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| 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.” |
| 06/24/10 | U.S. Predator Drones to Surveil Mexican Border The Homeland Security Department will use unmanned surveillance aircraft and other technological upgrades in its ongoing effort to protect the southern border of the United States. |
| 06/23/10 | Labor Dept. aids and abets crime of illegal immigration The nation's top work force agency no longer is simply turning its head as hordes of people break the law and enter the United States each day, it now is offering a helping hand. |
| 06/23/10 | Mexico Joins Suit Against Arizona's Immigration Law, Citing 'Grave Concerns' Mexico on Tuesday asked a federal court in Arizona to declare the state's new immigration law unconstitutional, arguing that the country's own interests and its citizens' rights are at stake. |
| 06/22/10 | Neb. city votes to restrict illegal immigration This small Nebraska meatpacking town has joined Arizona at the center of a national debate about illegal immigration after voters approved a ban on hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants, but an expected court challenge could keep the measure from ever taking effect. |
| 06/21/10 | Arizona's immigration law: Washington should stay out of it A federal lawsuit would only inflame things in Arizona |
| 06/18/10 | Immigration Rally Draws Crowd Week Before Vote Close to 150 people rallied against a proposed illegal immigration ordinance in Fremont Tuesday night. |
| 06/16/10 | Jails for illegals become 'Club Fed' paradise The Obama administration is looking to change the way illegal aliens are housed in America by giving them a kinder, gentler, "Club Fed" resort-style life of luxury complete with art classes, movie nights, bingo, e-mail, unmonitored phone lines, continental breakfast, hanging plants and fresh carrot sticks. |
| 06/11/10 | Arizona Immigration Law May Be Driving Hispanics Out of State If one Phoenix school district is any gauge, Hispanics in Arizona appear to be leaving the state in anticipation of the tough-on-illegal-immigration law that goes into effect at the end of July. |
| 06/04/10 | Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, Obama discuss illegal immigration President Obama received Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer in the Oval Office on Thursday, but the two made no progress in bridging the enormous gulf that divides them — and the country — over illegal immigration and border security. |
| 06/01/10 | The truth behind the Arizona immigration law Lately it seems as though each day brings a new group or city council announcing that it will boycott Arizona in response to our state’s recently enacted immigration law, SB 1070. |
| 05/28/10 | Calif. College Offers Scholarship to Illegal Immigrants A public community college in California has set up a scholarship fund for immigrant students — including illegal immigrants. The $2,500 scholarship has sparked anger by some, including at least one lawmaker who is threatening to cut off federal funding to the school. |
| 05/27/10 | Candidates urge illegal immigrant crackdown Staking out increasingly tough stances on illegal immigration, Republican gubernatorial candidate Charles D. Baker and independent rival Timothy P. Cahill said yesterday that they want to give police the authority to arrest people who are in the country illegally and charge them with immigration violations. |
| 05/26/10 | DOJ Lawyers Draft Challenge to AZ Law The draft complaint challenges the Arizona law as unconstitutional, saying it is illegal because it impedes federal law, according to the sources, who would not offer any more details about the draft complaint or the arguments made in it. |
| 05/21/10 | Calif. City Takes Stand Against Illegal Immigration as Ariz. Boycott Battle Rages A California city mere miles from the metropolis that imposed a boycott on Arizona over its immigration law has just weighed in on the other side of the debate -- voting to declare itself a "Rule of Law City" where illegal immigrants are not welcome. |
| 05/20/10 | Calderon Criticism of Arizona Law Overlooks Mexico's Tough Immigration Policy Mexican President Felipe Calderon has been ripping into Arizona's immigration law as he tours Washington -- while appearing to disregard the way his own country cracks down on immigrants along Mexico's southern border. |
| 05/20/10 | Senators press for National Guard troops on border Homeland Security and Pentagon officials are at loggerheads over a plan to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, even as President Barack Obama is pledging to bolster security there. |
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