BY WILLIAM DOUGLAS
MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS Via Miami Herald: Politics AP
WASHINGTON — Religious leaders and lawmakers traded Scripture passages Wednesday at a congressional hearing on whether there's an ethical imperative to overhaul the nation's immigration laws.
Arguing for a comprehensive immigration package with a guest-worker program, Richard Land, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, quoted from Matthew, Leviticus and Micah in pressing for action on the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants currently living in the U.S.
Southern Baptists respect and strongly support upholding America's laws, he said, but they "also recognize a biblical mandate to care for 'the least of these among us' (Matthew 25:34-40), to care for the 'strangers' who reside in our land (Leviticus 19:34; Hebrews 13:2) and to act justly and mercifully (Micah 6:8)," Land told the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law.
Opponents of a comprehensive immigration overhaul came to the hearing with biblical passages of their own.
Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, read a quote from Romans 13:1-7 that crystallized the argument for enhanced border security and strict enforcement of existing federal immigration laws: "Let every person be subject to governing authorities."
Read more: [Illegal Immigration]
Posted By; Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Rick Scott and Bill McCollum want to turn Miami into an immigration prison
By Luther Campbell
Thursday, Aug 5 2010
The Democratic Party is out of sight and out of mind in the race for Florida's next governor. And that is messed up because the two Republicans running for the state's top political post look and act like grand wizards in the Ku Klux Klan.
Multimillionaire Rick Scott, who owned a company involved in the largest Medicare fraud case in our nation's history, promises to pass an immigration law similar to Arizona's controversial legislation. His opponent Bill McCollum, lagging behind in the polls and campaign cash, hints he would do the same, even writing a legal brief in support of the Arizona law. Neither one of them is good for Florida. But Democratic candidate and state CFO Alex Sink hasn't done much to raise her profile. No one outside Tallahassee knows who the hell she is.
See More @: [Miami becoming into a Jail]
Posted By: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
Thursday, Aug 5 2010
The Democratic Party is out of sight and out of mind in the race for Florida's next governor. And that is messed up because the two Republicans running for the state's top political post look and act like grand wizards in the Ku Klux Klan.
Multimillionaire Rick Scott, who owned a company involved in the largest Medicare fraud case in our nation's history, promises to pass an immigration law similar to Arizona's controversial legislation. His opponent Bill McCollum, lagging behind in the polls and campaign cash, hints he would do the same, even writing a legal brief in support of the Arizona law. Neither one of them is good for Florida. But Democratic candidate and state CFO Alex Sink hasn't done much to raise her profile. No one outside Tallahassee knows who the hell she is.
See More @: [Miami becoming into a Jail]
Posted By: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
Miami ICE office gets new deportations chief: A new deportations chief has taken over at the Miami office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
BY ALFONSO CHARDY, ACHARDY@ELNUEVOHERALD.COM
It was an ad in a Texas newspaper that set Marc Moore on the path to a long career in immigration enforcement that started out in El Paso and has now brought him to South Florida.
Moore, who joined the Border Patrol in 1991 to monitor the Mexican border, is now the new field office director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Miami field office for enforcement and removal operations. As such, Moore, 49, will oversee local enforcement of perhaps one of the most controversial aspects of immigration work: detention and deportation of foreign nationals.
Moore has taken charge at a particularly tense time, as immigrant rights and immigration control activists step up the fierce debate over whether undocumented immigrants should be legalized or forced to leave.
Moore, for his part, takes the view that immigration has been perennially controversial and that he intends to enforce laws the way the Obama administration wants them enforced.
See More @: [ICE in Miami Area]
Posted by: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
It was an ad in a Texas newspaper that set Marc Moore on the path to a long career in immigration enforcement that started out in El Paso and has now brought him to South Florida.
Moore, who joined the Border Patrol in 1991 to monitor the Mexican border, is now the new field office director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Miami field office for enforcement and removal operations. As such, Moore, 49, will oversee local enforcement of perhaps one of the most controversial aspects of immigration work: detention and deportation of foreign nationals.
Moore has taken charge at a particularly tense time, as immigrant rights and immigration control activists step up the fierce debate over whether undocumented immigrants should be legalized or forced to leave.
Moore, for his part, takes the view that immigration has been perennially controversial and that he intends to enforce laws the way the Obama administration wants them enforced.
See More @: [ICE in Miami Area]
Posted by: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
Deportation of 'criminal aliens' on the rise A record number of immigrants, most with records, are removed in the Houston Area
By. SUSAN CARROLL, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Nearly eight in 10 illegal immigrants removed from southeast Texas since the start of the fiscal year had criminal records, authorities said, underscoring the Obama administration's commitment to focus its immigration enforcement strategy on so-called "criminal aliens."
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from the Houston field office, which covers the southeastern portion of the state, have removed a record-setting 13,790 illegal immigrants with criminal records since the start of the fiscal year Oct. 1.
That number is slightly higher than the 13,662 removed in all of last year, the previous record.
Ken Landgrebe, head of ICE's Detention and Removal Operations in Houston, said the increase was due in part to ICE's partnerships with state and local law enforcement agencies, which have signed on to help the overburdened agency identify illegal immigrants in prisons and jails.
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Posted by: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
Nearly eight in 10 illegal immigrants removed from southeast Texas since the start of the fiscal year had criminal records, authorities said, underscoring the Obama administration's commitment to focus its immigration enforcement strategy on so-called "criminal aliens."
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from the Houston field office, which covers the southeastern portion of the state, have removed a record-setting 13,790 illegal immigrants with criminal records since the start of the fiscal year Oct. 1.
That number is slightly higher than the 13,662 removed in all of last year, the previous record.
Ken Landgrebe, head of ICE's Detention and Removal Operations in Houston, said the increase was due in part to ICE's partnerships with state and local law enforcement agencies, which have signed on to help the overburdened agency identify illegal immigrants in prisons and jails.
See More @ [Houston Area]
Posted by: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
Illegal immigration grenade: 60K Texas anchor babies get U.S. citizenship every year
By: Devonia Smith, August 8: Dallas Political Buzz Examiner
DALLAS __"They're pulling the pin on the immigration grenade,"says Rep. Rafael AnchÃa, D-Dallas, speaking of Republicans who are pushing for changes to the 14th Amendment that provides automatic citizenship to any baby born in America.
Shocking Texas statistics:
A population of an estimated 1.5 million illegal immigrants
60 - 65,000 babies born each year in Texas are given automatic birthright citizenship
Based on those statistics, the explosion that rocks the American immigration debate may originate from Dallas, Texas, home to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Anchor babies overwhelming Dallas:
"Last year at Parkland, 11,071 babies were born to women who were noncitizens - about 74 percent of total deliveries. Most of these women are believed to be in the country illegally." The Dallas Morning News
"In 2004, according to the article, the cost was $70.7 million. Also needless to say, the impact of the birth by illegal alien mothers at such high levels year after year is having a dramatic impact on the demography of Dallas. It is radically increasing income disparity, representing a rising danger to social order, as well as contributing to rapidly rising welfare costs." (Source: Center for Immigration Studies)
See More @: [Texas View On Immigration]
Posted by: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
DALLAS __"They're pulling the pin on the immigration grenade,"says Rep. Rafael AnchÃa, D-Dallas, speaking of Republicans who are pushing for changes to the 14th Amendment that provides automatic citizenship to any baby born in America.
Shocking Texas statistics:
A population of an estimated 1.5 million illegal immigrants
60 - 65,000 babies born each year in Texas are given automatic birthright citizenship
Based on those statistics, the explosion that rocks the American immigration debate may originate from Dallas, Texas, home to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Anchor babies overwhelming Dallas:
"Last year at Parkland, 11,071 babies were born to women who were noncitizens - about 74 percent of total deliveries. Most of these women are believed to be in the country illegally." The Dallas Morning News
"In 2004, according to the article, the cost was $70.7 million. Also needless to say, the impact of the birth by illegal alien mothers at such high levels year after year is having a dramatic impact on the demography of Dallas. It is radically increasing income disparity, representing a rising danger to social order, as well as contributing to rapidly rising welfare costs." (Source: Center for Immigration Studies)
See More @: [Texas View On Immigration]
Posted by: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
Ron Paul: Arrest and Deport Illegal Immigrants
No Amnesty. Enforce the Borders. End Birthright Citizenship. Learn English.
by: Jake Morphonios
Congressman Ron Paul of Texas doesn't mince words. On the subject of illegal immigration he said emphatically, "One important solution is better enforcement of the laws we've got - which plainly call for illegal immigrants to be arrested and deported."
He makes clear his position that the responsibility of immigration enforcement is the job of the President, not the Congress. In 2005, Paul wrote:
"The ultimate responsibility for our immigration mess, therefore, lies squarely with successive presidents, not Congress. For decades our chief executives simply have lacked the political will, the manpower, or the desire to police our borders and deport lawbreakers. It's been nearly impossible politically for presidents or candidates to suggest the obvious, namely that illegal immigration mocks the rule of law and creates huge social and economic problems. But the tide is turning, and a majority of Americans will demand real action on immigration by the next administration."
See More @ [Texas on Immigration]
Posted by: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
by: Jake Morphonios
Congressman Ron Paul of Texas doesn't mince words. On the subject of illegal immigration he said emphatically, "One important solution is better enforcement of the laws we've got - which plainly call for illegal immigrants to be arrested and deported."
He makes clear his position that the responsibility of immigration enforcement is the job of the President, not the Congress. In 2005, Paul wrote:
"The ultimate responsibility for our immigration mess, therefore, lies squarely with successive presidents, not Congress. For decades our chief executives simply have lacked the political will, the manpower, or the desire to police our borders and deport lawbreakers. It's been nearly impossible politically for presidents or candidates to suggest the obvious, namely that illegal immigration mocks the rule of law and creates huge social and economic problems. But the tide is turning, and a majority of Americans will demand real action on immigration by the next administration."
See More @ [Texas on Immigration]
Posted by: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
At least 60,000 babies born each year to illegal immigrants in Texas gain ‘birthright citizenship’
by: John Egan, August 8, 1:09 PM - Austin Market Examiner
As the debate over birthright citizenship rages across the United States, a statistic has surfaced that is sure to add fuel to the birthright fire in Texas: 60,000 to 65,000 babies automatically gain U.S. citizenship each year when they're born to the estimated 1.5 million illegal immigrants who live in the Lone Star State.
That figure, reported by the Dallas Morning News, comes from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. The yearly birth number is equivalent to the population of Austin suburb Cedar Park—about 62,000, according to a 2009 estimate.
Last year, births to illegal immigrants represented nearly 16 percent of the total births statewide, according to the newspaper.
Between 2001 and 2009, births to illegal immigrant women totaled 542,152 in Texas, the Dallas Morning News reported. That’s about the same number of people who live in the city of Atlanta.
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Posted By: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
As the debate over birthright citizenship rages across the United States, a statistic has surfaced that is sure to add fuel to the birthright fire in Texas: 60,000 to 65,000 babies automatically gain U.S. citizenship each year when they're born to the estimated 1.5 million illegal immigrants who live in the Lone Star State.
That figure, reported by the Dallas Morning News, comes from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. The yearly birth number is equivalent to the population of Austin suburb Cedar Park—about 62,000, according to a 2009 estimate.
Last year, births to illegal immigrants represented nearly 16 percent of the total births statewide, according to the newspaper.
Between 2001 and 2009, births to illegal immigrant women totaled 542,152 in Texas, the Dallas Morning News reported. That’s about the same number of people who live in the city of Atlanta.
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Posted By: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
Tennessee businesses lobby for amnesty for illegal immigrants
Immigration backers say Ariz. law is 'too radical'
by. CHRIS ECHEGARAY • THE TENNESSEAN • JULY 30, 2010
While Tennessee's lawmakers work to make state immigration policy as tough as Arizona's, Tennessee businesses and professional groups are lobbying to make life easier for immigrants.
The Nashville Music Association union, Tyson Foods and the National Pork Producers Council, with a local office in Rutherford County, all lobby for immigration reform that would raise the cap on worker visas. They also want to create a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
See More @ [ Tennessean ]
Posted By: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
by. CHRIS ECHEGARAY • THE TENNESSEAN • JULY 30, 2010
While Tennessee's lawmakers work to make state immigration policy as tough as Arizona's, Tennessee businesses and professional groups are lobbying to make life easier for immigrants.
The Nashville Music Association union, Tyson Foods and the National Pork Producers Council, with a local office in Rutherford County, all lobby for immigration reform that would raise the cap on worker visas. They also want to create a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
See More @ [ Tennessean ]
Posted By: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010
Nearly 200 illegal immigrant inmates transferred from Oklahoma custody
Nearly a year after the Oklahoma Criminal Illegal Alien Rapid Repatriation Act went into effect, 185 immigrant inmates serving time in state custody have been handed over to federal officials and deported. So far, eight have returned.
A year-old state law is saving Oklahomans millions of dollars by deporting illegal immigrant criminals back to their home countries.
Oklahoma is one of about five states using similar methods to ease inmate overcrowding in prison systems, federal immigration officials say.
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A year-old state law is saving Oklahomans millions of dollars by deporting illegal immigrant criminals back to their home countries.
Oklahoma is one of about five states using similar methods to ease inmate overcrowding in prison systems, federal immigration officials say.
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Posted By: ISmael Armendariz, ES 135Ac, Summer 2010
Hispanics see a baby boom In Tulsa, one in five prekindergarten children is Hispanic
The number of Hispanic Tulsa County prekindergartners has more than doubled since 2000 with the ethnicity now accounting for one of every five children in that age group, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau population estimates.
The number of Tulsa County Hispanics under the age of 5 increased to 9,797 from 4,323 — a 127 percent jump — between 2000 and July 2009, according to Census Bureau figures.
The under-5-year-old population group — numbering at 42,552 statewide — is the largest and one of the fastest-growing segments of Hispanic population both in Tulsa County and across the state.
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Posted By; ISmael Armendariz, ES 135ac; Summer 2010
The number of Tulsa County Hispanics under the age of 5 increased to 9,797 from 4,323 — a 127 percent jump — between 2000 and July 2009, according to Census Bureau figures.
The under-5-year-old population group — numbering at 42,552 statewide — is the largest and one of the fastest-growing segments of Hispanic population both in Tulsa County and across the state.
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Posted By; ISmael Armendariz, ES 135ac; Summer 2010
Fear drives many illegal immigrants from Mexico to Oklahoma
Jessica's voice, or moreover her presence, is powerful in a state that was considered the forerunner on anti-illegal immigration legislation after the 2007 passage of House Bill 1804.
Jessica, 18, is a newly arrived illegal immigrant from Monterrey, Mexico. And based on anecdotal evidence and statewide statistics, she is far from alone.
Mexican nationals appear to be entering Oklahoma illegally as steadily as ever for work, family and sanctuary from a violent homeland.
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Jessica, 18, is a newly arrived illegal immigrant from Monterrey, Mexico. And based on anecdotal evidence and statewide statistics, she is far from alone.
Mexican nationals appear to be entering Oklahoma illegally as steadily as ever for work, family and sanctuary from a violent homeland.
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Oklahoma Immigration Home Page
I believe this is important. The NewsOK has a whole section on update/topics on immigration.
Here is the Wesite: Click Here
Posted By : Ismael Armendariz; ES 135AC, summer 2010
Here is the Wesite: Click Here
Posted By : Ismael Armendariz; ES 135AC, summer 2010
Pulling: Lettuce, drugs and terrorists
For the past hundred or so years, the border with Mexico has been a non-issue with most of us. If you wanted to cross, you could roll up your jeans and just wade across the Rio Grande. In fact, we encouraged people to cross. Migrant farm labor has been an important ingredient in America’s economy for years. My father grew tomatoes commercially, and as far back as I can remember the same migrant family followed the tomato harvest north and harvested our 20 acres every year.
Several factors have come together to radically change our perception.
The first was the scourge of illegal drugs and the sustained demand for them by U.S. users. We have been spending a huge amount of money fighting a war on drugs for a long time with little, if any, effect. Mexico has evolved into a major source of drug traffic, and with it all the negative consequences. The problem is not simply immigration; it’s also a porous border.
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Posted By: Ismael Armendariz; ES 135AC, summer 2010
Several factors have come together to radically change our perception.
The first was the scourge of illegal drugs and the sustained demand for them by U.S. users. We have been spending a huge amount of money fighting a war on drugs for a long time with little, if any, effect. Mexico has evolved into a major source of drug traffic, and with it all the negative consequences. The problem is not simply immigration; it’s also a porous border.
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Posted By: Ismael Armendariz; ES 135AC, summer 2010
Immigration skirmish brews in quiet SC town
SUMMERVILLE, S.C. — In a quiet Southern bedroom community of gardens and parks across the country from Arizona, another skirmish in the battle over illegal immigration is brewing.
Summerville Councilman Walter Bailey, worried there is a void in immigration laws, has proposed an ordinance that goes farther than state law, which was sharpened two years ago to allow police to identify illegal immigrants for deportation.
The proposal would prevent illegal immigrants from living in the town of 45,000, which calls itself "Flower Town in the Pines," and in most cases prevent them from working here.
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Summerville Councilman Walter Bailey, worried there is a void in immigration laws, has proposed an ordinance that goes farther than state law, which was sharpened two years ago to allow police to identify illegal immigrants for deportation.
The proposal would prevent illegal immigrants from living in the town of 45,000, which calls itself "Flower Town in the Pines," and in most cases prevent them from working here.
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Graham: Deny their children citizenship
WASHINGTON —( But South Carolina Senator)
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Thursday that he’s talked with other senators about crafting a constitutional amendment that would deny American citizenship to illegal immigrants’ children born in the United States.
Graham’s idea is a stunning reversal for a senator whose advocacy of giving legal status to the country’s 12 million undocumented workers is so well known that conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh and many of his listeners call the Seneca, S.C., Republican “Senator Grahamnesty.”
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Sen. Lindsey Graham said Thursday that he’s talked with other senators about crafting a constitutional amendment that would deny American citizenship to illegal immigrants’ children born in the United States.
Graham’s idea is a stunning reversal for a senator whose advocacy of giving legal status to the country’s 12 million undocumented workers is so well known that conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh and many of his listeners call the Seneca, S.C., Republican “Senator Grahamnesty.”
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Thursday, August 5, 2010
Hundreds attend immigration law meeting
By. LUCY WEBER
LWEBER@MCHERALD.COM • AUGUST 5, 2010
A parking lot on Madison's Main Street filled quickly with cars decked out with bumper stickers and tags boasting patriotism and politics.
The crowd of about 200 inside the Madison Square Center for the Arts rallied on Monday in support of conservative speakers urging a crackdown on illegal immigration. Sponsored by the Mississippi Federation for Immigration Reform and Enforcement and the Mississippi Tea Party, the gathering drew supporters from Madison, Hinds, Rankin, Copiah counties and more to hear Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant and others push the case for a Mississippi law based on the current Arizona immigration law gathering national attention.
Bryant said those who cross the borders illegally come in violation of federal laws and costing Mississippi taxpayers. The illegal immigrants are taking jobs away from Americans, he said.
"Twenty-five million dollars of your tax are going to support illegal immigration," said Bryant, citing a report done in 2006 when he was state auditor.
That amounts to an average cost of $1,117 for each tax-paying household, said attorney Russ Latino of Madison, another of the keynote speakers. That cost could rise if the federal government grants amnesty to those in the country illegally because those millions more could receive federal entitlements like Medicaid, housing and food stamps, he said.
See More @: [Immigration in Mississippi]
Posted By: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
LWEBER@MCHERALD.COM • AUGUST 5, 2010
A parking lot on Madison's Main Street filled quickly with cars decked out with bumper stickers and tags boasting patriotism and politics.
The crowd of about 200 inside the Madison Square Center for the Arts rallied on Monday in support of conservative speakers urging a crackdown on illegal immigration. Sponsored by the Mississippi Federation for Immigration Reform and Enforcement and the Mississippi Tea Party, the gathering drew supporters from Madison, Hinds, Rankin, Copiah counties and more to hear Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant and others push the case for a Mississippi law based on the current Arizona immigration law gathering national attention.
Bryant said those who cross the borders illegally come in violation of federal laws and costing Mississippi taxpayers. The illegal immigrants are taking jobs away from Americans, he said.
"Twenty-five million dollars of your tax are going to support illegal immigration," said Bryant, citing a report done in 2006 when he was state auditor.
That amounts to an average cost of $1,117 for each tax-paying household, said attorney Russ Latino of Madison, another of the keynote speakers. That cost could rise if the federal government grants amnesty to those in the country illegally because those millions more could receive federal entitlements like Medicaid, housing and food stamps, he said.
See More @: [Immigration in Mississippi]
Posted By: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
Immigration's impact on America's population and Texas' suburbs
by. William McKenzie/ Columnist
There are two points in Kotkin's immigration reporting that jumped out at me:
First, the influx of immigrants into America will allow our population to grow in a way that populations in Europe and Japan won't. I know many find that thought abhorrent, but think of the alternative. Do we want to go on the kind of downward slide that a stagnant population creates? I don't see any value in either a downward slide or a stagnant population, so growth fueled in part by immigration can be a blessing.
He's also right that our post-ethnic society will help us relate better to developing nations, who supply immigrants to us. I'd add another aspect to that. Philip Jenkins wrote in the Christian Century recently that most of the fastest-growing nations are in Africa. If the economies of those nations ever take off, our ability to understand and do business with them could depend upon our own African population, which is not inconsequential.
Of course, as Tod points out, there's a danger in immigration without assimilation.
See More @: [Texas on Immigration]
Posted by: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
There are two points in Kotkin's immigration reporting that jumped out at me:
First, the influx of immigrants into America will allow our population to grow in a way that populations in Europe and Japan won't. I know many find that thought abhorrent, but think of the alternative. Do we want to go on the kind of downward slide that a stagnant population creates? I don't see any value in either a downward slide or a stagnant population, so growth fueled in part by immigration can be a blessing.
He's also right that our post-ethnic society will help us relate better to developing nations, who supply immigrants to us. I'd add another aspect to that. Philip Jenkins wrote in the Christian Century recently that most of the fastest-growing nations are in Africa. If the economies of those nations ever take off, our ability to understand and do business with them could depend upon our own African population, which is not inconsequential.
Of course, as Tod points out, there's a danger in immigration without assimilation.
See More @: [Texas on Immigration]
Posted by: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
Pro & Con: Should Georgia adopt an Arizona-style immigration law?
By Inger Eberhart
YES: Enforcement works, will save state money, badly needed jobs.
The basis of the Arizona immigration law is the principle of attrition through enforcement. The intent section of the law says that “this act is to make attrition through enforcement the public policy of all state and local government agencies in Arizona.”
Attrition through enforcement means that when the immigration laws are enforced illegal aliens self-deport.
The passage of Arizona’s law and the threat of subsequent enforcement led to numerous stories of illegal aliens leaving Arizona. Enforcement works; legalization is a losing proposition.
Comprehensive immigration reform is 21st-century speak for legalization and amnesty. When the 1986 amnesty was proposed, about 1.5 million illegal agricultural workers were said to be eligible.
Over 3 million illegal aliens were eventually granted amnesty as a result of fraud and misrepresentations. By 1997, there were 5 million illegal aliens.
Today, we have 12 million to 20 million in the United States. Amnesty merely encourages more illegal immigration and does not solve the problem.
See More Here: [Pro & Con]
Posted By: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
YES: Enforcement works, will save state money, badly needed jobs.
The basis of the Arizona immigration law is the principle of attrition through enforcement. The intent section of the law says that “this act is to make attrition through enforcement the public policy of all state and local government agencies in Arizona.”
Attrition through enforcement means that when the immigration laws are enforced illegal aliens self-deport.
The passage of Arizona’s law and the threat of subsequent enforcement led to numerous stories of illegal aliens leaving Arizona. Enforcement works; legalization is a losing proposition.
Comprehensive immigration reform is 21st-century speak for legalization and amnesty. When the 1986 amnesty was proposed, about 1.5 million illegal agricultural workers were said to be eligible.
Over 3 million illegal aliens were eventually granted amnesty as a result of fraud and misrepresentations. By 1997, there were 5 million illegal aliens.
Today, we have 12 million to 20 million in the United States. Amnesty merely encourages more illegal immigration and does not solve the problem.
See More Here: [Pro & Con]
Posted By: Carlos T. Alfaro
Summer 2010
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Don Spurlin receives endorsement from co-author of Arizona immigration law
HUNTSVILLE, AL -- Don Spurlin, a Republican candidate for the District 9 seat in the state Senate, announced today he has received an endorsement from Kris Kobach.
Kobach is a Kansas City lawyer and a nationally-renowned immigration expert. He co-authored the controversial Arizona immigration law that has brought the immigration issue to the national forefront.
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Kobach is a Kansas City lawyer and a nationally-renowned immigration expert. He co-authored the controversial Arizona immigration law that has brought the immigration issue to the national forefront.
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Opponents of Irondale's immigration resolution express concerns
One of two council members who voted against Irondale's resolution on immigration status checks during traffic stops or investigations says the city should have waited on the outcome of a federal lawsuit challenging a law in Arizona.
Irondale passed its resolution Tuesday, the same day the U.S. Justice Department sued Arizona over a law that requires police, while enforcing other laws, to question a person's immigration status if there is a reasonable suspicion that the person is in the country illegally.
Councilman James D. Stewart Jr., who is black, said today he understands concerns that some people may have.
"If we were to allow for laws to be written to discriminate against minority groups, then how many rights would we as African-Americans be denied?"
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Irondale passed its resolution Tuesday, the same day the U.S. Justice Department sued Arizona over a law that requires police, while enforcing other laws, to question a person's immigration status if there is a reasonable suspicion that the person is in the country illegally.
Councilman James D. Stewart Jr., who is black, said today he understands concerns that some people may have.
"If we were to allow for laws to be written to discriminate against minority groups, then how many rights would we as African-Americans be denied?"
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Immigration skirmish brews in quiet SC town
SUMMERVILLE, S.C. — In a quiet Southern bedroom community of gardens and parks across the country from Arizona, another skirmish in the battle over illegal immigration is brewing.
Summerville Councilman Walter Bailey, worried there is a void in immigration laws, has proposed an ordinance that goes farther than state law, which was sharpened two years ago to allow police to identify illegal immigrants for deportation.
The proposal would prevent illegal immigrants from living in the town of 45,000, which calls itself "Flower Town in the Pines," and in most cases prevent them from working here
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Posted By Ismael Armendariz; ES 135AC Summer 2010
Summerville Councilman Walter Bailey, worried there is a void in immigration laws, has proposed an ordinance that goes farther than state law, which was sharpened two years ago to allow police to identify illegal immigrants for deportation.
The proposal would prevent illegal immigrants from living in the town of 45,000, which calls itself "Flower Town in the Pines," and in most cases prevent them from working here
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Posted By Ismael Armendariz; ES 135AC Summer 2010
High cost of interpreters hits local courts
Cities and counties in metro Atlanta are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on interpreter services in local courts for defendants who don't speak English. Gwinnett County, which has one of the most diverse populations in the region, spent $539,803 in 2009 on interpreters in its court system, according to figures supplied by the county to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Cobb's Superior Court spent $255,563 last year.
The issue arose most recently in Alpharetta, whose City Council was presented last week with a contract for up to $40,000 for interpreter services in municipal court for fiscal 2011, up from about $27,500 in the previous year.
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The issue arose most recently in Alpharetta, whose City Council was presented last week with a contract for up to $40,000 for interpreter services in municipal court for fiscal 2011, up from about $27,500 in the previous year.
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Georgia's immigration controversy reaches attorney general
The office of Attorney General Thurbert Baker will review a request to determine whether Georgia's public university system violated the law by admitting illegal immigrants such as Colotl.
The request originated with Cobb County immigration activist D.A. King. He asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to look into the matter, but was told that the GBI could initiate an inquiry only if a public official or law enforcement agency asked for one.
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Posted By: Ismael Armendariz; ES 135AC Summer 2010
The request originated with Cobb County immigration activist D.A. King. He asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to look into the matter, but was told that the GBI could initiate an inquiry only if a public official or law enforcement agency asked for one.
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Posted By: Ismael Armendariz; ES 135AC Summer 2010
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