White House loosens border rules for 2012

The Daily Caller

President Barack Obama’s administration is quietly offering a quasi-amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, while aiming to win reelection by mobilizing a wave of new Hispanic voters, say supporters of stronger immigration law enforcement.

The new rules were quietly announced Friday with a new memo from top officials at the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. The “prosecutorial discretion” memo says officials need not enforce immigration laws if illegal immigrants are enrolled in an education center or if their relatives have volunteered for the US military.

“They’re pushing the [immigration] agents to be even more lax, to go further in not enforcing the law,” said Kris Kobach, Kansas’ secretary of state. “At a time when millions of Americans are unemployed and looking for work, this is more bad news coming from the Obama administration… [if the administration] really cared about putting Americans back to work, it would be vigorously enforcing the law,” said Kobach, who has helped legislators in several states draft local immigration-related laws...[Full Article]

Mexicans protest against Alabama's new anti-illegal immigration law

Outrage continued Friday in Mexico a day after Alabama’s governor signed the toughest law in the United States against illegal immigration.

The law would impose criminal penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants, give local police broad powers to arrest anyone they suspect of entering the United States without a visa and compel public schools to check the immigration status of students.

Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement expressing “deep concern” over Alabama law HB 56. The statement said the law could violate the civil rights of Mexicans.

“Besides criminalizing the phenomenon of migration,” the law’s provisions “open the door for the improper application of the migration law by local police,” the Mexican Foreign Affairs Ministry statement says.

Other provisions of HB 56 make it illegal to knowingly rent housing to illegal immigrants and prohibit businesses from claiming tax deductions on wages they pay employees who lack work permits...[Full Article]

Yes, States May Restrict Illegal Aliens

MOBILE, Ala. -- Here in Alabama, Gov. Robert Bentley has just signed the nation's toughest immigration law, amidst the predictable cries from the Left that states don't have real authority of their own to enforce laws against illegal immigration. The information the professional Left hasn't yet processed is that the legal basis for its arguments continues to erode. The erosion continued earlier this week in a new, little-noticed action by the Supreme Court in a case called City of Hazleton v. Lozano -- the Pennsylvania dispute that made Hazleton's then-mayor Lou Barletta famous, and launched him towards a seat in Congress...[Full Article]

Alabama passes tough illegal-immigration law

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama vaulted past Arizona on Thursday with what is being called the most restrictive law in the nation against illegal immigration, requiring schools to find out if students are in the country lawfully and making it a crime to knowingly give an illegal immigrant a ride.

Advocacy groups promised to challenge the sweeping measure, which like Arizona's law also allows police to arrest anyone suspected of being an illegal immigrant if the person is stopped for some other reason. In addition, it requires all businesses to check the legal status of workers using a federal system called E-Verify...[Full Article]

2 face human smuggling charges after I-70 stop
(Dayton, Ohio - June 10, 2011)

Mexicans accused of transporting vans full of immigrants.

Two Mexican nationals face federal charges after they were allegedly caught using Interstate 70 in Clark County to smuggle 10 Guatemalans across the country.

Moises Martinez-Garcia and Juan Varillas-Santiago were being held without bond Thursday in the Montgomery County Jail after having been arraigned in U.S. District Court in Dayton, according to Fred Alverson, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of Ohio.

The case against Martinez-Garcia and Varilla-Santiago marks the second time in four months that alleged smugglers have been caught using I-70 in the Dayton area to deliver multiple illegal immigrants to a predetermined location, Alverson said...[Full Article]

Foreign countries line up to oppose Utah immigration law

More than a dozen Latin American countries have filed legal briefs in federal court arguing Utah’s enforcement-only immigration law will damage international relationships and urging the judge to rule it unconstitutional.

And on Tuesday, the Utah Attorney General’s Office asked for and was granted a 30-day extension in which to respond to the lawsuit, filed on behalf of several plaintiffs by the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Immigration Law Center.

The 21-page, friend-of-the-court brief was filed June 2 and argues HB497 “substantially and inappropriately burdens the consistent sovereign-to-sovereign relations between Mexico and the United States of America, interfering with the strategic diplomatic interests of the two countries and encouraging an imminent threat of state-sanctioned bias or discrimination.”

Mexico is the lead country on the brief but was joined by Argentina, Peru, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Honduras, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala and Brazil...[Full Article]

Joe Guzzardi: Obama Stealth Amnesty Challenged in FOIA Complaint

Don't let president's verbal misdirections fool you into believing he supports the deportation of illegal immigrants

For decades, one of the most challenging problems facing activists who favor lower immigration levels is “stealth amnesty.” Broadly defined, that means administrations dating back as far as President George H.W. Bush and continuing through President Barack Obama’s, have willfully ignored illegal immigration and allowed aliens to live openly, take jobs, start families and enroll their children in public school with little fear of deportation.

Because of the Executive Branch’s indifference to enforcing immigration laws, millions of aliens have illegally planted roots in the United States over a 25-year period.

Disregard has reached its peak under the current administration. In 2010, an internal memo drafted by four U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services staffers for agency director Alejandro N. Mayorkas outlined a plan that would allow the USCIS, under certain provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act, to “develop and implement a registration program for individuals who are unlawfully present in the U.S.” and to enact “meaningful immigration reform absent legislative action.”...[Full Article]

Horne: Obama wants illegal immigrants to vote in Arizona

Attorney General Tom Horne accused the Obama administration Tuesday of trying to thwart Arizona’s voter-ID laws in a bid to get more illegal immigrants to the polls — presumably to cast ballots for the president and Democrats.

Horne acknowledged that a brief filed by the Department of Justice in a case to be heard next month by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals centers around the agency’s argument that Arizona’s law requiring proof of citizenship to register is pre-empted by federal law. But Horne, a Republican, told Capitol Media Services he sees something more sinister.

“I think the motive is that the more illegals that vote, the better the Obama administration thinks it will do,’’ he said.

As proof, Horne pointed out that the Department of Justice did not file its friend of the court brief until just last week. That is nearly three years after the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund and others first challenged the law.

More to the point, Horne said, is that the administration waited until virtually the last minute: The case is set to be heard in just two weeks...[Full Article]

Egg processor fires 90 illegal workers

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - A Saranac egg processor fired one-third of it workforce last week for failing to provide proper documenation.

About 90 employees lost their jobs at Herbruck's following a crackdown by the federal government on employers hiring illegal immigrants.

Like many employers, Herbruck's was audited by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and was red-flagged for a number of applications. ICE told the company it had to prove the citizenship of those workers or risk being prosecuted...[Full Article]

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Thief pleads guilty, is sent away with immigration authorities

BUCYRUS -- A man illegally in the United States is in the custody of the Immigration Customs Enforcement Agency after pleading guilty to theft Monday.

Pedro Gomez-Lopez, 19, Columbus, was charged with theft, a fifth-degree felony. Authorities say he was arrested after being accused of stealing money from a cash register at the Bucyrus Kroger store.

"He was working as a contractor for a company that cleans floors at stores like Kroger," said Crawford County Assistant Prosecutor Cliff Murphy. "While working there, he attempted to steal money from one of the registers, but the money was recovered at that time."...[Full Article]

Illegal alien admits to molesting child in Ohio

On Thursday, police in Hamilton arrested Valentin Auguilar-Torres, 20, who reportedly admitted to molesting a 4-year-old child. The victim lives in the house with the suspect.

According to police, Auguilar-Torres is in the country illegally and from the village of Puerto Escondido in Mexico...[Full Article]

Three Face Illegal Immigration Charges Following City Stop

The Post-Journal

Three people were charged with being illegal immigrants Saturday.

Santos F. Segundo-Matias, 33, of Mexico; Jose L. Tapia-Sanchez, 32, of Mexico; and Jose Cruz-Lopez, 31, of Columbus, Ohio, and Mexico, were all charged at 1:29 a.m. Saturday with being in the United States illegally.

According to Jamestown Police, a vehicle was seen driving on East Second Street nears James Street, failing to keep right and crossing the fog line. The vehicle was pulled over on East Second Street near Niagara Street.

Three Hispanic men were found in the vehicle and all were allegedly found to be intoxicated. Multiple open and closed beer containers were allegedly found throughout the vehicle. The three men were reportedly staying at a hotel in Falconer and were in the area installing tile.

According to police, it was believed that the three men were in the country illegally. The U.S. Border Patrol was contacted and the three men were taken to the Jamestown City jail pending charges. The Border Patrol arrived at the city jail and found that the men were in fact illegal aliens.

No charges were pursued from the incident and the three men were released into the custody of the U.S. Border Patrol, of Erie, Pa.

Fairport Harbor Coast Guard detains 3 suspected illegal immigrants

A boat crew from the Fairport Harbor U.S. Coast Guard station found three suspected illegal immigrants onboard a vessel it stopped for a routine safety check.

According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Coast Guard:

-- While on a patrol, the boat crew boarded a 15-foot pleasure craft with four men onboard near Fairport Harbor about 7 p.m. Thursday.

-- Coast Guard boarding officers terminated the men’s voyage because they did not have the required number of life jackets and had no fire extinguisher onboard.

-- Following inspection of the men’s documentation, and inconsistent responses to questions posed by the boarding officer, the men were detained pending further investigation.

-- The vessel was towed to the public dock in Fairport and the four men were taken to Station Fairport, where they were interviewed by border patrol agents.

Three of the men were then taken into custody...[Full Article]

Costco uses E-Verify Nationwide to Check Employees

Jeff Schwilk, San Diego Immigration Policy Examiner

Posted: 05/20/2011 12:59 PM

Updated: May 24, 2011

Costco Wholesale , the nation’s largest warehouse retailer, has adopted the use of E-Verify to check all their new employees. The multi-billion dollar global chain has been using the free government online verification system nationwide since March 2010.

Costco posts the official E-Verify poster (left) inside all their stores near the Member Services counter to warn any illegal aliens thinking of applying for a job there that will be rejected. They also clearly announce their nationwide participation in E-Verify on the employment page on their website.

Costco has 10 stores in San Diego County, 118 total in California, and 424 stores nationwide. Costco is a major employer in the U.S. with over 110,000 employees.

Sam’s Club, the nation’s second largest big box store, does not use E-Verify in their hiring practices. Sam’s Club is owned by Walmart and has 33 stores in California.

After Arizona passed their mandatory E-Verify law several years ago, which requires all employers in that state to check their new employees through the Homeland Security database, Costco decided to be pro-active and adopt the system at all their stores and offices nationwide.

If and when Congress passes a bill to make E-Verify mandatory for all employers in the U.S., forward-looking companies like Costco will already be in compliance. At least one federal bill mandating E-Verify has been introduced this year, plus numerous states have bills and laws in various stages of approval.

According to Shawna Wilson at Costco's Corporate Headquarters near Seattle, the system has been running smoothly for 14 months with no problems or complaints. “Costco is proud to be a major corporate participant in the E-Verify program and help put American workers back to work”, she said.

Ms. Wilson said Costco is also considering signing up for the free government "IMAGE" Program – ICE Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers – which actually performs a full audit of all employees to ensure none of them are working fraudulently and that the employer is in full compliance with U.S. employment laws. The IMAGE Program also gives businesses more management tools to utilize “best hiring practices” through training and direct assistance.

Each of us has the choice everyday to support law-abiding American retailers with our purchasing dollars. Companies either support American workers and the rule of law in their hiring practices, or they don’t. Shop wisely.