad was sworn in on Wednesday at a ceremony presided over by the sheriff and several celebrity supporters, including actors Lou Ferrigno (of Incredible Hulk fame) and Steven Segal. The action heroes spoke to the crowd about their support for enforcing anti-immigration laws, and dubbed Joe Arpaio “the toughest sheriff in the west.”...

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Rep. Tom. Rooney Assails DREAM Act as Incentive for Illegality

As Harry Reid and the Democrats dream of passing a soft amnesty program during the lame duck session, U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney says to count him out -- with one exception.

The Tequesta Republican issued the following statement on the DREAM Act, which would allow illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to gain legal resident status if they enroll in college or join the military:

“Immigration is fundamentally a national security issue, which is why any immigration reform must secure our borders, uphold the law, and reward those who follow the rules.

“Passing the DREAM Act would provide another incentive for individuals to come here illegally. Granting benefits to students who are here illegally would worsen our immigration problem and undermine the rule of law...

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11 indicted for growing marijuana in Ohio
(Dayton, Ohio - November 18, 2010)

DAYTON, Ohio - A federal grand jury has indicted 11 Mexican nationals, charging each one with one count of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana in connection with the seizure of more than 2,500 marijuana plants being grown in rural areas of Muskingum and Logan counties. The indictment stems from an investigation by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)...

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Monday, November 22, 2010

Arizona: Posse formed to help battle illegal aliens; Lou Ferrigno joins (watch video report)

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona sheriff has sworn in 56 members of a new volunteer sheriff's posse, including actor-bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno.

The citizens' group will aid Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's deputies in efforts to crack down on illegal immigration.

Ferrigno, best known for his starring role in "The Incredible Hulk" television series, lives in California. He says the Arizona posse volunteers can help protect the country against drug and immigrant smugglers...

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DREAM Act Will Equal Nightmare For American Taxpayers

The United States of America is being threatened---and this may be your last chance to stop it.

I'm not talking about terrorist threats, which of course still exist. We are being threatened today, right at this moment, from WITHIN OUR OWN BORDERS.

ILLEGAL ALIEN advocates are pressuring the government to grant them amnesty, and Liberals are happily going along with their request! Harry Reid is putting the DREAM (Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors) Act up for vote in the Senate, and Nancy Pelosi wants the House to vote on it the Monday after Thanksgiving...

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Deportees Who Came Back Are Caught in Dragnet

In a four-day immigration dragnet stretching from the suburbs north of New York City to eastern Long Island, federal law-enforcement officers arrested 54 illegal immigrants with criminal records who had previously been deported but had secretly re-entered the country, officials said Friday.

The tally was the largest number of once-deported immigrants ever ensnared in a single operation by immigration agents, said a spokesman in the New York office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an arm of the Department of Homeland Security...

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The 'Dream Act': Amnesty for millions

When Congress convenes for its lame-duck session on Nov. 29, it will be asked by Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid to vote on an amnesty bill deceptively called the "Dream Act" by its open-borders supporters. If passed, it will be a nightmare for the rule of law and a death knell for genuine immigration reform.

That this amnesty bill is being taken up by the lame-duck session of a Congress that has been soundly repudiated by the American people is bad enough. Lame-duck sessions ought to consider only emergency bills with broad bipartisan backing, not contentious measures that can only be passed by politicians who can ignore the will of voters. But that is eerily in keeping with the dishonest character of the long debate over the Dream Act...

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Advocates Press Obama to Issue Executive Order on Immigration Reform

NEW YORK—The immigrant community is voicing frustration that two years into his term, President Obama still has not used his broad executive powers to reform the “unjust” and “inhuman” immigration system.

Borrowing from a 1960s civil rights campaign, the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) launched a campaign called With the Stroke of a Pen on November 15 to remind Obama that reforms are long overdue. The campaign comes as the prospects for congressional action on comprehensive immigration reform have dimmed, following Republican gains in the midterm elections...

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9 North Carolina Counties to Benefit from ICE Strategy to use Biometrics to Identify and Remove Aliens Convicted of a Crime

On Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began using a federal information sharing capability in nine additional North Carolina counties that helps federal immigration officials use biometrics to identify aliens, both lawfully and unlawfully present in the United States, who are booked into local law enforcement's custody for a crime. This capability is part of Secure Communities—ICE's comprehensive strategy to improve and modernize the identification and removal of aliens convicted of a crime from the United States...

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Obama administration plans to pull back National Guard from much of the border

The Obama Administration plans to withdraw National Guard troops from the Texas, New Mexico and California borders by the end February under a new Southwest security plan, even as turmoil in Mexican border cities grows, according to documents obtained by The Washington Examiner.

A letter sent to various members of the Texas Congressional delegation from Texas' Gov. Rick Perry's office says, "In February, 2011, the Texas, New Mexico, and California National Guard forces that were deployed to the border in September, 2010, under President's Obama's Southwest Border Augmentation Plan, will have 30 days to complete a total draw down of forces."...

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Advocacy group helps illegal immigrants get tax refunds, even those with bogus social security cards

A Manhattan group is helping illegal immigrants recoup unclaimed state tax refunds - even if they used fake Social Security numbers to work.

The Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project got back thousands for a dozen undocumented New Yorkers who overpaid...

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Council OKs matricula consular resolution

DURHAM -- City Council members voted 5-2 Monday night to support the Durham Police Department's practice of accepting the Mexican government's matricula consular as a valid form of identification.

The decision, capping about a year of off-and-on debate, came at the request of local activist groups and the Mexican consulate that represents that country's interests in the Carolinas...

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CONTROVERSIAL? Group's ID cards stir up things

Issuing ID cards is simple. Take a photo. Type in some basic information. Laminate.

Nothing to it. Certainly nothing controversial.

Yet when the element of official recognition of such cards gets tossed into the mix, it can become toxic.

Such is the case with cards being issued by CHANGE — Communities Helping All Neighbors Gain Empowerment — to members who might lack a state-issued identification. During a routine news conference earlier this month, Chief Scott Cunningham of the Winston-Salem Police Department said that officers would use the card to help identify people they encounter.

“The hope is that by recognizing the CHANGE ID card we can be more efficient and effective in our interactions and that we can assist the public better,” Cunningham said.

Who could argue with that?...

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THEY COME TO AMERICA FOR A BETTER LIFE: NO END TO THE LINE

Like the slavery issue of 1776 when the founders framed the U.S. Constitution, 21st century immigration parallels the complexities of the past—facing today’s leaders and citizens.

Back then, they talked about a wonderful new concept of self-government that yielded, “…life, liberty and pursuit of happiness…,” as long as you did not carry shackles around your neck and feet.

Americans kicked the can down the road for nearly 100 years before the can kicked back. The American humorist Mark Twain said, “Silent assertion is the shabbiest of all lies. It happens when leaders, the media and church obfuscate, cloud, suppress or deny a social wrong or something not working in our civilization.”

Our ‘silent assertion’ ended up with America ripping itself apart in the Civil War.

Slavery could not continue as an institution. People died by the hundreds of thousands. Yet, today, slavery continues in Africa and people continue killing one another.

America repeats this slavery atrocity in America today: illegal immigration! Rich people and corporations employ poor people at slave wages to the tune of over 10 million of them in 2010 along with another 10 million of their kids and spouses. Those slave wages beat the misery of Mexican wages and many other countries. The rich dodge the laws and the poor crawl across American borders to break the law: “I came for a better life for me and my children.”...

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Friday, November 19, 2010

College student body president admits he's an illegal immigrant

(CNN) -- Pedro Ramirez is the student body president at Fresno State University in California. He is also an illegal immigrant.

Ramirez moved with his parents from Mexico when he was 3. He has little memory of living anywhere other than Tulare, California, located about 45 miles outside Fresno.

He said he assumed he was a U.S. citizen until his senior year in high school when his parents broke the news to him.

"I wanted to go to the military, but then I started asking questions and found out I wasn't a citizen. And then I found out I was undocumented," Ramirez told CNN in a phone interview.

"I knew I was born in Mexico, but I was under the impression that we fixed our legal residency. So when I found out that wasn't the case, I was a little taken away. [My parents], they did it to protect me. They didn't do it as a harmful thing."

For the past four years, Ramirez has lied about being a citizen. When he started college at Fresno, he told a few friends about his illegal status and hoped they would keep his secret.

On Tuesday, his secret was out in the open after an anonymous tip to the Fresno State newspaper, The Collegian.

"I don't know who would do that to me," he said.

Under Fresno State code, there are no citizen requirements for a student to join the college government...

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DREAM Act Vote Likely On November 25th

Washington, DC - Speaking to several hundred Hispanic leaders at the Latino Leaders Network luncheon today, Congresswoman Nydia Velasquez announced that Speaker Pelosi has tentatively set November 29th for a vote on the Dream Act. Velasquez was honored at the luncheon for her leadership of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute...

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President urges Congress to pass DREAM Act during lame-duck session

President Barack Obama met with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on Tuesday to express his hope and commitment of getting the DREAM Act passed during the lame-duck session as a stepping-stone toward comprehensive immigration reform...

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Mexico Officials Accused Of Abusing Illegal Immigrants

Georgia legislators have called for a tough new illegal immigration law similar to Arizona. Critics of the Arizona law claim the law would lead to mistreatment of illegal aliens. A Channel 2 Action News Investigation found Mexican officials routinely abuse illegal immigrants they catch trying to reach the U.S from Central America.

The U.S Border Patrol treats suspected illegal immigrants extremely well. They provide emergency beacons in the desert to people in need of medical aid. They even have a special rescue unit called Borstar that responds as soon as the beacons are set off.

Border Patrol officials told Channel 2 Action News that while in custody illegals are well cared for.

They are provided a wide range of services, including health care and legal services.

"There are widespread abuses going on in Mexico," said Jared Fluer of Amnesty International in Atlanta...

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Monday, November 15, 2010

TSA Caves On Molesting Pilots

Feds beginning to back down in face of national outrage, but no word on ordinary travelers being subjected to airport oppression

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Prison Planet.com
Monday, November 15, 2010

UPDATE: Big Sis Caught Lying To American People

UPDATE: Senate Hearing Scheduled on TSA Oversight

UPDATE: Shocker: TSA Has Been Molesting Children For Years

TSA Administrator John Pistole told CNN’s John Roberts this morning that the feds were looking at changing pat down procedures for pilots, a first indication that the government is beginning to back down in the face of a nationwide backlash against naked body scanners and intrusive airport groping measures.

Speaking about how he and DHS chief Janet Napolitano met with pilots representatives last week, Pistole said, “Well obviously they’re a trusted group in so many different ways and so it makes sense to do some type of different type of screening which we will explore and I think have a way forward here in the near future.”

Adding that he didn’t want to speak prematurely, Pistole said “There are options that we are looking at that will make sense.”

Host Roberts made the point that screening pilots for weapons was pointless when pilots have the biggest weapon they could possibly have – the plane itself – in their hands.

However, Pistole did nothing to address similar measures being directed against the traveling public which amount to little less than sexual molestation, and had no answer to why airport officials are threatening people who refused to be groped with $10,000 dollar fines, as in the case of a man who had a run in with TSA goons at San Diego International Airport this past weekend.

Despite the TSA’s blanket refusal to amend measures that are stoking outrage across the country and leading many to decide against flying until changes are made, this first step in the feds being forced to back down on one level is obviously a sign of progress.

It has been established that the implementation of the aggressive groping techniques had nothing to do with security and was solely designed to force people into the body scanner, which as Columbia University and other scientists have proven increases the risk of cancer.

In addition, the body scanners would not even have stopped underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from boarding Flight 253 on Christmas Day.

The feds have finally accepted the fact that common sense needs to be applied to screening pilots, and that same “intelligence-driven” process, as Pistole labels it, now needs to be applied to ordinary travelers.

It is not “intelligence-driven” to subject toddlers to sexual molestation in the name of stopping terror. A “risk-based” approached should not include targeting the very people who represent the least risk – women, children, the elderly and the disabled – who are precisely the groups that have been on the receiving end of the most humiliating degradation at the hands of TSA thugs.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America’s most listened to late night talk show.

In-state tuition for illegal immigrants is preserved with California Supreme Court ruling [Updated]

The California Supreme Court decided unanimously Monday that illegal immigrants may continue to be eligible for in-state tuition rates at the state's colleges and universities rather than pay the higher rates charged to those who live out of state.

In a ruling written by Justice Ming W. Chin, one of the panel's more conservative members, the state high court said a California law that guarantees the lower tuition for students who attend California high schools for at least three years and graduate does not conflict with a federal prohibition on giving illegal immigrants educational benefits based on residency.

California is one of several states that permit illegal immigrants to take advantage of lower college tuition for students who attend high school and graduate in state. About 25,000 illegal immigrants are estimated to receive in-state tuition rates in California...

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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Top 10 States Being Invaded By Illegal Immigrants

Unauthorized immigrants usually reside in states that historically have welcomed them, such as California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois. However, these states can provide only a limited number of jobs for the mostly unskilled illegal immigrant population. As the number of illegal immigrants swelled from about 3.6 million in 1990 to 11.1 million in 2009, illegal immigrants opted to explore new states for their livelihood...

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Sheriff Among Toughest On Illegal Immigration
(Hamilton, Ohio - November 10, 2010)

HAMILTON, Ohio -- An area sheriff has been recognized as one of the nation's toughest on illegal immigrants.

Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones was ranked as America's seventh toughest immigration sheriff by Foxnews.com.

The news website conducted an informal poll of immigration experts, think tanks and law enforcement organizations to compile the rankings...

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Immigration Bill Could Come Soon

Wednesday, November 10, 2010
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A lawmaker who wants an Arizona-style immigration reform law in Ohio says he thinks the election has changed the climate for the issue, so he plans to push it forward again. Statehouse correspondent Karen Kasler reports.

Lower Wages and Unemployed Americans

Two persistent myths peddled by the open-borders lobby about illegal aliens are that they do not harm the wages or American workers, and even if they do, illegals in particular and immigrants in general do the jobs that Americans won’t do. Four years ago, economist George Borjas of Harvard University conducted a study for Maricopa County, Arizona. He found that illegal aliens alone depressed wages in Arizona by $1.4 billion in 2006, and knocked 4.2 percent off the wages of low-skilled workers. According the Phoenix Business Journal, Borjas calculated “that illegals make up 10 percent of all state workers and decrease all wages by 1.5 percent.”

Those findings are consistent with what Borjas reported for the Center for Immigration Studies in 2004.

Between 1980 and 2000, Borjas wrote for the CIS, immigrants reduced the average wage of American workers by four percent, or $1,700 per worker. And “among natives without a high school education, who roughly correspond to the poorest tenth of the workforce, the estimated impact was even larger, reducing their wages by 7.4 percent.”...

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Illegal immigrant pleads guilty to using California Marine's identity to work in Kansas

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An illegal immigrant from Mexico pleaded guilty to stealing a U.S. Marine's identity to work in a meatpacking plant in Kansas.

Prosecutors say 26-year-old Inocente Monroy Alcantara pleaded guilty Wednesday to document fraud. Sentencing was scheduled for Jan. 26. His plea agreement includes a one-year federal prison sentence followed by mandatory deportation to Mexico...

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New technology helping to confirm status of arrested immigrants
(November 10, 2010 - Warren County & Clark County, Ohio)

LEBANON — A new partnership with federal authorities is helping law enforcement in Warren and Clark counties use fingerprints to identify the status of immigrants who have been arrested.

The partnership is part of the federal Secure Communities program in which suspects booked into the county jails have their fingerprints reviewed by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to identify and remove foreign nationals convicted of crimes in the U.S., in addition to an FBI criminal history check...

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Illegal Aliens: Economic Consequences

Maywood, California, a small city in Los Angeles County numbering about 45,000 residents, is broke. Such are the city’s dire straits that in June it fired all of its employees and turned police and fire protection over to the county. Officials, naturally, pinned the blame for the situation on decreasing property tax revenues and the national recession, and indeed, they may well provide a small reason the city went under.

But the real reason is this: illegal aliens. As the Los Angeles Times reported in its article on the subject, half the city’s population is illegal and has been for some time. Such is its population of illegals that Maywood proudly declared itself a “sanctuary” city a few years ago. Now, apparently, no one, least of all the city’s Hispanic leaders and activists, got the connection between the city’s worsening plight and the mushrooming number of illegals.

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Friday, November 12, 2010

Six Central Nebraska counties now using ICE enhanced identification system

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has added six Central Nebraska counties to a federal information sharing system to help officials use fingerprints to identify both legal and illegal immigrants who have been arrested for a crime.

This is part of "Secure Communities" -- ICE's comprehensive strategy to improve and modernize the identification and removal of immigrants convicted of a crime from the United States, according to a press release from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...


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Reid on the hook for delivering on election promises in lame-duck session

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) won a tough reelection fight by making promises to his constituents, and now he has the tough job of delivering in the lame-duck session.

Shortly before Election Day, Reid promised during an interview with Univision, a Spanish-language television network, that he would bring the Dream Act up for a vote before the end of the year.

Reid has also given assurances to labor officials that he will bring up the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, according to a senior labor official. The bill would set minimum standards for state collective bargaining laws for firefighters and police officers.

Hispanic and union voters were critical to Reid’s reelection to a fifth term last week.

But Reid will have a difficult time delivering on these promises because of staunch GOP opposition to any legislation considered controversial...

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Immigration: State to require proof for driver's licenses again

One of only three states where illegal immigrants can still obtain driver’s licenses, Washington is moving to tighten the rules.

Beginning Monday, the state Department of Licensing will require people without a Social Security number who are seeking a new driver’s license to provide proof they actually live here.

While a few in that category might be U.S. citizens and legal residents, most are illegal immigrants.

Washington stands with New Mexico and Utah in issuing driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. And officials say an alarming number of out-of-state residents without Social Security numbers have been obtaining licenses here in recent years – this year more than double what it was three years ago...

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9 Big Gains Make Next Senate Far More Pro-Enforcement & Anti-Amnesty

A lot of the news media have fallen for an open-borders advocacy argument that the survival of Senators Reid (Nevada) and Bennet (Colo.) shows that politicians are wise to take a pro-amnesty stance.

Some gullible reporters may believe it, but I can't imagine that the open-borders people see anything different from what we see: Voters last Tuesday elected 8 new Senators who are dramatically different from the ones currently holding those seats -- who will move the Senate away from Harry Reid's immigration ideas and strongly toward Sen. Jeff Sessions' (Ala.) ideas...

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1 in 4 children born in Nevada to non-citizen moms

RENO, Nev. (AP) - A new report says mothers who were not U.S. citizens accounted for roughly a quarter of all births in Nevada in 2008.

According to the Reno Gazette-Journal, the report by the Census Bureau's American Community Survey says the number of births in Nevada to non-citizens ranked second highest in the nation behind California. The report did not distinguish whether the women were legal or illegal immigrants.

Health officials say non-citizens are less likely to have health insurance, and put a financial strain on hospitals...

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Hispanic civil rights group seeks to force provisional ballot count

An organization that convinced federal judges last month to toss out Arizona's proof-of-citizenship requirement to register to vote now is seeking a court order that could further delay a final count on Tuesday's election.

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund late Friday asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to order officials in the state's 15 counties to count the votes of those who cast "provisional ballots'' because they did not show up on the voter registration rolls. And the reason they didn't show up on the rolls is that they didn't get registered because they didn't provide proof of U.S. citizenship as required by a 2004 voter-approved Arizona law.

On Oct. 26, though, the appellate court declared that requirement invalid. Based on that, MALDEF attorney Nina Perales said those who were wrongfully denied registration should have their votes counted...

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Taxpayer Dollars Fund Luxury Detention Centers for Illegal Immigrants

ATLANTA -- Illegal immigration costs taxpayers an estimated $100 billion a year. Georgia picks up nearly $2.5 billion of that bill. The Federal Government is ordering changes on the taxpayers' dime. Channel Two Action News anchor Justin Farmer traveled back to Arizona to look at the new upgrades.

The list of upgrades is long. Better food, movie nights and much more. Critics say the changes are turning the facilities into country club holding centers that reward people who break the law.

Farmer visited a detention center near Florence, Ariz., where illegal immigrants are treated well compared to most jails. Only high-risk detainees are held in actual cells. The rest live in dorm-like areas. They are allowed to spend hours outside playing soccer.

Illegal detainees eat three meals a day. They are provided with free dental and health care, including surgery, all at the taxpayers' expense.

"Some of these detainees have never seen a medical provider in their life. We detect diseases they never knew they had," said Eduardo Preciado of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The federal government has ordered some of their privately run detention centers to provide more amenities for illegal immigrants...

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Illegals made Democrat governor in Connecticut?
'Sanctuary city' issued thousands of IDs accepted for voter registration


Martha Dean (CPBN Media Lab)
Connecticut's lame-duck attorney general and new senator-elect, Richard Blumenthal, is obligated to investigate credible accusations of voter fraud that linger in the state's gubernatorial election – including possible illegal alien voting – despite Republican candidate Tom Foley's concession yesterday to Democratic opponent Dannel Malloy, charges the GOP'sattorney general candidate in last Tuesday's election, Martha Dean

Dean, who is considering further legal action challenging the eligibility of her victorious Democratic opponent, argued Blumenthal is sworn to uphold the federal and state constitutions, making it his obligation to investigate voter fraud "without regard to whether it has been requested or approved by the secretary of state."

Foley supports continued investigation of the allegations but has concluded "there was no credible evidence of fraudulent voting" that would have altered the result.

Allegations include extended voting hours in Democratic-stronghold Bridgeport announced illegally through the reverse 911 system, unattended bags of ballots, ballots photocopied without supervision and union workers leaving replica ballots in polling booths with Democratic candidates checked off.

Republicans cried foul last week after the state's top election official – Democratic Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz – declared the Democratic candidate the winner despite the absence of an official vote count and a post-deadline tally from Bridgeport that overcame the Republican candidate's lead.

But amid the numerous reported allegations, little has been said about the possibility that illegal aliens decided a gubernatorial race in which the candidates officially were separated by just 5,810 votes out of more than 1 million cast, Dean told WND.

Dean noted that both the mayors of New Haven and Hartford have declared their cities "sanctuary cities" for illegal aliens. She pointed out that over the past three years, New Haven has issued ID cards to about 15,000 people, ostensibly to enable them to use public services such as the library.

New Haven, Dean argued, has allowed people registering to vote to use the ID cards as proof of identification.

"While we have no proof that the recipients of these ID cards are illegal aliens, it seems likely since the mayor's argument for the cards focused on helping illegals set up bank accounts and use other city services," she said...

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King to lead committee governing immigration policy

Congressman Steve King will become the chairman of the U.S. House subcommittee on immigration when Republicans take over control of the House in January.

King was a harsh critic of the immigration reform plan backed by former President George W. Bush. President Obama last week said he hopes to work with the Republican-led congress to resolve the issue...

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Texas students oppose tuition break for illegal immigrants

The Student Senate at Texas A&M University last week registered its opposition to a bill in the Texas legislature that would give in-state tuition to illegal immigrants.

The students voted 41 to 28 for a bill that opposes the state legislation. State lawmakers had asked for student input, according to an article in the campus newspaper.

Later in the week, the university's student body president vetoed the bill, saying the issue should be left to the state legislature.

Texas is one of 10 states that already allow in-state tuition for some illegal immigrants, according to a chart prepared last summer by the Chronicle for Higher Education...

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Saturday, November 6, 2010

FAIR Urges New Congress to Promote True Immigration Reform Enforcement Key to Satisfying Voters and Improving Economy

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the aftermath of Tuesday's historic elections, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) looks forward to working with the new congressional leadership to reform America's broken immigration policies. Immigration became a key issue in countless races across the country, and remains one that Americans across the country want addressed in the 112th Congress. Polls clearly demonstrate that voters believe that mass immigration and unchecked illegal immigration undermine American workers, burden American taxpayers and compromise public safety...

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Obama Administration Refuses to Release Investigation into Illegal Immigrant Killing of Nun

Obama Administration Refuses to Release Investigation into Illegal Immigrant Killing of Nun
Sister Denise Mosier (photo: Benedictine Sisters of Virginia)
Officials in Virginia are upset with the Department of Homeland Security over its refusal to release the results of an investigation into a drunk-driving homicide involving an illegal immigrant and a Catholic nun.
In August, Carlos Martinelly Montano, an undocumented immigrant from Bolivia, drove his car head-on into another vehicle carrying Sisters Denise Mosier, 66, Charlotte Lange, 75, and Connie Ruth Lupton, 70. The crash, which took place near Bristow, Virginia, killed Mosier and seriously injured the other two nuns.
Montano, who was drunk at the time of the crash, had two prior convictions for driving under the influence. But the Immigration and Customs Enforcement service, which was aware of Montano’s illegal status and criminal record, failed to deport the 23-year-old before the August accident.
Homeland security officials conducted an investigation into the matter to determine why Montano was not sent back to his home country. But the agency has refused to share the results of the probe with Virginia leaders...

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$7M set for border habitat work

Federal money for jaguars and bats - or people?

That's the question ranching advocates raised after the federal government announced details for spending nearly $7 million to restore borderlands damaged by construction of the border fence.

From environmentalists and a public preserve manager came this answer: The feds have spent billions on border fences real and virtual, and it's about time to spend tens of millions protecting animals and plants.

In the next few years, authorities will spend the money to develop jaguar management plans, scan remote camera photos for the cats, close dirt roads and restore wetlands along the border. They'll reseed worn soils, monitor fish populations, build a fish barrier, count bat roosts and study bat movements, and plant agaves.

These actions are in the first leg of a $52 million federal program designed to compensate for damage to endangered species habitat on public lands by the border fence and other security measures.

Land managers and environmentalists called the money a good start, but some borderlands ranchers and their spokesmen in the Arizona Cattlemen's Association were less receptive. The association issued a news release titled "Jaguar Receives Green Card," saying the money should protect people first...

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Rancho Cucamonga furniture company executives charged with hiring illegal immigrants

Prosecutors on Monday charged the president of a Rancho Cucamonga furniture company with hiring illegal immigrants and lying about their employment status to federal investigators.

Rick M. Vartanian, 57, of Ladera Ranch has been charged with obstruction of justice and employing unauthorized workers, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The Department of Homeland Security received an anonymous tip in 2009 that Brownwood Furniture was using unauthorized labor...

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Illegal's gain jobs while Americans lose jobs

Information procured from the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Labor data by the Pew Hispanic Center found American citizens lost 1.2 million jobs while illegal aliens racked up 656,000 in new jobs. The lopsided jobs numbers should alarm many in Washington D.C.

During a time of great economic recession those in the country illegally are driving down their overall employment numbers showing their ability to work, most likely for less, over American citizens whose unemployment rate hovers around the 10 percent mark...

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Channel 2 Uncovers Proof Terrorists Crossed Mexican Border

The U.S. Border Patrol has captured thousands of people they say are classified as OTM which stands for "other than Mexican." Documents show many of them are from terrorists nations like Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia, Pakistan and Yemen. Federal authorities call those groups SIAs, which stands for "special interest aliens".

Federal officials have offered few details about the number of actual terrorists caught along the border.

Retired immigration agent Michael Cutler says the actual threat is being covered up. "Incredibly the government is attempting to keep the citizens like a bunch of mushrooms. Keep us in the dark and feed us a bunch of manure."...

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Pasco County Sheriff's Office reports man molested girl in Dade City

DADE CITY — A 39-year-old man is accused of molesting a 10-year-old girl.

Lazaro G. Ceballos was arrested Tuesday and is charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim aged 12 or younger...

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Border security ended at her front door

Nancy Henderson is not a political activist, she's a crime victim.

She and her husband, Matt Spitz, didn't purchase 40 acres of undeveloped land in southern Arizona near the base of the Sawtooth Mountains in order to put themselves on the frontline of our national debate over border security and illegal immigration.

“We move here from Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia, because I was tired of the cold,” Nancy told me. “This place is remote, but finding a spot like that was our intent when my husband and I moved here. We wanted a place where we could buy some land and have some horses and do the things we wanted to do. My husband passed away a year and a half ago from cancer, but this is still my home. It's still where I want to be.”

Over the years, the couple grew accustomed to visits from the occasional illegal border crosser.

“They would come to the door every now and then asking for water, mostly, and seemed so grateful to be pointed to the spigot,” Nancy said. “We never had any break-ins or thefts.”

That changed in September...

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US Puts Bulgarian ID Thief on Immigration Hold

Bulgaria: US Puts Bulgarian ID Thief on Immigration Hold
Doitchin Krastev (R) used Jason Evers' name to obtain a birth certificate, Social Security number, Oregon driver's license, voter registration card and passport. File photo

A Bulgarian man, who pleaded guilty to stealing the name of a slain boy in the United States, has been placed on an "immigration hold", U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Seattle announced.

"When he's done (serving his criminal sentence), he will come into ICE custody for resolution of his immigration case," Lorie Dankers said, as cited by the Oregonian...

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Top 10 States Being Invaded By Illegal Immigrants

Unauthorized immigrants usually reside in states that historically have welcomed them, such as California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois. However, these states can provide only a limited number of jobs for the mostly unskilled illegal immigrant population. As the number of illegal immigrants swelled from about 3.6 million in 1990 to 11.1 million in 2009, illegal immigrants opted to explore new states for their livelihood.

A study by Harvard professor G. Borjas states that illegal immigrants hurt the unskilled population in the areas they moved into and benefited the other residents because the services previously provided by unskilled locals could now be purchased at a lower price. Any economist would tell you that an increase in the supply of unskilled labor will depress the wages for those services. It wouldn’t be a stretch to claim that unskilled illegal immigrants are one of the factors causing poverty (See the list of ten states with the highest poverty rates in America)...

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33 illegal immigrants took flight lessons

BOSTON

33 illegal immigrants took flight lessons

Federal officials could not explain Friday how more than 30 immigrants charged with being here illegally got clearance to take flying lessons at an airstrip outside Boston.

Federal law prohibits illegal immigrants from taking flight lessons under rules revamped after the Sept. 11 terrorism attacks. But the 33 Brazilians, arrested over the past few months and awaiting deportation hearings, somehow managed to get instruction at TJ Aviation Flight Academy at Minute Man Air Field in Stow, a rural town about 30 miles northwest of Boston...

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Monday, November 1, 2010

Reid Promises a Vote on the DREAM Act After the Election

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) plans to hold on vote on the DREAM Act, which would allow some undocumented young people to gain legal status, during the lame-duck session, the Huffington Post reports. Univision’s Jorge Ramos, who will air an interview with Reid Sunday, tweeted that the senator said he would hold the vote “win or lose.”...

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Napolitano: Ariz. immigration law wrong

DENVER (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says Arizona's law to get tough on immigration is the wrong way to get local police involved in enforcement.

Napolitano says she agrees with a district court ruling that blocked some of the most controversial parts of the law in July and that "we cannot have 50 different immigration enforcement teams across the country." Arizona is appealing the judge's ruling...

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Illegal worker sentenced in plot to defraud IRS of $1.2M

An undocumented worker from the Dominican Republic who schemed with his girlfriend, a former postal carrier and another man to defraud the IRS of more than $1.2 million was sentenced yesterday to 4 1/2 years in federal prison and ordered to make restitution of $97,748.

Authorities said the worker, Angel Collazo, 25, and then-girlfriend Aphleen Quinonez filed 288 false returns between January 2007 and December 2008, but the loss to the government was less than $98,000 because the IRS caught on to the scheme.

Court papers said Collazo, Quinonez and an accomplice, Antonio Rodriguez-Rivera, illegally obtained personal information belonging to residents of Puerto Rico...

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