Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Illegal Immigrant and convicted killer, but set free

BOSTON (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - After 16-year-old Ashton Cline-McMurray was brutally murdered, his mother took some comfort in hearing that at least some of her son's killers would never walk American streets again.

It's the reason why Sandra Hutchinson agreed with letting the purported gang members, several of them illegal immigrants, plead guilty to lesser charges. She says the prosecutor reassured her that, after their criminal sentences were finished, those in the country illegally would be deported.

"They said that they would never set foot, basically on American soil again. In other words, they'd be like in jail until they got sent back," Hutchinson said.

It's no wonder Hutchinson wanted her son's killers gone. Her son was disabled with cerebral palsy when he was attacked while walking home from a football game in Revere.

"They stabbed him. They beat him. They beat him with rungs out of stairs. They beat him with a golf club," Hutchinson said. "They stabbed him through his heart a couple of times. And through his lung. They stabbed him in his abdomen. He didn't have a chance, really."

The four purported gang members who killed her son pleaded guilty to lesser charges, from manslaughter to second degree murder, meaning they didn't serve the mandatory life sentence without parole that comes with a murder conviction...[Full Article]


Mexico raises concerns over Georgia illegal immigration bill

Atlanta’s Mexican Consulate is expressing concerns over the “potentially grave effects” pending legislation targeting illegal immigration could have on Mexican nationals here.

In a statement released Friday, the consulate singled out House Bill 87, which passed Georgia’s House on Thursday. Among other things, HB 87 would authorize state and local police to verify the immigration status of certain suspects. It also would punish certain people who knowingly transport or harbor illegal immigrants here...[Full Article]
Lakewood Man Gets 4 Years in Federal Prison for Harboring Undocumented Immigrants

PITTSBURGH — A 66-year-old Lakewood man has been sentenced to 4 years and 8 months in prison for conspiring to harbor undocumented immigrants for commercial gain and money laundering.

Roman Litt, of 11900 Edgewater Dr. — who also has a Staten Island, NY address — was handed down his sentence Tuesday at US District Court of Western Pennsylvania...[Full Article]

Monday, March 7, 2011

Bills Modeled After Arizona’s SB 1070 Spread Through States




UPDATE @ 6:55 ET: North Carolina just became the 16th state* to introduce an SB 1070 copycat bill. Unlike Arizona’s law, the North Carolina bill states that only a “law enforcement officer who is authorized by the federal government to verify or ascertain a person’s immigration status” may enforce the new law. The effect, as I discuss below in the context of other states, is a blurring of the lines between state and federal immigration enforcement programs.

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In Arizona’s state legislature, racial profiling is so 2010. It introduced a set of anti-immigrant bills last week that make last year’s SB 1070 look a bit like a passing nuisance. But outside the Grand Canyon State, SB 1070 is far from last year’s news. A round of similarly crafted and in many cases more extreme bills are now spreading all over the country.

At least 16 state legislatures* have introduced SB 1070 copycat bills in the current legislative session. They are undeterred by the suite of lawsuits that have thus far kept Arizona from implementing the most controversial elements of its law...[Full Article]

Pa. Legislators Propose Immigration Policy

Several state lawmakers proposed the National Security Begins at Home illegal immigration bill Tuesday.

A press release from Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Butler County, announced the bill was aimed at “shutting off public benefits, employment access and all other economic incentives that continue to fuel Pennsylvania’s ever-increasing illegal alien invasion.”

“Just like any other national policy, America’s immigration laws must protect the lives, liberty and property of American citizens, rather than foreign invaders,” said Metcalfe. “Since the federal government remains AWOL in fulfilling its constitutional obligation to defend the states against foreign invasion, Pennsylvania state lawmakers have no choice but to stand together to advance the National Security Begins at Home package.”...[Full Article]

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Illegal immigrant who entered the U.S. four times is sent to prison
(March 4, 2011)

DAYTON — A Mexican citizen deported three times from the United States was sentenced Friday to 46 months in prison for illegally re-entering the United States after being deported...[Full Article]