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Budget Crunch Cuts Illegal Immigrants' Health Care
...Bowing to recession-related budget pressures, Sacramento County recently took the drastic step of cutting non-emergency health services for illegal immigrants. Contra Costa County, on the east side of San Francisco Bay, will vote on a similar measure Tuesday...

'I'm Taking the Job You Wouldn't Do'
A decade ago, Louise hired illegal immigrants to work in her Triangle landscaping business because she could find no one else willing to dig and haul from sunup to sundown...

'I Only Want the Pain to End'
...Her case—a story of both personal despair and calculated deception that has prompted a state investigation—taps into burgeoning concerns over medical identity theft inside hospitals around the country already struggling to provide charity care for millions of uninsured patients...

Next Step for Immigration Reform and Workplace Enforcement
Legislative efforts in immigration reform have died off since the debate on the Comprehensive Immigra­tion Reform Act of 2007 (S. 1348), but for the past several years, the Bush Administration did consider­able work in advancing immigration reform outside the legislative process. One such effort was to enhance internal enforcement of immigration laws. The new emphasis on enforcement has resulted in a noticeable increase in the detention and deportation of illegal immigrants...

Immigrants Face Long U.S. Detentions, Few Rights
WASHINGTON -- America's detention system for immigrants has mushroomed in the last decade, a costly building boom that was supposed to sweep up criminals and ensure that undocumented immigrants were quickly shown the door...

Citizens, Illegal Immigrants Jostle for Jobs
Business owners once said they needed illegal workers because there weren't enough Americans willing to do dirty and lowly jobs. Now, unemployment is nearing 10 percent, and citizens are lining up for jobs they once would have rejected. Yet, some say, many employers still want illegal immigrants...