Duncan Hunter On Immigration
November 6, 2007
Immigrant Right
November 5, 2007
If Hillary Clinton seemed confused about how to answer a question about illegal immigrants getting driver’s licenses, it may not only have been because she was looking toward the general election. Even among Democrats, there is grave concern about illegal immigrants in Iowa, a state that is more than more than 95 percent white and 4 percent Hispanic, according to 2005 Census Bureau estimates. Continue Reading »
Immigration News
November 2, 2007
Recent immigrant news comes from Texas congressman, Rep. Louie Gohmert, a conservative Republican from Tyler, says the government’s treatment of an Albanian immigrant who fears his life could be in danger if he is deported is “intolerable” and “callous.” Gohmert seems an unlikely ally of Rrustem Neza. But he has written a private bill that would stall Neza’s deportation until 2009 and allow him to reapply for asylum.
Gohmert, who sits on the House judiciary subcommittee on immigration, spoke to President Bush about the case this week. Immigration Subcommittee Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren has indicated she’s sympathetic to Neza’s plight and will review the information, Gohmert’s office said. “I am a strong believer in following the laws regarding immigration,” Gohmert said in a written statement. “However, we have laws to allow people to remain here based on asylum and the need to protect their lives.”
Diversity Visa Lottery
October 29, 2007
The congressionally mandated Diversity Immigrant Visa Program is administered on an annual basis by the Department of State and conducted under the terms of Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Section 131 of the Immigration Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-649) amended INA 203 provides for a class of immigrants known as “diversity immigrants”. Section 203(c) of the INA provides a maximum of up to 55,000 Diversity Visas (DV) each fiscal year to be made available to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. Continue Reading »
N.Y. strike deal on Immigration IDs
October 27, 2007
The Bush administration and New York agreed Saturday on a compromise creating a more secure driver’s license for U.S. citizens and allowing illegal immigrants to get a version. New York is the fourth state to reach such an agreement, after Arizona, Vermont and Washington. The issue is pressing for border states, where new and tighter rules are soon to go into effect for crossings. Continue Reading »
Border Agent Crackdown
October 25, 2007
U.S. border agents plan to expand to a second portion of the Texas border a program to criminally prosecute and incarcerate all illegal immigrants as authorities look to expand the program borderwide. “This is the chief’s view of the future. We’re talking national,” said Ramon Rivera, Border Patrol spokesman. “It sends a strong message the we’re not letting illegal border crossers have a free ride.” Continue Reading »
Fox blasts U.S. xenophobia
October 16, 2007
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox doesn’t get manybreaks these days. He was slapped around on The O’Reilly Factor, had a new statue of his likeness yanked down by an angry mob in Veracruz, and along the way promoted his memoirs, which were published in English. But he’s not letting up on the immigration issue. Continue Reading »
Aeromigrante!
October 12, 2007
New Mexican discount airlines are using rock-bottom fares to cater to legal and illegal migrants heading for the USA. The airlines — known among fliers as Aeromigrante, or “Migrant Air” — take passengers from central or southern Mexico to cities along the northern border such as Tijuana and Mexicali. From there, customers make their way across the U.S. border. Continue Reading »
Calif. Judge Backs Immigrants
October 11, 2007
A federal judge has blocked a proposed rule requiring employers to fire workers whose names don’t match their Social Security numbers, dealing a major blow to the Bush administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Under the rule, businesses with employees whose names and Social Security numbers didn’t match would have three months to correct the mistakes or fire the employees. If not, they could face government prosecution. Continue Reading »
Local Immigration Inforcement Rises
October 10, 2007
Local and state law enforcement agencies throughout the country are taking unprecedented steps to police illegal immigration, a responsibility historically reserved for the federal government. So far this year, officers from 23 county and state agencies from Virginia to California have been trained under a 1996 federal law that allows them to make immigration arrests and process jailed illegal immigrants for deportation. That’s more than five times the number of training requests made to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in all of 2006. Continue Reading »
38,000,000?
October 8, 2007
In separate rooms on overlapping morning hours at the National Press Club this week, two very different groups were launching the next rounds in the simmering immigration fight. In the Zenger Room, named for German immigrant John Peter Zenger, who helped establish free speech law, Californians for Population Stabilization released a study claiming there are 20 million to 38 million illegal immigrants in America, not the 12 million the federal government says. Continue Reading »
Assaulting The Sanctuaries?
September 19, 2007
House Republicans are taking aim at the so-called “sanctuary cities” that decline to use local law enforcement to police federal immigration laws. Rep. Brian Bilbray, the California Republican who chairs the enforcement-minded House Immigration Reform Caucus, today introduced a bill that would slash some non-emergency Homeland Security funding for cities that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration officials. Continue Reading »
Houston Changes Arrest policy
September 8, 2007
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office has stopped issuing “non-arrest” bonds to illegal immigrants, closing what victim advocates called a loophole that allowed some suspects to dodge deportation. The new policy was implemented on Aug. 22, the same day the Houston Chronicle published a story on Juan Felix Salinas, an illegal immigrant accused of causing a crash that killed three people while he was free on a non-arrest bond. Continue Reading »
Come On Across!
September 4, 2007
If both legal and illegal immigration continues at its current pace, the U.S. population will grow by 1.25 million per year and reach a net total of 468 million by 2060, according to a report issued Thursday by a Washington think tank. And like who among us plan on being here then? That increase of 167 million people over the next 53 years “is equal to the combined populations of Great Britain, France and Spain,” said Steven Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), during a news conference at the National Press Club. Continue Reading »
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