Colleges Push Tuition Aid for Illegal Immigrants
Washington (AP) - Wading into the politically charged immigration debate, a group of colleges and universities is urging Congress to give illegal immigrants tuition aid and a path to citizenship in light of efforts in several states to block them...

Federal Immigration Officials Arrest 17 Men with Alleged Gang Ties Suburban Chicago
...Of those arrested last week, 15 were illegal immigrants and two were permanent residents. The men have been placed in deportation proceedings...

Rapist to Serve 30 Years at the ACI
Riz, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, had been ordered deported in 2004, an order that an immigration judge upheld in 2007, but he remained in the state...

Three Arrested in Connection with Kidnapping, Sexual Assault of STC Student
WESLACO — Police here arrested three illegal immigrants from Mexico on Friday in connection with the kidnapping and sexual assault of a South Texas College student...

Illegal Immigrant Gets 15 Years for Molesting 13-Year-Old
A district judge on Friday sentenced a Mexican national who entered the country illegally to 15 years in prison for forcing his way into an apartment and assaulting a 13-year-old girl...

8 Smuggled Pot on Their Backs
PHOENIX -- Eight people were apprehended after border patrol agents caught them smuggling marijuana bundles on their backs, Customs and Border Patrol said...

The Ultralightness of Smuggling
...Smuggling over America’s southern border is big business--a $25 billion-a-year-plus industry. With those stakes, the cartels have plenty of money and incentive to find ways to beat border security. This one involved the use an ultralight, a motorized glider...

Apartment Tenants Held Hostage, Robbed
Castillo and Montoya told investigators they were in the United States illegal. Police are still trying to verify their immigration status with ICE...

Napolitano: Illegal Immigration NOT a Crime?
On Sunday, April 19, 2009, Secretary Napolitano went on CNN’s “State of the Union” and proclaimed that crossing the border illegally is not a crime. This statement left a lot of folks scratching their heads given that U.S. law—the law Napolitano is sworn to uphold—says quite the opposite. Section 8, Title 1325 of the U.S. code clearly states that those who enter the U.S. illegally are committing a crime...

ID Fraud Trial in Virginia has Ohio Roots (April 19, 2009 - The Columbus Dispatch)
A trial beginning Monday in Virginia could reveal how vulnerable Ohio's state ID system is to identity fraud...

Illegal gets 15 years for molesting girl, 13
Teen fought him off, hid in the bathroom with door locked as she called 9-1-1
--Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

3 illegals allegedly kidnap, rape woman, 23
'Once they realized she didn't have money, they sexually assaulted her'
--McAllen Monitor, Texas

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Grisly slayings bring Mexican drug war to U.S.
'No one should feel immune': Flood of Hispanic immigrants provides cover
--Los Angeles Times

Cops threatened for detaining illegal-alien criminals Note in Spanish promises bombs with 'intent to kill the most number of Americans' --Greeley Tribune, Colorado

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E-Verify Mandate for Federal Contracts Delayed Again
For the second time since President Barack Obama was inaugurated, the Department of Homeland Security has delayed a regulation that would significantly expand a government-run electronic employment verification system...

Illinois No. 8 in the Nation in Illegal Immigrants
Illinois has an estimated 450,000 illegal immigrants, according to a new study by the Pew Hispanic Center...

SC Poultry Manager Faces Immigration Charge
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The manager of a Greenville poultry plant has been indicted on a charge he knowingly hired illegal immigrants as the investigation into hiring practices at Columbia Farms took another step up the management ladder...

Univ. of N.C. Apologizes for Tancredo Protest
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- The leader of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill says investigators will see whether charges are warranted following the protest that cut short a controversial speaker earlier this week...

Hispanic Group Calls for Census Boycott
Some Hispanic advocacy groups are calling for illegal immigrants to boycott the 2010 Census unless immigration laws are changed. The move puts them at odds with leading immigrant rights advocates and creates another hurdle in the Census Bureau's quest to count everyone in the USA...

IG: IRS Allows Improper Tax Credits for Foreigners
WASHINGTON (AP) - A government investigator says the IRS is not doing enough to prevent foreign workers - including many illegal immigrants - from improperly claiming federal child tax credits...

Conservative Project Against Illegal Immigration Targets Mountain View Day-Laborer Center
Some residents of Mountain View are challenging the planned move of a day-laborer center to their neighborhood and have enlisted the help of Judicial Watch, a conservative national group that wages legal battles against similar centers around the country where immigrants seek low-wage handyman work...

Weld Sheriff's Office Investigates Greeley Threat
GREELEY, Colo. -- The Weld County sheriff's office is looking for whoever sent it a letter threatening to put bombs around Greeley next week unless illegal immigrants are released from jail...

Illegal Immigrant Charged in Child Rape Case (April 15, 2009 - Butler County, Ohio)
HAMILTON — A Butler County grand jury will consider a charge against an illegal immigrant accused of sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl, authorities said...

Our Leaders Betray Us - Public Health and Social Impact
Our immigration laws should protect not only the individuals of this country from disease, but our resources from unsustainable use. These are modern times and medicine can fix many things now, but diseases still matter, and treating disease and injury has become terribly expensive. In recent decades we have opened our hospitals to anyone who walks in, and the bills wind up being paid by the public-or the hospitals go out of business.

4 Million 'Illegal' Immigrant Children are Native-Born Citizens
...Nearly 4 million children who have at least one parent who entered the U.S. illegally were born in the United States and are U.S. citizens as a result, according to the study conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center...

Migrant Numbers Reflect a Shift
A growing share of the children of illegal immigrants are U.S.-born citizens, illustrating a sensitive, demographic shift in the makeup of America’s undocumented migrant population...

Tip Spurs Raid at Scottsdale Business
Maricopa County sheriff's deputies arrested two men Tuesday at a North Scottsdale construction company for identification theft and forgery after receiving a tip to the Sheriff's Office hotline, authorities said...

Avon Man Arrested for Making, Selling Fake Documents
An Avon man is under arrest after officials say he sold fake U.S. identification documents to an undercover cop...

Anti-Illegal Immigration Protester Reports Car Window Smashed, Sign Stolen
An anti-illegal immigration protester often seen outside the Southampton Village 7-Eleven told Village Police on Tuesday that someone smashed his SUV’s window and stole one of his protest signs...

US to Deport Third Batch of Indonesian Overstayers
The United States government is set to deport at least 40 Indonesians found to have violated American immigration laws on April 21, the Indonesian Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday...

Why Did the Unions Today Choose 7 Million Illegal Aliens Over 7 Million Unemployed Americans?
...Using the largest estimate of illegal workers in agriculture jobs, that means more than 7 million illegal aliens are holding down jobs in the construction, manufacturing and service industries...

Obama Immigration Policy Begins to Take Shape
Over the coming months Americans will find out if the Obama administration and the congressional leadership are preparing another attempt to pass a comprehensive amnesty bill in 2009. But, with or without legislation, the administration is sending unmistakable signals to illegal aliens that they will not vigorously enforce laws against illegal immigration. Just as increased worksite enforcement during the past two years was beginning to show a positive effect, and illegal aliens were starting to return home, the actions of the new administration are likely to undo that progress...

Advocates Want Halt on Immigration Raids to Ensure Acurate Census
FoxNews.com - April 6, 2009
U.S. Rep. William Clay says he'll ask the Obama administration to suspend immigration raids over the next year, so illegal immigrants don't worry that sharing accurate information with Census workers could somehow expose them to punishment...

Obama Census Plan: No Illegal Alien Left Behind
by Michelle Malkin (April 3, 2009)
My column today spotlights the radical re-shaping of the electoral landscape by the Obama and Company census conspirators. The immediate agenda of the left-wing census volunteer groups: freezing immigration raids. The long-term goal: Exploiting the massive population of illegal aliens to redraw the political map and secure a permanent ruling majority...

Illegal Immigrants Responsible: Police
Two brothers are responsible for the death of a South Jersey Middle School teacher who was only 27 years old, according to police...

Under Fire, State Rep Backs Off on Voting Rights for Illegal Immigrants

FRAMINGHAM —Widespread opposition to giving illegal immigrants the chance to vote in local elections has led the town's state representative to back down a day after she said she'd support adding the issue to the state Democratic Party's official platform...