SEIU Vice President Eliseo Medina Testifies in Support of Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Washington, DC - Today, SEIU Vice President Eliseo Medina testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security. At a hearing on the need for passing comprehensive immigration reform in 2009, Medina detailed a unified reform framework that was released earlier this month by Change to Win (which includes SEIU) and AFL-CIO...

17 Men Arrested in Witchita for Being in U.S. Illegally
Federal immigration agents and Wichita police officers this week arrested 17 gang members and associates with criminal histories who are in the U.S. illegally...

Homeland Security ICE to Focus Less on Workplace Raids, More on Prosecuting Those Hiring Illegal Immigrants
The Barack Obama administration and U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials said Thursday that immigration enforcement would be focused more on criminal prosecution of businesses hiring illegal immigrants, and less on workplace raids to pick up undocumented workers...

Speak Up (from the News-Herald)

What's Fair When It Comes to Illegal Immigrants
I always have been insulted when individuals who are pro-illegal immigrants try to logic out why one group of people can break one set of laws while the rest of us should be subject to the exact same laws. For example, the City of Chicago has proclaimed itself to be a sanctuary city. We have individuals who get upset if the police do stings and arrest and take the cars of people who are in this country illegally and driving without a license. Yet we recently had an alderman proclaim that the city should take the cars of American citizens who leave traffic court and drive after being told to not do so. Where is the fairness?...

Immigration Protests Break Out On West Mall
...Members said the fake green cards and candy represented easy amnesty and government entitlements, such as health care and welfare services. The giveaways expressed the group’s view that Obama’s immigration policies would open the border and make it easier for illegal immigrants to enter the U.S. ...

ID-Theft Probe Led to Demotion, State Worker Says (Columbus, Ohio - April 30, 2009)
Managers of the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation stifled an investigation into possible identity theft by illegal immigrants and demoted an investigator who had been pursuing the issue, the investigator alleges in a discrimination case...

Mexican Cartels Already in State
...Police are gunned down in public squares. Failed drug smugglers are tortured to death and bound from head to toe in duct tape. Enemies are beheaded...

Children of Illegal Aliens Cost County Welfare $44 million in March (Up $1 Million Dollars from Last Month)
LOS ANGELES COUNTY - Figures from the Department of Public Social Services show that children of illegal aliens in Los Angeles County collected more than $21 million in welfare and more than $22 million in food stamps in March 2009 -- an increase of $1 million from the previous month, according to a news release from Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich...

California Counties Cut Healthcare to Illegal Immigrants
Forced to slash their budgets, some California counties are eliminating nonemergency health services for illegal immigrants -- a move that officials acknowledge could backfire by shifting the financial burden to emergency rooms...

U.S. Immigration Reforms Planned
When President Ronald Reagan signed the historic but ultimately ineffective 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, one lawmaker he thanked by name was Charles Schumer...

Illegal Aliens Crossing The USA Mexican Border For Amnesty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZpoDqf0vAw

Napolitano Ignores Immigration Laws She Swore to Uphold
...There have been a large number of high-ranking government officials and politicians who have blithely stated that it was no crime for illegal aliens to run our nation's borders and in so doing, circumvent the immigration laws of the United States...

[NewsWithViews.com]

Anti-Illegal Immigration Group Faults Obama on Swine Flu
..."The Obama administration's failure to secure our borders against a possible pandemic is putting American lives at risk at a time when days and hours matter," said William Gheen, head of the Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, accusing the Obama administration of "treating Mexico like a 51st state, instead of separate nation."...

Sheriff's Office: Illegal Immigrant Sold Fake IDs (West Chester Township, Ohio - April 22, 2009)
WEST CHESTER TWP. — An illegal immigrant who was selling falsified identification has been arrested, according to the Butler County Sheriff’s Office...

Illegal Immigrant Charged with Child Rape had been Released a Year Earlier after Assault Arrest
A year before Prince William County police say he raped an 8-year-old girl, court documents show an illegal immigrant from Honduras was released by Montgomery County police after being arrested for second-degree assault...

Illegal Aliens with Fake Documents Caught at Border
...In a four-day period this week, 14 illegal immigrants were arrested after presenting fake papers at the U.S. Port of Entry in San Luis, Ariz., U.S. Customs and Border Protection said...

Bond Denied in Case of Ga. School Used at Front to Help Koreans Get False Immigration Visas
ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday denied bond for a man and a woman charged in an alleged fraud that authorities say allowed hundreds of Koreans to illegally enter and stay in the U.S. ...

Reaction to Alleged Illegal Hiring at Cargill
An affidavit, unsealed Wednesday, alleges managers at the Cargill facility in Dayton knowingly hire undocumented immigrants...

6 Arrested at UNC Immigration Protest / Good Pick Up Where Tancredo Left Off

Illegal aliens delivering drugs to Wal-Mart
Retail giant's pharmacies questioned over use of undocumented couriers
--KTVX-TV, Salt Lake City

Border incursions rocket 359%
'Our agents are being attacked and our sovereignty violated at alarming rates'
--WND

Arrests of border agents on rise Mexican drug cartels look to bribes as way to get around tougher enforcement --USA Today

Latino leaders reject illegals boycotting census Groups stress undocumented need to be counted to ensure fair share of representation --Orange County Register [WorldNetDaily.com]

Man Held in 4 Mexicans' Deaths (Sharonville/Cincinnati, Ohio - April 21, 2009)
Mexican authorities have arrested a suspect on charges that he killed four of his roommates - all undocumented workers - in their sparsely furnished Sharonville apartment in December 2007...

Illegal Immigrant's Detained, Then Freed to Work
CNN.com
..."Homeland Security drove them to the place where they had to go to fill out the paperwork for the work permits," she said "That is totally unheard of."...

Mother Fights for Justice After Son's Death
North Charleston, SC - A mother is fighting to bring justice after her son’s death. She says an illegal immigrant killed her 21-year old son in a car accident. She not only wants him held accountable but she wants change...

Woman Arrested in Illegal Immigration Bust
Thirty-four year-old Melissa Segura is accused of traveling with a van full of half a dozen illegal immigrants inside. A judge tells her she'll stay behind bars with a $25,000 bond...

Minuteman Founder Simcox to Run Against McCain
Sen. John McCain will face a challenge from the right in next year's Republican primary, as one of the country's most prominent border hawks will announce his candidacy for Arizona's Senate seat on April 22...