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| 08/17/10 | Election 2010: Illegal immigration a key and dividing national issue Supporters and opponents of Arizona's law, which makes it a state crime to be in the United States illegally, say it underscores the failure of the federal government to enforce the nation's immigration laws. |
| 08/16/10 | Tea Partiers Rally on Arizona Border With Mexico Tea party activists supporting Arizona's illegal immigration law were rallying along a remote stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border about 70 miles west of Nogales in support of the law that a judge put mostly on hold last month. |
| 08/13/10 | Charleston suburb moves to ban illegal immigrants from town The Summerville Town Council Wednesday night approved the first reading of a controversial ordinance that would require landlords to verify a tenant's legal status before renting to them. |
| 08/12/10 | Illegal Immigrants Bear 8% of Children Born in the U.S. The Pew Hispanic Center, a project of polling organization Pew Research Center, finds that, of the 4.3 million babies born in 2008, roughly 340,000 were born to undocumented aliens. This is double the percentage of illegal immigrants in the U.S., owing in part to the fact that the illegal immigrant population is largely comprised of men and women at birthing age. |
| 08/11/10 | Florida AG proposes law against illegal immigrants Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum on Wednesday proposed legislation that would toughen law enforcement measures against illegal immigrants in the melting-pot southeastern U.S. state. |
| 08/11/10 | Security tightened at border checkpoints in search for Arizona fugitive and fiancee Border agents stopped vehicles leaving the U.S. and police beefed up their patrols in the small towns near Glacier National Park as authorities focused their search for an escaped convict and his suspected accomplice on both sides of the Montana-Canada border. |
| 08/10/10 | Prince William chairman says federal officials agree to turn over immigration data Corey A. Stewart, chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, said Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have agreed to turn over all the information he asked for after a nun was killed last week in a car crash in which an illegal immigrant was suspected of driving the second car. |
| 08/09/10 | Lack of resources curtails ICE tracking of illegals New guidance telling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to focus on apprehending terrorists and criminals has many of ICE's rank-and-file agents wondering who then is responsible for tracking down and detaining the millions of other illegal border-crossers and fugitive aliens now in the country. |
| 08/06/10 | Senate Approves $600M for Border Security The Senate agreed Thursday to add $600 million to the effort to stop the flow of illegal immigrants across the U.S. Mexican border. |
| 08/06/10 | Ohio will do what it can until federal government tackles immigration reform Across the nation, a fierce debate is raging over illegal immigration, fueled by the recent passage of a law in Arizona which says that if a person is stopped by the police for committing an offense, a law enforcement officer can ask for proof of citizenship if they have reason to believe the person is in the country illegally. |
| 08/05/10 | Illogical Immigration Some 11 million to 15 million illegal aliens are now residing in America, most after crossing into America unlawfully. Once a federal law is arbitrarily not enforced, all sorts of bizarre paradoxes arise from that original contradiction. As proof, examine the following illogical policies and contradictions involving illegal immigration. |
| 08/04/10 | Fearing Ariz. Law, Illegal Immigrants Head To Colo. While the most controversial elements of Arizona's immigration law have been placed on hold, some illegal immigrants in the state are deciding it's time to leave. |
| 08/03/10 | Illegal immigrant who killed nun in accident was released by feds The Virginia man suspected in a drunken-driving crash that killed a Catholic nun in Prince William County this weekend is an illegal immigrant and repeat offender who was awaiting deportation and who federal immigration authorities had released pending further proceedings, police said Monday. |
| 08/02/10 | Arizona Sheriff: ‘Our Own Government Has Become Our Enemy’ The sheriff was referring to the law suits filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the U.S. Department of Justice challenging the state’s new immigration law. |
| 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. |
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