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| 07/29/10 | Support for Mexican Border Fence Up to 68% Support for the building of a fence along the Mexican border has reached a new high, and voters are more confident than ever that illegal immigration can be stopped. |
| 07/29/10 | Arizona Will Appeal Ruling on Immigration Law, Governor Says Arizona Governor Jan Brewer said she will appeal a judge’s ruling that struck key provisions of a state law that would have forced police to determine the immigration status of people stopped for questioning. |
| 07/28/10 | Judge blocks parts of Arizona immigration law A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona's immigration law from taking effect, delivering a last-minute victory to opponents of the crackdown. |
| 07/28/10 | Anti-Illegal Immigration Group Calls for 'Safe Passage' of Illegals Out of U.S. Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) is urging U.S. citizens to pressure the White House and the Homeland Security Department to establish "safe departure" border checkpoints along the U.S. border for illegal immigrants so they can leave without fear of being detained or prosecuted for immigration crimes. |
| 07/27/10 | Mexico sends human rights inspectors to border Mexico's National Human Rights Commission said Monday it is sending inspectors to U.S. border crossings to monitor deportations that might result if Arizona's new immigration law goes into effect as planned Thursday. |
| 07/26/10 | Arizona residents want it both ways: tough immigration law and amnesty A majority of the citizens of Arizona are supporters of SB1070, the tough new law that allows police to ask someone about immigration status with "reasonable suspicion" they are in the country illegally. |
| 07/23/10 | Arizona immigration law won't be completely blocked, federal judges indicates during gov't lawsuit Arizona's controversial anti-illegal immigration law is here to stay, at least in some form, a federal judge said Thursday in Phoenix. |
| 07/22/10 | Judge to hear arguments on Arizona immigration law After all the shouting, all the posturing, and all the debate over who should enforce the nation's immigration laws, the United States v. Gov. Janice K. Brewer is finally coming to court on Thursday. |
| 07/21/10 | Federal challenge to Arizona's illegal immigration law heads to court Supporters of the law say it will pressure the 10.8 million illegal immigrants living and working in the U.S. to leave. In May, the Pew Research Center released the results of a poll that showed nearly six in 10 Americans support the Arizona law. |
| 07/20/10 | Brewer Sends Stimulus Money to Border for Illegal Immigration Fight Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, claiming to "reject" the Obama administration's assertion that the border is more secure than ever, announced Monday that she's directing $10 million in federal stimulus dollars to tackle smuggling and illegal immigration. |
| 07/19/10 | Immigrant detention center in Va. would be mid-Atlantic's largest The largest immigrant detention center in the mid-Atlantic will soon open in Prince Edward County, an effort to accommodate Virginia's unprecedented surge in detentions of illegal immigrants picked up on criminal charges. |
| 07/16/10 | Immigration re-enters national debate Four years ago, immigration was a major issue in congressional campaigns across the country. Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords won her first term representing a southern Arizona district in 2006 against a Republican she described as "an immigration hard-liner." Two years later, she says, she was surprised that the nation's broken borders got hardly a mention in the presidential campaign. |
| 07/16/10 | Why Arizona Cops Have Sued Over New Immigration Law A Phoenix police officer has sued over the Arizona immigration law, arguing that he could be sued for racial profiling if he enforces the Arizona law. |
| 07/14/10 | Feds must address immigration issue AT LEAST ONE Mississippi lawmaker plans to file legislation in 2011 that mirrors the controversial Arizona law that attempts to control that state's illegal immigration problem. |
| 07/13/10 | Top Dem: Congress could still tackle immigration this year Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), the vice chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said that while Republican opposition had made it difficult, immigration reform was still possible. |
| 07/12/10 | 60% in Florida Oppose Justice Department Challenge of Arizona Immigration Law Just 28% of Florida voters agree with the U.S. Department of Justice’s decision to challenge the legality of Arizona’s recently enacted immigration law. |
| 07/09/10 | Illegal Immigration Costs Us Net $100 Billion The debate over illegal immigration often is clouded with the question of whether illegal immigrants are a net economic benefit or cost to society. This is often amplified by the leftist when he says “these people do the jobs Americans won’t do,” which has often struck me as rather demeaning of both the immigrant and the American - not to mention being ridiculous. |
| 07/09/10 | Legal fund for Ariz. immigration law reaches $500K Tensions over Arizona's controversial law cracking down on illegal immigration remain heated, with reports that a fund for legal defense of the state measure is growing, and that federal lawmakers are looking for ways to overhaul the nation's immigration system in pieces. |
| 07/08/10 | 56% Oppose Justice Department Challenge of Arizona Law; 61% Favor Similar Law In Their State Voters by a two-to-one margin oppose the U.S. Justice Department’s decision to challenge the legality of Arizona’s new immigration law in federal court. Sixty-one percent (61%), in fact, favor passage of a law like Arizona’s in their own state, up six points from two months ago. |
| 07/08/10 | Utah legislator still wants AZ-like immigration law despite federal suit Utah Representative Stephen Sandstrom-R, Orem, is still working on an immigration law for Utah that is as tough as the one that Arizona passed this spring, in spite of federal lawsuits filed against Arizona on Tuesday. |
| 07/08/10 | Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah may follow Arizona's lead on immigration law Lawmakers in Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah, which have already taken steps against illegal immigration, say that Arizona-style measures have a realistic chance of passing when their legislatures reconvene in 2011. |
| 07/07/10 | Border violence spills onto Mexican ranches, farms The drug violence along the U.S.-Mexico border is now spilling into the region's agriculture, threatening the safety of ranchers and farmers, slowing down what was expected to be the best harvest in years, and raising the risk that some crops will rot in the fields. |
| 07/07/10 | Feds vs. state again in suit against Arizona law The federal lawsuit against Arizona's tough new immigration law focuses heavily on a question that has been in the spotlight repeatedly the past decade and dates to the Founding Fathers: The right of the government to keep states from enacting laws that usurp federal authority. |
| 07/06/10 | Feds to file lawsuit over Arizona immigration law The U.S. Justice Department is filing a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Arizona's new law targeting illegal immigrants, setting the stage for a clash between the federal government and state over the nation's toughest immigration crackdown. |
| 07/06/10 | Illegal immigration may shape Tennessee elections Illegal immigration is emerging as one of the key issues in this year's state elections, with Tennessee Republicans planning to make the topic a pillar of their program to sweep state legislative and Congressional elections. |
| 07/02/10 | 21 killed in shootout between drug, migrant trafficking gangs near Arizona border A massive gun battle between rival drug and migrant trafficking gangs near the U.S. border Thursday left 21 people dead and at least six others wounded, prosecutors said. |
| 07/01/10 | Obama aims pro-illegal lawsuit at Arizona The Obama administration has announced that it intends to sue Arizona over its new law that will allow the state to assist in the enforcement of federal immigration laws. The stated goal of the lawsuit is to block implementation of the popular Arizona law before it takes effect on July 29. |
| 06/30/10 | Obama sets another speech to fix the Arizona illegal immigrant situation With polls showing he's on the losing end of the public opinion tide in favor of Arizona's new illegal immigrant law, President Obama has decided to construct a wordy barrier of speeches along the insecure border issue with Mexico. |
| 06/29/10 | Illegal immigration bill signed by governor Despite some reservations, Gov. Phil Bredesen on Monday signed legislation requiring local jailers to attempt to determine the immigration status of prisoners and forward the information on to federal immigration officials. |
| 06/28/10 | Napolitano: ‘You’re Never Going to Totally Seal That Border’ Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, whose agency is charged with securing America’s borders, told an audience in Washington, D.C., in reference to the U.S.-Mexico border, “You’re never going to totally seal that border.” |
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