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| 04/19/10 | Illegal aliens: A need for national legislation Reforming immigration laws has been on the back burner of the administration as President Obama concentrated his efforts on health care reform legislation. But events in Arizona in the past week returned the immigration issue to the foreground. |
| 04/14/10 | Arizona Clears Strict Immigration Bill Arizona lawmakers on Tuesday passed one of the toughest pieces of immigration-enforcement legislation in the country, which would make it a violation of state law to be in the U.S. without proper documentation. |
| 04/12/10 | Illegal Immigration Prominent Issue At Many Tea Party Events Americans, signs, tables, groups, leaders, and guest speakers who are racially inclusive and opposed to illegal immigration and Obama's push for Amnesty for illegal immigrants will be prominent features at many Tea Party Against Amnesty protests April 15-17. |
| 04/09/10 | Illegal aliens seek Scott Brown’s help A coalition of students who are illegal aliens want a meeting with U.S. Sen. Scott Brown after losing of one of their strongest advocates, the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. |
| 04/06/10 | Border Fence Under Renewed Fire After Rancher Killing The killing of Arizona rancher Robert Krentz allegedly by an illegal immigrant has drawn fresh scrutiny to the patchwork of fencing along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. |
| 04/02/10 | Border Patrol Agent Urges Calm as Fears in Texas Town Rise As Mexican drug cartels continue to frighten residents along both sides of the Rio Grande River, one Border Patrol Agent says a tiny Texas town can sleep easy. |
| 04/01/10 | McCain Gets Tough on Border Security John McCain, after months of appealing to conservative Republicans in Arizona with increasingly conservative economic positions, is now doubling down on the issue of border security. |
| 04/01/10 | Utah counties get boost in combating illegal immigration A program that debuted in Utah last week could make it easier to deport people jailed for other infractions by matching their fingerprints to federal immigrations records. |
| 03/31/10 | Texas Town on High Alert as Mexican Town Across Border Braces for Cartel Gun Battle At least 30 residents of El Porvenir, located about four miles from the Texas border town of Fort Hancock, have crossed into the U.S. and asked for political asylum, telling authorities that they fear for their lives. |
| 03/30/10 | Illegal Immigrant Suspected in Murder of Arizona Rancher Robert Krentz was known among fellow ranchers as a good Samaritan who often helped injured illegal immigrants trying to cross the boiling desert border into Arizona. But the 58-year-old was gunned down while tending to his ranch Saturday morning, and police suspect an illegal immigrant was to blame. |
| 03/29/10 | ObamaCare and Immigration Reform You can't have open borders and a generous welfare state. |
| 03/25/10 | Do you support reforming immigration laws? TODAY'S QUESTION: One plan to reform U.S. immigration laws would allow more than 11 million undocumented immigrants to become citizens while also tightening border security. Why is or isn't this a reasonable approach to handling the problem of people entering the country illegally? |
| 03/25/10 | Tough Bill Advances in Arizona on Illegal Immigrants Several police chiefs and sheriffs have criticized the bill, calling it burdensome and impractical and a tactic that will scare immigrants out of cooperating with investigations and reporting crime. |
| 03/24/10 | Moral courage needed on immigration The Obama administration needs an air traffic controller to manage its domestic policy agenda. The items are starting to pile up on the runway. |
| 03/24/10 | Immigration Reform Supporters To Rally Against Obama’s Lack Of Progress Frustrated with President Obama’s broken promise to overhaul the immigration system within his first year in office, thousands of grassroots activists rallied at the National Mall in Washington March 21 to express their displeasure with the lack of progress concerning immigration reform. |
| 03/19/10 | The right way to mend immigration Our immigration system is badly broken. Although our borders have become far more secure in recent years, too many people seeking illegal entry get through. We have no way to track whether the millions who enter the United States on valid visas each year leave when they are supposed to. |
| 03/19/10 | Senators draft plan to rework U.S. immigration policy Sens. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) announced the building blocks Thursday for a new push in Congress to overhaul the nation's immigration laws, outlining a plan to require U.S. citizens and legal immigrants to obtain a new high-tech Social Security card tied to their fingerprints or other biometric identifiers and to create a system to bring in temporary workers as the U.S. economy demands. |
| 03/17/10 | Secure Border Initiative to undergo overhaul Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday she will take $50 million in federal stimulus money away from the Secure Border Initiative, also known as SBInet, and spend it on proven, off-the-shelf technology to protect U.S. borders. |
| 03/15/10 | With Money on the Line, Local Governments Urge Illegal Immigrants to Fill Out Census Cities, counties and states that haven't been very kind to illegal immigrants over the years are suddenly dusting off their welcome mats. With the 2010 census about to get under way, those undocumented residents will be worth a lot of money for the next few weeks. |
| 03/12/10 | Obama Says He Backs New Push to Overhaul U.S. Immigration Laws Obama said his “commitment to comprehensive immigration reform is unwavering.” Wants to resolve the status of the estimated 12 million immigrants in the country illegally. |
| 02/05/10 | Judge mulls sanctions against Ariz. sheriff office A federal judge will decide whether to impose sanctions against the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office for its acknowledged destruction of police records in a lawsuit that accuses deputies of racially profiling countless Hispanics in immigration sweeps. |
| 02/05/10 | Illegal Immigrant Census Count Stirs Debate Even as the controversial immigration debate boils over to this year's census, one congressman said today that 2010 will be the year for comprehensive immigration reform. |
| 02/05/10 | Immigrant smuggling raids hit Texas bus companies Federal agents have raided more than a dozen bus companies in Houston they say dispersed illegal immigrants across the U.S. in wide-reaching smuggling networks. |
| 01/26/10 | Illegal immigration is costing taxpayers billions New Jersey elected a new governor and some state legislators; yet, there is little discussion concerning ways to reduce the stress of overburdened taxpayers. Illegal immigrant services cost New Jersey more than $2 billion/year. |
| 01/20/10 | One California county spent millions on welfare for illegal immigrants' American children Illegal immigrants aren't entitled to welfare. But their citizen children are. San Bernardino County spent nearly $64 million in state and federal money last year to provide welfare benefits to the American-born children of illegal immigrants. |
| 01/20/10 | Brown Wins: Victory May Stop Comprehensive Amnesty Legislation Martha Coakley gave voters a clear contrast on the issue as she indicated her support for Comprehensive Immigration Reform Amnesty, which most people in the nation consider a sneaky form of Amnesty dubbed Shamnesty. Coakley also admitted that she created a sanctuary state in Massachusetts by turning a blind eye to the immigration status of those charged with crimes in her state, while she served as attorney general. |
| 01/04/10 | Feds charge record number of immigration crimes More than ever, federal prosecutors are using felony charges and the threat of serious federal prison time to make lawbreakers think twice before making another trip across the border. |
| 12/30/09 | Taxpayers funding phone service for illegals Some university faculty members are using taxpayers' dollars to fund a GPS telephone project aimed at helping people who are crossing the border illegally. |
| 12/17/09 | Immigration overhaul bill unveiled in House "This is a big day for us," said Jorge-Mario Cabrera of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. The illegal immigrant community has been awaiting this bill for a long time. |
| 08/27/09 | Despite What Advocates of Illegal Immigration Say, There are No Jobs ‘Americans Won’t Do,’ A study released by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) shows that native-born Americans fill the majority of jobs in almost every field. According to the CIS, this debunks the idea that immigrants are required to do jobs that Americans would refuse. |
