PHOENIX (AP) – America’s self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff” has been dealt another setback to his immigration enforcement efforts by a federal judge’s ruling that bars deputies from detaining people based solely on the suspicion that they’re in the country illegally. The ruling issued Friday sets the stage for a possible trial in a lawsuit that alleges [...]
Big Journalism: One of the Old Media’s favorite ways of attempting to hide the ideological track of a story is to somehow forget to mention which party someone in the news hails or to whom they owe their fealty. In this case, it is what they don’t report that misleads. This week we find a [...]
(Fox News) — A federal judge on Thursday blocked three key provisions of South Carolina’s controversial law cracking down on illegal immigration. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel granted the federal government’s request for an injunction against the law that’s set to take effect Jan. 1. The ruling applies to portions that require law officers to [...]
Washington Post: CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. — In the dead of night, from a trailer humming with surveillance monitors, a pilot for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency was remotely flying a Predator drone more than 1,000 miles away. From an altitude of 15,000 feet, over the desert ranchlands of Arizona, the drone’s all-seeing eyeball [...]
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Agencie France Presse: The United States will cut the number of national guard troops patrolling the border with Mexico as it steps up other surveillance on the porous southern border, officials said Tuesday. The effort reflects “a new strategic approach,” that includes “a number of new multi-purpose aerial assets equipped with the latest surveillance and [...]
Los Angeles Times: The Department of Homeland Security reacted quickly Thursday to news that the Justice Department had accused Joe Arpaio, the Arizona sheriff known for his tough policies on illegal immigration, of a “pattern of misconduct” that permitted unlawful arrests and excessive force against Latinos. In a statement, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said [...]
Washington Times: Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed “America’s toughest lawman,” was accused Thursday in a scathing Justice Department report of violating federal law and the Constitution in his department’s handling of Hispanics it arrested and held in its jail system. Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez, who heads the department’s Civil Rights Division, [...]
NBC: New Haven Mayor John DeStefano plans to ask the state Legislature to allow illegal immigrants who live in the city to be able vote in municipal elections. DeStefano said on Tuesday that the proposal would build a more engaged community and follows the lead of other cities, the New Haven Independent reports. The Independent [...]
Politicology: The Supreme Court of the United States announced that it will hear arguments on the controversial anti-illegal immigration law in Arizona known as S.B. 1070. President Obama’s most recent SCOTUS appointee, Justice Elena Kagan, has announced that she will recuse herself from the case. Kagan had been Obama’s Solicitor General when the federal government [...]
AZDailyStar: Nearly 1 million undocumented immigrants could live and work openly in California with little or no fear of deportation under an initiative unveiled Friday by a state legislator and others. Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes, a Democrat, is helping spearhead the measure, called the California Opportunity and Prosperity Act. The proposal was filed Friday with the [...]
Los Angeles Times: More than 60% of adult illegal immigrants in the U.S. have lived here for at least 10 years and nearly half have minor children, according to a report published Thursday by the Pew Hispanic Center. The analysis based on data from the March 2010 Current Population Survey and the Pew Hispanic Center’s [...]
I think that illegal immigration – the operative word is ‘illegal’. It also says here in Article 1 Section 8 [reading from Constitution] that you have to repel invasions. I think that anytime someone is coming across your border and they haven’t been invited, that can be considered what the founding fathers wrote as an [...]
Beltway Confidential: Democrats in Congress have proposed a new racial profiling ban that could thwart state and local laws on immigration enforcement, such as the controversial Arizona law currently tied up in federal court, by witholding federal funding for state and local law enforcement agencies engaged in “racial profiling” and empowering the Department of Justice [...]
(Washington Times) — An illegal-immigrant student in Texas who committed suicide the day after Thanksgiving left letters saying he felt trapped by his lack of opportunities and, according to his family, he “decided to sacrifice himself for the cause.” High school senior Joaquin Luna, 18, dressed in a suit, kissed family members, went into the [...]
PHOENIX (AP) – Arizona is taking on immigration once again, with lawmakers collecting donations from the public to put a fence along every inch of the state’s border with Mexico. It is an unprecedented effort by a state that is the busiest U.S. gateway for both illegal immigrants and marijuana. The idea came from state [...]
