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| 04/26/10 | Texas town vows fight to keep illegal immigrants from renting houses As the national debate over illegal immigration reignites, Farmers Branch remains in the middle of the battle as city leaders refuse to accept the unconstitutionality of rules they put in place to prevent illegal immigrants from renting homes. |
| 04/26/10 | Ariz. Congressman: U.S. Should Fight Immigration Law Rep. Raul Grijalva, a Democrat, and civil rights activists spoke on Sunday to thousands of people gathered at the state Capitol and called on President Obama to fight the law. |
| 04/23/10 | U.S. needs to secure Mexican border for Americans' safety Why should there be any disagreement between Democrats and Republicans, or between conservatives and liberals, or between Northerners, Southerners, Texans or Illinoisans, on controlling illegal immigration? |
| 04/23/10 | Obama slams pending Ariz. immigration law Gov. faces Saturday deadline; law requires suspected illegals to show I.D. |
| 04/22/10 | US Congress may push immigration over climate bill Democratic leaders in the U.S. Congress may try to win passage of contentious immigration reform legislation this year in a move that could further harm prospects for a climate-change bill, congressional aides said on Wednesday. |
| 04/21/10 | 70% of Arizona Voters Favor New State Measure Cracking Down On Illegal Immigration The Arizona legislature has now passed the toughest measure against illegal immigration in the country, authorizing local police to stop and check the immigration status of anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally. |
| 04/21/10 | Obama falters on immigration reform promises Advocates for illegal immigrants fear the White House is doing the bare minimum to appease Latino voters before midterm elections as it focuses on other issues. |
| 04/20/10 | Closing 'anchor baby' loophole An immigration reform think tank is praising a bill introduced in the U.S. House that would close a loophole that allows foreign women who are pregnant to come to the U.S. as "tourists" long enough to have their babies, who are then granted American citizenship automatically. |
| 04/20/10 | 282 arrested in San Diego County sweep San Diego County sheriff's officials say more than 280 people have been arrested in a crackdown on gangs and drug and human smuggling at the U.S.-Mexican border. |
| 04/20/10 | Arizona passes tough illegal immigration law Arizona lawmakers passed a controversial immigration bill on Monday requiring police in the state that borders Mexico to determine if people are in the United States illegally, a measure critics say is open to racial profiling. |
| 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. |
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