Nov 15, 2010 11 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
San Jose Mercury News: SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Monday upheld a state law that enables illegal immigrant students to pay lower in-state tuition at public colleges and universities, rejecting arguments that the policy unfairly discriminates against students from other states who pay higher fees yet are U.S. citizens. In a unanimous ruling, the ...
Continue ReadingNov 12, 2010 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: The Department of Justice has spent tens of millions of dollars this year to compensate more than two dozen states, counties and cities for their costs of jailing illegal immigrants -- even though those communities have adopted policies that obstruct immigration enforcement, according to a recently released report. "Subsidizing Sanctuaries: The State Criminal Alien Assistance ...
Continue ReadingNov 12, 2010 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Arizona Republic: WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who was re-elected last week with strong support from Latino voters, will make one last push in the final days of the 111th Congress to pass legislation allowing illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children to earn legal status if they attend college or serve ...
Continue ReadingNov 1, 2010 12 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Washington Post: A federal appellate judge expressed deep skepticism Monday about a Justice Department lawsuit challenging Arizona's new immigration law, leaving uncertain the Obama administration's chances of stopping the law from taking effect. Judge John T. Noonan Jr. grilled administration lawyers at a hearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. He took ...
Continue ReadingOct 31, 2010 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Them Hill: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) vowed on Spanish-language television to bring the DREAM Act back for a vote in the lame-duck session. On the Univision program "Al Punto," Reid was repeatedly hammered by host Jorge Ramos on whether the vote would happen, win or lose on Tuesday. "The answer is yes," Reid said. "I have the ...
Continue ReadingOct 29, 2010 11 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) - Signaling another partisan fight over immigration enforcement after next week's midterm elections, all seven Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee signed a letter last week asking the Department of Homeland Security how much money it needs to deport every illegal immigrant the government encounters. The request came in an Oct. 21 letter ...
Continue ReadingOct 22, 2010 1 Comment ›› Grizz
Associated Press Published October 22, 2010 SEATTLE -- When Maria Gianni is knocking on voters' doors, she's not bashful about telling people she is in the country illegally. She knows it's a risk to advertise to strangers that she's here illegally -- but one worth taking in what she sees as a crucial election. The 42-year-old is one ...
Continue ReadingOct 21, 2010 7 Comments ›› Grizz
THE GUARDIAN Thursday, 21 October 2010 Islamic extremists have started openly calling for the destruction of a controversial Muslim sect in a major escalation of sectarian conflict within British Islam, an investigation by The Independent has revealed. Members of the Ahmadiyya Community have seen a significant upsurge in threats and intimidation over the past four months, sparked by ...
Continue ReadingOct 20, 2010 4 Comments ›› Grizz
TUCSON - A border patrol officer who admitted to kicking, punching and striking a Mexican national in Nogales in 2006 was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court. Edward C. Moreno, 41, pleaded guilty in June to depriving the civil rights of Mexican national. He was sentenced to 12 months supervised release, four months house arrest, and ...
Continue ReadingOct 19, 2010 3 Comments ›› Grizz
Updated: Oct 19, 2010 6:20 PM TUCSON - U.S. Marshals and Tucson Police have caught one of America's most wanted fugitives after 9 years on the run. U.S. Marhshals say Max Montijo-LaMadrid was caught today by Sonora State Investigative Police with the help of Marshals in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Montijo-LaMadrid was wanted for the first-degree murder of Tanee ...
Continue ReadingOct 17, 2010 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(Reuters) - Germany's attempt to create a multicultural society has "utterly failed," Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday, adding fuel to a raging debate over immigration and Islam polarising her conservative camp. Speaking to a meeting of young members of her Christian Democrats (CDU), Merkel said allowing people of different cultural backgrounds to live side by ...
Continue ReadingOct 9, 2010 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Arizona Republic: In recent months, labor organizations representing federal immigration agents have been among the most outspoken challengers of Obama's enforcement campaign. In June, the American Federation of Government Employees' National Council 118, which represents Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, issued a no-confidence vote for ICE Director John Morton, claiming he is promoting amnesty instead of enforcement ...
Continue ReadingOct 9, 2010 6 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Arizona Republic: NOGALES, Ariz. - A pair of National Guard soldiers, M-16s slung over their shoulders, stand on a hilltop overlooking the Arizona's southern border, using binoculars to search the fence line for intruders. Their supervisor says he and his comrades are proud to protect their homeland, to serve their community, to experience a soldier's duty on ...
Continue ReadingOct 7, 2010 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
ABC News: Lou Dobbs has slammed illegal immigrants and the people who hire them. Now, in the wake of a report from The Nation that Dobbs relied on undocumented workers for years, he's fighting back. Today on his nationally syndicated radio show, he called The Nation's investigation, titled, "Lou Dobbs, American Hypocrite," "an attack piece" filled ...
Continue ReadingOct 7, 2010 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Washington Times: President Obama's new immigration enforcement strategy led to a record number of criminal aliens being deported last year, but removals of other illegal immigrants fell to the lowest rate since 2007, before the Bush administration began a crackdown. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 392,862 aliens in fiscal year 2010, slightly less than a 1 ...
Continue ReadingOct 4, 2010 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Phoenix (AP) - - Mexico and 10 other Latin American countries want an appeals court to consider their viewpoints in an appeal of a ruling that put parts of Arizona's new immigration law on hold. The countries are asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for permission to file friend-of-the-court briefs in Gov. Jan Brewer's ...
Continue ReadingSep 30, 2010 10 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(CNSNews.com)--News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch said he supports amnesty for “law abiding†illegal immigrants because as legal residents they can help the nation’s economy by adding to “our tax base.†He also said he supports securing the border to prevent more illegal immigrants from entering the United States. At a hearing on Thursday before the House ...
Continue ReadingSep 27, 2010 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Two years ago, a young woman named Yudi went to the U.S. consulate in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, in pursuit of an impossible dream.
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