WASHINGTON - A Republican delegate to the Maryland General Assembly is holding a news conference Wednesday to announce that he is filing 15 bills related to immigration issues, including the enforcement of an official state language and a watchdog group to study the cost of illegals.
Delegate Pat McDonough calls it "the largest number of illegal alien bills in the history of the General Assembly."...
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Negotiating his work fee in a small Huntington Beach home in the 1980s, Scott Powelson suspected he would one day be replaced by workers from south of the border.
"Well you know, I can get this guy to do this for way cheaper," the homeowner told him at the time.The woman told Powelson his competition spoke Spanish but very little English. While she couldn't quite comprehend everything the other man said, she understood the price.
Powelson, who had just given the homeowner his best bid to install ceramic tile, passed on the job. He would have had to take a 20 percent cut to match the price.
"I couldn't compete," the 59-year-old from Costa Mesa recalled on a recent weekday at a local diner where the food is cheap and plentiful.
"I realized flat out that I couldn't compete with these guys in ceramic tile, eventually they'd move into my field of expertise," he said. "I saw it coming way back. ... I started realizing that I'm bidding against these guys who come in from Mexico ... illegally."...
On February 16, 2010, police in Prince William County, Virginia, filed charges against Marcos Banegas , 26, for forcible sodomy and aggravated sexual battery on an 8-year-old girl. The Honduran national has been on the run ever since, and remains at large.
It was a crime that could have been prevented if police in Montgomery County, Maryland, would have reported him to Immigration and Customs Enforcement when they had Banegas in custody. A year before he was charged with raping the girl in Virginia, he was arrested for second-degree assault on a child in Maryland.
However, because Montgomery County had an official policy against the police notifying ICE of a suspect’s illegal immigration status, Banegas was simply released after the charges were dropped by the girl’s mother, who was apparently dating Banegas...
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Kamala Harris, California's next attorney general, ran a program that trained illegal alien felons for jobs, kept them out of jail and even helped to clear their criminal records.
After those aspects of the program received local news media attention, Harris corrected the system but still allowed for illegal aliens already using the program to finish her program.
In the run-up to November's elections – where Harris won the slimmest victory in the Democratic statewide sweep – the news media released a slew of glowing profiles of the aspiring politician, casting her as a rising national star, comparing her to Obama or even labeling her as the "anti-Palin," as one Politico article put it...
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers took a first step Thursday toward a crackdown on illegal immigrants, advancing a bill that would give police broad authority to check the immigration status of people they stop.
In its first test of support, the measure cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on an 8-3 vote after a lengthy discussion in which one opponent branded it as a "12th century bill of rights."...
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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.
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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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
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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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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