Bay Area labor unions demanded Wednesday that the Obama administration stop its increased practice of auditing business payrolls to check for illegal immigrant workers. Known as I-9 audits, investigators check the legal status of employees through the Social Security numbers and green card information the employees supplied to the...
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If you are an unemployed American, Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas has a job waiting for you. We only need to find and deport the 7 million unauthorized immigrants who are now mowing lawns, scrubbing toilets, frying hamburgers, plucking chickens, slaughtering cattle and picking onions and lettuce across America.
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Jul 20, 2011
The Senate sponsor of legislation that would strip President Obama of prosecutorial discretion is none other than one who has direct and personal knowledge of discretion: David Vitter.
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The Senate sponsor of the legislation that would strip President Obama of prosecutorial discretion (the HALT Act) is none other than the Senator with the most direct and personal knowledge of discretion: David Vitter.
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Alabama, which is 2.8 percent Latino, has a race problem again. Dark people are on the verge of taking over and like George Wallace and Bull Connor before them, today's politicos in Alabama aren't having it. "Anything short of shooting them," one politician has said from Alabama. From...
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The White House hosted yet another inconsequential Latino summit last week, with dozens of community leaders from across the country. The purpose of this Hispanic Policy Conference, according to White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Cecilia Muñoz, was "more for us to listen and not for us to talk."
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The federal program "Secure Communities," a subtle but potentially far-ranging change in immigration policy, has been implemented in Pacific County. As noted by Pacific County Sheriff Scott Johnson, "I got an e-mail from ICE notifying me that the Secure Communities implementation for Pacific County would occur on July 19.
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When you know a bill was cynically crafted: If it limits the current president's "discretion" but lifts the restriction for the next president. This describes Rep. Lamar Smith's Hinder the Administration's Legalization Temptation (HALT) Act.
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Bloomberg reports that a "first-of-its-kind Immigration Enforcement Review Board" is being established in this peachy, anti-immigrant state. It's described by some as a "a mini-McCarthy panel."
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Jul 19, 2011
Both Congress and the President have a responsibility to fix our broken immigration: Congress needs to change the law and the President needs to change the way the law is administered.
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